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Warren Spencer
The identity of the man behind
the pen name of Warren Spencer,
author of "Forever and Ever.’’ has
been disclosed by his publishers
to pe William C. Lengel, associate
editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
wrote his first novel and
published it under strict anonym
ity to prove that unknown authors
have a chance.
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BY WALTER n. HICKMAN
ON Paße 13 of "Captain Archer's
Daughter,'’ you read that "in
hrr comfortable home Miss Archer
dreamed through the cold goodness
of her twenties."
And in the same paragraph, you
will be startled to read —"Then sud
denly without word of warning,
without rousing the slightest suspi
cion in Bowport or in the mind of
the kind father Miss Martha Arch
er not only kicked up her heels but
she jumped the fence of propriety
and vanished down the primrose
path."
And then this—"One dav she. was
an old maid whose perfection scared
ofl every man who came, near her.
The. next, she was sailing away with
one of the deni's seed, to find a
parson to tie the knot.”
Now, I believe, you know' a great
deal about. Martha, the "heroine” of
Margaret Deland's new novel, "Cap
tain Archer's Daughter." published
by Harper & Brothers, and sells for
$2.50.
Here is a story of Captain Archer,
w ho made, his home in Bowport, on
the New England coast, and of his
daughter Martha, who was too
“carefully” reared by her mother
when very young.
Martha had one successfu rebel
lion when very young. She hurled
a hymn book at a very strait-laced
minister while he was preaching.
But the scandal that act created
in no way compared to the fuss
kicked up when Martha ran away
with a sea captain. Isadore Davis.
Davis was able to make many
women feel “the scorch of the. blue
fire” of his eyes. As the author
describes him—“this handsome man
was not only as elemental as a
flame; he was as vulgar as honest
earth.”
And this man made Martha love
as she never dreamed of love;
forced her to terrible suffering and
then compelled her to return to
Bowport with her son, Young Cap,
and became a chaste icicle.
And does Young Cap inherit the
‘‘blue fire” of his father?
Read "Captain Archer's Daugh
ter.” It is beautifully and honestly
written.
Those who are interested in books
concerning Abraham Lincoln will be.
interested in “What Lincoln Read,"
recently published by the Pioneer
Publishing Company at Washing
ton, D. C. This book connects Lin
coln's life story with his studies and
reading. It sells for $5.
a a a
Vhat are they reading in New
Y-.k? Brentano's lists the follow
ing: “A Modern Hero,” by Louis
Bromfield: “Summer Holiday," by
Sheila Kaye-Smith; “Undertow.”
by A. Hamilton Gibbs; "The Black
Swan,” by Rafael Sabatini; “State
Fair," by Phil Stong. and "The An
swering Glory,” by R. C. Hutchin
son.
a a a
Two books of first importance on
the fall list of Houghton Mifflin
Company include: "Severidge and
the Progressiye Era," by Claude G.
Bowers, and “Earth Horizon," by
Mary Austin. The Bowers book,
which follows the authors "The
Tragic Era.” if based upon the ca
reer of the late Albert J. Bever
idge, and is. in its essence, a polit
ical history of the United States
from the Spanish war to the years
following the World war. "Earth
Horizon" is Mrs. Austin's long
awaited biography. It is written
with that exhiarating tonic which
only struggle, achievement and a
sense of humor can bring.
a a a
Novelists to appear this summer
and fall on the Houghton Mifflin
list for the first time include Janet
Fairbank, Dorothy Speare. J. P. Mc-
Evoy, Radclyffe Hall and Jonathan
Leonard. The same firm will also
publish new novels by Wallace Ir
win, John Buchan, Sophia Cleugh.
Henrietta Leslie. Roland Pertwee.
Beatrice Grimehaw. Katharine New
lin Burt and William MacLeod
Raine.
a a a
DESIGNS for jackets of three
books which Lippincott will
publish in the early autumn have
been made by Alexey Brodovitch,
youthful Russian who is already
famous as one of the leading post
er artists of France. In 1925 at
the Exhibition Internationale des
Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Mr. Brod
ovitch won highest honors; the
Grand Prix for textile design and
embroidery, the Grand Prix for
jewelry and silverware design, two
silver medals and honors for archi
tecture. The three jackets are for
"High Low' Washington” by 30 32;
“The Perils and Fortune of the
Duke of Osuna.” by Antonio
Marichalar. and "Fuller’s Earth,” by
Carolyn Wells.
