Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1932 — Page 2

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INDIANA DELEGATION WILL TOSS SNAGS ON ROUTE OF : ROOSEVELTS BAND WAGON 0 Two Minority Reports, on Seating of Minnesota and Louisiana Groups, Are Backed by Hoosiers. SUPPORT IS PLEDGED TO SHOUSE Fight Will Be Made on Change in Procedure, to Nominate Before Party Platform Is Adopted. BY BEN STERN CHICAGO, .June 28.—Thirty Indiana delegates seated themselves at the Democratic national convention here this morning, determined to toss four blocks in the path of the Franklin D. Roosevelt band wagon and thus do what they could to halt its progress. Under the skillful manipulation of Frank Mcllale of Logansport, chairman of the delegation, the members decided at a caucus shortly before noon that they would support Judge Clarence McNabb of Fort Wayne, their credentials committee representative, in his approval of two minority reports.

The first protests the seating of Senator Huey Long’s Roosevelt-pledged delegation, which was not selected by state convention, but by a proxy-packed state committee. By voting for the minority report, Indiana Thursday would seek to keep the New York Governor from receiving the vote of that state. Favors Minnesota Group The second minority report favors the seating of the Minnesota delegates selected by me rump convention, whose candidates wera nominated by an overwhelming majority in that state one week ago. The delegates named by the regular convention are all Roosevelt men, those selected by the rump convention are unpledged. ' Third obstacle is casting of thirty votes tor the election of Jouett Shouse as permanent chairman of the convetnion instead of Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana, the Roosevelt choice. Indiana pledge the thirty votes to Shouse Sunday and at that time James Farley, manager for the New York Governor, said he didn't need the Hoosier delegation. But late Monday he had several interviews with R. Earl Peters, state chairman, tn which he pleaded that the delegation be at least split on this issue. And the fourth and last effort to Stop the New York Governor will be attempted when the delegation, mi final caucus, will determine Whether it will oppose the report of the rules committee, which it is announced will seek to have the nominations for the President made before adoptioh of the platform. Oppose Procedure Switch “In the belief of those members pf the delegation who have been consulted, this should be opposed,” McHale said. ; “We will vote to have the nominating speeches first, to expedite matters, but we should not support a rule which also would place the balloting on choices ahead of the adoption of the platform,” he asserted. Peculiarly enough, Robert E. Proctor of Elkhart, Roosevelt manager in Indiana, took the floor in behalf of these efforts to stop his choice. “The future of democracy is involved in these seating contests, and we would set a bad example to the nation if we permitted Huey Long Und others of his type to dominate the situation,” Proctor said. Thomas D. Taggart, national committee member from Indiana, said that these were his opinions, and urged that McNabb be instructed to vote for the minority reports and the entire delegation back him when the question is taken to "the floor. 7 There was spreading through the Hoosier delegates today a feeling that the nomination of Roosevelt would not be best for the state ticket, and attention has been focused upon Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the Wilson administration, who has been keeping himself out of the picture. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis Is firm in his declaration that Baker should be the choice, and his warm advocacy of the former war secretary has swung many to that standard. Two Firm for Roosevelt 1 A chock of the delegation today revealed that there are only two •otandpat Roosevelt men in event that, after the first ballot, it would 15e deemed wise to make a shift. They are William H. O'Brien of Lawrenceburg and Robert E. Proctor of Elkhart, manager for the New York Governor in Indiana. General tendency to believe that Roosevelt's strength is diminishing steadily is sending Hoosier delegates, opposed to a deadlock, to a frame of mind that it might be best to look elsewhere. . Because R. Earl Peters, state chairman, was unable to attend a late Monday night, the .report was spread that there was a rift between him and the McNutt ■group, but they later met secretly, ■together with Frederick Van Nuys, senatorial nominee, and a course of strategy was outlined which would •keep Indiana’s thirty votes untrammcled and unpledged. A copy of the repeal plank adopted by the Democratic state convention a week ago was requested by the national platform committee and was taken to the meeting •by Perry McCart of Paoli, Indiana's member. . He said that he believed this pronouncement would be followed in spirit, if not in working. Hold Three on Rum Charges Three men were arrested Monday in a liquor raid at 944 West Walnut Street, and police reported finding a five-gallon still, fifty gallons of mash and several empty jugs. Those arrested are Gilbert and Aaron Douglas of the West Walnut street address and Jesse Arnold, 928 In<Uana avenue.

