Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1928, Page 1

W HER. (U 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and probably tomorrow morning; rising temperature tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, 74, at 5 pm. The evening in Wn::::'m m!: the Associated Press news yesterday; lowest, 57, at noon today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 10, 11 & 12 % he ben ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 30,722. post ofice, Entered as -\o‘cond class matte: D. [ ashington, ing Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1928—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. 'MELLON IS EXPECTED TO CLINCH HOOVER VICTORY AT CONVENTION; D.C.REPRESENTATIONIS GIVEN O.K. Keystone State|"NATIONAL EMBLEM" IS TOOTED |Smoot Places AS KANSAS CITY GOES “LOONEY™ Galloping About, Standing Around and Issuing Statements Are Principal Occu- ' Vote Held Big Factor. SWING IS SEEN TO CALIFORNIAN ,Pennsylvania's 79| to Hold Caucus Tomorrow. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Stafl Correspondent of The Star. KANSAS CITY. June 11.—Secretary Mellon, regarded as the possible War- wick of the Republican national con- wention, is coming to Kansas City to_- day. As chairman of Pennsylvania’s delegation to the national convention, 79 strong, he may be the key man of e tion. mlts:xm:onfldenlly predicted here that he will swing the delegation into line for Secretary Herbert Hoover when the balloting for the presidential nomina- tion begins. His delegation is to caucus tomorrow. Once the Pennsylvania del- egation is placed in the Hoover line- up, the nomination will be regarded as all over. Mr. Mellon has been almost as much pations of Convention Hosts. BY BEN McKELWAY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 11.—Kan- sas City made one last and gallant stand to remain sane today. Then, with a hysterical whoopee, the city gave it up as a bad job and went completely looney. The attempts to remain sane were made in the dark and eerie hours of dawn. Nobody witnessed them, un- less 1t was the policemen and the milk- men. But when everybody woke up,every- body realized the time has passed for calm and behavior and every- body went more or less crazy, That is a bold statement. Crazy is an ugly word. And in proof thereof the following re- port is submitted: Without rhyme or reason a blue-uni- formed band enters the lobby of the HOOVERITES CLAIM | KEYSTONE SUPPORT nimselt | Declare Idaho Will Vote for telegraph _ the B on, shal Bave adopied a plat- st May Be Unnecessary. srpetim b ;znn by merely announcing £R i i gesaty Eaiyg fitsit i pefal o I 3 83 fs £x ] E g ¥ g g g | i i ; i i ! i M1 : i | i i ! % g€ r § i i ® Y £ 2 i R 3 i i ] 5 i | | s seeond cholce until after the plat- wm had been adoped. Benswr Bo- however, 15 understood o Hervert Hoover, and the 1duho delega- W awing W the Secretary Jne Kansas Gelegation, coucusing to- Oxy, sdopled a resvlution Vi stand by he end, I alen voled not o supe wny plank for the national plet- Torm whisch wss snU-sdministration. It Wil ool countensnce the inclusion of & planc declaring for the MeNarys Haugen wid, woich was veusd by Pres- 1aent Conlidgs Hevens of Lowoen's Missr) delegates it was reported Vday, have shifted w Hoover. The arive here i invnsified Twarly W bring the nomnatlon quick- ¥ W the Becretary of Commerce A repor. spread this morning o the efNect that Benswor “Jim” Welson of Indians, one of the sliied opposition Moover, had thrown up the sponge, He Oenied this Indlgnantly s an infemous 18 adding that i he were not & Methodist bhe would use harsher terms. The report had it he said, in the In- giana vernaeular, “the horses’ eyes are bet” (as the Hoosler 1armers say when & horse s desd) We have Hoover s\upped right now,” seid the Benator T stmosphere n rged with Hooverism . Cuitornie Belegation, whose sigan | y “§Convinued o Pege 4, Column 1, - = Kanses City I8 Secretary Following State- ment of Borah. BY BYRON PRICE, Associated Press Staff Writer. KANSAS CITY, June 11.—A gigantic Benator 11 dele- diciated dless of what might it ILBUR IS CONFIDEN OF HOOVER VICTORY tain Commerce Secretary Will Be Nominated. By the Associated Press. HANSAS CITY, June 11.—Becretary Wilbur reached Kansas City this morn- ing, and after & call at the Hoover cadquarters, said he belleves that | Hoover will be nominated and that the only man who could prevent it is Presi- dent Coolidge Another cabinet officer, Postmaster General New, also sees Hoover as the | Republican nominee, | By the Aseociated Press | Herbert, Hoover, Becretary of Com- | merce, has assumed active direction of his fight for the presidential nomina- ton in the lican nationsl con- vention. He is in direct and constant unich with his forces through & leased welephone wire from his ce here Lo the Hoover Kansas City hesdquarters. has & radio set in resdiness to glve him the reporws from the floor, The engagement list of the Becre- tary in the outer office was significant- Iy blank todsy, snd