Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1928, Page 4

CHURCH CONFERENCE ; DECLARES FOR HOOVER! | | HOOVER ELECTION BISHOP ASSAILS URGED BY JOHNSON California Senator Undenominational Body at Atlantie City Urges Its Members to Sup- | port Republican Nominee. ‘ | By the Associated Press. Opens |, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. August 1. The Eastern Conference of Undenomi: { national Churches unanimously adopted A resolution yesterday calling upon their | Be Referendum on Dry Campaign With Plea for United Party. B0 the Asmociated Prews | PASEDENA. Calil.. August 1 -Cleav- ng to the promise of support tendered | Herbert Hoover at_their Palo Alto cor ferance last week Senator Hiram John- son has opened his own campaign for | re-election with united party suppor Speakin here last v however, fused into t ity plea a de- nouncement of what he termed “the power trust” against Boulder Dam. an | issue on which he and the Secretary are ot in entire accord, and which | Jol n has announced will be stressed | 1n his own campaign. Mr. Hoover's stand on this issue in his campaign has not et been stated The California Senator, who long has been identified with the so-called pro- gressive wing of the party. and who has been in the past more often opposed to the Hoover policies than in favor of them, drew frequent applause from his hearers in the party harrony appeal Referring to the aetih .ifes of the pub- lic_utilities assaclations. which he has| aubbed “the power trust” in opposing ' al action on the Boulder, Dam bill in the past two sessions of | (‘m_g‘mu. the Senator said H “Those who are not afraid and who are not in terror of powerful opponents, | will go forward to the conflict, deter- mined to defeat this conspiracy, ona of the most shameless in our countr s his- tory. and to establish the right of Gov- ernment to function for the benefit of the people.” Senator Johnson is co-author of the Boulder Dam bill. which is the unfin- ished business of the Senate 2t the con of the nominee ght the Senator members to throw their entire support | and influence to Herbert Hoover in the coming presidential election. The conference attended by dele- gates from New Jers svivania, Delaware and Maryland. The resolution read. in part: “We the Eastern Conference of Undenomina- tional Churches. urge our people to reg- ister and vote and use their influence tn elect Herbert Hoover, wha promises vong appeal for a | ta try to enforce the law. and that they | use their influence to defeat Gov. Al- fred E. Smith." REPUBLICANS PLAN RADIO CAMPAIGN $200,000 to Be Expended for Broadcasting All Im- portant Speeches. By the Associated Press | Republicans are formulating an ex- tensive aerial offensive and there are indications that Herbert Hoover m: rely almost entirely on the radio in mak- ing his eampaign. Party leaders realize that the radio is a prospective avenue into almost every . New York, Penn- | ve of the next session. and which 'home and the speakers' bureau is pre- heml:fle\'n cannot be stopped again by pared to take b much ad: uxrp of | filibusters, as it has been twice previ-)this mew campaign element as opoor- cusly. . { tunity affords. M. E. Barker of Iliinois, It has been left for Hoover's campaign ' who handled the radio arrangements in | chairman to decide where Senator John- | the 1924 campaign, is preparing to as- | son's forceful arguments can be used 10 | gume command in this field again. the best advantage to the party in the | national campaign. { CURTIS TAKING REST | Vice Presidential Nominee Await- ing Official Notification Cere- mony Set for August 18. By the Assoclated Pres | TOPEKA. August 1.—Hoping fo/ obtain what rest he can before his eampaign gets under way, Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presi- | dential nominee, returned home yes- | terday to awgit his formal notification ceremony here August 18. Senator Curtis’ return to Topeka wes the second trip he has made to his home city since nis nomination. A few hours after his selection by the national convention made & trip from Kansas City to spend days here before returning to Washington and the East. Only a small group met his train to the thousends viee presidential 4 ”'fll‘ aflm v, len | yde Millr, who organized the Club. | pracl | SOCIALISTS BRING OUT OLD ATTACK ON HOOVER But Morgan Partner Later Retract-| ed Charges, Counter State- ment Says. By the Associsied Press NEW YORK. August 1.—National ecampaign headquarters of f. Soctalist | . in a survey cailed “Hoover the | t,” yesterday quoted a state- | Russe] C. Leffingwell. now 2, in J. P. Morgan 4{; (':lc that Mr. ‘was ignorant of inance, ex- economics. { has | Randolph Nea Under tentative plans more than | $200,000 of the campalgn chest will be | allotted to radio expenses. This is in | contrast with $40,000 spent for this puz- pose by the party in 1924. Nation-wide hook-ups will be sought | for the principal speeches of the cam- | paign. with emphasis centered on the opening speech of Mr. Hoover when he is formally notified of his nomination at | Palo Alto, Calif., a week from Saturday. | When President Coolidge addressed | {the Nation on election eve four years | ago the radio h k-up included 27 sta- | tions, which was the largest accom- | plished up to that time. More than 60 | stations may now be brought in on one | hook-up. | RECORD TENNESSEE VOTE IS EXPECTED Primary Is Scheduled Tomor- | row After Bitter Party | Struggles. | By the Associated Press. | r;omvn&f. 