Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1936, Page 1

(U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer; gentle variable winds becoming moderate southwest. Temperatures—Highest, 72, at noon yesterday; lowest, 56, at 12:30 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing New York Markets, Page 22 No. 33,638 Entered as gecond class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foeni ny Star WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 25 1936.—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. TWO-THIRDS RULE ABROGATION IS VOTED 36-13 BY RULES BODY; PLATFORM IS STILL INCOMPLETE Convention Expected to Concur and Nominate Roosevelt and Garner by Majority. PLAN WOULD NOT BE BINDING ON FUTURE PARTY SESSIONS Senator Clark Heads Fight for Repeal. Southern States Divided—Representa- tive O’Connor Surprises by Stand. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—By a vote of 36 to 13, the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Convention decided today to recommend to the convention that the 100-year-old two-thirds rule be abrogated and a majority rule for nominating presidential and vice presidential candidates be substituted. that the convention will follow It is expected the recommendation. Franklin D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner will, in that case, be nominated by a majority vote of the convention. The action will create a precedent for future conventions. It cannot, however, be binding on conventions to come, which will make their own rules. Meanwhile the convention adjourned at 12:48 p.m., ‘Eastern daylight time, until 8 p.m., daylight time. The Rules Committee as soon as it had passed upon the motion for a majority rule, turned its attention to increase repre- sentation for States which cast a large proportion of Demoratic votes. Several proposals have been made from delegates from the Southern States. Roll Call on Abrogation, ‘The roll call on the abrogation of the two-thirds rule was as follows: Ayes—Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wis- consin, Wyoming, Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawalii, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands—36. Noes—Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, New Mexico, South Caro- lina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. Not voting were: Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nevada. Southern States Split. The Southern States divided in the vote for a majority rule and to overthrow the two-thirds rule which has maintained since the days of Andrew Jackson. Seven of them voted “no.” The other “no” votes were cast by Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and New Mexico. ‘The vote of Representative John J. O'Connor of New York against the majority rule was & surprise, partic- ularly as his delegation had indorsed the proposed change. His vote brought applause from Southerners. O'Connor probably will be candidate for Speaker of the House if the Democrats elect & majority of that body next No- vember. He has acted as floor leader for the Democrats since the death of the late Speaker Byrns. Committee Named. The Rules Committee appointed a subcommittee, on motion of Senator Tydings of Maryland, to consider the question of recommending to the Dem- ocratic National Committee that in the call for the next Democratic Na- tional Convention representation of the States in the convention be in- creased for those States which vote strongly Democratic. The fight for increased representation for the typi- cally Democratic States delayed the report of the Rules Committee to the convention. The subcommittee is to report back to the full committee at 3 o'clock. It is the hope of the Rules Com- mittee that it will be able to deal with this matter, insisted upon by Southern delegates, effectively and, re- port to the convention when it meets at 8 pm.,, daylight time tonight. The debate which preceded the vote to abrogate the two-thirds rule in the Rules Committee today found Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri, chairman of the committee, strongly urging the adoption of a majority rule. He insisted that it was Demo- cratic in principle, and that the Dem- ocratic party was a national party, not sectional. Representative Cox of Georgia, op- posing the campaign in the rules, asked Clark if he “believed in the majority decisions” of the Supreme Court about which a great deal has been said by the Democratic orators at the convention. Clark replied that he could see no connection with the matter under con- sideration. He argued that every po- litical function of the major parties was conducted by majority rule except the nomination by the Democrats of a President and Vice President under the old conditions. ‘The subcommittee appointed to con- sider the proposal for changing the (See CONVENTION, Page 4.) COOL SPELL'S END TODAY IS FORECAST Mercury Expected to Climb to 70s—Fair Tomorrow Is * CAPITAL WOMAN HELD UP IN HOME Colored Man Posed as Yard Worker to Gain Entrance. Captured by Police. Posing as a handy man seeking & few hours’ work at lawn ‘mowing, & colored