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News Review of Current Events the World 0\ er Hoover ami Curtis Stand on Platform Calling for Modifi cation of 18th Amendment ? Would Let States Decide for Themselves. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD LET ea< h state decide for itself whether it will be wet or dry. That, briefly, is the prohibition plank adopted by the Republican national convention in Chica go. It was dictated by President Hoover, and the administration forces, in complete control of the con vention. put it over after one of the most uproarious sessions in twenty years of Re publican conventions. The plank is not pleasing to the very President wet Republicans and Hoover is completely obnox ? ions to the dry ones. Under the Republican plan congress will at all times be in general con trol of liquor law enforcement in those states that elect to remain dry. Also, congress will control the manu facture. sale and distribution of liquor within the borders of the wet states. With the plalform out of the way the convention proceeded to do what had been whispered in some quarters they might do. They renominated Herbert Hoover for President and Charles C. Curtis for Vice President. The debate on the prohibition plank was the only thing that saved this convention from being a com plete flop as far us thrills and ex citement are concerned. In all other respects it was about as tame as a town meeting, the selection of stand ard bearers being a foregone con clusion. James R. Garfield, chairman of trie resolutions committee, led I lie light for the Hoover plank, while Senator Bingham ami Nicholas .Mur ray Butler headed the forces demand ing a plank insisting on the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. Senator Bingham's plank was de feated by a vote of 681 to 472. An analysis of t lie vote shows that the Republicans in the south swung the balance against the northern, eastern anil middle western states which fur nish the bulk of the electoral votes for the election of Republican Pres idents. The Hoover plnnk as adopted reads In part as follows: "We do not favor a submission limited to the Issue of retention or repeal. For the American nation never in its history has gone back ward. and in this case the progress which has been thus far made must be preserved, while the evils must be eliminated. **We, therefore, believe that the people should have an opportunity to pass upon a proposed amendment the provision of which, while retaining the federal government power to pre serve the gains already made in deal ing with the evils inherent in the liquor traflic. shall allow states to deal with the problem as their citi zens may determine, but subject al ways to the power of the federal government to protect those states where prohibition may exist and safe guard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and its at tendant abuses. "Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the states by congress, to be acted upon by state conventions called for that sole pur pose in accordance with "the provi sions of Article V of the Constitu tion, and adequately safeguarded so as to be truly representative." The entire platform, as submitted by the resolutions committee, was adopted by a viva voce vote. Some of the high lights follow: Approval given an emergency re lief fund for loans to states in need. No direct federal relief to individuals. Shorter work week, shorter work day, legislation to stimulate home building, continuance of restricted immigration. Prompt and drastic reduction of pubiic expenditure urged. Further aid pledged through fed eral farm board, protective tariff duties, assistance to solve prob lems of controlling production. Full protection to incapacitated veterans pledged. Cash payment of bonus not mentioned. Favor extension of tariff protec tion to natural resource indus tries. Committed to maintenance of navy on basis of parity with any na tion. Opposed to further army personnel reduction. I American entry Into league court favored. Settlement of interna tional difficulties without ?'alli ances or foreign partnerships" pledged. Rigid laws favored to stamp out activities of gangsters, racke teers and kidnapers. Relentless warfare pledged against narcotic traffic. Need cited for revision of banking , laws on sounder basis. Retention of gold standard pledged. Participation in inter national conferences on mone tary questions. Existing status of government in Hawaii should be maintained. President's "constructive program" lauded as nn attack on the de pression with "far-reaching ob jectives, but entailing no danger to the budget/' Republican control of the federal government will "insure the or derly recovery of the country." TRAGEDY Stepped In to halt the debate on Representative Wright Patman's soldier bonus bill when Rep resentative E. Eslick (Dem., Tenn.), dropped dead on