Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight, showers and cooler to- morrow; moderate southwest shifting to fresh northerly winds tomorrow. Temp- eratures—Highest, 86, at 2:30 p.m. yes- terday: lowest, 66, at 4 a.m. today. Closing New York Markets, Page 13 Entered as secor No. 33,633 nd class matter post office, Washington, D. C. b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936—FORTY PAGES. ### SHIP SUBSIDY IS PASSED; BYRD ASSAILS TAX BILL AS ADJO | i House Accepts Marine Plan 22510 21. AVERTS THREAT OF FILIBUSTER Measure Is Accept-| able to Roper, | Bland Declares. BACKGROUND — Two legislative proposals bear- ing on Federal aid to shipping in- terests are in process of congres- | sional passage. First is so-called ship subsidy bill which sets forth certain regu- | lations for shipping concerns hold= | ing Government contracts or re= ceiving Federal funds Second is Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill. which carries | $26.500,000 for ocean mail contracts without any regulatory provisions other than those directly necessary for fulfillment of the contracts. By holding up approval on ap- propriation measure, Senate bloc hopes to force House passage of regulatory measure URNMENT Filibuster Aid - To Guffey Bill Is Threatened NeelyCallsOpponents Warts on Ship of Progress. By the Assoctated Press. Threats of filibuster heralded débate in the Senate today on the Guffey- Vinson coal control bill, scheduled for consideration in midafternoon Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia, conceded a vote on whether to bring up the measure would be “close,” but avowed “we'Te going to pass it.” But Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, warned that the bill “can’t pass by Monday" and Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, served notice he would not be “limited” in opposition. The bill, which has passed the House, retains price-fixing formulae " (See GUFFEY, Page 7) VOTES FOR LENKE WORRY LEADERS By the Associated Press. Outright subsidies for ship construc- tion and operation were approved by the House today after some Senators had threatened to hold Congress in gession indefinitely unless such action were taken. Senate-approved legislation to sub- stitute the direct subsidies for the present system of payments through ocean mail contracts was passed on a | standing vote. 225 to 21. under special | parliamentary procedure adopted to epeed adjournment In a previous House vote last night the bill failed to muster the two- thirds necessary under procedure then prevailing. Several Senators then threatened to filibuster indefinitely against the big Treasury-Post Office Department ap- propriation bill, carrying $26,500,000 for-cominuing -ocean: mail contracts, unless the House approved ghe direct subsidy plan | Ship Construction Subsidized. ‘The subsidy bill. which the House was told President Roosevelt regards as a step in the right direction, would | subsidize ship construction up to 50 per cent of the cost. permit operators to borrow half of the remaining cost from the Government at 3!. per cent interest, and give them subsidies to operate the vessels. The special rule under which the House acted today provided for agree- ment to Senate amendments to the measure, The House added an amendment to strike out a section duplicating seamen’s legislation pre- viously enacted. The bill thus will have to go back to the Senate for quick action on this minor House amentiment. but| leaders said they were assured the | Senate filibuster against the Treasury- Post Offic supply bill would stop. Roper Wants Bill. During House consideration. Chair- man Bland of the Merchant Marine Committee said he was auth by Secretary of Commerce Rope | say “he wants this bill, in order*that we may get away from ocean mail | contracts, and get down to a basis providing employment in every State in the Union.” Bland declared the measure was one to provide employment “You complain of the ocean mail contracts,” he said “I offer you the only solution that will remove the abuses complained of.” Representative Boylan, Democrat, of New York, complained against “hasty consideration” of an important bill before the members had had a chance to read the Senate changes. The hurriedly-drafted special rule, designed to secure House approval of the bill and remove a major barrier to adjournment tonight, was granted | by the Rules Committee only minutes before the House convened Chairman O'Connor of the rules group said flatly during the short hearing on the proposal that if he had his way the Senate would not be per- mitted to “black jack” the House by | its filibuster. But the rule was voted to expedite adjournment. The bill substitutes direct construc- tion and operating subsidies for the present ocean mail contract-subsidy system. & Yesterday the Senate passed the