ROOSEVELT MEN WIN FOR HUEY But Bitter Battle Looms Over Committee Action. By United Press CHICAGO, June 28.—Roosevelt forces won all contests before the credentials committee of the national Democratic party early today when it recommended seating of the Louisiana delegation headed by Senator Huey Long and the Minnesota group led by Einar Hoidale, Minneapolis. This recommendation was in accord with the temporary action of the national committee, but both contests are expected to be reopened in a bitter fight on the floor of the convention. The committee took action in executive session which some members insisted was "an un-Democratic proceeding.” The vote on seating the Louisiana senator s delegation was 34 to 17. The vote on the Minnesota delegation was 37 to 14.

OPPOSE DRY REPEAL G. 0. P. Club Urges Taxes Attention Only. Opposition to repeal of the Wright "bone dry” law and what remains of the primary election system, at the special legislative session, was voiced at the Irvington Republican Club Monday night by Harold F. Kcaling, president of the club. The special session, called for July 7, should be devoted entirely to the matter of taxation and economy and such controversial subjects as the Wright law and primary repeal should be kept out in order to save time. Kealing contended. James L. Kingsbury of the club took issue with the idea that primary repeal would cut election costs, on the grounds that an election would have to be held for precinct committeemen and party delegates., Principal speaker at the meeting was Pliny H. Wolfard, member of the state tax board. He advanced the idea that a state board should be established with powers to limit local tax rates and establish minimums. A $1.50 township and $2.50 municipal limit was suggested by Wolfard. SEARCH FOR BANDIT GANG JS CONTiNUED Trio Mounded Two Men During Robbery in Pharmacy. Search was continued today by police for three bandits who shot and wounded two men during a north side pharmacy robbery Saturday night and were believed to have staged a second holdup and stabbed a motorist in a traffic argument. Meanwhile, condition of W. B. Cooper, 63, Evansville business man, who was shot through the abdomen in the pharmacy robbery, was said to be improving. Cooper and his Nephew. W. C. Zaring Jr., 2304 College avenue, entered the store at Twenty-fourth street and College avenue," as the robbery was in progress. Cooper struck at one of the bandits and was shot. Zaring was wounded in the foot by the bullet after it passed through Cooper’s body. The bandit trio is believed to have robbed a Douglass park lunch stand owner of S3O Monday, after stabbing John Brown, 26, of 905 Massachusetts avenue, during a traffic argument near Broad Ripple park Sunday night.

‘Chicken Feed’ By United Press WRITE PLAINS. N. Y„ June 28-—The ’.‘little drops of water and little grains of sand” of the doggerel verse have nothing on the little bits of change picked up by a bootblack, who accumulated a $176,500 fortune. The fortune was revealed when Justice Frederick P. Close adjudged Pietro A. lerardi. boss bootblack, an incompetent. The wife, and nephew were named administrators. lerardi came to America forty years ago, and went on the streets of New York city as a bootblack. Later he became master of the shoe shining concession in the Grand Central terminal. And he managed the cash register there until a month ago when he was taken to a sanitarium.

Huey 'Master Mind , ’ Say Ladies; 'Kingfish,'He Grins,'That's Mel'

BY MAXINE DAVIS United Preiu Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 28.—Huey Long is learning about the ladies from the Democrats. The Kingfish set a lot of hearts a-flutter Monday night when he strolled for the first time into the headquarters of the woman’s division of the national committee. His rusty, red hair straggled down, his ice-cream suit wasn't quite in press, still he was bright and merry, and looking for company. “Don’t you girls want to have some meat with me?” Silence. “Well, some ham and eggs?” More of the same! So Huey, still hungry, swung himself up on the desk and proceeded to clarify a few details. Stella Hamlin, the attractive woman he named committeewoman four years ago, and whom he has deposed here, passed the door, cool outwardly in powder blue. an tt "TTOW did you feel about all Xi those women voting against you in your contest?” he was asked. "That Stella there cost me those votes, about eight of them," he said. “She went around saying I wouldn’t come before the subcommittee because it had too many skirts. It's a lie. And,” he added right there, “when I get back I'm going to settle a few things with her.” *

