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WARD
NOMINATE HOOVER ON FIRST BALLOT
FACING CHAOS,
REPARATIONS
PARLEY TOLD
MacDonald Warns Nations
‘Must Agree’ to Avoid
World Catastrophe.
BRITISHER IS CHAIRMAN
‘No Country Is Apart From
Rest of World,’ He Says
in Opening Plea.
BY SAMUEL DASHIEL
United l*ren* Stuff Corrf*nnndrnt
LAUSANNE, June 16. Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald of
Great Britain, just elected chair
man of the Lausanne “reparations
conference to end reparations," to
day pleaded with the world’s nations
to settle the reparations question to
"avoid world catastrophe.”
"We have me ttoday In the
ihadow of the most ominous eco
nomic crisis that ever afflicted the
world in peace time,” MacDonald
said. “The whole world looks to
us to find an agreement to help end
existing distress.
“I repeat that in this there is no
France, no Italy, no Germany, no
United States, no Great Britain
apart from the rest of the nations,”
MacDonald said. "None of us can
stay out of the work of restoration
and reconstruction, because none of
ns can stay out of the miseries
which are gathering about us.
“We Must Agree’’
“Today w'e meet to consider one
part of the cause of our distress,
the war’s financial inheritance, and
we must, come to agreement.”
Referring to the experts who met
at Basle and reported that, inter
governmental debts must be ad
justed. MacDonald said:
“I can but indorse this appeal, the
Urgency of which has been sup
ported by all happenings since.
"Engagements solemnly entered
into can not be satisfied by unilat
eral repudiation." MacDonald said.
"That principle. I believe, will not
hp challenged by anybody here. But
it carries with it a corollary if
there is default—to avoid engage
ments which proved incapable of
fulfillment, and which must be re
vised by agreement."
‘We Can Not Act Alone’
“A great opportunity now presents
Itsef to put, our heads together and
to halt active influences now mak
ing for general economic deteriora
tion. If we do this, Europe can not
act alone,” said MacDonald.
“We all must welcome the assur
ance that after the present phase
is over, the United States will en
courage us to believe that she will
co-operate, in the examination at
any rate, of wide problems, and join
us in devising a policy of mainte
nance of civilization based on pros
perity of all nations and obtained
by busy industry, international ax
change and full and happy lives en
joyed by the masses.”
After MacDonald’s speech, the
first, plenary session adjourned un
til in a. m. Friday, when the Ger
man delegates will present their
case.
An Empty Chair
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Srri|*p<-Hwrt Fnreirn Editor
WASHINGTON. June IB.—A va
cant chair represents the more than
>22.000.000.000 interest of the Amer
ican people in the $27,600,000,000
reparations and war debts parley
which began today at Lausanne.
The conference will try, first, to
determine if Germany really can
not. pay reparations, as she claims,
and, secondly, what the Allies will
do about it if she can’t. If she can’t,
they warn, they will not be able to
pay the United States.
The gathering, therefore, is of ut
most importance to America. The
share of the average American citi
zen in the full amount of war debts,
is about SI,BOO. The share of the
average American family is approxi
mately $7,500.
Despite these stupendous stakes,
the United States will not send even
an unofficial observer. The position
of Washington is that the Lausanne
meeting is purely a European affair
—inasmuch as America refused to
share in German reparations—so
Europe must do whatever she likes
about it.
Under the circumstances two out
comes are expected: First, the ex
isting moratorium, due to expire
June 30, likely will be extended, thus
affording the world a little longer
breathing spell, and. second, a world
economic conference probably will
be called for a later date.
NAME PRO TEM. JUDGES
Five Are Named to Bench for
Marion Superior Courts.
Judges pro tern, will preside in
Marion county’s five superior courts
during the summer recess, starting
July 5. when regular judges will be
on vacation.
Special terms of court, for emer
gency matters, are scheduled to be
held July 5 and Aug. 1.
