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6,000 MARCH IN GRIM PLEA FOR BONUS Somber Shadow of Mighty Army of 1919 Parades Through Washington. CHEERED 'BY THRONG Veterans Prepare for Long Siege, Despite Lack of Food. BY JOHN REICHMANN t nitrd rr*K* Sl.’.IT Crreo f >n<J^nl WASHINGTON. June 8 The fore- of its numbers demonstrated | In a grim and silent march through the heart of the capital, the bonus army of 6.000 prepared today to perfect its organization for a protracted eirgr. against congress. Leaders hope to solidifv the host of destitute veterans from all parts a" the country into a compact military unit that will thwart efforts of authorities to bring about its gradual and peaceable dissolution Each contingent today was to elect * member of an executive committee. which in turn will choose a pe-manent commander. Food for the ever-grow ing army is the primary' problem. The District of Columbia Thursday will cease feeding the men and provide trucks for . U who wish to start home. Bu* the army is determined to stay at least until the house votes on the $2,000,000,000 bonus next Monday and it threatens to maintain its siege indefinitely, until the bonus is passed. Shadow of 1919 Army The 6,000 who paraded through the city at dusk Tuesday were a plodding shadow of the strutting, victorious forces which returned home in 1919 to a nation's wild applause. Gone were the trim uniforms, the spirited cadence, the flaming enthusiasm of 1919. Blue denim, worn khaki, and frayed nondescript clothes were the uniforms of this new army which moved slowly down Pennsylvania avenue in a somber column of fours. Police estimated 100.000 spectators lined the avenue. While there was no tumultous cheering, the throng greeted the marchers' banners with bur of applause and shouted such words of encouragement as "(|p to It. boys! We re for you!” ™ . , Police were mobilized in full force but had not the slightest disorder to contend wuth. The authorities previ- i ouslv had announced a "fighting umt” of 100 Communists was en route from New York to foment rioting during the parade. Leaders Review Veterans No officials greeted the demonstrating veterans. The reviewing stand was empty save of their own leaders. Shunted from an original route that would have led them past the White House, they only could glimpse its outline through the trees as they formed at the foot of the towering Washington monument. President Hoover, within, was preparing for dinner. He never publicly has expressed any interest jn the Visitors. From the monument the silent column swung up past the drab old Treasury building into Pennsylvania ayenuc, the avenue of Presidents. There they passed the new Commerce Department building, with its great bronze doors costing SIO.OOO each, and (he excavations for the government's new $60,000,000 building project. Leaders of the army reviewed it Just before it disbanded at the graceful peace monument at the foot of the capitol grounds. They saw and religiously saluted the cheap cotton flag carried at the head of each contingent. Only one silk banner flew in the twilight breeze. It belonged to a Pennsylvania outfit. But there were medals galore. More than a score of the marchers wore distinguished service crosses or congressional medals of honor. Baby Carried in Parade In the front rank of the procession marched Joe Reynolds of Houston. Tex. Joe Reynolds Jr.. 25 months old, slept on his shoulder. Young Joe's mother died three months ago and his father carried him afoot from Houston. "I want the bonus to give the boy some sort of home.” said Joe. Sr. Bonus, the tiny, nondescript yellow pup of Earl Wright. Hollywood, Cal., delighted the spectators. He tugged and tried to play with the crowd as he strained at the leash of Clyde Wright. 6. The dog carried a "pay the bonus'' banner •cross his back. The reception accorded the paraders delighted the bonus expeditionary force's leaders.
