Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1928, Page 4

REPUBLIAN TIET Political Observers Bring Optimistic Reporis to President. ! ticket should —Labor Senator. as zood 'sota &s any one the | up. but he doubts e standard bearer will | aterial reduction in the Republican_vote. He stated e people in Minnesota are well rased with the accomplishments of the Coolidge administration. and are anxious to see things continue as they &re and for that reason they are ready to rally around Hoover's banner, be- cause they feel he has been a part of the present administration. Republicans in Minnesota and in Wis- consin are hoping that Secretary Hoover will visit this northwoods country soon ‘They-would like to have a peep at him | and possibly to hear some utterance re- garding his platform. Despite reports from Washington that he will come to the Summer White House before going to his home in California to receive the formal notification of his nomination, there is reason to feel that the Presi- dent has not yet been notified to that effect. Left In Retirement. The people in this section are faith- fully respecting the President’s wishes to be left in retirement that he might reiax and phi without any outside de- mands upon his time. Any number of clube, organizations, individuals and groups are anxious to have him attend some meeting or celebration they are plaping, but are holding back their in- vitations until they receive word that the President is ready to receive callers at his office. Among these waiting in- vitations is one to the huge Fourth of July celebration to be held in this city under auspices of the American Legion. The indications are tonight that President Coolidge tomorrow again will atjend services at the Col tional Church in Brule, the nearest village to his island retreat. It is thought quite likely that Mrs. Coolidge. who is great- improved in Nealth, will accompany OLD PARTY LEADERS ARE MISSING FROM HOUSTON PICTURE| (Continued from First Page.) Alzbama, because of his | p in the Roman Catholic| In its own make-up the convention is | n .almost complete reversal of recent | y history. Those whose voices have 2rd oftenest have almost ail | the picture. Bryan, 1 every. convention from 1896 | a5 lelt behind no designated | mantle. The Wilson lead- | sppeared 1o have de- n yur years ago ership srended 10 the ars 220 ag: 0 come nominay ae nst Harding, doe will leader- eudi 17,8060 end Buch brecze relinve 2né Fus; breezes « POPULAR ACTOR DEAD. Ben ja 80OU! Johnsorx He I Attaek fetim of Ben ja Min: died 10 career with 5 years ago. 3 he | not daughter survive, Houston is ready to show delegates to the Democratic national convention, gathering Tuesday, hospi of national political gatherings. At the top are views which will gree! the visitors—a glimpse of the downtown sec which Jinks the ity with Gulf coast; the monument (lower right) to Gen. Sam Houston, Below: This air view of the city of Houston shows the principle centers of activi No. 2 Is the Grand Central Station; No. e 7, Sam Houston Hotel; No. 8, Stratford Hotel; No. 9, Rice Hotel: No. 10, Houston Club: No. 11, Audilor No. 13, Bristol Hotel; No. 14, San Jacinto Hotel: No. Hotel; No. 20, Brazos Hotel; No. 21, Tennison Hotel; Hall, built to order for the Democrats. William Penn Hotel: No. Cotton Ho! CONVENTION FEVER AND HEAT COMBINE TO DAZE DEMOCRATS | | | | - | 7 7 __(Continued from First Page) | Senator Declares Fraud in | ways than one to bats in a beifry. There are two rumors that everybody has been trying to caich and pin down. One is that the convention will hold ses- sions during early morning and another that the convention will hold long ses- | sions at night to escapé the heat. One rumor is that convention sessions will begin at 5 o'clock in the morning and adjourn for a siesta about noon. Clem l Shaver, the official rumor butcher, sit- | g in his cool office and killing rumors that are brought to him, has not yet | definitely killed either of these rumors, adopting instead the chloroform I consists in say Mg haven't heard anything about it as far as can be learned, the rumors about the night session were let lpose by morning newspaper correspondents and the rumors about the early morn- ing sessi loose afternoon wipaper correspondents. As yet they only rumors. Everybody Is “Nice.” There is great similarity between the | preparations for the Democratic con- vention in Housion and the Repul { convention in Kansas City is one big difference go notic being constantly remarked ton_everybody is try- In Kansas City be- started some of nice and went ring up controversy and form- and things. But here slogan _seems to “be e will word “coalition” down ded as an ugly word, used y Republicans for instance, the gentlemen who belong to that 3 ic and pleasure organiza- New York as Tammany nice and genteel look embarrassed