Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1932 — Page 3

' JUNE 30, 1932

PROHIBITION IS HAILED MAJOR j BALLOT ISSUE Candidates of Two Parties Likely to Win or Lose on Stands. (Continued from Page One) New York, leading candidate lor the presidential nomination. He and his forces in this conven- 1 tion had sought a plank merely \ pledging the party to submission ol the question of repeal. Fearing defeat in the convention, however, some Roosevelt managers, shortly before the final session of the resolutions committee, retreated to a neutral position. The repealists and modifleationIsts, led by A1 Smith and Governor Albert C. Ritchie, won a victory that marked the high spot of the convention thus far. Hull Leads Submission Fight If there was ever any doubt that' the prohibition plank victory was a Roosevelt test, and a Roosevelt defeat, it was removed when Senator Cordell Hull, No. 1 Roosevelt man in Tennessee and the south, led the fight against the majority repeal plank. Twice, even while he simply was reading the minority or “Roosevelt'’ report on prohibition, he met a tremendous chorus of boos and cries of “Sit down!" While the uncompromising antiprohibition plank was accepted enthusiastically bv the convention, politicians, particularly those of the Roosevelt ramp, are concerned deeply about its effect on the November election. Can the party retain the south with this plank? they ask. The convention's opinion undoubtedly was “Yes!" Held Worth Million Votes How greatly will it strengthen Roosevelt, if nominated, in New York and elsewhere in the east, where he is admittedly very weak? Many say it will add a million votes there and elsewhere. Will the important financial phase of the modification piank—that is, the federal revenue that will come from United States taxes on legal beer—help quiet opposition in the south and dry sections of the west? Th consensus is that it will. The prohibition plank wan flung upon the expectant convention late In a day devoted chiefly to entertainment. When the platform committee met, the wet leaders were hopeful. Majority IMank Is Surprise But the announcement that what had been the minority prohibition plank suddenly had become the majority plank by the overwhelming vote of 35 to 17, was greeted with a gasp by the crowd that waited outside the committee door. Roosevelt supporters in the committee room, just after it adjourned, were heard to bemoan the fact that the Governor's managers had suffered a defeat. These Roosevelt men, in the subcommittee and elsewhere, had been demanding —and predicting the mere “submission" plank for days. STOWAWAY CONVICTED, SENT TO FRENCH JAIL Harry Gcrguson Had Posed as Russian Count on Ship, By United Preen LE HAVRE, June 30.—Harry Gerguson will spend the next two months in a French jail as a convicted stowaway, instead of mixing with first-class steamship passengers posing as a Russian grand duke. Gerguson crossed to New York recently on the lie de France and was accepted as a Russian nobleman until ship's officers found he had no ticket or passport. He was locked up as a stowaway, but escaped from Ellis Island, while making the rounds of New York speakeasies with a guard. He was brought here, tried and convicted. KIDNAP SUSPECT SLAIN Chicago Shooting Reveals Secret Roundup of Gang. Bii United Press CHICAGO, June 30.—A secret roundup of a suspected kidnap band was revealed today when officers shot to death Geary (Popeye) Carson. ex-convict, when he resisted arrest. Carson, police said, was one of fifteen men hunted in the undercover investigation of a recent series of kidnapings, robberies and other crimes. FRATERNITY PICKS CITY National Convention of Group Is to Be Held Here in 1933. National convention of Chi Sigma Chi. nonacademic fraternity, will be held in Indianapolis in 1933. according to a telegram received by Henry T. Davis, secretary-manager of the Indianapolis convention and publicity bureau. The message was sent by Edward Bratner. an Indianapolis delegate to this year's convention held in Cleveland. Languages Losing Popularity By l ulled Press WASHINGTON, June 30.—Foreign languages and mathematics are waning in popularity as high school studies, the federal office of education reports after a threeyear survey. Physical education and the practical arts are coming to the fore in their stead.

Explains ‘lt’ By United Press CLEVELAND, June 30.—The large, limpid luminous eves which most “if* girls have, are caused by nearsightedness, scientists announced today at the American optometrists’ convention. The eyes must be wide open to catch as much light as possible, they said. Furthermore, when a girl leans toward you as if in adoration, it is merely because nearsighted persons have a tendency to lean that wav.

