Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1928, Page 5

VAST HALL READY FOR CONVENTION tiouston’s Enormous Struc- ture, Buiit for Purpose, Is Ideal in Appointments. vast and gay and graceful in i Houston's Conv magic alm trooping hor d meet ge of Republican oppo- cture the people of or their guests. and bunting, dolent with of the forest of | ne that went into like a seaside ss of politics. far, far cry. indeed. from ated old Madison Square itself but a memory into the making of Houston's g political pavilion. soon to be ed to the surge of that old waltz une, “Th: Sidewalks of New York. that rocked the country four years a has gone all that the years have taught go, | | | | as to the mechanical problems of con- | vention holding. It is a building made to order for the purpose, a political city under one huge roof. No Circus Odor. For the first time there are no im- provised arrangements to no haunting. unhappy odo: of other days to be politely overlooked. The thing clear of ob- structions to the diamond groining of timber cob- webbery that seems leave the triple sveep of rounded roof domes floating in air in deflance of every known law of nature. that it beggars description Just a day ago. it seems, & huddle of tumble-down shacks occu) the ground. Now. the wide-Jung reaches of this gas, allaring. windswept hall, set with- in its palisado of woven wire and barbed entangiements to meet the at- tack of gate crashers, stands in land- | scaped, living gardens amid graveled paths, its windows graced with endless Tows of bright-hued blossoms that come end go with the hours, changing the oolor scheme by nature’s dictum. Outside. the hall. graced with orna- mental towers and arches for scenic effect, is set off with soft cream-colored paintwork that shoots back no dazzling sun reflection to blind an observer. The mighty roof is striped with alternate broad bands of dull red and duller gray e5 an added sun defense. And the iranic hospitality house, with its acres ©f open pavilions, its batteries of radio speakers. which Houston has prepared for unofficial guests who have no tickets 1o the show, is in keeping in form, col- oring and contour with the hall itself. It all looks like a Coney Island pleas- | ure center, transplanted by some magic carpet to this Texas port whose sea outlet is 50 miles away down a ship canal. stunning in | | | | In a new hall built purposely for interior before the intaliation of se: FOES LACK UNITY | IN DRIVE TO STOP | SMITH AT HOUSTON e <l iGeorg:a. both in this city, have issued {stataments declaring themselves 100 |per cent dry. But they have not de- clared that Al Smith could not run proparly as a candidate for President. | They both insist that issues other than | prohibition are the issues of the com- |ing campaign against the Republicans, ‘and that prohibition cannot legitimately become a major issue in that campaign. | Senator George put out a formal state- | ment today saying: “Personally I am committed to the eighteenth amendment and am op- posed to any weakening of the en- | forcement act. Honest Democrats dif- | fer upon this question, and I have not sought to force it forward as the domi- | nant issue. I am unaiterably opposed to Platform at Side. | every effort to commit the Democratic The arrangements scheme in the hall | ftself substitutes a square for the con- ventional oval layout. The flat main| ficor is blocked off with squares of | seats for delegates, alternates and in- Along all one side runs| the “convention control | high, white painted only a single narrow from the floor. Seats for the press, more than 600 of | them, stand along the first two levels above the men hjdnt{n‘ inward to- ward the projec bricge. Above, rising gently to the second floor balcony level, where the open connecting the network of committee and work rooms is visible, is the national committee space in the center, flanked on either hand ingentously arfanged scats for dis- tinguished guests. A"mmnd the other three sides of the hall are the unreserved seats, going up in gentle siope to the open wire- screened sides of the building, through by | party to a wet program. Conditions have made frauds in elections, graft and ocorruption in office the issuc of supreme importance, and the party | must meet this issue both in its nomi- | nee and its platform. The question is who can carry the fight against graft and corruption—who can place that | issue first and keep it foremost? The | chief duty of Democracy at this time | is to put its hand upon that man. | “The party must present a platform upon which the liberal forces of the| country can i:txood faith stand and | { | to Houston and it earnestly desires the | party to present a candidate who can| marshal the liberal fcrces of the Nation. It is prepared to fight to that end.