Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Showers tonight row morning: slightly cooler tomorrow. ‘Temperature—H! pm. yesterday; lowest, 70, at 12 am. today. Full report Bureau Forecast.) and possibly tomor- 85, 1:45 ighest, at on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 The Zpening >t dfpfnn 5. Yesterday’s Circulation, 104, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 743 ———— 30,740. Freeohls W tered as second class matter ashington, D. C. BINSON NOMINATED TO WASHING TON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1928—FIFTY PAGES. * #) Me: A ' SENATOR WINS ON FIRST BALLOT; DRY LAW CHANGE NEEDED, SAYS " GOVERNOR IN ACCEPTIN Selection Made on First Ballot. NAME ON FLOOR * Alabama Refuses to Yield Its Place in Roll Call. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON. June 29.—Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas was nominated on the first ballot today by the Democratic national conven- tion for the vice presidency, to run with Gov. Smith. Robinson's vote totaled 1,032 1-6. HOUSTON, June 29.—It's a “wet" and 3 “dry.” Al Smith of New York and Robinson of Arkansas. The Democratic national convention has elected to go to the country with a national ticket planned to appeal to the “liberals” of the country and at the same time to the dry element. Senator Robinson's name was sub- yielding for that pu: onstration followed the States joining in the parade around the hall. Illinois, New Yortkc;ndoi;mn- from Delegates Stilled-as- S5, Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gor- ernor of Wyoming, was placed in nom- ination and then former Senator Stan- ‘The peop the nomination of their candidate aid greatly in carrying Kentucky and ‘Tennessee. While the nnmhull‘ldl:mspeeches for vice tial cand were pro- p",ddlfe‘ rumor spread about the con! hall that Gov. Smith had sent to the convention or to his man- sger, Van. Namee, a telegram giving his own interpretation of the prohibi- tion plank, and that in 2 measure it was a wet statement, although a declaration to enforce the laws. Doubt was expressed that it would be presented to the convention until after the vice presidential nomination had been concluded. ‘The Democratic party has written into its platform a plank demanding strict enforcement of laws, including the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act. Upon this plank the ticket will teeter from now until November. The dry plank is a compromise be- tween the extreme wets and the extreme T drys, represented on the one hand by R-:{chv. zrt Maryland and on the other by Moody of Texas. Smith’s nomination for President eame on the first ballot just before last midnight. The vote was 8492-3 for Smith, far more than the two-thirds vote required by the rules of the con- vention to nominate. At a conference in the early hours of the morning called by Van Namee, the Bmith manager, and participated in by representatives of all the States which have supported the nomination of Bmith except those which had can- didates for the vice presidepcy, it was the consensus of opinion that the nom- ination should got to Senator Robinson This announcement by Van Namee | aning that the ould support the Senator from Arkanse to the Alabama delegation roll call of Btates Robinson might be first was turned down by & There 15 some bitler- ness among the Alabamans, who have been violently anti-S8mith, and who re- sented the interjection of the question of relig ton by r Robinson in his ad- dress to the convention. Dry Independents Threaten. There have been threats of a dry in- dependent ticket in the South in the event of the nomination of Smith, It yemains Dow to see whether these threats have anything back of them The dry leaders in the party here in Houston pronounce themselves satis- fied with the prohibition plank in the national platform. They may let it go t that % 'he desire for harmony at Houston, which has been a dominant note ever Since the leaders began t arrive here, Was i the ascendency to the end, It prevented first 4 fight on the convention floor over Gov engd by fi;é)ly it brought about the nomination was interpreted as & oPGoy. Bmith for President on the first | a contrast to the 103 ballots ballot - REED rance into the conven-| | Missourian Waves Bat- tle Plume Aloft. Hangs and Nails Republicans to Cross With Thrusts ofk Bitter-Satire. BY BEN McKELWAY, { Staft Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON, June 29.