Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1930, Page 4

PARTIALITY LAID - T0 SENATOR NYE Républicans Roiled by Failure of Probe to Take in Democrats. & BY MARK SULLIVAN. Republibans in Washington watch BSenator Nye's investigations of senato- rial primaries in Chicago with interest, but they think much more about an- other aspect of the committee. They discuss whether Nye is going to get| around to investigating any Democratic primaries. Republicans complain that Nye, oficially a progressive Republican, 1 actually an “assistant Democrat.” They charge him with so focusing and limiting his investigations as to tend exclusively to do detriment to Republi- can senatorial candidates in Northern States. Whether Senator Nye's investiga- tions of senatorial primaries will ex- tend into Southern States is one of the most explosive questions of the cam- . In this question intent interest taken by & group not mainly Republi- can, but rather to be described as pro- ves and radicals in Washington, New York and elsewhere. What this group has in mind is to use the Nye committee as & means to open up the very explosive question of negro par- ticipation, or, more accurately, non- jpation in Democratic primaries the South. That issue carried to the end to which some persons want to carry it would question the title of at least 10 Democratic Senators to their seats. Carge Angrily Made. The charge that Nye's committee 1a fgnoring Southern primaries is made energetically and angril» The charge, #0 far as it implies intent n Senator ’s part, is probably unfamk So far as he official faults they Atrise from an excitability and vacillation of tem- ent which would prevent him laying out & plan of work care- fully and sticking to it. His tempera- mental defect is that he would under- take in good faith such & quantity of investigation as could not practicably be carried out in & year, much less in seven weeks. Senator Nye seems actually to have taken account of the complaint about the South and to have sent secret in- vestigators into some Southern States, ncluding North Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana. Upon this, however, the Republicans renew their complaint. They say the investigators have been Democrats, and that secret sleuthing around amounts to nothing unless Sena- tor Nye follows it up with public hear- such as have made the Illinois conspicuous. ‘The really explosive potentiality of the BSenate committee looking into Southern Democratic primaries is to be found in an examination of the broad charter of powers under which the Nye committee acts. The committee is di- rected by the Senate resolution, care- fully written by Senator Norris of Ne- braska, to investigate much more than the expenditure” of money. It is di- rected to cover “the use of any other means or influence * * * which would not only be of public interest, but which ‘would aid the Senate in * * * deciding any contest * * * involving the right to a seat in the United States Senate.” Colored Vote Involved. as respects ithern , the par= ticipation or non-| tion of Negro voters. That the resolution includes this meaning is believed, and with alarm, by’ ‘Southern Senators who voted for the resolution. ‘They mp?orwd 80 broad a resolution, though with much misgiving, as part of their co-operation with the Prog: sive Republicans and in the expecta- tion that probably expen: money would be the only thing actually investigated. Lately. some Southern Democrats have come to believe the passage of this resolution and the very existence and activities of the Nye committee inquir- ing into State primaries is a violation of the principle States’ rfights, which the Democrats have stubbornly de- fended since the Civil War. Disinterested observers believe, and believe with regret, that this resolution and the Nye Committee throws wide open the way for Federal interference with State elections. They think it is only a matter of timeuntil the Nye Committee or some successor of it must yield to demand from Negroes and oth- ers that they take up the matter of Negro voting in Southern Democratic primaries. Acute for Two Reasons, ‘The matter is acute just now, for two reasons. - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has grown confident because of its suc- cessful part in preventing the confirma- tion of an appointee to the Supreme Court, Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina, who was charged with pub- licly taking a position adverse to Negro participation in politics. In the second place, Negro Voters have just won a decisive advantage in the Federal courts. A United States Circuit Court has declared unconstitu- tional a congition of the Democratic primary syst in Virginia which ex- | cludes “Negroes, Apparently the Vir- ginla Democratic officials concerned did not care to contest the decision, since