The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1932, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XL., NO. 6067. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1932. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PROHIBITION REPEAL DEMANDED IN KEYNOTE SPEECH DEMOCTA FIRST SESSION OF DEMOCRATS PEACEFUL ONE Temporary Siate Goes Through Quickly and | with Precision CXPECTED BIG FIGHT IS ORDERED STOPPED Abrogation of Two-Thirds| Rule Ends — Raskob, | Others Make Speeches 1{ CHICAGO, IIL, June 27.—‘! With cheering and various || other kinds of demonstra- ¥ tions as orators lambasted | the Republicans and also ask- || ¢d for repeal of Prohibition, | the Democratic National Con- | vention got under way today. | The session was peaceful | enough, more so after wordf~ was received from Gov.! Franklin D. Roosevelt, from | Albany, ordering to cease ef- forts for abrogation of the two-thirds rule. | Prohibition remained with] a few other planks to bel threshed out. ; Roosevelt managers tOOkl temporary control of every!/ convention agency. | In the meantime, John J. Roosevelt and His Campaign Manager lin D. Roosevelt (above) for the Democratic nomination as Pres- ident has been managed by James A. Farley (below) of New York. Al Smith and Man To Nominate Him Raskob, Chairman of the ! %’ Democratic National Commit- 2 tee, Senator Barkley, keynot- er, and Senator David I |} Walsh, of Massachusetts, and ' # others asked from the floor g and platform for a I’rohibi-‘§ tion change. | Raskob’s espousal was a| surprise speech preceding the | keynote. IE He declared the time had come to do away with the reign of dry laws. } The delegates approved of the temporary slate of officers by ac- clamation and started work on the platform. The Credentials and Rules Com- mittze got busy immediately after adournment. The delegates cheered as the var- ious candidates appeared and then % listened to the reading of Jeffer- | son’s first inaugural address. i Big Demonstration | The first big demonstration of | the convention broke loose when Senator Alben W. Barkley, keynot-‘1 er ged a platform for submis-| sion of the question of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. | Roosevelt supporters are confident he will be nominated without abro- gation of the two-thirds rule. Manager Farley said the Gover- nor's action was taken in the in- terest of harmony. \ ROOSEVELT'S ORDERS ! ALBANY, N. Y, June 27.—Gov.| Franklin D. Roosevelt telegraphed his supporters at the Chicago con-, vention to cease efforts for ebro-| gation of the two-thirds rule indi- cating he is confident of the nom- | ination without resorting to change it headquarters as final. SWING TOWARD ROOSEVELT |cr CHICAGO, Ill, June 27—Just as soon as the parliamentary ma- chinery got to work in the Demo- cratic National Convention there were unquestionable signs of a swing toward Roosevzlt's candidacy putting him within striking dis-| tance of the nomination. There was (Continued on Page Two) v The name of Alfred E. Smith (above) will be placed before the Democratic Convention by Gov. Joseph B. Ely (below) of Massachusetts, an active Smith worker. DEPUTY HELD IN ACCIDENT Moonshine Is Found in| Officer’s Car Follow- ing Crash SEATTLE, June 27. — Deputy This was received at Democratic Sheriff ¥. L. Marr, aged 25 years, is held aftgr his car, containing a |mittee and also made honorary third of a gallon of moonshine, | Vice-President of the Convention. | ashed into a telephone pole. The police said Marr had been Mrs. Betty Bartlett, aged 40, and | Emil F. Olson, aged 27, also in|for Jouett Shouse for Permanent the car, have been charged wnh[chainnan and is lined up against drunkenness. SUPPORTERS OF 'RODSEVELT ARE FIGHTING HARD Withdra-wal of Lewis' Starts Claims Which | Are Refuted ! TAMMANY PARTLY | ANNOUNCES STAND s | “4 Two-Thirds Rule Abroga-| tion Stirs Conflict— | Work on Platform | CHICAGO, I1ll, June 27. — The{ offensive for the Roosevelt stam- | pede at the Democratic National | Convention started at the head-| quarters of the New York Governor | Saturday night as information was | announced that Senator James Hamilton Lewis had withdraw from} th> Presidential race. At that time Tammany wavered | but opposition ranks tightened | |quickly and began fighting des- |perately on the claiming of 25 of {58 Illinois delegates released by | Senator Lewis. | The Roosevelt- managers lifted the |claimed column above 700 votes and Inibbled toward 770 needed to nom- |inate under the old two-thirds rule. Tammany’s Position | Simultaneously word leaked out {that 50 or more votes, which Tam- many says it controls, would