Fall Lmm(| Wlr* B*>rrW of
the Doited Pre* AmocUHoe
LuYAL PAIR OF
! WOMEN SAVE
CURTIS’ CAUSE
Vice-President’s Victory Is
Due to Efforts of Sister
and Mabel Willebrandt.
MRS. GANN IS HEROINE
Wages Whirlwind Battle to
Keep Second Place for
Her Brother.
BY MAXINE DAVIS
United Preit Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 17.—Two women
did much to save Charles H. Curtis
from the limbo of discarded Vice-
I Presidents.
His fighting sister. Mrs. Dolly
Gann, carried on a campaign for
months, with a driving whirlwind
inish, to have
Tim retained as
•unning mate of
President Hoo
ver.
Mabel Walker
Wille bra ndt,
heroine of 1928,
and loyal despite
differences with
other members
of the party,
wsnt to bat when
defeat seemed
imminent for
Curtis Thursday,
helped prevail
upon the Penn-
a ' vmt
Jr
Mrs. Gann
sylvania delegation to change its
vote, and give the ageing Vice-Presi
dent renomination.
Curtis’ entire career has been af
fected by the political loyalty and
support of women. Mrs. Alvin T.
Hcrt, vice-chairman of the Repub
lican national committee, was large
ly responsible for his place on the
ticket four years ago, when she made
a fight characteristically more effec
tive than spectacular to name him
as second on the Hoover slate.
Sister Never Falls Him
The corner stone of his whole life
has been his sister's unfailing and
militant support. She did not fail
him here. At the close of a country
wide speech-making campaign of
months, she came to Chicago to
cry*stallize and add backbone to his
support. She began her work with
in the hour of her arrival, and
never ceased her frantic efforts un-
til the balloting
began.
All during the
convention she
sat in her box,
consoling, cajol
ing, rallying re
luctant delegates
to her brother's
banner.
That she was
fully aware of
the serious ness
of the situation
often was re
flected in her
face. When nom-
V
Mrs. Willebrandt
inations for Vice-
President began, she leaned for
ward with her hands on the railing,
clasped so tight that they showed
w’hite at the knuckles.
Not until the Pennsylvania dele
gation changed its vote did her face
relax into a smile.
When New York gave its tre
mendous vote to General Harbord.
Dolly saw' the years behind, all the
years of struggle for her brother.
First she was his secretary. She
nursed his invalid wife, was a sec
ond mother to his children, and
climaxed her career of helpfulness
in her Herculean fight for his re
nomination.
Chilly Toward Press
Mrs. Gann and her husband were
chilly toward the press after the
"victory," and he complained that
he had been called "Mr. Dolly
Gann" and that Mrs. Gann had
been “pestered.”
Mrs. Gann at first indicated she
would not comment, but finally ob
served that she "never was worried
about the result for one instant."
Mrs. Willebrandt stepped sudden
ly into the breach. She had planned
to second Curtis’ nomination, but
gave up this lip service for more
practical activity. Her foray into
the administration's battlefield was
unexpected, for Mrs. Willebrandt
claims she has given up politics.
DIG DOWN IN THE OLD PURSE; TAX MAN IS COMING
You’ll Pay $1.68 Monthly Under Uncle Sam’s New Schedule, Soon in Effect
BY JAMES A. CARVIN
THAT well-known citizen of
Indianapolis, Mr. Average
Man, whose birth, clothing, food,
work, pleasure and even death are
subjected to statistical analysis at
regular intervals, will find after
the new general revenue bill be
comes effective Tuesday, that his
cost of living has been increased
5 cents a day.
