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HOUSE PASSES BONUS BILL, 209 TO 176 Tattered Veterans of War Watch From Galleries During Voting. CERTAIN DEFEAT LOOMS Debate Nearly Stirs Up Fist Fight Between Rival Congressmen. *v United Press WASHINGTON, June 15.—The house today passed the $2,400,000,000 Patman cash bonus bill as hundreds of ragged veterans watched from the galleries the results of thqir march on congress. The vote was 209 to 176. The measure, providing sufficient currency inflation to meet the veterans' payments, now goes to the senate where its opponents are .boasting a hostile majority. Leaders there hope for a quick defeat of the bill to send the army of 20.000 Unemployed ex-service men away from the steaming Potomac mud flats back to their native states. In any event, a presidential veto Is regarded as assured. President tfoover and his official advisers frequently have opposed, the measure.’ Debate Nearly Stirs Fight \ Angry debate preceded passage of I the bill. A fist fight between Representative Thomas L. Blanton <Dem., Tex.) and Representative Charles H. Martin (Dem., Ore.) was averted when colleagues stepped between them. Blanton brought Martin, a retired army general, to his feet when he launched an attack on General James Harbord, and accused Martin of drawing $6,000 a year retirement pay “just like Harbord does.” "I resent that insult,” Shouted Martin. “Sit down,” Blanton shouted. Martin then started for Blanton, and was puled away by nearby congressmen. “This is one time a general will take orders from a private,” continued Blanton, as Martin reluctantly withdrew to a seat. Blanton’s criticism of Harbord was based on the general's meat that the bonus army*here should go home. Veterans Go on Parade In military formation, with flags flying, several hundred veterans paraded before the capitol today as the house began its debate prior to a vote. After their parade the veterans returned to their camps. There was no disorder, although rumors were circulated that small squads were deserting the bonus expeditionary forces and starting toward home. The bonus “army of occupation” continues to grow in Washington, despite all that the wet, hot weather has done to bring discouragement, and despite the certainty that the bonus bill can not become law. A spirit of confidence in the power and ultimate effect of their demonstration pervades the ranks of th*> 20,000-odd destitute and jobless World war veterans encamped about the city. They feel that congress can not fail to do something to relieve their distress, whether it be by payment ol the bonus or enactment of legislation to provide relief and jobs for tlie unemployed. Death Forces Adjournment Through three days of rain and cold, the bonus army increased approximately 2,000 a day. Cloudiness, with slowly rising temperature, has followed, turning “Anacostia flats.” site of the largest bonus camp, into a humid, steaming marsh. Singly, in pairs, and in small groups, a number have “deserted” and are trekking homeward, but the incoming hordes have made the desertions seem insignificant. Washington city officials, who apparently have abandoned hope of an early evacuation of the bonus army, today were discussing the steps necessary to provide permanent camps. Health and fire inspectors have been ordered to examine all buildings now occupied by the veterans and report on sanitary conditions and fire hazards. No change has been noted in the attitude of congress. The bill would have been passed by the house Tuesday had not the death of Representative Edward E. Eslick (Dem., Tenn.t forced adjournment. In the midst of an impassioned plea for the veterans, which visibly stirred those in the gallery, the Tennessean toppled over on the house floor. He died a few minutes later in an anteroom, victim of a heart attack. CONVICTION OF LEA IN BANK FRAUD UPHELD Nashville Publisher, Two Others Were Named in Conspiracy. By United Press RALEIGH. N. C„ June 15.—The North Carolina supreme court today upheld the convictions of Colonel Luke Lea. Nashville, Tenn., publisher and former United States senator; his son, Luke Lea Jr., and Wallace B. Davis, president of the closed Central Bank and Trust Company, Asheville, N. C. The three were charged jointly with conspiracy to defraud the Central bank of $1,300,000 prior to its failure Nov. 19, 1930. In another case, which the court also upheld today, Davis was charged with making and publishing a false report of the bank’s condition in September, 1930.