very likely go to whatever candidate !come.s within real striking distance [to the nomination goal ’ One Tammany leader said: “Of course we wont stand out against the nomination of the candidate who needs only our votes to win.” #l | The immediate effect of all of (this was to spur new activity. | Two-Thirds Fight The opposition is incensed over [ | the Roosevelt move to set aside the fl 'two-thirds tradition and entirely ladopt a rule permitting the nom- ination by a simple majority. i Not only were the many Roose- ivelt figures disputed, including the 125 claimed from the Illinois dele- i gation, but the circle of rival can- | | didates expressed doubt whether the | | present Roosevelt strength could be theld in line until the nominations | were reached, probably next Thurs- Prohibition Plank Meanwhile the Platform Commit- (Continues on Page TWO) . FROM ALASKA S ASSIGNED i Duty, Troy, Kirk, Koontz Are on Committees CHICAGO, TIl. June 27.—At the| - |Alaska Declegation (Headquarters it was anncunced that Emil Hurja former Alaskan, has been drafted as the Territory's representative on the Rules Committee and also nam- ed as the delegation’s secretary John W. Troy, Publisher of Th2 Daily Alaska Empire, at Juneau.| is a memhber of the Resolutions| Commitiee. . 1 W. B. Kirk, also of Juneau. is the delegation’s chairman and member of the permanent organi-| ation Committee. Admiral R. E. Koontz has placed on the Credentials been ! Com- | | Mrs. W. B. Kirk has been named Honorary Secretary. i The Alaskan delegation decided Sunday night to cast six votes 1abrogation of the two thirds rule A 13-year old boy, in the car, | desnite the fact they will firmly was sent home to his aunt. Sheriff Bannick promised an in-|Franklin D. Roosevelt stigation, support the nomination of Gov. for Presi- dent, ! | |[Emil Hurja Drafted for| | Rasmuson JOMN J. RASKOB. TIC CONVENTION STARTS OFF THOMAS J. WALSH Opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago t oday brings to the party testing grounds the Presidential candidacies of many of its sons. Party leaders figuring prominently in the con vention Committee; Jouett Shouse, Natighal Exceutive Committee Chairman; Alben W. Barkley, Temporary Comvention Chi are John J. Raskob, WHITE PREDICTS HOOVER VICTORY IN FALL DRIVE First Alask_a Delegate to| & Return from G.O.P. Convention With a rampant elephant ing the word ‘“Hoover” across it, on his coat lapel, and exuding con- fidence in the party's national suc- |§ cess, United States Marshal Albert | White, who sat in the Republican [ National Convention in - Chicago as a Delegate from Alaska, re-| turned home Sunday. He is the| first of the Alaska delegation to return. Karl Theile, Secretary of Alaska. who occupied the other Delegate’s seat, is due to arrive tomorrow. 0 Alaskans in attendance were Delegate and Mrs. James Wicker- sham, National Committeeman Ed- ward A. Rasmuson, W, H. Caswell! of Ketchikan, and Bishop J. R. Crimont . Rasmuson Is Seated Mr. Rasmuson was duly seated as | National Committeeman succee Capt. A. E. Lathrop, and Frank 1. Reed, Anchorage, named National Committeewoman. | who held Capt her mi at the convention and not with the delegation from the T Mr. Caswell was an sistant sergeant-at-arms, Wr. White, who acecompanied Mr. to Chicago, going via| San Francisco and Los Angeles, attended the meeting of the Na- tional Committee on Saturday night preceding the convention, and the | dinner at the South Shore Coun- try Club. He was the only non- member guest. Theile Wins Fight Mr. White was a member of Committee on Credentials and Theile represented Alaska on Resolutions Committee. “It due entirely to his efforts that Alaska plank was embodied in the platform,” Mr. White declared. | “The platform makers had not considered any mention of Alaska and only after hard and consist- ent effort was Mr. Theile able to get in the plank that was adopt- ed without opposition by the con- vention. He did all anyone could have done,” Mr. White added. Organization Reccgnized Patronage questions affecting t! Territory in the future, as was the (Continued on Page Two) Senator Lewis Withdraws as Presidential Candidate and Releases Illinois Delegation JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS CHICAGO, 1L, June 27.