Under provisions of the new
The snob 'SHE
Jp-'L Thinks she's so
%C J NECESSARY p
DBIAL
Q IcREA*7P
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lav, approximately $1.68 will be
paid each month for the everyday
items of living, not taking into ac
count more than a dozen divisions
in Qte law where the citizen is
The Indianapolis Times
ZOO ANIMALS HIDE HATE, KILL IN FLASH
Mask Blood Lust for Months, Then Yield to Murder Impulse
BY WILLIAM ENGLE
Time* Stiff Writer
'Coomfht. IMS, bv The New York World-Telestram Corooration.t
YORK. June 17. — Murder is not common among the cats. But
Lopez’ heart was all black. The great jaguar seemed glad when
Dr. William* T. Hornaday, then director of the zoological park in the
Bronx, reached in and stroked his head, and his willingness to romp
made him seem eager to be an amiable pet.
He deceived them all. they confessed later, and they all agreed with
Dr. Hornaday that no cat would put in the whole year merely pretend
ing to be good-natured. For reward they ordered a mate for him.
She arrived, a female as fine as any jaguar ever brought to town, and
as an experiment her cage was in
stalled beside Lopez’. Their affair
seemed romance at first sight.
Lopez tried to caress her
through the bars, and she recipro
cated. Lopez courted her, and she
was pleased.
Two days of that and Dr.
Hornaday thought it would be
cruel to keep them apart longer
and that Lopez deserved no more
of solitary confinement.
The two sets of doors that
separated them were drawn open.
Proudly and confidently, the
bride walked toward her bride
groom. Outside the bars zoolo
gists watched intently.
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SHE had not been through Lo
pez’s door a second before the
pretense of a year fell from him.
Blood lust that had been hidden
beneath sycophancy was bare.
Without warning, he sprang and
his jaws closed upon her throat.
As his rush bore her to the
floor, the attendants swarmed in.
They spiked him. They beat
him. They even tried to brain
him. But Lopez did not once let
go. He held her in his jaws un
til her cervical vertebrae were
crushed and she was dead.
That, in the criminology of
Bronx Park, was first-degree mur
der; perfidious Lopez, they de
cided. for a whole year had sim
ulated amiability, awaiting his
time and his victim.
Between that and second-de
gree murder the line of difference
is finely drawn, as it is outside
the park, but the crime of lesser
degree is recognized definitely. An
historic case reveals the distinc
tion. *
For seven years two fine and
full-grown polar bears nad lived
together in an amity which
seemed only deepened by almost
continuous buffoonery; they boxed,
bit and tusseled until they drew
blood. And when onp died, the
other seemed the loneliest crea
ture in the park.
Carl Hagenbeck heard about it,
and offered a splendid female as
mate to the survivor, but the park
authorities declined; they thought
that if the lone one did not kill
a stranger at once, he would wear
her out in time with his rough
play.
HAGENBECK (who had
iVI handled about forty polar
bears to my one) replied with the
assurance that in his opinion all
would be well,” Dr. Hornaday re
ported in his "The Minds and
Manners of Wild Animals.” "As
convincing proof of the sincerity
of his views, he offered to lose
half the purchase price of the
female bear in the event that my
worst fears were realized.
“I asked the opinion of our head
keeper of bears and after due re
flection he said:
“ ‘Why, no. I don’t believe he’d
HOOVER CALLS OFF
JOURNEY TO COAST
BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Presi
dent Herbert Hoover, formally nom
inated for re-election, virtually has
decided to cancel his proposed trip
to California next month.
The President had been desirous
of going to Los Angeles to open the
Olympic games and it had been
suggested that he receive the for
mal notice of his renomination at
his Palo Alto home, where he was
notified in 1928.
It is indicated strongly at the
White House that Mr. Hoover re
luctantly has decided it would not
be best to make the transcontinen
tal journey at this critical time.
It is expected that the President
will receive the notification and de
liver his address of acceptance
either at the White House or at his
Rapidan fishing camp, and will di
rect his re-election campaign from
those two places.
A definite decision on these plans
awaits further conferences with his
permitted to curtail his expend
itures as too expensive.
Proponents of the tax bill dur
ing its discussion in congress con
tended that the tax was the most
fair of any proposed, since it was
levied only on those using the
taxable articles as a “take it or
leave it’’ proposition—no take, no
tax.