they have just this week permitted the time limit for an appeal to expire, and the decision stands. ‘The net of the situation is that there are energetic persons who are deter- mined to make use of the Nye commit- tee as & step toward a large end. The purpose is to have the Senate debate and pass upon the question whether a Southern Democratic Senator is en- titled to his seat if he won it in a pri- mary in which Negro voters were de- rived of participation. The petsons aving this determination are primarily | radicals or Progressives rather than ; Republicans and Republicanism is ot their motive, though the Republicans would presumably benefit. Any one fa- miliar with American history since the Ctvil War knows this is a decidedly ex- | plosive situation. H (Copyright GREAT BRITAIN’S JOBLESS FIND SLIM RAY OF HOPE | 1930 By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 17.—A total of | 2,139,500 men and women are now un- | employed in Great Britain and even | the most optimistic can see little signs of any brightening in this dark cloud | that hangs over the economic, mcml} and political life of the country. 1 For the last nine months, indeed, the | position has been growing worse stead- ily, the monthly unemployment totals | since January last having been in ap- | proximate figures as follo | January . ‘The percentage of unemployment in all industries for August, the latest fig- ures to be worked out, was 17.5. The industries chiefly affected during the present year have been iron and steel manufacturing, engineering, shipbuild- ing, the metal trades, textiles, building THE Representative Dempsey of New York, upper left, chairman of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, yesterday was defeated in the Republican primary, while Phillip La Follette, lower left, brother of the Senator, won the Repub- lican gubernatorial nomination in Wis- consin from Gov. Kohler. “Bossy” Gil- lis, right, the bad boy mayor, was trounced soundly in the Massachusetts Republican senatorial primas getting about one of each 10 votes cast. LAFOLLETTE WINS OVER GOV. KOHLER Landslide Throws Son of Late Senator and Ticket Mates Into Office. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis,, September 17.— The name La Follette once again has evoked a thunderous “aye” from Re- publican voters of Wisconsin. They nominated Philip F. La Fol- lette, youngest son of the late Robert Marion La Follette, as the Republican candidate for governor, in a Btatewide primary yesterday. His majority may reach 110,000, Walter J. Kohler, the manufacturer, who swept into office two years ago as a “businessman_candidate,” was swept out on the La Follette landslide. The vote, in 2,625 out of 2,824 precincts, was: Kohler, 252,063; La Follette, 353,349, Assured of Election. La Folletfe, assured by unbroken Kreeedent of election this Fall, will join is brother in public -officeto add a new chapter to the La Follette tradi- tion. The brother, United States Senator from in. He fought side by side with Philip in the campaign. The younger La Follette, only 33 years old, successfully surmounted the criticism that he was too young and too inexperienced. His fight was to sup- port the principles, brought up to date, which split the Republican party in ‘Wisconsin nearly 30 years ago. As leader of the Progressive-Republi- cans, he carried on the battle with the “Conservatives,” whose candidate Koh- ler was. Hoover Linked with Kohler. He was charged with fomenting a dynasty; with being & demagogue; with stirrigg 'up discontent. His answer was a repeated demand that the State vote out Kohler as a member of the ad- ministration group which he held re- sponsible for unemployment and the business depression. President Hoover was linked with Kohler in responsi- bility by Progressive leaders. Farmers and workingmen alike in- dorsed his declarations. He carried a la part of the labor vote, though Kohler had been conceded an equal chance. The rural ésstricts, which more than once voted “old Bob” into office, responded with consistent majorities. Kohier is a millionaire. “Which shall rule, man or money?” was the question posed by La Follette supporters Shook head waving, fists shaking, “Phil” went through the campaign like a thunderbolt. Running Mates Win. Gov. Kohler used his airplane to travel from town to town. The crowds that came to greet him so nearly equal- ed those of La Follette that few persons were willing to predict his defeat. Not only did thing before him, but his running mates in the official cabinet apparently did likewise. Soft-spoken “Sol” Levitan, otherwise grim campaign, was renomi- nated for State treasurer the fifth time. In congressional races results re- mained in doubt, although at least five Progressives were assured of renomi- nation. They are Henry Allen Cooper burn, James A. Frear of Hudson, George J. Schneider