bill, which would subsidize ship con- “{ustruction up to 50 per cent of the } ost, permit operators to borrow half of the remaining sum from the Gov- | ernment at 32 per cent interest. and | give them subsidies to operate the vessels. After the bill passed, the Senate | began debate on a-Preasury-Post Of- fice Departinent appropriation bill, carrying $26,500,000 for continuing ocean mail contracts, widely known as indirect subsidies. Several Senators felt that if the appropriation bill passed, the House would not trouble to vote the direct subsidies, so they began a filibuster against the supply measure. They were led by Senator Clark, Democrat of Missouri, who disliked both mail contracts and subsidies, but believed the latter preferable. Anxious to have the big supply bill passed, House leaders pressed for a vote last night on the subsidies. The 118-to-83 vote for the measure fell short of the two-thirds required un- der suspension of the rules. —_— Haigis Indorsed for Governor. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, June 19 ()—John W. Haigis of Greenfield, former State treasurer, won the Re- publican State Convention indorse- ment for Governor on the second bal- ’(lot tonight in the State con\'entlon.. G. 0. P. and Democratic| Camps Estimate Net Re- sult of Third Party. By the Associated Press. Confronted at last with a third party presidential candidate in the person of Representative Lemke of North Dakota, major party leaders sought today to figure how many votes he will garner and from what camp he will draw most support. Waving aloft the standard of a new group—the Union party of the United | States—the 57-year-old North Dako- tan last night struck at Republicans and Democrats alike. He declared he had “accepted a challenge of the re- actionary elements of both.” Many leaders in the Capital and | ! | coalition of critisssmfuthe measure, elsewhere greeted the news of a new November foeman with tight-lipped silence First to mount the 15-point plat- form of Lemke was Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit radio priest. A few hours after the Lemke announcement Father Coughlin, in a New York broadcast, called on his National Union for Sociai Justice to follow Lemke. The priest gave full approval to the platform of the new party. Declaring the issue to be “slavery— economic slavery,” Lemke outlined his platform. It set forth that Congress alone shall coin and issue the cur- rency and regulate money values. Congress also would refinance farm and home mortgages. The farm financing proposal was contained in the $3.000,000,000 inflationary Frazier- Lemke bill recently defeated in the House. Planks to assure living wages, “a | reasonable and decent security for the aged,” “adequate and perfect defense,” and smashing of ‘“‘monopolies,” also were included. Lemke announced Thomas C. O'Brien, Boston lawyer, as his running mate, What support would come to Lerke | " (See LEMKE, Page 8.) EDUCATION BOARD MEMBERS RENAMED Quinn, Mrs. Smith and Wilson Will Serve New Terms. Reappointment of Henry 1. Quinn, Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith and John H. Wilson as members of the Board of Education was announced early today by the District Supreme Court justices. Quinn was named for his second three-year term, having succeeded Rabbi Abram Simon on July 1, 1933. Mrs. Smith has been on the board since June 6, 1928, having been named to succeed Mrs. Marie W. Hodgkins on that date. She was reappointed July 1, 1930, and has served continuously since then. Wilson, a colored attorney, was named for a full term for the first time. He succeeded the late Benjamin L. Gaskins, also a colored attorney, about six months ago. Gaskins was appointed just a year ago to succeed Charles H. Houston, former dean of the School of Law, Howard University, who resigned to move to New York and accept a position with the Association for the Advancement of .Colored People. The present terms of all three mem- bers expire on June 30. Senate Tax By the Associated Press. The flailing fists of Max Schmeling and Joe Louis interrupted a Senate filibuster Jast night and drove weighty | matters of state from the minds of the solons. Bang! bang! bang! went the gavel in the hand of Senator George, Demo- crat, of Georgia as Senators poured into the chamber after having heard a broadcast of Schmeling’s knockout victory. “Let the Senate be in order; let the Senate be in order,” George pleaded as Senators loudly proclaimed the victory. A report on the controversial tax bill had arrived only a moment before from the House, but nobody seemed to care. ® NEARS Virginian Hits Proposal as “Hybrid.” SESSION END | TONIGHT SEEN Guffey_Dispute Is Only Threat to Closing. | By the Associated Press. An adjournment - bound Senate pushed the tax bill toward final passage today in the face of a decla- ration by Senator