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—— TfiE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936. ® A7 "6 SENATORS REFUSE TO SIT ON RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE PLATFORM ACCORD ASSURED BY MOVE Glass, Byrd, Tydings and Others Not to Fight New Deal. BY JAY G. HAYDEN. PHILADELPHIA, June 24 (N.AN.A). =The latest possible obstacle in the way of complete control by President Roosevelt of the platform, as well as the nominations, of the Democratic National Convention was removed to- day when a half dozen conservative Senators, headed by Carter Glass of Virginia, neatly sidestepped member- ship in the Resplutions Committee. The position of these Senators frank- 1y is that they will not throw any monkey wrenches into the New Deal machine, but at the same time they do not want to be placed in a position where they must specifically sign the credo which the convention will adopt The Resolutions Committee not only is pro-New Deal, but it has on it a number of aggressive radica Chairman Robert F. Wagner | York. who sponsored both the N. R. A and the labor disputes act; Senator Hugo Black of Alabama, whose seizure of private telegrams in the lobby m-' vestigation stirred up a storm of pro- test; Senators Elmer Thomas of Okla- homa. Burton K. Wheeler of Montana and James P. Pope of Idaho. the lead- | ing currency inflationists, and J. Stitt Wilson of California, a former So- cialist. i Weak Fight Possible | Countering these are a few moderate | conservatives, such as Walter F. George | of Georgia. David 1. Walsh of Massa- | chusetts, Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina and Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio. But none of these is showing any i of serious rebellion. They un- | doubtedly will endeavor to tone down the more radical planks in the closed | session of the com ee, but it is ex- ceedingly doubtful that they will take their political lives in their hands by | carrying a fight to the convention floor. A tip-off as to the conservative atti- tude came when both Senators Glass | and Harry F. Byrd of Virginia refused | to serve on the Resolutions Committee. | Senator Glass issued a statement that | was quite typical of him. He declared that. so far as he was concerned, “the convention will be harmonious,” and then he added “I am stan for That platform. which Glass wrote | last week, commended the “humani- tarian purpose” of President Roose- | velt, wished him “the largest success in every sound measure he may here- after project” and asserted that “at no time within the history of the Nation has adherence to sound principles of representative Government been more imperative than today.” Still for Sound Money. To another newspaper man who | epproached him, Glass blurted out | that he was still in favor of the plank, | which he inserted in the Democratic platform of 1932, declaring for “a sound currency at all hazards,” even though the Republicans now have | stolen it. Another Senator who dodged mem- | bership in the Resolutions Committee was Millard E. Tydings of Maryland. The delegation from Maryland prob- | ably is the most anti-New Deal of any in the convention. Besides Tydings, who has voted against practically all of President Roosevelt’s legislative proposals, it includes Howard Bruce, member of the Democratic National Committee: Mayor Howard Jackson on the Virginia plat- @ Refuse to Carve New Deal Planks SENATOR DEITERICH. SENATOR CONNALLY. Sidelights of the Convention Romney Fills “*Big Shot” Role—Texas Contingent Adopts Roof Garden Dancer, With Rangers as Guard. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star | PHILADELPHIA. Pa., June 24— One of the real ‘'big shots” in the convention official force is Kenneth Romney, sergeant at arms of the House, who has the important job of chief tally clerk and contact man between the convention chairman, the parliamentarian and other officers. | This is the fifth consecutive national convention in which he has had an| imporiant position. Romney started in at the San Francisco convention, | when Emil Hurja, who is now the man behind the scenes as executive secretary, was unable to crash the gate at the convention, and Romney | gave him a badge of an assistant sergeant at arms. Texas Rangers and cowboys and | three-gallon-hat wearers have adopted | Tania Lessova as their mascot and | “sweetheart” of the delegation. Tania, who hails from the sunny Southland, | does an amazing Russian dance on| the Walton Roof Garden. Each night | a “guard of honor” of rangy and vig- orous Texans kneel around the dance floor on which she does her act, and‘ give their yells when she has finished. seemed not to have found any of the grass of Hoover's prophecy The mules and the machines were | decorated with signs containing Hoov- er's words about growing grass, and other signs as follows Well, Mister Hoover, here we come To do the job you wanted dome; We're all