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GAG RULE TO JAM THROUGH GARNER’S BILL Democrats Win Bitterly Contested Victory in , Test Vote. ' CLAIM INSURGENT AID Republicans Rally to Help of Hoover’s Program for Needy. C'l I nilrii Perns WASHINGTON. June 7. Democratic leaders today won a clearcut triumph in the first test vote on the Garner $2,300,030,000 relief bill when the house agreed to accept drastic "gag rules” to govern the measure’s consideration. The rule, giving every possible parliamentary advantage to the Democrats, was bitterly fought by administration leaders who declared tha* the majority party was attempting to "hog tie” the membership into passing the bill. Adoption of the resolution was taken to indicate that the Democratic majority would obtain passage of the relief bill itself. The vote on the "gag rule” resold ion which technically came on a Republican motion not to consid r “the previous question.” was 205 to 189. The house then by a votce vote formally adop'ed the drastic rule. The house immediately began consideration of Garner s bill with its passage indicated. Charged Wasteful The measure includes a $1,000.000.000 bond issue for public works —a provision which the administration claims is wasteful and would wreck all Its efforts to balance the budget. The relief fight in the house has crystallized along straight party lines. Tne Democratic majority is pledged to back the Garner bill. Republicans, in conference Monday night, agreed to try to substitute President Hoover's own program. providing for all relief to be handh-l by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, with no direct bond issue. Claim Insurgent Aid Democrats, however, claimed forty Republicans who would vote with them. If passed by the house, the Garner bill, in addition to presidential opposition, faces a rival Democratic measure and a serious legislative jam in the senate. To assure passage of some unemployment reliet before congress adjourns. Democratic leader Joseph T. Robinson obtained a tentative agreement for the senate to take up a $300,000,000 measure immediately after passage of the economy bill. This measure, provided for reliet loans to states, would be detached from the general senate Democratic relief program. It ’s acceptable to President Hoover. The opening fight in the house today, a vital tfst decision, comes on the vote on adoption of a "gag rule” proposed by Democrats to govern consideration of the bill. Debate Is Limited Adoption of the gag rule limits debate to three hours and to all p acticnl purposes precludes Republican amendments. Thf vote on President Hoover's prog.*m will come late in the day on a motion to recommit the bill, substituting the administration plan in toto. The Garner plan for relief provides : 1 Appropriation of $100,000,000 to be administered by the President for direct relief of distress. 2. Increase the capitalization of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by $1,000,000,000 to enable states, municipalities and private eorporations to borrow fer job-giv-ing enterprises. 3. Federal construction work, scattered throughout every portion of the country, aggregating considerably more than $1,000,000,000. Rivers and harbors work, flood control, new roads and new federal buildings •re included In this program. They would be financed by bonds, to be retired by a special federal gasoline tax of ’j-cent a gallon. LOSE” $5 000 IN GEMS Mr. and Mrs. Lester Tavel Forced to Drive to City Outskirts. Held up by two young gunmen. J.lr. and Mrs. Lester Tavel, 2946 Ruckle street, were forced to drive their car to the outskirts of the city early today, when the thieves lock S4O in cash and jewelry valued at $5,000. any then drove away in Travel’s car. The gunmen came alongside the car as Tavel drove his car to the rear of his home and forced him to drive to Keystone avenue and the Allisonville road. Tavel called police by telephone. BODY FOUND IN CANAL Hours of Searching Bring Recovery of Aged Woman's Corpse. Body of Mrs Julia Ashby. 70. who fell or jumped into the canal at Twenty-fifth street Monday afternoon. was recovered at noon today. Police dragged the canal several hours and divers attempted to find the body while 2,000 persons looked on late Monday afternoon. Mrs. Ashby made her home with a niece. Mrs. Lola B. Lewis, at 2477 Bond street. The aged woman had been fishing In the canal. Her body was seen In the water by Sam Richards. 566 West Twenty-eighth street, and Thomas Bridges, 2640 Rader street.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy with thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, followed by generally fair Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 23

You Tell ’Em What does this country need? The presidential platform makers are busy drafting their statements and giving their views. What do you think? The Times is giving you opportunity to speak up. Ferhaps you can write a better platform than some of the

