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HOOSIERS HEAP BITTER WRATH ON SHUMAKER State Dry Chief Scorched for ‘Crust’ in Advising Democrats. CAUCUS IS SCHEDULED Indiana Delegation Pians to ~ Stand by Woollen to End. • / ~ BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING HOUSTON, Tex., June 26.—The Indiana delegation will hold a caucus in executive session before the Democratic national convention casts a vote for President, at which the delegation’s attitude toward Indiana’s favorite son, Evans Woollen, will be thrashed out fully and frankly. Only the cool head and firm hand of W. H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, chairman of the delegation, prevented such a discussion in public last night at the delegation’s first caucus at the San Jacinto Inn, twenty miles from Houston. R. A. Werneke, Terre Haute, vitriolically denounced E. S. Shumaker, superintendent the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, following a telegram sent by Shumaker yesterday to the delegation, criticising Governor A1 Smith of New York, demanding that the Indiana delegation stand firm to the last for Woollen and that Woollen refuse to be Smith’s running mate. Shumaker Is Assailed “We don’t need any Republican of i Shumaker’s stripe to tell us how, I when and where to vote,” shouted Werneke. He was applauded heartily. O'Brien explained that he had not received the telegram, that he only had heard of it, but that he agreed with what Werneke had said. He stood against any reply to Shumaker, however. When the Woollen question came up, O’Brien explained that the delegation is bound by Indiana law to stand behind Woollen as a unit until hes himself releases them. A motion put by Lew G. Ellingham of Ft. Wayne, to hold the second -and closed-door caucus then was carried. What actually has happened, it is explained privately by delegation members, is that the delegation, upon arrival, has found Governor Smith to be the inevitable nominee. Although Thomas Taggart is 2,000 miles away in Massachusetts, his L - toit is here and the delegation is playing his game of getting the best for Indiana out of any situation which may arise. Plan for Swapping ,/They are waiting for proposals to give Woollen second place on the ticket in return for Indiana’s Smith support if it is needed. The delegation heads, playing for time, are embarrassed meanwhile by the rising sentiment among the twenty-two members out of thirty who are favorable to Smith and eager to help in his nomination. It is expected the telephone telegraph wires will be kept hot between Woollen in Indianapolis and his leaders here before the second caucus is held. “The Indiana delegation will vote for Woollen as instructed, and will not go into a combination against any candidate,” O’Brien said, following the Ellingham resolution “The vote on the presidential nomination may not come for two or three days hence, and somethin* may develop in the meantime which must be considered at the caucus.” Slate Is Arranged Sentiment among the delegates, with regard to Shumaker privately, was even hotter than that expressed by Werneke. “That fellow is a part of the Republican machine, always has played with Republicans, and the insolence of his message deserves# a fitting answer,” said one member of the delegation. Elected at the organization meeting were: Ellingham, resolutions committee: Werneke, credentials committee; Joseph M. Cravens of Madison, permanent organization committee: John Heller of Decatur, rules and order of business committee: Luke Sammons of Kentland, honorary vice president of the con- , mention; Lowell Neff of Logansport, honorary secretary of the convention; Dale J. Crittenberger of Anderson, to notify the presidential nominee, and Ed Mason of Crawfordsville, to notify the vice presidential nominee. / Guests of Houston Hoosiers Homer Sammons of Kentland expressed his belief that the delega- ’ tion should stand for platform planks providing specific and adequate farm relief, and for enforcement of prohibition, striking at alleged non-enforcement “by its enemies” during the last several years." X. Ellingham would handle these matters before the convention platform committee. The hot meeting followed a big sea food dinner given by the Houston Hoosier to the Indiana visitors, at thee San Jacinto Inn Claude G. Bowers, convention keynoter, who had been invited, was absent, as was National Committeeman C. A. Greathouse, who felt he had to beon duty in Houston. Draft New German Cabinet Bv r led Press BERLIN, June 26.—Hermann • Mueller, Socialist leader, was expected to submit a list of his cabinet ministers to President Hindenburg tonight