| Behind the nominee of the part; Georgia will likewis2 stand to the end.” | Robinson te Arrive. | The South is relied upon by the, opponents of Smith to play the big | part in “stopping” the Governor. Governor Smith already has made in- THE SUNDA Y STAR. its session, the Democratic national convention meets at Houston Tucsday. s for the delegates and vi itors. REED AND SOUTHERNERS SEEK 367 VOTES TO BLOCK SMITH (Continued_from First Page) | Senator Says Missouri Will Stand by the Ticket Chosen. Warns Delcgates Thal His Fight for Nomination Is Not Over. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., June 23.—A de- termined battle - scarred campaigner, im” Reed of Missouri, and a silent but busy band from the Southland were on separate trails today in search for that necessary bloc of one-third of the Democratic convention votes— 367—to stop Smith. Playing his customary lone hand game in his greatest political battle, Senator Reed was carefully assessing the situation before entering the ring. He did speak out, however, to the relief of the harmony preachers, with a' declaration. today that whatever the outcome, Missouri would stand by the ticket. He kmew Al Smith today was close to heading that ticket. Reed and the group of Southerners| who are conferring here and there on| plans for blocking Smith apparently are in accord on that proposition, but their movements against Smith are of different purposes. The Southerners make it plain that they are against Smith because he is Smith. Reed is against Smith becauss he is the man he | must down to win the nomination him- | self. To that end Reed and the Southerners are sympathetic, but there | is no coalition. | “To End of the Roal His steel gray eyes flashed th old | fire of battle as Reed went over the| Yet| gituation at a series of conferences | SENATOR JAMES A. REED. _—Associated _Press_Photo. prominent in these discussions, and it seemed likely that no one man would be determincd upon as the selection o the anti-Smith men. Votes for each probably will be cast on the first ballot, although it is not certain that Donahe will be placed in nomination, Ohio hav ing instructed for Atise Pomerene, for- mgr Senator from that State. ‘The “solid South” was not a unit in the last ditch fight against Smith. Louisiana will vote for Smith. Some of the other Southerners are known to look sympathetically on the talk for harmony, and while they are not ex- pected to support Smith they are under- | stood to have given word that they will not go into any “battalion of death” against him. Prohibition was the key of the discussions in these parleys. Reed’s friends are busy and they in clude, besides the stanch Missouri del- WASHINGTON, D. Above is a picture of the hall, below is its C. JUNE 24, —Associated Press Photo. cgation, former Senator Gore of Okla- | homa and others. They believe that Reed is the most logical foe of Her- bert Hoover, whom he has fought al- most ever since he assumed the role of food administrator during the war The Reed supporters declared the Mis- | ourian stood the best show of beating ioover in the West. Among those who have called on the Missouri Senator are leaders of all | factions, including Norman Mack of cw York, an old friend of Reed's nd a lieutenant of Al Smith The forces of Senator Reed were sugmented today by the arrival of | Charles Howell of Kansas City. who will place the Senator in nomination, and of Sam Fordyce, cheirman of the Reed-for-President committee. Battle Not Over. In a brief talk to the Missourians at | the Reed headquarters, the Senator warned the delegates not to be stam- peded “by this talk that it’s all over, ! for it certainly is not all over. Mr. Fordyce issued a statement re- ferring to Reed's record and his long- | standing opposition to Hoover, adding | that “if Hoover dares take the stump, | Reed will drive him from it in 10 days’| time.” “Millions of Progressives and old-line Republicans,” he said, “who desire to, preserve the integrity of the Nation are not_willing to accept either the yoke of Great Britain or of William 8. Vare, vho would rally to the support of | Reed The first open declaration of confi- dence from the Southern anti-Smith folks came tonight from F. A. Hamp- ton, personal representative of Senator Simmons of North Carolina, arch foe of the New York Governor. | “We have between 420 and 460 votes | that are anti-Smith,” Hampton de- | clared. “We have confidence that they will remain against Smith. This has been determined after a careful survey | of leaders on hand.” | Hampton has been busy with some other Southerners feeling out sentiment. | He is a Hull supporter. There has been | no definite coalition of the Southern group and it seems to be the plan of | the anti-Smith forces to support their favorite sons until, and if, Smith is stopped. 