'renn.,‘.«u%u.‘n Both | major political parties In Tennessze {o- morrow will select their nominees for | United States Senator, governor, Rep- Tesentatives in CM:M. Legislature | and other minor offices in primaries | which promise to bring out a record | vote. Interest in the Democratic guberna- | torial race perhaps overshadows all| other contests because of the bitterness injected In the campaign by supporters of Gov. Henrv H. Horton, who seeks (o | succeed himself, and Hill McAllester of | Nashville. Senator Kenneth D. McKellar of Memphis is seeking renomination as United States Senator on the Demo- | cratic ticket. He is opposed by Repre- | sentative Finis J. Garrett of Dresden. minority leader of the House: John | Knoxville, defender of | Scopes in the Dayton evolution trial. and George L. Casey, Bradford. w et” plank in his platform. James A. Fowler, mayor of Knoxville ! 1= unopposed for the Republican nomi- Morgan offices made two_letters written to | 921 after the confiden- | memorandum had been published. | In these letters Mr. Lefingwell sg’n of the memorandum as having en “the heat and burden of the of his distress at the publica- tion of allegations and gave high’ Last night the coples of . Hoover in 1 tiel war,” praise to Mr. Hoover The memorandum was quoted in an analysis of Mr. Hoover made by Freda Kirehwey, managing editor of the Nation. COLORADAN CALLS G. 0. P. BUSINESS-OWNED PARTY Denver Attorney Prediets Smith Vietory—Bays Prohibitien Is fmoke Sereen, Br the Aseocizied Press DENVER, Colo., August | EBhatroth, Denver attorney, in the key- note speech before the Democratic State assembly here yesterday. assailed the Republican party as “the boss-rid- @en, big-business-owned party. in which the common people are without repre- Morrison ernment in 1912 it owns I sase Amid the cheers of ihe dele- gates. Shafroth decla the eighteenth szmendment of the Constitution Q o stay. but Gov. Alfred E. Smith wil lead the hosts of Demoeraey tn vietory in November Personally, 1 am for prohibition and 1 think the sighteenth amendment i here 1o stay.” he said. “but prohibition no more an issue in this campaign than | i was in 1908, It merely is & smoke screen being raised by the Republican party 1 cover up its shorteomings dur- ing the last eight years RECORD TES:I’ CONTINUES. Motor Boat Believed Near Memphis in Race Against Time MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 1 ) Orackling out ber starcalo song through an open exhaust. the Bogie, 26-fo0l mator launch, with three sportsmen nboard, was helieved nearing her home port, Memphis, today in her race with the phantom of the Robert E, Lee. When the craft essed alongside @ whar! al Vicksburg at 6:30 o'clock last might, she had clipped exactly 3 utes from the record set hy the Robert E. Lee in 1870 when the fa- mous packet raced the Natchez from Wew Orleans 1o St. Louls. The Robert F. Lee st a record of 90 hours and 31 minutes betwaen the two cities, and the mark has never been equaled. It is this vecord that Dr. Leroy. owner of the Bogie. & attempting 1o hreak Leaders of community snd church seereation are being offered s special &mum at the University of Wis- ¥ nation. “The gubernatorial race has been par- ticularly hot in Shelby County (Mem- phis), where a war of advertisements was waged between Clarence Saunders Memphis chain store operator and west Tennessee manager for Gov. Horton, and E. H. (Ed) Crump, leader of the Shelby County political machine, Judge John T. Raulston of Win- chester, who presided at the Scopes trial, and Raleigh 8. Hopkins of Colum- bia are candidates for the gubernatorial nomination on the Republican ticket. J. Will Taylor, Republic second dis- ; Edward E. Eslick, Democr: enth. and Gordon Rrowning, De eighth, are the only Congressmen Wi contests in the primar Five Demo- crats and one Republican are seeking Representative Garrett's office from the ninth. ADDRESSES SCOUTS. Assistant Becretary Robinson Flies to Make Speech. Assistant Secyetary of the Navy T Douglass Robinson left the Naval Air Btation todey in a plane for Camp Roosevelt, on Chesapeake Bay, 5 miles south of Chesapeake Peach, o address Boy Scouts in camp there. He planned o return to Washington by air this afternoon Mr. Robinson was accompanied on the trip by Linn C. Drake, Washington Roy Beout leader | ever.” he added, | to eat. but only empty shells will be left s |Club in the Jefferson magisiertal dis- | Question. ATLANTA, Ga. August 1.