—“Turn the | | and the early hours this morning they marked it in &' sirging, singing, shout- ing, screaming march of triumph | | around the aisles of Sam Houston Hall. | But when they sought their beds they carried with them as a final picture— not the mob scene of ‘their convention’s triumph, but the dramatic spectacle of a dramatic man, standing before the | battery of microphones on the speakers’ | ° | platform, his face crimson and creased | with the force of his effort, his eyes !lnd trembling—Jim Reed of Missouri, | | sounding his battle cry. | Not so many years ago this man was repudiated by his party, shunned and | cursed almost like a traitor—a traitor, (not to his country, but to his party's | cause. He came back, and a week ago tonight he landed in Houston as one of the contenders for the laurels of |him as the last hope A espousing rigid prohibition as opposed flashing fire, his right hand raised aloft | ing. CHOSEN FOR SECOND PLACE SENATOR ROBINSON. TRIUMPHANT IN DEFEAT. to the more liberal tendencies of Alfred E. Smith, gicnd him as their cham pion. Jim of Missouri as a leader f the drys. He issued no more statements. He did not sulk in his tent, but Reed of Missouri, it seemed, had been bargain- . Time would tell whether it was & good bargain. A Sorry Spectacle. Yesterday afternoon Charles M. Howell of Missouri, Reed’s law partner, stood on the platform nomina his old friend. The audience was restless. It would not listen. Robinson had to threaten to use force to make it listen. a|It was a sorry spectacle, a depressing sight. Jim Reed, it seemed, had bar- sained and had jost SMITH MAY SPURN ‘FRAUD"ASWARCRY lCampaign Not Likely to Play Up G. 0. P. Corruption Charge, Friends Say. | By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., June 29-The charges of “privilege and pillage” di- rected at the Republican party in the | Democratic keynote speech will be | “played down” in the actusl campaign, | according to indications in circles close | to Gov. Smith. | The governor has declined to forecast | the sort of campaign he will conduet, | but persons who hsve been closely as- "wclnmd with him in his political career | believe that he will talk more about | what he will do himself if he is elected | than sbout the past record of “the | other fellow.” “¥You can judge by past performances Just about what the governor will do this time,” they say. “He never has | | made & bid for election on the strength the prohibition plank, threat- | of his opponent’s weaknesses, and there Moody of Texas, and | no reason to belleve he will do so | now.” It | is the governor's bellef, PLATFORM BUILT BY GIVE AND TAKE Hardest Fight Over Dry Plank—D. C. Representation Is Denied Place. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Staft Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON, June 20.—The Demo- cratic party platform on which Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York will stand in making his campaign for the presi- dency was bullt during two full days of sweat and swapping, give and take, by the resolutions committec dominated by & group of 10' Senators and ap- proved with acclaim by the conven- tion last night. The plank declaring in favor of na- tional representation for the District (f Columbia was not included in the party platform, although a stubborn fight was made in the resolutions committee by Breckinridge Long, the District dele- gate on the committee, with sympa- thetic support from about 10 other members, ‘This plank failed of consideration be- cause of the number of other measures these | proposed, the members of the commit- taken four years ago at Madison Bquare | friends say, that campeigning for office | tee_being impatient to dispose of the Garden {35 much the same as selling merchan Arkansas, casting 17 of !lallfl voles | dise, And he feels that the best sales for Smith, demonsirated at the outset at Smith of the balloting last night t ~eGontinued ofi Prg Column 5 | talk is that which deals with the virtues of the goods in question and not with the defects of a rival I L. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Radio Programs—Page 34 G HONOR Leader Should Point Way He Wires. | PROHIBITION IS CRITICIZED ‘ PRESNC SRR 'Holds Lawlessness Prevalent in Nation. HOUSTON, June 29 (#)—The twenty-fifth Democratic national convention adjourned sine die at 1:47 p.m. today, after a session last- ing four days. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., June 29.