1928— PART 1. LEADERS BELIEVE CONVENTION WILL BE ENDED BY FRIDAY Shaver to Call Delc;t;;oircler Tuesday Noon—After That program Is Due to Be Speeded. By the Associated Press. | HOUSTON, Tex., June 23.—The Dem- ocratic national econvention will be brief and to the point, if party leaders have their way. They intend to speed up proceedings so that delegates can be on their way home before the end of next week. As they figure it, the con- vention will b over Friday, or Satur- the latest Delegates, assembling in the big tem- porary coliseum. which will be dedicated tomorrow, will be called to order Tues- daw noon by Chairman Shaver of the national committee. After an opening prayer by Bishop S. R. Hay of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church South and the usual preliminary formalities, Claude C. Bowers, New York Evening World edi- torfal writer, will deliver the keynote address 5 Membership of committees on creden- tials, rules, permanent organization and | with each delegation having IN OUTLAW-WAR EVENT -Place Winner Gets Mon Trip to Geneva—Washin~- for tonians on Committee. For the best original speech submit- ted in a national contest on the subject of outlawing war by the ratification of arbitration treaties, Frances Elizabeth Klander of the Friends High School, Moorestown, N. J., will receive an award of $500 for a trip to Geneva, Switzerland. Klander, it was announced yes. was selected as the contest win- ner by a committee of judges consist- ing of Dr. John H. Finley, editor of the New York Times: George W. Wicker- former United States Attorne; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt chairman of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War: James G. Mc- Donald, chairman of the Foreign Pol- icy Association. and Mrs. Edgerton Parsons of the International Federation of University Women. The second prize, of $300, was award- ed to Harwood Stump of the Long Beach High School. Long Eeach, Calif., and the third, of $200, to Robert Picken of Simpson College. Indianola. Iowa. Bronze and silver medals also were varded to winning speakers in high representation. will then be announced and the first day convention sessicn will be over. On Wednesday the report of the cre- dentials committee will be the first order of business. with the other com- mittees followi In the event the platform committee is not ready with its report, as has been the case in the last two conventions, neminating speeches will be heard. but balloting will b> deferred until after the plat- form is adopted. This probably will come late Wednes day or Thursday. with party leaders ex pecting balloting for the presidential nominee to get under way before ad- journment Thursday. It is probable that an overnight recess will be taken before any attempt is made to place vice presidential candidates in nomi- nation, and unless there is a hitch in proceedings somewhere along the line, this will be disposed of Friday, and the history. schools and churches. There were no local entries. The prizes and_medals were offered by Clement M. Biddle of New York City to encourage discussion of the subject of obtaining peace through treaties and to stimuiate public speak- ing by school children The contest was in national committee of 100 prominent cducators, editors and publicists. The committee included the _following Washingtonians: Selma M. Borchardt. vice president of the American Federa- tion of Teachers: Joy Elmer Morgan, editor, Journal of the National Educa- tion ' Association: Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel of Adas Israel and Arthur Charles Watkins, associate secretary, National Council for Prevention of War charge of a Master Sergeants Retire. Master Sergts. Green B. Cook. Ord- nance Department. at Fort Eustis, Va.. Nogales, Ariz. have been placed on the Army retired list on their own applica- tion. Each has had more than 30 vears military service Danish Officer Assigned. By authority of the War Department, Licut. S. A. Anderson of the Danish artillery, has been attached to the U, S. Coast Artillery of the 2d Corps area for a ten-week instruction period. His first assignment is at Fort Totten, Y. N. K - 0.5, DELECATION * EAGHESHOUSTON Costello to Sit With Commit- tee Monday, Deciding Contests. By a Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Tex., June 23 —The Dis- trict of Columbia delegation arrived here tonight and established head- quarters at the Auditorium Hotel. Na- tional Committeeman John F. Costello immediately established contact with the national committee and will attend a conference tomorrow morning :nd will sit with the fuil committee Monday morning when the three contests are to be decided. The national committee will seat the Costello delegation