Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1932 — Page 1

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KING OF SIAM HELD PRISONER IN REVOLUTION End of One of Two Remaining Absolute Monarchies Is Foreseen. PRINCES ARE ARRESTED Uprising, Led by Army, Is Accomplished With Little Bloodshed. By l nitril Press BANGKOK, Siam, June 25.—The shadow of revolt hung over the ancient throne of Siam today, and forecast the end of one of ihc two remaining absolute monarchies in the world. King Prajadhipok, absolute, but libcial-minded monarch, was expected to meet the demands of rebels. The rebels held the royal family and controlled the government, demanding the establishment of a constitutional monarchy vith limited powers for the king. The rebel movement was accomplished with little bloodshed or disorder. It was led by army and navy officers, and supported by Siamese suffering from (conomic depression and heavy taxation. The rebels arrested the leading princes of Siam. They sent a gunboat to the seaside resort of Huahin, where the king was resting, to bring the monarch here to make his decision. King to Stay on Throne There was no movement to oust the king completely from the throne. ,Hc was to be given the opportunity to continue to rule, but with limited powers. Otherwise, the rebels said, they would establish a republic. Although the rebel proclamation invited the king to continue on the throne which the Chraki dynasty occupied for 150 years, it severely criticised the absolute monarchy. It contrasted the life of the princes with the sufferings of the people. King Prajadhipok has been regarded there and abroad as a “westernized” monarch. He was expected to agree to the rebel demands. The uprising was directed principally against the senior army officers and the elders of the government. They have opposed any liberalization of the regime that the king might be expected to suggest. Army Chief Is Shot There was only one act of serious violence. The commander-in-chief of the Siamese army resisted arrest and was shot. Other high army officers were imprisoned with members of the government and the princes. Prince Kambaengbejra, minister of commerce, was the only cabinet officer to escape. Cheering throngs surged through the streets and pledged support to the rebels. There appeared to be no danger to the royal family. Army officers said the king and his queen. Rambiabarni, would not be endangered unless there were attempts at coun-ter-revolt. Martial law was proclaimed as a precautionary measure. Visited U. S. Last Year The streets of Bangkok were manned with machine guns and tanks, but there appeared little likelihood that any use would be of the display of military force. Prajadhipok, 38 years old, a light dark man, whose western ideas included European clothing and golf, ascended to the throne of Siam in 1926, succeeding his brother Rama VI. Among the titles he assumed were “defender of the faith" and “possessor of the four and twenty golden umbrcallas." He married the 27-year-ofc Princess Rambai Barni in 1918. Last year the king and queen visited the United States for an operation for removal of a cataract. City Woman in Siam Revolution in Siam was brought closer to Indianapolis today when it was learned that a former woman resident and her husband may be endangered in the political upheaval. Mrs. Raymond B. Stevens, whose husband is adviser on foreign affairs to King Prajadhipok, is the daughter of Mrs. Rosanna Spink and sister of Dr. Mary A. and Urbana Spink and Mrs. Bernard CunifT. all of Indianapolis. Nc "reat fear is expressed for the safetj' of the Stevens, and this belief is borne out by press dispatches describing the revolution as “bloodless.” It has not yet been learned whether the Stevens are imprisoned vith members of the royal family. GIRL VIOLINIST LAUDED Paris Acclaims 7-Year-Old American After Brilliant Concert. By United rress PARIS. June 25.—Paris acclaimed 7-year-old Ruth Slenczynski of California today for her recital of Bach, Hayden and Schubert at the Salle Pleyel, accompanied by the famed Paris philharmonic orchestra under the direction of Alfred Cortot, greatest of French pianists. Paris critics lauded her virtuosity and bravery in attempting such a heavy program. $2,000,000 RECOVERED Salvage Ship Resumes Its Raid on Sunken Liner’s Vaults. By United Pres* BREST, France, June 25.—The salvage ship Artiglio II had brought up about $2,000,000 in gold from the wreck of the liner Egypt today and continued its raids on the strongroom of the ship. 400 feet beneath the water.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy with local thundershowers tonight or Sunday; slightly cooler Sunday.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 39