BY H. AI.LEN SMITH l nurd Prr*s Staff Cojrrjpondrnt NEW YORK. June 6.—President Hoover doesn't like linen suits. Rudy Vallee screams like a women when in a huff. Texas Guinan burns Chinese incense constantly in her Greenwich Village home and Babe Ruth is strong for ham and cabbage. These are only four of the characteristics of American's famous men and women gathered by the United Press. Everyone knows that Helen Wills works with the pencil and brush when she isn't playing tennis: that the elder Rockefeller calls his day incomplete if he has not indulged in a number game, and that Vice-President Charles H. Curtis has an inordinate fondness for the race track. It is not widely known, however, that John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s hobby is collecting Chinese porcelains. J. P. Morgan nurtures an intense phobia for press photographers. At his office he works behind an oldfashioned rolltop desk. He smokes the same brand of cigar used by his father. He likes collegiate rowing, tennis and golf, and grows tulips. He is a profound student of both the Bible and
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Sari Maritza Will Become U. S. Citizen
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Sari Maritza ft‘l I II it r,I Put* HOLLYWOOD. June 8 —Sari Maritza. petite Paramoun featured player, soon will foreswear allegiance to his Brittanic majesty to become an American citizen she said today. Not only will citizenship prevent difficulties over her right to remain in this country, but will satisfy a real desire on her part to adopt the country of her film success, according to the studio. Miss Maritza. whose legal name is Nathan, was born in China and is the daughter of Major Walter Nathan, connected with a British trade company, and an Austrian mother.
GASTON MEANS' TRIAL STARTED Value of Priest's Story to Be Lindy Fraud Issue. By I nilrrl Prrxx WASHINGTON. June B— Gaston B. Means, former department of justice investigator, was placed on trial today on charges that he stole a SIOO.OOO Lindbergh baby ransom from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean. Means, bland and unperturbed, sat with his counsel as selection of a jury was undertaken. Eleven men and one young woman were chosen. Questioning of prospective jurors centered on whether the testimony of a Catholic priest would be given more weight than that of a layman. Father Francis J. Hurney. pastor of the Immaculate Conception church, will be a government witness. He participated in the negotiations which are alleged to have resulted in turning over SIOO,OOO to Means. Mrs. McLean claims she gave Means the SIOO,OOO plus $4,000 for expenses, on his representation that he could effect return of the baby. Developments showed that the baby was dead at the time. BONUS LEADER KILLED Nine Others of Band Hurt When Truck Overturns. By t nited Prn< r GRAFTON. W. Va.. June B. Joseph Gordon Jr., 35. in charge of the Lexington 'Ky.) bonus delegation was killed and nine others of the group were injured, two critically. Tuesday night when their truck overturned at Laurel mountain, eighteen miles cast of here. Fourteen men were riding in the truck when it got out of control on the hill, crashed into an embankment and overturned. Frank Jenkins, 38. and John Scott, 54. Negroes, were the most seriously hurt. T*-o hundred Ohio veterans who camped here Tuesday night expected to reach Winchester. Va.. tonight.
HERB HATES LINEN, RUDY SCREAMS WHEN HE ISN’T CROONING, BABE LIKES HAM
AL SMITH TO LEAD ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT Fight to Finish Is Pledged to Elect Shouse as Chairman. WET STATES TO HELP Governor, Accused of Faith Breach, Held Liability as Nominee. By Vnitcd Prm* NEW' YORK. June B—Alfred E. Smith will lead the dripping wet Democrats of five eastern states in a “fight to the limit” to elect Jouett Shouse permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention—and the issue will be Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, according to Shouse and other Smith workers, made the move to name Senator Thomas Walsh iDem.. Mont.), as chairman, in anew bid for dry suport in western and southern states—an attempt they said to be "all things to all men in all places.” Smith forces denied however, that they would fight Walsh, because he was a dry. The decision to iso the limit” for Shouse came during a conference of Smith workers here, and forecast a bitter struggle in the first round of the Chicago convention. Held as Liability The strategy of the Smith campaign. it was believed, would be to convince the Democrats of the nation that Roosevelt had alienated Democrats in the five eastern states which would make a Roosevelt nomination worthless to the party The Smith forces, it was indicated, would reveal that bitterness