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Ohioan Urges Democrats to Forget 1924 Fiasco. Bv Times Special HOUSTON, Texas, June 26. Added evidence of Democratic harmony was seen today when David Ladd- Rockwell of Ravenna, Ohio, McAdoo’s campaign manager at Madison Square Garden four years ago, announced that he will vote for A1 Smith. Rockwell also announced that In his opinion McAdoo will suppqrt Smith if he is nominated. “I think all Democrats should forget Madison Square Garden,” Rockwell said. “I have come as a delegate instructed for former Senator Pomerene of Ohio but when Pomerene’s name is withdrawn which probably will be on a very early ballot, I shall gladly join my Ohio colleagues in supporting Governor Smith, and I shall do all in my power to help get him elected.” TICKETS DISAPPEAR ‘Hoodwinked,’ Says Hull; Six Badges Lost. Bp Times Special HOUSTON, Texas, June 26.—Six alternate badges and six tickets belonging to the Tennessee delegation have disappeared. Representative Cordell Hull said he supposed he had given them to proper Tennesseans but now believes he was hoodwinked in rush of other business. Hull has retired as national committeeman largely because of annoyance in handling tickets and other minor affairs while attempting to help work out party policies HOLDS POLICE AUTOS AMENABLE TO RULES Anderson Judge Gives $3,000 Verdict to Injured Motorist. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., June 26. Superior Judge Lawrence V. Mays holds the driver of a police motor vehicle must observe traffic regulations the same as a private citizen and incurs the same liability for damages in case of accident. The decision was made in a case where Harry E. Ruffkin recovered $3,000 damages against the city of Anderson in a suit resulting from wrecking of his auto in which he was injured, when it was struck by a police machine driven by Patrolman Earl Caplinger.

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BY MAJOR HOOPLE (Copyright, 1928. NBA Service, Inc.) T TOUBTON. Teras, June 26. ** Egad folks, my arrival in Houston was the signal for one of the most enthusiastic receptions ever accorded a visitor. Thousands swarmed the depot, and as I put my cleanest spat forward to alight from the train, the famous Texas Old Gray Mare band, struck up a lively tune. I learned later that Mayor Jimmie (Walker of New York arrived oil the same train and had I Known it at the time, I certainly would have had the crowd give the lad a hand.

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‘PROHIBIT LOST BY PROHIBITION City Fought Long Battle to Clean Up Saloon, but Grudges Dry Law. EDITOR TELLS HISTORY Main Street Once Was Lined With Gambling Dens and Bars. BY M. E. FOSTER, Editor Houston Press, HOUSTON, Tex., June 26.—1n this good city of Houston, where the delegates to a great national Democratic convention are assembled today, we have a most illuminating exhibition of the prohibition that doesn’t prohibit. Whisky, rum, gin and beer are available for any man or woman who thirsts for strong liquor. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending upon the viewpoint, nature has made many fruits and grains that contain the alcoholic content. Nature Takes Hand You may extract the stuff from corn, rye. hops, sugar cane- apricots, peaches, cherries, juniper berries, figs, strawberries, and even from the ugly cabbage and lowly potato. Maybe nature was wrong in putting alcohol in things that are produced from the soil and maybe man is right in trying to prevent the distillation from fruits, vegetables, and grain which the earth gives us so freely. In this same good ciTy of Houston many battles have been fought for prohibition In the past quarter of a century and there has been great progress and much reformation. The first opposition to the evil of intemperance was some thirty years ago.

Saloon on Every Comer At that time there was a saloon on every corner and some tunes two or three more in each block. Nearly all the churches also were in the downtown district. The salons were open day and night and some of them all day Sunday. This last hurt the feelings of the i church foljcs. They begged the saloon keepers to close their doots from 10 o’clock Sunday morning until after church services were ended. The plea was that they didn’t want our boys and girl§ on their way to Sunday School ter hear the revelry and ribaldry in the saloons they had to pass, or be jostled by drunks. We made It so warm for the saloon keepers and threatened so much in the way of drastic action that they finally grudgingly agreed to close their doors for two hours on Sunday morning. Fight Seems Farce Some of us who lived in Houston in those early days are unable to enthuse very much over the pres-ent-day prohibition fight. In some respects it seems rather far-fetched and farcical. We went through fights that really meant something. When some good citizens of this townn started a movement to stop the political activities of the saloons and breweries we had little or no aid from many who now are prohibitionists for profit or for political preferment. It took courage in those days to fight the evils that existed—seemingly an all-powerful combination of breweries and distilleries. Years and years of hard work were necessary to eliminate the wide-open gambling places in Houston’s main business section. Men who fought the saloon-keep-ers and gamblers In those days risked their lives. Appeal to Fanatics Nowadays the fight is only to enforce a law that is in effect or to give some politicians who have no real thoughts or statesmanship a chance to appeal to the hysterical and the fanatical. In those days we fought lawlessness and for the privilege of making laws that would make the world a little more decent. We fought successfully and finally we secured even more than the most optimistic had hoped. Instead of the right to regulate our own police affairs in each county and State we now have Uncle Sam in the role of a policeman, and he has become a pitiful spectacle of a most unsuccessful snooping enforcement officer. We have the law and the bootlegger has the whisky. You easily can evade the law and anybody can get the whisky. It’s all right, except it’s all wrong. Indiana Youth Kills Eagle VALPARAISO, Ind., June 26. Eugene Bussert, 17, shot and killed an eagle at the Maria Wilgen farm near Prattville after it had carried away several ducks. The eagle measured six and one-half feet from wing tip to wing tip.