TECH PUPILS’ LIVES PERILED, WORKMEN AT SCHOOL REVEAL

Rotting Joists Discovered as Rebuilding Task Is Started. Lives of hundreds of Arsenal Technical high school pupils have been in peril daily for the last several years, it was revealed today by school officials. The danger was learned first by workmen engaged in rebuilding the old three-story arsenal building at the school, who discovered that dry rot had attacked joists supporting the heavy roof of the sixty-seven-year-old building. School officials marveled that the roof had not collapsed before, pointing out that a heavy snow last winter might have resulted in the 125-ton slate roof falling on pupils. Damage Is at Ends Principal damage to the joints was on the ends, wheer they are supported in the walls. The rotting away is believed to have ben caused by water from roof leaks before the new slate roof was placed on the building several years ago. The condition of the joists was not discovered at that time. Ends of most of the joists on the north wall are so rotten that the wood can be pinched away and crumbled by a person’s fingers. School officials have ordered the joists reinforced with steel and concrete at an additional cost of S6OO. Work on the building was started the day after school was closed and is progressing rapidly. When completed, the building will add the equivalent of nine classrooms to the school. Offices to Be Moved In the past, the first floor was occupied by the print shop, now in another building, and the library. Second and third floors housed classrooms and a book store, while the basement, with low ceilings, was used as a bicycle check room and R. O. T. C. room. This fall administrative offices of the school will be moved to the Arsenal building, first floor, from the mani building, giving five class rooms in the rmin building. A library, study hall and sponsor rooms will be on the second floor, the third floor will house commercial subject class rooms, while the book store, R. O. T. C. room and four class rooms will be in the basement, ceiling of which has been raised. The work is being done at a contract price of $48,000.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—Stocks moved irregularly lower at the opening today and worked lower in the early trading, several leaders breaking into new low ground. As most issues closed around their lows Friday, only moderate declines were necessary to bring them into new bear market bottoms, among the issues to make new lows for the depression were: United States Steel at 23 U, off ti; American Telephone 7712, off %; American Can 30off *4. and Atchison 21, off %. General Motors equaled its record low for the present shares of Bli.8 l i. Auburn Auto opened at 45, off %, and then slipped off to 42 \i. Fractional declines were noted in Woolworth, Corn Products, Du Pont, Vanadium, Standard of California, Public Service of New Jersey, Union Carbide, Standard of New Jersey, Union Pacific, Westinghouse Electric, North American, National Biscuit and New York Central. A few issues moved upward against the trend, including Chesapeake & Ohio, General Electric. Socony Vacuum and Peoples Gas, the latter rising l’£ points to a 47%, While the others made fractional advances. Steel common steadied around the opening level and later firmed up fractionally. The market generally was dull. Cotton futures drifted down 1 to 3 points. Bonds eased off in dull tymover. The American dollar lost moderately in relation to European currencies. New York . Stocks Opening (By J. T. Hamill <fc Cos.) June 25 American Can.. 30>, N American ... 163. Am Tel & Tel.. 77 3 , Penn R R B*. Auburn 45>•„ Packard Byers AM ... Case J. 1 21 s , Std of Ind 18'k Ches & Ohio.. 11 1 2 Std Oil of N J.. 23 3 4 Gen Poods .... 20 3 s Texas Corp .... g>, Gillette 12 3 4 U S Steal 23> 4 Gen Mot B', United Corp ... 4Vs Gen Elec 10 Un Aircraft ... 7 3 4 Goodyear 6 3 4 Un Carbide ... 16> 4 Int Nickel .... 4 Vanadium 6 3 s Liggett &My 839 Westinghouse El 19 > Mont'y Ward... 4 3 Woolworth 23', N Y Central ... H> 4 | Chicago Stocks Opening (By James T. Hamill <fc Cos. —June 25 Cities Serv ... 2 Natl Sec pfd.. 27'i ContChiCom.. ‘.'Swift * C 0... 9 7 * Corn Chi pfd... 8 3 4 Swift Inti 17> 3 Insull Com ‘,US Rad & Tel. S’* Middle West ... (|

