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FIRST SIP IN AL’S STRATEGY TOEJFEUDS Policy of Conciliation to Determine Choice of Chairman. PLAN 4 HEADQUARTERS Stress Border States Fight; Smith Will Take National Toui\ BY RAY TUCKER HOUSTON, Texas, June 28.—A1 Smith’s policy as head of the Democratic party following his seemingly certain nomination Friday will be to conciliate all warring factions, according to his spokesmen here. In reorganizing the party and mapping the campaign, the New York Governor is said to be keeping November victory rather than a June nomination in mind. At conferences to be held either in New York or Albany soon after the convention adjourns, Smith’s plans will be unfolded. Discuss Chairman Smith, of course, will not formally assume control until he names his national chairman, which he may do before the leaders leave here. Speculation already centers on at least four names, and their Identity reveals the strategy expected to animate the Democrats in their clash with the Hoover-Cur-tis ticket. The four men most talked about are Governor Harry Byrd of Virginia, Homer A. Cummings, national chairman under Wilson, and a former McAdoo leader; J. Bruce Kremer, Montana national committeeman and McAdoo’s floor manager at Madison Square Garden, and Senator Peter G.. Gerry of Rhode Island, a personal friend of SmithWhile Smith might prefer to pick somebody closer to him than any of these men, political expediency will hardly permit the selection of a Vet, a New Yorker, or any one allied to Tammany Hall. His advisors have urged him to name somebody mom representative of the other wings, political and geographic, of the party. B Tel Favored Governor Byrd, for obvious reasons, is held in high esteem. He is the chief executive of a great southern State and a member of one of America’s oldest families. His record as Governor is unassailable, aviator-brother, who is a close iViend of Smith, has helped to popularize the name. Cummings and Kremer, because ©f their tie-up with the McAdoo faction, are regarded favorably. The Smith policy of conciliation has been reflected here in the conduct of Senator Robert F. Wagner, the New York Governor’s spokesman. During the battling of a week ago. Wagner paid a visit to Reed. In his conferences with men like Senator Glass, Senator Harrison, Senator Pittman, he has stressed the chances of victory and the necessity cf harmony.

Smith to Take Stump The Democrats’ campaign plans contemplate a departure from those of other years, when two heady quarters in New York and Chicago were established. It is said Smith will have addiional headquarters in Louisville and Denver. The Louisville ofd e will have charge of the border-S-ate fight, which may decide the contest, while the Denver organization will wage the fight in the Rocky Mountain States and Far West. Smith is expected to make a na-tion-wide tour, beginning early in September. He probably will make one or two speeches in large cities below the Mason and Dixon line, though that has not been determined. ALFONSO VISITS BRITISH Spanish Ruler Arrives In London; Will Return July 17. By United Press LONDON, June 28.—King Alfonso of Spain arrived today for a visit In England. The visiting sovereign was accompanied by the Duke of Miranda. There was a large crowd at the Ration to cheer the arrival of the monarch, including many Spanish subjects. The Earl of Shaftesbury greeted the King on behalf of King George, while Ambassador Merry del Val and other members of the embassy staff greeted their monarch. The visit is private and Alfonso will return to Spain about July 17. CHARGE DIPLOMA MILL New York Advertising Clerk Held in $25,000 Bail. JBy United Press ’ NEW YORK, June 28.—George rlield, advertising clerk, was held in $25,000 bail today after his arrest in connection with a “diploma mill” at the College of the City of New York. Field, who was summoned before the grand jury, refused to give evidence unless immunity was promised. Prosecutors refused, and formally charged him with a suspicion of forgery. Jules Ross, said to be the ringleader in the scheme to grant bogus college credits, has not been arrested. Church Body Asks $512,900 Bli Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 28.—An annual budget of $515,900 for the central district, Missouri synod, Luthern Church,' is under consideration at the yearly district meeting here today.