By Jove, the famed true Southern hospitality is indee 1 being shown the visitor. In fact, the spirit of a warm welcome, has even been taken up by the sun. But heat has never affected me. Egad, I mind the day one time in the African veldt, when it was so hot, the wild bananas actually peeled themselves of their skins for relief from the heat. That, my friend, was hot. n ■ THERE is a noticeable difference in convention atmosphere between Kansas City and

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ROUND UP FOES TO BEATSMITH ‘Strength Is Overestimated,’ Enemies Claim. By Times Special HOUSTON. June 26.—Members of anti-Smith groups are making desperate efforts to perfect plans to block Smith's nomination. Among conferences was one late Monday attended by Representatives it was said, from ten States, led by Richard Lloyd Jones, Tulsa, Okla., editor. Jones is an ally of Governor Dan Moody. Jones said it was agreed at the meeting—attended by men from Massachusetts, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, West irglnia, South Carolina and North Carolina, that the Smith forces have overclaimed their convention strength by a "considerable total” and that if the anti-Smith delegates will hold their ground his nomination will be blocked. “It’s important,” Jones said,, “that at this meeting there were delegates from States that are credited with being solidly for Smith.” The plan of procedure agreed upon. Jones said, was to get to the anti-Smith people in the various delegations, let them know their numbers have been underestimated, and urge them to stick together. U. B. Bodies Convene Bv Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind., June 26. The Christian Endeavor societies and Sunday school union of the Indiana conference, United Brethren Church, convened here Monday in thirty-sixth annual convention to continue through Wednesday. Several hundred delegates are attending. A pageant, “Our Quest for Allegiance to Christ and His Way of Life,” will be given Wednesday.

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BY LEO R. SACK _ HOUSTON, Texas, June 26.—Newton D. Baker, who was Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of War, may be forced to sit through the Houston convention puffing a pipe and reading a book, while Democratic leaders seek to put him on the ticket as they did at New York four years ago. Baker, on his arrival in Houston, found himself discussed for Vice President. He promptly announced he is not a candidate for any office, and will not accept if nominated. Despite this, many delegates were seeking to persuade him to become a candidate. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of

Houston. At Kansas City the bellhops and waiters tips thickened to such an extent that they expected an additional coin for the extra effort of saying thanks for accepting a tip. This nuisance even extended to the street. Great Caesar, didn’t I have a panhandler accost me for a dime, and then want a nickel tip for taking it? Egad, yes. But here in Houston, no such annoying practice prevails. For example, today at the barber school, for apprentice barbers (I always encourage trade students by my patronage), I received a

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OLD TARIFF POLICY AT TURNING POINT

Sentiment Grows for Break From Traditions to Protection. BY DEXTER M. KEEZER HOUSTON, June 26.—Any one who can tell this Democratic convention how to handle the. tariff issue so as to keep faith with its traditions, corral the farmer vote, and not ruin its chances in other sections, can have not only one but several dozens of the brown deioies in evidence around town. The tariff is one of the most baffling issues. Most of the delegates, while professing loyalty to the low tariff policy, really don’t believe in it. The whole McNary-Haugen fight at Kansas City was based on the proposition that the farmers are entitled to the benefits of a protective' tariff. The Democrats, to appeal to the McNary-Haugenites, will have to indorse the idea of giving them the benefits of a tariff to which the Democrats are supposed to be opposed. And if they promise farm relief by slashing tariffs generally, their party will be in trouble in many parts of the country. How the dilemma will be solved no one has explained, but the prevalent view is the Democrats will come nearer to parting company