We've Just Begun the Fight, ’ Is Cry of Jubilant Women Wets

BY MAXINE DAVIS T'nHed Prm Staff CorrenDondent CHICAGO, June 30.—Women In the vanguard of repeal ranks were delighted wholly with the Democratic platform's repeal plank. Mrs. Pauline Sabin, the movement's Joan of Arc, beamed in an atmosphere that hummed with victory after her three-year battle. “I am very satisfied with the majority plank," she said. “It Incorporates everything that our organization ever has asked for: First, a straight repeal amendment in congress, then submission through conventions, and finally laws to promote temperance, abolish the saloons and to strengthen the Interstate commerce laws to protect the borders of those states which will remain dry. ’’The news from this convention’s session will do more to hearten the people of this country than anything in many a moon.’’ B B B MRS. Sabin, former New York member of the Republican national committee, and prominent in national councils of the G. O. P. sat in her box at the Democratic convention smiling and happy, as she received the congratulations of such prominent Democrats as John J. Raskob.

Text of Democratic Platform

QHICAGO , June 30.—The Democratic party platform as presented Wednesday night by the resolutions committee to the Chicago national convention follows: In this time of unprecedented economic and social distress, the Democratic party declares its conviction that the chief causes of this condition were the disastrous policies pursued by our government since the World war, of economic isolation; fostering the merger of competitive businesses into monopolies, and encouraging the indefensible expansion and contraction of credit for private profit at the expense of the public. Those responsible for these policies have abandoned the ideals on which the war was won, and thrown away the fruits of victory, thus rejecting the greatest opportunity in history to bring peace, prosperity, and happiness to our people and to the world. They have ruined our foreign trade, destroyed the values of our commodities and products, crippled our banking system, robbed millions of our people of their life savings, and thrown millions more out of work, produced widespread poverty and brought the government to a state of financial distress unprecedented in times of peace. The only hope for improving present conidtions, restoring employment, affording permanent relief to the people and bringing the nation back to its former proud position of domestic happiness, and of financial, industrial, agricultural, and commercial leadership in the world, lies in a drastic change in economic and governmental policies. Believing that a party platform is a covenant with the people to be kept faithfully by the party when intrusted with power and that the people are entitled to know in plain words the terms of the contract to which they are asked to subscribe, we hereby declare this to be the platform of the Democratic party.

Economy Is Advocated

The Democratic party solemnly promises by appropriate action to put into effect the principles, policies and reforms herein advocated, and to eradicate the policies, methods and practices herein condemned. We advocate: 1. An immediate and drastic ieduction of governmental expenditures, by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus, and eliminating extravagance, to accomplish a saving of not Jess than 25 per cent in the cost of federal government; and we call upon the Democratic party in the states to make a zealous effort to achieve a proportionate result. 2. Maintenance of the national credit by a federal budget annually balanced on the basis of accurate executive estimates within revenues, raised by a system of taxation levied on the principals of ability to pay. 3. A sound currency to be preserved at all hazards; and an international monetary conference called on the invitation of our government to consider the rehabilitation of silver and related questions. A 4-A competitive tariff for revenue, with a fact-finding tariff commission, free from executive interference; reciprocal tariff agreements with other nations, and an international economic conference designed to restore international trade and facilitate exchange.

Credit Extension Urged

5. Extension of federal credit to the states to provide unemployment relief w’herever the diminishing resources of the states make it impossible for them to provide for the needy; expansion of the federal program of necessary and useful construction affected with a public interest, such as flood control and waterways, including the St. Law-rence-Great Lakes-deep waterways; the spread of employment by a substantial reduction in the hours of labor, the encouragament of the shorter work week by applying that principle in government service; advance planning of public works. 6. Unemployment and old age insurance. • 7. For the restoration of agriculture, the nation’s basic industry, better financing of farm mortgages through reorganized farm bank agencies at low rates of interest, on an amortization plan, giving preference to credits for redemption of farms and homes sold under foreclosure; extension and development of the farm co-operative movement, and effective control of crop surpluses so that our farmers may

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Mrs. Pauline Sabin As head of the women's organization of National Prohibition Reform. she sees, and not without justification, the victory in the Democratic party as a victory for women in their hundred years’ fight for temperance. Nevertheless, she does not think that the wet plank in the platform means the end of effort.

have the full benefit of the domestic market. Enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the farmer to receive for basic farm commodities prices in excess of cost of production. 8. A navy and an army adequate for national denfense, based on a survey of all facts affecting the existing establishments, that the people in time of peace may not be burdened by an expenditure fast approaching a billion dollars annually.