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SIX DEATHS DUE TO BABY'S FALL Race to Hospital Ends in Fatal Crash. By I Mtlril Press CAMDEN, N. J.. June 7.—Three-ycar-old Emma Blocmaker, injured in a fall from her crib which started a chain of events that resulted in the death of five other persons, died today in the West Jersey Homeopathic hospital. The child cut her throat on a broken nursing bottle when she fell from the crib in her home at Haddonfleld, N. J. Richard J. Bloemaker, the father, summoned an ambulance and, with two patrolmen. started for the hospital. A few miles from Camden, the ambulance collided with a sedan. The sedan overturned and caught fire. The ambulance crashed into a pole at the roadside. The death list: Blormaker, fractured skull. Patrolman John Knorr of Haddonficld, driver of the ambulance, broken neck. W. A. Roedecker, Perth Amboy. N. J., Georgetown university student, and driver of the sedan, burns. Mrs. Mary Roedecker, mother of Roedecker, burns and other injuries. •Mrs. Katherine Smith, aunt of the student, burns and other injuries. The other patrolman, Frank B. Tucker, suffered a fractured skull and is not expc ted to live.

WINS LIGHT BATTLE Mrs. Hinton Obtains Order for Restoring Service. Temporary victory at least was won today by Mrs. Nellie Hinton. 738 North New Jersey street, in her fight to compel the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to provide her with electricity. Superior Judge Clarence E. Weir today issued a temporary mandatory order, directing the company to restore service. In her application for the order. Mrs. Hinton alleged that her electrical bill received in May was $5.92, much higher than before. She protested. and threatened to consult the public service commission. An inspector was sent to look at the meter and later service was discontinued. Light company attorneys, in their opening argument, charged that matches had been placed in the meter. apparently to slow it. Final hearing will be held at the fall term of superior court four. RAIN IS FORECAST Break in Heat Wave Seen by Weather Chief. Relief was in sight today for Indianapolis from its first heat wave of the season, and J. H. Armington. weather bureau chief, predicted thundershowers this afternoon or tonight. The showers will be followed by generally fair weather Wednesday, but there will not be much change in temperatures, he said. The mercury started a rapid climb this morning, jumping from 69 at 7 o'clock to 78 at 8, an increase of nine degrees in an hour. DARROW SERIOUSLY ILL Stricken With Indigestion; Doctors Order Complete Qoiet. By Vnited l’rcts CHICAGO, June 7. Clarence Darrow, the “grand old man" of the American Bar. was seriously ill today in his south side home. He was stricken with indigestion during the night, and physicians ordered complete quiet today. He was compelled to cancel a schedule appearance in federal court, where he was to have appeared in behalf of City Sealer Joe Grein. who is seeking return of $25,000 worth of cordial extracts seized by federal prohibition agents in a raid. Calls IHinois Mine Parley By l nitcH Prtts SPRINGFIELD. 111.. June 7 Acting on the request of the Illinois emergency commission. Governor L. L. Emmerson announced today that he had asked miners' and operators’ representatives to resume negotiations here Thursday on a wage scale.

MORGAN WILL l HOLD GAVEL IN G. 0. P. PARLEY State Chairman Will Rule at Convention, Party Leaders Decide. WILL HAYS ON SCENE Movie Dictator Expected io Announce Choice of Watson. BY BEN STERN Permanent chairman's gavel for the Republican state convention Wednesday and Thursday will be wielded by State Chairman Ivan C. Morgan, Governor candidates decided at a noon conference today, following a huddle on the platform. Although mention was given the 1 names of Elza O. Rogers, former

state chairman, the | Senator Watson I choice; and John Moorman of Knox, Morgan's selection, the cand id ates I decided antnimously on the state chairman when he was proposed by M. Bert Thurman. Meanwhile, hundreds of delegates arriving here for the convention were discussing the possibility of a Wright law repeal plank in

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the platform and the significance of the arrival here today of Will H. Hays, motion picture dictator. They profess to see in the wiry, slight, nervous, and active former state and national chairman the answer to the problem of whether Watson will "go” for Thursman or support one of the other seven contenders. Hays ewent into a conference with Governor Harry G. Leslie immediately upon his arrival, which political leaders believed would have a great signifificance in the Govenor contest. He said it was his business to "elect, not select, a candidate.” Although today's conference on the state platform held by Morgan with state candidates and congressional nominees was behind closed doors, it is learned that the high point of discussion was on the prohibition plank. The submitted proposal called for a resubmission of the eighteenth amendment and protested return of the saloon. Lawrence F. Orr. governor aspirant: Oscar Ahlgren. First district congressional nominee, and Joe Kyle of Gary, candidate for lieu-tenant-governor, it is reported insisted on a plank declaring for out(Turn to Page 1. Second Section)