Byrd, Democrat, of | Virginia that it was a ‘“mongrel, hybrid compromise.” | With a vote on the House-approved conference report scheduled for 2:30 p.m. and adjournment of the Seventy- fourth Congress some time tonight the goal of leaders, Byrd took the floor at the outset of today's session in an effort to halt what seemed inevitable. Senate leaders were confident the tax bill would be sent to the White House in time for ending the session tonight. The House, by accepting a Senate version of ship subsidy legis- lation, -contributed its part to break- ing a session-end jam plagued by fili- | busters. But Senate leaders had an- other fear about the wind-up—the Guffey coal bill. With the tax bill out of the way the only “must” measure still unpassed will be the billion dollar appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office De- partments. Guffey Bill Trouble. Friends of the Guffey bill could con- | ceivably block a vote on the vital ap- | propriation bill in an effort to force |action on their measure designed to replace the Guffey law invalidated by the Supreme Court. | No one knew how far they would go | toward Dblocking congressional ad- Journment in order to force action on their bill. Byrd opened fire on the tax bill on behalf of a Demoecratic-Republican who claimed to have almost enough votes to beat the conference report. He warned the Senate that no more important legislation had ever come | before it, and no measure that was as | little understood. | “Even the Senator from Utah | (King) has not done the Senate the courtesy to explain this hybrid com- bination and compromise between the House and Senate bills,” Byrd pro- | tested. King is chairman of the Con- | ference Committee. | The Virginian said only eight mem- bers of the Senate, those who served on the Conference Committee, knew the consequepces of the legislation, which he said would not only damage the Democratic party but the country. Sees Social Purpose. Byrd contended the principal aim of the measure was not to raise reve- nue, but to “effect a social purpose.” “It is intended to prevent by exces- sive taxation a corporation from hav- ing a surplus,” he said. “It would completely revolutionize the philoso- phy of corporate taxation in this country.” “If this bill is passed,” Byrd shouted in conclusion, “it will do more to intrench the monopolies of this country than anything else we have ever done. “We should not submit to the dic- tation of any one to pass such a bill.” A new complication in the adjourn- ment situation was seen in announce- ment by Senator Frazier, Republican, |of N. Dak. that he would offer the $3,000,000,000 Frazier-Lemke farm re- financing bills as an amendment to the Guffey measure. Whether this proved an actual complication, as well as a potential one, depended upon whether the coal bill ever actually gets before the Senate. A vote on taking the bill up was scheduled for 3 p.m., but there was a possibility the Senate would refuse to consider the measure. With comparative ease, leaders had (See CONGRESS, Page 2.) MARCONI AN ADMIRAL Wireless Inventor Appointed to Navy Post by Mussolini. ROME, June 20 (#).—Dr. Gug- lielmo Marconi, inventor of =w:“eless telegraphy, was named a rear ad- miral of the Italian Navy by Premier Mussolini today. The decree was wsued by Mussolini’'s authority as minister of the navy. Il Duce also appointed Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Italian delegate to the League of Nations, to the rank of rear admiral. 'Pugilism and Poetry Interrupt Bill Filibuster “I wanted to make a motion that the radio be brought into the cham- ber so we could all hear it,” Senator Clark of Missouri later confessed. It was Clark who was leading a filibuster against the $992,000,000 Treasury. Post Office appropriation bill that kept the Senate in business until past bedtime. The filibuster was a jolly affair. There was much political joshing and the party finally broke up when Senator Norris, Republican, of Ne- braska read an “alleged song” gibing at Herbert Hoover. A bill to give a Government lawyer $1,000 for having been hit on the head by a whisky keg in a moonshine (See PUGILISM, Pu’“ TR I'D LIKE To ALD THIS ONE, SENATOR.! BRI N 0 Bannock Tribesmen of Idaho Present Regalia to Senator Thomas of Oklahoma. CHAIRM4 Sus-Commrre EASTMAN'S STAFF FACES J0B LOSS| Action on Rest')Iution to Con- | tinue Transportation Unit Unlikely. With adjournment of Congress set for tonight, 140 employes of the Fed- eral co-ordinator of transportation, | who now are on a non-pay basis, face the prospect of finally walking !h:‘ plank. | The law creating the office, one of | the most ambitious of the New Deal ventures, expired at midnight Tuesday, but the stafl has continued on, hoping for some action at the Capitol on a| | resolution by Chairman Wheeler of | | the Senate Interstate