The pro tom. judges are Hubert
Hickam. superior court one; Chal
mers Schlosser, superior two: Carl
1. Wood, superior three; Charles
W. Richards, superior four, and
Howard Caughran, superior five.
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Partly cloudy and unsettled tonijrht and Friday; somewhat warmer Friday. *
VOLUME 44—NUMBER 31
Here’s Dry
Law Stand
of G. O. P.
By l vital Press
June 16. — Text
of the Republican party’s
plank on prohibition:
THE 18TH AMENDMENT
The Republican party always has
stood, and stands today, for obe
dience to and enforcement of the
law as the very foundation of
orderly government and civiliza
tion. There can be no national
security otherwise.
The duty of the President of the
United States and of the offi
cers of the law is clear. The law
must be enforced as they find it
enacted by the people.
To these courses of action, we
pledge our nominees.
The Republican party is. and
always has been, the party of the
Constitution.
Nullification by non-observance
by individuals or state action
threatens the stability of govern
ment.
While the Constitution makers
sought a high degree of perma
nence, they foresaw the need of
changes and provided for them.
Article V limits the proposals of
amendments to two methods:
(1). Two-thirds of both houses
of congress may propose amend
ments; or
(2.) On application of the legis
latures of two-thirds of the
states a national convention shall
be called by congress to propose
amendments.
Thereafter, ratification must be
had in one of two ways;
(1). By the legislatures of three
fourths of the several states; or
(2. By conventions held in
three-fourths of the several states.
Congress is given power to deter
mine the mode of ratification.
Referendum without constitu
tional sanction can not furnish a
decisive answer.
Those who propose them inno
cently are deluded by false, hopes;
those who propose them knowing
ly are deceiving the people.
A nation-wide controversy over
the eighteenth amendment now
distracts attention from the con
structive solution of many press
ing national problems.
The principle of national prohi
bition, as embodied in the amend
ment, was supported and opposed
by members of both great po
litical parties.
It was submitted to the states
by members of congress of differ
ent political faith and ratified by
state legislatures of different po
litical majorities.
It was not then and is not now
a partisan political question.
Members of the Republican
party hold different opinions with
respect to it, and no public of
ficial or member of the party
should be pledged or forced to
choose between his party affilia
tions and his honest convictions
upon this question.
* * *
We do not favor a submission
limited to the issue of retention
or repeal.
For the American nation never
in its history has gone backward,
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 amend
ment the provision of which, while
retaining in the federal govern
ment power to preserve the gains
already made in dealing with the
evils inherent in the liquor traffic,
shall allow states to deal with the
problem as their citizens may de
termine, but subject always to the
power of the federal government
to protect those states where pro
hibition may exist and safeguard
our citizeris everywhere from the
return of the saloon and attendant
abuses.
Such an amendment should be
promptly submitted to the states
by congress, to be acted upon by
stat# conventions called for that
sole purpose in accordance with
the provisions of article V of the
Constitution, and adequately safe
guarded so as to be truly rep
resentative.
Chinese Girl Present
By United rress
CHICAGO. June 16.-—On Young
Koo, pretty Chinese girl, daughter
of the late Chinese secretary of
foreign affairs, was in the gallery
Wednesday night at the G. O. P.
convention. She is en route home to
Shanghai, after attending school in
this country.
‘STOP-GAP’ PROHIBITION STAND REVEALED AS PERSONAL PRODUCT OF HOOVER
BY RAY TUCKER
Tlm> Stlf Writer
CHICAGO, June 16. —The “stop
gap” prohibition plank pre
sented to the Republican con
vention by a Hoover hand-picked
resolutions committee was revealed
today as the President's personal
product.
Without his intervention, it gen
erally is believed that the conven
tion would have adopted a
straight-out repeal plank. The
votes were on hand, according to
careful canvasses.
But Hoover insisted on rewriting
the plank before he gave his ap
proval.
He inserted generous concessions
to the drys. after preliminary
drafts had been dictated to White
Houst stenographers.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932
REPEAL PLANK
VOTED DOWN,
681 TO 472
‘Moist* Plan of Administra
tion Adopted After
Stormy Session.