ready to begin to mor, But where's the grass you said would grow? These slogans have been suggested to Charley Michaelson Hoover and his party didn’t give us the chicken for the pot, nor the two-car garage, and now they renege on their promise of a grass- cutting job. The G. O. P. elephant, foodless for three long years, counted om feeding up—on Hoover grass. What will the beast do now, poor thing? Hay, hay. Hoover! Though its had three long years in which to sprout, The Hoover grass is definitely out. The attention of Campaign Mana- ger Farley has been directed to a of Baltimore and Robert E. Ennis, all | Tania was the guest of the Texas Philadelphia policeman, on duty near of whom have been highly critical | delegation at the opening session, and | the campaign headquarters — Frank of the New Deal. Bruce and Ennis in January accom- | panied the late Gov. Albert C. Ritchie | to the American Liberty League din- | ner, at which Alfred E. Smith deliv- ered his first blast against Roosevelt. A majority of the Maryland delega- | tion was insistent that Tydings enter | the Resolutions Committee and lead a | tee arranged yesterday to have the to add to the “local colo the Texans have arranged a special performance at which she is to dance during the big reception planned for Vice President Garner’s arrival Friday night. Tania's father is & Wwidely known surgeon in Indiana. | The Democratic National Commit- | being Dean (“no relation to Dizzy or Dafly.” he warns)—in case the Democratic donkey becomes recalcitrant in the campaign. He has twice proven his ability to put the donkey over—in fact, two donkeys. Each of them was taken into the lobby of the Walton Hotel. The one yesterday was when the fight for what it regards as sound | grass cut which Hoover said would | entire Pennsylvania delegation was Democratic principles, and he was so | grow on the streets of “a hundred being photographed. But the donk elected. When Glass announced that | he would not accept membership in | the committee, however, Tydings also | backed out. He declared that he was cities, a thousand towns” if the Dem- ocrats were victorious in 1932. ‘ Two crews of farm hands were sent out to do the job. Each crew con- balked at the six or seven marble steps. She was blindfolded—but that didn't work. In comes Dean with a taxi driver. not going to fight Roosevelt all alone. | sisted of a mowing machine, drawn | hind the hind legs of “Miss Democ- The Maryland member of the com- | by two mules; a rake, drawn by one | racy” and while she was getting set mittee, substituted for Tydings, is Sen- | mule, and a hay wagon, drawn by two | to balk harder than ever, they fairly ator George L. Radcliffe, whose one | point of distinction is that he is a former employer and close personal friend of President Roosevelt. It is certain he will vote for whatever the | President wants. | Maryland Position. The real underlying Maryland point of view was indicated, as in Virginia, by its State Democratic platform. As originally written, this declared that the party “should return to the prin- ciples of Thomas Jefferson.” Some members of the convention objected to this phraseology and it was changed to read “should adhere to the prin- ciples of Thomas Jefferson,” thus soft- ening the implication that Roosevelt had deserted the Jeffersonian prin- ciples. Senators Alva B. Adams of Cola- rado, William H. Dieterich of Illinois and Tom Connally of Texas are others who have voted against New Deal measures and who, for that reason, elected not to sit in the Resolutions Committee. The position of these old-school Democratic office holders is quite plain. They disapprove of many of the Roosevelt policies and they would like to see them changed. But they fully realize that Roosevelt is in the gaddle and that for them to attempt openly to buck him would split the party in their States wide open and create sores which would require many years to heal. . Seek to Hold Own Power. The thing they are primarily in- terested in is the maintenance of their own positions of power in the party, whether Roosevelt wins or loses in the election this year. To this end they have chosen to give the New Dealers all the rope they want, so far as the present campaign is con- cerned. Tending also to prevent open op- OR MOTORISTS WHO WANT THE BEST BAYERSON OIL_ WORKS coLumBiA 5228 mules. The crews drove up and down Broad street and Market street an position to Roosevelt, particularly in | the Southern States, is the existence | of laws which penalize a bolt by | the party. These laws were passed | to punish the Hoovercrats, who op- | posed Al Smith for President in | 1928. Their existence probably ex- | plains why men such as Gov. Eugene | Talmadge of Georgia, Glass and Byrd | of Virginia and Bailey of North Caro- lina, while they have bitterly criti- | cized the New Deal, have been un- willing to carry this opposition to the | point of opposing the re-election of | Roosevelt. They long ago decided | that there was no hope of beating Roosevelt for renomination. There is & possibility that the re- | fusal of such men as Glass, Byrd and | Tydings to sit in the Resolutions Com- mittee will materially affect the plat- form, by leaving the left wing in un- disputed control. | servative leaven in the committee, | {even the President may have diffi- culty in holding the platform dec- larations within the bounds which | he desires. The one thing that the Democratic conservatives are making sure of is that, whatever finally emerges from the Platform GCommittee, ill be | branded as Mr. Roosevelt’s and not their creation. (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) i Consfipated 3 Take This Tip _Here's one of the friendliest | tips one can give another—how to really relieve Constipation. It is simply this: One or two E-Z Tablets taken when bilious, due to Constipation, are amazingly effective . .. yet so mild and entle. 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In the convention, strutting his cane and with his resplendent badge, he | paraded the center aisle before the convention started, and when finally forced to take his seat, mumbled: “I could handle that crowd on the floor of our State House but I give up here.” ] Mrs. Fitzhugh is the great-great- granddaughter of Patrick Henry, A clown sandwich man, with big Without & con- | splay feet —enormous feet — paddled | soon had all the delegates and visitors along in front of the convention Mattresses—Box Springs Made New For only $9.00 and up. we can convert your old mattress into the inner spring type—soft as swansdown. Guaranteed for years. Let us also make your Box Springs and pillows new. The cost is amall. ZABANS National 9410 726 11th St. NaW. They clasped hands be- | headquarters in the thick of traffic. His signs fore and aft read: “I voted in 1936—but I've changed Distinguished guesis and delegates continue to arrive at the conventio hotels. Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York, touted as a candi- | date for President on the Republicar | ticket and then campaign manager | for Senator Borah, arrived last night to watch from the side lines—and “get some good ideas,” his House colleagues commented. Others who have arrived recently include: Basil O'Connor of New | York, law partner of President Roosevelt and brother of Chairman | O'Connor of the House Rules Com- | mittee; Col. and Mrs. J. F. Donovan of Palm Beach, Fla.. intimate friends of the President; Lieut. Gov. Frank | Hays of Waterbury, Conn.; Alvin C Johnson, attorney general, Indiantp-| olis. Ind.; Senator and Mrs. William | Gibbs McAdoo of California: Gov. | Henry E. Horner of Illinois; former Representative Anning S. Prall, now chairman of the Federal Communica- tions Commission: State Senator J. | P. Beacom and Mrs. Beacom, Hunt- | ington, W. Va.. Arthur F. Mullen, Democratic national committeeman: Mayor George J. Zimmerman, Buffalo, N. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Acey Carraway, | headquarters manager in Washington for the Young Democratic Club of | America; former United States Sena- tor J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama and Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama. John B. Colpoys, chairman of the District delegation, was a proud dele- gate yesterday when he went to the | opening session and found he had seat No. 1 in the auditorium. The entire District delegation was assigned to the front row on the center aisle, with the banner of the Nation’s Capital directly in front of the speaker's platform. As the first session adjourned yes- terday afternoon the crowds leaving the auditorium saw three little girls walking by the hall with a big poster bearing the slogan, “Land-on Top With Roosevelt. ‘The din caused by a combination | of cheering, singing and band-playing | during the first parade of delegates | around the hall yesterday failed to | frighten two dogs that were carried iln the pushing throng of marching | delegates by two girls from New York. Some of the loyal Democrats let | their enthusiasm get out of hand yes- | terday, and as a result they may find | themselves out in the cold at future sessions of the convention. Postmaster General Farley’'s open- | ing speech yesterday was the signal for the convention's first demonstra- tion, but when the shouting and cheer- |ing was over at least a score of delegates discovered they had lost their badges—their only means of admission to the hall. | The West Virginia delegation put on the best side show of the convention | last night in the lobby of the swanky Bellevue-Stratford, where the high moguls of democracy are staying. With a real hilly billy band, bare feet and all, they gave a rendition of “Coming Down the Mountain” that singing at the top of their voices, L] PEERY TAKES UP PLATFORM DUTIES Glass Approves Choice of | Successor — Virginians Name Hooker Again. B3 a