RIOTING REDS PLAN TO MUSCLE IN ON VETERANS’ MARCH TO U. S. CAPITOL

Bv United Pre** Delegations of World war veterans from all corners of the United States massed in Washington today for the most spectacular demonstration of the campaign to obtain a cash bonus —a parade to the capital—while a dozen other detachments pushed eastward at double time in an effort to reach their objective before congress adjourns. An "army” of an additional 1.000 was being recruited in Los Angeles, 200 late-starting Kansas Citians had progressed as far as St. Louis and nearly five hundred veterans were on their wav by truck after being stranded in Memphis, Tenn., bv the refusal of railroads to provide transportation. Those were the farthest flung outposts of the bonus crusade and represented the last burst of energy to reinforce the thousands of veterans already in Washington to urge enactment of the $2,000,000,000 Patman bill which their efforts had assured of a vote in the house. Other detachments were in the east, some only a few miles from Washington, but with advancement growing more and more difficult. The veterans in Washington, reinforced by nearly 1.000 from Pennsylvania, Florida. New Jersey and New York had their own troubles. The police are serving bread and

Four Are Known Dead, Many Missing, After Blast Wrecks Cleveland Building

fly Vnitrd Prrt CLEVELAND. June 7. —Flameswept ruins of the* six-story Ellington apartment building in downtown Cleveland, shattered by a gas explosion at 12:45 a. m.. yielded bodies of four victims today and firemen continued digging in the debris for the bodies of four additional persons who, they were positive, also perished. Thirty persons were injured. They were cared for temporarily in three nearby hotels and a cathedral, after their rescue by firemen, police and spectators. Several of the 200 residents of the building still were unaccounted for at noon and an official list was being compiled to aid the searchers. Identified dead were: Mrs. Anna Mitchell, 70. burned and fatally injured in a leap from a third-floor window.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 7,1932

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HOOVER PLANS AMAZING MOVE May Announce Platform Before Convention. By United Press NEW YORK. June 7 —So desirous is President Hoover for an alladministration Republican national convention that his wish may be carried to the unprecedented extent of making public the party's platform in Washington before the Chicago gathering, the New York World-Telegram said it had learned today from prominent local Republicans. The platform, according to the newspaper's informants, is being drafted in Washington and the President has been maneuvering to place several of his cabinet members and close advisers on the platform committee, to insure inclusion of several of his planks in the party's declaration. WITT MAPS APPEAL Sentenced to Death for Grocer’s Murder. Case of Charles Vernon Witt, sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 1 for the murder of Lafayette Jackson, chain grocery operator during a robbery, will be appealed to the Indiana supreme court. Notice to this effect was given today by Ira M. Holmes, defense counsel, to Herbert E. Wilson, prosecuting attorney. Motion for new trial of the case was overruled. Sentence was pronounced on Witt Jan. 28 in Boone circuit court at Lebanon, where the case was tried on a change of venue.

stew—cost 6 cents a day. Only $lO4 is left to feed the 4,000 men encamped in Anacostia park. The police threatened to shut off the food. A veterans executive committee was appointed to take up the problem Wednesday. Offers of supplies from back home will be considered. An orderly march by the veterans tonight was predicted by Police Superintendent Pelham D. Glassford. At the same time he issued a statement charging that Communists planned a "combat fighting unit of 100 to battle police along the route. He charged a speaker at a Communist meeting said that "force by bloodshed or otherwise" was needed. Glassford refused to let the parade go past the White House and changed its route to pass half a mile away. He ordered police leaves canceled and said the route would be roped off. Communists, apparently not identified with the veterans, planned a separate bonus demonstration at the capitol Wednesday. Warning that sanitation and health conditions should improve to avert danger of typhoid fever and dysentery at the Anacostia camp was given by Dr. William C. Fowler, District of Columbia health officer, and Major Donald S. Knowlton, marine brigade.