hoodlum today held up Mrs. Vincent H. Todd, 316 Peabody street, in the kitchen of her home, but was captured by police a few blocks away soon afterward. His escape was thwarted by Mrs. ‘Todd, whom he thought he had locked in a bed room. Before the bandit was out of sight, Mrs. Todd went through an unlocked side door and telephoned police, The man was allowed to enter the house on the excuse that he wanted & file to sharpen the mower blades. Mrs, Todd, the wife of a Patent Office examiner, was discussing household plans with her cook, Mattie McLaurin, colored, when he suddenly cried: “If you make a sound I'll blow your brains out! Give me all the money you got.” Mrs. Todd gave the money and the man forced her and her servant tp an upstairs bed room, slammed the door and turned the key. After she had reached a telephone through a side door and called police the man was caught at Third and Gallatin streets. He was identified by Mrs. Tood and her cook. He gave his name as Sid- ney Person, 400 block of Fifteen-and- a-Half street southeast. ARMY BOMBERS LEAVE NEW YORK, June 25 (#)—A fleet of Army bombers left Mitchel Fleld, Long Island, today on a training flight to Langley Field and return. Each ship carried as a passenger a cadet from the United States Military Acad- emy at West Point, as part of their training. R. 0. T. C. Unit Transferred. CHICAGO, June 25 (P)—With- drawal of the Reserve Officers’ Train- ing Corps from the University of Chi- SENATOR BENNETT CLARK. Chairman of Rules Committee. DENOERATS HOLD SHORTES SESSION Meeting Starts Late, Ends Early, With Little Business. BY JAMES E. CHINN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—One of the busiest days of the 1936 National Democratic Convention 1is before 3,000- New Deal champions as they gather here in Philadelphia’s huge municipal auditorium today to move another step toward the party’s goal— selection of a standard bearer for the next four years. It's 10 a.m, daylight saving time, in Philadelphia—the time fixed for opening the fifth session. The big indoor arena is nearly dark, and vir- tually deserted except for a scattering of newspaper men and sleepy-eyed, entertainment-frazzled delegates, who, | for no reason at all, fear the powers behind the scene of this great political show might surprise them some morn- ing and start a performance on sched- uled time. A half hour passes, the galleries are shockingly bare of spectators. A few more delegates come in wearily, sit down and open the morning papers. The hall is still in semi-darkness. An attractive blond, looking fresh in white linen, steps up to the platform micho- phone and runs the scale in a sweet soprano voice. Shell probably sing later. General Farley is the first of the New Deal chieftains to arrive. He comes directly to the press stand and inquires if the “boys” who are grinding out the convention news for home consumption got their copy of that long elusive platform. Balconles Look Lonesome. At last the lights go on in full bril- liancy. The band lets loose with & stirring march. The auditorium seems to be coming to life. The clock hands point to 10:45. Delegates are stream- ing through the dozen or more en- trances. Those seats up in the bal- conies, however, still look so0 lone- some. ‘There's Senator McAdoo on the speaker’s platform now. He's looking around for somebody and mearly col- lides with PFrank J. Mahoney and Hans Jurgesen, who left their regular jobs at the Capitol to come up here to act as assistant tally clerks. Ken Romney, sergeant at arms of the House, is their boss in Washington and their boss up here, too. is the convention tally clerk, but hasn’t had much to do so far. He wont’ rest long now, however. His hour is about to arrive. The conven- tion soon will be voting on the much- discussed two-thirds rule, which threatens to furnish the first discord. “The Eyes of Texas” strikes up the band. ‘There's s war whoop from that Oklahoma delega- tion. Senator Barkley, temporary (See DEMOCRATS, Page 7. GARNER IS AWAITED Gala Welcome Being Arranged in Philadelphia. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Demo- dent Garner when he arrives in Phila- delphia for the convention semi-finals. ‘The Vice President is scheduled to leave Washington sometime tomorrow afternoon and come direct to the con- vention eity. Gov. Earle of Pennsyl- vania is understood to be arranging details for reception, Farley Denies Receiving Plea Of Smith and Anti-New Dealers BY the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, June 35—The cool | question of what became of the state- skies, the mercury was rise to the low 70s in the afternoon, Fair weather, the fore- easter predicted, will continue tonight and tomorrow, with slowly rising tem- ature. A cold drizzle kept the thermometer down yesterday, the maximum being only 60 at 2 pm. The low mark over- night—56 dene;z—m reached short- after midnig] l’Ammunlx the current period has been one of the coolest ever experi- enced here in June no new records have been established. Temperatures ranging from 46 to 52 were recorded late in June in 1915 and 1918. The lowest ever recorded for the month was 43, on June 2, 1879, ment of Alfred E. Smith and four Draft Expected to Be Ready by Night. FEDERALPOWER IS PROVIDED To Carry Forward Principles of New Deal. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Weary members of the Resolutions Subcom- mittee of the Democratic National Convention met today to go over the draft of the Democratic national plat- form. Members of the subcommittee in- sisted that there was no bitter con- troversy over planks, despite the fact that they had been in session for nearly eight and a half hours last night and early this morning and had not completed their work. The platform will not contain a recommendation for a constitutional amendment, members of the sub- committee said. It will declare for the fulfillment of the New Deal social and economic principles within the framework of the Constitution as it now stands. However, the door will not be closed to support of a consti- tutional amendment if it becomes necessary. Senator Wagner, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, was an hour late reaching the meeting of the sub- committee. It had been planned to report to the full committee by noon. This has been changed. The full committee is slated to meet at 3 p.m. and hopes then to have before it the report of the subcommittee and to be able to submit the platform to the convention tonight. Wagner Is Optimistic. Senator Wagner insisted the plat- form would be ready for submission to the convention at tonight's session. The administration draft of the plat- form, apparently, had been subject to sharp debate in the subcommittee. Also there was an insistent demand to cover new matters net contained in the original draft and to amplify or modify subjects already treated. Strenuous efforts are being made to keep the campaign document as brief as possible. One member of the sub- committee said that “it could be read in 20 minutes.” If it is of such pro- portions, the platform will be longer than that of 1932, “Question of Phraseology.” Members of the subcommittee de- nied this morning as they were going back to work that any serious con- troversy existed in the committee over any of the planks. “It’s just a question of phraseology,” said one of the senatorial members. He confirmed the report that there would be no constitutional amend- ment proposed. ‘The language of the currency plank gave the subcommittee & good deal of tsouble. An effort is being made to offset the Lemke-Coughlin Union (See PLATFORM, Page 5.) COCHRANE’S RESCUE OF HOST REPORTED Saves Rancher After Horse Throws Him Into Raging Stream, Paper Says. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, June 25—The Detroit News says Mickey Cochrane, manager of the Detrolt Tigers, began his con- valescence on a Wyoming ranch by rescuing Max Wilde, his host, from the South Shoshone River when Wilde's horse unseated his rider as the party was crossing the snow-filled stream. ‘Wilde’s horse, a newly-broken bronco, stepped into a hole, reared, and then plunged head foremost into the river. “Cochrane spurred his horse into the middle of the turbulent mountain stream and grabbed the bridle of ‘Wilde’s horse just in time to keep him from rolling over on Wilde™ the News" staff correspondent said in an eye- ‘witness account of the incident. Cochrane flew to the ranch, which is near Cody, recently to continue his recovery from the mervous condition which has kept him out of action more than two weeks, PUBLIC SEES GUILLOTINE EXECUTION IN PARIS First of Xind Held in Four Years as Slayer of Police- man Dies. By the Associated Press. DONT PAY ANY ATTENTION To THOSE QUINTUPLETS! 3 BILLS SIGNED; TWO GONGERN D.C. Roosevelt Approves Air Corps Expansion and Bar to Strike-Breaking. Legislation against strike-break- ing and for expansion of the Army Air Corps topped a list of 55 bills signed into law today by President Roosevelt. ‘The list of approved measures was made public as the Chief Executive continued work on the renomination acceptance speech he is to deliver Sat- urday night at Philadelphia, His signature made it & felony to transport, in interstate or foreign commerce, persons to be employed to obstruct or interfere with the right of peaceful picketing in labor controversies. Another measure which he signed, suthorizing purchase of additional airplanes by the Army Air Corps, is intended to bring the force up to 4,000 fighting planes within five years. ‘Two Bills Concern District. Among the other bills were two af- fecting the District. The first amends the code of laws for this city to allow perpetual succession of trust com- panies. The second amends the traffic law to increase the penalty for reckless driving on the part of first, second and subsequent offenders. It raises the maximum penalty for first-offense speeding from a fine of $100 to $250 and the possible imprisonment from 30 days to 3 months. Both fine and it could be assessed. The maximum penalty for & second offense within two years remains at a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail, or both. Other approved bills included: A measure for the control of grass- hoppers. One authorizsing the establishment of a game management