Staff Correspondent of Tne Star PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 24 Gov. George C. Peery of Virginia entered today upon his duties on the Platform Committee as successor to Senator Carter Glass, who relinquished the post after 40 years in spite of persistent effort of members of the delegation to persuade him to accept service again. When it was evident that Senator Glass was adament in this decision which came as a sur- prise to his associates on the dele- gation, Senator Harry F. Byrd, na- tional committeeman, proposed the appointment of Gov. Peery and it was i adopted unanimously. I Senator Glass stated privately that | he was “worn out” by his legislative | duties—and it was commented upon | that he had frequently and radically | differed with New Deal policies of the administration. The Senator is 78. He commented that “he would not miss the work and did not believe the committee would miss him, much.” Glass left the convention floor, where | he was seated with the rest of the | Virginia delegation, immediately fol- | lowing Chairman Farley’s speech. Votes With Delegation. In the caucus which pledged the new member on the Convention Rules Committee—State Senator Aubrey | Weaver of Front Royal—to oppose the | proposition to abrogate the two-thirds rule, Senator Glass voted with the other 53 Virginia delegates, He also voted for the Governor to replace him on the Platform Committee. State Chairman Murray Hooker was re-elected as chairman of the : delegation. W. W. Beverley of Rich- mond was elected secretary. Other committee assignments were: Assis- tant Secretary of State, R. Walton | Moore of Fairfax, on Permanent Or- ganization Committee; State Senator | Robert W. Daniel of Brandon on the Credentials Committee. State Chair- | man Hooker was authorized to ap- | point a Virginia delegate on the com- mittee to notify the presidential | nominee and another to notify the | vice presidential nominee. | | Lieut. Gov. James H. Price, who | | has announced his candidacy for | Governor, sat with the delegation | and was introduced to Gov. Erhing- ! haus of North Carolina as “the next Governor of Virginia.” Mrs. Bowman Leads Cheers. | | Mrs. Geline Bowman, wearing 8 big red hat, led members of the Virginia delegation in cheering whea the band played “Dixie.” When Chair- ! man Farley, in his speech opening the convention, said “Continuance of the New Deal is the issue,” Col. Dan | Porter of Orange started the ap- plause. Mrs. John Garland Porter, wife and secretary of the former Governor, led the singing when the band started | to play national anthems and she | was assisted by Mrs. Leslie Whitehead of Amherst, vice chairman of the | | State delegation: Mrs. Emma Lee | White of Mathews, a former member | of the House of Delegates; Mrs. | | Eudora Ramsey Richardson, and other prominent women. | Tom Glascock of Fauquier carried the Virginia standard in the parade following the conclusion of Farley's speech. Then the women of the dele- | gation carried the Virginia standard | in turns. | There were only five of the 95 | Virginia delegates and alternates absent when the credentials were dis- | tributed—The absentees beinz: Mrs. | Howard C. Gilmer, delegate at large, Pulaski; Mrs. Henry Perkins, dele- | gate at large, Norfolk; A. E. S Stephens, alternate from Isle of | Wight: Mrs. Josephine F. Kane, alter- | nate, Scott. and W. R. B. Broadus, | | delegate from Martinsville, Shoe Industry College. | ‘The German shoe industry has a well-equipped “college” at Pierma- sens, where students receive instruc- | tion in the production of footwear along anatomical lines. | | | | NATIONAL LIMITED CINCINNATI LOUISVILLE ST. LOUIS The only train from Washington to St. Louis providing the comfort of air-conditioned reclining seat coach, with Buffet- Lunch Counter. Clean, spacious washrooms with free soap and towels. Lv. Washington . 6:30 P. M. 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We hate to say it, but these men and women delegates here in the flessh—and you couldn’t think of a better word than “flesh” to describe many of them if you sat up all night with your dictionary—milling about through the organized whoopee like “painted ships upon & painted ocean” might just as well be a bunch of Re- publicans of the pre-Kansas era. Could you believe it? We couldn't if we hadn't seen it with our own eyes. The whole effect is terribly spooky. | Here we are. all dressed up to visit the City of Brotherly Love and now we find ourselves in the port of miss- ing men! It's really an awfully queer feeling. One minute you hear the mysterious footsteps of what are known as the die-hard quintuplets, Messrs. Smith, Ely, Colby, Cohalan and Reed. taking their walk; the next you hear the distant pitter-patter of Mr. Lemke's tiny feet starting to run. —_— ago in | | And while we are on the subject this walk-taking business is scoffed at by the high command., but rather wistfully—almost enviously—regarded by many of the lower-bracket dele- gates. specially those from con- veniently adjacent States. Here they are paying pretty steep hotel bills— or rather, we are paying them for them, for job-holding delegates pre- dominate—with nothing to do but be entertained, and you know what hard work that is. The entertainment is distinctly in the nature of supervised play. The old Democratic convention spirit—so degage. so je ne sais quoi, so what- the-hell, in other days—has beeu re- “PEOPLE'S FRONT URGED BY FOSTER Communists Open National Convention With Attack on Reaction, Fascism. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, June 24 —Chairman William Z. Foster, opening the ninth national convention of the Communist, party, called today for the develop- jment of “a mighty people's front | against reaction, fascism, and war— & Farmer-Labor party.” “The old order has the seal of death upon its forehead,” said Foster, thrice the party’s presidential nominee, “Seeing the people rebelling, it fran- tically seeks to cancel the democrati rights and civil liberties of the peopls prepares civil war against them. or | anizes Black Legions, Ku Klux Klan: | and self-styled Liberty Leagues. | “It takes refuge in an irresponsible | oligarchy—the Supreme Court—which it hopes is out of the reach of the | people. It prepares to throw the whole world into a new and more terrible war which threatens to blot out civile ization. “Only Way Out.” “The program of the Communist party offers the only way out. the only possible solution of the crisis into | which the whole world is plunged. e He cited the “glorious victories of the people’s front in France” as “proof of the correctness of the Communist program.” “Our party has its roots deep in American life and revolutionary tradi- tions,” he said “We inherit and con- tinue the traditions of 1776, of the Declaration of Independence, of the birth of our Nation in the fires of revolutionary upheaval. “We inherit and continue the tradi- tion of Lincoln, of the emancipation proclamation, of the revolutionary Civil War. ! “We inherit and continue the tradi- tion of generations of heroic struggle to build the American labor movement with its organizations. from the day of illegality to its great promise of today, when, for the second time, it challenges its greatest enemy. the steel trust.” Unite the Toilers. Declaring that the convention repre« sents the vanguard of the American ipé‘c))’.e to find “the best, the quickest, I'the least painful way out,” he cone cluded: “Along this path we will find the way to unite the toilers of America against their mies, the monopolists and bankers of Wall Street. and all their agents. Along this path we will find the road to a better life. “Along this path we will unite with our friends of all lands to maintain peace in the world. Along this path we will march on toward socialism.” against reaction, fascism and war—a farmer-labor party. Along this path we wil march on toward socialism.” Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist party, U. S. A, was proposed as keynote speaker, with his address scheduled for the afternoon | session. placed by highly organized prize fights, | | vaudeville, buffet suppers and—we | know you won't believe this, but it's | true—fashion shows! When we saw | New Jersey's splendid old beef-wine- and-iron Democratic boss, Frank Hague, eating his dinner while a fashion show raged about him, we just felt like sitting down and having a good cry over old times. Forced to Stay Until .Saturday. But what we started to say was, even if you're a home-loving delegate who can take his fashion shows or let them alone, vou've got to stick it out here till Saturday night or you'll be accused of taking a walk. And then where would your job be? There’s another ghost here that sur- prised us. Floats have been parading the city representing mow = chines, rakes. etc., with derisive si concerning Mr. Hoover's grass-in-the- streets remark. and a slogan “hay, hay. Hoover!” Well. maybe he's run- ning. too. We're so mixed up, we aren't sure | But perhaps the ghostliest thing of all was the new road our taxi driver ;pmn'f‘d out to us as we left the eon- | vention hall | “They needed a good road away from | here,” he explained courteously they just dug up this cemetery moved the bodies.” It may be symbolic. it may not be. (Cepyright. 1936, by the Nortn American Newspaper Alliance Inc.) and And then again | | Candy Stripes—Fine Checks—Cords—Glens in Famous LORRAINE-HASPEL 127 Come in and get acquainted with famous Grosner service plus—the smartest, coolest fashion ever. Handsome stylish suits that will be your friends all summer long . . . no matter how hot it may get. You'll like the new styles in grey—brown, and white and appreciate their cool ness. Unconditionally guaranteed not to shrink, fade or discolor, Also complete selection of Lorraine-Haspel Gabardines! of 1325 K Street A