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REPEAL DRY LAW, IS VAN NUYS STAND; PLEDGES HIS VOTE

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BARE ALLEGED LOVETRYSTS Witnesses Tell of Niehaus Detention Home Trips. Alleged love trysts in the juvenile detention home were described in superior court three today by witnesses in an alienation of affections suit against Mrs. Anna E. Pickard, detention home superintendent. Several witnesses testified they saw George J. Niehaus, retired city fireman, enter the home on nights of Jan. 18, 19 and 20. Mrs. Pickard was named superintendent of the home Jan. 1 by county commissioners. They supported charges of Mrs. Lora L. Niehaus, middle-aged mother of five children, that her husband visited Mrs. Pickard each night. Mrs. Niehaus seeks SIO,OOO dames from Mrs. Pickard for alleged stealing of her husband’s affections. R. L. Robinson, former detention home night watchman, said he saw Niehaus and Mrs. Pickard in the detention home reception room with shades drawn and the room darkened. “Mrs. Pickard explained the man was a jewelry salesman,” Robinson testified, “since they were fingering a strand of beads and bracelet when I approached them.” Miss Marjorie Niehaus took the witness stand against her father, when she testified she saw “father and Mrs. Pickard walking arm in arm on a downtown street."

Platforms More than 250 Times readers submitted platforms in The Times contest which ended Monday night. Many of them show deep study on the part of the contestants and are of high merit. So that judges may have ample time to consider all platforms, time of awarding the $lO prize for the best one has been set for Friday. Name of winner and his or her platform will be printed in Friday's issues of The Times.

TURNED OUT BY CHILDREN, ILL WOMAN AIDED BY COPS

Lying in an ambulance because her children refuse to permit her to come into their homes, Mrs. Ella Piercy, 64. paralyzed for nearly two years to such an extent that she is a hopeless invalid is receiving aid of police today and the children have been threatened with arrest for failure to support her. Shortly before noon Fred W. Vehling, funeral director and former county coroner, received a call for an ambulance from Mrs. Arthur Campbell, 830 Daly street, wife of the aged woman's son, with whom she had been living. Vehling sent the ambulance in charge of the driver. Mrs. Campbell assisted in placing her mother-in-law in the ambulance and directed the driver to take her to 725 Lord street, where a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Koonts, resides. "I can’t take care of her. Don’t unload her here.” Mrs. Koonts told

ITS THE WOMEN WHO MAKE THE CONVENTION COLORFUL —NOT MERE POLITICIANS

BY MAXftfE DAVIS 17aitrd Prns Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. June 15.—Pity the poor politician who brags that women have made no essential difference in politics. They have. They've made politics polite. . Delegates now keep on their coats. Tobacco juice stains are obsolete. Language is pure. Tokens have been adopted. You can see them on every feminine delegate and visitor. Black is the G. O. P. color this year. The pearl is the party’s birthstone. You can see them wound patriotically around every type of neck. The orchid is their flower, though in the voting, the gardenia ran a close second. W

Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with thundershowers this afternoon or tonight; not much change in temperature.