the floor of the house while making an im passioned plea for the immediate pay ment of the $2,400, 0 0 0,000 bonus Shocked by the dra matic turn of events, the house adjourned 1 immediately as a mark of respect. Mr. Eslick had nhout half completed a ten-minute speech in behalf of the bo nus. Picturing the World war army :is "the flower of the country's man hood," he waved aside questions of flnunce and said: "Mr. Speaker, 1 want to divert from the sordid ? " He never finished the sentence. As he collapsed, he clutched at a table and partially broke his fall. Dr. (ieorge W. Calver, Capitol physician, said he had died before he struck the floor. Mrs. Eslick was in the mem bers' gallery at the time. Tragedy added to futility is the his tory of this bonus bill. Hours of de bate, largely for home consumption, wasted on a measure that was fore doomed before it was presented. Though it passed the house by a ! vote of 211 to 17G, there was no pos sible chance that the senate would i pass it, and President Hoover had announced that he would veto it if it should be passed. FRANZ VON PA PEN, Germany's new aristocratic chancellor, held several conferences with the premiers of the states and the German agricul tural council r?nd suc ceeded in part in al laying their fears i that his government I intended eventually I to overthrow the re public. He assured them solemnly that his rule would be "based entirely on the constitution of the reich," and denied that his cabinet was unsocial or reaction- Franz von ary. The d I s s o 1 u- Papen | tion of the relch stag and the calling of elections j were thought necessary, he said. to a new unified expression of j the national will, and it war his be lief "that a new parliament will more readily produce a clear-cut majority for a policy of spiritual and ethical rehabilitation and an economic orien tation that shall rest on Christian, na tional and social foundations." WHILE the Republicans were busy in Chicago. the Democrats made small progress in settling their pre convention squabbles. One develop ment was the rumor, originating in Chicago, that Melvin A. Traylor. the banker who is one of the dark horse possibilities for the Presidential nomi nation. might be put on the Roosevelt ticket In second place. It was said the New York governor wonld wel come this move. The Traylor cam paign managers seemed to th'.Dk the better ticket would be "Traylor and Roosevelt," Support of the nominee, whoever he may be, was pledged by leaders of the party in a united appeal for com pletion of the party's $l,.r?00.000 vic tory fund before the opening of the national convention on June 27. The message to the rank and file was signed by Alfred E. Smith, Gov. Frank lio Roosevelt, Jouett Shouse, Owen D. Young. Newton D. Baker, former Got. James II. Cox, Jobn W. Davis and M other leaders. Dr. John Dewey, liberal philosopher who supported Alfred E. Smith for the Presidency in 102 S. issued a call for a national meeting at Cleveland on July 9 and 10 to crystalize independent sentiment and perhaps eventually to form a third party. FOLLOWING the abortive attempt of three young Cubans to assassi nate President Machado by throwing a bomb at him. the police of the island j republic made a se ries of raids on the homes of prominent persons and asserted they had uncovered three separate plots against Macbados life. Nearly a hun dred leading citizens of Havana were put in prison, and arms and explosives were seized. Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of the police expert bureau, said: "Cubans have turned to terrorism in a desperate ef fort to oust President Machado dead or alive. 1 am convinced that Ha vana's leading men am! women have j gone crazy. The revelations are as tounding and most disappointing for | the future of Cuba and the Cubans." The "society terrorists" belong to I the ABC organization which sought to j overthrow the government on May 20. CARLOS DA VILA apparently was j not sufficiently radical in his pol icies toward foreign interests in Chile, so he was forced by the military and socialistic junta to resign as provision al President. Col. Marmaduke Grove, j who had a great deal to do with the 1 ousting of President Montero, re- | mained in control, but there were ru mors that an army group was plotting to bring ex President Carlos lhanez ! back from exile and form a new junta with Davila's aid. Capt. Alejandro | Lazo, an intimate associate of Davlla and of Ihancz. was arrested. Extremist sentiment a pal list Da vila's continuance in the junta arose | as a result of attacks against him by the leftist newspaper Opinion, which has led efforts of certain elements in northern Chile to force dissolution of the $.'575,000,000 Cosach organization. IT LOOKS as If Gaston B. Means, one of the slipperiest individuals in America, would have to spend an other term in a federal penitentiary. A federal jury in Washington