by their fight for Shouse. The campaign plan, which also calls for the nomination of Alfred E. Smith, and necessarily "must stop Roosevelt,” was the principal development in a day that included many affecting the course of the Democratic party in the Chicago convention. Among them: Smith forces hailed John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s appeal for repeal as a blow to the drys and to Roosevelt forces, who. they said, hoped to insert a plank in the Democratic platform calling for resubmission, but worded to satisfy southern and western drys. Reiterates Wet View Roosevelt at Albany reiterated his weet view that control of the liquor traffic should be returned to the j states, and said Rockefeller’s statement “will be a real help in getting action at the next session of | congress, so that in every state j there can be a vote on the eighteenth amendment.” Shouse insisted that Robert Jackson. secretary of the national committee. had given him a memorandum. "dictated by long distance.” by Franklin D. Roosevelt, promising Roosevelt would support him for permanent chairman. He insisted Roosevelt had “broken faith.” Jackson responded with a statement saying: “I can not believe that Mr. Shouse deliberately in- | tended to convey that idea. The i only document of any kind which I gave Mr. Shouse was a copy of the resolution as adopted and that contained no inference, direct or indirect. of its approval by Governor Roosevelt. Mr. Shouse may make public the memorandum. Shouse Is Praised Announcement by Thomas J. Spellacy for the Smith forces that they would support Shouse "because we feel he has done a great job for the party during the last four years as director of its headquarters in Washington." Announcement that Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts would place Smith in nomination at Ohicago. and that Congresswoman Mary T. Norton of New Jersey would make a seconding speech. Completion by Samuel Seaburv. counsel for the committee which has been investigating the administration of Mayor James J. Walker , of an official transcript of evidence in the hearings to be presented to Governor Roosevelt, heaping further political troubles on his Albany doorstep. The evidence was to be placed before the Governor today or Thursday at the latest. Africa to Be Explored in Plane By l nitr(l Prr*s NEWARK. N. J.. June B.—Mar- , tin Johnson, famous explorer and big game hunter, said today he would explore Africa by airplane on his neext visit to that continent. With Mrs. Johnson, he expects to leave on his new venture in October.
What are some of the idiosyncrasies, whims, and hobbies of America's famous men and women? From many different sources, the United Press has gathered odd facts about the great and near-great. They are presented in a series of three articles, of which the following is the first.
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1932
Shakespeare. Each Christmas, by tradition, members of his family gather in the great Morgan library for a solemn reading of Dickens “A Christmas Carol." from the original manuscript. Amelia Earhart Putnam, currently in the public eye, constantly is scheming some wav to put on weight. She doesn't play bridge, doesn't smoke, and doesn't drink liquor, but likes buttermilk. She has a luck bracelet made from an elephant's toe. m a a MARY PICKFORD and Douglas Fairbanks have about fifty pet names for each other. Mary speaks French well. She is superstitious and she sleeps from nine to fourteen hours a day. Charlie Chaplin can write equally well with both hands. He plays the violin, the saxophone and the 'cello. He always has a dictaphone at his bedside. H. L. Mencken plays the fiddle and has an orchestra, made up of his friends, who come to his home to play just for the fun of it. Mencken usually carries a brief case on the street. He is noted gourmet, and he is
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Trapped w'hen a gas explosion shot flames through a six-story apartment and business block in downtown Cleveland. 0., at least five were killed and thirty injured in a $750,000 fire. Sleeping occupants of the building were blown from their beds shortly after midnight Tuesday and in half an hour the