Although this contention may
remain true in principle, there
are a number of items where the
‘•take" is almost impossible to
avoid, and, likewise, the tax. For
instance:
Thousands of families own au
' tomobiles and drive an average
of 1,000 miles a months necessi
tating a complete change of oil
at least once a month. Motor oil
is taxed at 4 cents a gallon. One
refill is six quarts and 6 cents
tax.
a a a
Gasoline wui be taxed at 1
cent a gallon, to be paid by
the reflr.er, but there is strong
probability that the tax will be
passed to tlje consumer in the
form of increased prices. Con
servatively estimating the family
consumption for one car at five
gallons a week results in a total
monthly tax of 20 cents,
i Toilet preparations art taxed at
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE, 17. 1932
‘ vipfirv* oJh fVio oftomnfc rvf lrov-*_
kill her.. He's not a bad bear, at
all. I thinx we could work it so
that there would be no great trou
ble.”
They bought the bear. They put
her cage inside the great, polar
bear’s den. At once she and the
bereft one fraternized.
They licked each other's noses
and ate meals by side. At night
they slept close together, lit,hough
bars separated them. They con
vinced every one after three weeks
of this that calm domesticity lor
them had been predestined.
Nevertheless, before they were
allowed together the keepers pre
advisors, including Everett San
ders, who was selected at Chicago
as the new chairman of the Repub
lican national committee, and as
such will be Mr. Hoover’s cam
paign manager. Sanders, of Terre
Haute, formerly was secretary to
President Coolidge.
The President’s Rapidan camp
may be expected to be the scene
of frequent and prolonged political
conferences during the summer.
Added telephone, telegraph and
radio broadcasting facilities are be
ing installed there. The President
may make several of his campaign
speeches from the camp.
Aside from the fact the camp of
fers a plac# of relaxation during
what perforce must be a trying
summer for the President, it has
the advantage of semi-privacy.
It would be possible to hold po
litical conferences there at which
persons of high importance could
come and go with slight chance of
being seen.
10 per cent. Two dollars a month
is a conservative estimate. The
tax will be 20 cents. The twice-a
day habit of teeth brushing has
been observed thoughtfully by
placing dentifrices outside of the
class of toilet preparations, with
only a 5 per cent tax. Two tubes
a month at 25 cents each will be
taxed a total of 2Vi cents.
' Unless the family chooses to sit
in the dark, or do without the
HA-HA/J POn'T
electrical refrigerator, it will be
difficult not to ‘ take’’ the tax on
electrical current, which is 3 per
cent. A monthly bill of $5 adds
15 cents to the tax tasaL
Zoo bridal
resulted in
tragedy
when jaguar,
at right,
slew his
prospective
mate in rage
over intrusion
on privacy.
Mongoose
..and cobra
squaring off
for battle
fatal to snake.
At left,
polar bear,
ever quick
to quarrel,
even with
own species.
pared for trouble. They oiled the
sieeping den door so that if the
female should dash for safety
someone could instantly slide
the barrier and shut her in.
They armed themselves with
pike-poles, long iron bars, lariets
and long planks a foot wide.
"Open her door, a foot only,
and let her put her head out.
Keep him away.”
Dr. Hornaday admitted he was
apprehensive as he gave the order.
But the female bear was trusting.
She pushed her head through, and
as the male stood back awaiting
her she struggled to hurry in.
GIRL BANDIT IS
GIVEN 4 YEARS
Guilty Plea Is Entered by
Lelota Belmore.
By Times Special
DANVILLE, Ind., June 17.—Next
four years of the life of Miss Lelota
Belmore, 17, of 242 South Gray
street, Indianapolis, will be spent
in the Indiana Girls’ school at Cler
mont, as a result of her plea of
guilty in Hendricks circuit court
here Thursday to a charge of bank
banditry.
She was committed to the school
by Judge A. J. Stevenson.
The girl confessed that she ac
companied Earl Northern to Amo
on April 27, when he robbed the
Citizens State bank of $1,400. She
received SSO of the loot. Northern
is serving a twenty-five-year term
in the state reformatory.