the ususl teoop of callers was entirely sbrent, Only the tecretary’s most intimate friends—and [tew of these are in Washington—have heen sllowed Lo meet him sincs the convention erisis loomed up, all eon- tevences with IWIL}'pfl' men were dii- The M| continued last, woek, | Ine telephone wire to the Kanses Clly hesdguariers has seen hard servige, 2 B . S— In & roum sdjuining his office Hoover | | Baltimore Hotel, crowded with wild- eyed looking men and women, and with no ceremony at all begins to toot away for all it is worth. The headquarters of Herbert Hoover and the headquarters of Frank Lowden are located in this hotel, and both are the gathering points of hundreds who have got to gather somewhere and so gather there. But the band is not toot- ing for Hoover and it is not tooting for Lowden. An inquiring reporter asks the bandmaster whom he is playing for. The bandmaster replies in a phrase that is heard often in the Middle West, and which sounds like “damfino,” and waves his baton crazily and orders the musicians to play the national emblem. is is a tune calculated to make young men leave home and enlist in the Marines, and will make a voter forget (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) SINDERSISSLENT ABDUTPRESDENCY Secretary to Executive Re- fuses to Discuss Possible Coolidge Statement. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 11.—Everett Sanders, secretary to President Coolidge and possible bearer of word from the -{ with which the have to Believes President Out of Race and Favors Hoover as Nominee on Early Ballot. KANBAS CITY, June 11—For the national convention to force “We should then be in a position of selecting & candidate who would with- draw, leaving the party to make a cam- paign with a second choice,” Borah said. “As for President Coolidge, I am confi- dent he will not run and am inclined to believe he will ask that no further votes be cast for him if any are cast on the first ballot. “Ar 1 see it, there are only two men in this race, One is probably in 1t without his consent—President Cool- other is Secretary Hoover,” told the there was any strategic advant its voting for him he was willing that it should do s0. But he added that he hoped his State would do nothing 1o impalr any advantage it might have by mup, & leading lection of the presidsniial nominee, The Benator let it be known that he was willing to have the Idaho yotes g0 to Becretary Hoover on an early ballot, even on the first it it should | desirable to iasure Idaho w p in _Hoover councils by this method. No definite vote was taken by the dell’ntlnn on this question, and further conferences will be held, tage In Hoover Takes Charge of Fight to Win stor Curtls for the nomination un- | | Nomination by Direct Wire to Backers and there has been no phase of the :n:mvnrln( of Hoover forces of which st Kansas City, dbly has is most frequent interrogator in the telephone conversations, but there have bheen others. His most trusted ussociates, sll on the convention scene, have been the only ones to whom he as talked, but € 18 no challenge given the {mpression that for the first ime since tnlznn’ the campaign he has sought o give his friends the per- sonkl wuch of his own leadership, The tenor of the exchanges between Kansas City and Was) s waid 1o have been increasingly cheertul over the week end. Publicly, the Secretary will not bresk his stlence untl the verdict of the convention has reached. Redio Programs—Page 30 o e e delegation ~that it | ™ part in the se-: Vote Plank in Draft. CAPITAL’S PLEA WILL BE HEARD Dyer Backs—fiemand as G. O. P. Heads Begin Work. BY WILL P. KENNEDY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. KANSAS CITY, June 11.—The short- est plank in the Republican platform will be, “We favor representation in Con- gress for the District of Columbia.” This plank, presented by Edward F. Colladay, Republican national commit- teeman for the District, was included this morning in the tentative draft of the platform which Senator Smoot as chairman will present to the platform committee. This tentative draft will be read to the committee by titles, and if no serlous objection is registered, the plank will be approved and remain in the platform. If there is serious discussion, Senator Smoot has promised to appoint a spe- clal subcommittee to consider the sub- Jject of national representation for the half million disenfranchised residents of the National Capital. Repre- senative Leonidas C. Dyer of Missouri, as acting chairman of the House judi- clary committee, which has the resolu- tion before it providing for a constitu- tional amendment authorizing Congress to grant national representation through participation in- the electoral college and a vote and voice in Congress on the same basis as enjoyed by the States, will join with National Committeeman Colladay in nting the matter to the submmflrw:f Approved After Conference. Senator Smoot approved the national representation plank for inclusion in the tentative draft of the platform after a conference with advocates of reviewed the -hearings before judiclary committee, and stated thal iommmu would' favorably that it opinion, one of the most imj because it aims to remove what in our Government—re those 500,000 persons who pay taxes, fight the country’s wars and uphold its laws, and who are as intelligent and well educated Tight ot any to0e paovls oF ;nfldm of any free people of in making the laws l’\u'nu'l' which they are governed. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, national committeewoman from the District of Columbia, who is a close personal friend of Senator and Mrs, 8moot; T. Lincoln Townsend, delegate from the District; Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the State central committee for the District, and Edgar C. Snyder, United States marshal and alternate delegate, were also in the delegation that was accorded an audience by Senator 8moot. ‘Will Appear at Hearing. ‘These same , accompanied by other promlnml’ uh:nm‘mhu and some me] of Congress, appear before the special committes on Dis- trict representation of the platform committee if such a hearing ls found necessary. ki Platform Making Starts. man suggestions from b'!'huk-unlzuarlveu" the leaders today got down to serious, day and night g and sawing to make some of these planks fit into a compact, substantial platform, u) which the party nominee can stand in the November elections. The first formdl steps toward the eparation of the platform will be Eken by the State delegations, which in meel today will select their representatives upon the resolutions committee of the convention, The open- ing session of the convention tomorrow vrfil promptly ratify these selections and, following routine organization of the committee, a subcommittee will named to hammer the platform into ape. #Il subcommittee will immed! egin hearings Tuesday aftgrnoon an will continue until the proponents and opponents of all planks have been heard, The subcommittee will then go Into executive session, day and night, until the platform is built, Considerable preliminary work has already been done in shaping up the plaftorm under the guidance and direc- tion of Benator Smoot so that It 1is hoped and belleved that the subcom- mittee will be ready to report back to the full commitiee so that the com- pleted platform can be presented to the delegates on the convention floor at Wednesday’s meeting, ‘The farm relief plank is the most troublesome one. In fact it 1s belleved to be the only plank that will cause mfll l‘r;’cllun, Whemzrbotha l‘Vl’: e program may be upse comm| by the intensive internecine struggle over the farm rellef question is something that remains to he seen, Mambers from the agricultural sections on Page 4, Columns,) rnmmmmmtmnumunnmmum ) “The Penalty” | “Golden Rule” Film PRODUCED BY The Evening Star To further traffic safety is heing shown today along with the regular program at The Dunbar Theater 1901 7th 8t. N.W, Marassed the party's ! be | to be \!ELCOMF WELCOME. "ELCope “ELCDM E (= PRESIDENT LEAVES ONVAGATIONTODAY Indisposition of Mrs. Coolidge Nearly Causes Postpone- ment at Last Moment. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. With his customary calm and quiet President Coolidge today is busily en- gaged disposing of as much Govern- ment business as possible, and attend- ing to various personal matters pre- paratory to leaving Washington tonight F City. pnulhthuut the trip to Wis- wve to be postpoued later in the day in a recurrence indisposition i 5 - Coolidge's which confined ] 8% i & <8 !E H tt H5iE g2 £ ‘The President will depart as soon as Afteenth regular n‘uemt 0‘:: the . organization o vern- ment, at Memorial Continental Hall, over. He will address the meeting. There was nothing in the President’s expression or tone as he talked with those about him f his on his mind other than matters relating to his departure from, the city. No matter what his own personal at- titude may be, he is keenly interested in all that going on in Kansas City. Before doing anything else upon reach- lw office today he went the batch of telegrams from his political in- timates nngr&ny chiefs on the scene of action. T of these caused no emotion and after putting them aside in the most casual manner he ti his chair the office urned 50 as to get & better light from windows and for nearly an ‘hour poured through a number of news- apers, as he ed contentedly on a &n' black cigar. Later he tackled a mass of paj , mostly of & routine na- ture, piled h on his desk. Only One Engagement. Because of his desire to devote all the time possible to his business no engage- ments were made today. The only in- terruption was at noon when he received Oswald Escuyer of New Orleans, who presented to him a scroll from the school children of that city thanking | b the flood trol bill. him for con 5 l’n: Mrs, Coom" hl'l fallen the prl‘:- o responaibility of supervising plpc.liu l:f the ifl)unh&ld ;anr::l and equipment as well as the - k?n.?n s of the President