—Vincent Dahlman, delegate from Tli- nois, last Saturday night, said he had a message from United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, instructing uncondil onal release of the Tlinois delegation from pledges to support him for the Presidential nomination. Dahlman said his message said the Senator would not leave Washington and requested Dghlman to communicate to the dele- gation his decision to release them. The message, said Dahlman, did not express opinion as to what the delegation should do but Dahlman promptly got in touch with James A. Farley, Manager of the Roosevelt organiation under whose auspices the message was made public. There are 58 votes in the Illinois delegation. Farley said the action of Sen. Lewis permits the friends of Gov. Rocsevelt to vote for hinf and this makes certain, Farley further declared, of Roosevelt's nomination on the first ballot. Dahlman said about 25 votes from Illinois down Staters will go to Roosevelt on the first ballot, Chairman of the Democratic National rman and Keynoter, and Thomas J. Walsh. Shots~ And Walsh #re urgedl by contésting factions for the important post of Permanent Chairman. CLARENCE TRUE WILSON NAMED INLIBEL SUIT Portland Auto Dealer Asks $45,000 from Public Morals Man PORTLAND, Oregon, June 27.— {Dr. Clarence True Wilson, Secre- tary of the Methodist Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Pub- lic Morals, has been named de- fendant in a $45,000 iibel suit filed by L. F. Welch, Portland automo- bile dealer. The libel suit is the result of the outgrowth of a collision be- tween the autos of Dr. Wilson and Welch charges that Dr. Wilson |“by innuendo and inference in- tended to charge that Welch was under the influence of liquor at the time of the collision.” AN L Ll David Lloyd George Approves of |Hoover’s Arms Cuts LONDON, Lloyd George, leader, June 27.—David former Liberal expressed approval of t Hoover's arms cut “1 don’t care if it ¢ of electioneering, it s a great credit to the democ- of the United States.” arms cut was proposed last week. JAPAN'S VIEWS TOKYO, June 27.—Reduc of land armaments by fixed percentages as proposed by President Herbert Hoover of the United States is impos: ble, Gen. Araki, Japanese Min- ister of War, said here. :Biislur)prCumrurm ' Appealing fc B« CHICAGO, 1l icuf booes interrup! {cannon, Jr., la Inoon as he appealed to the Demo- cratic Resolutions Committes for a declaration in fa of Prohibition ;in the party The Bishop was not daunted and June 27.—A chorus i ast said: “The people who I represent’ BARKLEY URGES WET PLANK FOR PARTY PLATFORM | Temporary Chairman Tells Democrats Must Adopt Straightcut Policy TARIFF REVISION ALSO PROMISE OF KEYNOTER Record of Hoover Admin- istration Is Assailed as Leaders Assemble CHICAGO, IIL, June 27.— In a keynote speech bristling with denunciation of the Hoover administration, Unit- ,ed States Senator Alben W. | Barkley, of Kentucky, urged the Demecratic Convention to favor a vote by the people on the repeal of the Eighteenth Amnedment and also called jupon the nation to turn the |Republicans out of office. Describing the Republican iplank on Prohibition as a |promiscucus agglomoration of scrap lumber, the Kentuckian said the Democrats should recommend passage of a Con- gressional resolution repeal- ing the Eighteenth Amend- ment to be voted upon by State conventions chosen sole- ly for that purpose. Senator Barkley denounced the Republicans and Hoover {for the “exhorbitant and in- |defensible rates of the Smoot- {Hawley Tariff Act,” and promised to lift the tariff- making sorbid processes of log-rollers and back-scratch- ers. | Senator Barkley sald the Hoover | Administration and his Congress |took charge of the Government in |March 1929 “but every prediction, promise and assurance made to ob- tain votes had turned to ashes in | their hands and every pretense has {been exposed in all of its naked | affectation. Conditions Bad Senator Barkley said “agriculture continued to collapse, industry lan- guished beyond any previous record and credit has been restricted un- |til finance and productive enter- prise is frightened and stagnant. | “There is a constantly marching of a greater army of unemployed men and women in search of hon- iest toil than ever experienced by {this or any other nation Republic Demoralized “There is nothing wrong with the | Republic except it has been mis- {managed, exploited and demoral- |ized for more than a decade by | the leadership of the comparatively ghted, and bereft of true atesmanship, leadership incapable of understanding and dealing with fundamental causes, incapable even in the midst of its fearful | | now {7 (Continuea on Page Eight) Booed Down »r Prohibition Democratic Committee did not principle 1928." There were more booes but he continued and predicted that these same people in 1932 will register their conscientious convictions with- out hesitation if confronted with similar issue, hesitate to put above party moral loyalty in