laboratory. A Dbill to extend the jurisdiction of the United States Court for China to offenses committed on the high seas. Pension Cuts Restored. A bill restoring pension cuts for a number of veterans in the Regular Army. Most of the others were for relief private individuals or of sectional provided pensions for members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps and enlisted reserves yesterday cut the number to be acted on to about 150. ence centers around the part the Re- publichn veteran will play in the forth- coming campeign. Not only has he manifested a personal liking for President, and a strong belief in New Deal policies, but he was the first to train his oratorical uml:tnurmmm‘u d. that during the - Nebraska sgggs [HE i ! % % °F ks B i ] it : [ E;S s§ 8 o i j 8 : sgl HH 3 g 3 3t ; Veteran “Lost” In Hurricane Returns Alive Erectal Dispatch to The Star. CULPEPER, Va., June 25.—Reginald B. Gilbert has returned from the dead. The World War veterar, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tohn E. Gilbert of Cul- peper, had been reported lost in the hurricane that swept the Florida keys last Fall. Tuesday night he walked into the home of his parents here. Gilbert was in the C. C. C. camp on the keys that caught the full force of the hurricane and was officially reported dead and mourned as such by his family. Not knowing that his death had been reported to his people he took no steps to correct this rumor. He was under treatment in a hospital almost ever since. ‘There was great rejoicing among the family circle today. THREE WOUNDED ASHOLD-UP FALS Bank Car Driver Shot—Po- lice Seize Two Gunmen. Third Flees. Ry the Associated Press. LAWRENCE, Mass., June 25.—A gun battle between robbers attempting to seize a $19,000 pay roll and a police- man and a bank employe sent two of the gunmen and the bank employe to Lawrence General Hospital today. One of the robbers was reported near death. A third man escaped in an automo- bile, apparently uninjured, police said. The trio attempted to hold up the armored bank car as it drew up to the Central Railroad station. Police Inspector Timothy O'Brien, guarding the pay roll, stepped to the front of the car as Abbott Corkum, an employe of the Bay State Mer- chants’ National Bank, went to the back of the car to unlock it. Two of the robbers stepped up and one knocked Corkvm down. Then, police reported, the three men opened fire on the driver and O'Brien. Corkum and O’Brien dropped as O'Brien emptied his gun at them. The third fled. ‘The seriously wounded robber suf- fered a punctured lung and a bullet hole through his left leg. His com- panion had & superficial wound in the neck. Neither would talk. TWO SLAIN WITH AX Mother and Son, 9, Found Dead in Texas Farm Home. JOHNSON CITY, Tex., June 25 (#). . Herwig, 28, and her 9- year-old son were slain with an ax late yesterday at their farm home 10 miles southeast of here. The bodies ‘were found in a bed room. Mrs. Her- wig’s head had been split with an ax. ‘The boy’s head had been crushed. . Herwig’s husband said that he his two daughters, step-sisters of EEE SEgREE i % %4 The only evening paper in Washington \vitg the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. F¥P N\ N DENY GRS PART N NAYY $PYRLT Offieials Say Ex-Sailor and Japanese Officer Alone Are Involved. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 25.—Reports that a woman was involved in the “Navy spy case” were dissipated to- day by Federal officers who prepared for an immediate trial of an Amer- ican charged with conspiring to fur- nish naval information to the Ja- panese government. Harry Thomas Thompson, former yeoman, first class, in the United States Navy, will be arraigned in Fed- eral court here Monday on a charge of 19 overt acts violating the espion- age act in the sale of confidential naval information to an agent in Japan. Japanese Man Named. Named last night in the indictment against Thompson is Toshio Miyazaki, who, the indictment charges, is a lieu- tenant commander in the Imperial Japanese Army. Federal agents say he left the United States before the in- vestigation began. Clude Thomas, deputy United States district attorney, said only these two men are involved. Reports circulated about a Japanese woman in the case, he said, hinged upon a2 comment by Thompson that he knew a Japanese () Means Associated Press. waitress, and investigation disclosed this had no bearing on the case. ‘Thompson now is serving a county jail sentence for illegally wearing a naval officer’s uniform. Charges Read Like Fiction. The allegations contained in the indictment read like the plot of familiar espionage fiction. They have the full complement of routine ele- ments, involving two first-class pow- ers, an Oriental savant, East and West meeting in illicit and mutually profit- able alliance. ‘Thompson, the indictment charged, began selling his country’s naval secrets on August 26, 1934, when he boarded the U. S. §. Brooks at San Diego. With this episode as opening chapter, the indictment continued with this story: Dressed as a Navy officer, Thomp- son went aboard United States war- ships at San Pedro and