the 4 e trying 10 be just o nice convention attitude of 4o’ no not sing chiefiain paper men’ hiere. ds of perspiration were dr forehead, his 1 d t of his chin. But did ng about these beads? * crooned Judge Ol- il weather you {d, and the local ribbled 1t do adguarters Sedate. Smith headguarters—they the moit genteel head- anywhere graphs of the gov- bout in such el lobbles and are not hung here Instead there i & fine crayon portrait of the governor, hanging sedately on the I with the crayon portraits of other ¢ Democrats of the past, The por- ane twid, are not done in ol are crayon. Nor are there any Buith headquarters we huve 1o band e publicity man edguarters, “We do not have any bands. Yes, there sarades” he mdded he public fid My At Bmith intend 1o will be no There will be no big show when the | delegation arrives here Mon- If there is any show, it will be citizens managers dsy siuged by the by the compaign. The | | | of Houston and | in T of the Bmith | W. G | stopped over in Port Poitics Is Dominant Issue Before Convention. Asserts He ‘Is Opposed to Committing Democrats to Wet Program. By the Assoclated Press HOUSTON, Tex., June 23.-—Georgia will stand to the end behind the stan- dard bearer selected here next week by the Democratic national convention, Senator George of that State declared today in a formal statement in which he said fraud in elections and graft and corruption in office was the issue of “supreme importance.” “The party must meet this issue both | in its nominee and its platform,” he | added. “The question is who can carry | the fight against graft and corruption; who can place that issue first an D it foremost. The chief du of democracy at this time is to put its hand upon that man. The party must present a platform upon which the lib- eral forces of the country can in good | faith stand and make their fight.” tset of his statement, Ge ided by the State of Texas There are, in all, nine bands. They are going to play day and night dur-| ing the convention, and two of them are going to play at Convention Hall In Kansas City there was only one band at the convention hall. It was noted for its unerring ability to play at the wrong time, But here the bands will be in constant communication with the ring masters. There will not be a chirp from the piccolo player, or a bleat from the bass horn unless the chirp and the bieat are explicitly ordered. = 'The coming of 50 many bands has not been without its complications, however. The Houston firemen at the central fire sta- tion, for instance, have surrendered their comfortable beds to the Gold Medal Band from Memphis, Tex. The good people of Memphis raised $3.500 to rend their band here, dressed in some of the finest unforms that & band ever wore. ‘This bend will be the offi- cial band at Convention Hall, But one nopes there will be no fire. Band Tribute to Jones, Then the Dallas band, sent, the press informs us, by the people of Dailas as a personal tribute to Jesse Jones, con- vention builder, will be here, and thexe will be the Edinburg band, sent here by the citizens of Edinburg and the lower Rio Grande Valley. The Mii-| souri Pacific Rallroad s furnishing its | own Palestine Band and its Kingsville Bund, In addition there are the Mag- Band of Beaumont, the Houston La Band end the band of the 143d Intantry But the big band ! Mare Band of Fort \orth, This is a band of cowboys, and while Houston may be excited about its being the con vention city, there 15 nearly as much | excitement about the Old Gray Mare | Band, which seems to be far famed as, Former Ambassador James d, who_got here yesterday Worth to make | the Old Gray No. 16, Bender Courthouse; | nine lumber during the Democratic national , Unioh Station: No. 4, M., K. & T. Hotel; No. 17, No. 24, Posi Lomar Hotel GEORGIA WILL STICK TO END TOPARTY NOMINEE. GEORGE SAYS SLAATOR GEORG Associated Press Phpto. al s commitied to the eighteenth mendment and was opposed to any weakening of the enforcement act “Honest Democrats differ upon th's question and I have not sought to put it forward s the dominant issue” he sald. “I am unalterably opposed to | very effort to commit the Democratic party to a wet program.” founded, but neverthele he got off his train at Fort Worth and was put in a yellow taxicab which followed the Qld Gray Mare Band to the speaking plac The Old Gray N the lobby of the including th upon which sa The brndsen, pleased, when are Band came into ice Hotel late old gray n an atiractive cowgir with red shirts, yellow | bandannas, chaps, high-heeled ~boots and spurs, pretty nearly filled the lobby. while the music attracted scores in from the streets, and the hotel | guests jammed the mezzanine balcony | above and made the lobby impas: It was the convention S whooping-it-up-ceremeny and business behind the desk at the Rice was p alyzed. Among the c s