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LINDY’S COMPOSURE CRACKS IN TELLING HOW HE KNEW TINY BROKEN BODY OF SON Recounts Heart-Breaking Failure of Trips to Sea, Wild Auto Dashes, Sleepless Nights of Kidnap Hunt. CURTIS GLUES EYES ON LONE EAGLE Flier Asserts Boatbuilder, Charged With Obstructing Justice, Admitted His Description of Gang False. By I. nilrrl Press FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 28.—High drama was enacted in the county courtroom of Hunterdon county today, is a suave prosecutor drew from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh the heart-breaking details of the kidnaping and murder of his infant son. Testifying against John Hughes Curtis, who is charged with obstructing .justice, the famous aviator maintained superb poise in the face of a detailed recounting of a tragedy that would have broken a weaker man. Only once was there the slightest sign of emotion. He had told of fruitless days of following Curtis’ allegedly false leads.

“On the evening of May 12 I was informed of.the finding of the body,” Lindbergh said. He told of rushing to his Hopewell home. “Did you see the body of your son?” Prosecutor Anthony Hauck asked. / ‘ I did." The courtroom became tense. Hauck's questions, in contrast to absolute silence, seemed explosive. • Where did you see the body of your son?" "In the morgue at Trenton." "Did you see the doctor that performed the post mortem?" "I did." His Poise Weakens Here, for the first time, Lindbergh’s poise weakened. He shifted nervously in his chair. "Did you identify the body of your son?" • Yes.” "By what means?” "By some of the clothes and the teeth." Lindbergh moistened his lips. His bedy became rigid. He stared straight ahead. It lasted but a few seconds and soon he was the cool and calm Lindbergh again. He had detailed his activities with Curtis —expedition after expedition —tales-of telephonic conversations with the kidnapers, radio messages, details of the actual crime in which Curtis told him a member of his own household (first. Curtis said it was a man, then later, a girl) had instigated the crime. He told how his confidence in Curtis had grown until, finally, it was dissolved by the finding of the body. “Repudiated Everything" Lindbergh was led into a resume of Curtis’ final statement, confessing that all of his stories had been false. "In general. Mr. Curtis practically repudiated everything that he hau told me in the past. I can’t begin to tell you everything that he said. It was about 15 or 20 pages long. "In fact almost all the important information he had given us, he denied was true.” Lloyd Fisher of defense counsel revealed marked deference to Colonel Lindbergh. While the prosecutor was bringing out the tragic details of identifying the body, the defense repeatedly objected, offering to concede anything “to spare Colonel Lindbergh." In parts of his testimony, Lindbergh revealed the intensity of his purpose during the weary weeks he sought some trace of his baby. He clutched at anything and everything; he listened to anyone who claimed the power to aid him. Slept But Little ■ He slept little; he drove himself furiously through adventure that' would have been, had Curtis’ stories been accurate, filled with personal danger. On one of his sea trips, the one off Block Island, he told of taking a machine gun lent by the state police. Time after time. Lindbergh seemed to be stretching a point to be more than fair in his testimony. When Hauck asked a question that obviously was intended to be particularly damaging, Lindbergh hesitated before answering. At one poinf Hauck asked: "Did Curtis express any sympathy to you for what he had done?” Lindbergh thought for at least thirty seconds before he said; "He did in his statements." Fisher attempted to get into the record that when Curtis confessed the hoax, he was a guest in Lindbergh’s Hopewell home, but Lind-’ bergh denied that his status was that of a guest. "Wa6 he under arrest?" "He was there to help on the case and I believed him to be there voluntarily,” Lindbergh replied. Needed at Norfolk Fisher then tried to bring out that Curtis had been kept at the Lindbergh home when the financial condition of his Norkfolk family demanded presence there. Lindbergh. however, confessed himself ignorant of happenings that preceded Curtis’ admission of the hoax. Curtis sat alert and attentive, his eyes on Lindbergh's lips as the colonel made his first public statement of the tragedy that dominated his life for three months. Curtis told Lindbergh the gangsters had been kept informed by "John.” one of the kidnapers Curtis had described and later admitted