Monopoly Is Opposed

9. Strict and impartial enforcement of the anti-trust laws, to prevent monopoly and unfair trade practices, and revision thereof for the better protection of labor and the small producer and distributor; conservation, development and use of the nation's water-power in the public interest; removal of government from all fields of private enterprise, except where necessary to develop public works and natural resources in the common interest. 10. Protection of the investing public by requiring to be filed with the government and carried in advertisements of all offerings of foreign and domestic stocks and bonds true information as to bonuses, commissions, principal invested and interest of sellers. Regulation to the full extent of federal power of; (a) Holding companies w'hich sell securities in interestate commerce. (b) Rates of utility companies operating across state lines. (c) Exchanges trading in securities and commodities.

Protect Bank Depositors

11. Quicker methods of realizing on assets for the relief of depositors of suspended banks and a more rigid supervision of national banks for the protection of depositors and the prevention of the use of their moneys in speculation, to the detriment of local credits. The severance of affiliated securities companies and the divorce of the investment business from commercial banks, and further restriction of federal reserve banks in permitting the use of federal reserve facilities for speculative purposes. 12. The full measure of justice and generosity for all w r ar veterans who have suffered disability or disease caused by or resulting from actual service in time of war, and for their dependents. 13. A firm foreign policy, including peace with all the world and the settlement of international disputes by arbitration; no interference in the internal affairs of other nations; the sanctity of treaties, and the maintenance of good faith and of good w'ill in financial obligations; adherence to the world court, with the pending reservations; the pact of Paris abolishing war as an instrument of national policy to be made effective by provisions for consultation and conference in case of threatened violation of treaties; international agrement for reduction of armaments; and co-operation with nations of the western hemisphere to maintain the spirit of the Monroe doctrine. “We oppose cancellation of the debts owing to the United States by foreign nations.

Repeal Dry Laws

14. Independence for the Philippines, ultimate statehood for Puerto Rico, the employment of American citizens in the operation of the Panama Canal. 15. Simplification of legal procedure and reorganization of the judicial system, to make the attainment of justice speedy, certain, and at less cost. 16. Continuous publicity of political contributions and expenditures, strengthening of the corrupt practices act. and severe penalties for misappropriation of campaign funds. 17. We favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. To effect such repeal, we demand that the congress immediately propose a constitutional amendment to truly representative conventions in the states called to act solely on that proposal. We urge the enactment of such measures by the several states as actually will promote temperance, effectively prevent the return of the saloon, and bring the liquor traffic into the open, under complete supervision and control by the states We demand that the federal government effectively exercise its power to enable the states effectively to protect themselves against importation of intoxicating liquors in violation of their laws. Pending appeal, we favor immediate modification of the Volstea'. act to legalize the manufacture and

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“We've just begun to fight,” she explained. “We have to work in every state to elect congressmen who will put the amendment through." Mrs. Sabin believes the Democratic plank infinitely more satisfactory than that included in the Republican platform. “Many people can not understand the Republican plank,” she averred. b m n MRS. JEAN SRINGSTEAD WHITTEMORE, committeewoman from Puerto Rico, only woman member of the resolutions committee, talked in favor of the wet majority plank. A slim, pretty woman, in appearance anything but the college professor she is, she wore a pale rose sports frock with a deep rose belt. Her hair, bobbed cleverly, curled around her head. Mrs. Alfred E. Smith sat in her box listening, placid but pleased with Al's speech. She stood eagerly, however, during the ovation. With her was her daughter, Emily Warner, jumping about ecstatically. “Dad’s my only candidate." Emily cried. “How I’d love to campaign for him this year. We'd win. He was just four years ahead of time." Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank of Chicago, another wet leader, was enchanted. “The plank Is fine. It is unequivocal, honest. I'm for it."

sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution, and to provide therefrom a proper and needed revenue.