LODGE LOTTERY | WARNING ISSUED Shrine Convention Pool Is Target of Probe. By Vlilted Prrsx NEW YORK, June B.—A warning to all fraternal groups that lotteries, whether in the name of charity or entertainment, are illegal, was broadcast today by Nugent Dodds, assistant United States attorneygeneral, in connection with the fed- | eral government's investigation into activities of a nation-wide lottery ring, the World-Telegram said today. The investigation has been in progress here since last February and has centered on enterprises operated for the Shriners, Knights of Columbus, Eagles and Moose. Dodds' warning, it was indicated, referred particularly to a gift en-i terprise now being conducted under auspices of the Shriners. Award of $115,000 In cash prizes will be made at the Shrine convention in San Francisco, the World - Telegram said. The chief promoter of these fraternal lotteries, according to the newspaper, is Bernard C. McGuire of Aurora. HI.. Philadelphia and New r York, who is expected to appear before a federal grand jury here soon. One for Bush A group of fascinating young ladies were selling tickets around the Republican state convention and candidates' headquarters today, with a free trip to the Chicago convention as the prize. All of the pretty vendors wore Bush badges and were hazy as to the ultimate destination of the profits, except to state that they were all very’ favorable to the Bush candidacy and received no personal profits—all except one. who said she was trying to earn carfare back to Louisville. DARROW MUCH BETTER j So Far Recovered From Illness He’ll Go to Court Today. By (nited Prest CHICAGO. June B.—Clarence Darrow. 75-year-old dean of the American bar. was so far recovered from an attack of indigestion w’hich forced him to his bed. that he ; planned to make a court appearance today.
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Only Ashes Youth, With Success Ahead, Tries to End Life: May Live.
By l nited Press NEW YORK, June B.—John Gibson, 21. had success in his grasp, but he was bored. He had seen enough of the world, he thought, to be satisfied that life was a nuisance. So, with a diploma he had received last week from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’ and a $4.000-a-year contract as technical engineer in his pocket, he boarded the coastal steamer New’ York at Boston on Tuesday night, determined to end his life. He locked himself in his cabin, slashed his throat nad wrists, and stretched out on his bunk to await death. Then he sank into a stupor. This morning as the vesssel steamed down the East river toward its pier, he opened his eyes and saw the bright light of day. He was dismayed to find himself alive. Gibson dragged himself to the window, crawded through and dropped overboard, without any one aboard the ship knowing of his leap. But John Loiacona. a mason, working on Welfare island, saw Gibson splash into the water as the vessel passed. He dived into the water and grasped the weakened youth about the neck and carried him to the island. Gibson was taken to Metropolitan hospital, where it is said he will live. He gave his address as 229 Union street, Bennington. Vt. CHARITY GETS MILLION Will of Edward F. Swift. Fall Victim, Shows Estate of $5,000,000. By Vnited Press CHICAGO. June B.—The w’ill of Edward F. Swift, chairman of the board of Swift <fc Cos., who died after a fall from his aDartment May 28, directs that more than $1,000,000 of his $5,000,000 estate shall go to charity. The will was filed for probate late Tuesday, before Oscar S. Caplain, assistant to Probte Judge Henry Horner. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 54 10 a. m 66 7a. m 55 11 a. m 68 8 a. m 61 12 <noon>.. 68 9 a. m.„... 63 1 p. m 71
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CITIES SCORN GARNER'S 'PORK' Three Declare They Don’t Want Postoffices. By Vnitcd Prc OREGON, 111., June B—The Oregon Chamber of Commerce doesn't want the new $70,000 postoffice provided for the towm in the Garner relief bill. The chamber adopted a resolution, forwarded to Washington today, stating that present postoffice facilities were adequate and anew building a needless expense. Bit Vnitrd Prrgt BUFFALO. N. Y., June B.—Auburn, N. Y.. does not want anything under the Garner relief measure. "We don't want that kind of pork," i Mayor Kirk Ow'en told the New York mayors' conference today. Auburn has been put down for a $315,000 postoffice. "We will absolutely refuse to accept the postoffice,” he said. By t n itrrl Pre ** SPARTA. Mich.. June B.—A committee of business men drafted a resolution today, to be forwarded to both houses of congress, saying this ! tow’n does not want anew $55,000 postoffice proposed in Speaker Garner’s bill, passed Tuesday by the house of representatives. KIDNAP BILL PASSES Transportation of Victim Made Federal Crime. j Bit Vnitrd Prmn WASHINGTON. June B.—The Patterson bill, making the transportation of kidnaped persons in interstate commerce punishable under federal law’, was passed today by the senate. ARDENT DRY FOR VOTE Ex-Senator Brock Favors Ballot After Rockefeller Action. By Vnitrd Prrst CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., June 8. —Former United States Senator W. E. Brock of Tennessee, long an ardent prohibitionist, has announced he favors a referendum vote on the liquor question. His change in viewpoint was announced after John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s appeal for repeal.