of Appleton. Charles E. Hammersley, Democratic candidate for Governor, was unopposed, as was the rest of his slate. The Demo- crats are the minority party in Wiscon- tween 50,000 and 60,000. Three in House Likely to Lose. Three. new faces in congressional delegation appeared likely today as late returns added emphasis to | & switch in voting sentiment. The net change appeared to be a gain of two for the wets. The pro- gressives gained one over the conserv- ative faction of the Republican party. Representative Merlin Hull, seventh district, apparently lost to Gardner Withrow, wet Progressive. The eighth district polling indicated that E. E. Browne, dry Progressive, would be re- placed by Gerald Boileau of Wausau, wet Progressive. 'The aixth district, where all the candidates opposed pro- hibition, saw the evident victory of Campbell of Oshkosh. The election was for the unexpired term of the late Florian Lampert, and for a new term. Eastern Star Supper Planned. VIENNA, Va, September 17 (Spe- clal).—Harmony Chapter, No. 60, Order ginning at 5:30 o'clock in the Masonic The supper will be followed Amtr:lin Grubstakes Miners. and dock and harbor services. Coal mining has stayed much in the same plight as for many months past. The industries showing improvement have beeh the jute incustry and candy manu- uring. Ministry of & rush nuggets have been found. Follette sweep every- | who gave the only bright touch to an | of Racine, Hubert H. Peavey of Wash- | Charles A. Kading of Watertown and | sin and although their votes have not | been totaled, it is expected to be be- | the Wisconsin | Phil Lehner, a Progressive, over W. J. of the Eastern Star, will serve a chick- | en salad supper tomorrow evening be- | SYDNEY, September 17 (#).—To help relieve unemployment, the Australian e i have. followed dreds of pros] TS W) ive follo tnbo the interlor. where big goid DENPSEY BEATEN INNEW YORK RACE Wet Candidate Defeats House Rivers and Harbors Group Chairman. By the Associated Press. » N. Y., September 17.—Per- i»nallueu and party organization back- |ing counted more, apparently, in yes- | terday's primary election than the at- titude of the various candidates toward the wet and dry controversy. Democratic aspirants for congres- sional and legislative nominations were not embarrassed by the prohibition question, as all of them are wet. prohibition was an issue in the anti- orimary campaigns, but the results of the balloting indicated that the elec- torate generally supported candidates backed by the party organization of those who were seeking remnomination, rdless of their attitude toward pro- hibition. An exception was noted in the for- tieth congressional district, where Rep- resentative 8. Wallace Dempsey, chair- man of the Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee of the House, was defeated for Republican _renomination by Walter Gresham Andrews. Dempsey was charged by his opponent with not hav- ing declared himself on the prohibi- tion question. Andrews was an avowed enemy of the eig.‘centh amendment. In the thirty-fourth district, along the dry southern tier of counties, Harold 8. Tolley, a dry, who was supported by a number of reform organizations, was unsuccessful in his fight to prevent | the remomination of Representative John D. Clarke, Republican. |~ ‘Tolley, in his campaign, referred re- | peatedly to a reputed declaration of | Representative Clarke that his personal views regarding prohibition did not matter so long as he voted dry in ac- cordance with the wishes of the elec- tors in his district. Jolley also main- tained that Clarke had failed to live up to a promise to retire from Congress |at the expiration of his term in con- sideration of Tolley withdrawing from a primary fight against him two years | ago. Charles D. Millard, a political ward of the veteran Westchester County leader, William L. Ward, won a, tri- angular contest for Republican nomina- | tion in the twenty-fifth district. Mil- | lard was in the unusual position of be- ing considered too wet by one opponent and too dry by the other. | _ Representatives James 8. Parker, | Prank Crowther, Galeh, Stalker and | Edmund F. Cooke won easy victorles in their respective districts. All but Cooke were dry. | ARMY CHANGES Two Master Sergeants Transferred to the Retired List. Maj. Walter Moore, Infantry, has been transferred from Pittsburgh to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; Maj. Clyde C. Johnston, Medical Corps, from Mount Clemens, Mich., to Kelly Field, Tex., and Capt. Krauth W. Thom, Quarter- | master Corps, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Master Sergt. Edward E. Feehley, Coast Artillery, at Walter Reed General Hospital, and Master Sergt. William T. Gossett, 12th Infantry, at Fort Wash- ington, Md., have been placed on the Army retired list on their own applica- tion, each soldier having had more than 30 years' active military service. Gets 19th Term | | | | | REPRESENTATIVE HENRY ALLEN COOPER Of Kenosha, first Wisconsin district, who was 80 years old September 8, was renominated by the Rep: piican pmmn resterday’s imary el jon, assuring i n-dulo:"tu his =Mscesih terss. On the Republican side, however, | ORDERED DRAPER BY 5,000 Ely Defeats Fitzgerald in Democratic Race for Governor. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 17.—William M. Butler, dry, former chairman of the Republican’ National Committee, led | Eben 8. Draper, wet, for the Republican | senatorial nomination today and ap- | peared assured of victory. Returns from 1,624 of the 1,649 pre- cincts, gave Butier, 159,095; Draper, 150.850; Mayor Gillls of ‘Newburyport, 22216. Gov. Frank G. Allen, Republican dry, and Joseph B. Ely, Democratic modifi- cationist, were nominated by their re- lgoctiv! arties to oppose each other in ‘the gubernatorial election. Allen Gets 12°to 1 Majority. Allenr, who did not campaign but stood on his record as Governor, was renominated by an' overwhelming ma- Jority over former Mayor John D. Devir of Malden, who likewise did not cam- paign actively. Devir did not make an issue of prohibition, but announced himself as a candidate representing the common people. The vote: Allen, 300,018; Devir, 24,414. Ely's nomination was conceded by his opponents, John J. Cummings of Bos- ton and John F. Fitzgerald, a former Boston mayor, long before the tabula- tion of the vote had neared completion, Ely received 116,704, to 84,206 for Fitz- gerald. Fitzgerald ‘actually had withdrawn from the contest because of ill health, but there remained insufficient time to remove his name from the ballot. Mayor James M. Curley of Boston had urged Fitzgerald's nomination. He at- tacked Ely as a foe of the Irich race. Coolidge to Run for Senate. Marcus A. Coolidge, won the Demo- cratic nomination for Senator. In 1,512 recincts, he had 73,856 votes; Joseph g. ©O'Connell, former Representative; was next with 49,602. Thomas C. O'Brien, former Suffolk County district attorney, was third with 41,270 votes. ! All are ‘wet. Former Gov. Eugene N. Foss and Peter J. Joyce, Boston drys, were in the ruck. Results in House Races. ‘The lengthy list of candidates for counting of the votes in the congres- sional contests. In the Republican contest in the second -district, Joshua L. Brooks, wet, backed by prominent Republican lead- ers, was runnmg ahead of his one wet and two dry opponents. With 31 pre- cincts out of 91 reported, Brooks had 3,809 votes against 1,333 for Willlam H. Peiker, dry, former mayor of North- hampton; 661 for Frank C. Hinckley, wet, and 319 for Mrs. Ella M. Roberts, dry. The present Democratic Repre- | sentative from that district, Willlam J. | Granfleld, & wet, was unopposed for re- nomination, Dallinger . Wins. Frederick W. Dallinger, dry Republi- can, appeared assured of renomination over Michael A. Fredo, his wet op- | ponent, in the eighth district. In the | Democratic contest in the same district, | John P. Brennan appeared to be win- ning from Michael J. Mahoney. Both | are wets. | De Witt Clinton De Wolf was first |in a fleld of five wets in the first con. | gressional Democratic contest. Ninety- | two of the 138 precincts gave De Wolf 2,043 votes inst 1,330 for Thomas F. | Cassidy, 1,083 for William A. O'Hearn, 1302 for Hugh McLean and 184 for George E. Haggerty. The winner will oppose Representa- tive Allen T. Treadway in November. lway had no opposition for re- nomination by the Republicans, CONNECTICUT 6. 0. P. NOMINATES ROGERS Lieut. Gov. Will Oppose Dr. Cross for Governor of State. By the Assoclated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., September 17.- The Republican party of Connecticut | yesterday nominated Lieut. Gov. Ernest E. Rogers of New London, a dry, as its candidate for Governor, and adopted a platform advocating restoration of liquor control to the States. In the November elections Rogers will oppose Dr. Wilbur L. Cross, dean emeri- tus of Yale University Graduate School, the wet Democratic candidate. The Democratic platform calls for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. The Republican Resolutions Commit- tee last night adopted a plank which called for the repeal, but the wording | was changed overnight upon the in- sistence of J. Henry Roraback, chair- man of the Republican State Commit- tee. Roraback, it was learned, threatened to resign the party management if such a plank were adopted. So in its place |a plank scoring conditions under the eighteenth amendment urging restora- | tion of State control was passed and approved by the convention without a dissenting vote. 'DEMOCRAT QUITS TO AID WET RIVAL Representative Britten of Illinois, Republican, Is Lauded by “Opposition.” ! By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, September 17.