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was mythical. Curtis told Lindbergh that "John” wanted to "sell out.” "What do you mean, colonel, by sell out?” Prosecutor Anthony Hauck asked. Without a moment’s hesitation, Lindbergh replied: "I believe I said Monday that ‘John’ favored selling the baby to the highest bidders.” Curtis had held this possibility in front of Lindbergh. The colonel constantly punctuated his testimony with the phrases, "Curtis told me,” and "information Curtis claimed to have had.” Lindbergh described the passage of a week in Norfolk, occupied by daily trips to sea, by constant exploration flights of naval planes—all without once seeing the boat of the kidnapers. "Did you ever sight the fishing boat?" Hauck asked. "I did not.” Lindbergh raised his voice a trifle and emphasized each word to make his statement positive. "Did you ever make contact with the kidnapers?” ."I did not,” Lindbergh repeated in the same emphatic tone.

SIAM'S KING TO RETAIN THRONE Power Will Be Limited; Pledges Constitution. /(;/ Lnited Press BANGKOK, Siam, June 28. King Prajadhipok, retaining his throne with limited powers instead of his former absolute monarchy, issued a proclamation today promising the people a constitution. It was enthusiastically received by the populace. The proclamation recognized the existence of the People's party, which engineered last week’s revolution. It stressed that Siam is the only country in the world changing its form of government without disorder or bloodshed. "For a long time.” the king's proclamation said, "we have desired to institute a constitutional monarchy. We willingly agree to accept the Peoples’ party suggestion that we reign as a constitutional monarch.” STUDENT INVESTIGATOR OUSTED BY KENTUCKY Came to Study Labor Conditions, Escorted Out of State. By United Press CUMBERLAND GAP. Tenn., June 28,—Aron Gilmartin, 22-year-old divinity student of Chicago, was here today, escorted from Kentucky where he had gone to investigate labor conditions. F. E. Keller, University W Chicago graduate student, and Ina White, church worker, who had accompanied him to Kentucky, were expected to join him. Gilmartin disappeared after getting into a car with Constable Dillard Middleton at Everts. Ky. He said on his arrival here that he had not been harmed, but had been told to leave Kentucky. MERGER ‘THE BERRIES’ Kansas City Man Crosses Two Brands; Get Both in One Dish. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., June All in one serving, Harry J. Lay can dish up strawberries and raspberries to his guests. He crossed the two, and is calling the product raspber-ry-strawberries. They look more like strawberries, but the raspberry flavor predominates. CO-OPERATE IN TUMBLE Twin Babies. Fall. From Window Together; Neither Hurt. Hii United Press NEW YORK. June 28 —Helen and Catherine Gray. 21 months old each, and twins, have co-operated since birth. Monday they tumbled together out of a second-floor window and landed sitting up in a grassy plot, unhurt. "lih a miracle," their mother said.

Demand Growing for Blunt Repeal Plank at Democrat Parley

Still Joking By United Press CHICAGO. June 28.—A1 Smith and Mayor Walker of New York, siting together with the New York delegation, became bored and left when Senator Albert Barkley of Kentucky got going with the keynot spech. "Pay my respect to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson,” wise-cracked Walker to John F. Curry, Tammany leader, as he left.

AIMEE’S MATE WANTS TO TELL ‘ALL’ TO JURY Pretty Nurse Has Only One More Witness to Put on Stand. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Attorneys for David L. Hutton were prepared to launch the corpulent choirister's defense today to the $200,000 breach of promise suit of Myrtle Hazel Joan St. Pierre, comely therapeutic nurse. Only one witness remained to testify in Mrs. St. Pierre's suit to compel the baritone husband of Aimee Semple McPherson to make adequate, restitution for her broken heart. Though Hutton has announced he would "get up there and tell the world what this is all about,” it was undecided if the adipose crooner would take the stand in his own defense. ‘What-a-Man’ Is Sad By United, Press LOS ANGELES. June 29.—Guy Edward < What-a'-Man) Hudson, looked a trifle sad today, but he was not downhearted. Hudson, who married Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, after a rapid-fire romance last summer, successfully had survived an inquisition into his financial status by Nod I. Mulville, municipal court referee. In a long session of Q. and A.” Hudson admitted the following: He hasn’t earned a dime since November, 1931. He hasn’t a car. He hasn’t a home of his owit. He hasn’t any money in the bank. But how does he lives? "Well, Mrs. Hudson loans me some money occasionally,” he said coyly. Hudson was in court to explain why he had not paid a judgment for $lB7 won by Bess Bordeaux and one for sß* won by F. L. Iverson some time ago. Judgment Against Aimee By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 28.—Judgment for SIO,OOO against Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, was awarded to Harvey H. Gates, scenario writer, in a decision filed in Superior Judge Arthur Crum’s court today. Gates charged Mrs. Hutton and J. Roy Stewart, film director, hired him to write a scenario, “Clay in the Potter’s Hands,” in which the evanegltst was to have appeared, but that the picture was abandoned after he wrote the script. The verdict, returned by a jury Monday night after a two-day trial, was directed against Mrs. Hutton and Stewart.