found him guilty of stealing $101,0110 entrusted to him by Mrs. Evalyn I Walsh McLean for the purpose of ran- | soming Col. Charles Lindbergh's baby, the court intlieted a sen tence of 15 years* im prisonment and a fine of $2,000. lie was ac quitted on two em bezzlement charges. His attorney moved for a new trial and gave notice of ap peal, ami meanwhile Means was put back In jaiL POLICE action in the Lindbergh case is being attacked on both sides of the ocean, following the suicide of Violet Slmrpe. English maid in the service of the Morrow family. The young woman had been questioned re peatedly by the police, and many per sons in America and in Eugland be lieve she had been so persecuted that she was driven to self-destruction, al though it appears she was in no way implicated in the kidnaping. State Senator EL L. Richards of New Jersey attacked the administration of Gov ernor Moore as responsible for blun ders in the case and said a legislative investigation was "virtually certain." In London a member of the house of commons brought up the matter by asking the foreign oflice if the gov ernment had Its attention called to the suicide of Miss Sharpe and if it would make representations to the Washing ton government suggesting an inquiry as to what responsibility the police had for the girl's death. Stanislaus felix hausner. the aviator, who attempted a flight from New York to Poland, was res cued by the steamship Circle Shell aft er drifting eight days on the Atlantic on his wrecked airplane. Hausner was completely exhausted when rescued and literally fell Into the lifeboat that was lowered to pick him up. The cap tain of the ship reported by radio that Hausner had received only minor in juries and was progressing satisfac torily. 1THOUT debate the senate adopted a resolution presented by Senator Joe T. Robinson. Demo cratic floor leader, calling on the Pre? ident to specify how and where addi tional savings were to be accom plished. The resolution was intro duced in answer to President Hoover's demand that congress save $150, 000 000 to $200,000,000 more. tfe 1932. Wcatcrn N Union.) STANDARD BEARERS ARE RENOMINATED Republicans Again Select Hoover and Curtis. Chicago.? President Hoover and Vice President Curl is were renominated by the Republican National convention. The vote on the nomination for President was: President Hoover, I,i26f4* Senator John J. Blaine of Wiscon sin, 13. Calvin Coolidge, 4 France, 4. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., of New York, 1. Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, 1. Absent, 1. Not voting, 3. Total, 1,154. On the ballot for the nomination of j Vice President the tally was: Vice President Curtis, 634*4 Colonel MacNider of Iowa, 182*4. General Karbora of New York, 161 ?i. Governor Fuller of Massachusetts, 57. Representative Snell of New York, 56. J. Leonard Replogle of Florida, 23 34 ? Charles G. Dawes of Illinois, 9 . David Ingalls of Ohio, 5. Secretary of War Hurley of Okla homa, 2. State Senator Milton Klepper of Portland, member of the Oregon dele gation, moved to make the nomina tion unanimous. Chairman Snell put the question and declared it carried unanimously. With 576 votes necessary for a majority. Vice President Curtis had 551) VS when the first roll call was completed with the calling of Porto Rico. Pennsylvania, which had cast Its seventy -five votes for State Chairman Edward .Martin, as a complimentary gesture, switched the whole block to Curtis, carrying him to G34U votes and renominatton. Within two hours after the conven tion had ended the new national com mittee which is to conduct the cam paign was organized with Kverett Sanders of Indiana, formerly con gressman and later secretary to Pres ident Coolidge, as chairman. To a telegram sent by Permanent Chairman Pert rand II. Snell of the i convention informing him of his r<? nominntion the President replied with expression of his gratitude and pre diction that Republican policies will yet dispel the economic depression. The President will be officially noti fied of his renomination a few weeks henee by a committee headed by Mr. Snell. Chicago Bank Employee Gets Away With $32,000 Chicago. ? A veteran employee of the People's Trust and Savings bank, now in process of voluntary liquidation, was charged with theft of $"32,000 in cash from the hank by Earle 11. Rey nolds. president. Charles L. Pennell, assistant cashier and chief auditor, presented debit tickets on dormant accounts to tellers who cashed them without question, officers of the institution said. The theft was discovered when a customer found his account $2,000 short. Pennel! had been employed by the bank 15 years. He left the institu tion and has disappeared. Explosives Found in Bonus Seekers' 'Camps Washington. ? The veterans' army of more than 12,000 bonus seekers joined with police in an effort to apprehend and deal swiftly with those secreting arms or explosives in the scattered en campments. Discovery of dynamite charges complete with caps and fuses in the Anacostia flats receiving sta tion threw police, leaders and veterans alike on guard. The veterans' own secret intelligence unit carefully combed the camp for radicals and other possible stores of explosives. Amendment Plugs Error Made in New Tax Law Washington. ? An error in the new tax law was rectified when President Hoover signed an amendment de signed to collect $40,000,000 to $50. 