William Behrens and his wife,
Margaret, also charged wj.th bank
robbery, are awaiting trial here.
If the writing of checks is con
fined to monthly bills only, the
average man will write at least
fifteen in that period, and each
will be taxed 2 cents, another item
of 30 cents.
O U tt
T TNLESS he presents payment
of the bills in person, the
checks will have to be mailed.
Under the new law-, first-class
postage has been increased to 3
cents. Estimating that five other
letters will be written during the
month, the twenty letters will be
taxed 20 cents.
The next four taxable items
might not apply to all famines,
and, if not, the net result will be
made up under some other pro
vision. Amusement for one week
for tw-o persons, at a 50-cent ad
mission charge, totals $4, subject
to 10 per cent tax. another 40
cents. The expenditure of 25 cents
a week for candy will add 2 cents
to the monthly tax bilL
One long distance telephone call
to tell grandma that you and the
kids will be out to dinner Sun
day will boost the tax total 10
cents, since all calls under 50
cents bear a flat charge of that
amount.
. “I would not for SSOO see such a
thing again.”
That is Dr. Hornaday's feeling
about what then happened.
BUB
T7OR the mighty male was a
white streak through the air.
He lunged and the smaller female,
dumfblinded for a moment, • was
beyond retaliation.
He pressed the advantage. He
snapped and tore and chewed,
and thereafter for twenty min
utes. despite the defense of his
victim and the attempts of keep
ers to divert his rage, he did not
relent in the onslaught.
Six frenzied. men tried to stop
him. When in the first terrific at
tack, the female fell near the cage
bars, they were able to beat him ,
upon the head, drive steel spikes
into him. ram him with planks.
But he thwarted them; he
seized her. dragged her inward
and down to the ice that covered
the swimming pool, beyond their
rea ch.
Ice and snow that polished the
floor of the den presented a haz
ard that stopped them from fol
lowing; their last chance was a
lasso.
Keeper Mulvehill, risking his
life, stepped inside, flung a noose
HOOSIERS RETURN,
SORE AND WEARY
BY BEN STERN
Indiana’s delegates to the Re
publican national convention re
turned to their homes today, tired
and disappointed.
For a few hours Thursday, there I
w'as a feeling among the Hoosier
delegates that Governor Harry G. j
Leslie might get the call for the j
vice-presidential nomination.
Administration leaders, the night
before, while the fight against the
Hoover dry plank was under way,
indicated that they were willing to
talk business if Indiana stood by
the administration.
The next day leaders of the Il
linois delegation, in loud praise of
Indiana’s repeal vote, declared that
the vote of their state and that of
four others would follow Indiana's
on the vice-presidency.
It then was decided to cast the
state’s thirty-one votes for Charles
Curtis on the first ballot and, if he i
couldn't make the grade, give the j
total to Leslie on the second ballot.!
Illinois, being called just before
Calls costing over $2 will be
taxed 20 cents. A birthday greet
ing by telegram at a transmission
charge of 50 cents will be taxed 5
per cent, a comparatively light
impost of 2Vz cents.
The sum of the foregoing taxes
is $1.68 monthly, a total of $20.16
I HAVE WALKED
ANO I CAN 0 0*7 \
a year, which represents an obli
gation that, will be difficult to
avoid paying.
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GOING up a notch from the
average c ln ss, the taxable
items increase. The minimum tax
able net income been reduced
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and snared him. Another lanat
trussed him.
But it was too late. Just before
they dragged him off. his teeth
slashed through the jugular vein
of the one who was to have been
his mate and in two minutes she
was dead.
“Remember?” Peter Romanoff,
keeper of the bears, echoed today,
“i’ll never forget the crunching
sound his jaws made That was
the only time I ever heard Dr.
Hornaday swear.”
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YET that was not first degree
murder, the zoologists con
tended. The giant white bear had
not plotted it, nor even contem
plated it. His first impulse, they
concluded, had been merely to
Play.
“Then the joy of combat seized
him,” Dr. Hornaday reported,
“and after that his only purpose
was to kill.”