SPEAKERS ARE HECKLED
Boos, Jeers and Cheers
Echo During 4-Hour De
bate Before Ballot.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 16.—The prohi
bition repeal advocates were de
feated early today in a Republican
national convention floor fight be
fore a crowd which changed its
manners constantly from rowdyism
to the calm of boredom.
By a vote of 681 to 472, the con
vention rejected the minority plat
form report, proposing submission
to the American people of an un
qualified question of repeal or re
tention.
For more than four hours the con
vention listened to platform planks,
oratory and the gay interpolations
of an evidently wet gallery. Long
after midnight the last orator had
his say.
The roll call result never was in
doubt from the moment the dele
gates met at 9 p. m.
Adopt Majority Report
It was inevitable that the dele
gates would be controlled by combi
nation of adminstration pressure
and anti-repeal sentiment.
When the Bingham repeal or re
tention plank of the platform mi
nority finally had been rejected,
there was immediate adoption of
the majority report—providing sub
mission of an amendment, which
would allow wet states to be as wet
as congress may determine, and dry
states to be as dry as congress can
make them by assisting in enforce
ment.
Galleries 800 and Cheer
Boos, jeers and cheers often
echoed in the vast stadium. Cash
customers in the galleries exercised
their privilege of liking the lines
of a show, or not liking them.
They did not like the argument
of James R. Garfield, chairman of
the platform committee, that young
people did not today know the hor
rible saloon conditions of pre-pro
hibition days.
“Hoot, hoot, hoot,” hooted the gal
lery.
“800, boo, boo,” continued the
chorus of dissent.
Garfield tried again.
“Yah, yah, yah,” drowned his
words.
A determined man, Garfield again
returned to the first word of the
offending sentence and the gallery
gods again would have none of it.
There was racket from the dele
gates, too. and for some moments
the disorder and uproarious disre
gard for the serious business of
making a national party platform
seemed to approach in fury some
of the demonstrations of past po
litical gatherings.
Garfield Is Heckled
Permanent Chairman Bertrand
H. Snell, appropriately or not,
banged for order during the prohi
bition dispute, not with the shiny
gavel intended for the purpose, but
writh a bung starter. The frayed
ends of that homely implement at
tested the starting of many a bung
with a flow of a beverage perhaps
non-alcoholic. The regular gavel
w r as lost.
“You are guests of this conven
tion.” bellowed Snell to the rebel
lious gnlleryites.
“Were the voters and we paid to
get in.” was the cheery response.
Garfield finally rather shamed the
hecklers with a brief sarcastic ap
preciation of the galleries’ courtesy
and fairness.
Except for one or two speakers
evidently considered by delegates
and gallery auditors alike to be be
low par orators, there were no
further continued hostile inter
ruptions.
Speakers ca#ne in bewildering
rapidity w ith Snell apportioning the
limited time finally in parcels as
scant as a minute each.
"I come from Nevada where men
are men. and the women are glad
iTurn to Page Sixteen)
He gave the completed docu
ment his blessing before it was
made public.
Then, with no success in wet,
eastern states, his personal spokes
men demanded that it be ac
cepted. The states obedient to
White House domination took
these orders.
Drvs openly praise Hoover and
mock the wets.
The latter charge that the
President balked a majority, which
favored scrapping instead of
patching the “noble experiment.”
Delegates from states with large
electoral votes, including New
York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey
and New England's six states,
switched to the Bingham repeal
substitute.
They lee] resentment
Again Party Standard-Bearer
KIDNAPER GETS
LIFE IN PRISON
Admitted Abducting Rich
Kansas City Woman.
By United Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 16
Martin Depew pleaded guilty to
participation in the kidnaping of
Mrs. Nell Donnelly, wealthy gar
ment manufacturer, on Dec. 16, and
was sentenced to life imprison
ment today in the criminal division
of the circuit court here.