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BY MAJOR HOOPLE (Copyright. 1928, by NEA Service) TTOUSTON, Texas, June 28. Egad, folk?, I trust you will overlook the reportorial catastrophe that happened to me today. I did not attend the convention. So for next best choice, you will have to see the official convention records of what took place, or else take for granted what the 500 scribes have penned. The catastrophe is this. After being awake all night trying to think of a way to punish the Houston weather man, I started for the hall today with the Satanic idea of launching a campaign to nominate him for Democratic Vice President, egad. As I. approached my favorite entrance gate to the hall, my eyes were shocked to see my old rival, "One-Eyed” Connelly, handcuffed to a bench outside the hall. a a a .TY7HILE we are rivals in the high art of gate-crashing, nevertheless they are ethics to our profession. Swallowing my rye—drat It, I mean my pride, I asked Connelly the reason for his embarrassing position. Without a trace of competitive bitterness in his voice, he confessed that the Texas police proved an obstacle to his getting in the hall today. So to make sure that he wouldn’t, they manacled him to a bench by the wrist, where they could watch him. One-Eyed Connelly wanted to bet me even money, (whatever either of us could borrow) that I could not crash the gate today. Well, friends, we gate-crashers must stick together. So I became indignant at the treatment gl.-cn my rival and went on a convention strike, refusing to go in, Egad. Conventions are beginning to bore me anyhow. Both myself and Connelly claim the distinction of being the president of the Exalted Order of International Gate-Crashers. That explains the friction between us. But I have Connelly bettered by one experience that has always nettled him. I gained a,dmittance to the coronation of King George by convincing the guards that I was barber-valet to the royal beard and had in a satchel the gold comb and brush to attend the grooming of the beard should such occasion arise during the ceremony, by Jove. * a a MY sympathy for Connelly’s treatment became more intense when I observed the size of guns the Houston police carry exposed on their hips. I don’t know If these police are referred to as the rangers, but their guns are as big as kitchen ranges. Without exaggeration, yob could stuff a broiler In the barrel, fire a shot, and have fried chicken. Egad. Rest assured my friends, the size of the guns had no bearing on my resolution not to enter the hall. Hm-m, Indeed, not. Leaving the convention grounds in great contempt, I stopped at a

‘TEX’ RICKARD, LEAVING TEXAS 33 YEARS AGO, BROKE, BACK WITH MILLIONS

BY RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer T tOUSTON, June 28.—Tex Rickard Came to Houston in a private car to see the Democratic national convention. If he had walked out on the street and been identified he would have been followed by a larger crowd than could be drawn by any politician in town. When Rickard left Texas thirty-three years ago to seek his fortune he went without a dollar in his pocket. His last job in Texas was the city marshalship of Henrietta, is

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refreshment stand to quench my arid larynx with a bottle of near beer. A souvenir was attached to the neck of each bottle in the shape of a toy Democratic donkey. Being blessed with a keen sense of humor, I asked the waiter if the donkey was supposed to supply the kick to the brew. Being so convulsed with laughter at my clever sally, I hurried to a dentist and had an old molar extracted while I was still guffawing, thus saving the extra expense of taking laughing gas. By jove. 150 CHILDREN AT PICNIC Attend Outing of Religious Group at Garfield Park. Young People’s Council of Religious Education sponsored a picnic for about 150 boys and girls Wednesday evening in Garfield Park. The Rev. William F. Rothenburger, pastor of the Third Christion Church, spoke on "The New Patriotism,” at the campfire vesper service. Miss Margaret Wingfield of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, was in charge. John Wesley Lewis of the Wesley Chapel, accompanied the young people on his cornet in songs under the direction of William Terrell of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church. A. Robert Harrison of the First Friends Church, was general chairman of the committee on airangements. STEAL OFFICER’S" AUTO Police Lieutenant’s Car Is Taken From Garage. A Pontiac sedan belonging to Police Lieutenant Frank Owen, accident prevention chief, was stolen from the Virginia Sales Company garage. 650 Virginia Ave., Wednesday night, William H. Miller, owner of the garage reported to police today. The thieves also took two tires valued at $35. WIFE DYING Edwards of New Jersey Hurriedly Called From Houston. By United Press HOUSTON, June 28.—Senator Edwards of New Jersey received word today his wife is near death at Jersey City. He left Immediately by a noon train. Edwards participated In the fight of wets before the platform committee here. SPY GUILTY OF BIGAMY Self-Styled “International Slueth” Given Prison Term. By United Press NEW YORK, June 38.—Jacob Nosovitsky, who calls himself “an International spy,” must serve from three months to three years in the penitentiary for bigamy. He was convicted of marrying Mrs. Esther Nosovitsky in (Montreal in 1924 and Mrs. Mollie Nosovitsky in January, 1927, After the jury brought in its verdict Nosovitsky thanked Judge McLaughlin for giving him a fair trial.

the Panhandle, which paid him SSO a month. Today he is a millionaire and is known as the world’s greatest showman. Rickard might have come to Houston in a yacht had he desired. His family came to Texas first in 1871. Rickard, 1 year old, traveled In a prairie schooner or covered wagon. a a a IN subsequent years little Tex hoed cotton and did other necessary farm work to help the family break even. sow he has two Japanese land-

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Senator Joseph Robinson, Arkansas, center; closeup of Robinson, lower inset; Mrs. Robinson, upper inset.