Commeree Com- mittee, which would have continued it for 90 days, and allowed completion of several important reports which now are in the final stages. No ap- propriation wo! sary. for the office on the railroads—still has about $30,- 000 unexpended. In the absence of other legislation, this fund will go back to the carriéers on a pro-rata basis. Joseph B. Eastman, the co-ordina- tor, who will revert now to his reg- ular status as a member of the In- terstate Commerce Commission, said | today he expects some way will be found to complete the pending reports, “though we may not be able to cover the matters in the way we had| hoped.” Report on Federal Aid. A major report is that dealing with | the various forms of governmental aid extended to all forms of trans- portation—rail, water, highway and air—and one due to shed a great deal | of light on this highly controversial | subject. The railroads have contended | for years that they were victims of discrimination in this fleld. Another report deals with labor standards in other forms of transpor- tation than the railroads; a third covers rail employment records and is designed to furnish detailed actuarial data as a basis for pensions and related subjects, and still another is on short-line railroads. All these reports have required vast research and in their compilation every effort has been made toward entire accuracy. It has been cus- tomary first to get up tentative reports and send these out for criticism by interested parties in order that all viewpoints might be reflected in their completed form. ‘Wheeler introduced the 90-day reso- lution when it developed that efforts to continue the office for any length of time were getting nowhere, both rail labor and management standing in opposition. Face Second Job Loss. Some of the employes due to lose out are making their second exodus from Government service in three years, having been cut off from the Interstate Commerce Commission when slashes were made in the bu- reaus of valuation and accounts ip the economy era. Eastman said some are being placed, and that he had no fears that those in the higher places would find new openings without difficulty because their services are in demand. For the rank and file, however, the prospects are not good. TRUCK DRIVER DIES DESPITE AID OF 200 | Democratic National Committee, with | amount spent by the party-in 1932. Baltimorean Succumbs. in Hos- pital After Shovel and Hack- saw Crew Frees Him. by the Associated Press. of his cab only after 200 men had worked for two hours with shovels and hacksaws in a shallow stream early today, died in a Baltimore hos- pital a few hours later. The driver, Charles Salisbury, 40- ing its door shut. He did not lose consciousness during the rescue operations and shouted en- couragement to the workers. Not until hacksaws were employed to cut loose the doors was he freed. A Ethiopia Problem Of Italy’s Envoys Is Eased by Rome| By the Associated Press. ROME, June 20.—Italy found a new formula today to lessen the difficulties | of her ambassadors to countries ob- | jecting to the Fascist annexation of Ethiopia. Presenting their credentials, the new ambassadors are to speak in the name of “his majesty. Victor Emmanuel. King of Italy and Emperor of Eth- jopia.” Countries to which the ambassadors are accredited are to reply only “his | majesty, Victor Emmanuel, King of Ttaly.” Agreements to such procedure have already been received from Moscow and Warsaw and approval is awaited from Washington. The new accredited | envoy to the United States is expected | to be Pulvio Suvich. former under- | secretary for foreign affairs, who re- | tired when Premier Mussolini's son- | in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano, became | foreign ministes. $2.000,000 GOAL FIXED BY FARLEY Campaign to Cost Same as in 1932, Chairman Reveals. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA. June 20. — A | money-raising goal of $2,000,000 was | fixed for the 1936 campaign today by | Chairman James A. Farley of the the added assertion that that was the He told reporters he expected “a million people” to attend “Roosevelt nominator” rallies throughout the country a week from tonight when the | President is scheduled to accept his | renomination at Franklin Field here. | Tickets for these rallies are selling at $1 each. The proceeds are to go to the National Committee. Farley steered away from talk of the Lemke-Coughlin third party. “I don't care to comment just now,” he said in reply to a question about it. “We'll take that one in our stride | later on.” Denies Knowledge of Letter. In response to a request for com- ment on a report that Senator Met- calf (Republican, Rhode Island) had exhibited a letter from Farley to the Providence postmaster, asking him to solicit postal employes for campaign funds, the national chairman said: “I