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Exclusive place- Vi joyment . . et a2 e uslined. tucents MOUNT PLEASANT S FOR SECRETARIES, = Tivoli Building. 14th !ulfloz‘irk Telephone Columb GARNER HAS CHAT WITH PRESIDENT Two Swap Stories and Dis- cuss Nature of Accept- ance Speeches. With chairs drawn close behind the President’s large desk in the execu- tive office, Mr. Roosevelt and Vice | President Garner had a long chat | this morning during which they cov- ered a variety of subjects, swapped stories. and discussed the nature of the acceptance speech’ each will make to the Democratic National Conven- tion in Philadelphia Saturday night. This was the first meeting of the two since the closing of Congress. When the Vice President left the President’s office his ruddy face was wreathed in smiles. He told news- paper men he had a delightful talk with the President. Asked what they discussed, he laughingly replied: “We discussed everything except politics. The President and I are not interested in politics and never talk it.” Asked about his forthcoming speech in Philadelphia, Garner replied that he would hardly dignify it by calling it a speech, adding he would say a few words and then head back for Texas. Brief Speech Expected. The penciled notes on his desk at the time showed clearly that Mr.| Roosevelt, has not progressed far in| drafting his acceptance speech. He | has promised to have it ready for ad- | vance distribution Saturday after- noon, however. The indications are he will make it as brief as possible. Aides said the President planned to leave for Philadelphia late Satur- day afternoon, and that he contem- plated going directly from his train to Franklin Field, where he will deliver the address. Immediately afterward he will return to his train and travel to Hyde Park, N. Y, to spend the week end. The President is keeping in close touch with all that is transpiring at the convention. Besides being repre- sented there by Secretary Marvin H. McIntyre, Mr. Roosevelt is receiving reports from his other lieutenants. He has indicated a real interest in the development of the movement to draft Gov. Lehman of New York to| seek re-election. ‘While nothing has been said at the ‘White House to indicate the President is inspiring this draft movement, there is evewy reason to believe he | has been using all his persuasive powers to get the New York Governor to reconsider his intention to retire| to private life. It is understood that Mr. Roosevelt has had at least one long-distance telephone talk with the New York executive while the latter has been attending the convention. There is reason to feel that the Presi- dent is also depending upon Secretary McIntyre, Postmaster General Farley and others to bring the drafting job to a successful culmination. Listeps to Speeches. Mr. Roosevelt put aside his work last | night long enough to sit before his radio and listen to the convention speech of Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania ,and the keynote address delivered by | Senator Barkley of Kentucky. He is | understood to have complimented each | over the long distance. There was no comment forthcoming from the White House today, however, respecting the Barkley speech. Mr. Roosevelt's principal duties to- day like those during every day since the clocing of Congress had to do principally with the signing of bills | passed during the closing hours of | | Congress and the clearing of his desk | of accumulated routine business. Dur- ing the night and forenoon the Presi- dent affixed his signature to more than a score of bills, among* them the Dis- trict appropriation bill, the Treasury | and Post Office Departments’ appro- priation bill and the bill authorizing | the Secretary of Agriculture to make an investigation of traffic accidents and conditions throughout the coun- try, as a basis for a report in which will be included recommendations for correcting legislation. istrict (Continued From First Page.) | for members of Congress to perform adequately the dual function of rep- resenting their own districts that elect them and at the same time try to do justice to the voteless residents of the National Capital, for whom they must also serve as a local legis- lature. Asks County to Aid. While urging the Democrats to in- dorse Washington's request, Mrs. Nor- ton also made an earnest plea to her listeners out in the States to. help Washingtonians obtain “the vote in national affairs—a right they can ob- tain only from their voting fellow- Americans in the States. “I am pleading for the co-operatiqn of the citizens of the country to take the people of the District out of the class of imbeciles, convicts and in- competents, and give them the same rights and privileges as are extended to every intelligent citizen of our great country,” Mrs. Norton said. “Then, too, I am particularly inter- ested in representation in the Congress for the District, because it is absolutely impogsfble for & committee in the House or Senate to serve the people in the District as they are entitled to be served. We have districts that send Us to Congress to represent our own h;eople and they are our first considera- tion, as they should be. ‘Added to that we must legislate for the 560,000 people in the District of Columbia, who are paying their fair share of taxes to maintain the Government of the United States. This is not only unfair to the citizens of the District, but it is unfair to us