TAMMANY NEVER HAS HAD STRONGER FRIEND AT COURT THAN EX-FOE, ROOSEVELT

ThU i* th* fifth and ronrludinc article of a series on Franklin D. Roosevelt and hiv record. BY WILLIAM O. TRAPP Seripns-HowarifafStaff Writer ALBANY, N. Y., June 25. —Tammany, with the wisdom of the serpent, knew its man when it sent Franklin D. Roosevelt back to Albany for a second term, as the metropolitan newspapers pointed out, for the New York City Democracy never had a stronger friend at court than their erstwhile foe, who now sat in the executive chamber. A Grover Cleveland or a Samuel J. Tilden might have wrecked the “hall”; a Theodore Roosevelt, a Charles Evans Hughes or even a Charles H. Tuttle from a Republican conning tower certainly would have done so, it is now agreed by the pre&, partisan and nonpartisan, of the state where Roosevelt is best known. Instead of a Republican Rooseveltian “big stick” to lambast the wicket, the Governor used a DemoV -1

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1932

Free by Trick ‘Officers From Ohio’ Take Pal in Custody and All Make Escape.

By United Press Richmond, ind., June 25. Richmond and Connersville police learned anew trick from a prisoner alleged to have passed bad checks. Howard Dennewitz, believed leader of a gang of check racketeers, fled Richmond after passing an allegedly fraudulent check for S2O. He was arrested in Connersville two days later, charged with passing bad checks there. The prisoner told Connersville authorities he was wanted in Springfield, O. Police wrote to the Ohio city and the next day two men with Springfield police badges appeared, asking custody of Dennewitz. He was released to them. Richmond police, learning Dennewitz was held at Connersville, also asked for his custody. Answer to the Springfield inquiry said Dennewitz was unknown there and that no officers had been sent for him. The men posing as Springfield police were believed members of the Dennewitz gang.

SUE COP FOR CLOSING SHOW $226,000 Damages Sought by ‘Lysistrata’ Troup. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 25.—That merry Greek comedy, “Lysistrata,” which related the plan of Athenian women to end war by giving their husband’s the cold shoulder, reechoed once again in court today. Twenty-three members of a cost which performed the play here last winter, had filed suit for $226,000 damages against Captain Deighton McD. Jones, head of the police vice squad, because he attempted to close the show by arresting them. The complaint charged false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Nance O'Neil, noted actress, played the title role. The doughty captain, the complaint related, appointed himself censor, and led a squad of men in arresting the sixty-four actors and actresses. All were jailed overnight. ZEP TO RESUME HOPS OVER SEA IN AUGUST Flight Schedule Is Arranged to South America. By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, June 25. The Graf Zeppelin will resume its flight schedule to South America in mid-August, and it is planned to extend one trip to Rio de Janerio and possibly one to Buenos Aires in the fall. Only five instead of the scheduled six trips will be made in this section. Starting and arrival times will be the same as in the spring flights, with a reckoning of sixty-five-seventy hours for the southbound trip and of eighty-five-ninety on the return journeys, with two to three day stopovers in South America. Airplane connections with Berlin will be maintained as formerly as will the Condor Snydicate Service from Pernambuco to Bahia-Rio and Buenos Aires. SON HELD IN MURDER Birmingham Lawyer Charged With Slaying Mother. By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 25. John R. Boyle, Birmingham attorney, was held to the grand jury without bond here today, charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Jessie Boyle, on Shades mountain last week. Boyle had contended a highwayman attacked him and his mother. 23 ‘SPEAKIES’ RAIDED Federal Agents Drive to Dry Up Chicago for Convention. By United Press CHICAGO, June 25.—Federal prohibition agents, persistent in their endeavor to keep Chicago dry for the Democratic national convention, today had closed twenty-three more places where they said liquor was being sold.