rendered by the band were “Hail, Hall, the S Here,” “Dixie,” “The Side- Walks of New York” and other famous Demoeratic hymus ‘There will be bands at the stations to micet each incoming delegatioh, and no fuvoritism is to be allowed in the way of musie, E oing to have | * band, Th welcoming organization here in Houston has appointed com- mittees of citizens and assigned them h State delegation. These com- | will meet the delegution, start ! the bands and take them to thelr hotels. Nothing in the way of harmony and hospitality has been overlooke There Is one little touch about th welcoming weements that s posi- tively exquisite. Wil Horwitz, the local theater magnate, thought of ft, H» bought a large herd of burros and each State delegation that gets here 15 to b presented with & burro, and will be alloved (o keep 4l as a souvenir during the convention. The burro s a relative of the Democratic donkey. | Hall to Be Dedieated, The blg convention hall which Jesse Jones put up with tha help of some forests and carpenters, | dedicated tomorrow. Every one | to be But there svey fortunately, several a speech, He was astonlshed n*auml:- has pleasant Lhings to say sbout the ion at Oscar Holcemb (inset) is mayor of the ci No. fiice; No. 25, Plaza Hotel; No. ? | paign fity as lavish os if it were a more seasoned entertziner a view (right) of the canal convention. No. 1 is the Convention . 5. Ben Milam Hotel: No. 6, m Hotel: No. 12 Milby Hotel: Hotel; No. 19, Macatee . Warwick Hotel, fated Press Photos. 18, Tour. cenvention hall expeept the newspaper I They should not be however, as no news- as ever known to ng. The trouble s that somebody had ng the photographers Tets that are built around which hold up the roof. The ts are reached by ladders. photographers are willing to which a consid- at that, from a it is go- D next to en’'t room they want it seems to be the t the photographers, up to their turrets, re, while the con- In fact, be pleased about here, however. an idea of pi Toe climb the ladd exable conc photographe to be very he roof, and th: uggestion has been made that ths | photographers, with their fashlights and other noisome instruments, ured into the turrets and the ladders aken down. As a whole, the convention hall is oved. It is brand-new, and clean and redolent of fresh lumber. The place is cooler n the outside, although the pessi- ts predict, in addition to wondering hat would happen if the roof cavet n or a fire broke out, that with 16,000 persons in the hall, the vast majority of them being I E it 1s going to be hotter than the outside. Getting statements approving the convention hall is one of the duties of the newspaper reporters on the local papers. They have gotten everybody of consequence to say that the hall is all right, including Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun, who said it was all right. The various Senators and minds of the Democratic party have adopted & formula for communications to the press on arrival. They say, for the most part, that they don't think prohibition s an issue in this cam- Then they that the Demo- cratic an’ exgellent chance at the p is harmony great and that everybody should k as a good Democrat and produce as much harmony as possible, Then they approve of Houstol the weather's not so hot, as there's al- wa convention hall is a whizz, & Linseed Oil $2.65 Per Gal. “Everything for Painting” FOUNDATION TO ROOF 7 Pure Lead, Zinc /“ROCKBOTTOM PRICE. MAIN OFFICE-6Y & C. Sts. | CAMP MEIGS-51 & Fla. Ave ERIGH I WOOD 5921 Ga Ave.NW P Sw N be | Is in November, provided there | A nice breeze, and that the new | b47 SMITH VOTES ARE UNDISPUTED {Sponsors and Foes Firm in| Views on First-Ballot Victory. By the Associated Press. HCUSTON. Tex., June 23.—Al Smith | | stands tcnight so close to the Demo- | cratic presidential nomination that his | supporters insist he can be put over | at any stage of the convention ballot- {ing next week, and his political foes | generally concede that only a develop- | ment not now In prospect car stop him in There will be 1100 dele; the convention. Two-thirds i\xxxx be required ‘to nominate. Smith backers claim he has 710 first-ballot votes safely tucked away, and that at; lany time he wants them he can pic up enough more to clinch the nomina. | tion in quick order. While the passing the word that favorite | and other candidates are to have their | chance, they have indicated they would | | not be surprised if some of them fol- lowed the lead of Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land and withdrew before the result | of the first ballot is announced. | ‘ Almost without exception, Smith's op- | | ponents concede him at least 650 votes. | They are clinging to the hope, however, | | that the tide still can be stemmed and | | enough delegates, chiefly from the South | |and favorite son States, held