Clear-Cut Position Is Taken by Indiana Candidate for Senate. “This is to advise you that, if elected United States senator from Indiana, I shall vote for any resolution aimed at repealing the eighteenth amendment. “I shall do this because this is the only constitutional manner in which the question of the retention of national prohibition under the amendment can be submitted to the people of the various states for final decision.” This open, frank declaration against the prohibition law was made today by Frederick Van Nuys, candidate for Democratic nomination for senator, in reply to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. It is the first statement that declares openly for repeal of the amendment. It does not suggest resubmission, or dilatory methods. It tells exactly what can be expected from him if he goes to the United States senate. In his open stand, the language differs much from that of other candidates for office who have toyed with the idea of suggesting opposition to the present prohibition fiasco, but held out hope that the statement could be accepted by those who list themselves under the banners of the dry forces.. Contrast between the statement and the Republican platform, widely advertised as “wet,” is complete. “I simply have restated my position,” said Van Nuys. “I have advocated repeal of this amendment since it became evident that prohibition is unworkable and the laws unenforcable. None of my friends will be surprised at the statement. “I never have hesitated to give my views and have not changed them because I am a Candidate.” ALABAMA DRY LEADS Senator Black Is Assured of Renomination. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 15. United States Senator Hugo L. Black, a dry, was virtually assured of renomination today. Incomplete returns from Tuesday’s Democratic run-off primary gave Senator Black a majority of approximately 23,000 over former Governor Thomas E. Kilby. Both candidates had favored a prohibition referendum, but Black’s stand was qualified as “personally and politically dry.” , Returns from 1,573 election boxes out of 2,125, gave Black 87,075 and' Kilby 64,590. SPINACH LOSES FIGHT TO PIE AND PRETZELS Directors Pick Them for School Diet In Vitamin Battle. By United Press DETROIT, June 15.—Pies, pretzels and potato chips today had won out over spinach in a school directors’ battle of the vitamins. Over the protests of Mrs. Laura Osborn, school director, the board decided to renew contracts for the three articles of diet in school lunchrooms. Mrs. Osborn pleaded for more fruits and vegetables, but the six male members of the board, hearkening back to the days when they despised spinach and loved pie, voted her down.

the driver. “I have five children and am under a doctor's care myself.” The driver called his employer. Vehling appealed to Captain John Mullin at police headquarters. Mullin sent officers to the Lord street address and suggested to Vehling that charges of failing to support a parent be filed against Mrs. Piercy’s children. Police found Mrs. Piercy resting comfortably in the ambulance. “I would rather be turned into the street than go back‘to my son Arthur’s home,” she declared. Mrs. Marie Williams, 732 Harrison street, another daughter, appeared with the declaration that she could not care for her mother. Police then went In search of another daughter, Mrs. Goldie Drake, 541 South Keystone avenue. A son, Thomas Campbell, lives at Salem, Ind., and another daughter, Mrs. Ida Danner, at Bedford.

Wives hold court at the convention. The first day saw the cabinet wives holding court in their boxes. Mrs. Patrick Hurley, wife of the secretary of war, in a black frock with a white bodice, her golden hair flying from under her small black hat, beamed like a princess royal on all and sundry. She and her guest, Mrs. Archie Roosevelt, in a red printed dress with a white hat, were obviously hava lovely time regardless of the convention. Mrs. Interior Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, in all black, received in another box, while Mrs. Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, in a blue frock with a green top to it and a bright green hat, cruised happily about the hall arm-in-arm with Alice Longworth during the duller speeches.

