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The Pilgrims and t,hp Mayflower lire of chief interest in "We Begin." by Helen Grace Carlisle. This is the July choice of the Book League of America. fihe Mates that “in order to understand mv Pilgrim friends I had to go to their source of all conduct. the Bible, the Old Testament.” a it B WALTER H. HICKMAN Always had the feeling that somp fine day a real newspaperman would write truthfully of what he does, feels and thinks. That is exactly what Max Miller, waterfront reporter of the ScrippsHoward Ran Diego Sun has done in "I Cover the Waterfront,” published by E. P. Dutton &r Cos., and sells for $2 .'SO. It is so frpshly full of the ocean, swordfish, lobsters both on land and sea. of what newspapermen actually do and think that, it becomes a real joy. This book is so intimate that one morning at 3 o'clock I went into my kitchen, put some coffee in the pot, sat on a high red stool and while sipping cup after cup of coffee, I played the game of make-believe that Miller was Just talking his book to me. Try that combination of the book and coffee and you will have a grand adventure while reading “I Cover the Waterfront.” Miller admits that “I have been here so long that even the sea gulls must recognize, me. They must pass the word along from generation to generation, from egg to egg.” Isn't that a nice introduction to a real newspaper guy who will stand being called "the best waterfront reporter” but kicks up his heels and yells murder when referred to as “the veteran waterfront reporter.” That’s really too much. That I agree. You will love his personal encounters with Jack Dempsey and the beautiful Estelle Taylor. You will find a selfish side to Charlie Chaplin. You will discover that Laura La Plante had a terrible time filming “The Midnight Sun." You will get a first hand introduction to Charles Lindbergh (Miller calls him Slim) before Lindbergh “was yanked away from the earth-dwellers and sanctified into membership with the Deity." And you will meet many others, even including Babe Ruth. You do not have to be in the newspaper business to enjoy this book. I am sure you will love it. I am wild over it as well as my black coffee at 3 in the morning.

“A Fablr for Wives,” written by Robert, McClure and published by Doubleday. Doran ($2), is “a fable for those pretty, clever, discontented young wives and brisk young American husbands, who danced and golfed and loved in those halcyon years when money came easily and went, fast—before the market crashed.” tt a • The manuscript, of Lady Eleanor Smith’s new novel. "Ballerina." has been received by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is being prepared for publication early in July and will be the first novel by Lady Eleanor Smith to be brought out in this rountry before it is published in England. a a a 1 FRIENDS of Charlie Chan, the 4 inimitable Chinese detective, will be glad to know that he will appear again on July 26. publication date of the new Earl Derr Biggers story. "Keeper of the Keys.” For the first time since "The Chinese Parrot" Charlie's activities are confined entirely to this country, rentering around Reno. Nev., and Lake Tahoe. Cal., and what is more important—Charlie is very much in evidence from the first to the last page. a a a Since the publication of Yardlevgrams. his game book based on the ciphering of code messages. Major Herbert O. Yardlev. of "The American Black Chamber” fame, has been named Honorary President of five Cipher Clubs in different parts of the country. The clubs were formed as the result of the interest in working out code messages stimulated bv the publication of “Yardleygrams.” Two of them were organized by groups of high school boys. a a a John Gunther, author of "The Bright Nemesis.” "A Thriller for Adults," is the Vienna correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. At the time of its publication in England. The London Herald said, *' The Bright Nemesis’ is the most extraordinary thriller in the oddest setting and with the queerest detective I have met—most ingenious, exciting and convincing." Gunther, a Chicagoan by birth, is already well known in this country for his articles in The Nation and The New Republic, and his earlier novel, “The Red Pavilion."