DELEGATES FAVOR OUTRIGHT REPEAL

Definite Majority Now in Ranks of Dripping Wet Forces. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Tress Staff Correspondent. (Coovricht. 1932. bv United Press) CHICAGO, June 28.—There is a definite majority in the Democratic convention in favor of committing the party* to outright repeal of the prohibition amendment, according to figures compiled by the United Press today. Many, if not all, of the delegations favoring the party pledging itself to repeal, also favor immediate revision of the volstead act to permit the sale of low alcoholic-content beverages. The dry states, including even such strongholds of the prohibitionists as Carolinas, are willing to "go along” on the prohibition question. They will support the ticket, numerous responsible members of the dry delegations agree. A compilation of the standing of the delegations on the question of repeal, or resubmission without pledging the party to repeal, show these results: For repeal, 580; for submission, 142; for continued prohibition, ls 2; in doubt, '2!)0; total, ' ' The prohibitionists undoubtedly would support a submission proposal as against one committing the party to work for repeal. This would give 324 votes for submission without recommendation against 580 for an outright repeal plank. These figures can not be exact, as a number of delegations are not bound by the unit rule on such questions. The result probably would be a number of “split” delegations, but indications are that the final result would be altered but little. Advocates of repeal, after a caucus Monday night, claimed Colorado, Maine, Vermont. Alaska and lowa for a total of 62 additional votes, not credited in the United Press tabulation.

SHIRLEY K. HATFIELD, ILL SIX YEARS, DIES Funeral Services Are Scheduled for Wednesday at 2. Shirley Kenneth Hatfield. 41. of 1615 Sharon avenue, died today at Central hospital after an illness of six years. He was born Feb. 14, 1891. a son of Elijah and Josephine Hatfield. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Josephine Hatfield: two children, Carl and Betty Jane; his father, living at Evansville; three sisters, Mrs. Bertie Bohanno. Indianapolis; Mrs. Susie Carrollton, Evansville, and Mrs. Weanah Roberts, Cleveland, 0.. and a brother, Allen Hatfield, Richland. Ind. Funeral services will be held at 2 Wednesday afternoon at Shirley Bros.’ west side funeral home, 2002 West Michigan street. Burial will be in Crown Hill.

PENNSYLVANIA TO RAISE $60,000,000 FOR NEEDY Legislature Debates Means of Getting; Funds to Relieve 1,115,000. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., June 28. The Pennsylvania legislature today debated means of raising immediately $50,000,000 which Governor Gifford Pinchot told them was necessary for state unemployment relief annually during depression. Pinchot estimated the number of totally unemployed and their dependents at 1,115,000 and declared the least the state could safely spend for their relief was “11 cents a day apiece.” PICK COLLEGIAN STAFF Five Editors in Charge of Special Summer Term Edition. Special summer term edition of the Collegian, Butler university student publication, has five editors, all majoring in the department of journalism. They are Norman Hanna, managing editor; Josephine McElhany, assistant managing editor; Agnes Postma, society editor, all of Indianapolis; Allan Cotton, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, city editor, and Lowell Parker, Ft. Wayne, news editor. The Collegian is published each Friday Reporters for the paper are in journalism. Professor Norman Buchan is faculty sponsor.

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Senator Huey Long of Louisiana . . . famous for receiving visiting dignitaries in his pajamas—says he'll swing his state to Roosevelt. The Kingfish beamed, like a boy who had just broke a window hitting a home run. “Women are no judge of looks —they’ye passed me up all my life!” he accused. On his way out he paused to look at a lost glove hanging to the bulletin board. “No woman’ll claim that,” he opined. “She’ll have to admit she had dirty hands.”

'Hip, Hip —' By United Press ANN ARBOR. Mich., June 28.—The Chicago party conventions are nothing more than gigantic pep meetings, in the opinion of Dr. Preston W. Slosson, professor of history at the University of Michigan. In the first of a series of summer lectures, Dr. Slosson said the conventions are far too open a system of pretense to be termed hypocritical. “They’re just a kind of ritual, American style,” he said.

INDORSE ECONOMY BILLS Congress’ Measures Approved by Indianapolis Board of Trade. Indianapolis Board of Trade has indorsed the senate and house cooperative committee economy bills for passage at the special session of the legislature July 7. Resolutions indorsing the measures and praising Governor Harry G. Leslie for calling the session were adopted at a special legislative meeting of the board Monday night.

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IMMEDIATELY afterward two of the senator's feminine appointees entered. One was the committee woman who will displace Miss Hamlin, Mrs. Emile Bienvenue. and the only woman delegate from Louisiana, Mrs. Edward Pilsbury. Both are buxom, and were wearing identical gowns of pink chiffon, with white kid shoe. - Mrs. Pilsbury, who thinks Huey is "the master mind of America,” is factory inspector in New Orleans. She is president of the Woman’s Choctaw Club, the old regular Democratic organization, a close relative of the Tammany wigwam. She fought against Long in his fight for senator, and then moved into his camp immediately afterward. n n SHE is a woman of ability, a leading clubwoman, active as president of the Louisiana Federation of Women’s Clubs and the League of Women Voters. She has made important reforms in child and women's labor laws, and was appointed by President Hoover as a member of his White House conference on child welfare. "He's done more 'for our state than any four Governors put together,” she stated proudly of Long, “and when I told him what I thought of him, he answered me: “ ‘You can describe me with one word: Kingfish’.”