away tc | block his nomination on an carly bal- | lot and bring about a disintegration of | | his forces. | Favorite Son States. | There are seven favorite son states— | Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ne- | braska, Ohio and ‘Tennessce—and mith's foes are counting on all of the tes from these States, 202 in all, be- ling held away from him at the outset | In addition there are seven Southern | States with uninstructed delegates to- | | talling 156, which are not in the Smith | column and from which, on the first | ballov, the New Yorker's managers ex- | pect to get few, if any votes. These are | | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, | | South Carolina, Texas and Virginia Besides this block of States, which if held together against Smith would fall about a dozen short of furnishi vetoing -one-third in the convention the Governor’s political enemies look to cuch States as_Illinois, North Carolina Pennsylvania, Utah and West Verginia for aid from part of the delegations. It is on such a set-up, which Smith's fends insist can never be perfected, that their hopes of stopping the leading contender for the nomination are based As the Smith managers see it, several of the delegations from favorite-son States will be champing at the bit. im- patient to flop to the governor's column at the first opportunity. They are counting on at least 40 of Ohio's 48 delegates, a majority of Indiana’s 30, at | least half of Nebraska's 16 and more than an even break from Kansas, after | complimentary votes have been cast.| They also say that before the wind-up Tennessee's 24 will be thelrs, but for | the most part they are laying no claims to Georgia's 28, instructed for George, or Missouri’s 36, pledged to stand by Reed to the finish. | Concede Some States. As they size up their chances with { the uninstructed delegations frgm the South, the Smith leaders are inclined to concede those from Alabama, Florlda, | South Carolina and Virginia to the enemy, at least at the outset of bal- loting. As they figure it. George of Georgia, Hull of Tennessce and per- haps Donahey of Ohio will pick up | votes from these States. i The Smith men see some chance of | getting at least half of Arkansas' 18 at | the start, and, in the face of flat con- tradicti from the camps!® of the | opposition, are laying claims to Missis- sippl’s 20 and the 40 delegates from Texas before the wind-up. Both Smith and Reed are claiming Oklahoma's 20 Calculating that they neea only two | dozen additional delegates to go over, | th: men who are directing convention maneuvers for the New York Governor say that Ohio or Indiana. or a combina- tion from several other States, such as Arkansas, Nebraska or Kansas, would | | turn the trick. | { As it stands, Smith's supporters are | | claiming the solid delegations from 31 | | States, the District of Columbia and | | the six territories that have conven- | | tion representation, and part of the | delegates from three States. A ma- | jority of his strength, they emphasize, |is in the instructed or pledged class, | and for this reason can't be swung away from their man regardless of de- | velopments early in the balloting. €9 Are in Dispute. Of the 710 votes listed for Smith by | his supporters, his claim to 69 is dis~ puted by opponents. Deducting the | number challenged, it would leave the Governor of New York 641 undisputed | votes, or 98 short of the necessary two- thirds. Four years ago Smith went into the Madison Square Garden conwentton | with 241 first ballot delegates. He had | support from 11 States and 3 Terri- torial essions, but only the dele- gates from his home State and from Rhode Island lined up solidly for him at the start: He reached his peak on the seventy-sixth ballot, running hi total to 368, which was threc vote more than one-third of the delegate: i voting. |ARMY CHANGES ORDERED. | Department Announces New De- tails for Officers. Maj. Douglas L. Wert, Corps of En gineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va, ha been transferred to Savannah, G: Maj. Frederick Gilbreath, 2d Cavali from Fort Riley, Kans, to the War De- partment general staff; First Lieuts. Charles W. Steinmetz and Dache McC. | Reeves, Air Corps, from the office of | | chief of Air Corps, Munitions Building, to Manila, P. 1; First bieut. Bob E. Nowland, Alr Corps, from Bolling Field. | D. C, to Manila, P. I; First Lieut. | Conrad P. Hardy, Corps of Engineers, | from Fort Lewis, Wash,, to the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, | Blacksburg. It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, $45.00 $1,200 $100. $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U, 8. Treasury | Subcommittee at | of Columbia POMERENE STAYS HOME. Favorite Son of Ohio Will Not Go to Houston. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 23 (¥ Former Senator Atlee Pomerene, Ohio’s ‘favofite son” in the Democratic na- tional presidential race, will not at- tend the Houston convention, he said today, and neither will he have any spokesman on the convention floor. “The dclegates will speak for them- sglves,” said the man to whom Ohio's 47 votes are pledged on the first ballot. ‘Attorney Joseph C. Breitenstein. - ' EAPECT SWANSON TOHEAD VIREINANS 'Senator Probably Will Be | Named Chairman of Dele- | Cleveland, who will nominate the Go nment’s Teapot Dome prosecuto: aid that the former Senator would no\ withdraw before the first ballot. D.C. ORGANIZATION DELEGATES VICTORS Houston Decides on Two Contests. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex.. June 23.—The Democratic national committee sub- committee appointed to investigate dele- gate contests, has decided in favor of the regular organization delegates in the District of Columbia and Pennsyivania. J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, chair- man of the subcommittee, said today he expected to complete his committee’s report tomorrow when the contests of the Canal Zone and Louisiana will be taken up The committee decided the two cases, he said. purely on the record and with. out hearing witnesses. In the District the dispute was between the Smith Club and the regular or- ganization delegates, who also are in fayor of Smith’s nomination. In Pennsylvania, he explained. com- plaint was made over the caliber of democracy of the delegates. but the subcommittee did not believe it was authorized to pass cn the party loyalty of 1egularly chosen delegates. The con- test included one seat in the first dis- trict and two in the fifth ‘The subcommittee will report its find- ings to the full committee Monday. W will in turn report to the cre- dentials committee for fina! scttlement. WOMEN MEET TODAY TO PLAN DEMANDS National Committee for Law En- forcement Opens Houston Headquarters. By the Associated Press HOUSTON, Tex, June 23—A seri of pre-convention meetings will get un- der way here tomorrow under the au- spices of the National Woman's Com- mittee for Law Enforcement Included among the speakers on the two-day program are F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League; Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army; Mrs. Henry T. Peabody, chair- man of the National Committee for Law Enforcement, and Mrs. Jessie W. Nich. olson of the National Woman's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League. Headquartars for all law enforcement organizations have bsen openad in the city and Mrs. Belle Kearney, a member of the ssippi State Senate. said that by tomorrow night practically all officials of prohibition and law enforce- ment organizations who are expected to nsfiend the convention would be in the city. She added that Mrs. wife of the chairman of the Democrat national committee, was expected to address one of the meetings. Of home there’s there's g everything is kept up paint, “Murco” L Has ability “Mutco Clem Shaver, | ‘ gation to Houston. By the Associated Press ABOARD VIRGINIA DELEGA TRAIN, BRISTOL, Va.. Ji 3. ator Claude Swanson wil — | # | 4 < held_on Houston Sui F Byrd expected to be named vics chairman and Sen Senator Swanson. — was chairma the committee that drafted the Vir- ginia_platform. | Politics and the convention course, the principal topics of sion. among those on the train a most congenial delega that is uninstrue d_exp ! “There are 43 members of the s delegation. Because of the dif n the representation from the districts which are given each, some of the delegates vote, others a half vote and those f: the third district two-thirds of a each While satisfied with spirit harmony that prevailed in the Sta | convention and_ anticipating a con uation of this among members of delegation, party leaders preferred to-comment on the possibilities o ination of various candidates for Pr ident. LEGISLATOR BRINGS FARM PLANK PLEA Representative Rainey Reaches the Houston—Indorses Equali- zation Fee. By the a4 P HOUSTON, Tex., June 23.—A demand for a farm plank in Democratic | platform indorsing the equalization fee principle for surplus crop control was brought heére today by Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, who for several sessions has been active in be- hall of farm relief legislation in the House. Rainey said he had not expected attend the convention, but afte: farmers “had been turned down at Kansas City.,” he was convinced t the Democrats with a “real farm plank instead of an academic di sion of agriculture could carry Ii for Al Smith by at least 100,000 He added that he was familiar w the viewpoint of the farmers in Illinois fand Indiana and thought the time m { pitious for the Democrats to step fo { ward .with a definite agricultural pro- | gram. 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