—Bishop| W. N. Ainsworth of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South in a formal state- ment against the presidential candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith declared yes- terday that no one “should be hegulled by the sophistry that the President can- The coming election will be largely a referendum on national prohibition.” <aid the bishop in his statement, which was issued on the eve of his departure for China and Japan. where he goes to his mission fields. “The wets of all parties will support him (Smith). The pity is that some drys and a few good men in the ‘Bible beit’ (the South) join the notorious Mencken, large num- | ers in the cities of the North and all | the loose elements to put him in the presidential chair.” | “And then If successful” the state- ment continued, “they will immediately | assert that his election is the will of | the people and appeal to all Congress- men to listen to the volee of the | people.’ Declaring that Smith has fought every vestige of anti-liquor reform, the bishop went on to say that “he has done it so persistently and spectac- ularly that he has become the idol of all the rabid and intolerant wets of America.” “The nominee is personally and hy practice wet.” the statement said. “He is a babitual drinker. “Unless as President he reforms, he’| would to transport liquors to the | White House, in violation of the Na- | tion's law, or go constantly outside for bootleg liquor, or to the homes of | friends to imbibe their pre-prohibition stocks.” |SEES DRY SMITH MEN LACKING IN COURAGE Cherrington Says Tammany Can- not Always Provide Attractions for Those Who Bolt. The fact that normally “dry” Demo- crats are supporting the presidential candidacy of Al 8mith is due to an ab- sence of high political courage. in the opinion of Ernest H. Cherrington. gen- eral secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism. \ In a statement issued here vesterday Mr. Cherrington said that the dry sup- port for “the wet Tammany Hall prod- uct, Al Smith.” is no cause for surprise since “it requires a very high degree of courage to sacrifice a temporary per- sonal or political advantage for the | greater and more lasting good | “There are men,” he said, who would dare say. ‘I would rather be right than President,’ but there are others who for many reasons cannot see their way to| such high ground.” | “It should be borne in mind, how- “that the American people have a reasonably good memory and other elections will follow the one of 1928. In those elections it is quite ! unlikely that Tammany Hall will pro- vide either the political cunning or the sinews of war to save those who today | are forgetting principle for the sake of imaginary immediate gain, which they mislabel party regularity or party lo ¥ The cat's paws may pull the! chestnuts out of the fire for Tammany for the kittens who think tigers.” Hoover-Curtis Club Planned. al Dispaich to The Star, POTOMAC, Va., August 1. nent organization of a Hoover-Curtis trict of Arlington County will be ef- fected tomorrow ‘night at a meeting in the auditorium of the town hall building at 8 o'clock. Preliminary | plans were made Monday night at a| meeting of 40 members of the Repub- | lican party in Arlington County. W.B.| Fulton, mayor-elect of Potomac. was| elected temporary chairman and Floyd | B. Keller temporary secrefary. It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. THE MORR!S Easy to Pa 1 §. $1,200 $100.00 $6,000 $500.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Onder Supervision U. 8. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. Lansburgh & Bro. Extend Their Deepest Sympathy { to Bereaved Family ‘: of *fulius Goldenberg the b | & - | sk Holds Coming Election Will |Loeb Says Determined Effort| Promise of an New York for the Hoover-Curtis ticket | was promised at headquarters vesterday by William Loeb. former secretary velt Mr not change the cighteenth amendment " (he history of New York this year said the the campaign with plenty of confidence although the party organization is still more or less in a state of flux.” I He tial vote in New York State I nt the eligibles will | State and congressional offices fell con- siderably bers of purchaseable negaoes and foreign- Coolidge carried the State by 860,000 in ' Buddhist priests came to the rescue é WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1928, four years ago will only tend to in-| crease the handicap which Gov. Smith | must overcome to carry the State, Mer 0. P. PLANS FIGHT 1 1924 and A heavier vote than that o!t b said. Business and employment conditions generally to support Gov. Smith because he hap- | pens to be a native son, according to | | Mr. Loeb, nor do his victories in guber- natorial races discourage Republican | leaders as they prepare to launch a | State-wide drive for Hoover. | widespread feeling in New York, he said, | that Gov. Smith will find that’ there is a vast difference between running for governor and running for President in | that State | Mr_Loeb is now vice president of the | American Smelting & Refining Co. He | was private se President Roosevelt from the of his term as governor of New York State until he left the White Houge, and eol- lector of the port at New York from Loeb predicted the largest vote in | 1909 to 1013, He $ “going_into Buddhists Feed Beggars {ANGHA! 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