Boston Departs, New York Comes; Visions Great Changes. BY WILL DURANT A vast wooden tent, low and circular; a tabernacle for the great revival. Eleven thousand spectators rising against the walls. Eleven hundred alternates seated at the sides. White-haired technicians on the rostrum, dropping oil every now and then into the political mechanism. In the center 1,100 delegates, their standards swaying, responding to every wind of eloquence. They come in chewing cigars pugnaciously, but one sees in their eyes that they are kindly and timid enougn under their shirts. All in all a Jolly lot, with no faults that we do not share; more human and humane than the hardfaced ’Publicans at Kansas City; no morons, but Just simple fellows. While the noise goes around, one browses over the future of the Democratic party. Will the honest moisture of A1 Smith disastrously offend those pious manufacturers who, though they have fifty-seven varieties in their homes, want their workers to report promptly on Monday mornings? Will the South long continue solidly Democratic, with Industries flourishing, with manufacturers rising up to praise the tariff? Foresees New Era The devil himself (i. e., H. L. Mencken), is sitting here close by You can’t help liking him. He has gone through the United States like a great purgatic stein, clearing up provincialism, pollyannism quackery, bigotry and other American eruptions. But as you see him off his guard, you scent a suppressed complex of optimism in him. He knows that we are not half as bad as he makes us out. One would think that as a hater of don’ts and laws, he would support Hoover and take a chance on his beer, but he is for Smith. It is because he realizes that as the greatest living writer of the American language he is the symbol in literature of what Smith represents in politics—the rise of Broadway against Fifth Ave., the revolt of the latter immigration (the easy going Irish, the Germans, the pagan Italians, the lax-living Slavs, the skeptical Jews), against the Puritan English domination of American morals, letters and Government. Boston departs and New York comes. Great Changes Ahead Only in this turbulent uprising can the Democratic party find its future base. The lines of the coming conflicts will be drawn not solely according to economic interests, but according also to ethnic and religious loyalties. These will give to American politics an intensity not seen in our public life for many generations. The old apathy will go and voters will return to the polls. In the midst of it all, along with chaos and violence, the spirit of the Nation will be quickened, the mind will be sharpened with battle, and great literature will be bom. Egypt’s Congress Adjourns CAIRO, June 28.—The Chamber of Deputies was adjourned today for a month by King Fuad.

scapers working on his property in Miami Beach, which he bought just recently. He promises to bring plants and flowers from all oyer the world to set off his new twelve-room house. Each winter he sails his yacht to Miami Beach. It’s a fine yacht. He bough it from Walter P. Chrysler, the automobile manufacturer. It ran thirty miles an hour In a recent race on the Hudson. n * RICHARD says his greatest pleasure is to take on board old friends who were never before

OLD BALLYHOO WAGON HMD BY MANY High-Powered Salesmen Get Day in Politics . . at Parleys. CATCH UP WITH TIMES Jim Watson Learned How Old Tricks Lose Might at Kansas City. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 28. Politics is ca’ching up with the times. The politics practiced here and at Kansas City is strictly 1928 model, very different from what the oldtimers are used to. Ballyhoo is replaced by high-pow-ered salesmanship. Cheap tricks of the patent medicine barker of the nineties are being driven out by the more dignified and far more effective methods of modern salesmanship. Governor Alfred E. Smith is in the hands of expert political salesmen, just as Herbert Hoover is. Tammany Tactics Change Those who came here expecting Tammany, in its hour of victory, to stage the (greatest political show of the times were disappointed when the demonstration following the placing of Governor Smith in nomination lasted only twenty-six minutes as compared with# more than an hour in Madison Square Garden in 1924. The Madison Square Garden demonstration for Smith four years ago probably was the most elaborate example of this sort of prearranged demonstration that was ever staged. For more than an hour an ear-splitting din was kept up by a squad of men in the galleries cranking fire department sirens. This was the basis of the Smith demonstration and it lasted until the boys who cranked the sirens were wore out. So, because the Smith cheering here was only reasonably noisy and stopped within half the time it did four years ago, some said that Smith managers had fallen down on the job.