LID’S OFF! IT'S A GAY PARLEY Democrats Parade Everywhere in Chicago. By United Press CHICAGO, 111., June 28.—The lid was off for the first time in the 1932 convention season Monday night, Democrats paraded the streets, hotels, restaurants, everywhere. Governor Roosevelt’s gestire toward relaxing the two-thirds rule fight gave the favorite son candidates anew lease on life. Massachusetts staged a raucous parade from one hotel to another in behalf of Smith. The Byrd forces, on the other hand, were surely blue bloods. The Richmond blues were the most conspicuous representation on display. Tall, handsome, southern gentlemen in their blue and white uniforms, they easily could be pictured as the sons and grandsons of men who rode with Jubal Early, gate crasher, got through the outer door of the convention hall, but the guard on the inside stopped him and out he Went.

‘WHAT A DAY’ IS ONE NIGHT AT CONVENTION 24-Hour Clock Runs Show for Everybody at Chicago, It Seems. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent > CONGRESS HOTEL. CHICAGO. June 28.—As they used to say in gold rush days in Leadville, Col., “It’s a day all day and it’s day all night.” at the Democratic national convention. A free-for-all battle to make progress through the corridors of the Congress in the wee hours today proved this convention is timed by a twenty-four-hour clock. Curiosity seekers, anxious to see what A1 Smith, Governor Ritchie and Alfalfa Bill Murray look like, added to the throng. Jennie and Flora furnished comic relief. Both were very happy, for reasons not hard to determine in these pro-repeal days. Jennie, a flashing brunet in a pastel green evening gown, and Flora, not quite so dark of hair and eye. but with long brown curls and wearing pink, took up their stand alongside the entrance to the A1 Smith headquarters. Jennie and Flora put on an impromptu show, including song bits and attempts to do ballet steps. “Hell, boy friend,” called Jennie, throwing her arms around the neck of a staid and eldery delegate from Tennessee. “I’ll vote for you for anything you want to be.” The flustered Tennesseean escaped as the crowd roared its glee. “Let’s break all the rules in the rules committee,” tittered Flora. No one seemed to mind the hilarity, not even the most reserved woman delegates.

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By I nitt <1 Press CHICAGO. June 28.—Illinois today became one of the pivotal states in the selection of the Democratic presidential and vice-presi-dential candidates. Mayor Anton Ccrmak. titular head of the state party, claimed control of fifty of the state’s fifty-eight votes, and announced he would support Melvin Traylor, Chicago, and Bruce Campbell, East St. Louis. for President and VicePresident.. respectively. Cermak refused to say where the delegation support will go if it fails to gain the nomination for the two Illinoisans. At the same time he did not criticise any other candidate, thus apparently leaving the way clear for Illinois to ascend to any “band wagon.'* Buy from Times advertisers . . . it may win a hundred dollars for you.

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ROOSEVELT ACT AIDS CAUSE OF ‘FAVORITEMNS’ Chances Improve: Baker and Ritchie Strength Is Gaining. BY THOMAS L. STOKES I nitcd Pres* Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. June 27.—The Democratic convention today reached that point where the quadrennial line of “favorite sons” each can see himself, for a brief moment, descending the grand staircase at the White House to the satisfying blare of “hail to the chief." The definite “break” caused by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's surrender on the two-thirds fight, which immediately was pounced upon by his enemies here, has inspired hope among the others that he may be stopped, and a deadlock result. Then any one of several may get the call. The handsome Governor of Maryland, undoubtedly the ladies’ choice, is the talk today. Governor Albert C. Ritchie has lots of friends among the delegates. Perhaps with more solid strength is a man who didn’t even come to the convention—Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, and leading symbol today of the Wilsonian strain in American politics. Avoid Embarrassment of FALSE TEETH Dropping cr Slipping Don't bo embarrassed acain by having- your fn!e teeth slip or drop when you eat, talk, laugh or sneeze, .lust sprinkle a little Fasteeth on your plates. This new. extremely fine powder gives a wonderful sense of comfort and security. No gummy, gooey taste or feeling. Get Fasteeth today at Hook’s or any other drug store.— Advertisement.