to be obliged to bear their burden when our time should be given to serve our own constitutents. It is absolutely un-American, “What I particularly wish to im- press upon the Resolutions Committee is how you can help us to bring free- dom to the District. Our ancestors fought for this freedom and we in the States and Territories are enjoying it. Do you believe we are doing eur duty to these ancestors if we fail to do all in our power to help the voteless peo- ple of the District to gain that which is the right of every free American? If you believe as I do, won't you please do your part to urge the States to support national representation for the voteless people of the District of Co- lumbia. In their name I thank you for whatever you may do to assist us.” As the two speakers were laying ‘Washington’s case for political equity before the platform builders inside the convention hall, the Indians who came here to stage another Boston tea party for the District were outside the hall spreading the national representation plea to convention visitors on placards attached to little b tea. | women and children who needed them, Delegates thought Mrs, Kansas, was pinning a Landon ‘The full text of Commissioner Allen’s | speech pleading for national repre- sentation for the District, as delivered today before the Platform Committee at the Democratic National Conven- tion, follows: One hundred and sixty yeams ago brave men shed their blood that the rugged and unyielding land in which they lived might become what it has | become—a great, free democracy. They left their humble homes, and the | to brandish their pitiable weapons in the face of trained armies. They died for a cause magnificent and glorious. But for a half million residents of | the District of Columbia those men laid down their lives in vain. Those patriots who offered up their all that taxation without representation mxght‘[ be swept from this country today can | look down upon a section of the| United States that is denied the very | fruits of their eternal sacrifice. It probably isn't a pretty picture for them to behold. Not “Abject Plea.” This is to be no ebject plea for a vote for the District of Columbia. The | past is strewn with “abject appeals.” | some of them almost craven in their manner. An American should not have to plead for a vote eny more | than they should have to seek permis- sion to breathe. This is to be, instead, a reminder that now is the time for | all just men to rise up and give unto the Capital of their Nation the funda- mental privilege that made this land a government by the people—the right of suffrage. The reasons why the forefathers failed to provide for the representation Leslie. Wallace, night, when she fastened this sunflower on his lapel. wasn’t. Sunflowers, she bridled, don’t mean Landon; they mean Kansas. Text of Allen’s Speech Commissioner Makes Plea for National Representa- tion for District Before Democratic Convention. of the residents of the seat of the Fed- eral Government are easily understood. | At the time the Constitution was | adopted it was uncertain as to what the area of the Federal District would | | be or what would be its population. Opinion was then expressed by leading | men that when its population became | adequate, representation in Congress would be given to it. Uncertain as to whether there would be a Federal union, it is not strange that they overlooked the peo- ple in the seat of Government, not vet located, when it was not known if there would be any population. Not Blind to Development. After the seat of Government was located on the banks of the Potomac, with its full 10 miles square of possible area, the forefathers were not, as sometimes contended, blind to the possibility of future development of e great city on this site. George Wash- ington, for example, predicted that the City of the Nation a century thence, if the country kept united, would be “thought not as large as London, yet of a magnitude inferior to few others in Europe.” In his imagination, Washington saw the fair fields and wooded hills of his namesake city covered with homes of a numerous, busy and happy people. The people he saw were not in out- ward appearance aliens politically and less than aliens judicially, but normal citizens clothed with all American rights not absolutely inconsistent with the fostering control by the Nation of the National Capital. It is inconceivable that the founder of this great democracy could imagine that the wonderful capital which he visioned would be peopled by Ameri- cans who would be less than Ameri- cans in that they were deprived of the fundamental rights of Americans, for which Washington and the fore- fathers fought, and be classed politi- cally with aliens, convicts and luna- tics. Population Exceeds Eight States. The District of €olumbia today (census 1936 estimate) thrives with more persons than 15 of the 16 States in the Union had at the time the District was founded. Only Colonial Virginia had more than Washington’s over a half million residents of today. But, what is more to our point, the District of Columbia, though it is the smallest geographical unit in the Federal system, exceeds 8 of the States in population (1930 census). This voteless, speechless, unjustly dis- criminated-against National Capital community paid more tham $12,000,- 000 in national internal revenue alone last year and that is more than paid by each of 23 States, and more than 9 