don't know a thing about that particular letter. TI'll look it up.” He then recalled that he had in- serted a notice in the Postal Bulle- tin this week, advising all postal em- ployes to disregard campaign fund solicitations. He also said that re- quests for funds went out from the National Committee and that it was “hard for the committee to watch every detail.” “Overzealous fellows,” he said, “sometimes step over and do things we wouldn't = do. I've never ap- proached any one in the Post Office | Department for help in the cam- | paign,” he added. Civil Service Attitude. Switching then to a discussion of civil service, Farley said he favored placing all postmasters—but not the Postmaster General—under civil serv- ice. If the Postmaster General were 50 classified, he said, all the other members of the President's cabinet would have to be. “You'll never see that in our time,” he said. Farley predicted that the party platform this year would be only slightly longer than the one adopted in Chicago in 1932. “My own guess is about 2,000 words,” he said. “What was the 1932 one— 1,600?” He also predicted that John N. Garner would be the only person en- tered for the vice presidential nomi- nation, and that Gov. Talmadge of Georgia would support the ticket in next Fall's election. He reiterated several previous predictions that Roosevelt would carry every State. Bridge Bill Signed. President Roosevelt today signed the House bill authorizing the Chesapeake Bay Authority to construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across the Chesapeake Bay from a point in Balti- more County, Md., over Hart Island and Miller's Island to a point near Tolchester, L} | Progress Administration headquarters, | ment departments in violation of civil TICKETS TO RALLY ARESOLDINWPA. ‘Roosevelt Nominator’ Fund Canvassing Reported in Other Offices. Surreptitious sale of “presidential | nominator” tickets for the benefit of | the Democratic campaign fund has taken place in offices of the Works it was learned today, as reports grew of similar violation of Federal law in other branches of the Government. Meanwhile, Miss Jo Coffin, assis- tant to Public Printer A. E. Giegegack, challenged Representative Halleck, Republican, of Indiana to name the foremen he charges are attempting to sell the tickets at $1 and $2 each | to employes of the Government Print- ing Office. Halleck, a member of the House Civil Service Committee, is demand- ing an investigation of alleged il- licit sale of the tickets in Govern- service laws and regulations. He has | charged that postmasters have been | enrolled in the ticket-selling campaign. The tickets being sold here are for| a political rally at Griffith Stadium next Saturday night to hear a radio | broadcast of President Roosevelt's ac- ceptance speech. Proceeds will go toward the re-election campaign of the President. | Although Harry Hopkins, W. P. A.| administrator, was said to be without | knowledge of the matter. The Star | learned authoritatively that many of | the tickets have been sold during| office hours by persons canvassing | W. P. A. offices. There has been “no coersion,” it was explained. Speaking for Public Printer A. E.| Giegengack, who is away for the week | end, Miss Coffin said flatly she did not | believe Halleck’s assertion regarding | sale of the tickets at the G. P. O., and added: | “If Mr. Halleck will identify the foreman he accuses I promise him that they will be ‘down on the carpet’ in three seconds.” Plainly aroused, Miss Coffin said she had heard no intimation that | foremen were attempting to sell the tickets. It would be “ridiculous” she amplified, to think that Giegengack would condone action of the sort. “That would just be asking for trouble,” she said. | “I bought a ticket, and I bought | it on the outside,” Miss Coffin con- | cluded. 5 | Halleck, who has been warring sev- eral days on reputed solicitation of Government workers for political purposes, said he based his charges on information given him by twoi (See NOMINATOR, Page 2.) ! DEATH FOR SABOTAGE Government Extends Palestine Penalty to End Crimes. JERUSALEM, June 20 (Palcor Agency) —The Palestine government today extended the death penalty to crimes of sabotage as it fought to end the violence and destruction which in the last nine weeks have resulted in more than 80 deaths of Jews, Arabs and Christians. 