ASKS BELIEF STORES Evans’ Bill Provides for ‘Poor’ Commissaries. A bill providing for creation of county commissaries for administration of poor relief, is the latest added to the larder set up for the special session by Representative H. H. Evans (Rep.) Newcastle. He brought the bill to the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie today, where he already has presented one for classificiation of property for taxation. His plan will permit wholesale buying of foods and their distribution without labor payments under a “made work” arrangement, Evans said. callThighway session Commission to Hold Meeting at East Chicago Thursday. Another out-of-town meeting is scheduled for the state highway commission Thursday, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown. Last week the commission met at West Baden. The Thursday meeting will be held at East Chicago upon invitation of Commissioner Arthur P. Melton of Gary. Brown said. Routine business will be transacted and Calumet district roads inspected. The routine may include signing of contracts for some $200,000 worth of rock asphalt for construction use by the maintenance division of the department. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 64 10 a. m 72 7a. m 65 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 68 12 moon).. 73 9a. m JO Ip. m 75

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Outright Model Platform Is Laid Before Delegates by Smith Wets, Led by Senator Walsh. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Writer CHICAGO, June 28.—Democratic opinion today surged stronger against prohibition. The party may pledge outright repeal of the eighteenth amendment in its platform. There also is an increasing demand for a party declaration for immediate modification of the Volstead a£t, pending repeal. The wave of sentiment for outright repeal started gaining strength Sunday, swept through many state caucuses Monday, and broke over the firs tsession of the convention Monday afternoon in the spontaneous anti-prohibition demonstration. The showdown on the prohibition plank is expected tonight when the full platform committee meets to hear the report of the subcommittee, scheduled for an all-day session. The repealists, led by Senator David J. Walsh (Mass.), ardent Smith men, want one simple forthright sentence to lead the prohibition plank. That sentence is: “We favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” Bulkley Is Optimistic Walsh, who also is advocating modification of the Volstead act, himself was surprised, he said, at the strength of the forces of repeal, and predicted the full platform committee would adopt a repeal plank. Senator Robert J. Bulkley (O.) is also very optimistic. “The situation for a repeal plank is fine,” he said. Following the anti-prohibition demonstration on the convention floor, Walsh called a meeting cf repealists cf eleven states. Repeal, immediate modification of the Volstead act, and ultimate return to the states of complete control over the liquor traffic was agreed upon at the program. The text of the plank agreed upon was announced as follows: “We favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. "We demand that the congress immediately propose such repeal to truly representative conventions in the states called to act solely on that proposal. Ready for Floor Fight "We urge that the Democratic party co-operate in the enactment of such measures by the several states as will actually promote temperance, effectively prevent the return of the saloon and bring the liquor traffic into the open under complete supervison and control by the states.” He said the delegates from Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Vermont, Canal Zone and Alaska, Colorado and lowa are ready to support advocacy of repeal. He has not, however, polled these delegations. The senator believes he will be 1 successful, but if he fails in com- j mittee, he is ready to take the repeal fight to the convention floor, through a minority report from the platform committee of which he is a member. He would be joined by Bulkley and Peter Gerry (R. I.). National Chairman John J. Raskob and Keynoter Alben Barkley advocated what repealists called washy-washy prohibition planks, somewhat akin to the Republican straddle, since both retained certain regulatory powers in the federal government.