cratic Rooseveltian “stuffed club” to tickle the funny bone of the ward heelers. The scathing language, which the Governor can use powerfully, was reserved for the very men who brought charges against the Tammany favorites; Samuel Seabury, Rabbi Stephen Wise and Dr. John Haynes Holmes, among others. “The indignant Governor Roosevelt promises to act in the Walker scandal without delay,” commented Howard Brubaker, columnist in the NewYorker, “Judge Seabury will be lucky if he gets off with a reprimand.” “Governor Roosevelt has named two lawyers to help him sift the evidence against Mayor Walker,” remarked H. I. Phillips, another columnist, “and it begins to look as if Judge Seabury now is practically surrounded and cut off from all escape.” Earlier this month, Roosevelt issued a tart statement that Seabury should “stop talking and do something,” and concluded with the assertion that “it is net time for political sniping or buck passing.” A few days later, a spokesman” Gover-

HOOVER AGAIN FLAILS ‘PORK’ RELIEF BILL Congress Tied Up in Knots as Conferees Try to Smooth Measure. VETO THREAT LOOMS Modified Legislation Is Likely If President Stays Firm. . By United Press WASHINGTON, June 25.—Instead of being able to adjourn today for the summer, as it had hoped, congress is tied up in knots which may take weeks to unravel. Unemployment relief, economy and appropriation bills all are involved in sharp controversies. Absence of many members at the Democratic national convention will delay major action on these problems. Conferees today began the task of bringing into harmony the widely divergent house and senate unemployment relief programs, each proposing expenditure of more than $2,000,000,000 to create jobs for the jobless and to provide food for the hungry. The final bill which they evolve almost is certain to call for issuance of at least $500,000,000 of bonds for federal public works. President Hoover Friday renewed his assault on these bond issue proposals, terming them “destructive,” “wasteful,” “pork band” legislation which would unbalance the budget, lay new burdens on the taxpayers and provide little relief to the unemployed. Wagner Will Reply Senator Robert Wagner (Dem., N. Y.) author of the senate relief bill, promised to reply to Mr. Hoover from the senate floor this afternoon. The President’s statement was interpreted widely in congress as indicating he will veto the relief measure if the bond issue is retained. Six administration senators expressed the definite opinion that he would do so. After the bill is approved in final form, congress undoubtedly will remain in session to wait for Mr. Hoover either to sign or veto it. If he vetoes it and efforts to override the veto fail, a modified bill probably will be passed. Leaders of both parties promise enactment of some form of relief before congress goes home. The senate Friday passed* a bill to give the Red Cross 50,000,000 more bushels of farm board wheat for relief purposes. This measure also must go to conference. The house bill called for distribution of 40,007,000 bushels of wheat and 500,000 baies of cotton. Economy Back to Conference The $150,000,000 government economy bill, batted around by house, senate and conference committees for two months, must go back to conference again. The senate refused to accept house provisions exempting employes earning up to $1,200 a year from the proposed “five-day week” furlough system. The senate wants a SI,OOO exemption. New conferences can not begin until Monday at the earliest and probably not until late in the week. The house Friday recessed for the week-end. House leaders tentatively plan to recess through most of next week, to enable Democrats to attend their party convention in Chicago. Hoover Attacks Bond Issues President Hoover in his assault on the house and senate relief bills centered his attack on the bond issue features. The Wagner senate bill calls for a $500,000,000 bond issue for public works already authorized by congress. Speaker John N. Garner’s house bill envisions a broader construction program calling for issuance of $1,191,000,000 in bonds. “These provisions,” Mr. Hoover declared, “have the triple vice of being a charge on the taxpayer, of unbalancing the budget and of providing only a small amount of employment, and that to a large extent in localities where it is not needed. “Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate! plainly their pork barrel charac- i teristics. A large part of the expenditures are wasteful in the the present times. “They impose tremendous future costs on the people for maintenance; they are not economically needed. Much of it represents a squandering of public money.” Mr. Hoover also expressed regret that the Wagner bill’s relief loans | of $300,000,000 to the states would j be apportioned on the basis of population rather than need.

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Williams Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury under Woodrow Wilson, traveled by plane from California to press the campaign for John N. Garner of Texas in the Democratic convention. He is shoyn with his daughter, Ellin McAdoo, left, and his secretary, Vera Word, right, at the Chicago airport.

