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The Alamance gleaner - 1 . _ _ VOL. LVIII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY JUNE 23, 1932. ? NO. 20. News Review of Current Events the World Over Hoover and Curtis Stand on Platform Calling for Modifi cation of 18th Amendment?Would Let States Decide for Themselves. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LET each state decide for Itself whether ft will he wet or dry. That, briefly. Is the prohibition plank adopted by the Republican national ? convention in Cliien KO. It was dictated by President Hoover, nnd the administration forces. In complete control of the con vention, put it over after one of the most uproarious sessions in twenty years of He publican conventions. The plank is not nlpn?in?? tn tha pore President net Republicans and Hoover Is completely obnox ious 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 liqnor within the borders of the wet states. With the platform 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 as 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 the resolutions committee, led the fight for the Hoover plank, while Senator Bingham and 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 the vote shows that the Republicans in the south swung the balance against the northern, eastern and middle western states which fur nish the bulk of the electoral votes for the election of Republican Pres idents. The Hoover plank 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 he 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 traffic, 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 Btates where prohibition may exist and snfe guanl our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and its at tendant abuses. "Such an amendment should he 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 public 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 Tfterans pledged. Cash payment of bonus not mentioned. Fa vor extension of tariff protec tion to natural resource indus tries. Committed to maintenance of nary on hasls of parity with any na tion. Opposed to further array personnel reduction. American entry into league court faxored. Settlement of Interna tional dlfficnltiea without "alli ance* or foreign partnerships" X 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 an 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 tlie floor of the house while making an im passioned plea for the Immediate pay ment of the $2,400. 00 0,0 00 bonus Shocked by the dra matic turn of events, the house adjourned Immediately as a mark of respect. Mr. tsiicK naa Wright Pat- about half completed man a ten-minute speech In behalf of the bo nus. Picturing the World war army as "the flower of the country's man hood," he waved aside questions of finance and said: "Mr. Speaker, I want to divert from the sordid?M He never finished the sentence. As he collapsed, he clutched at a table and partially broke his fall. Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol physician, said he had died before he struck the floor. Mrs. Esllck 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 housq by a vote of 211 to 176, there was no pos sible chance that the senate would 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 lurai coudcii ana suc ceeded In part In al laying their feart that his jrovernment intended eventually to qverthrow the re public. He assured them solemnly that his rule would be 'based entirely on the constitution of the reich." and denied fhflt hi? rohinol n-aa unsocial or reaction- Franz von ary. The dissoln- Papen tion of the reich stag and the calling of elections were thought necessary, he said, to a new unified expression of the national will, and It was 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'TTrat shall rest on Christian, pa tional and sociil foundations.'' 117H1LE the Republicans were busy * ? in Chicago, the Democrats made small progress In settling their pre conrention squabbles. One develop ment was the rumor, originating In Chicago, that Melvln 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 would wel come this move. The Traylor cam paign managers seemed to think the better ticket would be "Trsylor srnl Roosevelt." - Support of the nominee, whoever be may be, was pledged by leaders of the party In a united appeal for com pletion of the party's $1,500,000 vic tory fund before ths opening of the national convention on June 27. The message to the rank and file was signed by Alfred R. Smith. Got. Frank Un Roosevelt. Jouett Shouse, Owen D Young. Newton D. Baker, former Got. James M. Co*. John W. Davis und M other leaders. Dr. John Dewey, liberal philosopher who supported Alfred E. Smith for the Presidency In 1928. Issued a call for a national meeting at Cleveland on July 9 and 10 to crystal Iks 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 ronnhlln o itpui/iii. uiaiic a oc ries of raids on the homes of prominent persons and asserted they had uncovered three separate plots against Machadoa life. Nearly a hun dred leading citizens of Havana were put in' prison, and arms and explosives were eal.AH II { ~..~1 Dtl/.CU. U J 11. iUiglin Cairo, chief of the President police expert bureau, Machado 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 and women have gone crazy. The revelations are as tounding and most disappointing for the future of Cuba and the Cubans." The "society terrorists" belong to the ABC organization which sought to overthrow the government on May 20. /"^ARLOS DA VILA apparently was ^ 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, who had a great deal to do with the ousting of President Montero. re mained In control, but there were ru mors that an army group was plotting to bring ex-President Carlos Ibanez back from exile and form a new Junta with Davila's aid. Capt Alejandro I.azo, an Intimate associate of Davila and of Ibanez, was arrested. Extremist sentiment against 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 $375,000,000 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 fa/lnro 1 4tirv In Washington found him guilty of stealing $104,000 entrusted to him by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean for the purpose of ran soming Col. Charles Lindbergh's baby, the court inflicted a sen tence of 15 years' im prisonment and a fine of $2,000. He was ac Gaston 8. Quitted on two em Mean* begzlement charge*. Hi* attorney moved for a new trial and gave notice of ap peal, and meanwhile Means was put hack In jail. POLICE action in the Lindbergh rase is being attacked on both sides of the ocean, following the suicide of Violet Sharpe. 