Conrad Werner, 55. a National City bank guard, suffocated in his room. Miss Cora Stokes. 60, retired hotel employe, suffocated and burned. The fourth body was that of a man burned beyond recognition. Thrilling rescues were witnessed as firemen, police and spectators joined in carrying from the flaming building aged residents. Vrapped in blankets, and placing them in ambulances or automobiles loaned by spectators, to be rushed to hospitals. The building, occupied on the ground floor by stores and business establishments, is inhabited on the upper floors by many aged Clevelanders. who have refused to desert the downtown section. A large crowd gathered as soon as the blast occurred Members of

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Millionaire Seed Dealer Is Winner in Spectacular Vote Drive. By t n ited Pm* DES MOINES, June 7.—Henry Field's apparent victory over Senator Smith W. Brookhart for the Republican nomination for United States senator from lowa affected him but slightly today, as he turned to managing the seed business which he had neglected for more than six weeks. I knew all the time I'd win,” said Henry, as he watched his lead over the senator creep upward. "No Field ever has been defeated at anything. We always win, no matter what we go after.” Field matched a circus strategy with the veteran Brookhart, even to the point of touring the state with a covered wagon and a five-piece band. He resurrected the torchlight ! parade, unseen in lowa in forty | years, when he organized parades at his Shenandoah home with a steam caliope to wheeze a march. The bright green armbands which held back the sleeves of his shirt became known to upward of 100,000 persons before his campaign ended. Field, farmer born, never before had been in politics. At the age of 5 he sold 50 cents' worth of poppy seeds to his aunt, and with that capital started a seed house which now is a million dollar concern. The totals, with 1.042 precincts reported out of 2.435. gave: Brookhart. 62.574; Louis H. Cook, 5,683; George Cosson, 1.239; G. E. Eickelberg. 2,894; Field, 34.352; Glenn Haynes, 19,944. In the Democratic race for senator. with somewhat fewer precincts reported, the count was: Louis Murphy, 10,985; Daniel Steck, 6,004; C. F. Lytle, 3.349; N. G. Kraschel, 4,201, and Fred Hagemann, 3,552. Governor Dan W. Turner was running far ahead of all Republican rivals. For the Democratic nomination for Governor, L. E. Roddewig was leading, with 9.066. FLORIDA VOTES TODAY Roosevelt Conceded Victory in Presidential Preference Race. By United Prut MIAMI. Fla., June 7.—Presidential preference and prohibition claimed interest in Florida primarytoday. About 300,000 votes were expected to be cast. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, leading candidate for the Democratic presi- j dential preference race against Governor William H. Murray of Oklahoma and L. J. Chassee of Milwaukee, the latter comparatively j unknown. Os the thirteen candidates for congressional seats, eleven favored i either repeal of the eighteenth! amendment, or a referendum. In the latter group were Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of the j Fourth district, and Representative Herbert J. Dranc of the First.

SELL PARLEY TICKETS Ducats for G. O. P. Convention Range From $3.40 to SB. i By Unit id Press CHICAGO, June 7.—Tickets good ! for one full day at the Republican* i national convention went on sale i today at prices ranging from $3.40 to SB. It was the first time anything but ; "season" tickets had been sold for a national convention. Democratic convention tickets at the same prices will go on sale a week before that convention opens. Each ticket is good for the two daily sessions. The prices are: Second balcony, $3.40; first balcony, $4.40; mezzanine, SB. LAWYER SURRENDERS Public Defender Accused in Murder of His Benefactor. By C nited Press SAN FRANCISCO. June 7. j Public Defender Frank J. Egan, wanted on charge of murder in ; connection with the mysterious j death of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes, j bis old-time friend and benefactor, ' was arrested here today. Egan was taken into custody at 1 Park police station after he walked in and calmly remarked that he wished to surrender. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 69 10 a. m 79 7a. m 69 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 82 9a. m 79 Ip. m 83

gay night parties in nearby hotels, many of them in evening clothes, willingly offered their aid in rescue work. A group of priests from St. John's Cathedral, headed by Msgr. Joseph Smith, helped carry human bundles, wrapped in blankets, out of the flaming ruins. In the lobby of the Hollenden hotel, where eighty survivors were taken, scenes of suffering and misery took place. Two house doctors rushed about, giving first aid to injured. In one comer, Alex Spencer, grey-haired survivor, moaned over the loss of his dog. “My poor dog," he sobbed, ‘"he’s in there.” In another corner, Mrs. Leida Schank. 77. resident of the Ellington apartments since 1838, caressed her two canaries, which she had rescued first. Included among those aiding in