HOSPITAL PLANT WORKERKILLED Struck on Head by Falling Pulley Wheel. Struck on the head by a falling pulley wheel while working in the Riley hospital tower plant Friday night, Fred Sellmeyer, 70, of 909 North Riley avenue, a fireman, was injured fatally. He died within a few minutes in the hospitaal admitting room, after walking unaided from the power plant. His skull was fractured. Funeral services will be held at thq home at 8:15 Monday morning and at St. Mary’s Catholic church at 9. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Fellow workmen said Sellmeyer was working with a chain pulley while adjusting a boiler valve. An iron pulley wheel, weighing fifteen pounds, became loose and fell on Sellmyer’s head. Sellmeyey came to this city thirtyfive years ago from Oldenburg, Ind., where he was born. His wife died in 1929. Survivors are four sons, Edgar, Delbert and William Sellemyer, all of Indianapolis, and Arnold Sellmeyer of Pasadena, Cal., and two daughters, Alvina and Olivia Sellmeyer of Indianapolis. HOG PRICES CLIMBING Farmers Cheered by Steady Rise During Last 12 Days. By United Press CHICAGO, June 25. Farmers were cheered today by a reversal in the depressed livestock market, which has advanced hog prices for twelve consecutive days—the greatest sustained advance of recent months. Hogs sold at $4.50 a hundred pounds—36 per cent above the low price for the month. HEIRS GET $50,000,000 Inventory of Julius Rosenwald Estate Filed in Court. By United Press CHICAGO, June 25.—The estate of the late Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and merchant, was valued in excess of $50,000,000 at the time of his death last January, an inventory filed in probate court showed today. The valuation was exclusive of real estate holdings. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..... 66 8 a. m 77 7 a. m 69 9 a. m 81 In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: West southwest wind, 13 miles an hour; temperature, 78; barometric pressure, 29.85 at sea level; ceiling, scattered clouds, unlimited; visibility, 20 miles; field, good.

nor,’ believed in newspaper circles to have been the Governor himself, exclaimed that Seabury was trying to "pass the buck to Roosevelt to further presidential ambitions of Seabury himself. n n u ROOSEVELT then appointed two lawyers, after Seabury had transmitted his analysis of the testimony against Mayor Walker, to assist the Governor in an analysis and digest of the charged. When Seabury was named counsel in the legislative resolution authorizing the inquiry Roosevelt indorsed the former justice with this praise: “I am very confident that your fine reputation for fairness and justice peculiarly qualifies you.’” And when the analysis of the Walker case was handed to the Governor, he was quoted as quibbling over the stationery that Seabury used. To Wise and Holmes. Roosevelt wrote as follows: “Let me tell you two gentlemen, straight from the shoulder, that I am becoming convinced from

Kntered as Second Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapoiia

MARY GARDEN BACnOWORK Leaves N. Y. to Sing With Cleveland Opera. By United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—Mary Garden, the opera star, was heading west for Cleveland today following her return from Europe aboard the Aquitania. She is to sing “Carmen” with the Cleveland Civic Opera Company on June 29 and July 4. Ships news reporters, who interviewed her, found she is proud of her slim figure, that she is certain she knows nothing of politics and that she can’t help but cheat when she’s playing croquet. “Here I work like the devil getting this figure,” she said, “and then they always find some big fat blonde to point out as Mary Garden. Why if I had the hips of this last blond, they said was me, I’d never come out of my cabin.” Discussing card games she had been playing on the ship, Miss Garden said she never cheated. “The only thing I cheat in is croquet, she expained. “I just can’t help it. Something makes my foot shove the ball.” WOMAN CHANGES MIND, SEMAPHORE WRECKED Police Car Hits Signal in Effort to Dodge Pedestrian. Because a woman changed her mind Friday night, a traffic semaphore at Illinois and Market streets, was wrecked, fender of a police car dented and Traffic Officer Folie F. Shaw retreated in speedy, if not good, order. The woman, a pedestrian, started to cross the street as a police car driven by Sergeant Kent Yoh approached. She changed her mind about crossing and took a few steps backward. Yoh swerved the car several times as he tried to guess what the woman would do next. The last swerve headed the car toward the semaphore, operated by Shaw, and he went away from there, almost at the moment the car crashed into the signal. The sergeant and patrolmen Ed E. Miers and Ralph M. Chambers continued on their way to investigate a stole burglary report.

