Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1935, Page 4

" A4 ws WORKERS WAITING 10 START BIG SHIP 1,500 Will Be Employed 28 Months at Newport News Yard. By the Assoclated Press NEWPORT MGWS, Va. December 17.—An eager crew of shipbuilders here awaited today the word that will | start work on construction of a new | superliner for the United States Lines. A brief announcement from George | A. Parker, secretary to President | Homer Ferguson of the Newport News | Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., last| night said a contract for the ship had been signed. He added that 1,500 men could be employed for 28 months, with the job due to start almost immediately. Parker said the vessel would cost | $11,900,000 to construct. The Govern- | ment was expected to lend 75 per cent | of the price. First word of the plan to build super ships for the North Atlantic run came | several days ago from President John | Chapman of the United States Lines. | He said his organization planned two | gigantic ships—faster, bigger and more modern than any now afloat or on the ways. He said then that con- struction might be divided between Newport News and yards at Quincy, | Mass. Chapman forecast that the new ehips would drive several of the pres- ent Atlantic fleet into the South American trade. — . = G. 0. P. (Continued From First Page.) vote for him. however,” said Creager. | Kinsley said the people in Vermont | appeared to be looking with a great deal of favor on Gov. Landon of Kansas as the Republican nominee. Leaves Happy MAYOR HARRY BURTON Of Cleveland shown as he boarded a plane for home at the airport here yesterday a short time after A new spirit, not only of courage against the Democrats, but also of n- dependence within its own ranks, was manifest at the national committee | meeting yesterday. Under the leader- | ship of John Hamilton, national com mitteeman from Kansas, a compara- tive newcomer to the committee and | its general counsel, the committee | & vote of 62 to 34 turned down a prc posal sponsored by such old guard | leaders as Charles D. Hilles of New York, Henry J. Rorabach of Connecti- " cut and Ralph Williams of Oregon. In | plain lang e the proposal was that the call of the committee for the con- vention should provide for delega'e strength for the States approximately | the same as at the 1932 convention This would have been in violation of a rule laid down by the national | convention for the guidance of the | committee, providing that only thosed States which cast their electoral votes in the previous presidential election for the Republican nominee should be allowed an additional three delegates at large. Forty States had this dele- gate bonus at the 1932 convention. | Only six States, Pennsylvania, Dela- | ‘ware, Connecticut, Maine, New Hamp- | shire and Vermont, voted for Herbert | Hoover in 1932, Sticking scrupulously to the conven- tion rule regarding this delegate bonus | to Republican States, the committee | call provides for a total delegate | strength in the convention of 997.| This is 157 short of the 1,154 delegates | who attended the national convention | of 1932. The Philippine Islands no | longer will have representation in the | convention. The District of Colum- | bia will have three delegates at large and no others. | The apportionment of delegates by | States under the call for the conven- tion is as follows State or No of S Territory. Minnesota Mississipp! 1/ Wyoming . Missouri 0 Alaska __ ___ - 8IDist. of Columbia_ | 14 'Hawali ___ 3 Z 6 Puérto Rico Hamilton and others argued that this was no time for the National Committee to attempt to upset funda- | mental law, laid down by the na- tional convention. They contended the Roosevelt Democrats have given the country a demonstration of avoidance of fundamental laws of the land in their new New Deal legis- lation. A minority report, authorizing the granting of the three additional dele- gates to the States, was brought in by John Richardson, national com- mitteeman for Massachusetts and chairman of the subcommittee on call appointed today. It was tabled, 62 to 34, following a brisk debate. Mr. Richardson was the only member of his subcommittee who supported the minority report. Three cities, Cleveland, Chicago and Kansas City, Mo.,, made bids for the honor of holding national con- vention. Each offered to put up $150,000 to pay the expenses of the convention. On the first ballot, however, Cleve- land won, with 54 votes to 39 for Chicago and 6 for Kansas City. A gecret ballot was taken. Usually it has been the practice to call the roll in open meeting. A threatened row In the committee over the selection of a new woman vice chairman to succeed Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, who had re- signed as the national committee- woman from