110 Sailor Sweethearts Taken In Brooklyn Dance H all Raids ®y the Associated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y, June 20— Thirty-five plain-clothes men and 15 husky policewomen fanned out through the Navy Yard district in a sudden drive to curb the number of casual sweethearts for sailors and took 110 girls into custody early today. Popping with unromantic sudden- ness into dance halls and beer parlors and gardens, the officers separated many a rouge-lipped girl from her blue-uniformed escort—without serious difficulty save for countless arguments. The girls were led to waiting auto- mobiles and whisked off to Brooklyn police headquarters and a severe in- quisition as to name, age, occupation and place of residence. The drive, ordered by the New York | provid City Crime Prevention Bureau, was inspired by welfare organizations which had complained morals of many girls under 18 had been endangered by the gay life of the Navy Yard area. When the leader of the clean-up, Lieut. John Cone, and his aides had finished their interviews with the girls about 15 of ITm 18 years old or The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. y's (LN ] NEW LEAGUE PLAN BY FRENCH FAVORS REGIONAL PACTS Reorganization Program Follows Lines of Recent British Proposal. IDEA WAS REJECTED BY BLUM GOVERNMENT Paris Took Position That Exclud- | ing Germany From Eastern Alliance Was Dangerous. BACKGROUND— Realizing the League of Nations structure is crumbling, England recently made move to reorganize the Geneva program. London statesmen proposed regional se- curity pacts for Western, Central and Eastern Europe. This was dis- approved in France because it was declared Germany would be in- cluded in western alliance, but ex- cluded from eastern pact and thus present threat to France. By thr Associnted Press. PARIS, June 20.—France has form- | ulated her own plan for reorganiza- tion of the League of Nations lnd‘ will present it at Geneva June 26, sources close to the foreign office said today. | The French pl«n will follow the general lines of the British proposal | recently rejected by Premier Leon | Blum's government, informed sources | declared. (The British suggestion envisaged regional security pacts for Western, Central and Eastern Europe. France | objected to the suggestion because Germany was included in the West ern alliance, but was excluded from the East.) The Prench, it was reported, would substitute a different line-up of na- tions than that in the British pro- posal, imposing the regional pacts on the present collective security struc- ture. Under the plan, signatories to the regional alliances would be required to take immediate military action in the event of aggression within their | own district, while others would be | compelled to apply economic sanctions against the aggressor. Strike Situation Quiets. ‘The French domestic situation neared normal as striking workers continued | to drift back to their jobs. | The dissolution of armed Rightist | Leagues, decreed by the cabinet, was appealed to the counsel of state. Col. Francois de la Rocque, chieftain of the Croix de Feu (Piery Cross) Legion, announced. | In the Chamber of Deputies the Socialist government sought to bolster | its finances by pushing to passage | a bill authorizing the Bank of France | to tend the ministry of finance 10,- 000,000,000 francs (approximately $660,000,000). The vote was 340 to 208, Shake-Up Under Way. In the meantime, Premier Blum | has started a thorough shake-up of France's diplomatic machine and the | men who made ft. The Socialist Premier's fear that | France had been left at the post in Europe’s big-power race for alliances started the clean-up. For nearly two months, since the | late April elections, French diplo- | vent of Socialist Premier Leon Blum | and his subsequent initiation to | power. While strikes threatened to | paralyze France and occupied the government’s time, Great Britain, | Germany and Italy were busily talk- | ing terms. | WARNING GIVEN SHIPS AS GULF STORM GROWS | Tropical Disturbance Is Moving | North—Coastal Island Resi- dents Cautioned. ¥y the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, June 20.—The | United States Weather Bureau here | at 7 am. (Eastern standard time) to- day reported the tropical disturbance in the northwest section of the Gulf of Mexico was increasing in intensity. The bureau placed the disturbance central about 225 to 250 miles east- southeast of Brownsville, Tex., mov- ing between northwest and north at about 10 miles per hour. Caution was advised vessels in the | northwest gulf and people in remote places on coastal islands south of Galveston were warned to “seek safer locations.” younger were found to be from out of the city—some of them possibly run- away girls. These were held pending communication with relatives. Forty others, giving New York City addresses, were ordered to Manhat- | tan's Florence Crittendon home to| await identification by relatives. Others, over 18, were sent home with | instructions to stay away from the environs of the navy yard. An 18-year-old blond, who gave Scranton, Pa., as her home town, said a taste for beer and dancing| led her to become an habitue of the | district. She wore a sailor's blouse | and a gob’s hat was perched on her | head. She was asked if Scranton did not le beer drinking and dancing. s Associated Press. | every development irculation, X (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. WORK 5 BEGN ANID CALW A COMENTINHAL Platform Draft to Be in Readiness for Commit- tee Monday. ROOSEVELT TO GET ALL VOTES, SAYS FARLEY Majority Rule, However, Expect- ed to Be Adopted—Scenes in Contrast to Cleveland. Py the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 20.