Platform Practically Completed Barkley’s declaration for mere submission of repeal, or a “re-ex-pression’’ on prohibition, was considered the plank advocated by Roosevelt forces here. Outside of farm relief and prohibition the platform, however, has been practically completed, according to Senator Carter Glass, who steadfastly refuses to talk about its details. He branded as incorrect various published reports which purported to be the detailed drafts of the various planks. The ger°ral platform situation, however, ds the belief that: It will oppose debt cancellation. Condemn the federal farm board by name. Propose immediate and ldng time remedies for the distress of farmers and the unemployed. Advocate adherence to the world court. Will not advocate Russian recognition. LINER CRASHES at dock Huge Ship Rips Into Shanghai Wharf; Rips Hole in Bow. By United Press SHANGHAI. June 28. The President Jefferson of the Dollar steamship lines crashed into the line’s wharf here today while attempting to berth without a pilot. The huge passenger liner penetrated the wharf thirty feet, stoving a hole in her bow above the water line. No one was reported injured. Gary Teacher Is Drowned GARY. Ind., June 28.—Edward B. Carlisle, 45. Froebel high school teacher, drowned while Ashing in Lake Eliza, near Valparaiso, Monday night His body was recovered by companions. He is survived by the widow and one sotsc 4

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COUP BY GARNER MAKES HIM CZAR Speaker Wins Control of Congress and ‘Dictates’ to Senate in Attempt to Rule Relief Legislation.

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 28.—A coup giving him control of both houses of congress and power to dictate legislation in the remaining days of the session has been undertaken here by Speaker John N. Garner, while other Democratic candidates for the presidency have their attention centered in Chicago. By refusing to name conferees to reconsider the economy bill, as the senate requested, Speaker Garner has obtained the whip hand in the struggle over reducing federal personnel and pay rolls. He has at the same time assumed control of house conferees on relief legislation, and personally is attending all sessions on this subject, though he is not himself a conferee. Garner spent nearly all day Monday in senate committee rooms and on the senate floor. Toward the close of the day his presence there was commented on by Senator Porter H. Dale (Rep., Vt.), who called attention to “threats” made to the senate regarding the late of economy legislation. The senate will decide today whether it shall back down entirely

TWO HURT IN CRASH Mother, Son Suffer Grave Injuries in Collision. A 65-year-old mother and her son, 26, are in grave condition at city hospital with injuries received today in a spectacular automobile collision at Arlington avenue and the Brookville road. The seriously injured are Mrs. Mary Munger and Paul Munger, 115 West Fourth avenue, Beech Grove. Slight injuries were incurred by Mrs. Mary Hendrix, 40, of 528 Berkley road, driver of an automobile in which the mother and son were passengers. Richard Trippett, 34. of 523 Race street, Cincinnati, driver of the other car was unhurt. 3oth cars were wrecked. Witnesses told police that Trippett was driving between 85 and 90 miles an hour when his car struck the Hendrix machine on the side. Mrs. Munger and son were hurled through the top of the car, which remained on its wheels, although hurled into a yard. Police who made measurements said Trippett’s machine skidded 336 feet as he applied brakes in an effort to avoid the crash, and traveled 216 feet after striking the other automobile. He is held on charges of reckless driving and assault and battery. STARS START TOUR FAD When Ben and Bebe Seek Passports, Four Others Apply. Bu United Press HOLLYWOOD. June 28.—When Ben Lyon and his wife, Bebe Daniels, applied for a passport, announcing they would vacation in Europe, they started something. Monday, Rod La Rocque and his wife, Vilma Banky, added their names to the list of Hollywood notables who plan the voyage across the Atlantic. Raymond Griffith, star of the silent picture days, and Bertha Mann Griffith also joined the movement and sought passports. 2-POYncTbABY TO LIVE Tiny Child, Week Old Today, Has Excellent Chance, Say Doctors. By United Press CHICAGO, June 28.—Marie Mason was one week old today, and, though she weighed but 2 pounds 15 ounces, physicians said the child had an excellent chance to live. A twin sister who weighed slightly less died three days after birth.