What Party Condemns

We condemn: 1. The improper and excessuve use of money in political activities. 2. Paid lobbies of special interests to influence members of congress and other public servants by personal contact. 3. Action and utterance of high public officials designed to influence stock exchange prices. 4. The open or covert resistance of administrative officials to every effort made by congressinoal committees to curtail the extravagant expendtiures of the government and to revoke improvident subsidies granted to favored interests. 5. The extravagance of the farm board, its disastrous action which made the government a speculator in farm products, and the unsound policy of restricting agricultural production to the demands of domestic markets. • 6. The usurpation of power by the state department in assuming to pass upon foreign securities offered by international bankers, as a result of which billions of dollars in questionable bonds have been sold to the public upon the implied approval of the federal government. 7. The Hawley-Smoot tariff law, the prohibitive rates of which have resulted in retaliatory action by more than forty countries, created international economic hostilities, destroyed international trade, driven our factories into foreign countries, robbed the American farmer of his foreign markets, and increased his cost of production. ‘To accomplish these purposes and to recover economic liberty, we pledge the nominees of this convention, and the best effort of a great party whose founder announced the doctrine which guides us now in the hour of our country's need—‘Equal rights to all , special privileges to none.' ” MUNCIE LIQUOR CASE ATTORNEY ATTACKED W. A. McClellan Struck on Street by Bootlegger’s Father. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., June 30— Slight injuries were received Wednesday night by William A. McClellar.., attorney. who was chief counsel for Mayor George R. Dale and others in the Muncie liquor conspiracy case, when he was attacked by Luther Flatters, father of Ernest Flatters, one of the convicted defendants. The father is said to have been angered because McClellan failed to arrange bond for the son pending transfer of his case to the United States circuit court of appeals. for review. Ernest Flatters was taken to the federal reformatory at Chillicohe, 0., Tuesday, to begin serving a term of fifteen months. The elder Flatters was arrested by police, but remained in custody only a short time. McClellan refused to file a charge against him. The attack occurred on a street in the downtown section. BUSINESSES INCREASE 292 New Ventures Started in State, 75 in Indianapolis. During June. 292 new businesses were started in Indiana, seventyfive of them in Indianapolis, according to the Business Digest. There wer® sixteen expansions, ninety-two changes of location and forty-seven changes in ownership. Among the new ventures, tire, battery, gasoline and oil stations led with twenty-nine; groceries, fruit, meat and poultry markets were second with twenty-four and restaurants and lunch rooms, third wiih twenty-three.

A ‘Tough’ Job

By United Press EVANSTON, 111., June 30. If Police Chief William O. Freeman is able to tell a respected Evanston citizen from a “Chicago hoodlum” in a bathing suit, he will keep the Chicagoans off Evanston's bathing beaches. He promised this when Alderman A. J. Smith complained ‘•Chicago hoodlums are monopolizing Evanston bathing beaches and even throwing people into the lake.”

GIANT TEXAN IS CHIEF BALLYHOO MAN FOR BREW Chicago Cops Steer Clear as He Booms Out Beer Tocsin in Hotels. By United Press CHICAGO, June 30.—A1l prizes for convulsing the throngs in the stadium lobbies go to a 225-pound Texan about six feet three in his cowboy boots. This particular Texan had anticipated the wet platform somewhat. In a voice that would carry a couple of miles among the coulees of his favorite state, he roared at intervals: “Hold tight, everybody. Let’s go down the line for beer.” The 460 odd policemen in and near the stadium gave him wide berth. Probably they didn’t want to spoil his fun. Some delegates are going broke. Those with bank accounts did a brisk business at hotel offices today cashing checks. Those without bank accounts, or with skimpy ones, ate sandwiches and coffee instead of the four and five-course dinners that were the rule the first three days. Steps on Organ Stops Arm-chair lunchrooms did a land office business and the men and women who carried their own trays wore badges of all the Democratic presidential possibilities. That sudden dissonance that broke from the pipe organ Wednesday has been explained. Organist A1 Melgard was supplying some of his best musical effort when there was a grating discord. A gallerite who hoped to get a better view of A1 Smith, “Alfalfa Bill” Murray and Will Rogers, sat on the organ and put his foot down on some of the stops. The taxi drivers are betting on Ritchie, while the waiters think Baker will win. Why they divide so uniformly according to avocation, no one seems to be able to figure out. “His name sounds good in times like these,” said one cab driver of Ritchie. “Maybe he’ll make us all the way the first part of his name sounds.” Pun Prettty Fair It was a poor pun, but pretty good for a taxi driver. Likely the waiters find a subconscious solace in the thought that a man by the name of Baker should be in the White House. The Communists have organized time after time to march on the convention. As many times they have approached t,o within several blocks of the stadium and then stopped. The area near the stadium is bristling.with policemen. The presidential aspirants whose headquarters are along “candidates’ row” at the Congress hotel finally have got used to sitting in their chairs and having crowds file by and gaze at them as if they were monkeys in the zoo. They go through about the same acts every day. “It’s just like a circus,” exclaimed one disappointed young thing. “When you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.”