—The Democrats, noted for their scraps enc noise at convention time, started their pre-rally week end today with calm and quiet befitting the traditions‘ ot this Quaker city. The New Dealers appeared to be in complete command. In his most serene manner, James A. Farley, na- tional chairman, said the convention starting next Tuesday will cast all of | its 1,100 votes for President Roosevelt's renomination. With equal calm he announced that the convention wouic substitute majority rule for the long- standing two-thirds requirement for renomination. None of the handful of party leader: on hand arose to dispute him. Only the sirens of police mptor cycles escorting official conventi Tt and the hammers in the cum"% hall broke the quiet particularly strik- ing to those just in from the Repub- lican meeting in Cleveland Three days before the Republicant met, Cleveland hotel corridors were jammed with party chieftains and delegates. The air was charged witk ght and uncertainty. Reporters were scurrying to conference after confer- ence. Only National Committee officials. 1 few delegates, newspaper and radic men and a scattering of visitors wert on hand here last night. The only fight they talked was the Louis Schmeling scrap in New York. Observers expected the scene liven up considerably. however, by nightfall. More delegates and visitor: were due on every incoming train They recalled, too, that the Republicar National Committee held a three-das meeting the week before the Clevelanc convention, while only the most in- formal conferences were held hert this week. Party chieftains. watched ' -closely surrounding the formation of a third party, to b héaded by Representative Lemke, Re- publican, of North Dakota, inflatior crusader, and its indorsement by Father Charles E. Coughlin, head o the National Union for Social Jus tice. Cause of Speculation. ‘Whether Lemke’s move would infiu. ence the writing of the Democratit platform’s money plank, or at least thi Platform Committee discussion, wa: the subject of considerable speculation Farley’s return from New York yes terday after a two-day absence gav | new life to the pre-convention scene He greeted the white-clad girls wht are to sell “Forward With Roosevelt’ tags for autos. He greeted the girl clad in gray and white Quaker garl who are to work in hotel corridor ant railroad station information booths. He inspectedtheconvention hal and found “everything: fine.” Hi talked with Marvin McIntyre, Presi Roosevelt's secretary, here | macy marked time awaiting the ad- [ fyon (O F L e e oot hands with nearly every one in the lobby of the hotel (Bellevus~Btrat. ford) where the National Committet is quartered. He held a press con- ference with 50 reporters. “How’s the platform coming along?" he was asked “Senator Wagner has been holding conferences on it for a week.” he re plied. “We'll have a tentative drafi ready to place before the commit- tee.” Wagner said in Washington las night that the committee would mee here Monday. The National Com: mittee is to meet the same day Farley was free with his prediction: of Democratic success next Novem ber. Not only would Roosevelt carr (See CONVENTION, Page 7.) CAPONE IS DENIED PLEA FOR PAROLE By the Associated Press. ‘The Justice Department said today that Al Capone, former Chicago beer baron, had been denied a request for parole from Alcatraz Island Peni- tentiary. Capone might ask that his parole application be considered again later officials asserted. He was eligible for parole at the expiration of one-third of his sentence on September 3, 1935 Capone was sent to prison for viola tion of the income tax laws on a 10- year sentence which he beghn serving May 4, 1932, Failing to win parole, Capone’s next hope will be the expiration of his minimum term with “good time" al- lowance, on January 19, 1939. His full term expires May 3, 1942. Meager reports from Alcatraz indi« | cate Capone has been a “good pris- orer” and avoided prison intrigue or rebellion. Readers’ Guide Amusenfents ____ Answers to Questions Comics Death Notices Editorial Finance - Lost and Found “Yes,” she smiled, “but there are no sailors in Scranton.” | No charges were placed against any | of the girls, but the threat of umti as wayward minors was invokeu to| keep them clear of the navy ylldi district in the future. Most of n-mu' from out of town gave Pennsylvania ! or New Jersey g their home States, News Comment Features A-7 Radio Serial Story - Short Story