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ROCKEFELLER JR. FLAYS PROHIBITION AND CALLS FOR REPEAL OF DRY ACT

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DALE ACCUSER HURT IN BRAWL U. S. Witness Arrested on Liquor Sale Charge. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., June 7.—The cry of "frameup" raised by Mayor George R. Dale's friends after his federal court conviction on liquor conspiracy charges today swelled to a roar as the arrest of a government witness on the charge of specific sale of liquor was revealed. Robert Morgan, 34, who testified for the government ngainst Dale and ten other Muncie men in federal court at Indianapolis, was arrested Monday and pleaded not guilty to the liquor charge when arraigned in city court. Morgan was injured in a brawl and was given emergency treatment for a cut on the head. Frank Sylvester, who filed the liquor sale charge, admitted striking Morgan with a corn knife, police said. Although no comment was available from Mayor Dale, outspoken friends discussed the Morgan arrest bitterly. They branded it another "piece of evidence" revealing the government's witnesses as bootleggers and those of the "half world." TUI CAL FOR POST He or Strawn May Succeed Dawes in Finance Job. (Pan Story on Pair 3) By United Press WASHINGTON. June 7.—Calvin Coolidge and Silas Strawn were two of the most prominently mentioned persons today as possible successors to Charles G. Dawes, who resigned the presidency of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Dawes' resignation does not take effect until June 15, and there was no official word from the White House as to who might be appointed. Owen D. Young also was mentioned in rumors, but the fact that j he is a Democrat, and there already j are three Democrats on the Reconstruction Finance board, would seem to preclude his appointment. CHARLES REMY BETTER Former Appellate Judge Is Recover- ( ing From Accident. Charles F. Remy. former judge of the appellate court, who was in- ! jured severely recently in a traffic ■ accident near the statehouse. is recovering rapidly, it was learned today. Mr. Remy has been removed from the hospital to his home, 1603 j Park avenue. He was hurt when I he was pinned beneath an automobile.

the rescue work were Mickey Cochrane, A1 Simmons and Jimmy Foxx. Philadelphia Athletics baseball players, who were in a hotel opposite. Foxx said today the explosion shook his bed. The fire spread swiftly through the building—a Cleveland landmark—and the residents had no time to dress or save their belongings. Damos Desnoyer, 79. however, managed to rescue a 217-vear-old Stradivarius violin, which once belonged to England’s royal family and for which a search was said to have been made in this country and abroad for the last fifty years. The instrument is worth $50,000. he said. Desnoyer was carried down a ladder five stories after he had hung from his window for several minutes to escape the flames.

Rockefeller Stand Scored by Dry Chiefs

Bv United Press COMMENT from leaders of wet and dry forces in the United States on the decision of John D. Rockefeller Jr. to urge repeal of the eighteenth amendment follow: MRS. ELLA A. BOOLE. < president of the W. C. T. U.—ls people desire to repeal the eighteenth amendment they should suggest some way that will be effective in restricting liquor, and then will people who have refused to obey the prohibition i law agree to obey those restrie- ' tions? MISS JANE ADDAMS (of Hull House)—l must disagree with his premise that there has been more drinking and crime since adoption of prohibition. DR. D. LEIGH COLVIN (chairman of the Prohibition National ! Committee)—lt is amazing that a man like Rockefeller should make wild statements like that, when latest government statistics show that the source of liquor supply is not over 35 per cent what it was before, and that government figures show a decrease in crime. aan FRED A. VICTOR (New York state superintendent of the AntiSaloon League)—lf the eighteenth amendment is repealed, the saloon will come back. THE REV. JAMES K. SHIELDS (New Jersey state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League)—l don't; believe he or any one else can provt , by specific instances the truth of his general statement about increased crime and general lawlessness. REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS L. BLANTON (Democrat. Texas, dry leader of the house)—f don’t attach any more importance to Mr. Rockefeller's change of mind than to that I of anyone else. He's just one of 120.000.000 people. The law will remain in the Constitution. n n a SENATOR HIRAM BINGHAM (Rep., Conn., author of many beer bills)—Obviously the costly experiment backed by the greatest j wealth in the United States has failed in the opinion of those who invested huge sums of money in an, attempt to regulate personal habits, of the American people from Washington. SENATOR ROBERT BULKLEY <Dem. O.)—I am glad to see one more convert. I hope both parties in their Chicago conventions will' include in their platforms planks for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER < president of Columbia university)—l naturally am very much gratified at Mr. Rockefeller’s cordial support and believe it will have great influence on public opinion. JAMES A. FARLEY (Democratic | state chairman of New York, man-! ager of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaign)— I think it is a very admirable statement and that Mr. Rockefeller is to be congratulated on it. BISHOP JAMES CANNON JR. iof the Methodist Episcopal church, j south) —We know what we have in | the eighteenth amendment and we ! know it has been successful. FAVORS WORLD IPARLEYS Silas Strawn Tells League They Are Needed to End Depression. By United Pr is NEW YORK. June 7.—lnternational conferences are essential if the world is to recover from the depression. Silas H. Strawn. president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, believes. In a statement to the League of Nations Association, he also urged individual action by nations to put their financial houses in order. The United States. Strawn believes. can make the greatest progress toward normalcy without collective action, because it is more economically self-contained.