—Demo- cratic leaders in Cook County today | announced that Thomas Rohan, Demo- | eratic nominee for Congress from the ninth district, had withdrawn, and said | that the Democrats would support | Representative Fred A. Britten of the | ninth district, a Republican and a wet. Discussing _this decision, Anton J. Cermak, chairman of the Democratic County’ Central Committee, lauded Representative Britten for his “great services in the cause of personal liberty.” Rohan, explaining his withdrawal, said he wished to assure the election of Britten “Mr. Britten stands for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, the repeal of the Volstead act, and the substitution | for it of legislation which will permit the States to control the manufacture | of light wines and beer; and he is for | the repeal of the Tllinois search and seizure law,” amplified Rohan. “On all of these vital issues his posi- tion and mine would be the same and any contest between us would simply divide the friends of personal liberty.” Two Chinese Enter Holy Cross i i | WORCESTER, Mass, September 17 | (#)—Two Chinese students, the first of their race to enter Holy Cross College, were registered there yesterday to take up the regular course when sessions are resumed next week. They are Cheng Hua Lin, 19 years old, and Kno-Cheng Hsu, 28, both of whom come from the region of Mukden. They are interested in ath- letics, soccer and basket ball, which they played in their homeland. —_— ‘The loss to the world wealth rep- resented by the rusting of kon and t ,000,000. per_year, the various- State offices delayed the | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, BUTLER DEFEATS >4 Not Candidate for Governor, Says New York Official. Outlawing of Saloons and Co-operation With States Favored. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—Charles H. Tuttle has announced his resigna- tion as United States attorney for the southern district of New York in & statement urging repeal of the eight- eenth amendment, As a substitute for the amendment, he advocated a constitutional guaran- tee outlawing the saloon system and private traffic in liquor, and giving the Federal Government full power to assist in enforcement in those States which desire to retain prohibition. He advocated State control, sale and distribution of liquor in those States which desire to go wet. Strict Enforcement Urged. Pending legal action, he urged strict enforcement, of the eighteenth amend- ment, and the Volstead act with full use in New York State of the nuisance law to abolish “plague spots of the | liquor traffic.” Mr. Tuttle sald his resignation had been forwarded to President Hoover to take effect at his pleasure and not later than November 16. In his formal statement Tuttle said he was not a candidate for public office and did not wish to bs considered in that respect. The statement was given out after he had held a conference with William J. Mater, chairman of the Republican State Committee. Considered Likely Candidate, Tuttle has been considered as a likely candidate for Governor and his position SEPTEMBER 17, 1930. TTORNEY TUTTLE RESIGNS, URGING DRY LAW REPEAL CHARLES H. TUTTLE. | on the liquor question has been awaited | with interest by party leaders. In his statement Tuttle sald: “While temperance, as an aid to the moral and | economic progress of our country, is | desired by all, no one is or could be satisfied with things as they are under national prohibition. “The good in national prohibition lies in its outlawing of the saloon and the saloon system, and in its grant to Con- gress of power to co-operate internally within the States that maintain a pro- hibition system. “The evil in national prohibition lies largely in the compulsion sought to be placed upon States which do not desire the prohibition system. “This system, I believe, . should . be eliminated fro mthe Constitution. DEMOCRATS PIK “WET”INDELAWARE November Issue Settled by| Bayard Nomination for Sen-! ate Against Hastings. By the Assoclated Prass. DOVER, Del, September 17.—Dela- ware Democrats yesterday nominated Thomas F. Bayard of Wilmington, an avowed “wet,” for United States Sen- ator, and adopted a platform which in- cluded a “wet” plank. This insured a “wet” and “dry” fight at the general election in November. ©On the Republican side Senator Daniel ©O. Hastings of Dover is the nominee on a “dry” platform. Bayard, s former United States Sen- ator, was nominated by the Democratic State Committee after a keen battle with Josiah Marvel, also of Wilmington. The vote was 115 to 95. Marvel, Demo- cratic national committeeman and re- cently elected president of the Amer- ican Bar Association, did not commit- himself on the prohibition . question during the campaign, but was generally supported by the dry forces. Le Fevre for House. John P. Le Fevre was