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 England be lieve she had been so persecuted that she was driven to self-destructJon. al ? though it appears she was In no way | implicated in the kidnaping. State Senator E. I- Richards of New Jersey . attacked the administration of Gov- j ernor Moore as responsible for blun j ders in the case and said a legislative investigation was "virtually certain." In Ix>ndon a member of the house of commons brought up the matter by asking the foreign office If the gov- - emment 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 hausnetl 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. Haosner was completely exhausted when rescued bod literally fell Into the lifeboat that whs lowered to pick him up. The cap tain of the ship reported by radio that Flausner had received only minor In juries and was progressing satisfac torily. WITHOCT 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 ? demand that congress save$1.v) .000,000 to S200.0tm.000 more lilt W?s?i !*vwipap?r Uaiea.) REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARERS p^rborc /faover' Charles Curtis G. 0. P. BIG SHOW AT CHICAGO WAS A MASTERPIECE Greatest Interest Centered in Fight Over Prohibition Repeal Plank. By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON Chicago.?The Republican conven tion met, nominated Herbert Hoover as the party's condidate for Presi dent, and Charles Curtis as Its candi date for Vice President, adopted a platform that embodies submission of a modification of the prohibition amendment to the states as one plank, and adjourned. That is what was accomplished by 1.153 delegates?Senator Borah not being present?and 1,154 alternates, who traveled in going to and from the convention an estimated total distance of 2.308.000 miles nt a cost for rail road fare of something over $46,0110. So far as the actual news of the convention was concerned any v re porter?even the cub?could have written it at any time during the past three months and possibly at any time during the past three years. But there had to be a convention, the proj>erly designated delegates had to have their day in the spotlight, even though there was no contest for vote* for a Presidential nomination and all had to pay their own railroad fare and hotel bills. Members of the na tional committee had to have the op porrunuy or Bluing in me reserved senfs at the big show. Distinguished guests had to have the opportunity of being known as distinguished guests. The assistant sergeants at arms and the ushers would never have been satisfied had they been de^ prived of wearing their badges, and even the peanut venders had to have their chance to earn an honest dime. The Nominations Are Made. When the roll call of states for the naming of candidates began on Thurs day the California delegation was the first one to respond and James Scott presented the name of Herbert Hoo ver. His naming of the President pro duced the greatest demoastratkin of the convention. When Oregon was reached the name of Doctor France was presented to be followed by the one ballot needed to name a candidate. President Hoover received all the votes with the exception of three or four for Coolidge. three for France, three for Blaine, of Wisconsin, and one for Senator Wadsworth. of New York. Doctor France proved a magnani mous candidate for the nomination. After L. R. Sandblast, of Portland. Ore., had presented In a modest way the qualifications of bis state's cham plon for the Presidential job. Doctor France attempted to secure recog nition from the chair, and when re fused attempted to force his way onto the platform. The audience presumed he wanted to say something more In his own behalf, but that was not the good doctor's purpose. What he want ed to do was to withdraw his own name and present to the convention the name of the distinguished Massa chusetts trout fisherman, i^alvin Cool Idge. The police took a hand In the afTair, ejected the doctor from the platform, and the name of Calvin Cool idge was not mentioned except that during the roll call for the Presidential nomination three or four delegates from as maDy states Insisted upon vot ing for him. With General Dawes out of the race there wis practically no opposition to Vice President Curtis, and he received the nomination for second place on the ticket on the first ballot. The Formalities Begin. Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock there were close to one hundred thousand people milling about OCTslde the Chi cago Stadium. Inside, there were sonic fifteen thousand to occupy liU.TUU seats. In the section reserved for delegates there was but one vacant chair, the one reserved for Senator Borah. In the alternate section they were all filled. The national committeemen and women were all present, the dis tinguished guests had arrived, the as sistant sergeants at arms, all properly labeled with pretty badges, were In evidence, but all too many of that more than 7.000 seats provided for paying guests, at from $3 to $5 per guest, were vacant. The people of Chicago had failed to evidence their appreciation of the entertainment pro vided by a national Republican con vention. It was only 18 minutes after the scheduled hour of eleven when Sen ator Fess. national chairman, with a bung starter for a gavel, called for order and announced