her State, was avoided when Mrs. Hert agreed to continue on as vice chairman, which she was able to do under the rules. A certain ele- ment in the committee had deter- mined to put Mrs Paul PitzSimons in the office of vice chairman in place of Mrs. Hert. The opponents of Mrs. FitaSimons brought forward Mrs. Katharine Kennedy Brown of Ohio as their candidate. In the same spirit of independence, the Republican National Committee refused to go into secret session to discuss the convention call and other matters. Again Hamilton took the lead agninst some of the Old Guard and declared for an open session of the committee Pormer Benator Phipps of Colorado, wher of the Old Guard, sought to have the » of the national conven- ton left to the Committee on Arrange menta Mis idea was that the Repub- ie should walt until after the Democrata had drafied thelr platform and nominated thelr candidates Ohalrman Petoher ruled that the date must be fixed by the national Committon iaelf, sinoe the date waa na | menace can be fought. | damentals through such co-operative | | but also after the victory is won and |low when present conditions are be- the Republican National Commit- tee awarded the 1936 Republican National Convention to Cleveland. —A. P. Photo. and the duty of issuing the call had been placed by the last national con- vention on the National Committee | and could not be delegated to another | committee. His ruling was sustained by an overwhelming voice vote. Democrats Meet Januvary 8. The Democratic National Commit- tee is to meet here Jar select the city for its nationa vention and the date. It is expected to follow the Republican convention. | Walter Brown of Ohio, Postmaster General in the Hoover administration, opposing the Phipps proposal, said that he did not believe that the coun- try would care what the Democrats put in their platform: that they had | tossed their 1932 platform overboard could not be relied upon to carry | out their platform pledges. i Just before the National Committee | adjourned it adopted a resolution in- viting Democrats opposed to the Roose- velt New Deal and believing in the fundamentals of the Constitution to! join with the Republicans next year | and beat President Roosevelt for re-| election. The resolution, presented by | R. B. Creager of Texas and seconded | by Mark L. Requa of California, said: “The United States is facing as grave a crisis as has arisen in its history. The crisis rises far above any question | of political parties, but it is only | through political action that the We appeal, therefore, for the co-operation of all Ameri not only in the coming | campaign and election, but in the hard | ordeal that will follow the election, | when the present condition of waste | and Incompetence must be corrected. Only thus can progress be resumed. Only thus can liberty be preserved for | America and Americans. | “We invite, therefore. and ask the aid of all Americans, irrespective of | political affiliations, to join with us in the accomplishment of this great | task. We appeal specifically to the | millions of constitutional Jeffersonian Democrats for their aid. We believe | that they can most effectively safe- | guard their beliefs in American fun- | aotion. We ask this aid and co- operation not only in the coming elec- tion and in the campaign preceding it, during the trying times that will fol- ing corrected and the Nation is being brought back to government under the | Constitution.” Milne (Continued From First Page.) Agents had criticized police for delay- ing notification of the kidnaping report. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valen- tine, however, replied: “Our job is not to fight, it is to co-operate with the Department of Justice, and we will co-operate 100 per cent.” Asked if the police were receiving the co-operation of the 24-year-old actor’s family, he said, “not as much as I would like.” Clues seemingly led only to cold trails. Reports Held Baseless. Reports that the youth’s grand- father, Caleb Milne, jr., retired Phil- adelphia textile manufacturer, had been in contact with kidnapers were believed baseless. The New York Times said it was reported, but not confirmed, that $50,000 in ransom had been demanded | sorb time during | grams. | happenings. -~ THE EVENING S G. 0P CONVENTION Denounces the CHOICE HELD WISE Militant "Ohio Spirit Be- lieved Ideal Tonic for Delegates. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Selection of Cleveland for the Re- publican National Convention hasn’t any particular significance so far as caadidates or platforms are concerned, but it will provide an atmosphere somewhat different from Chicago. Cleveland has a Republican mayor— and an unusual figure at that. His name is Harry Burton, and he is a dark horse who may possibly turn out to be on the national ticket, either at the first or second place. But the fact Cleveland went Repub- lican last month and that the Re- publicans of Ohio have developed a militant spirit, which is reflected in their confidence that the Buckeye State will switch from the Democratic column, may make a difference in the background of the national convention itself. Dodge Date Conflicts. ‘Then there are possible complica- tions over the date which reveal Cleveland to have been a wiser choice than Chicago. If the Republicacs had | chosen Chicago, they would have been compelled to follow whatever date is set at the December meeting, but, with | respect to Cleveland, they can next Spring decide to shift the date back or postpone it as they choose without | feeling that they are in any way in- terfering with the physical arranger ments for a rival convention in the | same city. Maybe there’s something in super- stition, too. The Republicans lost when they held their last convention in Chicago, and they won when they nominated Mr. Coolidge in 1924 at the last convention held in Cleveland. As to commodious quarters and con- veniences in the hall, Cleveland is about on a par with Chicago—in fact, the hotels are even nearer to the convention hall than to the Chicago Auditorium. Possibly the boorish at- titude of the galleries in the two last| Chicago conventions was a bit of a drawback this time, but political com- mittees like to change convention cities, anyway, so the picking of Cleve- land, on the whole, cannot be said to have been of any truly national meaning. It may have a local influ- | ence and be helpful to the Ohio Re-| publicans. Radio Time Menaced. When the national conventions were held in 1928, considerable time | was devoted by the broadcasting chains to the proceedings. but it will | be difficult this coming vear to give so much time because so much of the program space is devoted to enter- tainment which may be more desir- | able to the audiences than convention speeches. It is not altogether clear | to the politicians whether they would | gain or lose votes by declining to ab- convention week | that is usually devoted to radio pro- Long-winded speeches of the poli- ticians are always interesting to a certain minority who follow both con- ventions closely, whether they are themselves Republicans or Democrats. But the average man doesn't like | boresome speeches. He doesn’t mind | a floor fight or even a close contest on balloting. That has the atmos- phere of a sporting event, which al- | ways takes precedence in national in- i terest when it isn’t one-sided. | The 1936 conventions of both par- | ties are likely to have specmcuhri At Chicago, where the Democrats probably will go for their | convention, the fight over platform will bring differing points of view into | a debate that may prove of historic | importance. At the Republican con- vention, the chances are there will be contests on platform as well as on | the nominees. For everything points to two national conventions in 1936 of extraordinary interest, and Cleve- land is lucky to have been picked for the Republican battle. (Copyright, 1 ) | in a letter to the grandfather which threatened death for the missing | youth. | The letter arrived in a package | containing a wrist watch the grand- | father had given the boy in 1924, the | paper added. The second and hour! hands were broken. | Stains on the paper in which the | watch was wrapped, the Times said, | had not been analyzed. “If you fail,” the Times quoted the letter, “you will find him dead. Death for the fourth Milne. Take the money to New York to your grandson, who is waiting for orders.” Denies Receiving Note. Milne, however, was quoted later as | saying he had received “no note or clippings or demands for ransom.” | The grandfather, who first had ex- | pressed the belief the case was a “hoax” reluctantly sided with the kid- nap theory. ‘Whitley said the police had delayed eight hours before notifying the Fed- eral agents Sunday that Milne was re- | ported missing and that there was an- other 36-hour delay before the police turned over two notes to the Federal men. One of the notes was a message left by Milne Saturday for his brother, | Frederic, at the modest, midtown Manhattan apartment they share. The other, indicating the youth had | been kidnaped, was composed of words | clipped from newspaper type and | pasted to wrapping paper. The note, | mailed at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was ac- | companied by a Christmas card with | the type-written salutation, “greetings to you.” | THE KIDDIES AND GROWNUPS TOO, expect those delicious...... CARA Chocolates and Bon Bons MAILED ANY. WHERE IN THE 8. A Ninth St. at G 14¢th St. Above F oart of the oa the convention [ THE ORIGINAL Christmas Time MELS From TAR, WASHINGTON, D€ “New Deal” FORMER PRESIDENT HOOVER As he delivered the third of his series of attacks against the “New Deal” in an address in St. Louis last night. Republican Club, an organization of Hoover First Page.) 11932, but that the New Deal caused | “which suffers enough without the poison f politics in its bread.” Political approv ‘1 at the examples of wit and biting sarcasm in the speech which caused frequent interruptions of ap- plause and laughter. Introduced as “the most distin- guished leader of our party,” Hoover launchec into a direct attack on the Roosevelt administration. He asserted that under the New Deal, a vast political bureaucracy has | developed. “Grants Timed for Votes.” “The 1nevitable and d ng pose o any bureaucracy,” he said, “is to use its powers to secure its jobs. Tue sudden appropriations to cities, counties and States were sin- gularly timed to elections. * * * Hoover said the cost of relief in the last vear of his stewardship, to| Federal, State, county, city and pri- vate agencies was about $1,100,000, 000. The Federal overhead, he said, was not more than $250,000 and the | number of Government employes | fewer than 200. | For the year ended last October the | Federal, State and local cost aggre- gated $3,500,000,000, Hoover assenkd.i with 140,000 officials on the Federal pay rolls, drawing about $300,000,000 a year. “When in the face of a decrease in the unemployed the cost of relleti rises from $1.100.000,00 to an appro- | priation of $4.800,000.000 in a single year it is certainly reason for search- ing inquiry.” “There is no disagreement upon the public obligation to relieve distress which flows from national calamity,” Hoover said. “The support of that | comes from the conscience of a peo- ple. * * " | Says Depression Had Turned. Hoover singled out for a torrent of sarcasm Roosevelt's Atlanta remark two weeks ago that “the mechanics of pur- EVENING In no other type of ready- leaders commented with | He spoke before the John Marshall lawyers, and guests. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933.” The Republican chieftain said the depression actually was turned back throughout the world in June and July, this country to lag for two years while other nations progressed Roosevelt made a $2,500,000,000 “er- | ror,” Hoover said in estimating the New Deal’s public debt commitments, and took credit for $2,200,000,000 of recoverable assets loaned out by the Hoover regime. He predicted the pub- lic debt would rise to $32,000,000,000 or $33,000,000,000 by next July. “Political Bank Panic.” The former President blamed the 1933 bank panic on hysteria induced among bank depositors by the incom- | ing administration and called it “the most political and most unnecessary bank panic in all our history.” He called the New Deal unemploy- ment relief organization “typical of the whole gamut of waste, folly. in- effectiveness, politics and destruction | of self-governme: “We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation,” he said. — RETREAT LEAGUE PLANS CURLEY HONOR BANQUET Plans for a banquet to be given January 13 at the Mayflower Hotel for Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch- | bishop of Baltimore, were completed last night at a meeting of the League of Laymen's Retreats, held in the rec- tory of St. Aloysius Church, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1935. ™ OHIO REPUBLICANS PREDICT VIGTORY Convention Award Seen as Factor in 1936 Election. By the Assoclated Press. €LEVELAND, December 17.—Ohio Republicans, heartened by award of the 1936 national convention to Cleve- land, predicted victory in next year's elections. At the same time a struggle to re- serve hotel rooms for next June fol- lowed the party’s decision to come here. Ed D. Schorr, Republican State chairman, said “Ohio Republicans never felt more confident of winning Mhan they do now. The convention will stimulate them to even greater enthusiasm and have a major influ- ence on Ohio’s vote in the national elections.” Ohio’s delegation will be an unin- structed group. Plenty of Space. Republicans will have a $12,500,000 building and more than 250,000 square feet of floor space, if they need it all, in Cleveland. Public Hall, built by the city in 1922 and since enlarged by wings and annexes, stretches a full block along East Sixth street in downton Cleve- land. ‘The hall was enlarged several years after Calvin Coolidge received the 1924 Republican nomination for Pres- ident there. Delegates could find no | place in the hall then to get away | for a quiet conference, and they were | forced to use Central Armory, across | East Sixth street, and the Federal Reserve Bank, two blocks away. “ Criticism of this shortcoming led a few years later to the construction of | a north and south wing. Still later | an underground