Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1928 — Page 9

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COMMITTEE IN DEADLOCK ON FARM RELIEF Advise Convention Not to Expect Platform Before Thursday. FIGHT ON FEE SYSTEM Strong Dry Enforcement and Campaign Fund Planks Approved. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 13. A resolutions sub-committe charged with drawing a platform for the Republican party notified the convention at 11 a. m. today it was deadlocked over a farm relief plank. Senator Borah, emerging at that hour from a meeting of the committee after it had been in session all night told newspaper men the convention officials had been advised not to expect a platform be- i (fore Thursday. Borah indicated the sub-com-mittee which reconvened at 10 a. m., after a six-hour rest period, did not expect to report to the full committee this 'afternoon and probably not tonight, unless very late. The full committee must approve the platform before submitting it 1 to the convention. A night session, in which all j planks save the one relating to j farm relief were disposed of, broke j up in a row on the farm issue at j 4 a. m. and the committee mem- | bers went to bed for a little sleep ; before attempting to iron out their differences. Members indicated they were I seeking a compromise on‘farm re- ! lief without indorsing the equaliza- I tion fee system. The Hoover group j had numerical control in the com- j mittee. No Water Power Plank No mention was made of the water power, Boulder Dam or Mus- j cle Shoals issues in the committee j draft, but members assembling for [ resumption of the session, said they 1 will propose planks on the subject l before the meeting is over. * The full committee listened for five hours in open to appeals for planks of many sorts. Most outspoken were those plea'ding for ahd against prohibition planks. Wets were headed by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and drys by F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the League, and Mrs. Ella Boole, president of the W. C. T. U. Borah won an unexpectedly easy victory for his “corrupt campaign expenditures” plank. The theory under which he acted in soliciting money to have the party repay the Sinclair contribution was accepted by the drafters without much discussion, although the wording of the plank was changed from his draft. Urge Cr_.. J ai t ,n Publicity As adopted the plank pledges the 1 party to complete putlicity of cam- j paign expenditures. It suggested the j Hoover campaign should follow the ! campaign of President Coolidge in 1924, when no campaign deficit was j incurred. It does not mention the j Sinclair contributions specifically. The plank is a radical departure from previous party platforms which have considered the subject of campaign contributions taboo. The prohibition plank as finally adopted read as follows: “We reaffirm the American constitutional doctrine as announced by George Washington in his farewell address, to-wit: ‘The Constitution which at any time exists until changed by the explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacred j and obligatory upon all.’ ” t Strict Enforcement “We also reaffirm the attitude of •the American people as declared by Abraham Lincoln: ‘We are by both duty and inclination bound to stick by the Constitution in all its letter and spirit from beginning to end. I am for the honest enforcement of the Constitution. Our safety and the preservation of our liberty depends upon the Constitution as our forefathers made it inviolate." “The people through the method provided by the Constitution have written the Eighteenth Amendment into the Constitution. “The Republican party pledges itself and its nominee to the observance of enfprcement of this provision of the Constitution.” No mention is made of the Volstead act. Vare Loses Fight Borah’s fight for the prohibition plank was opposed strenuously by Senator-Elect William _S. Vare, Pennsylvania leader, who demanded adoption of his modification plank. Other members of the committee sided with Borah, and defeated Vare overwhelmingly. Little discussion attended adoption of the other thirty-two planks of the platform. In most instances the tentative draft written by Smoot and other party leaders was accepted. The foreign relations plank highly commended the effort* of President Coolidge to negotiate a treaty outlawing war among nations. Marine occupation of Nicaragua was praised. The States rights principles of home rule and local self Government were sharply affirmed, and a j policy of developing inland waterways was adopted. Storm Injuries Cause Death By Times Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., June 13. James A. Welborn, 76. an invalid for six years as a result pf injuries suffered six years ago when a storm destroyed his home, is dead here.

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Quit? Never, Is Answer Snapped Out by Lowden

KANSAS CITY, Mo„ June 13.—Though his fight is hopeless, a 68-year-old millionaire sits in his quarters today and vows to go through with his attempt to be the presidential nominee. That man is Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. After the word came that the draft-Coolidge movement had collapsed and the tide had swung to Herbert Hoover, many of Lowden’s friends and lieutenants were ready to give up the struggle. .“Not by a damn sight,” Lowden replied. “The fight has just begun. I promised to make a fight for agriculture and I’ll go on until I win or am whipped ”

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Easy, Says ( Al Du United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y„ June 13. —Alfred E. Smith doesn’t regard Herbert Hoover as a very difficult opponent. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle today says the Governor was shown a dispatch from Kansas City saying that Hoover had clinched the Republican nomination. This was the Governor’s comment: “Well, he ought not to be so hard to beat.”