to those who persisted in continuing their conversa tion, that their time was up. and he was now in charge and would tern porarily, at least, run the shew. Or dinarily. the next number on the pro gram would have been the prayer, but before that in this case they must get through with the welcome by the Dem ocratic mayor of the city. It would never do to Include In the plea for Divine guidance, ihe actions or words I of a Democratic mayor. The keynoter. Hon. Lester Jesse Dickinson, of Iowa, made a good speech. The same quality of speech made before a Democratic national convention would have produced hours of boisterous demonstration, but the Republicans are more given to voting than to shouting. Though Senator Dickinson's speech did not produce any number of wild outbursts, any prolonged parade of howling delegates. It did make a profound impression on the assembled Republican hosts. While looking on at a Republican national convention seems like watch ing the operations of a well oiled and perfectly geared machine. It Is not as simple as it seems. .Tones and Smith and Brown and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler all have a chance to air their views, but all of this is in committee meetings held In hotel rooms. It Is the final insult that Is brought to the floor of the convention and goes into the record as the unanimous verdict otthe assembled delegates. The Wednesday morning session was another of those formal occasions that did not nttrnct the crowd. It took ten minutes to listen to the report of the organization committee and an hour to listen to the speech of the permanent chairman. Representative Snelh of New York. Jut It was a good speech and appealed to the delegates. His first mention of the name of President Hoover started a half hour demonstra tion that would have been unanimous had Oregon Joined In. But that state was loyal to former Senator France, of Maryland, the adopted fnvoffte of Ore gon. and its banner was not carried In the parade of states. Chicago Sees the Shou Chicago went to the convention Wednesday night, and Chicago was wet. When Senator Bingham, of Con necticut, read the minority platform report, demanding straight repeal of the Eighteenth amendmen., the thnn derous applause came from those S3 to So seats the Chicago people had paid for *nd the assistant sergeants at arms. The rather mild delegate dem onstration was led by Wisconsin, and Joined In by many states. Including prohibition Maine. When previously the majority report was presented, pro viding for modification, with federal control of the llqoor traffic. Kansas led the demonstration, but did not re ceive any appreciable support from the Chicago audience. Wednesday night it looked like s convention. The vacant seats that had been so noticeable during the Tuesday and Wednesday morning ses sions. were all filled. All of the Chicago aunts and uncles and cousins. Republican and Democratic, had turned out to hear what the O. O. P. was going to do about prohibition, and these Chicago aunts, uncle? and cousins knew what they wanted done with it. When James R. Garfield of Ohio attempted to make a plea for the adoption of the majority plank. Chi cago, In the galleries, refused to listen Even a threat to clear the galleries was of no avail, and very little of what Mr. Garfield said was heard by any of the delegates to whom he was talking. Dr. ButUr in the Limelight. Chicago thought differently about Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler when lie had Ms ten minutes on the platform. The gallery gods recognized him as their champion and the threat to ad journ the convention was not needed to secure attention to his speech. When Ogden Mills of "New York told the vast audience why he favored the majority report, the gallery gods listened. They had to. His powerful voice overawed them and demanded attention. Altogether those gallery gods did much to counteract the good impression made by the gracious wel come extended to the delegates by Democratic Mayor Cermak. Speech followed speech, starting with a time limit of ten minutes and getting down to one minute, until every one who wanted to have hi# say had been given an opportunity. It was such a talk-fest as would have been expected at a national Demo cratic pow-wow, but the oratory last ing until one o'clock Thursday morn ing, did not change a single vote, and when the roll of states was called it resulted in the adoption of the majority report by 4G2 to GSL Platform and Prohibition. The party platform as worked out by the resolutions committee contains 28 planks. When It was rend to the convention on Wednesday evening the delegates, and especially the wet Chi cago visitors, evinced Interest in only one of the 28. There was but little interest in the fact that the party stood for a reorganization of the gov ernment bureaus in the Interest of economy; that the imrty proposed to have the government loan money to the states for emergency relief work; j that It stood for a reduction of public expenditures; for the balancing of the national budget; for adherence to the gold standard and against cur rency Inflation; for revision of the hanking laws ?o protect depositors; for continuing assistance to co-opera tives through the farm marketing net, but when the secretary, after an hour, got down to that one vital, all Im portant subject, prohibition, they were Interested. The majority of the resolutions committee proposed a plank that would modify the Eighteenth amend ment permitting people of any state to decide for themselves whether they wished to he dry or wet. If dry the federal government to assist In the prevention of the manufacture of liquor In the state, or transportation Into or the sale of liquor within the state If wet the federal government to control and regulate the sale of liquor within the state It Implied that government control and regulation would he through the medium of gov ernment dispensaries to be established in wet territories only. Other