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ROOSEVELT IS HURT BY FIGHT ON OLD RULE Opposition Is Stiffened by His Decision to Battle Two-Thirds Tradition. CONFLICT IS BITTER Coalition Against Naming of New York Governor Gains Strength. (Continued from Page One) these developments with uneasiness. Referring to the effort to block Roosevelt, under the traditional ' two-thirds rule, Senator Cordell Hull 'Tenn.i says; “I see signs of the same sort of influence which wrecked the party jin 1924 rather than concede the nomination to a man who has re- j reived a clear majority of the dele- i gates. ‘Rather than see this accom- j piished, any kind of legitimate es- ! fort, to suppress such a movement w’ould be wise and w'ould save the life of the Democratic party.” MrAdoo Against Change Senator Burton K. Wheeler 1 i Mont. >, head of the Roosevelt forces in this battle, said: There is a strong movement, for ; abrogatin'". of the rule, and I will | support it." “I always have been opposed to j the two-thirds rule,” said Senator j Clarence C. Dill (Wash.). “I shall | support any fight for its abolition, as ; will delegates from my state, who I are instructed to that effect.” The personal interest in the pro- | | posed shift is reflected in McAdoo’s attitude. j Without the two-thirds rule he \ would have been nominated dur- ! ing the bloody affray with Smith eight years ago. But now he backs Speaker John | N. Garner of Texas, and he will re- ! sist any change. Attempt of the Roosevelt forces to abolish the two-thirds rule was hailed as an admission of "failure” by Representative Sam Rayburn (Tex.), campaign manager fori Speaker Garner, attacking James | A. Farloy, Roosevelt manager, for advocating it. William Gibbs McAdoo. sponsor of the Garner candidacy, likewise reiterated today his steadfast opposition to dispensing with the tw'othirds rule, saying it is not right to change "in the middle of the game.” The California delegation is on record for a change in 1936.

Reed Against Change Former Senator Reed 'Mo.) denounced abrogation of the twothirds' rule "as a very grave step to take." "It was good enough for Andrew Jackson, and it ought to be good enough for 1932,” Reed declared. Chairman Jouett Shouse of the Democratic national executive committee said that if the two-thirds rule is abolished, the unit rule also should be eliminated. The two must be linked together, he said. The unit rule, by which many delegations are bound, requires that all votes in the delegation be cast as a majority decides. Fnmer Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels denounced the twothirds rule. "It should be called the onethird veto rule,” Daniels said. "I am in favor of keeping it out. We don't have it and don’t w r ant it.” Harrison Non-Committal Senator Pat Harrison (Miss.) was non-committal on arrival from Washington. He said he never had been wholly in accord with the twothirds rule, but was inclined to question desirability of changing it in the middle of a convention. Governor William H. Murray (Okla.) in an interview today said the two-thirds rule assured a definite opinion by the whole convention. and that nomination of any man by less than two-thirds vote would mean a division of the convention. He strongly favors retention of the rule. Sepator Huey P. Long. Roosevelt champion, shifted from platform to rules committee to help in the fight. He will represent the shift in the south, which hitherto has defended the rule as a means of preventing northern Republican states from dominating party councils. Short of Majority The rule can be changed by a mere majority, 578, if it is recommended by the rules committee at the start of the convention. After the convention has got under way. however, any change must command a two-thirds vote. An unofficial canvass as of today—and not allowing for last minute shifts under pressure—showed that the lineup is as follows : FOR RETENTION OF Rt'LE. 571. California 44 New .terser 52 Connertieut 16 New York . 70 Delaware 6 Ohio 47 Illinois 58 Oklahoma 22 Indiana 50 Pennsrlvania' 1 ... 28 low* 20 Rhode Island .... 10 Kentcekr 26 Texas 46 Maryland 16 Virrinia 21 Massachusetts ... 56 Canal Zone 4 Missouri S6 TO CHANGE RULE. 519. (Or 5 short) Alabama 24 North Dakota 10 Aritona 6 Ohio 5 Arkansas 18 Orecon 10 Colorado 12 Pennsylvania ... 48 Florida 14 South Carolina .. 18 Georria 28 South Dakota ... 10 Idaho * Tennessee 21 lowa 6 Ctah 8 Kansas ........ 20 Vermont 8 Louisiana 20 Washington ... . 16 Maine 12 West Virrinia .... 16 Minnesota 21 Wisconsin 26 Montana 8 Wvominr 6 Nebraska 16 Alaska 6 Nevada 6 Dist. of Columbia New Hamnshire . 8 Hawaii . 6 New Mexico 6 Porto Rico . .. . 6 New York 24 Canal Zone 2 North Carolina 26 Virrin Islands ? DOIBTFI'L. 64. Miehiran 5* Phitinnine* 6 Mississippi 20 Twice in twenty years—l9l2 and 1924 —the rule almost wrecked the party. But It gave the nation W’oodrow Wilson, and often has prevented northern Republican states from naming a Democratic candidate unacceptable to the once-solid Democratic south.