THREE YOUTHS IN JAIL Arrested After Breaking Bottle; Face Blind Tiger Charges. Wilbur Andrews, 24, of 801 N. Gray St.; Francis Vaught, 24, of 386 S. Sheridan Ave., and Howard Vaught, 20, of 953 N. Oakland Ave., were arrested by Lieut. Patrick O’Connor and squad at 2:30 a. m. today after they were alleged to have tossed a bottle of liquor onto the pavement at Hamilton Ave., and Tenth St. Another bottle of liquor was found in their automobile. The car is owned by Andrews. All were charged with operating a blind tiger, and Vaught with throwing glass in the street. Plane Falls on Roof; Three Die Bp United Press COPENHAGEN. June 13,—The pilot and two passengers of a naval airplane were killed today when the machine crashed onto the roof of a tenement house-

Woman in Cabinet Post Predicted With Hoover Bu United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 13.—Politicians who seek to peer into the future are predicting today that if Herbert Hoover wins the presidency, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt may be his attorney

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Los Angeles. She was appointed assistant attorney general by President Harding and has had charge of taxation and prohibition cases.

EGAD, THERE WAS LOTS OF HOT AIR, BUT HOOPLE KEPT £OOL BY CLAPPING, BY JOVE

BY MAJOR HOOPLE (Copyright, 1928, by NEA Service) KANSAS CITY, Mo„ June 13.;Egad folks, after a sound night’s sleep in a barber chair at the Muehlebach Hotel, I woke afreshed for the task of prodding the G. O. P. elephant into motion at convention hall. The session opened with a prayer and a writer next to me with Democratic leanings, said the contribution plate probably would follow, and as I was parched with thirst, I quietly slipped out for a quaff of aqua. Upon returning Mme. SchumanHeink was rendering the national.

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‘Not Asking Indorsement of Prohibition,’ Says League Chief. Bp Time* Special KANSAS CITY. June 13.—F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, admitted to the Republican platform committee Tuesday night that prohibition was not being enforced, and pleaded with the Republican party to enforce it. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and former Senator James Wadsworth of New York, wets, admitted the evils of the liquor traffic, but insisted that regulation and not prohibition was the solution. “Prohibition is the worst possible way of meeting the evils of the liquor traffic. It will destroy the States,” said Butler. Mcßride said: “We are not asking you to indorse the prohibition principle. That’s settled. We ask you to help settle the unsettled question whether our Government can enforce its own good law. With the people and the political leaders alike back of it, the Government can make good.” Fined for “Murder” Yells Bu United Tress EVANSVILLE, Ind., June 13.—Alleged to have awakened his sleeping neighbors by yelling “murder” for fifteen consecutive minutes, Eugene Hall, 22, was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail on a charge of drunkenness. Hall testified that he did not know what he was doing.

general; Mrs. Willebrandt, a Californian, now is assistant attorney general. She has played a prominent role in the Hoover campaign and her latest honor was apponitment as chairman of convention credentials committee. This is an unprecedented assignment for a woman. Mrs. Willebrandt has filled her place with tact and skill. The credentials committee passes on contested delegations. Mrs. Willebrandt previously had much to do with the publicity and women’s angles of the pre-convention period and gave the Hooverites important aid by testifying in the campaign expenditures committee investigation at Washington against the publisher of “Politics,” an anti-Hoover paper. She began her career as a school teacher, studied law at night and practiced in

anthem in a soul stirring manner Knowing the Madame to be born in Germany, she indeed put all present to scorn, who could not carry the song into words beyond “By the dawn’s early light,”—with the exception of myself—(who ha? seen the dawn’s early light, many a time—Editor’s Note). Roja West, secretary of the committee, then read the by-laws for twenty minutes, and finished talking with only himself as audience Then my old friend, Chairman Butler, formally, called the convention to order witfi a gavel that sounded very much like the gavel l gave him