—Gov. Al- | fred E. Smith sent an acceptance tele- gram to the Democratic national con- vention today, in which he reiterated his belief that there should be funda- mental changes in the present provision for national prohibition. He said in the telegram, which was addressed to Senator Robinson, that common honesty compels admission that corruption of law enforcement officials, bootlegging and lawlessness are preva- lent throughout the country. “While I fully appreciate,” he said, after again stating his stand on prohibi- tion, “that these changes can only be made by the people themselves through their elected legislative representatives, I feel it to be the duty of the chosen leader of the people to point the wa: which, in his opinion, leads to a sane, sensible solution of a condition which tory to the great mass of our people. Urges States’ Rights. After saying in the telegram that he believed saloon ought always to be asserted his e T o n—‘#lwnwu While telling of the changes he would have made in the prohibition Smith sald that if it tect execute that oath to the limit of his ability. ‘The full text of the telegram from Gov. Smith follows: “I receive your message on behalf of the convention. With a deep sense of responsibility and a fervent prayer for the guidance of Divine Providence, I accept the call of my party to lead it in the national campaign. I.can think of no greater privilege in this world than to serve our country. My gratitude to the convention for its expression of ce in me I cannot adequately express in this telegram. I will have to make it manifest by single-handed devotion to the United States and her people in every section. Touches on Taxation. “The happiness and welfare of mil- llons of men, women and children who constitute the Nation was the great driving force behind the doctrine enun- clated by the immortal Jefferson, given life by him and carried through by Cleveland and Wilson. I am convinced that our platform voices that doctrine. I stand committed to the platform and will welcome an opportunity to reorgan- ize and make more efficient the agencies of government to the end that the bur- den of taxation may be lightened.” “Our platform lays at rest the absurd claim insidiously put out by Republican propaganda that the Republican party has a monopoly upon the mechanics of prosperity. Our platform in its tariff and financial policy gives assurance to every legitimate business man, wage earner, farnmier and taxpayer that pros- perity will not be conserved, but fairly distributed among all. “The definite declaration of the con- vention to aid agriculture and the planks dealing with labor problems are sound, progressive and sincere, as ls also the Elrly commitment to the de- velopment of our water power without alienating our God-given resources. Our plank on foreign policy states the sim- ple truth that the Divine command to ‘Jove thy neighbor as thyself’ contains no limitation and was intended to ap- ply as between nations. Enforcement Stressed. “The equal and even enforcement of law is the corner stone upon which rests the whole structure of Democratic government. If it 1s the will of the people of this Nation that I am to take an oath as President of the United States to protect and defend our Con- stitution and laws, I will execute that oath to the limit of my ability without reservation or evasion. “It is well known that I believe there should be fundamental changes in the resent provisions for national pro- Klbmnn, ased, as I stated in my Jack- son day letter, on the fearless appli- cation to the problem of the principles of Jeffersonian Democracy. While I fully appreciate that these changes can only be made by the people themselves through their elected legislative rep- resentatives, I feel it to be the duty of the chosen leader of the people to point the way which in his opinion leads to & sane, sensible solution of a condition which I am convinced is entirely unsatisfactory to the great mass of our people.” SMITH WINS ON FIRST VOTE, Governor Scores Overwhelming Victory in Nomination Fight. HOUSTON, June 20 (#).-—A Demo- cratie ticket reading Smith and Robin- son was shaping up today as the party's national convention came to- gether for the final session, ‘The party standard was placed in Gov, Smith's hands by the conventlon late last night, a solitary ballot sweep~ ing him far beyond the two-thirds ma- jority needed to nominute, ' After a succession of early morning (Continued on Page 2, Column 1, o] < I am convinced is entirely unsatisfac- | ALFRED E. SMITH. CHOICE OF THE DEMOCRATS FOR PRESIDENT ciated Pri TWO CENTS. RUN WITH SMITH HOOVER DRAFTING SPEECH T0 ACGEPT £. 0. NOMINATION Regarded Smith’s Selection as Certain, but He Makes No Comment. FARM RELIEF EXPECTED TO FIGURE IN ADDRESS Assurances of Victory in Various States Given to Him by Re- | publican Chiefs. | | | Unperturbed over the nomination of | Gov. Smith by the Democrats, Secre- —Wide World Photo. T5NIGHT RESORTS RAIDED IN GOTHAM {Dry Agents Take 75 in Si-: multaneous Coup on Most Popular Clubs. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—The Broad- way theater district was thrown into a | | turor early today when more than 160 Federal prohibition agents raided 15 of | the most popular night clubs. More than 75 arrests were made | among the owners and employes of the various establishments and the agents said they had seized a quantity of liquor. The resorts were well filled with merrymakers as the agents, operating in squads of six and more, descended | almost simultaneously upon them. Re- turns from the Democratic convention at Houston were being received at many of the clubs and the raids occurred almost at the same moment that Gov. | Alfred E. Smith was nominated. Told to Pay. Guests were ordered to pay checks and leave. The places ralded were Texas Guinan's Club, Blue Hour Club, Furaace Club, Don Royal, Jungle Club, Beaux Arts Club, European Club, La Frera Club, The Night Club, Mimic Club, Merry-go-round Club, Helen Morgan Club, CHarm Club, The Silver Slipper and an unnamed club. ‘The raiders were admitted to the clubs by fellow agents, who, attired in evening clothes, had gone to the places earlier in the night in the guise of guests. These agents said that in wany cases purchases of liquor were made The rald was made under the per- sonal direction of Prohibition Director Maurice Campbell and was marked by unusual thoroughness. In some cases the agents spent several hours search- ing for possible caches of liquor, Taken in Taxis, Search warrants were used in all cases and the agenis sald they had been obtained on evidence gathered during the last several weeks by operatives who had made “buys” in the places ralded. No attempt was made to dis- mantle the clubs, as was done some months ago in a raid on the Helen Mor- gan Club. Many of the prisoners were permitted to hire taxicabs for the trip to the police stations. All those arrested were fi:nl’l!\d with unlawful possession of uor, their Five Americans Use First Regular Bervice to Paris, CHERBOURG, France, June 30 (#).— The first regular airpianc service con- necting incoming and outgoing steam- ers with Parls was ianugurated today $100 Fine Imposed For Banning Marker On Veteran’s Grave By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—RBecause it refused to permit the placing of marble markers over the graves of soldiers and sailors by the United States Government, the Rosehill Cemetery Corporation was fined $100 and costs by Municipal Judge Howard M. Hayes today. Brig. Gen. J. Garrity had filed the complaint, charging that permission had been denled him to erect the Government marker over the grave of James L. Fleetwood, a war veteran. He con- llended this was a violation of State aws. NEW WORLD DASH S STARTED TODAY Plane Used in First Leg of Attempt to Break Time Record. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 20.—John Henry Mears and Capt. C. O. D. Collyer, who took off in a seaplane from the Battery at 5 a.m. today to overtake the steamer Olympic in an attempt to break the record for the fastest trip round the world, safely boarded the vessel from the pilot boat, 45 minutes later. A wire- less message with this news was received here by the White Star Line. The Olympic sailed at midnight. ‘The fiyers landed the seaplane beside the small pilot boat, which transferred the men from the plane to the side of the Olympic, which they boarded by scaling a rope ladder. Mears said he hoped to circle the earth in 23 days. For part of the trip he will use a Fairchild folding-wing monoplane which was shipped on the Olympic and which will be piloted by Collyer, The present record is 38 days 14 hours 36 minutes and 5 seconds, made in 1926 by Edward Evans, Detroit sportsman, and Lintom Wells, mwu&er man. They bettered by seven days Mears' former mark, made in 1913, Mears declared the object of his trip was not as much to establish & new rec- ord as it was to demonstrate the s and safety of travel when the al is co-ordinated with the steamship, By taking off in the seaplane they saved almost five hours over the Olympic, which they hoped to overtake 100 mi at sea, ‘The schedule called for Mears and Collyer to take off in their plane at Cherbourg for Parls, then to Berlin, to by the White Star Line. A 10-passenger aleship oarried five Aniricans, who disembarked from the liner Majestic, to Pavis and beat the regular boat trains by several hours, Moscow, then across