an intimate friend of several Baltimore priests, who like to discuss philosophy and theology with him. ana TEXAS GUINAN never eats meat, but demands a do.ren oranges a day. She rides a lot in Central park. If she doesn't know a man's name she calls him "Fred." She wants to have the world's fastest funeral, led b*- a motorcycle policeman. The frequently wears red stockings. Earl Carroll suffers from insomnia. All his vests are double-breasted. He has a specially built telephone, which sings a song in his ear while he waits for a number. Rudy Vallee walks in his sleep, is left-handed, and is wild about buckwheat cakes with plenty of butter. He buys patent medicines and always carries tooth brushes in his pockets. He reads western stories. Mr Hoover eschews the linen suits in favor of blue :oat sand white flannels. He often wakes up in the middle of the night to read detective novels. He has discarded the high collar, but still wears stiff ones. He is very fond of fish—both c& a line and on a plate.
STATE DRY LEGIONS RALLY TO BALK DRIVE OF G. 0. P. FOR WRIGHT LAW REPEAL Hundreds Will March on Committee to Block Plans of Wets to Kill Prohibition Act. KEYNOTE SOUNDED BY HASTINGS Leslie-Marshall Coalition May Toss Sapp Overboard; Candidates Join to Stop Springer. BY BEN STERN March of hundreds of embattled drys upon the resolutions committee of the Republican state convention this afternoon and tonight, to halt inclusion of a platform plank pledging repeal of the Wright bone dry law, was being watched with interest and no little trepidation by party leaders today. L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, who has been making the rounds of Republican headquarters was eager to learn how many could be accommodated in the resolution committee room. He said that scores
of state drys would be present Telegrams protesting a repeal plank have been pouring into headquarters, and indications are that the drys will stage a demonstration before the resolutions committee. Will Hays, president cf the motion picture industry, former state and national Republican chairman, and Senator Daniel O. Hastings, from Delaware, shared the rostrum at Tomlinson hall today. The convention session Thursday will be in Cadle tabernacle. Pleads for Patriotism Hays, making his first appearance in Indiana politics in several yeais,, pleaded for “patriotism in time of j peace as well as in time of war and, make the country’s affairs your own business.” Hays placed before the convention his own estimate of president Hoover which he asked the Republicans of his native state to adopt. “President Hoover has the unflagging constancy of an honest heart,” Hays said. “He recognizes the resources of { wealth and sincerely regards the ' necessity of the needy. “Hoover knows no latitude, no i longitude, in his tireless efforts to help every man, woman and child in this country. "No political position, no piled up wealth, no social station reaches a • higher plane than the one on which our President stands by virtue of his humanity, “If it is unwise to change horses in the middle of the stream, it would be more unwise to change barrels! while going over Niagara Falls,” he told the delegates. "Every generation suffered a depression. It is not the size of the dog in a fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog." Hays introduced Hastings. Watson Lauded by Hastings Hastings' opening remarks lauded Senator James E. Watson. He then criticised several of his Democratic I I colleagues who had failed to aid 1 the present administration. When he mentioned the defeat in lowa of Senator Smith W. Brookhart, the hall rang with loud applause. "Brookhart has been abusing Hoover since 1931,” he declared, "and he has not had a practical solution for a single problem.” The Delaware senator chided large business interests for their "unwarranted” criticism of congress and the national administration for placing the blame for the economic crisis. He. too, told of the necessity to return President Hoover to the White House and Senator Watson to the senate. Watson’s Voice Missed The booming voice of Watson was missed by old-time Republicans, while friends of Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who was to make the ' introductions, wondered at his absence. Watson and Robinson both insist they will not under any condition, : attend the convention,' according to Washington dispatches. They sent this afternoon a joint telegram of greetings to state chairman Ivan C. Morgan to be read to convention Thursday. Watson said he would permit state convention leaders to select the delegate to nominate him. Several persons called Watson by long distance. They asked him to I come to convention or commit himself regarding Governor nominator, but Watson is said to have replied jhe was adhering to a hands-off policy. Strangely enough, the fight for