States combined. Ifs population in- creased 22 per cent from 1930 until last year, while the population of the United States increased only 4 per cent. The District’s per capita wealth | of $3,850 is greater than that of 37 of the 48 States. Savings deposits alone in the District jumped from 18 millions in 1916 to 103 millions in 1935. That latter figure outdistances 21 States of the Union. These are bare and blunt figures. By themselves they probably prove little. It is what they say inferen- tially that is the important thing to consider. They tell you that the Dis- trict of Columbia paid more national taxes last year than nine States com- bined with a total of 18 Senators and 18 Representatives in Congress, and these nine States have 36 electoral votes for President and Vice President. Pind one solitary parallel of injustice in America to equal $hat and the half | newspapers than 28 of the States and | more national taxes than any one of WASHINGTO delegate from badge on James Roosevelt last But she —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto. million men and women of the District gladly will drop their valiant fight for equal rights. Look this broad land of ours completely over and you will find nothing that strikes more viciously at the precepts of American government. Stand Up and Demand Rights. You see now why we no longer plead. Yeu see and understand now why we stand up and demand our right to be represented in the ‘Congress of the United States. Taxation without rep- resentation was tyranny in 1776. It still is. In America the vote is withheld from idiots, criminals, tramps and beggars. Is it fair, then, to class with this mot- ley array a District wherein illit- eracy, for instance, has been reduced to the infinitesimal figure of a litgle over 1 per cent? States and cities whose illiteracy rate runs as high as five to ten times as much as the Dis- trict’s are sending their spokesmen to a Congress whose doors are barred to those Americans whose only crime was to have been born, or adopted by, the most beautiful Capital in the world. Public school attendance of childrea in Washington came. to almost 98 per | cent, while the average for the United States was slightly over 95 per cent in 1930. Only Albany, N. Y., in the East approaches the District’s never-ending right to bring the light of education | to the masses. The native or con- | verted Washingtonian, who is classed at polling time with the basest ele- ments in the land, is in truth more qualified to vote with dignity and un- derstanding than the product of any other region in America. Your Wash- ingtonian perpetually lives in an at- mosphere that qualifies him to speak with intelligence on the needs of the Nation. He, who is held speechless by | an outdated law, stands at what | amounts to the cross-roads of America. | Washington is the pulse of the coun- | try’s public opinion. The disenfran- chised natives, for instance, buy more more periodicals than 42 of the States. Only Three Factors. There are really only three factors | to be considered in deciding on whether | a community is qualified to exercise the privilege of the vote. First: Educa- tion and experience of the citizens— that is, have they the ability to use suffrage reasonably well? Second: Size and population of the community—is it of sufficient importance to warrant representation? Third: Wealth and | income of the community—has it the | means to pay its fair share of the cost | of government? To reiterate our compelling figures— | the District of Columbia bows to no city and certainly no State in the mat- ter of learning. As for the second con- | dition, it houses more people than any of eight States and has a greater popu- lation now than any State had save Oklahoma had when admitted to the Union and, thirdly, it not only pays 23 of the States, but pays more na- tional taxes alone than the amount which the combined 13 original States so adamantly refused to pay to Eng- land. The total wealth of the District of Columbia is $1,860,000,000. That figure is as great as the total wealth of eight States—combined. Only the cities of New York, Phila- delphia, Chicago, Detroit and Los An- geles exceed its $1,250,000,000 realty assessments. Do Not Ask Full Right. ‘We do not even ask for our full right. District of Columbians are content with their tri-cornered type of city government, three presidentially ap- pointed men under whom come all Dis- trict agencies. But we do want, and know we are fitted for, & voice in na- tional affairs in our country. We hold, and always will, that depriving us of the right to send our representatives to the Capitol makes of the word “democracy” nothing short of a hollow mockery. There is no capital in the civilized world where qualified citizens have been forced to remain politically buried by & general denial of the fran- chise, - The right of a community to select men and women to speak its mind in Congress is the prime principle of Democratic government. If, as our forefathers believed, this Government must derive its just power from the consent of the governed, then a half- million vital and intelligent citizens living in the District of Columbia are D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936. CAPONE STABBER IN'CONFINEMENT Former Texas Bank Robber Inflicts Superficial Wound in Back. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—James C. Lucas, the Alcatraz Island convict who stabbed Al Capone and in turn was sent sprawling by the ex-Chicago gang leader, was held in solitary con- finement today while authorities took the case under advisement. United States District Attorney H. H. McPike said he expected to receive a report of ‘the affair from James H. Johnston, warden of the San Fran- cisco Bay prison, but added he knew of no plans to bring the former Texas bank robber here for trial. “If Capone had been killed, that would be another matter,” said Mc- Pike. “We would then have brought Lucas here for trial on a murder charge. He is serving a 30-year term as it is.” Capone was described by physicians as only superficially wounded in the back when Lucas lunged at him yes- terday with the blade of a pair of scis- sors. Doctors said the wound was about a quarter of an inch deep and an inch long. ‘Warden Johnston reported Lucas felt Capone had informed against him, and quoted the scar-faced gangster as say- ing he had refused the Texan’s repeat- ed requests for financial aid. “Capone was at werk between the clothing room and the shower room,” said Warden Johnston. “Lucas had gone to the barber shop, adjoining, for a haircut. He grabbed up a pair of scissors and, running about 10 feet, wounded Capone in the back.” Capone, who had his back turned when Lucas struck, wheeled and struck his assailant with his fist, knocking him dewn. A guard intervened before the twc could exchange more blows. Capone walked to the hospital unaided and Lucas was placed in solitary confine- ment. Various reports of ill-feeling between Capone and other prisoners have arisen since the uprising last January, when about 100 of the 259 convicts re- fused to work and demanded additional privileges. Capone, serving an 11-year term for income tax evasion, refused to partici- pate in the three-day mutiny, in which Lucas, considered an incor- rigible prisoner, was a ringleader. ‘The former gang leader started serv- ing his sentence at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, but was brought here two yrars ago when the Government took over the Army disciplinamy bar- racks on Alcatraz for its hardened and incorrigible convicts. not expire until May 3, 1942. MOTHER OF PRESIDENT TO VISIT PHILADELPHIA Ry the Assoclated Press. HYDE PARK, N. Y., June 24.—Mrs. James Roosevelt, 81-year-old mother | of the President, is staying close to the radio in the library of her Hyde' Pask home this week, following the proceedings of the Democratic Na- tional Cenvention. She will go to Philadelphia by auto- mobile Saturday to attend the clos- ing sessions, and will be present at the notification ceremony. The President’s mother injured her hip recently in a fall, but has re- gained her health, and is resuming all her activities. month. With her at Hyde Park are her two great grandchildren, who lived at the White House in the first part of President Roosevelt’s administration. plorable discrimination. That this country might go on, refusing a half- million citizens the right it gladly ex- tends to others is an utterly distress- ing thought and a terrible and grave injustice to an innocent and deserving people. You know the solution as well as I. You know clearly the only course we can take to make the District of Co- lumbia a voting part of the Govern- ment it helps to support. A constitu- tional amendment must be promptly adopted, empowering Congress to grant to the residents of the District of Columbia voting representation in the Senate and House of Representa- tives, the vote for President and Vice President and the same right as citizens to sue and be sued in the courts of the United States as is possessed by the citizens of the States. There is not a grain of justice in a law that repudiates the political ideals upon whose solid rock this great country was founded, ROOF LERK GICHNER ! NA. 4370 not Americans. Their consent has never been asked. I wish very sincerely that you might trade places with me for a day. It is my privilege to serve the District in an official capacity that, gives me an intimate view of this de- GOING AWAY? | Accident and Baggage Insurance. Le Roy Goff 1036 Woodward Bldg. Natl. 0340. | SANITARY CARPET & | RUG.CLEANING €O, -106-INDIANA AVE. His sentence will | She attended the | Vassar College commencement this | Stabs Capone TEXAS BANK BANDIT USES ENIFE IN PRISON. JAMES C. LUCAS, The 22-year-old Tezxas bank bandit is accused of stabbing Al Capone, former underworld leader, at Alcatraz Prison, where both are serving sen- tences. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Platform (Continued From First Page.) five-day werk week and shorter work day in private industry. A declaration in favor of the princi- | ple of high wages and maintenance | of an adequate annual income for the | working people. Indorsement of the right of labor to organize free from intimidation and coercion, and to engage in collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing. A declaration in favor of continua- tion of social security and old-age pension legislation. A plank declaring in favor of the maintenance of high, decent wage standards for the employes of the Federal Government and the equitable classification of civilian Government employes under the civil service. Ed O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation, urged the ad- vocacy of the restoration of farm in- come and purchasing power and the maintenance of a prosperous agricul- ture to form the basis for industrial | and security. To accomplish this, he !smd, the Democrats should go on | record in favor of the adoption or | continuation of policies seeking effec- | tive adjustment and control of the | volume of farm products, a perman- | ent system of commodity loans, main- | | tenance of a well-rounded soil con- servation and land utilization pro- gram, expansion of both domestic and foreign outlets for farm products and full protection of the domestic mar- ket for farm products | O'Neal also indorsed the revaluation of the dollar, saying: “The revaluation of our dollar has | already demonstrated conclusively the | effectiveness of monetary control in | checking ruinous deflation and re- | storing commedity price levels.” L. J. Taber, head of the non-parti- | san National Grange. said the Ameri- | can farmer insists that each of our | great political parties shall clearly | define its attitude toward agriculture. He advocated a long-time sofl con- | servation program, recognition of the iprmcxple of price parity between the products of the farm and industry |in the domestic market, expansion | E L= :INCORPORATED: Any size, 6 or 8 Exposure Rolls Developed 2 50 and Printed on VeloX geprints 30 RITZ STUDIO, 1112 G St. | Welfare Association of New York. He |and national prosperity, employment | of rural credit facilities and a mone- tary system providing a dollar just to debtor and creditor alike. Wagner Made Chairman, The first action of the committee was to elect Senator Wagner of New York chairman. He said the com- mittee was anxious to give everybody ample opportunity to present their cases, but urged them to “have some consideration” for the committee and be as brief as possible. William E. Boyle of Nevada was chosen secretary. ‘Wade Martin of Louisiana submitted & plank on behalf of the National Rivers and Harbors.Congress indorsing the New Deal's river development and flood control program, and urging its continuance. He stressed the loss of life and property damage caused by this year's floods. The Federal Gov- ernment, he said, should undertake the development cof the Mississippi River. From the American League Against Fascism came a suggested plank prging the convention to take a strong stand against Fascist trends in America. “Fascism,” Miss Helen E. Doriot said, “deprives the people of their liberty and blocks all individual opportunity.” Urge Stand Against Reds. Next came a demand from the Na- tional Christian Citizenship Founda- tion for a determined stand against communism in America. This plea drew the first burst of applause from the spectators. Albert Falk of Wheaton, Minn,, asked for a dollar-a-day pen- sion for all veterans. Canon William Sheafe Chase of the International Reform Federation urged the delegates to go on record as opposing commercialism in politics; he also urged the Democrats to call a conference of the 63 nations which | have renounced war to “decide what to do” to maintain world peace Comdr. Richmond P. Howson, Span- ish-American War naval hero, ap- peared on behalf of the Public appealed to both political parties to join on the “ground of common ! Americanism” im protecting American | institutions and educating the people to a spirit of patriotism. Heywood Broun, speaking for the American Newspaper Men Guild, told the committee a plank indorsing the right of collective bargaining will be inadequate unless accompanied by an- other plank giving the Federal Gov- ernment the power to protect labor in such negotiations. At the present time, he said, individual newspapers probably can refuse to negotiate col- jectively with their employes and suc- cessfully defend this position on the ground they sre not engaged in inter- | state commerce. Plea for Veterans. ‘The veterans of foreign wars sub- mitted a plank calling for continued liberalizing of provisions for disabled | veterans and their dependents; pro- vision for adequate national defense jand a carefully devised neutrality | | policy; great reduction of immigration | Furniture quotas, and perpetuation of our representative form of Government, Speaking for 25 national organizae tions, Dr. Walter W. Vankirk, di- rector of the National Peace Cone ference, asked the convention to draft & platform aimed at keeping the United States out of war. He stressed need for effective control of the muni- ticns industry. Neutrality legislation, he added, should make it illegal to sell belligerents the basic the raw ma-~ terials of war, as well as munitions. The Junior Committee of the Na- tional Economy League, claiming to represent 29,600,000 taxpayers and voters under 35 years of age, asked the party to go on record for a balanced Federal budget. Senator Reynolds of North Carolina appeared to urge indorsement of his bill for deportation of criminal aliens, Representative Johnson of Okla= homa appeared to urge collection of “every penny” of the war debts, while Representative Bell of Missouri récom- mended a plank calling for “sound old-age pensions in the largest sum that can be paid with due regard for our national economy.” Limits Speakers. After hearing statements for three hours and a half the committee unanie mously adopted a rule limiting subse= quent speakers to two minutes each. Frank J. Burns, assistant attorney general of Illinois who said he spoke only for himself, asked the convention to refrain from going on record in favor of any constitutional amend- ment. 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