William Lacy Browning pleaded
guilty to the same charge and was
sentenced to twenty-five years in
prison.
COOUDGE KEEPS COOL
Ex-President Puts in Routine Day
at Home and Office.
By United Press
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. June 16,
—Nominating day at the Republican
convention in Chicago today found
Calvin Coolidge quietly engaged in
his w ? ork-a-day tasks as a private
citizen at his modest office here in
his home city.
Following his daily schedule,
Coolidge motored the mile from his
home to his office in the Masonic
block on Main street, looked over
his mail, perused the morning news
papers, and later worked on a mag
azine article.
Hourly Temperatures
6 a. m 65 10 a. m 73
7a. m 68 11 a. m 74
Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 71
9 a. m 73 1 p. m 75
toward Hoover they did when he
framed a dry report to congress
after the Wicker sham commission
had declared against the eight
eenth amendment.
ana
ALTHOUGH Postmaster-Gen
eral Walter Brown and Na
tional Chairman Simeon D Fess
deny the plank was the Presi
dent’s handiwork. Ogden L. Mills,
secretary of the treasury, told the
resolutions committee that Hoo
ver sponsored it.
The same plea quickly was re
jected by the states listed above,
with Mills suffering a personal and
political reverse at the New York
caucus.
Hoover left nothing to chance.
Unbiased observers compared it
to his promise of the Wicker
sham investigation u a formula
Herbert Hoover
HOOVER STAYS AT RADIO
President Has No Comment on
Prohibition Plank.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 16.—Presi
dent Hoover sat beside his radio un
til the early hours of today, listen
ing to the proceedings at the Re
publican national convention.
White House officials, when asked
whether the prohibition plank w'as
satisfactory to the President, re
plied ;
“There is no comment to make
at this time.”
GIRL BORN TO ACTRESS
Mary Astor Gives Birth to Daughter
in Honolulu Hospital.
By United Press
HONOLULU, June 16. Mary
Astor of the screen, who is Mrs.
Franklyn Thorpe, wife of a Los
Angeles physician, in private life,
gave birth to a daughter today in
a Honolulu hospital. The Thorpes
arrived several weeks ago in their
yacht.
HELEN ENGLISH PRINCE
DIES IN LOS ANGELES
Mrs. Helen English Prince died
early today in a Los Angeles hos
pital after a brief illness.
Friends were notified early this
morning of her critical illness, and
a half hour later were informed of
“her death.
Mrs. Prince and her husband,
Frank J. Prince, former well-known
newspaper man left in the early
spring for a trip to the Caribbean.
After a protracted visit to the Canal
zone, they sailed for Los Angeles,
for attracting all factions in 1928.
In fact, the protest against
“forcing” Republican “officials” to
choose between “party affiliations
and honest convictions” is under
stood to be an official pledge that
Hoover dislikes even the slight
concession to the wets involved
in the suggestion of another
amendment.
a a a
'T'HE White House strategy was
A mapped at the capital. Wal
ter F. Newton. Hoover's political
secretary, outlined the President's
views upon his arrival here, and
they became the basis for the
three-dav conference.
A special telephone wire stood
open between the White House
and a hotel room here. One -of
Hoover* conferees was Interior
Entered is Becond-Class Matter
at Postoflflce. Indiana poll*
LIGHTNING BOLT
KILLS 2 BOYS
Six Other Youths Under
Tree Are Injured.
By United Press
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., June 16.
Two boys were killed and six others
injured when struck by lightning
during a storm near here today.
The group had been fishing and
sought shelter under a tree w'hen
the storm broke.
Suicide Attempt Fails
Mrs. Birdie Richardson, 58, of 1605
Bates street, is recovering at city
hospital today following an attempt
to committ suicide Wednesday night
by swallowing a chemical. No reason
for the act was stated.
intending to return to Indianapolis
in the early summer.
As the widow of Captain William
English, she inherited the income
from the vast English estate, whose
principal, under the wall, goes to
the Indianapolis Foundation at her
death.