Arkansas, Democratic leader of the Senate, who will be the permanent chairman of the convention, and Representative Cordell Hull of Tennessee, are formost in all vice presidential calculations. The addition of either to the ticket, politicians believe, will mollify the strong progressive element within the party and especially in the border States. Senator Alben W. Barklay of Kentucky also is being prominently discussed. Jesse Jones, Houston millionaire, is considered by some as among the possibilities, but Jones will add no strength to the ticket, Democrats are saying.

free haircut and shave, and the student barber was beside himself with joy when I rewarded him with a cigar. So pleased was he .that he called me “Congressman,” by Jove. Well, I know you are quite anxious for my expert analysis of the political situation here. Through what I gather, there appears from street corner conversation some talk of nominating a man by the name of Smith, I believe, for the Democratic choice. This, however, may iust be idle prattle. I surmise that they are groping for names of a likely candidate,

Inside Stuff Bv United Press BRUNSKICK, Maine, June 26.—Horace Robbins must present his appendix in a bottle before Bowdoin College will grant him a degree. Robbins has a gymnasium requirement to work off, but when he was stricken by appendictis, the faculty agreed to waive the requirement if he would present proof of the operation.

wtih their venerable low tariff policy than they have ever done before. A canvass of delegates shows very little sentiment in favor of a low tariff. Those from the West and those sections of the South where industrialization is proceeding rapidly are outspoken in their opposition. HOOSIER LIVES AFTER RECEIVING 4,100 VOLTS Lineman Recovering at Columbus; Refused Hospital Care. By United Press COLUMBUS, Ind., June 26. Ernest Stratton, Interstate Public Service Company lineman, is recovering here despite passage of 4,100 volts of electricity through his body. Neither Stratton nor fellow workmen who witnessed the accident can account for death being cheated. Atop a pole, Stratton came in contact with a high tension wire: He grasped a guy wire and the current passed through his body and down the guy wire to the ground. Stratton dropped from the pole and his companions applied resuscitation methods. On regaining consciousness, Stratton refused to go to a hospital and was taken to his room in a local hotel. His head and arm were severely burned. TALK CHURCH MERGER Two City Methodist Congregations May Unite. The second of a series of meetings to discuss the union of the Methodist Settlement, Bates and Pine Sts., with the Fletcher Avenue M. E. Church, was held at the church Monday night. Dr. Orien W. Fifer, district superintendent, and the Sev. W. F. Russell, pastor of the Fletcher congregation, spoke.

beginning with Smith. Jones, Brown, etc., and finally ending up with an executive grandoisesounding name like Jefferson, — or, better yet, Hoople, Har-r-r----umf. BUT rest assured, when some candidate Is finally chosen to be explicited for nomination, I will be the first to reveal his identity to a waiting world. You no doubt, my dear readers (both of you—Ed’s note), recall that I was first to give out the news in ’97, of the Majhara of Punjarkob, issuing the royal-edict of

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Texas City Hostelry Is Worse Than Tubes of : Gotham.to Mayor. BY COURTENAY TERRETT HOUSTON, Tex., June 26.—James J. Walker was born south of Fourteenth Stf. in New York City. Which is to say, he is a city boy. a knowing lad—of 47 or so—erudite in the flashy ways of the metropolis. He knows something about subways, for less than two years ago he took a trip underground, though from his fortunate eminence as Mayor of New York he is enabled to do most of his tardy scurryings about the parish in large limousines bought with city money. He came here thinking he would be roughing it, that here in Texas, which the movies have made familiar as a stronghold of rough virility, the natives pick their teeth with bowie knives after dining heartily on fried cacti and beef, and that all spaces were wide and open. Worse Than Gotham To his consternation, and even to his fastidious distaste, he has discovered that Houston, in its convention ebulience, is far worse than the subways of New York. The elevators of the Rice Hotel, he has learned, are more ferociously crowded than a Bronx express at the Times Square station: the lobby is worse than the platforms of Grand Central in a rush hour, and the dining room and telephone services are as crippled and tedious as if they were municipal utilities. The problem of getting upstairs in the Rice and the Lamar Hotels, were most of the visitors are concentrated, is one which demands sharp elbows, a complete lack of chivalry and great powers of endurance. Stand Twenty Deep Hordes stand, twenty deep, In front of the six elevators of the eighteen-story Rice most of the day and night, and dozens wait on every floor. It makes a strong and determined man on an average of five minutes to fight his way into a car. A moderately well-bred woman cannot do it in less than fifteen during the busy hours. When Wla’ker and his parts’, including the constant Grover Whalen, entered an elevator upon his arrival Monday afternoon after a wait of only four minutes, the overwrought girl operator ordered one of the New York city officials to get out. A bell boy, appalled, whispered, “This is Jimmy Walker’s party.” “They’re just a lot of tonnage to me,” she shrilled, “come on, guy, get out.”