Foreign Exchange

(By James T. Hamill & Cos.) —June 25 Open. Sterling. England 3.62 Franc. France 0393‘i Lira. Italy 0509 Franc. Belgium 1392 Mark. Germany 2375 Guilder. Holland 4040 Peseta. SDain 0825 Krone. Norway 1870 Krone. Denmark 1972 Yen. Japan 2850

your letters that corruption in public office and unfit servants in public office are both far less abhorrent to you than they are to me.” A few days later added this paragraph: “If they would serve their god as they seek to serve themselves, the people of the city of New York would be the gainers.” In imputing base motives to those who pointed out Tammany corruption, the Governor in a little more than one year found four conspicuous targets. “Slow to kindle when Tammany might thereby suffer; quick to flare when Tammany might thereby profit,” the World-Telegram said editorially last April. Criticis of the Governor asserted that on the big occasions, when Seabury apparently had brought home definite evidence of wrong-doing by Tammany or its allies, the Governor failed to kindle at all. Those big occasions may be designated briefly as the Farley case, the McQuade case and the Theofel (Turn to Page Nine)

DELEGATES ARE DISMAYED ON ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO OVER DEMOCRATS’ BITTER TURMOIL Rival Factions Are Saying Worse Things About Each Other Than They Ever Said About President Hoover. ROOSEVELT ‘STEAMROLLER’ GRINDS Forces of N. Y. Governor Take Over Complete Control of Platform Committee; Victors in Early Tests of Strength.

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. bv United Press) CHICAGO, June 25. Angry Democrats bared weapons today to fight to the bitter end in their convention opening Monday. Peacemakers fearing a repetition of the 1924 Madison Square Garden debacle, counseled harmony but were spurned by both embittered factions. Roose\elt forces claimed they had the necessary votes to drive through their attempt to name the convery tion’s permanent chairman, to knock out the century-old two-thirds rule, and nominate their candidate by a simple majority on the first ballot. Smith forces charged unfair tactics. They said Roosevelt was trying to switch the rules while the ball was in play. They are bringing all of the tricks of t' e master political minds of the party into the fight. Delegates Are Dismayed. Delegates arriving in large numbers were dismayed at the threatened convention fight. They fear it may even exceed the disastrous struggle of Madison Square Garden in bitterness, and wreck the party’s chances this year. Tempers are high. Workers in rival factions are saying worse things about each other than they ever said about President Hoover. “Double-crosser,” Smith workers mutter. “What a pal!” Roosevelt supporters remark as they look across from their headquarters to the row of Smith placards, bearing jibes at the man, who just four years ago next Monday, placed in nomination at the Houston convention the man he warmly lauded as “the happy warrior.” Compromise Plan Fails Alarmed over the fatal possibilities in this thunderstorm of anger, Senator Pat Harrison (Miss.) attempted unsuccessfully to work out a compromise. But neither side is in any mood to consider peace without victory. “We have the votes and we are going right down the line,” said James A. Farley, manager for Governor Roosevelt. “There can be no compromise over principles,” said Smith. First tests were easily by Roosevelt forces. They have taken complete control of the committee, which will draft the party platform. Six of the nine men in that group are Roosevelt men. Steamroller Is Working They demonstrated control of the Democratic national committee in the first two showdowns there. The pro-Roosevelt Minnesota delegation was recognized over the pro-Smith delegation by a vote of 71 to 14. The delegation of Senator Huey Long (La.) pro-Roosevelt, was recognized 55 to 32. What the opposition politely terms the Roosevelt steamroller did its first tasks with perfect efficiency. It looked more like an armored tank to some who saw it rolling toward them today. Roosevelt forces stood solidly apparently in their assault on the historic two-thirds rule. Josephus Daniels (N. C.) who as secretary of the navy in the Wilson administration was Roosevelt’s immediate superior, declared the two-thirds rule was misnamed. He called it the one-third veto rule. Almost Forget Prohibition Nearly all of the eight candidates opposing Roosevelt have declared against changing the rule. Roosevelt forces still claimed they had between 690 and 700 delegates. A simple majority of the convention is 578 and two-thirds is 770. In this bitter warfare, the once belabored prohibition issue was almost entirely neglected. All sides are now for recommending submission of a repeal amendment. Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland attempted to inject life into the question by moving one step ahead and declaring for a plank recommending immediate restoration of beer under the Volstead act. j Smith declared for the same thing earlier this week.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County, 3 Cents