Included in the estate is the
English theater and hotel and a
country estate at Englishton park,
w'hich is to be devoted to charitable
purposes.
Her marriage to Frank J. Prince
took place in the early part of 1928.
Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, an
extreme dry.
Besides Mills, Brown and New
ton, such presidential confidants
as James Francis Burke, general
counsel of the national commit
tee, and Larrv Richey, Hoover's
personal secretary for twelve
years, sat in on the conferences
at this end.
Mills, long a dripping wet, is
believed to have acted as tele
phonic messenger when the ac
tual text was being written, re
layed to Hoover, rewritten here
and at Washington, and then
polished for presentation to the
committee and convention.
mam
MILLS next shouldered the job
of forcing it upon the com
mittee which had selected
MAD TUMULT BREAKS OUT
IN CONVENTION WHEN NAME
OF PRESIDENT IS PRESENTED
Cheering: Goes on for Nearly Half Hour,
Carefully Controlled by Managers Who
Had Prepared Long: Demonstration.
EJECT FRANCE FROM PLATFORM
.Ex-Maryland Senator Led Away by Ser
geants-at-Arms When He Seeks to Boom
Coolidge, as Own Candidacy Is Pressed.
By United Press
CHICAGO, June 16.—Herbert Hoover was nomi
nated on the first ballot today as the candidate of the
Republican party to succeed himself as President of the
United States.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Pres* Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 16. —The Republican national conven
tion broke its quiet and burst forth today in mad tumult
when Joseph L. Scott, eloquent Californian, placed in nomi
nation for the presidency the name of Herbert Hoover.
With C. S. Hudson of Los Angeles standing on the plat
form signaling showmen stationed over the hall, delegates
marched, tossed hats in the air, screamed and shouted.
Two orchestras and the great auditorium organ blared
forth stirring music—“ California, Here 1 Come" and “On
Wisconsin," college football songs, and patriotic airs. #
Friends of the Pi’esident,
including’ one of his secretar
ies, Walter Newton, Colonel
Frank Knox of Chicago, Con
gresswoman Ruth Pratt and
scores of persons whose polit
ical fortunes and those of Mr.
Hoover are closely allied,
looked on beaming.
Scott, whose oratory has stirred
many gatherings in his years be
fore juries and in public life, nom
inated Mr. Hoover as the pilot who
“through the last long, grueling four
years has stood at the heim as the
captain of our ship of state, and has
steered the vessel safely through fog
and hurricane and passed the ter
rors of the lee shore.”
“Babylon and Nineveh and an
cient Rome wallowed in the wealth
of material prosperity, stood naked
and unashamed in their perdition
and succumbed,” he cried. “But
the human lamp posts of Nero, the
men, women and children thrown
to the lions of the coliseum for a
Roman holiday, gave us the arte
sian springs of Christianity that
rule the world, while the splendors
of Rome are almost forgotten mem
ories.
Release Hundreds of Balloons
"Whv, therefore be a frightened.
Why stand frozen and trembling
like the slaves of old? . . . stretch
forth strong arms and stout hearts
and be worthy of our patrimony.”
It was 12:20 p. m. when Scott
completed his address. The Cali
fornia delegation sprung to its feet,
holding banners aloft. The two or
chestras and the great organ
launched into “California. Here I
Come” and the demonstration was
away.
Hundreds of vari-colored balloons
were released from nests high in
the bunting-draped ceiling, and
showered down slowly over the
crowd.
Streamers of colored paper un
reeled from the balcony.
A flag, which covered a great j
portrait of the President back of
the speakers’ stand, was pulled
aside and the lights were cast on ;
the picture, a life-like portrait from ;
which the President 3eemed looking
down, pleased, upon the scene.
Under Perfect Control
The demonstration was under
perfect control of its managers.
None seemed to remember the dis
agreement of Wednesday night over
prohibition or to pay the slightest
attention to the fact that other
names were to come before the con
vention.