000,000 in excise levies. The tax bill, as it passed the house, provided that when contracts not spe cifying who should pay the tax had b^en made before May 1. 1932, for tax able goods not actually delivered be fore June 21, 11)32, the buyer should pay. Aimee Semple McPherson Stricken With Typhoid Los Angeles. ? Mrs. Aimee Semple Mcl'herson Hutton is ill with typhoid fever and must be placed in isolation. This report is said to have been made to the board of health by Dr. C. Mc Kenzie Jones. HIGH LIGHTS OF | G. O. P. PLATFORM These are the outstanding planks of the Republican national platform PROHIBITION ? Provide an amend ment to the Eighteenth amendment permitting states to restore bqucr subject to regulation by congress. UNEMPLOYMENT AND RELIEP ? Approval given an emergency re lief fund for loans to states in need. No direct federal relief to tndivid. uals. WAGES AND WORK? Shorter work week, shorter work day, legislation to stimulate home building, continu ance of restricted immigration PUBLIC ECONOMY-Prompt and drastic reduction of public expendi ture urged. AGRICULTURE ? Furtheraidpledged through federal farm board, protec tive tariff duties, assistance to solve problem of controlling production. VETERANS ? Full protection to in capacitated veterans pledged. Caih payment of bonus not mentioned. TARIFF ? Favor extension of tariff protection to natural resource indus tries. ARMAMENT AND NATIONAL DEFENSE ? Committed to mainte nance of navy on basis of parity with any nation. Opposed to further army personnel reduction. LEAGUE COURT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS ? American entry into I League court favored. Settlement of international difficulties without "al liances or foreign partnerships" pledged. CRIME ? Rigid laws favored to stamp out activities of gangsters, racketeers and kidnapers. NARCOTICS ? Relentless warfare pledged against narcotic traffic. BANKS ? Need cited for revision of banking laws on sounder basis. DOLLAR ? Retention of gold stand ard pledged. Participation in inter national conferences on monetary questions. HAWAII? Existing ctatus of govern ment in Hawaii should be main tained. PRES DENT HOOVER? President's "constructive program" lauded as an attack on the depression with "far reaching objectives, but entailing no danger to the budget." CONCLUSION ? Republican control of the federal government will "in sure the orderly recovery of the country." NAVY BILL PASSES SENATE; NO SLASH Immediate Action on Bonus Bill Denied. Washington. ? The $319,000,000 na ral appropriation bill was passed by the senate after a motion to cut its total by 10 per cent had been re jected. House Democrats started the first investigation in many years of the overlap of federal and state taxes. Acting Speaker Ralney appointed a special committee of five to study the subject and report In December. The house adopted unanimously and sent to the senate a resolution in tended to prevent evasion of the ex cise levies on gasoline and lubricating oils in storage on June 21 and thus save $32,000,000. The bill, which would authorize full payment of the veterans' bonus cer tificates from the treasury in cash, met its first obstacle when the senate finance committee unfavorably report ed it to the floor by a 14 to 2 vote. An attempt to obtain a roll call on the measure, which has passed the house, was blocked by Senator Thom as of Oklahoma, who said the mem bers had not been given sufficient time to study It. The Fnlmer bill to release to the Red Cross for relief purposes 40.000. 000 bushel:- of wheat and 500.000 bales of cotton from farm hoard stocks, was passed by the house and sent to tha senate. Spaniards of High Rank Seized in Alfonso Plot Barcelona, Spain. ? Gen. Emilio Bar rera, who was one of the most in* fluential men in Spain during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. waS arrested here at his home changed with being implicated in a plot t0 restore King Alfonso to the throne. The general's son and Baron de Mora were arrested in Madrid in connection with the plot Death Summons Halts Bonus Measure Debate Washington. ? During the debute oo the Patman bill for payment of A1? remaining *2.400,000 of the soldier* bonus lp the house Representative Edward E. Hslick. Democrat, of Ten nessee, fell dead In the midst of W speech In behalf of the measure.
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