By United Press CLEVELAND, June 25.—Newton D. Baker broke his political silence today with an attack against threatened attempts to abrogate the two-thirds rule for nominating Democratic presidential candidates. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 25.—Any man who receives the “damaged goods” of a Democratic presidential nomination by abolition of the centuryold two-thirds rule wil be threatened severely in the November general election and will face thte very real risk of a split party. This Is the opinion of astute politicians gathered here for the national Democratic convention. Some privately say that almost certain defeat will ensue. Others are wondering, publicly, whether they will support a nominee selected through a trick. The fight on the proposal to abrogate the two-thirds rule is rolling up steadily with A1 Smith, Senator Carter Glass, Senator Pat Harrison, former Senator Jim Reed (Mo.) and Governor Ritchie of Maryland, all out in favor of retaining the old regulation. Senator Clarence C Dill (Wash.) a Roosevelt manager, urged caution at the Thursday night meeting when the attack was agreed upon. Roosevelt Debates by Phone But he was borne down by Roosevelt himself, who talked to the conferees over a leased telephone connected with a microphone in the office of James A. Farley, Roosevelt’s manager. Last week is was Herbert Hoover who sat at-a long distance phone and dictated to a convention. Veteran Democrats connect the belated move against the historic rule with Roosevelt’s repudiation of his pledge to accept Jouett Shouse, national committee executive director, as permanent chairman. In lobbies and corridors it was pointed out that the Democrats could not face down charges that the campaign was based on bad faith toward Shouse, and unsportsmanlike tactics toward the delegates themselves. “We can not win a campaign based on a lie and a double-cross,” said one old-fashioned Democrat. Laugh at “Unfair” Cry “He may win the nomination,” said the scornful Senator Glass (Va.), “but he will lose in November. No man can command respect or votes who will wreck a party for the sake of selfish ambition.” But the Roosevelt managers scoff at such an attitude. Their psychology is that what they call “the inside technique of politics" will be forgotten in a few month*. Between now and November, they plan to picture Roosevelt’s move as a bold stroke which no other Democrat ever dared to make. So they laugh at cries of dishonest and unfair tactics designed to break a pledge and overthrow a century-old rule. A1 Smith, with characteristic candor, repeated his opposition to abrogation of the two-thirds rule, adding that “this radical change suggested late at night withuot any deliberation or discussion, sounds like a cry for the life preserver.” Harms Party Chances “Leading Democrats throughout the country,” Smith went on, “will repudiate any such action, and it distinctly will be harmful to the party’s chances in November, no matter who is nominated.” Supporting this statement, he said he had learned that two former Democratic presidential candidates not now here—James M. Cox of Ohio and John W. Davis of West Virginia—would oppose abrogating the two-thirds rule. After the Roosevelt gathering Thursday night which resulted in Senator Huey Long (La.) and Senator Bert Wheeler (Mont.) putting through the resolution favoring abolition of the two-thirds rule, the first formal denunciation came from Representative Sam Rayburn (Tex.), campaign manager for Speaker John Garner of the same state. Rayburn condemned the Roosevelt move as violative of American standards of fair play. Called Beginning of End Glass’ blast followed. Then lanky Senator Harrison, a symphony in white linen so familiar back home in Gulfport, Miss., sat on a desk in the Roosevelt headquarters and in his well-known senatorial manner pleaded for retention of the two-thirds rule to insure party harmony. Then Ritchie, just audible above the booming of flashlights and hurrahs and applause of his faithful Maryland lieges, spoke against abrogating the rule. Mild-mannered Senator Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio joined in, and the aging Reed, in typical stinging sentences, opined that the fact the Roosevelt men wanted the rule killed must mean they are “badly scared.” He interpreted it also as the beginning of the end.