replacing the executioner's ax with a bath tub, as the new form of capital punishment. By jove, through both conventions T have met so many Governors, I feel it a pity that I have no close friends in prison, so that I could use my newly made influence to get them pardoned. The convention hall is a 9 o’clock walk from my hotel and since the taxicabs charge for extra passengers, drat it, I have produced a pair of crutches in hopes that some kindly soul with an auto may take pity and give me a lift to the hall.

DEMOCRATS TO TURN OVER PARTY TO AL He Will Be the Platform as Well as Nominee and Sole Hope. S TRY OUT A NEW MOSES Leave Smith Free to Shape Issues in His March to Promised Land. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 26.—A blank check nomination is to be handed to Governor Alfred E. Smith at the Democratic national convention opening here today. He will be able to go into the convention a relatively free man so far as any action of this convention is concerned. The nomination is to be made Thursday or Friday at the latest. It will be preceded by a platform discussion which appears somewhat important now but which will soon be forgotten. The fact is that the. Democratic party is choosing Smith for its candidate, platform and sole hope. Prejudices Suppressed The dry South and West which has followed Bryan for a political generation has no sympathy with some of the things Governor Smith stands for. It was dry long befor l the country heard of Andrew J. Volstead. Governor Smith believes the Volstead act was unwise. The South and West strongly disagree with him. The South and West has been educated to view Tammany Hall with suspicion. Time after time the Great Commoner with the cheering Democrats of the prairies at his back has defied and defeated Tammany Hall in Democratic national conventions. Now this large section of Democracy is suppressing such prejudices, beliefs and principles and is falling in behind a man whose outlook on life is in many respects alien to its own. Democratic leaders like Governor Moody of Texas, Senator Harrison of Mississippi, Senator George of Georgia and Senator Robinson of Arkansas, differ fundamentally with Smith but they are prepared to accept him here this week and to campaign for him this summer. Free Hand to Be Given Some say Smith is taking the nomination by default, because of a lack of any leader capable of seizing the mantle of the late Bryan. On the other hand, the section of the party which massed behind William G. McAdoo four years ago and held him close to a majority through -.03 ballots while beating down 'Smith, has dropped McAdoo by its failure to gather around another candidate. It has permitted the nomination to gravitate toward Smith. In other words it has decided to give Smith a trial. The South and West could have blocked his nomination by holding 367 votes out against him. That they have not done this is prooot that they have tacitly decided to let him have his chance. With this chance goes a freer hand than the party had usually given its candidates. Apparently Smith’s hands are not to be tied on prohibition, the most fundamental political issue between Smith and the western democracy. He is not to be bound by a plank opposing modification of the Volstead Act. He will be free in the campaign to sliape this issue as he chooses, if the convention adopts the platform j plank now in prospect. Writing Own Platform Smith not only will write his own platform on prohibition, but he will write it on corruption, revision of election machinery to insure more honest campaign*, and on water power, the economic issue which is heading toward an important position on the political stage. The party has wandered helplessly for the last eight years quarreling, stumbling and blundering. Now, in desperation, it has decided to sign over its power of attorney to anew figure, somewhat of an alien to a large section, but a man whose personality has inspired sufficient confidence to win this important trust. Under these circumstances the sweltering hosts in Houston are about to fall in line. They have called in a Moses. But woe to him if he fails to make the Promised Land:

CAMP BEDFORD OPEN TO BOYS WEDNESDAY Second Period Will Continue Until July 6. - By United Press BEDFORD/Ind., June 26.—The second period for boys at Camp Bedford, State Y. M. C. A. recreation center near here, will begin Wednesday and continue to July 6 Boys from 12 to 16 years old are eligible. The first period for boys will close Wednesday, having been in session since June 18 with boys from eighteen Indiana cities and towns attending. Indianapolis with twenty-four registered, had the largest delegation. Girls from 10 to 12 years old will be at the camp from Aug. 2 to 11 and already registrations have been received from Vincennes, Jeffersonville, Scottsburg, Columbus, Louisville ar'-' Vttnsville.