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1928

HOOVER HOTEL ROOM DRAMA NO ‘MYSTERY’ Open Conference Contrasts With Secret Session Naming Harding. 100 SCRIBES LOOK ON First News of Vare Break Carried by Reporter’s Voice. BY COURTENAY TERRETT KANSAS CITY, Mo.. June 13. According to the now* almost apocryphal tile, the President, whom Senator Fess calls “our beloved Harding." was nominated in a Chicago hotel room at 2 o'clock in the morning by six grim and ponderous super-mentalities and a voice over a long distance wire. The voice was Boise Penrose's, coming from his sickbed in Pennsylvania and the six corporal bodies were those of the well-remem-bered Daugherty, Wadsworth of New York, now an obscure devourer of detective fiction; John T. King, who died before a couple of swindling indictments could be tried; the fascinating Jake Hamon, who later was obliterated by a retired female friend: Joe Kealing, whom death did not remove from the Indiana boss-ship before the Stephenson scandals broke, and Senator Jim Watson, the freshly-scoured hero of that State's delegates. Everything New Herbert Hoover, who will be nominated by 1,089 yes-men on Thursday, was chosen for the Republican candidacy in a hotel corridor, open to anyone who happened to step off an elevator. A reporter for a tabloid newspaper. by reading a flimsy handout, given him by a political courtier to “spread it around anyng the boys,” unwittingly nominated Hoover. This unconscious hero’s name is Joe Cowan, and he owes everything to the fact that he had his glasses hooked to his ears and ready for a simple job of handout reading when the nameless newspaper man to v’hom the slip was first offered fumbled for his spectacles. The statement wnich he read was that by which the Honorable William S. Vare, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania kicked the throne out from under the elegant and deliberate figure of Mellon. Brcakline Expected A hundred pressmen had assembled in the corridor outside the 1 treasury secretary's suite, expecting ! nothing more than to be called in and told that he had “nothing to j say,” when Vare’s phrases, announcing his application Yor a seat on Herbert Hoover’s big red band wagon, was red. At the moment Mellon was in a master mind conclave somewhat similar to that of 1920. He busily was practicing up on the assembled delegates the White House technique of saying nothing, and he was, up to the moment that Vare’s simple words were read, the accredited boss of the convention and a very large political potato. Senator David Reed, his %gent, was prepared to read a polite little announcement that “Mellon was in conference” and telling the boys to go back to their telegraph wires and inform the world that the Pittsburgh sphynx had not chosen to choose his candidate just yet. The King Is Dead Senator Reed had his head poked out 'the door when he caiight the words of the handout reader. Thereupon he ducked back and closed the door softly. Mellon, Senator Reed, Chairman Butler and a little group of better minds sat still in the hotel room. Mellon, no longer the boss of the convention, now was merely a Pennsylvania who held the office of Secretary of the Treasury. A burly colleague, to whom “dis, demand dose” and reeking cigars are as natural as an appetite for Rembrandt’s and gentle crypticisms are with him, had made him in an instant just another Hoover indorser. NAMED FOR PARK TALK Richard Lieber to Leave Monday for San Francisco Meeting. Richard Lieber, State director of conservation, will leave Monday for San Francisco to attend the national conference on State parks, of which he is a director. While there he will deliver an address on the “Acquisition and Management of State Parks.” The conference will open the drive of California for a $6,00jp,000 bond ) issue for parks.

IN the first part of his talk, I turned and gave an agitated glance up toward the movie searchlight operators who attempted to heckle his speech with carbon sputtering. Now, by jove, for the Keynote speech of Senator Fess. It was remarkable for two things, that he did not once refer to his cuffs for his notes, or drink the glass of water that was placed in front of him until after his speech of one hour and twenty minutes. That I claim, is carrying prohibition too far. Egad. It became very warm in by this time and after the first outburst of applause in his speech, the

Where The Big Noise is Coming From

NEA Kansas Citv Bureau A lot of dramatic action, and some static, have been emanating from this building in Kansas City the last few days, while the world waited and watched for the Republican choice for the presidential race. This is the convention hall. Notice the loud speakers at the top which carry the proceedings to the street crowds outside.