In Ranks of Bustle On the contrary, the Smith campaign this year has been conducted on the new modern lines. Hoover, the successful Republican, adopted the new style, and oldfashioned candidates like Senator James E. Watson, who still were using the tricks of the Blaine campaign. were unable to make headway against it. Smith and his managers likewise saw that styles in politics change and that the old torchlight tactics of the nineties are as out of date now as the bustle. Smith’s managers came here without even a band—an unheard of thing for a major Democratic candidate.. A volunteer orchestra of boys from Oklahoma and a pathetic looking accordion player are the only musical accessories to the Smith campaign here. Manager Van Namee has forbidden the 6mith group to engage In spectacular stunts. They mingle with the delegates, shaking hands answering any questions about Smit hlf asked, conducting themselves like well-behaved guests. The real high-powered work is done in conferences among key figures. The New York delegation did not even march in the parade around the hall last night—that was left to other pro-Smith delegates. Sales Manager Now Followers of Senator George of Georgia showed what a candidate with only a relatively small following can do. Although Smith has more than seven times as many votes in sight as George, the Georgian put on an old-fashioned marching demonstration in the convention just before the Smith nominating speech. It lasted fifteen minutes, more than half as long as Smith’s and was marked by almost as much noise. Republican managers of the higher grade have known for a long time that the arts of the side-show barker were passe in politics, that the times had become too sophisticated for them, and that instead of impressing anyone, they caused ridicule. Smith managers, apparently, have fallen into line with the times. Old Tammany, the creator of American political ballyhoo, has fired its sidewalk acrobats and hired a sales manager. Greek Cabinet to Resign By United Press ATHENS, June 28.—The cabinet is expected to resign because of publication of a letter from former Premier Venizelos criticising the governhient’s financial policy.

on a yacht. He has a lot of friends, accumulated during Jiis many years in the prize-fight business. “How much were you worth when you left Texas” .Rickard was asked. "I didn’t have any money,” he replied. "How much have you now?” "Well, the boys say about two millions In the bank,” said Rickard, with a modest gesture. ana IT developed that Tex had a million dollars in cold cash in the banks in New York. He prefers

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HOOVER AND SMITH BOTH WISE ON FISH

Secretary Ardent Angler; Al Has Educated Palate. By Times Special HOUSTON, June 28.—Disciples of Izaak Walton will have a friend in the White House whether Herbert Hoover or Al Smith is elected Hoover is the fisherman of the Cabinet. There is not a detail of the sport that he does not know. If he has a hobby, it is fishing. His particular interest as Secretary of Commerce has been' to build up the Bureau of Fisheries. Smith may not share Hoover’s amateur zest, but he began life as a tally clerk in the Fulton Fish Market in New York City. For years he handled and counted fish, and he can tell a hake from a haddock by the look of its eye or the feel of it fin. Both men figure in anecdotes that reveal their interest. Some time ago several correspondents at Washington were planning a fishing expedition and found themselves In a quandary as to bait. They laid their plight before Hoover, it is said, and he dropped questions of State to tell them with the zeal of a professor the right kind of tackle and bait to use. At Albany another group of correspondents once were discussing the delights of fish dishes and one told of the delicacy of codfish tongues. This brought a laugh and an argument as to whether codfish had tongues. It was agreed to lay the matter before “the Govemer.” Though it was late at night and Smith had to be roused out of bed, he delivered a telephonic lecture on the succulence of codfish tongues cooked according to a recipe of his own. Burglars Leave Pepper Trail By Times Special SWAYZEE, Ind., June 28.—Cayenne pepper was left in their wake by burglars who looted the Planck general store here of $l6O in money and checks, In order to prevent being trailed by bloodhounds.

cash and remarks with satisfaction that he was not heavily involved in the recent stock market crash. Rickard has made and lost four fortunes, he admits. One he made in Alaska mining, another in the Nevada mines, another in land in Paraguay, and a fourth in the fight business. “This is a nice little show here,” admitted Tex, referring to the convention. "But my shows are the biggest shows in the world.” “I suppose the hotels here have about 20,000 visitors, but I have 'packed the hotels of Chicago and

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Likes ’Em Fat By Times Special GARY, Ind., June 28.—"A new wife, big and fat,” was the kind Abraham Marcus expressed a liking for, Mrs. Mary Marcus, who is slender, alleges in a divorce suit. “Too small” was one reason the husband gave for not loving her, the wife declares. She asks SI,OOO alimony.

JUDGE FREES EIGHT Dismisses Gaming Charges; Lacks Evidence. Paul Smith, 1109 N. Belmont Ave., was discharged on a charge of keeping a gaming house and seven other men were discharged on charges of visiting a gaming house by Municipal Judge Pro. Tern. Harry Yockey after Deputy Prosecutor Carl Vandiver admitted not having sufficient evidence. Sergt. Frank Reilly arrested the group playing domino-rum at a poolroom at 2123 W. Washington St. He said one of the men addressed a 25-cent bet to another of the players. “When he said that I told him I’d take it and walked up arid took the quarter out of his hand.” Reilly testified. “I then arrested the group.” This, coupled with testimony of other members of Reilly’s raiding squad, who saw the game, completed the State’s case. “What do you think of It?” the court asked Vandiver. “I doubt If the evidence Is sufficient,” Vandiver replied, and the defendants were discharged. Many Use Ocean Phone Service ATLANTIC CITY. N. J„ June 28. —Since January of last year 6,368 trans-Atlantic telephone calls have been made, according to the American Telegraph and Telephone Company.