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GASTON MEANS GETS 15 YEARS IN LNDYHOAX Former Government Aid Is Sentenced to Prison for for $104,000 Fraud. PLEA FOR BAIL DENIED ‘ Convicted Detective Taken to Jail Pending Verdict on His Appeal. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 15.—Gaston B. Means, convicted earlier in the week of stealing $104,000 from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean in a ransom plan for the return of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, today was sentenced to, fifteen years imprisonment. The sentence was pronounced by Justice James M. Proctor in the District of Columbia supreme court. A motion to have Means released on bail pending a final verdict by the court of appeals was denied.' Means, a former government investigator, was convicted Monday night after a five-day trial. He waived his right to a four-day delay before the pronouncement of sentence, his counsel desiring to gain faster action on an appeal. Means was returned to the district jail pending the appeal. Justice Proctor sentenced Means to ten years’ imprisonment on the larceny conviction as it related to the SIOO,OOO ranson fund given Means by Mrs. McLean to be turned over to the kidnapers. A five-year term was added for the conviction on a charge of stealing $4,000 in expense money. Before pronouncing sentence, Justice Proctor commented on evidence brought out in the trial. He said that the “clever and adroit way” in which Means negotiated with Mrs. McLean and appealed to her sympathies “was a vicious and cruel scheme.” “In your negotiations you seemed to take pride in your criminality and did not hesitate to play up your criminal record and knowledge of the underworld,” the judge said. Proctor said Means had been given “the fairest possible trial.” DROPS MOONEY PLEA ‘Mother’ Will Not Force Way Into Convention. By United Press CHICAGO, June 15.—“ Mother” Mooney, stricken Tuesday by temporary blindness, announced today that she has abandoned her plan to storm the Republican national convention to plead the cause of her convict son. Mrs. Mooney, the 84-year-old mother of Tom Mooney, said she would leave during the day for Minneapolis to resume her speaking tour. “I’ll never give up my battle to free Tom, because he is innocent,” she said today. “But it seems we have no chance of getting into the convention.” Mrs. Mooney had made plans Tuesday to storm the convention floor with a plea for her son, but was stricken with blindness in an attorney’s office. She was hurried to an oculist, who declared the trouble only temporary. LOWTHER PUNISHED Loses Driver’s License in Speeding Trial. Richard Lowther Jr., 21, of 5540 Central avenue, son of the receiver of the J. F. Wild and Company stats bank, was deprived of his driver’s license for six months following conviction today in municipal court on a charge of speeding. He also was fined $lO on the charge. Lowther appeared for trial voluntarily after he was ordered rearrested Friday, for failure to answer a first court summons. Young Lowther two years ago was found not guilty of a charge of manslaughter following trial in criminal court as result of the death of two persons in an auto crash on the north side. Lowther’s defense was that he was ill when his auto crashed into the other car, causing it to overturn. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 74 7a. m 67 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 77 9 a. m 72 1 p. m 79

“■pRINCESS ALICE” was wearing a white and black print, one of her wide-brimmed hats, white, and peered at politicians through a tortoise shell lorgnette. Then one might glance at the working press. Busily noting the procedure in the press box are those struggling journalists: Ruth Hanna Simms, who owns the Rockford Star: one of its new employes, Xatrina McCormick, the publisher’s attractive daughter, and Eleanor Patterson, satirical editor of the Washington Herald. All these “reporters” are wearing the G. O. P. color. Snuggled away in an inconspicuous seat in the direct line of the spotlights is Emily Newell Blair, for eight years vice-chair-

Dawes Refuses to Replace Curtis for Vice-President; Cheer Hoover 20 Minutes

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WASHINGTON, June 15.—Charles G. Dawes today said he would not accept the Republican nomination for Vice-President if it were offered to him. “The situation in the convention as to the Vice-Presidential nomination," Dawes said, “as reported by the press this morning, would seem to call for a more explicit statement of my attitude. “To have been considered for this nomination is a high honor, and I

PROHIBITION ISSUE DELAYING PLATFORM

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 15.—The tentati\e draft of the Republican national platform has been completed, containing a plank which would seem to assure reconsideration by the nation of the prohibition laws. The draft was finished after an all night session of the resolutions subcommittee charged with writing the platform. Apparently authentic information indicates the plank on prohibition contains these points: Denounces the saloon. Says that in the event congress decides to submit to the states a proposed modification of the eighteenth amendment, it should provide also for retention by congress of the right to regulate and control the liquor traffic. Indications at 1 p. m., after the full resolutions committee had been in session more than an hour, were that the completion of the final draft of the entire platform would be slow. The convention recessed until 8 p. m., when, it was hoped, the platform would be ready in final form. There seemed to be disagreement in the committee over the prohibition plank. Walter E. Edge, ambassador to France and New Jersey member of the committee which drafted the tentative platform, commented: "They don’t seem to like any of our planks.” The New York delegation considered unseating Treasury Secretary Mills as the New York member of the resolutions committee because he supported the administration prohibition plank instead of straight repeal.

man of the Democratic national committee, penning comments. Who says these women have no power. There is one sensation at this convention. Her name is Kathryn Vits, daughter of George Vits, committeeman from Wisconsin. She is a tall blond girl, just out from school, little brown hat on one side of her waving hair, cream Rasha suit, caped and edged with wide red fox, a joy to the eye. The earnest women, who presented their pleas for planks in the platform, followed one another in eventless succession. Jane Addams received an ovation from the crowd when she presented her peace plans for the consideration of the resolutions committee.