CONTEST WON BY CITY LODGE Sahara Blue Devils First in Buffalo Drill. The Sahara Blue Devils drill team won first place in the international drill team class A contests held Wednesday at the international convention of the Mystic Order of the Vailed Knights of the Enchanted Realm of Buffalo, according to a telegram received today by Raymond Murray, president of the Indiana State Grotto Association. Michael Scully is captain of the team, which scored with a grade of 59.3. Second place was one'by the A1 Sirat drill team of Cleveland, with a score of 98.8, Additional honors come to the local lodge when Sahara Grotto drum corps won second place in the international drum corps contest, and the Sahara Grotto band placed third in the international band contest. The Indianapolis party, including the winning teams, will arrive in Indianapolis from the convention at 7:30 Friday morning. AKROF~GOES ING ’ New Commander Takes Ship for All-Day Flight Along Coast. By United Press LAKEHURST, N. J„ June 30. The United States naval dirigible Akron was back in its hangar today, after an all-day training flight along the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Atlantic City. Three naval planes were hooked on to the ship in mid-air and drawn up into her hull during the flight, the first with Commander A. H. Drexel in charge.

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CHANCE TO TELL ALL’ GIVEN HUTTON

Claims He Can Hardly Wait to Take Stand in Girl’s Suit. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 30.—Some time today David L. Hutton ponderously will drape himself on the witness stand to “tell all” as it relates to the charges of Mrs. Myrtle St. Pierre he broke her heart, betrayed and left her. “And I can hardly wait to get on that stand,” said Hutton as he dabbed at his dripping brow, and prepared to depart for the sanitorium where his wife, Aimee Semple McPherson, was awaiting his daily report. The gist of Hutton's testimony, outside of the expected denials that he ever made fervent love to the pretty nurse, who values her affections at $200,000, was unrevealed. Wednesday, George Ayube, a Persian rug man, in one brief hour on the stand, placed Mrs. St. Pierre on two successive laps, figuratively speaking, and was to resume his story today. Mrs. Lillian Benjamin, a one-time neighbor of the complaining witness, declared the willowy nurse entered her son's bedroom on two occasions “and threw herself right on him.” “Ronald swore roundly, ’ she added as an afterthought. And then there was John C. Edwards, who insisted that, Eugene Eben. a musician, lived with Mrs. St. Pierre in Hollywood at one time. And, finally, there was Dr. Paul Marshall of Reno, one-time employer of the nurse, who testified Mrs. St.. Pierre demanded SSO “and right away." “When I refused." Dr. Marshall said, “she yelled, ‘How would you like to have your wife hear about that night?’ So I gave her SSO and later I told her I’d break the neck of any woman who tried to blackmail me.”

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Winifred Freeman Dance recital of pupils of Charles Gwynn and Helen Morton was staged Wednesday at 5436 East Washington street. Winifred Freeman appeared in several specialty numbers. STRIKE AT IRELAND Britain to Demand Action on Land Annuities. By United Press LONDON, June 30.—Reprisals against the Irish Free State for its failure to pay the land annuities due Great Britain were announced in the house of commons today Dy J. H. Thomas, dominions secretary. Thomas said no payment on the annuities due today had been received, and therefore he would introduce in the house on Monday "proposals to deal with the situation.”

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NEW ‘PAYMENT’ PLAN DRAFTED FOR GERMANY ‘Restoration’ Fund System New Goal of Powers at Lausanne. BY STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent LAUSANNE, June 30.—“ Restoration payments" by Germany tow-ard Europe's economic recovery, instead of “reparations payments,” is the new goal ot world statesmen, attempting to prevent failure of the Lausanne conference. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald warned the conference that its work must be completed soon in preparation tor a world economic conference in which the United States would participate. He believed the conference could set up machinery for the economic parley by the first of next week. The United Press was informed officially by the German delegation that Germany had not agreed in principle to resume reparations payments. But a spokesman emphasized that the reich is ready to assist in the economic restoration of Europe. Permier Edouard Herriot indicated that the Germans had agreed to the principle of a lump sum for future payments. German correspondents said a plan was imminent by which the reich would subscribe to a common restoration fund of which the bank for international settlement would be the trustee. The six inviting powers of the conference debated the question of the form of future reparations, if any, until early today, with no decision reached. The German position as outlined by Chancellor Von Papen to Premier Herriot was that future reparations payments w r ere conditional upon revision of the Versailles treaty.