jammed the hotels of Philadelphia.” n n HE has forsaken gambling as a pastime and is able to live on the income of what he has. He promises to spend most of that on entertaining his friends. Rickard’s advance in life since he 'left Texas in 1895 was fairly well illustrated by the remark of a taxicab driver a short time after the Rickard special car arrived in Houston. “Dja know Rickard was in town?” he asked. “There’s one guy I want to see,’< _

SMITH ON EVE OF VICTORY IS SHYjpCENT Jovial Smile Gives Way to Air of Responsibility in in New Role. CONFIDENT, SHUNS TALK Governor Ignores Parley Publicly, Burying Self in Duties. BY PERCY B. SCOTT United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y.. June 28.—The flush of victory has made anew man of Governor Alfred E. Smith, marked chiefly by a shy reticence, hardly in keeping with the legend of the "happy warrior.” Governor Smith is as Jovial as ever, but as the hour approaches when the former New York newsboy is to be elevated to the highest honor his party can bestow, he takes on anew dignity and diffidence. Close friends ascribe the change to a realization by the Governor of the immense responsibilities that are about to become his as the standard bearer of his party. Waited for This Honor Governor Smith has waited a long time for the prize that is again within his grasp. This time he knows he will not lose, and that very realization seems to have changed his outlook. Victory is nothing new to the man who has set a precedent by winning the New York governorship four times in ten years. But victory which carries him into what may be the last great fight of his political career leaves the Governor with a quiet determination, contrasting sharply with the exuberant confidence that has marked his en- 1 try into former battles. He goes about his duties as chief executive of New York State working harder than ever before. He has buried himselL in work at the executive offices aurinj the past few days, and only in the evening lias he taken notice of the convention, when he would listen to the proceedings by radio. Shuns Convention Talk , He will talk about anything and everything but the convention. He confidentially chats with newspaper men, many of whom he has known for years, but his remarks are few and brief. His one relaxation seems to be the company if his elder daughter, Mrs. John A. Warner. She has been with him almost constantly since the opening of the Houston convention. She is at the executive office during the day, and at the home of the Governor in the evening. Smith Is affected by the situation as he has never before been affected. This was shown Wednesday night when he listened to the speech* of Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of the Navy, who placed him in nomination. as he did four years ago. The Governor sat within three feet of the radio, with Mrs. Warner by his side as Roosevelt delivered his talk. His facial expression was unchanged during the entire talk, but a cigar he lighted as the speaker began was chewed rather than smoked. At times he puffed furiously and at other times he chewed it with fast working jaws, shifting it from side to side in his mouth. As Roosevelt cited his record and praised his ability, his nervousness was demonstrated by his thirst. In the half hour that Roosevelt spoke. Smith drank four large glasses of Ice water. When the nominating speech was ended, the Governor left his seat and walked into the reception hall of the mansion. He did not resume his seat in the ballroom of the mansion, where the radio was installed, until the demonstration in his behalf had neared its close. Returns to Work Today Mrs. Warner, however was visibly affected by Roosevelt’s talk. At times It appeared that she was about to cry, and several times she reached over and laid her hand on her father’s knee. With the Governor at the mansion were the twenty ‘newspaper men who are covering him, and Mr. and Mrs. Warner, Representative and Mrs, Parker Corning, Dr. and Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Charles M. Winchester and William A. Humphrey, the latter two close friends of .years’ standing. Today Smith again planned on spending fijost of the day in his office at the Capitol. If the balloting for the nomination does not take place until this evening, he will hear the result at the mansion. NEGRO TAKEN IN RAID Held on Blind Tiger Charge After Police Find White Mule. Twenty-three milk bottle* of white mule whisky were found by a raiding squad In charge of Sergt. Curtiss Barge at the home of Joe Roberts, Negro, of 1230 Yandes St. Roberts was held on a blind tiger charge. Fined After Mill Burns By Times Special NASHVILLE, Ind., June 28. Fines of $5 and costs and suspended jail sentences- of six months each were imposed on Earl Pittman, 17, and Emmett Lester, 19, as a result of the burning of a sawmill owned by Sherman Berry. The boys ad-, mitted that while stealing gasolinri at the mill, a lire was started by m lantern. Each has been ordered tfl pay SSOO to Berry as JM