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Anti-Saloon Forces Struck Body Blow in Statement by Oil King. CITES GROWING EVILS Indorses Butler’s Proposal for Plank in G. 0. P. Platform. By United Prr*s NEW YORK. June 7. John D. Rockefeller Jr., born and bred of teetotaler stock, has spurned the prohibition amendment, coming out today for its repeal. His startling course, after years of moral and financial support of the dry cause, led anti-prohibition forces today to see a tremendous impetus for a national referendum on prohibition, while dr.vs charged him with erroneous conclusions on prohibition's effects and insisted they still would win. Rockefeller made known his change of heart in a letter indorsing Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's proposal for a repeal plank in the Republican national platform. Head of the Standard Oil, prominent in church and philanthropic work, Rockefeller all his life has been an abstainer and an ardent worker for dry legislation. Family All Abstainers His father nd grandfather were abstainers, and his mother. Rockefeller says in his announcement, was one of a band of ardent women who took prayer into the saloons to combat the evil of drink. Reared in* such tradition, he contributed to the Anti-Saloon League war chest and spoke for prohibition. Now, he sees prohibition as detrimental and favors its abandonment. leaving to later the working out of substitute plans. Rockefeller had hoped, he told Butler, that the eighteenth amendment would be supported generally by public opinion, and that the ; cause of temperance would be advanced. "That this has not been the re- ! suit,” he wrote, “but rather that drinking generally has been increased; that the speakeasy has replaced the saloon, not only unit for unit, but probably twofold, if not threefold; that a vast army of lawbreakers has been recruited and financed on a colossal scale; that many of our best citizens, piqued at what they regarded as an infringement of their private rights, openly and unabashed, have disregarded the eighteenth amendment; that, as an inevitable result, respect for all law has been lessened greatly; that crime has increased to an unprecedented degree—l slowly have and reluctantly, come to believe." New Evils Greater The former ally of prohibition returned further indictments against the eighteenth amendment, with these suggestions; "I am not unmindful of the blessings in the abolition of the saloon . . . but these benefits . . . are more than outweighed by the evils which have developed; evils which, if not checked properly, are likely to lead to conditions unspeakably worse” than they were before prohibition. Repeal may not by itself end all these evils, but "it is a prerequisite to attainment of that goal.” If the eighteenth amendment is repealed, "sufficient time ought to be given before repeal became effective to permit the states, by legislative action,” to set up such safeguards and methods of control as will insure promotion of temperance. Repeal should be submitted without alternative suggestion for control methods, because "it will be so difficult for our people as a whole to agree in advance on what the substitute should be and so unlikely that any one method will fit the entire nation.” Attitude Is Explained Rockefeller preceded his startling attack on the prohibition amendment with an explanation of the attitude of his famous father and himself, and an outline of the beliefs of his mother and grandmother, which read; "My mother and her mother were among the dauntless women of their day who, hating the horrors of drunkenness, often were found with bands of women of like mind, praying on their knees in the saloon, in their ardent desire to save men from the evils that so commonly sprang from these sources of iniquity.” Dry leaders generally held to the view that Rockefeller’s desertion of their cause would not prevent their ultimate victory. Some regarded his actions as that of "just another prohibitionist who changed his mind.” Others, however, by their denial of charges of failure made by Rockefeller, indicated they regarded loss of his support as serious. Dr. Butler's own "repeal plank,” which Butler says he will fight for on the floor of the national Republican convention. It guarantees states’ rights and calls for submission of a repeal amendment to the states to be determined by convention. Rockefeller's dramatic bolt recalled the fact that since conviction of William H. Anderson. New York state superintendent of the AntiSaloon League, in 1925. no Rockefeller contributions to the prohibition cause are known to have been recorded. The known contributions have totaled about $500,000. A