and herself, m to Cedar Ra) i ue one-story ise, on rule River, which is to have the dis- tinction of being the Executive Mansion for the next three months. She will accompany the President on the trip, having abandoned all ideas of rémain- ing at the White House to go to Am- herst, Mass., on June 18, to witness their son John graduate. The Presi- dent also wanted to attend the gradu- ation, but, as he explained it to friends, his other plans and the business of his office prevented it. Son to Take Position. It is understood that John Coolldge will join his parents in their island re- treat very shortly after the graduation exercises and will remain four or six weeks, when he will go to work. It is sald that he will not e & law courne, but w!;l ult-n on his l::l‘;l: career with some business organ % Although Mrs, Cool directed the cking and the hundred and one other mlnnn‘nnmanz to the moving of & ’l:;? the packing the - Lodge, the the of dent's rods and reels and the varlous other articles important in i‘l‘u life of an a T, 3 hen it comes 10 his ipment. %r Island Lodge is completely furnished, and only two or three articles of fumiture, such as one of the Presi- dent’s favorite rocking ehairs and Mrs, 's dressing table are being taken White , However, . room linen .| most In front of station No. 2, on| he _'Tha special Baltimore & Ohlo train, (Continued on Fage % Columa 1~ service. y's Saturday's Circulation, Sunda; Cireulation, 99,139 108,119 (®) Means Associated Cool Breeze Plays,| With Hint of Rain At Convention City By the Assoclated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 11.—The weather today alone was out of har- mony with the usual convention pic- ture, for the sweltering sunshine that proverbially enwraps convention cities was conspicuously absent and unlamented. A cool breeze played with the red, white and blue sireet decorations under an overcast sky gently hinting CHIASAYS TRODRS MUST BE RECALLED May Bar Foreigners From In- terior—Chiang Resigns His Command. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHALI June 11.—The Nanking government council, the Nanking gov- ernment official news agency announced, has draw up a manifesto addressed to the powers having treaties with China, which states: “Forelgn troops must from China immediately. “The presence of foreign troops.is csusing mutual suspicion. The prac- tice of the powers in sending forces to whatever of Chinese territory their na- be withdrawn is | tionals happen to reside will compel the Nationalists to exclude foreigners from the interior of China.” Want Treaties Revised. ‘The manifesto declared that the re- construction phase of the revolution has arrived, but that it cannot be effec- | by tively carried out because of restric- tions imposed on China by treaties. Therefore, the Nationalists hope that the powers will agree to immediate theaty revision. Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek has-resigned as commander-in-chief of the National- st armies and chairman of the Na- tionalist military council. Feng Yu- Hslang, the action of whose forces bre t the protest, was today regard as the dominating figure nominee, C. T. Wang, was expected to become Nationalist foreign minister. Wang stated that he would pursue & “strong attitude” toward fore and in view of this it was predicted that lit- tle attention would be paid to the note of the diplomats, Internal Troubles Seen. The Nanking government's inability to discipline Feng and the imbroglio into which Feng's soldlers plunged the Nationalists were thought to have ht about Chiang Kal-Shek’s res- ignation. Chiang, in a statement issued at Nan- king, said that he regarded the military phase of the revolution—The Nationalist movement—as completed and therefore l:' no needd;!m hlamc:!nunuln: the post of commander-in-chief. Japanese advices say that a number of bombs were thrown yesterday at va- laces in the walled city of Muk- den, Manchuria. ~Apparently most of them were aimed at Japanese offices and residences. There were no casual- tes. ENVOYS PLEA HEEDED. By the Assoclated Press. Assurances have been given the diplo- matic corps in Peking that the Na- tionalists will make some arrangement for the pesceful withdrawal from Pek- ing of Gen. Pao Yu Lin's Mukdenite troops, numbering about 1,200 men, the State Department was Informed today. The State Department today made publie that message received by the dean of the diplomatic corps at Peking in answer to the protest made over the capture of the Northern lrwmy the Kuominchun forces after it been arranged for their peaceful withdrawal from Peking. . ““The Nationalist government Has tele~ !rlph to the commanders at the t, instructing them to investigate the situation and to devise means for lflnrdlns safety to the sald force,” the note sald. Parked Within Auto thleves are growing bolder every day In the opinion of Motor Oycle Patrolman E. D. Gemeny of the sec- ond precinct, who parked his car al: street near Fifth sireet, last night and returned after his Iate trick of duty to find that some dauntless persons had carefully and com) removed the top and made nway with 1§, Polloeman ozumy drove (o the sta- Hon to report for duty from his home TWO CENTS. ITALIA CREW SAFE ASLAND, AIR, SEA RESCUE S RUSHED Nobile’s Men, Divided Into Two Parties, in Desper- ate Need of Help. CARRYING PAIR INJURED AS GONDOLA SNAPS OFF Radio Messages Grow Weaker as Operator Conserves Energy of Set. By the Associated Press. KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 11.