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from its desire for certain changes in the economy bill, or will accept Garner’s verdict that it shall be passed as original conferees reported it. The debate promises to be heated. Last Friday when the conference report was called up for approval in the senate, such a storm of objection broke that the senate without a record vote agreed to ask for anew conference. The bill was returned to the house with a request that new conferees be appointed. Garner held the bill on his desk without submitting this action to the house, and let it be known that he would name no one but the original conferees, two of whom are in Chicago and will not return until the end of the week. Without warning, Senator Wesley L. Jones (Rep., Wash.) then moved in the senate that return of the papers be requested. Refusing to explain the import of his motion and objecting to attempts of others to speak on it, Jones forced a vote and won, 29 to 16. Garner sat in the senate chamber while this was going on. Later Jones said he will ask the senate to reconsider its rejection of the conference report today, while senators bitterly opposed to provisions of the economy bill served notice they will debate it at length. They are under severe handicap because of the absence of twenty-five or more Democratic senators. Conferees on the Wagner relief bill agreed this morning to apportion $200,000,000 of the proposed $300,000,000 relief fund to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for distribution in all states according to population. The other $10,000,000 will be distributed “without restrictions” by the President.

PERRY TO RING POST Owner of Indians Will Be Named Commissioner. Norman A. Perry, owner and president of the Indianapolis baseball club, will be the new member of the state athletic commission controlling professional boxing and wrestling, it was learned today at the statehouse. Governor Harry G. Leslie said Perry would be named to the board just as soon as the resignation of Charles F. Artes, Evansville, was received. Aries informed Andrew C. Weisburg, commission chairman, that he had wired his resignation to the Governor, according to James I. Veach, commission secretary. Lee F. Bays of Sullivan is the third member of the commission. Weisburg resides in South Bend and was reappointed chairman.

VAULT IS LEFT OPEN, CASH IN PLAIN VIEW None Stolen; Men See Money When Passing Bank; Call Police. Thousands of dollars lay in plain sight several hours Monday without even an attempt to steal It. Through an oversight, the vault of a branch of Union Trust Company at Kentucky avenue and Morris street was left open at closing time. It was nearly midnight before the oversight was discovered. Herman Waller, 20, and Frank Waller, 24. both of 1341 Nordyke avenue, walking past the bank, noticed that no lights were on and through a plate glass window, saw money in full view in the vault. They notified police. Ten officers guarded the bank until the arrival of the manager, James Goodlet. 4334 Broa' way, who closed the vault door. *■

Substitute Plan to Have Majority Nominate After Sixth Ballot Is Withdrawn Before Opening of Second Day’s Session. SHOUSE, WALSH ROW IS UP NEXT New York Governor’s Machine in Confusion After Sudden End to Attempt to Shift Procedure of Vote on Candidates. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 28.—Roosevelt forces surrendered 100 per cent today in their fight to break the two-thirds rule. Just one hour before the Democratic national convention met for its second session today, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's manager, James A. Farley, announced that no man who could not get two-thirds of the convention should be nominated. Shortly thereafter J. Bruce Kremer, the pro-Roosevelt chairman of the rules committee, announced his committee would withdraw its report favoring a plan whereby the convention could have a majority nominate after the sixth ballot. He called his committee to meet on the convention floor and reconsidered its report. The committee then adopted a revised report to place the convention under the rules of the 1928 convention.

This means that the rule requiring two-thirds vote to nominate a presidential candidate will govern the convention.

The rules committee session to consider the rules was brief. The report also provides that the platform be adopted before candidates are nominated —a reversal of the plan originally drawn by the Roosevelt forces. These developments left the Roosevelt forces badly confused, and knocked out one of the major battles scheduled for today’s session. The big issue remaining to be decided today was the contest between Jouett Shouse and Senator Thomas Walsh for the permanent chairmanship. Ritchie, Baker Talk Grows On paper, the victory seemed most likely to rest upon Walsh with the support of the Franklin D. Roosevelt forces. Shouse, favorite of the antiRoosevelt men, however, was not giving up, and the situation was tense as time for voting approached. The confusion in the Roosevelt ranks gave rise to more talk of growing Ritchie strength and the shadow of Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, as a possible final choice for the presidential nomination, became larger over the convention gathering. Under the rules, nominating speeches will be limited to twenty minutes and seconding speeches to minutes. Delegates on the floor will be limited to thirty-minute speeches. The convention switched its programed order of business and took up the report of the credentials committee first. This action brought to the floorthe spirited contests to unseat the Huey Long delegation from Louisiana and the Hoidal delegation from Minnesota. White Demonstration Fails Governor George White of Ohio was discovered sitting in the Ohio delegation. White is a favorite son candidate for President. He is also a former chairman of the Democratic national committee, and as such is entitled to sit on the platform.