by in- cluding them in the temporary roll of delegates. Accompanying Mr. Costello_are John B. Colpoys. chairman of ine State cen- tral committee: James William Pryan, Beckinridge Long, Mrs. Maris D. Marye, M. Carter Hall, John F. Killen, Roland B. Maheny and Dr. John T. Ready Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is coming to Houston on a special train, reaching here at 2:10 p.m. tomorrow. She is accompanied by Florence J. Harr! man, Democratic national committe: woman for the District, and her broth- er, R. Wilmer Bolling, delegate from the District. Mrs. Wilse will be met at the sta a local reception com- mittee, headed by Maurice Hirsch, and several thousand admirers and followers of Mr. Wilson. who are planning a tre- mendous ovation. Mrs. Wilson is to formally dedicate the Convention Hall. She is to be the guest of honor at a breakfast by the ciubwomen of Hous ton and many other States Monds: morning on the roof garden of the Rice Hotel | The District delegation offers a new candidate for Vice President, and Mr. Colpoys is ready to nominate Bennett Clark. son of the late Champ Clark, who was supported by the District delegation on all of the 46 ballots in the Baltimore convention. The contesting District delegation has arranged for a hearing tomorrow afternoon on the protest against the so-called Costello or “regular organiza- tion” delegation, which, for the pur- poses of carly organization, has been placed on the temporary roll of t convention. Bruce Kramer, nation: committeeman from Montana, who chairman of an informal contest com- ittee, has agreed to give the contest- 1g group from the District ample tim: to_present its case. William McK. Clayton. candidate of the Al Smith Club delegation for na- tional committeeman, will arrive to- morrow morn: For Quick Disposal Hundreds of pairs Women’s Fashionable Summer Shoes Reduced from $5 and $6.50 Tomorrow and All This Week 7th St. and “Arecade” Stores | during the night and early today, and roads into that territory. The Louisi- |, ln’wrrupud these discussions iong | anna delegation is for him. He has enough 1o tell a throng of newspaper several delegates from North Carolina: | moen ™ that “the only maxim Missouri Jow fung glare of sunlignt in late | Kentucky, a border State, has declared | Mo 1o to the end of the road. » | @fternpon or early morning. for him. In a word it seems that| .7, the end of the road” was the | But, aside from the amazing wooden | the South is “cracking” in its opposi-| word passed along by Reed’s, friends petwork of bracing that forms the roof | tion to the New Yorke: | also, but what course will be pursued | with enly a double row of slender pil-{ Senator Robinson ¢f Arkansas, Dem- | in the final drive of the Missourian was lars on either band to support it all or | ocratic leader of the Senate, 15 due | gtj]] under consideration tonight. There break the view, the most striking inno- | here tomorrow. He might put the gare some who are urging him to go| tion of this political tabernacle 15 the | final touch on the Smith victory be- | persopally before the convention. They | eat run that sweeps across the |fore the convention opens by deciaring want him to take a place on the Mis- k of the hall from side to side, | that the Arkensas delegation will vote souri delegation and place before the above and behind the last row of gal- |for Smith. It has peen widely pub- | convention his plea for a brief plat- lery seats. That is the place where all jished that a larg> majority of the form, hiiting principally at corruption the world and his may come 10| Arkansas delegates are really favorable | in government. > jook in on a national convention Inito the New York governor, although| raced with conflicting reports on the action, Big stalrways give Aaccess On |they are prepared to go where Senator | present status of the convention line- obe side from beyond the wire defenses Robinson indicates on the first ballot. | up, Reed was smiling and confident to- | of the convention proper and let out!Robinson migint do for the Smith can- | day when he met the newspaper men in | ezain on the other side. | didacy very much wnat the declaration | accordance with an arrangement made | Must Keep Moving. {of the Pennsylvania delegation did for | before his arrival last night. But he 11 who will may come and go across Hoover at Kansas City. withheld any opening “war cry” pend- | L T o oty that they | o The Texas delegation is divided over | ing further meetings, indicating that | Set | Beider. SEOGEe p{am of the | Smith, although it is pledged to a dry | tomorrow he might say something along keep moving. w helr | platform and a candidate who can | that line. gomvenion i be beors togie e st | Hand on 3 ‘o Smith peope e | ATy by & high, tight woven wire