named as the candidate for the House of Repre- sentatives. Bayard was nominated for both the short and long term in the Senate. Hastings, who was nominated by the Republican State Convention a week ago, is serving by appointment as a successor to Senator Coleman du Pont, who resigned in December, 1928, be- cause of ill health. The platform adopted by the Demo- crats advocated repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law, de- nounced the present tariff bill as “bargain and sale of favors to a politi- cal minority in the hope of campaign funds for future elections,” and in- dorsed the old age pension plan. Presented by Mr. Bayard after his nomination, the “wet” plank was adopted by an aye and nay vote, with but few delegates dissenting. Dry Laws Condemned. “Ten years of dearly bought expe-| rience,” it read, “has amply proved to every ' calm-thinking person in this country that the eighteenth amend- ment and the Volstead law do not and cannot accomplish their expressed in- | tent and purpose. “They have uiterly failed to do so. On the other hand, there has come into existence solely by reason of the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act an attack upon our social civic and legal life, which bids fair to undermine the_stability of our form of government. * * We advo- cate the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return of the several States of the power surrendered thereunder believing that the true so- lution to the problem can and will be worked out by the States themselves. “We are absolutely opposed to the return of the saloon in any form; we favor the repeal in Delaware of the Klair law in order that physicians may prescribe liquor for their patients in their care and that such prescriptions may be lawfully filled.” Gas Franchise Granted. LURAY, Va., September 17 (Special). At a meeting of the town council Shenandoah City voted unanimously to grant a gas franchise to Macbeth & Co. of New York. This company proposes to erect a plant and pipe line costing $15 qflfl. No time has been set for be- ginning the plant, but the company forfeits the franchise unless they are readv to give service within two years. G. 0. P. Women to Meet. SILVER SPRING, Md. September 17 (Special) —A meeting of the Women's Republican Club of Silver Spring will be held this afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. C. W. Mitchell ss session and short address by BALLARD Offers UNDIVIDED RESPONSIBILITY and a PERMANENT INVESTMENT EQUIPMENT SEE OIL BURNING HUEY LONG SEEMS SURE OF ELECTION TO SENATE Political Holiday Declared as Dem: ocratic Factions Bury Hatchet and Back Governor. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 17.—Un- less the situation changes between now and November 4, Gov. Huey P. Long will be elected United States Senator from Louislana without opposition, ‘The day after the Democratic nomi- nation of Gov. Long over Senator Jo- seph E. Ransdell, Republican leaders began a feeling out of anti-Long Demo- cratic leaders to determine what sup- port could be obtained from them if the Republicans put out a candidate as an independent to oppose Long in the general election. ‘They received little encouragement from the Democrats, and in the midst of the discussions the warring Demo- cratic factions got together in a peace pact at the suggestion of the: Associa- | tion of Commerce. A political holiday was declared and Gov. Long has called the State Legis- lature in session to enact his $68,000,- 000 bond issue for roads and other public improvements, and from indica- tions it will besadopted without serious opposition. ey MISSOURI SOCIET WILL HONOR MOTHERS |81, Returning From France, Will | Be Guests at Reception and Tour. Plans have been conipleted for the entertainment of 81 Gold Star "Mothers who will visit Washington the -last of | the week en route to their homes in Missourl following _a. pilgrimage to France. Mrs. H. McCluer of Kansas | City, former president of the American| War Mothers, is in Washington assist- ing with the arrangements. A reception will be tendered the vis-| itors Saturday night at the Washington Hotel by the District Chapters, Ameri- can War Mothers. Sunday afternoon | services will be held at the Tomb of | the Unknown Soldier. Among special guests invited are Sec- retary of War Hurley, Secretary of | Agriculture Hyde, Assistant Secretary of | war Payne, Gen. Pershing and Maj. | Gen. John L. De Witt. Monday morning the mothers will go | to Mount Vernon, after which they will |be received by the President. The | mothers are guests of the Missouri So- clety of Washington. The corimittee in charge will be Mrs. | Bessie P. Bruegdeman, chairman; Mrs. Otis J. Rogers, Mrs. Charles S. Keyser, |Mrs. Sarah Andrew, Mrs. Amos A. Fries, Mrs. Norman Nock and Mrs. Laura V. Dann. CAMPAIGN FOR $1,700 STARTED BY FIREMEN ‘Hynttlville