Temporary Chairman Barkley, advised of White’s presence, invited him to take a seat on the platform. He was cheered brieAy when he appeared. The Ohio delegation attempted a demonstration, but after a few brief cheers the applause subsided. A resolution of regret at the death of Frank C. Niles of Kansas City, a Missouri delegate, was adopted on the motion of Judge W. T. Raglan of Jefferson City. Governor Ritchie of Maryland received an ovation when the organ played “My Maryand,” before the convention opened. A1 Smith Is Cheered Ritchie stod on a chair and waved his hat to the cheering throng. A Maryland delegate jerked the state standard from its base, and waved it high above the crowd. The Ritchie cheering was cut short, however, when the organist played no favorites and swept into the “Sidewalks of New York.” The cheering was transferred to Smith, who sat smiling a few seats away from Ritchie. Alfred E. Smith expected to take the Aoor to battle for Jouett Shouse in the chairmanship battle. Peacemakers tried to the last to head off the Shouse-Walsh Aght. “I don't quit,” Shouse declared as he started for the stadium as delegates assembled for the fray. New York for Shouse Smith won a partial victory in the New York delegation caucus which voted 67 to 26Vi r:ainst the Roosevelt choice for the permanent chairmanship of the convention. However, despite this adverse j showing, there were persistent re-j ports Tammany was preparing to

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climb aboard the Roosevelt bandwagon within the next twenty-four hours. These reports alleged that John F. Curry, Tammany leader, had come to the conclusion that while he was not enthusiastic about Roosevelt, there was no other course open except to support him. It was represented that while he personally favored Ritchie or Baker he had felt that he could not support an outside candidate when New York had two in the field. His hostility to Smith is deep and he was elevated to the leadership of Tammany over Smith's opposition. The candidacy of Melvin A. Traylor of Illinois emerged into the open today with the announcement that he is to be placed in nomination by Michael Igoe, retiring Democratic national committeeman for Illinois, and regarded as friendly to Roosevelt. Reports were current that discussions were afoot to swing Illinois in behind Roosevelt after a few ballots, with the prospect that Traylor might be made the vice-presi-dential candidate. Traylor, however, has denied emphatically that he is interested in the vice-presi-dency. The Shouse fight serves as the vehicle for what amounts to an attack on the personal integrity of Roosevelt who, it is aleged, consented to a deal whereby Shouse was to be given the permanent chairmanship if Roosevelt waa allowed to name his own man for convention keynoter. Now Smith and his allies openly are charging Roosevelt with "double crossing" Shouse. They have issued a flood of statements here for the last week reiterating the charge. The roll-call on this fight is regarded as the first convention test of Roosevelt strength. However, Roosevelt expected to lose some delegates on this test who are counted upon to vote for him on the nominating ballot.

SENATOR CONNALLY TO NOMINATE GARNER Texan Is Named to Place Speaker’s Candidacy Before Parley. By United Press CHICAGO, June 28. United States Senator Thomas Connally (Texas) was named at a meeting of California and Texas Democratic delegates today, to place the name of John Nance Gamer in nomination for the presidential nomination. The meeting named William Gibs McAdoo (Cal.) national committeeman and former secretary of the treasury, to second Gamer’s nomination. Both delegations are instructed for Garner.

FARM BOARD PROBE BY SENATE TO OPEN Investigating Committee to Start as Soon as Session Ends. By Scripps-Hotcard Ketcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, June 28.—After eight months of agitation, a senate investigation of the federal farm board is about to materialize. Statements in the senate by Senators Elmer Thomas (Rep., Ida.) and Lynn J. Frazier (Rep., N. D.), to the effect that Chairman Charles McNary of the senate agriculture committee would start the inquiry as soon as the session ends, were con Armed by McNary today. McNary said no details have been worked out and no program is yet adopted in the investigation, but it will be pushed with vigor, he said, although the senate has voted only $25,000 for iU