—Gen. Umberto Nobile, with a party of six men, of whom two are injured, was reported by the Citta Di Milano to be making his way today toward land from the pack ice off Northeast Land. e 0% KINGS BAY, Spilzbergen, June 11.— Sat2 after a perilous landing on the Arctic Sea in the partially wrecked dirigible Italia, the crew of the Nobile North Pole airship was =til! in gravest danger today as expeditions by land, HEALTH HEAD RAPS MENU AT BANQUET | Germ Causing lliness of Pu- pils Isolated—School Offi- cial Criticized. | Tiness of 140 students and teachers, para-typhoid germ, known generally as walking typhoid,” the Health using “bad judgment” in the selection of foods for the banquet. Dietetics e Dr. John E. Noble, chief t of the Health ed in China. His | at noon, vering at Emergency Hospital. A second student, Milton lci'wer, 1220 Wisconsin avenue, was located at the wn_University w] he was taken four days ago. were reported to be out of Among the members of the faculty who still we absent air and sea got under way to bring them out of the frozen wastes north of Epitzbergen as speedily as possible, Speed was the watchword of the res- cuers, for every moment lost meant an increase in the danger that the 13 men of the dirigible, adrift cn breaking ice floes, might be carried into more in- | accessible regions or into the open sea. | Divided into two parties and carry- ing two of their number, who were injured when the airship came down upon the ice after the gondola had suapped off, the men of the Italia to- day were slowly secking fo reach North- cast Land, the nearesi body of land to the point at which thz dirigible came | down after her brilliaat veyage io the | Nerth Pole more than two weeks ago. Fear Open Water. While a great tide of hope and re- lief had "r e " there were fears today for cf the men cut off from land by the open water leads and ice floes along | Northeast Land. open. Barents Sea lies within the pack ice area, but at the present season is open. Since PFriday the Italia's crew has drifted about a mile and a half to the T having been assured that the position of the Italia was definitely as- tained, the Soviet Nobile Rescug Com-= here | mission issued orders to send a powerful icebreaker North immediately in an ef- fort to reach the stranded men. Conserve Radio Energy. Believing that a short wave would work better over long distance, the .| Citta di Milano yesterday requested ly hour the Italia responded. in the day the operator aboard the Citta di Milano asked the Italia’s radio operator to sand his call signal, which he did, coupling it witi t best greetings. 5 Mrs. Kramer was the dinner, returned ing pretty rocky” Sat- stricken follo COMING TMDA. Ramsay Macdonald and Three Daughters to Visit Ontario, LONDON, June 11 (#).—Ramsay Mac~ donald, former Labor premier, will leave for a trip to Canada on June 28, ac- companied by his three daughters. Most of the Canadian visit will be spent holidaying at the Lake of the Woods, on the Ontario-Manitoba boundary, but the Labor leader will visit Viscount Willingdon, governor neral, and also fulfill several speak- he engagements in the Dominion, /| Top Is Stolen From Policeman's Car 50 Feet of Station in Virginia, parking his car at midnight Just 50 feet from the station. Early this moming he was driving home hoping 'lfih.;: it would not rain before not a very ex policeman A for another top, Affair as but this morning, he | On the base ship Citti di Milano radio operators stuck to their posts day straining to catch the signals explorers. At 10 o'clock last night the Italia’s radio was growing weaker. Only short reports were being recelved by the base ship. It was thought that the marooned men were hoarding the energy of the accumulator. (Copyright. 1928.) AMUNDSEN PLANS HELP. Explorer Belicves German Plane Best for Rescue. OSLO, Norway, June 11 (#).—Roald Amundsen, believing it essential that assistance be sent to Gen. Noblle imme- diately, has cabled friends in the United States, who had previously promusea hplP. asking them whether they are al;lnln'wmmlnnmmml an expedie The famous explorer feeis that We Dornler-Wall flying boat, in Germany for a trip to TR E & pusane eme) e Dietrichson, Norweglan fiyer, pilot the plane. NOBILE TELLS OF CRASH. ut. would Half of Crew in Gondola and Others Twenty Miles Away, ROME, June 11 (P.—Two of the crew of the dirigible Italla were in- Jured slightly when the dirigible land- me) cabins or within came Lo earih almost { NOW Tendy the North, ;