DISPUTES OVER SEATS SETTLED Credentials Committee Job | Nearly Done. Bp United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 12.—1n a session lasting until 3:15 a. m. the Republican credentials committee virtually completed its labor of settling remaining delegation contests in Mississippi and Wisconsin. Final action on the tangled Porto Rican situation was deferred pending report of a sub-committee appointed to study the case. Henry A. Huber of Wisconsin, won ! his contest for the only contested i seat in the Wisconsin delegation 1 over P. M. Marcus of Muscoda. 1 Huber is a member of the La j Follette group. He received the j unanimous indorsement of the com- < mittee. Earlier in the night the committee ; voted to seat Florida. Louisiana and Texas delegates understood to be favorable to the commerce secretary. The Porto Rican contest proved the most spirited debate of the long night session. Harry F. Besosa and Manuel V. Domenech claiming to be pure Republicans, were seated by the national committee before the arrival of the contesting delegates, Jose Tous Soto, speaker of the Porto Rican house of representatives and Alfonso Valdes also claiming to present the true Republican party. INDIA IS AGAINST WAR South Africa Only British Commonwealth Still to Be Heard From. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. June 13.—Acceptance by India of the American invitation to become an original party to the renunciation of war treaty leaves but one British commonwealth—the Union of South. Africa—still to be heard from. The other dominions have answered favorably the note sent them by the United States on May 22. Transmitted through the British foreign office in London, the Indian note, published here today, said “The government of India have requested that an expression of their warm thanks may be conveyed to the United States Government for this invitation, which they are happy to accept.” WORK OF -Y’ OUTLINED Department Heads are Speakers at Annual Dinner. Activities of the Y. M. C. A. were outlined for trustees, directors and business men in a series of brief addresses by department heads at the annual dinner meeting in the central building. New York and Illinois Sts., Tuesday night. Two-thirds of the young men aided by the Y. M. C. A. come from homes that have failed, A. H Godard, executive secretary, declared. Directors who spoke were J. H. Ehlers, student department; R. L. Konecke, physical director; I. N. Logan, boys’ department; A. F. Williams, educational department; F. E. De Frantz, secretary of the Negro branch of the Y. M. C A.; S. L. Shurte, secretary of the Brightwood railroad branch; C. C. Isaac, social secretary; C. E. Guthrie, dormitories director, and A. L Roberts, head of ideals.

audience felt the cooling effect of 16,000 hands clapping and thereafter eagerly awaited an opportunity to applaud again for the refreshing results. It did not come until Senator Fess made reference to President Coolidge—vffiich made the old party line of “Keeping Cool With Coolidge” a living reality egad. Senator Fess in his speech called upon a great amount of statistics—on the increase of home owners, bank deposits, new telephones, in fact everything but the new Ford prediction for next Av gust. I offer this statistical figure of my own compiling, that 11,677,301 were turned off during that period -'f his statistic speaking.

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WITH regard to agriculture, Senator Fess remarked “that the party will help the farmer in aiding himself.” From my point of view, this is instructing a swimmer to change from the Australian crawl to the breast stroke after he goes down for the second time. Asa solution for farm relief, I suggest that the citizens build up their appetites and stop eating imported salami. His Republican policy covered everything, by jove, exF cept the proposed rocket flight tc the moon by scientists. This venture, I know would be rejected as being a foreign alliance. At one point in his speech, the Senator referred to the soup houses

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HOOVER CHOICE | SUITS ms Will Please Coal Workers, Says Lewis. ‘ By Times Special KANSAS CITY, June 13.—The nomination of Herbert Hoover will be “very favorably received" by the organized coal miners of the country, John Lewis, United Mine Workers’ chief, said today. “Hoover has an intelligent understanding of the soft coal problem and his attitude toward the difficulties of the industry consistently has been constructive,” said Lewis. “Given a chance to work out a program to put the industry on its feet we think Hoover would go about the job intelligently and effectively.” The organized miners, Lewis said, are asking the Republican party to do no more in its platform than make a general declaration, recogniz:ng the demoralization of the soft coal industry as a national problem of the first importance, and indorsing, in general terms, legislation to stabilize production and employment. SEYMOUR APPARENTLY FACES BLUE SUNDAYS Picture Show and Park Concessions Ordered Closed. By Times Special SEYMOUR. Ind.. June 13.—Sunday will be really quiet here it appears as the result of an attempt to run a motion picture theater on the first day of the week. It is now announced that in the future no concessions will be permitted to operate on Sunday at Shields Park. Management of the Princess Theater announced it would open last Sunday, but ministers called Prosecuting Attorney Coulter H. Montgomery into conference. Then the theater management was warned and the show called off. The Sunday ban at the park following preventing the show, apparently indicates a determination of the church element to make Sundays really blue. TWO-TIMING OFFICERS County Clerk, Treasurer Operate on Old and New Schedules. You can do your business in the county clerk’s and county treasurer’s offices now on any time you want, central standard or daylight saving. By order of county commissioners, old time is in effect, but Clerk George 6. Hutsell and Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson have made it a matter of “local option" with indi. vidual employes. The result is opening on new time, closing on old. All courts are on daylight saving time. Three Victims of Dog Treated By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., June 13.—Three young Crawfordsville men have gone to Indianapolis to take the Pasteur treatment for rabies, following an attack upon one of them by a large police dog owned by Forrest Jackman, a local business man. They are Jackman, Dwight Dunbaf and John Cochran.

of the Cleveland administration. As I recall it, that was very tasty soup —being considered somewhat of an expert on acoustic broth, egad. After the keynote speech, came the rain of temporary committee by Roy West. This reading went down the list of names to the chief of doorkeepers, and the assistant chief of doorkeepers. I was highly indignant when he failed to enter m\ name in the records as the official G. O. P.—windmill; (inserted by linotyper). Meeting adjourned, and now, by jove, to headquarters (precinct station No. 12) for inside information. Au revoir, egad.