Volunteer Department Needs Funds to Pay Debt on Rebuilt Pumper. Special Dispatch o The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 17 —Distribution of literature has been tarted as the Hyattsville Volunteer | Fire Department began its annual cam- paign for honorary members. Canvass- ing will begin tomorrow night in the territory in which literature was dis- | tributed. Throughout the town canvass- {ing will follow two nights later in ter- | ritory in_ which literature is left. A total of $1,700 is sought to wipe out the debt incurred .when the 750- {gallon pumper was rebuilt to bring it | to the same efficiency as the new 1,000~ | gallon pumper. In an interesting folder, _entitled Few Fiery Facts,” prepared by C. E. | Trott, chairman of the committee in charge of the drive, it is pointed out that the department holds the town fire insurance rate down to 27 cents per $100, practically the same rate as | prevails in Washington, D, C., protected by a paid department. Besides Trott, members of the com- mittee conducting the campaign are Lloyd Anderson, Clifford Proctor and Ernest Darns. EAST'SG.0.P.HELD NOT YET BONE DRY Massachusetts Primary Be- lieved No More Significant Than Tuttle’s Stand. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. | The Republican party in the East has by no means surrendered to the drys. The outcome of Tuesday's primaries | in Massachusetts in which former Sen- | ator William M. Butler, a dry, won the Republican - nomination over Eben S Draper, a wet, was hardly more signifi- cant than the form of the announce- | ment whereby United States Attorney | Tuttle came out for repeal of the eight- | eenth amendment and at the same time | toid ‘his party -collea he did not wish to be considered for the Republican nomination for Governor of New York. | While here and there were wet victo- | ries in the: contests for Congress, the | Connecticut Republicans nominated a dry for Governor, and the Ohio Demo- crats, on the ‘advice of their senatorial candidate, Robert Bulkley, omitted the prohibition issue altogether by adopting & platform advocating law enfgrcement, New York Signifieant. Although the Democrats in Ohio were told by Mr. Bulkley, a wet, that they need not put a repeal plank in their platform, the truth is that the Demo- crats in Ohio are not any more confi- dent than are the Republicans in New York that the time has come to commit the party to a definite stand on the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment. ‘What is happening in New York is rather significant of tie fact that per- sonality is the guide rather than issues in selecting candidates. Even if the candidate happens to have views some- what opposed to large elements in his own party, politiclans are taking a chance on the popularity of the man rather thm'tgamu:glup he may bring with res) s views. ‘Thus ‘L):lf: ‘Tuttle, in sending his resig- nation to Mr, Hoover as United States attorney and coming out in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment, is expressing his personal view when he says he does not wich to be considered for the Republican nomination for Gov- ernor. It means that if the Republican party in New York wants to take a chance on naming him anyhow, in the face of certain opposition from the drys, it will be the responsibility of the State political leaders. Several of the latter conferred in New York with Mr. Tuttle before he made his announce- ment and the grnblem is now not Mr. Tuttle’s, but that of the Republican chieftains. ‘Morrow Influence Seen, In New Jersey the Republicans were not ready to put a repeal plank in their latform, and would not have done so gld it not been for the insistence of Dwight Morrow immediately after his overwhelming triumph in the senatorial primary. Several of the dry leaders re- fused to construe the big vote given to Mr. Morrow as due to the dry issue, but to his public career and ability. Thus there .exists dissension in the ranks in New Jersey, but it will not be sufficient to affect Mr. Morrow's chances. Some of the New York State Repub- lican leaders who come from dry sec- tions are so anxious to get a good candi- date for Governor in order to make a Teal bid for the governorship, which has not been in the hands of the Repub- licans for a decade, that they are willing to overlook Mr. Tuttle’s views and re- ard them as personal. | . As & mltterpor fact, with Gov. Roose- velt advocating repeal of the eighteenth | amendment _ there are Republican | chieftains who think that a similar | stand by .Mr, Tuttle will take the is-| sue out of fhe campaign altogether. The Anti-Saloon League, however, is getting ready to nominate a third candidate in the hope of punishing the Republican wets for their tactics. Prohibition, therefore, still remains a personal and local issue, which can be overshadowed by the personality of the candidate and his suitability for public office on other grounds than the wet and dry issue. The evidence thus | far in the congressional campaign shows that in the wet States of the East the Democrats have gone over completely to the side of repeal, but that the Republicans are stifl divided | on the question. | (Copyright. 