Just as the demonstration was
ending the voice of President Hoo
ver was brought into the stadium
through a motion picture sound reel.
It was the speech he made plead
ing to the senate for tax bill pass
age recently.
The organ blared “Onward Chris-
so as to include only four real
wets.
He made a threatening appeal
before the committee and later
befor- the New York delegation.
He begged them to remember
that only by compromise could
the warring wets and drys be con
ciliated.
“We can't drive the drys out
of the party,” said Representative
Bertrand H. Snell, of up-state
New York, who was Hoover’s
personal choice for permanent
chairman.
Mills in short assumed the role
played by Williams J. Donovan,
another wet New Yorker, in 1928
Though now one of the Presi
dent’s many “forgotten men."
Donovan is c/edited with having
evolved the “noble in motive”
definition, and the dew r s a
Wkkersham investigation.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County. 3 Cent*
Indiana leaders at conven
tion, picture. Page 3; text of
platform. Page 7; Ben Stem’s
story, Hoover nomination
speech, platform and other
stories, Page 1, Section Two.
tian Soldiers," the battle song of
| the Bull Moose campaign of 1912.
Then, at 12:47 p. m. the demon
i stration ended—the stage manager
having run his list of signals—after
i having run for twenty-seven min-
I utes.
Eject France From Platform
When the convention proceeded
with the roll call of states, the name
:of former Senator Joseph France
of Maryland was placed before the
| convention and led to a disturbance
when France attempted to force his
way to the platform personally.
Outside he said h° hrd 4 and
to place the name of Calvin Cool*
idge before the convention.
A dozen policemen finaly escorted
him away while he protested his
party chiefs were denying him his
rights.
France came to the platform
while G. L. Sandblast of Portland,
Ore., was making a speech nomi
nating him (France) for the presi
dency.
“Where are the sergeants-at
arms?” shouted James Francis
Burke, counsellor of the Republican
national committee, as he saw
France, plainly excited, coming to
the platform.
Insists Upon His Right*
The guards rushed to bar the
former senator’s way. The crowd
began to yell.
France, waving his arms, cried
that he carried proper credentials.
The organ began to play to di
vert the crowd.
“I insist on my right* and de
mand the right to speak.” cried
France. “I am entitled to this plat
form. They are throwing me out.”
He seemed near to fainting.
Police pushed him down from the
platform, out through the hall, up
to the second floor with perhaps it
hundred peoiple following.
‘‘Get me to some air.” exclaimed
France, ‘‘l feel I am about to faint.”
A window was opened. France
mounted a chair and made the fol
lowing explanation:
“They knew I intended to nom
inate Mr. Coolidge. They threw m#
out even though they knew I had
my pocket full of credentials, in
cluding the badge of Mr. William
P. Jackson, former national com
mitteeman from Maryland.
“I had credentials from the state
of Oregon authorizing me to place
Coolidge in nomination when their
delegation was called.
“Chairman Snell knew I was go
ing to nominate Coolidge and he
would sweep the convention and
that is why I was stopped.”
Turning to General Leland Mac-
Chesney, assistant sergeant-at-arms
France shouted:
“You’ll be sorry for this.”
Intended to Quit Rare
“Now, senator, I'm sorry about
this,” said MacChesnev. “I didn’t
mean to do any harm. There is no
intention to hold you.”
Turning to several uniformed po-
Mcemen near by, he said:
“He is not to be held.”
France said his nomination of Mr
Coolidge would have meant his own
withdrawal as a candidate.
Convention leaders have passed
the word that the vice-presidential
nominee again is tp be Charles Cur
tis. However, other candidates may
be placed in nomination against
him.
Florida intended to nominate J.
Leonard Reprogle, steel man, for the
vice-presidency and there seemed a
possibility that other names for the
second place on the ticket would be
brought forward. *
Those of Hanford MacNider. min,
ister to Canada, and former Amen*
ican Legion commander, War Sec
retary Patrick Hurley, and many
others had friends who would like
to see them on the ticket.