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appreciate the proffers of support. I have given the question considered thought. “I could not accept the nomination if made.” Dawes walked out of public office into private life today. One of his last acts as president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to pledge his support to the reelection of President Hoover. . “I intend to return immediately to my private banking business in Chicago,” Dawes said.

In the meantime, James R. Garfield, chairman of the resolutions committee, admitted a purported resume of the plank published by the Kansas City Times was accurate. This resume closely followed the Pennsylvania plank proposed to the committee Tuesday which denounced the saloon, declared prohibition not properly a partisan matter, and urged retention by the federal government of the right to regulate the liquor traffic in states which elect to become “wet.” Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, who was kept off the drafting subcommittee, offered his plank calling for outright repeal which, if defeated by the platform committee, will be carried to the floor in a dramatic fight. Bingham accepted defeat as a foregone conclusion, since the administration group which dominates the committee is solidly for the milder resubmission plank. Members of the committee who drafted the Bingham proposal were: John F. Harris, Florida; Henry Marshall, Indiana; Ambrose Kennedy, Rhode Island; Jeremiah M. Evarts, Vermont and Senator Bingham. Akron Passes Over Charleston By United Press CHARLESTON, S. C., June 15. The navy dirigible Akron, en route home to Lakehurst, N. J., from the west coast, passed over here northbound shortly after 11 a. m. today. It left Parris Island, S. C., this morning, where it had been moored since Sunday night.

A MEMORABLE figure in black, with a heavy antique chain of silver about her neck, the beloved founder of Hull House made an effective speech. Chairman Garfield rose, and almost apologized when he indicated that she had consumed all her time. There still is nothing so opulent as a Republican all dressed up. Diamonds still are ala mode and Mrs. Bertha Baur’s dinner for Secretary Hurley brought them all out. Mrs. Baurwas the butterfly girl. She wore little butterflies on her slippers, patterned on her frock, and she banged with an ivory gavel. Mrs. Hurley was truly lovely. She wore a simple dress of chiffon the exact color of hair. Mrs.

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PROHIBITION FIGHT ON FLOOR DELAYED UNTIL TONIGHT WHEN PLATFORM DRAFT IS EXPECTED Convention Recesses Until 8 P. M. After Snell’s Speech Sets Off Prolonged Demonstration by Mention of President’s Name. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 15.—The Republican national convention recessed today until 8 tonight when the long-expected prohibition battle probably will be fought out the floor. Today, the convention experienced ts first demonstration of enthusiasm for President Hoover. But while delegates were cheering happily in the hall on one sid eof Chicago, grim, weary members of the resolutions committee still were struggling on the other side of town in an effort to adjust the bitter prohibition issue. They had completed the draft of their plank and expected to submit it to the convntion tonight, precipitating the question into open warfare. In their demonstration, which lasted twenty minutes, delegates paraded and cheered in general pandemonium around the hall, whil party leaders on the platform beamed down upon the noisy scene. ‘‘Hurrah for Hoover,” shouted Republican National Chairman Simeon D. Fess at the height of the din.