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RARE ANIMALS KEEP ZOO MEN ‘HAPPY’

Keepers Not Satisfied, Even With All Their Strange Denizens

For thirty-three rears Raymond L. Ditmars has lived among wild animals, not In the Jungle but In the midst of the cltv. During that time he has been Curator of Reptiles and Mammals at Bronx Park. This Is one a series recounting his adventures, which are no less exciting because they did not take Diace in the heart of Africa. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer * 'CoDvright. 1932. by The New York WorldTelegram Corn.) IT was Janet Penserosa’s day. No other rarity of Bronx Park—. not even Romeo and Juliet, the romantic giraffes, nor the gullible one-horned rhinoceros the size of a- locomotive—vied today for approbation with the somber, motherless little gorilla, one of only eight to survive the rigors of the American scene. And she played up to the occasion. It was the third anniversary, last fall, of the day she and Ellen Allegra, her chimpanzee companion. came in on the Olympic, sick and terrified and wishing for west Africa again. So the table was set, and there were three candles. Jane and Ellen sat, childlike, in chairs, and they dined from plates with knives and forks, it was a feast day.

Daintily, thp small gorilla peeled an unripe banana and ate the skin. With finesse she plucked the raisins from the rice pudding. Sunflower seeds were a salad, and for desert there were green leaves, chocolate, buds and the tender bark of wild cherry and sweet gum trees. it a a SHE did not once lose her aplomb nor the shadow' of Mona Lisa in her eyes; even wtoen Ellen Allegra cut up, even when Ellen, abruptly reverting to type, raced all over the place, swept, the plates off the table and threw straw at, the visitors, Janet sat complacent. She was affected apparently only by a gentle melancholy arising from the raffish didoes of her friend. It pleased her mentor, Dr. Charles V. Noback, head of the Department of Comparative Medicine, and her other human associates. They have set great store by her and now she is rewarding confidence. They think, at the park, that she is going to thrive even though the park’s first gorilla, costing $5,000. died twelve days after it arrived and before it got a name, and even though Dinah, the second, lived only a few months. They think she is the most, gifted simian in captivity and they say that within ten years she will be the most celebrated gorilla in the w'orld. hum “T)UT,'’ said Dr. Raymond L. D Ditmars. “there aren't many zoological park rarities that show up so well. Take Vasco da Gama.” Vasco created a sensation among zoologists unequaled by that

GOLD RUSH HERO IS CANDIDATE

George White Knows Sting of Hardship in Fight to Top

Following is the second in a series of five articles on favorite sons who will figure in the Democratic national convention. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer COLUMBUS, 0., June 24.—A half century ago a boy whose father's business had been swept away by the panic of 1873 sold newspapers on the streets of Titusville, Pa. A little later this boy put himself through high school by working after hours in a grocery store. Next, he worked his way through Princeton. He got $l5O a year from home and worked as a laborer on farms and in lumber camps during vacations. After graduation he took a job as a bookkeeper—and got fired. Unable to find work elsewhere, he became a laborer in the Pennsylvania oil fields. Then, when he was 26. came the great Alaskan gold rush of 1893. With a pack of beans and bacon on his back, he strudged through Chilkoot Pass when it was 40 degrees below zero, stayed two years in the north, made his stake and came nome. He settled down in Marietta, O. With his savings, he entered the oil business and prospered. Then he branched out into law and politics. He was elected to congress for several terms and two years ago he was elected Governor of Ohio. Now his state is offering him for President and he enters the Democratic national convention at Chicago with Ohio's fifty-two votes pledged to his support. Such is the "From Newsboy to Riches" story of Governor George White of Ohio— and even Horatio Alger never wrote a more colorful one. a a o SIX feet tall, raw-boned and rugged. Governor White is as hard as nails today, despite his 60 years. He has a craggy chin and deep-set blue eyes, a head that is almost hairless and a mouth that smiles on the slightest provocation. All his life he has been a man's man—but he knows how to wear dinner clothes when the occasion arises and he can find his way around at social functions without embarrassment. His chief claims to the nomination are that he has made a good Governor for Ohio and that, as chairman of the Democratic national committee in 1920, he met and favorably impressed many of the western and southern party leaders. His political acquaintanceship is indeed a wide one. He is a dry, but a "reasonable” one. Years ago he was the AntiSaloon League's spokesman in the