Siberia, stopping at Kourgan, Krasnoyarsk and Chita, then to Mukden, China, and to Toklo, where they will again take a steamship for the trip across the Pacific, ¢ MRS. GLOTH FACES | Arlington Woman Guilty of Assault on Mate—New Argument July 9. Found guilty of shooting her husband, Willlam C. Gloth, Arlington County commonwealth attorney, March 7, Mrs. Marjorie S. Gloth faces a new fight to 1‘empe the one-year jail sentence im- posed upon her last night by a jury in the Arlington County Circuit Court. Judge Howard W. Sinith of the Alex- | andria ration Court, who presided at the trial, has set July 9 for argu- ment on the motion of Mrs. Gloth's counsel to set aside the verdict of the jury on the ground that it was con- trary to law and the evidence. If Mrs. Gloth loses her fight for freedom, she will have to serve her sentence in the Arlington County jail in the neighbor- hood of her home where she has re- sided for more than 15 years. ‘The convicted woman was at liberty today, since the $5,000 bond which has guaranteed her freedom since her as- sault upon her husband stands without renewal until final disposition is made of her case. Out Over Three Hours. * ‘The abruptness of the one-day trial and the sole reliance of the defendant upon the testimony of her mother, Mrs, Delia Schneider, to support the claim of self-defense for the shooting, oe- casioned considerable surprise to spec- tators and opposing counsel alike. The jury was out three hours and eight minutes last night, returning at 10:55 o'clock. The it disturbed in the courtroom by the verdict was Mrs, Gloth, who had sat throughout the trial without the htest In emotion and displaying amusement fre- quently during the course of the testi- " Pinal 6:45 o'cl:{‘.‘ cused for supper. the case, which was expected to con- sume several days, had been completed at 4:15 o'clock, after Gloth took the stand to deny Mrs. Schnelder's charge of threats against his wife. No Surprise. The verdict of gullty caused no sur- ments were completed at The jury was then ex- The testimony in given on the stand by the defendant's mother, Failure of Louis C. Wenden- berg of Richmond, chief of counsel for the defense, to stand to substantiate her mother's lesti- mony went unexplained. wa the strongest t scored the State on behalf of Gloth was when his mother-in-law admitted she had called him back to the house atter he had left to return to his walting taxi, It was then that the shooting oceurred. She had testified that she “wasn't afrald of Billy." The two versions of the shooting and the events that Jed up to it were so different that apparently the dholee left to the jury was to deec upon which version to believe, Through sev- eral witnesses, Gloth sug | tore down the fabric of the defense claim T(Qontinued on Page 3, Column 6) g jcation of | prise in view of the unsupported story | ¢ Mrs. Gloth ont the | | tary Hoover, who will oppose the New York governor at the polls next Novem- | ber, devoted himself today to the work | of drafting his speech of acceptance, to tbe delivered at Stanford University the | first week in August. | Hoover is known to have regarded | Smith’s nomination as a certainty, and | he displayed no unusual interest in the broadcast of the balloting last night, although he listened attentively to the proceedings over the radio at his home. The Republican nominee had no pub- lic comment to make on the action of | the Democrats, but he discussed the | latest political development with a num- Hoover has set up a special offics on he ueohr;d floor of his S street home, re B 8 ® i-é_?"“ “-——«-M.MA FH i § TERM OF ONE YEAR =255 {Mr. Nutt had in hand. | amount™ of m‘m “We won't much money in this | campaign.” Dr. Work added. “We have | two good assets in our candidates.” States Report Favorably. Chairman Work received Tennessee, Iowa in conferences Representative Senator Watson ver would win in Jowa if nominsted and reiterated this belief also to Sec retary Hoover during a conference yes- terday at the Department of Commeree. of Republican State Clubs, §13 - teenth street, last night. The league ratified the nomination of Secreta Hoover and Senator Curtis and lai plans for getting out the Ropublican vote next November. Membership Goal Set. sent voters in the District in the forth- coming campaign, with a view to ad- vising them of their rights under the absent-voter laws in the various States. proceedings at the tion and added s the voters to the i November, | et PRODUCED BY The Evening Star To further trafic safety will be shown tomorrow along with the regular program at The Capitol Theater