DURANT HOLDS HOOVER GREAT HOPE OF U. S. Nomination Almost Too Good to Be True, Says Philosopher. NATION NEEDS ENGINEER Praises Scripps-Howard tor Initiative That Won Victory. BY WILL DURANT KANSAS'CITY, June 13.—The convention is over before it has begun. As you fight your way into the first session through the crowd at the entrance, newsboys are announcing that Mellon has surrendered to Hoover. The rest will be oratory. Nevertheless let us take a scat and look around. Ten thousand men and women; delegates, alternates, spectators, reporters, college presidents, ushers millionaires. This is the heart of America—geographically politically, symbolically—this typical city, beloved of Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser, this breeder of pigs and home of hospitable people. Rain has fallen, and the stench of the stock yards is in the air. - And this convention is tire heart of America, pulsating here in these 500 job hunters, 500 wire pullers, eighty errand runners and nine honest men. For the most part they are hard laced men, with enormous heads and jaws, and all the erudition that is conveyed by horn rimmed spectacles, many oald heads, many old men. Close by is Mr. Mellon, very tired and sad; someone has punctured him. Here and there are women delegates, one of them good looking. Occasionally you see a prir of clear and Ijindly eyes; one delegate has the intent and dista.it stare of an idealist. What Is Hoover? Chairman Butler, of the type that is kind with children and hard with men, introduces Senator Fess. His first sentence tells that the policy of his party is so to govern the country that a large quantity of goods shall be produced for good wages, and at substantial profits. Quantity and profits. His party “stands for the enforcement of the i law”; he does not add that most of j the delegates had a bracer this morning. “Despite certain moral delinquencies, the Republican party stands for the highest moral standards of public service.” (No laughter) We entered Nicyagua “to secure a stable government and to protect American life and property” (by the good old-fashioned method of competitive murder.) If the convention is to be like this speech we shall pay a heavy penalty for leaving home. If the candidate is to be like this convention he can not be Herbert Hoover. Can it really be that these politicians are about to nominate for the presidency the fittest man in America? For a moment we wonder; perhaps we have deceived ourselves, and our Hoover is an ideal fabricated by our imagination and our hopes. Helps Belgium Somehow we still trust the man and like him. In 1914 he is in London when the war breaks out. The call comes to him that the Belgians are starving. He resigns all his positions and salaries, creates the commission for the relief of Belgium, takes not a cent of pay in any form, meets all his own expenses, gets funds and food, and feeds 10,000,000 people every day; so well, that at the end of the war the children of Belgium are reported by their government to be in better health than ever He comes home to be food administrator; raises the food surplus from 6,000,000 to 20,000,000 tons in one year; hardies $7,000,000,000 without the suspicion of a scandal. After the armistice he feeds Poland, Lithuania, Esthonia, Rumania, even Austria and Germany. Happy in Building In 1921 he becomes Secretary of Commerce; but instead of thinking only of business and industry he organizes the commission for Russian relief, which saves 15,000,000 lives. When the Mississippi overflows, it is he who goes to direct the control of the flood, the rescue of the people. He is everywhere, in all continents and all crises. When he takes office in the Cabinet his department is the least of all. Soon it hums with ideas and enterprise; men are appointed for their ability and integrity. He fights not men, but things; waste, corruption. Papers Helped That such a man should become the nominee of this convention is almost incredible. To whom do we owe this good fortune?.. Partly we owe it to the ScrippsHoward papers, -which had the foresight and the initiative declare for him a year ago; which fought for him with courage and yet with courtesy, by spreading a knowledge of what he had done; which exposed day by day the maneuvers of the politicians who sought to replace him with an automaton. Nothing in our generation is finer than this act of vision, enterprise and audacity. Perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of American journalism. Most of all, we owe the nomination of Herbert Hoover to the people themselves. They were intelligent enough to want him. insistent enough to keep calling for him, capable enough to organize for Turn Can it €e tlrat we are not morbus after all.