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Janet Penserosa. stirred by the arrival in the temperate zone of any other strange creature in recent times, Dr. Ditmars said. As rare a quadruped as ever came to New York, after all was said and done, he could be called only a dog. With a vast variety of other alien animals he was shipped up from the Amazon valley and he defied identification as the almost unknown Icticyon venaticus, Brazilian bush dog, until after he had been studied as though he came from Mars. He was the size of a. dachshund. but he had short ears, a massive head and a tail only an inch and a half long. He liked flattery and plump pullets. Chief Keeper John Toomey knows about that. He used to shake Vasco gently to w-ake him, then offer him a freshly killed pullet. Vasco w'ould gobble it and look around for more. Four made a fair meal. But he. could not survive. He w T ent on into zoological history to head the list of his kind known to man. a it tt THE only others of his species of w'hich there is a record are the short-lived one which the London zoo had in 1879, another the Amsterdam zoo kept functioning a little while in 1914 and the one that Peter Wilhelm Lund, Danish naturalist, said he heard a cry in a voice midw'ay between a weasel's and a parakeet's in the Brazilian fastnesses in 1842. It is lore such as this that Dr. Ditmars will get into his new animal book to be published within the next year by Macmillan. "As for money value, probably

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Ohio legislature and as a congressman he voted for all prohibition measures, but as Governor he has attempted no crusading. He was elected on the same ticket with Senator Robert J. Buckley, a dripping wet. They even marched side by side in torchlight parades. Governor White's supporters for the presidential nomination regard him as a logical compromise candidate. They say he is dry enough to suit the politically arid south and west, not too dry for the dripping east. * * * AS a student at Princeton, White studied under Woodrow Wilson and, in 1895, joined with his classmates in voting Wilson the university’s most popular professor. “But it wasn’t Wilson who made a Democrat of me,” the Governor says. “I think I turned Democrat because of the tariff issue when I was a student in political economy under Professor Daniels.” With E. E. Andrews, a friend, he landed at a little port near Skagwav in January, 1898, and joined the wild race for the Alaskan interior. Their course led over the dread Chilkoot Pass, with its snow and iand bitter

no specimen cost more than our Giant Monitor,” he said. It is not often that an actually hitherto unidentified creature of any size is discovered nowadays, the earth’s jungle trails being the highways that they are. So when word came out of the Island of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies a few years ago that dragons held carnival there pulses of zoologists moved up. Douglas burden, veteran scientific explorer, sensed the dragons’ lure. Heading an expediton to Komodo for the American museum of natural history, he set out ready to put $25,000 into the search and when he came back he presented to Bronx park the first two specimens of the twelve-foot dragon-lizard, Varanus komodoensis, ever exhibited alive.

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cold, where hundreds died and thousands turned back. But White and Andrews, each with fifty pounds of bacon and beans on his back, pushed on. "The Latin and Greek I had studied at Princeton didn't help me much there." Governor White smiled, as he told of this adventure. "Every man thought he had a gold mine waiting for him. So it was every man for himself. You couldn’t hire anybody to carry provisions for you, because every man was carrying his own supplies.” _a a a TIIHITE and Andrews finally ▼V reached the gold country. They failed to strike gold, so they went into the wood business. They hired men in need of a grubstake to cut the fir and pine for $3 a cord. Then they rafted the wood down to Dawson and sold it for S4O a cord to dance halls and gambling houses. With the money earned in the wood business, White and Andrews went back to gold hunting* They bought a claim. "Soon as we began to make money we hired six men at $1 an hour to help us,” White relates. "By this time 80 per cent of the men were out of money and working for the other 20 per cent.

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I They will live on. it is expected, i a good deal longer than their keepers, lizards, dragon or not, being that way. As sizable a fellow as ever i grew up in town, Dr. Ditmars thinks, is his one-horned Indian rhinoceros, whose obsession is to obliterate his outstanding feature, the single horn by assiduously keeping it worn to a stub. He was a baby when Frank Buck of “Bring ’Em Back Alive” fame found, him in northern India in 1922, and the park, receiving him with mighty acclaim, since it had had no such resident in years, valued him at $5,000. Now, said Dr. Ditmars, he Las thriven so wonderously, like a mountain slowly coming into being, that he is worth $25,000. Victoria, the park’s tw'o-horned rhino, from Tanganyika terri-