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TODAY —7:30 P. M.— Delegates meet by districts *t statehouse to elect Presidential electors, national convention delegates and state convention committees. —9.30 P. M.— Resolutions committee, Florentine room. Claypool. Credentials committee. Parlor F. Claypool. Rules committee, Parlor E, Claypool. THURSDAY —9:30 A. M.— Convention opens at Cadle tabernacle. Address. Governor Harry G. Leslie. Report of credentials committee. Report of rules committee. Convention elects seven del-egates-at-large to the national convention. State Chairman Ivan C. Morgan presents certificates of primary election results. Report of resolutions committee—Platform. Nominations. Adjournment sine die.
Wright law repeal, led by G. O. P. spokesmen from industrial centers of Lake, St. Joseph, Marion, Vigo and Vanderburg counties, has sent soaring the stock of two candidates for the Governor nomination—M. Bert Thurman, former national committeeman and Watson manager. and Lawrence F. Orr. chief of the state board of accounts. Majority of the wet leaders, although they expect to take the fight for Wright law repeal to the floor, have an idea that they are fighting an almost hopeless battle. They declared that, in their opinion, the platform will call for resubmission of the eighteenth amendment to the states, but will not touch directly upon Indiana's own prohibition statutes. Boosts Thurman and Orr In that event, they assert, the liberal forces should concentrate on the effort to nominate a Governor who w’ould not veto a bill repealing the Wright law if passed by the legislature. Under such condition, either Thurman or. Orr would be “eminently satisfactory." No little importance was attached by delegates, milling around the paddock on the eighth floor of the Claypool, where the candidates have their headquarters, to the visit of Henry Marshall, prime minister'' to Governor Harry G. Leslie, to the headquarters of Thurman and Orr. It is no secret that the LeslieMarshall coalition is ready to toss overboard its Governor candidate, Arthur H. Sapp, highway commissioner. because he does not seem to bear the earmarks of a winner, and that combination is interested only in horses that will come home in the itioney. Opposes Bush, Landis The Governor will not go for Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush or Frederick Landis, Lcgansport editor. because he openly dislikes the pair and although he bears Thurman no affection, yet of the three front runners, he would be the most acceptable to him. Continued hammering on two candidates, Landis and Raymond Springer of Connersville, who is running on the qualifications of an ex-service man, has affected their stock and those manipulating the bear market are said to be intimate with Bush, who feels that the candidacy of this pair are the most inimical to his own chances. Landis and Bush feel that Springer was brought into the campaign to injure them, so they are said to be instructing their friends not to vote for the Connersville man under any circumstance. Thurman, it is known, has given the same orders. As yet there is no announced candidate for attorney-general, although Floyd Jellison. former South Bend prosecutor, is waitnig to learn whether the field is clear before he puts his SSOO convention ante on the line. All indications are that Miss Mary Slecth of Rushville. former state vice-chairman, will be unopposed for the treasurer nomination. Her only opponent, James O. Leek of Terre Haute, was talked into making the race for auditor, which leaves her the sole candidate lor that office.