Not even joy of combat enters
into manslaughter at the park,
although it is no less sanguinary
than the heinous degrees of homi
cide.
One of Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars’
extraordinary motion lectures pro
vides an unsurpassed example. It
lays down the canon of self
preservation as observed by those
natural enemies, the venomous
cobra and the violent mongoose.
He built a 'set to represent an
opening in the jungle, got the ser
pent to feel at. home in the glass
encased glade; and then turned
the mongoose free to emerge
through a hollow log/ „
Though the mongoose is some
thing like a ferret (it is barred
from the county because of the
pcssbility of its breeding and
menacing poultry) and seems far
less sinister than the deadly rep
tile, it turned the tables on Its
adversary.
The cobra reared, spread its
hood, was ready to strike its death
blow. But in the instant as it
poised the mongoose got it; the
mongoose sprang, and grabbed it
and bit the life out of it; its hypo
dermic fangs might as well have
been loaded with water instead
of with one of the deadliest of
poisons.
B B B
MURDER penalties vary in
Bronx Park, and they in
clude death.
Peter Romanoff knows more
about that than any one else in
town, for he has been in at the
death of more big game than any
other crack shot known here; he
is as extraordinary a killer as ever
came to New York.
Probably h& holds the record
for bagging the widest range of
species—lions, pumas, tigers, bear,
buffalo, antelopes, zebras, wolves,
foxes and deer.
“About everything, I suppose.”
he said today, “except an antelope
and an elephant.”
Where did he get them? That
question he answers glibly.
"Most of them right behind the
ear. . . A few right here, through
the heart.”
For, besides being keeper of the
bears in Bronx Park, he is the
park’s ace of riflemen, and he
deals fairly both with the luck
less ones doomed finally by age or
infirmity and with the condemned
animal murderers.
Indiana, would start the Leslie
boom and, because of the wide
spread dissatisfaction with Curtis,
other states were sure to join.
Fear of administratin retaliation
kept many of the delegations regu
lar.
Peculiarly enough, Indiana, most
regular of regular states in the
past, was the most important of
the liberal group in this convention
and the attending publicity has
tended to raise it in the estimation
of the forward looking delegations.
taxi drivers talked about
Indiana's courage and liberalism.
Life Saving Tests to Begin
Swimmers over 17 are eligible to
enter the four-weeks’ course in sen
ior Red Cross life saving which will
begin at the Board Ripple pool to
night. The course, which will be
supervised by Red Cross examiners,
will be free. Red Cross life sav
ing insignias will be awarded those
who pass the tests.
from $3,500 to $2,500 a year for
married persons. Single persons
who paid no tax on a $1,500 in
come will find that the limit now
is SI,OOO, and that SSOO of their
income is subject to taxation. Un
der the former scale, the # first
$4,000 of income was taxed at a
rate of 1% per cent; it now is 4
per cent.
In the “take or not take” clas
sification are found items such as
brewers’ wort, taxed 15 cents a
gallon; malt syrup, 3 cents a
pound, and grape concentrates, 20
cents a gallon. Here the strong
willed man who can say “No” at
the proper time finds his reward.
The tax on automobile tires and
tubes will increase the cost of this
equipment to motorists approxi
mately 15 per cent, local tire
dealers report. Radios and phono
graphshave a 5 per cent levy.
Motor car parts and accessories
are scheduled for increases in price
amounting to a 2 per cent tax.
Passenger cars will be levied at
3 per cent and commercial cars at
2 per cent.
The sportsman will find that his
sporting goods and cameras will be
subjected to a 5 per cent j&x., and
firearms and shells 10 per jsent*
AIR OF GLOOM
HANGS OVER
G. 0. P. HOSTS
. i ,
Anxiety Manifest as Throng
Departs From Chicago
Convention.
PROHIBITION BIG WORRY
Choice of Sanders Is Shock
to Delegates; Sore Spots
Over Curtis.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
(Convriaht. 1933. bv United Press*
CHICAGO. June 17.—The. Repub
lican party set out today on its cam
paign fight to hold the White House
for another four years.