planks call for tax reduction; for a flexible tariff and the extension of tariff protection to cover natural resource Industries, farms, forests, mines and oil wells; for a shorter work day and shorter work week, restrictlor of immigration, collective bargaining, freedom of speech and as semhlage; for a home loan discount bank system; for giving the federal power commission authority to regti late charges for electric current when transmitted between states, and nth ers that nr- usually found In any party platform. Spotlights and Observations. If all of those wearing assistant sergeant-at arms badges vote the Re publican ticket next November, Mr. Hoover is sure of election Governor Balzar of Nevada, In ad dressing the convention said: "La dies and gentlemen and delegates." He did not make any votes for the minority platform report with that statement. Had Hel'n Maria Dawes, banker soldier-statesman, ended his refusal of the second place on the ticket with a question mark, he would now be the Republican candidate for Vice Pres dent. despite the protests of Dolly Gann. During the fight over the prohibition plank on Wednesday night the Chicago wets crashed the gates of the press stand as well as the galleries, and gave the delegates the usual exhibition 'of applause for the minority report from that supposedly always neutral section of a national convention. Alice Roosevelt Longwortb was much the lion of the occasion of the women, but Will Rogers got the ma jority of the attention from the wom en. At every sess.on the women crashed the gates of the press stand seeking Will's autograph, and he signed until he developed a' severe case of writer's cramp and wore oat sQ of his lead pencils. (WNXJ Senrlea) * - CARL, BACK IN OLD HOME TOWN, SAFELY LOCKED UP IN CELL -- Accuied of Robbing Bank of Uncle Who Often Had Befriended Him. Easton, 111.?Carl De Armond Fairer la back la Easton, his old bome town. His homecoming was not happy. Sher iff Walter J. Blussman brought him here from Chicago, where he had been arrested, and locked him securely In a jail cell. Carl, who Is twenty-nine years old. Is a black sheep. His uncle. Edward t>. Furrer, Is president of the Farmers' State bank of Easton, but Cncle Ed ward Is not visiting Carl. Uncle's Bank Robbed. For several years the banker had been going, on request, to the assist ance of the nephew when the latter got Into numerous scrapes. Even Carl has declared that Uncle Edward fur nished funds that enabled him to evade a prison term after be had been Implicated In the shooting of a drug gist during a robbery in Newport, Ky. The same sort of aid was rendered Carl when he was arrested later In St. I-ouls on eleven charges of robbery. The event that led to a parting of the ways for Banker Furrer and * Nephew Carl was a bank robbery. It was Uncle Edward's bank that was robbed and Carl was one of the princi pal perpetrators. The robbery occurred on April 9 and for several weeks the bandits evaded capture. Then one of them, John Cor Age, was arrested In Springfield and made a confession naming Carl Furrer as an accomplice. On this Information the banker's kinsman was taken Into custody in Chicago. Admits His Past. He readily admitted his Identity and his part in the bank stlckup. "I went broke early in April," he ' told the police. "Then I told Corsage and two other fellows. Gene Hogg and Marijuana Charlie?I never knew his ; other name?about Code Ed's bank. "We stuck up a taxlcab driver tat Springfield and droTe to Eaaton. I sat at the wheel while the others went In and got the money. There was $2,500 and we divided It, taking $600 each and giving the taxi driver $100 to keep him qnlet. It was easy." Long before his arrest yonng Furrer had spent most of the money. He Is still hopeful that some compromise can be made with his uncle, so that he may get a light term in the peni tentiary, but his cousin John Furrer, son of the banker, has asserted there Is no chance of this now. An Interviewer asked the bandit why. since there are two banks In Kaston, be had not stolen from the other one rather than his kinsman's. I "I thought there was more money In Cncle Ed's vaults," he replied. Mother Discovers Lost Daughter Through Dream Etyria, Ohio.?The finding of her daughter In a restaurant here after 16 years resulted from a dream. Mrs. William Qulnn. the mother, says. In the panic-stricken flight of the people of northern France before the advance of the German army during the World war the girl, Irene, then two years old. was separated from her wid ! owed mother. While Mrs. Qulnn searched In vain for her the child was found by Cana dian soldiers, became the regimental mascot, was turned over to a war ref uge society, was adopted by a French woman, cas' off by her, met an English girl, and finally made ber way with her friend to the United States, reaching Elyrla. There Jhe two obtained work in a stocking factory. It was shortly after the girl reached the Ohio town that the mother says she began to dream of her daughter. Always the girl was In a restaurant. From city to city Mrs. Qulnn went, calling at restaurants. Finally she came to a restaurant In Elyrla. A girl came In. and Mrs. Qulnn realized in a flash, she says, that this was the restaurant of which she had dreamed and the girl was her daughter. Fearing to make a scene, she fol lowed Irene to a rooming house, ques tioning the landlady and the girl's roommate. She Identified the girl by a mole, s birthmark, and the Initials "L Q." tattooed Just below ber left arm pit Tattooing of children was cus tomary with mothers in the French war zone. Peas to Lead Prison Crop Jackson, Mich.?Inmates of the state prison here will work 2JS00 aires of the prison farms this sum mer, with 225 acres of peas the first planting of the season. Cat Adopts Squirm! Rardstown, Ky.?A baby squirrel has been adopted by a house eat here. Squirrel and kittens nurse to gether and receive the same grooming. ?
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