"We had a doctor and two lawyers working on the end of shovels for us.” In two years White made a comfortable stake, sold out to the Guggenheims and returned to the States. ONE of the first things he did was to go to Titusville and marry his boyhood sweetheart, Miss Charlotte McKelvey. They moved to Ohio, where White started out in his career as a "quart can” oil producer, to use his own words. His oil interests soon spread from Ohio to Pennsylvania and even to Oklahoma, and he made money. Then he branched into law and politics and was elected to the legislature in 1905. Three years later he was a candidate for congress,, but was defeated. In 1910, he ran again and was elected. He was re-elected to congress in 1912 and 1914. a a a WHEN former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio was nominated for the presidency in 1920, White was named chairman of the Democratic national committee to manage the campaign. In 1928, White sought the Democratic nomination for the United States senate and was defeated. That defeat generally was interpreted as ending his political career. In 1930, however, he staged a comeback and was elected Governor. There was nothing sensational about his campaign. It was based largely on criticism of the policies of his Republican predecessor, who was running for re-election, and a denunciation of the idea that government can make men prosperous. u n a SINCE the death of Mrs. White in 1929, Governor White's eldest daughter. Miss Mary White, has been his hostess. She serves in this capacity at the executive mansion here and will so serve at the White House, as the nation’s "First Lady,” if her father should be elected president. There are four other children, three sons and one daughter. The engagement of the latter, Miss Charlotte White, was announced just recently. The sons are George Jr., Robert and David McKelvey White. The latter is a teacher at New York university. Though reared in Pennsylvania, Governor White is a native of New York. He was born at Elmira on Aug. 21, 1872. His father, who had a small retail business, went on the rocks financially in the panic of 1873 and as the result the family moved to Titusville when he was very young. e

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Pigmy hippopotami, highly prized inmates of Bronx zoo, and at left, an armadillo, just as valuable as he is tough, which is very tough indeed. torv, near Lake Victoria Nyanza, who comes of a species far more common, should be jealous oft his prestige, but is not; she is content with her reputation as one of the most docile and pleasantest of park citizens. a tt tt SIZE, you see, doesn't have anything to do with rarity. For example, there are the hippopotami.” A hippopotamus, tons of it, is no marvel to zoologists, said Dr. Ditmars. They are used to it. Even Peter Great, twenty-eight years old now', and such an aggreeable fellow that he will open his cavernous mouth upon request, is of the not uncommon species still lumbering along lakes and big rivers of central East Africa. But distinction graces the pygmy hippopotami. They are, Dr. Ditmars thinks, close to the top of the list of zoo prizes. So when a pair w r ere captured by native* in Liberia in 1912, maneuvered into great baskets and slung under poles to be carried through the forest to the nearest river transportation, the park set out to procure them. They cost $12,000. but were a good investment. They never have, missed a meal, never been ill, and the ladv is as idyllic a mother as dwells in the Bronx. tt o OUT of that far polar waste of Greenland above Franz Josef Fiord the park's first pair of musk-oxen came in 1923, and in 1925 the first musk-ox ever bred in captivity was born. .It lived four days, for its mother was too W'eak. That mother* though, and other musk-oxen at the park now are thriving; if pneumonia, their nemesis in this land that is tropic for them, spares them they will do better by and by. Os Dr. Ditmars* rare eccentrics, the giant armadillo has no peer, and even in his rich book, “Strange Animals I Have Met,” no animal is stranger. When William Beebe asked native hunters in British New Guineau to try to get him one of these “Mowcorimah" for New York they thought he jested and they laughed. “Catch two tigei, alive, perhaps, but no Mowoonmah,” the chief hunter told him. The native knew the armadillo, cornered or wounded, is a foe puma, and legends of his race told him of ghastly encounters as far back as prehistoric days when the creature (preserved in fosil) grew seven feet long. Today’s armadillo is a whippet tank and comes four and a half feet long. Though he is classed as edentate, or toothless one, he has sixty-eight well-formed teeth —more than any other mammal but the whale—besides an estimated 250,000 auxiliary teeth that cover his entire tongue. Beebe and the natives finally got one for the park. Yet with such as these the zoologists are not satisfied. There still are strange denizens of the planet that evade them. tt tt “HT'HERE isn’t a zooman in the A world who wouldn't give his soul for an African okapi,” Ditmars said. A tolerable price, it seems, since the okapi is no more than a kind of small, duel zebra and giraffe, with repressions. “I’d like a white rhinoceros, too, and an earthworm, one of the Australian giant earthworms that grow' six feet long.”