Beneath the party banner of
President Hoover and Vice-Presi
dent Curtis, and with a prohibition
plank taking the party out of the
bone dry class, the workers turned
homeward today from the national
convention.
There was some anxiety among
the hosts as they marched forth
into the battle of 1932.
Everett Sanders. Indiana poli
tician, one time congressman and
later secretary to President Calvin
Coolidge, took on today direction of
the campaign under his appoint
ment as chairman of the Republic
an national committee. He was se
lected in a national committee ses
sion at which full notice was given
that funds are low and rations low
for soldiers in the coming cam
paign.
Muttering* Over Curtis
Delegates had been prepared
J months ago for the inevitable re
: nomination of President Hoover.
But many openly were dissatis
! fled with the retention of Vice-
President Curtis on the ticket this
j year.
There was some disappointment
i also over the selection of Sanders
i as chairman of the Republican na
! tional committee. Certain leaders
had hoped management of the Hoo
ver campaign would be in the hands
of a nationally knowm business man,
: w'ho would be helpful not only in
| throwing high-powered executive
: efficiency into the campaign organ
| ization. but who would have many
j contacts with prospective campaign
| contributors.
Money is coming hard this year,
J. R. Nutt, treasurer, admitted.
Republican leaders’ misgivings
permeated the delegates and cast a
cloud of depression over the en
tire convention. Only once was this
mood thrown off. That was for a
1 few moments during the staged
demonstration when President Hoo
ver was proposed for renomina
tion in the final session.
No* One Is Satisfied
Delegates, recognizing from the
beginning that the renomination of
President Hoover was certain,
sought vent for their dissatisfaction
in other directions. They found it
partly in the prohibition fieht,
which resulted in adoption of the
administration modification plan,
j which apparently satisfied neither
the real wets nor the real drys.
Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Mas
sachusetts, chairman of the Wom
en’s National Committee for Law
Enforcement, said that, "regardless
of the kind words spoken for pro
hibition in the initial paragraphs of
the plank, its reference to submis
sion brands it as a repeal measure
and dry women oppose it and will
accept no compromise.”
Wets described it as a "straddle.**
Even some of the President’s inti
mate advisors appeared disturbed!
over some features of the plank,
particularly that which would give
congress the right to prescribe
method of sale and distribution of
liquor in any state which abandon*
prohibition.
They foresaw possibilities of con
stant conflict between congress and
local governments in such attemn*
to prescribe details from Washing
ton.
Sanders’ Election I# Surprise
Many delegates also voiced di*i
satisfaction over the administra*.
tion s attempt to retain Vice-
President Curtis as the President's
running mate. The final switch of
Pennsylvania’s seventy-five votes
after the roll call was completed
gave Curtis the necessary majority.
General belief existed that Charles
G. Dawes would have been nomi
nated had he not announced he
would decline. This anti-Curti*
movement developed after the con
vention met, and in face of the fact
that President Hoover’s spokesmen
here had made known they wished
Curtis renominated.
The election of Everett Sanders
as national chairman to succeed
Senator Fess surprised the delegates
Sanders was sergeant-at-arms of
the convention. A faithful lieu
tenant overnight was made the gen
eral of the Republican forces at the
opening of what all acknowledge to
b®i*he most difficult campaign since
Actually, the real directing force
of the campaign will be Postmaster-
General Walter F. Brown of Ohio.
TWO GIRLS INJURED AS
AUTO, TRUCK COLLIDE
Flee Scene of Accident; Driver Ar
rested for Overloading Car.
Two girls were injured slightly
early today when a car driven by
Lee Sanders, 30, of 1242 North Ala
bama street, collided with a cattle
truck driven by Harvey Morris,
Paris, 111. at Kentucky avenue and
Harding street.
Police were unable to obtain the
names of the injured girls. They
left the accident scene.
Sanders was arrested on a charge
of speeding, failure to have a cer
tificate of title for the automobile
and for permitting four persons to
ride in the front seat of his car.
Russell Wilkins. 1102 2 North
Alabama street, was riding with
Sanders and the two girls, police
said. Sanders' car was wracked, w