San Diego and obtained assorted documents—“code books, signal books, photographs, blue- prints, plans, maps, models * * * and information relating to the national defense.” Miyasakl, described in the indiet- ment as one time honor student at Stanford University, met Thompson on several occasions, in San Pedro and Los Angeles, and paid him for naval information. The indictment said specifically that on November 26, 1934, Miyazaki in- formed Thompson by letter that his monthly salary would be sent “not later than the first of each month,” and requested him to send him the schedule of force tactics which were scheduled to begin less than two weeks later. A gunnery school book and Navy schedule of employment were among numerous docurgents Thompson sold to Miyazaki, the jury alleged. The information, according to the indictment, was “to be used to the (See NAVAL PLOT, Page 3.) Brought 9,000 Miles to Doctor (Picture on Page A-2.) BY the Associated Press. Jodged in the lung of Kelvin Rogers or 18 months was removed at Temple June 25.—A nail b Yesterday’s Circulation, 134,275 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. 1,000 RELIEF CASES TO BE ABANDONED: $1,600,000 Limit for Care of Needy Forces Slash in D. C. Activities. REDUCTION PLANNED IN ASSISTANCE STAFF Remaining Organization to Be- come Permanent Part of District Service. BY DON S. WARREN. Nearly 1,000 relief cases not “strictly” in the unemployable class will have to be abandoned by the Dis- trict because of the limit of $1,600,000 fixed by Congress for care of the destitute here in the fiscal year begin- ning next Wednesday, it was revealed today. A warning to this effect was included ky Welfare Director Elwood Street in & plan for dismissal of 125 members of the staff of the Public Assistance Division and for making the remaine ing relief organization a permanent part of the regular District service. The Commissioners have agreed to dismissal of the 125 employes because Congress limited administrative costs chargeable to District revenues to $200,000 for the new year and also have approved Street’s recommenda= tion for reclassification of the remain ing 174 employes of the division for regular jobs in the District service. Officials today were perfecting this plan to be sent to the Civil Service Commission with a request for ime mediate action. Salaries to Be Affected. ‘The move to bring the emergency unit into the regular service gn a re- classified basis—which would mean higher salaries for some of the work= ers who are in lower-pay brackets, and demotions in positions for some others—was an acceptance by the Commissioners that relief is a permae nent District responsibility. When District relief appropiration funds for this fiscal year neared exe haustion April 1, some 4,100 cases were dropped. Those continued were deemed in the unemployable class. When the Federal dole was stopped last Novem« ber the Federal administration said the cities and States must take over the entire cost of the unemployables, Congress appropriated out of Dise trict revenues early this year supplee mental funds of $350,000. Relief offie cials found some borderline cases could be carried in addition to unemploye ables. These were heads of families found to be temporarily incapacitated for work, but not necessarily “une employable” in a strict sense, officials said. 5,000 Cases, Is Estimate. Miss M. Alice Hill, relief director, estimates there are approximately 5,000 cases now on the list. Because of the limit on the reliet funds generally, Street said the ap- propriation would provide for about 4,120 families during the new year on an average relief grant of $30 & month. “This will necessitate limiting the rellef program to strictly unemploy- able cases,” he said. Subject te Approval. The whole plan for a permanent relief organization is subject to ap- proval, first by the District Personnel Board, headed by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan; then by the Commissioners, and finally by the Civil Service Com= mission. The Commisssioners late yes terday approved the plan in principle. At the same time the Commis- sloners agreed to the findings sub- mitted by Elwood Street, welfare director, that 125 of the 285 employes handling emergency relief must be dismissed effective July 1. CLASH OF CHINESE TROOPS REPORTED Nanking and Kwangsi Troops Said to Have Skirmished South of Kiyang. By the Associated Press. HANKOW, Hupeh Province, China, June 25.—Recurring rumors of hos= tilities between Nanking (Central) ent forces and Kwangsi (Southwestern) provincial troops came today from Southern Hunan Province. The latest—and wholly unconfirmed —report stated the armies had ene gaged in a skirmish south of Kiyang, but that there were no casualties on either side. A similar rumor, also lacking any kind of confirmation, sald & brush took place at Henyang (fore merly Hengchow). Japanese Officers Dismissed. HONGKONG, June 25 (P).—Chi- nese reports from Canton tonight said & number of Japanese army officers had arrived there from Kwangsi Prove ince, which is dispensing with the services of more than 100 Japanese military advisers. Readers’ Guide