AIMEE'S MATE IS WORRBAT TRIAL Pretty Nurse Puts Dents in Hutton’s Defense. By United Prest LOS ANGELES, June 24. The nimble-witted Myrtle Hazel Joan St. Pierre has brought a cloud to the broad, brown brow of pudgy David L. Hutton Jr., baritone choir leader. The usually smiling and complacent husband of Aimee Semple McPherson frankly was worried today, as his chief counsel, Mark Jones, had lost argument after argument with the attractive young therapeutic nurse, who is suing Hutton for S2Ch,OOO heart balm. Hutton confided to reporters: "I haven't been making any money lately, and it's a cinch that Aimee is not going to pay her off.' Mrs. St. Pierre was asked why she so often went to her bungalow in West Hollywood, when she had rooms in a Pasadena hotel. “Did you go there just to sit on the divan with Mr. Hutton?” Attorney Mark Jones asked. “I went there to see my dog.' she responded. The audience Roared.

DEMOCRATIC REPEAL GROUP IN MINORITY Resubmission Appears to Be Choice of Majority of Committee. WON’T COMMIT PARTY Roosevelt Men Apparently Will Hold Whip Hand in Conferences. BY LYLE C. WILSON t'nited Tress Staff Corresnondml CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS. CHICAGO, June 24.—Submission of repeal of the eighteenth amendment. with safeguards for state? against return of the saloon, was developing rapidly today as • compromise prohibition plank. The controlling majority of the Democratic national convention may be expected to agree on such proposal. The prospective plank would not commit the party to repeal, but would pledge a Democratic congress to give the states opportunity to pass again upon the prohibition question. If the Democrats continue in the way they are going, it appears that that prohibition may not figure as a clear-cut issue in the campaign. Republicans put in their platform last week a pledge for prompt submission to the states of an amendment to the eighteenth amendment. They continued that the federal government should retain power to "preserve gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic.’ Smith Wants Repeal Governor Franklin D Roosevelt of New York is reported to be insisting that there shall be precautions in the prohibition plank against the return of the saloon. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith w’ants repeal. In the meantime he w'ould amend the Volstead act to legalize beverages of comparatively slight alcoholic content. Beer-for-revenue Democrats rally around the Smith nroposal. There are other proposals, including William Gibbs McAdoo, that there be a national referendum sponsored and paid for by congress. But the real platform fight on prohibition will be whether there shall be a pledge for immediate liberalization of Volsteadism or delay until constitutional machinery has had opportunity to act on the eighteenth amendment. It appears the platform committee will be split, with Roosevelt men in the majority. The Smith group, including representatives of some of the favorite son candidates, is expected to bring to the convention floor a minority report for immediate legalization of beer and so-called light wine. Even if such plank were adopted it would be too early to raise a thirst this summer, because congress could not act until next December. Raskob Thinks He’s Right Chairman John J. Raskob of the national committee told the United Press that he believed his action in calling the national committee to consider the question on March 5, 1930, had dissipated much of the passion which had surrounded the issue. “It wasn’t that I expected the national committee to take any action.” Raskob said, “but only that I wanted to get the question before the people. Many persons thought I was mistaken in stirring it up then, but I was not. The fighting had to come and we had it more than a year before this convention..” Peace, electric power, Porto Rican statehood, economic questions, agriculture and tariff have been allotted hearing time before the platform committee today. Labor, highways and prohibition speakers will be heard Saturday.

ROBS STEPMOTHER: GETS 180-DAY TERM Man Who Broke Into Father’s Home Given Long Sentence on Farm. Dave Shapiro, 20, who broke into the home of his father, Abe Shapiro, at 1231 South Meridian street, and stole 51.50 from a purse belonging to his stepmother, was fined $1 and sentenced to 180 days at the state farm by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer Thursday. Two typewritten pages detailing the youth's police record were presented in court by detectives. The record includes an eight months’ term in Los Angeles for auto theft. Released on bond May 30, after breaking into his father’s home, Shapiro was caught when he slipped into the Speedway to witness the annual Memorial day race, and as a result, served a thirteen-day jail term imposed by a justice of the peace. MAP LOYALTY~CRUSADE Pastors Meet to Discuss Church Event to Be Held in Fall. Plans for the church loyalty crusade, to be held in Indianapolis Oct. 30 to Dec. 11, were outlined Thursday by Dr. Geoge G. Downey of Los Angeles, at a meeting of pastors in the Roberts Park Methodist church. The meeting was held under the auspices of the evangelistic committee of the Church Federation of Indianapolis. The Rev. W. W. Wiant, pastor of the North Methodist church, presided. Woman. 105. Raps Modern Dress By f nitrit Prms DOVER. N. J.. June 24. —Mrs. Jane Thorne was 105 years old Thursday, and she celebrated the event by discussing current history. Young women, she were all right “in every respect f ccept the kind of clothes tney ( r.”