1930.) TWO SEMINARIES UNITE | PITTSBURGH, September 17 (&) Merger of Xenia Theological Seminary formerly of St. Louis, Mo., and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary was ETAND DRYLINE ORAN N2 STATES Massachusetts and Dela- ware Nominees Will Pro- vide Direct Test. (Continued From First Page.) cratic senatorial nomination, Jostah Marvel, recently elected president of the American Bar Association, was running against Senator Bayard. Connecticut Platform Is Damp. In the Connecticut Republican Stats convention held yesterday in Hartford, the Republicans nominated a dry for Governor, it is true, but they wrote into their party platform a plank calling for the restoration of liquor. control to the States. The plank originally had been drafted so as to demand the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. This was changed overnight at the demand of the Republican boss of the State, J. Henry Horabach. How the control of liquor traffic is to be placed entirely with. the States without some change in the eighteenth amendment is diffi- cult to understand. In Wisconsin, three dry Progressives, candidates for renomination for _the House, were defeated, and in New York, Representative Dempsey, chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee, was defeated in the Republican primary for renomination by a wet, Gresham Andrews, who favored dry law repeal. Outside of the defeat of Mr. Dempsey, the upstate Republicans, running as drys for Republican nomination for ths House, appear to have won. Bitter Fights in Bay State. The Massachusetts primary contests were fought bitterly by both Repub- licans and Democrats. The candidacy of Willlam M. Butler for the Senate was supported by former President Calvig Coolidge, whose campaign manage Butler was in 1924. It was opposF strongly, however, by members of thw family of the late Senator Lodge, in- cluding Senator Lodge’s daughter, Mrs. Constance Willlams, who charged that Lodge had been treated “like a plck- pocket” at the Cleveland Convention in 1924 at the instance of Mr. Butler, then national chairman. Many of the younger Jeaders of the Republicans swung over to Draper in opposition to Butler, too. The Democrats have nominated in Massachusetts two “Yankees” for the key positions on their party ticket— Marcus A. Coolidge for Senator and Joseph B. Ely for Governor, - The Boston democracy has been denied either of these two places on the party ticket. The situation was complicated greatly for the Democrats in the last week of the primary campaign by the withdrawal of former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of Boston from the gubers natorial contest. . Curley Backed Loser. Fitzgerald gave as his reason {1 health. It had been expected that “Honey Fitz" would be nominated. He had the support of Mayor Curley of Boston, After Fitzgerald withdrew, Curley urged the Democrats to nomi- nate him anyway, so that Fitzgerald could withdraw after he had been nominated and permit the State Com- mittee to pick a candidate. Curley at- tacked Ely and Cummings, the other candidates, vigorously and raised the race issue against Ely, insisting that Ely was antagonistic to the Irish- Americans, who composed the Boston democracy for the most part, With wet sentiment running strongly in Massachusetts, the Democrats ims sist_they will be ‘able to elect Marcus A. Coolidge over Senator Butler. There has been a feeling, however,.that Gov. Allen; & strong candidate, will win the election. In the contest for the Republican nomination for Governor in Wisconsin, Phillip La Follette declared himself in favor of a return of the liquor traffic control to the States and that was part of his platform. Gov, Kohler came out in favor of amending the law so as to permit the manufacture and sale of beer, and for a national referendum on the eighteenth amendment. ‘The Kohler faction pleaded for sup- port of the national Republican admin- istration and attacked what it called an effort to establish a political “dy- nasty” in Wisconsin, with the La Fol- lette family in the dictator role. Shouse Sees Dual Victory. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, commenting on the results of the Demacratic primaries in Massachusetts and the party conven- tion in Delaware, said completed today with the formal open- ing of Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological | Seminary. The merger centers united | Presbyterian theological education in| Pittsburgh. 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