Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1928, Page 5

ST AR, WASHINGTON, 'C'., THURSDAY, D MARCH 1, 19%8.° THOMPSON BEGIS - “CODLIDGE DRAFT" Cock County Delegates Are Pledged to President—Wet Plank Passed. By the Associated Press. Rced Shuns Ride On Hobby-Horse Ll'\(‘ President’s By the Associated Press. LCS ANGELES, March 1.—Gra- clously declining to ride the mechan- ical hobby-horse of the Breakfast Club here yesterday, Scnator Reed remarked: “I'll ride & live horse if I ride at all” It is one of the stunts of the Breakfast Club to have its guests CHICAGO, March 1.—Mayor Thomp- son, supported by a brass band and | 8000 cohorts of the Thompson-Crowe | organization, has launched an organ- | tzed move fo “draft esident_Cool- | idge for the Republican presidential | nomination. ington, the | csterday of | his <xppnnrr< \\lm unanimously in- Nn(nrm of “Amer- ol'ld7Co||rx pded the Fed- | tire cost of | o, comple- home rule for Iilinois. Binds All Delegates. | 2 | | r Court Judge! support the pledges ! e tor Reed of Missouri iast night called | on the Democrats to lay aside the pro- | | prevent the delegation Adoption | by President Coolidge, the | of States’ rights by the Federal Govern- mount the hobby-horse. The Mis- sourian pleaded off. however. In reply to the Senator, Morris de Mcend, president of the club, said that the club had hoped to test Mr. Reed's presidential qualifications, since the horse was similar to that used by President Coolidge. REED ASKS PARTY T0QUIT DRY 1SSUE | Takes Only Law Enforcement Stand—Hits Hoover on Grain. By the Associated Pross. LOS ANGELES, March 1.—Opening a vigorous campaign in California, Sena- hibition issue and * from office.” The Missouri presidential candidate ive the villains 1 in his first public discussion of prohibi- | tion announced here in the home city of | William G. McAdoo, advocate of a dry Damocratic plank, that he was for law enforcement and beyond that he did not | go into the merits of the wet and dry | fight, In a two-hour speech before a huge | and enthusiastic crowd fe assailed the League of Nations and the World Court, the “packing” of Federal commissions “invasion™ s 'ment, the “theft” of the naval oni re- - form ot ¢manded a Na- | on the prohibition tment of auother the drafting of | The county pla tion-wide referen amendment and amencment prohi Americans for war service in Furope | unless authorized by referenuum of the | Ppeopte. Other planks called for sfl'lcment of | international disputes threugh Hague court: home -ule for jocal gov- to centrali- Lomgflsmns lppc.n’od ’n ‘the sfficiency and econo: denunciation of to “sentimental inte: " and op- | position to crippling rictective tariff. The mayor's enthusiasm for Coolidge | brought the comment from United States Senator Charles S. Deneen's | headquarters that the mayor has not | always been & supporter of the Presi- dent “Mr. Thompson bolted the Toolidge | camp at ihe nati convention in | Cleveland in 1924, id a statement from the Deneen camp. It was also recalled that Thompson at that time resigned his candidacy as an | elector on the Coolidge ticket. t ooctrine of | alism.” LOWDEN GETS FIRST VOTES IN MISSOURI Winth District Republicans In-| dorse Candidacy, 86 to 32, | at Warrenton. | Br the Asociated Press, [ WARRENTON. Mo. March 1.—The first two delegates chose: by Missouri | Republicans were instructed yesterday | e for former Gov. Frank O.| of Dllinois at the national con- | n in Kansas City lutions indorsing_Lowden were | jpted at the ninth district congres- | convention, 86 to 32. e Lowden opposition appt‘ared‘ a delegation from Audrain | ed that the delegates be | ted. The two delegates . New Lon- | ? Union, Mo, | Florer.ce Palmer, | rry- Householder | e Manlove of Missouri monthly meet- Lding Interin Gown 44 Yeas Faclose . | o'clock, serves and the “inactivity” of Mr. Cool- idge in the investigation of this trans- | acuon He called for a campaign on a plat- “an honest admunistration by honest men.” He warned that the party was divided “about 50-50 on prohibition jand assaiied those who would insist upon a wet or dry plank or other con- troversial planks in the Democratic platform as “assistant Republicans.” Reed, who is expected to enter the | presi dential primary here on May 1 | 1or the 26 California delegates, did not | refer to Mr. McAdoo or any one else | He did declare that Secretary Hoover, aiso of this State and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, had “ulegally forced” a fixed price for grain upon the farmers during the war. te was applauded in both this declara- tion and in praise he gave to Senator | Johnson, Republican, of this State. Senator Reed will speak Friday night in San Francisco, where a “Reed-for- President Club” was organized yester- day. ELEMENTS BLAMED. |D. C. Cannot Prevent Rain, Hart/ Replies in Suit. } Inability of the District govemment\ | to control lhe clements was ulcldcd' | yesterday ’»cuflsel by Assistant Corporation | Rigggold Har, in deiense of uits for in the District Supreme Court totaling $11,000. The plaintiffs l.m Charles N. Farr, Charles | E. Farr and George W. Farr, residents of Benning road, who claim damages by reason of overflows on their prop- | erty because of construction of tne | Benning Road Viaduct, which allows rain water to fall upon their lands. Mr. Hart tells the naurl lhe District | has done everything possible to make | the viaduct safe aud eonvenlzm but | cannot control the water in heavy rains | trom flooding the property of the de- fendants. Police Raider Injured. While breaking open the front door of a house on U street last night, Police- man Willlam R. Laflin, one of a ralding party from the eighth precinct, was ac- cidently cut about the face and on his ankle by the flying glass. He was taken w Freedman's Hospital in the police automobile. Dr. Lucile Dooley to Speak. Dr. Lucile Dooley will deliver the| first of a series of six addresses in a “study group of parental education™ at Priendship House, 326 Virginia ave- iue southeast, tomorrow night at 8:15 Her subject will be “The Im- portance of Understanding the Child.” k Qmw” for v.m wmmu Other addresses will be delivered on | succeeding Friday nights. -andaD PARTY PLATFORMS Democratic Woman Leader Urges Creed of Faith and Campaign Slogan. Party platforms should be “scrapped | as de-moded and as useless as a Bunker Hill gun on a World War battleficld.” Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, newly clected president of the National Woman's Democratic Club and vice chairman of the Democratic national committee, sald tn an address last night on the phnnrm for 1928. “Platforms are lu\blmlr‘: not political assets,” she said. “I would have only a creed of faith to which the nominee should measure up, and a slogan such as Mrs. Wilbur Hubbard's, ‘Four years of Wall Street, give Main street a chance.’ The crced of the Democratic 1928 candidate should include United States participation in the League of Nations and the World Court, and legislation such as the graduated income and in- heritance tax laws, the child labor laws and the maternity and infancy acts, she declared. At the business meeting vesterday Mrs. Blair was elected president for the coming year, Mrs. Edward B. 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