exposition hall was added. | Seats 12,000 or More. | The main auditorium itself seats | 12,000 persons. A music hall, which opens into the auditorium, seats 3,000 more. If necessary, hundreds more can be accommodated on the spacious | stage of the auditorium. | Eight downtown hotels are within | 10 blocks of the hall. The Union | Terminal is only a short walk from | the building. The hall has an air-purifying sys- tem which is said to change the air in the auditorium once a minute. | SILENT ON G. 0. P. CITY | Hoover Makes No Comment on Cleveland for Convention. CHICAGO, December 17 () — | Asked to comment on the selection of Cleveland for the Republican Na- | tional Convention next June, Herbert Hoover said he failed to see any rea- son for making a statement on the choice of the Republican committee. | Mr. Hoover planned to leave by | train at 9:45 tonight for his home in Palo Alto, Calif., from St. Louls. Plan Winter Popcorn Increase. MCALLEN, Tex. (#).—Experiments in producing Winter popcorn in the' Lower Rio Grande Valley were so profitable last year that plans are being made to increase the acreage. Walter D. Beller. 632 Rock Creek | Church road, chairman of the banquet committee, said the affair was ar- ranged to permit all Catholic laymen in Washington to show their loyalty to the archbishop. He added about 1000 tickets have already been distributed and that 1.200 ; men are expected. Representative Fin- erty of Pennsylvania will speak. George O'Connor is chairman of the Entertainment Committee. CLOTHES to-wear clothing are the West standards of quality more apparent than in Evening Clothes . . . The simplicity of line . . . the evident fineness of material . . . the perfection of fit . . . these are qualities you may take for granted in West formal attire . . . ond there is a complete selection of correct dress here. Full Dress ... Tuxedos ... accessories awaiting you --._from $55 --..from $40 Sidney West, Inc., 14th & G BUGENE C. GOTT, President mas list? ticular. Wit in Hoover’s Talks Is Natural, Says Ben Allen Aide Scouts Theory of Change as Speeches Display Humor. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, December 17.—The hu- morous remarks that have studded Herbert Hoover’s recent address come naturally to the former President, his friend and traveling companion, Ben 8. Allen, said. “All this talk about “the new Hoover’ is wrong,” he commented before leav- ing with the Republican leader for Chicago last night. “What you are seeing now is the natural Hoover. Ever since I've known him he has ex- hibited a humorous streak, usually ending his letters with a witty quip.” In 1932, Allen said, Hoover was grave and serious because his office weighed | on him heavily, but now he's “like an athlete hitting his stride.” Reminiscing on some of his “chief" humor, Allen related that a little girl approached the former President and asked for his autograph. Hoover signed his name six times, explaining, “you might want to do a little auto- graph trading and I understand it takes five Hoovers to get one Babe Ruth.” Allen, a former newspaperman, first became acquainted with Hoover 1910 and later was his aide in Belgian relief work. . Colored Democrats to Meet. The District division, Young Colored Democrats of America, will meet at the Twelfth StreeX Y. M. C. A. at 8 o'clock tonight for the purpose of adopting a constitution, it was an- nounced by C. N. Osborne, vice presi- dent. in | TAMPA FLOGGINGS BLAMED ON KLAN Workers’ Alliance President Here Charges Probe Only “White- wash” Action. David Lasser, president of the Work- ers’ Alliance, last night blamed the Tampa, Fla., floggings on the Ku Klux Klan. Three men were flogged, tarred and feathered in Tampa two weeks ago after their arrest for investigation of | alleged Communistic activity. One | died later. At a joint press conference with | Norman Thomas, former Socialist cane | didate for President, Lasser said that before the last municipal elections a | group of Tampa citizens, many un< | employed, formed an independent po- litical party. This they called the Modern Democrat. The leading spirit in it was Jack Shoemaker, the man who died. “It's a moral certainty that there's 1 going to be a whitewash,” Lasser said. Shoemaker, a Socialist, was a fre- quent writer of letters to the editor of the Tampa Tribune, Lasser ex= plained, claiming that at the elections the party polled 900 out of 10,000 votes. After the election, Lasser said, some of the Modern Democrats decided to form a permanent organization. Seven police broke in and arrested all six persons attending the meeting. Lasser | charged the police had no warrant. The seven policemen z2nd a firemen :were suspended by Mayor R. E. L. Clancey at Tampa as a grand jury pushed its inquiry. 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