At the same time Charles G. Dawes removed himself from the possibility of being nominated for Vice-President by issuing a statement in Washington declaring he would not accept if named. Sentiment quickly swung back toward renaming of Curtis, though some last-ditch anti-Curtis men sought eagerly for other possible candidates. Convention Takes Recess The platform drafters agreed upona proposal which will safeguard against retur n e of the saloon and provide that in event any 'change is made in the eighteenth amendment, congress shall retain the right to regulate the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicants to protect dry states. The plank, it was announced at the convention, would be given the state delegations in secret so that they could study its provisions during the afternoon. % Tonight it will be presented, with the whole platform, to the conventionas a whole. The only feature of the morning convention session was the demonstration for President Hoover, staged during the address o fthe permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Snell of New York. After routine adoption of permanent officers, rules and other matters, the convention recessed to give delegates time to think over the proposed prohibition plank and to hold caucuses if they wish. Promise Fight to End This was an eleventh hour maneuver in the hope of keeping the prohibition controversy off the floor of the convention. Leaders hoped that caucuses during the afternoon would iron out the situatoin, and permit the delegates to come into the open convetnion tonight with the traditional solid fron which Republicans most of the time manage to put up in their national conventions, regardless of underlying differences. There was little prospect of this strategy succeeding, however, as repeal delegates were vowing they would fight to the end. “We’re madder than fourteen hells,” said one attractive young woman delegate from New York who favors a morte extreme position than the administration is willing to accept. The mention of President Hoover’s name in Well's speech, and a Jibe at the conduct of the Democratic majority in the house of representatives set off the fireworks. Wisconsin in Line of March After Governor Rolph of California had jumped to his feet waving a large state flag, the entire assemblage arose and cheered and the delegations began a march around the hall. Whistling and yelling, waving

Thad Brown was chic in yellow lace with brown crepe. Mrs. William Good wore glowing black satin with rhinestone beading. Rhinestones for embroidery seem to be almost as essential as one of those little jacket jiggers with wide, fox-edged sleeves. Mrs. Carl Hanna of Cleveland, wore a particularly pretty black satin, brillianted gown, with jade green slippers and a jade green bag. Do these women politicians have a sense of humor about themselves? Said Mrs. Arthur Meeker of Chicago in a speech to a gathering of delegates, “I’m getting so old that when I ride on a crowded bus women offer me their seats.”

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straw hats and hankerchiefs, the delegates paraded as the pipe organ played “California, Here I Come.” The Wisconsin delegation, now under administration control, participated for the first time in thirtytwo years as supporters of the “regular” party nominee. After word of the refusal of Dawes to accept the vice-pres-idential nomination spread over the convention, a whole forest lightning rods shot up. Friends were naming each other and the list of those receiving “honorable mention” grew momentarily. Governor Harry Leslie of Indiana, modestly said he was not a candidate. The name of Senator James E. Watson of Indiana who is facing a difficult re-election fight was mentioned. See Curtis Nomination Ambassador Walter E. Edge of New Jersey; Theodore Roosevelt, governor of the Philippine Islands; War Secretary Patrick Hurley, and countless others figured in delegate gossip. Though administration leaders still appeared to be loyal to Curtis there was a feeling among delegates from some states that his value as a candidate had declined too far within the last few days to warrant keeping him on the ticket. Import convention leaders, however, said flatly that with Dawes eliminated, Curtis’ nomination was certain. “The statement by Dawes was all that was needed to settle it,” one leader said. “I doubt if any one except Curtis will be placed in nomination.” Watson Not Candidate By United Pres WASHINGTON, June 15.—Senator James E. Watson of Indiana “will not under any circumstances accept the Republican nomination for the vice-presidency,” he told the United Press today when informed his name had been mentioned at Chicago for that position. Regarding the refusal of Charles G. Dawes to accept the nomination it offended, Watson said: “That’s just what I expected.” PAVING BMDS SOUGHT Resolutions for Two Improvement Projects Are Approved. Bids will be sought for improvements of two street sections following the confirming of resolutions by the works board today. The resolutions provided for the permanent improvement and curbing of New York street from Arsenal to State avents and widening, resurfacing, curbing and sidewalks on East Mich-. igan street from East to Noble street. Committees representing citizens in both sections appeared before the board to plea for hastening the work.

The Play Page The Times, for the fourth year, presents its weekly playground page today. With the playgrounds in full swing within a week, this page will be filled with interesting news of the activities of your children. It will appear each Wednesday until reopening of city schools, when It will be replaced by the weekly school page, a popular Times feature for the last five years.