screen { claiming an actual majority of the| For the firsd time. in fact as well s | fancy, a national convention is 10 be open to all comers. | row’s nests for the cameramen, each of huge searchlghts e scene balow with been set clos® op of each of which the breezes pour unchecked.! Bright striped awnings are available to shut out a chance shower or cut off a For correct time tune in on Siation WMAL at 8 P.M. each evening During the day telephone Franklin 869 PLATINUMSMITHS DIAMONDS AND JEWELERS Other Precious Stones Members of Amsterdam Diamond Exchange of . ofahin c/nc. Thirty-siz 935 F Street ARTHUR J. SUNDLUN Treasurer Will Support Ticket. To the crowd of newspaper men closely surrounding him in the spacious | reception room of the “Reed headquar- | ters” on the mezzanine floor of the Rice | Hotel—just across the lobby from Smith | headquarters—Reed said: | “The Missouri delegation came down | here to win this nomination if possible. | They believe it can bs won. If they | lose they will be found supporting the | ticket with absolute Ioyaity | “So far as my personal views are co! cerned, 1 think 1 have made them plai. in some 50 speeches over the country. i “The only maxim Missouri knows is ‘to_the end of the road.’ " | Conferences continued today among the Bouthern group, but still on the No open talk of the religious issue is | quiet. Senator George of Georgia heard in Houston. The campaign | Representative Cordell Hull of Tennes- against Bmith is waged on the ground | see and Gov. Vie Donahey of Ohio were that he is a wet and Tammany man. | But_underlying it all is the opposition | in the South where to the elec- tion of a Cataolic President of the The prohibition talk fs position Lone Star State delegation. Gov. Dan | Moody. however, heading the delegation, is committed to the dry caus>. He may be called upon to lrad the dry forces in the convention when it comes to the adoption of the platform. The platform fight comes before the nomi- | nation of ths presidential and vice | presidential candidates | See Early Victory. The Smith p-ople expect to nominate Gov. Smith within the first thiee bal-| lots. The opposition hopes to prevent th= nomination of smith for at least five ballots. 1If they can hold more than a third of the delegates in line against Smith that length of time, they n!srn! svailable o their white gare ainst the roof at the t5e ozen or sn supporting pillars. The main oc! span covers a space 120 by 326 feet without cross girder or ob- | y kind Just a sin- en with gently | wierd in the tterning of the | Years at ADOLPH KAHN President bracing. I the center o is the reservation each gallery bank id and three continuous, iours in the are set punt- ance of they can prevent his nomination . Before Leaving m Town arrange to have The Star Evening and Sunday sent to your vacation ad dress. You will want t: keep in touch with what' going on in Washingto: while you are away and th- best way to do that i through The Star. Styles pictured give but a bird's-eye view of the All in the height of fashion. Patents—Colored Kids——and others. Some Hahn “*Health™ Shoes. Most styles in plenty of all sizes. the center over the p 4 reproduct.o many included. to “him many of those fighting him On= factor that is help- ing Gov. Smith in his race for the nom- ination is the bellef of other candidates that if Smith is nol nominated, the Democratic nomination for President is not worth anything to the man who | finally gets it When Senator Reed of Missouri ar- rived in Houston today, it was the ex- pectation of the Smith opposition that | things would hegin to pop, and that a/ real attack on_ Bmith might at least be developed. But Reed made a state- | ment no more fiery than the statements issued by the other candidates. The opposition appears to have trouble get- ting under way Vice presidential candidates are un- der discussion already, though the ith people are keeping hends off at . Benator Robinson is among | those prominently mentioned and so is Hull. Evans Woolien of Indiana has his | following and so has Donahey of Ohio 1f another wet should be pcked and he would b it, Reed of Missouri might be the seleetion The delegations are slow getiing here Many of them will not srrive until | Monday. New York's delegation is Lo caucus then and will determine what it will do sbout platform planks, if any thing, and who is to represent it on the resojutions committee Benator Wagner Is one of the latc arrivals here, woven wire er that makes the observe this is Dixie land | 3¢ will seat maybe 209 folks. or 8o, and i, boldly painted, i the single ciored.” hus has the stage been set, with hospitality, for the great of 1928 of the pational par Each and every pair a phenomenal **Bargain™—at $3.95. 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