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VAST HALL READY
FDR CONVENTION
Houston’s Enormous Struc
ture. Built for Purpose. Is
Ideal in Appointments.
Tr the Associated Tress.
HOUSTON. Tex.. June 23.—Vast and j
pay and graceful In its gardened setting.
Houston's Convention Hall, risen as by
magic almost overnight, awaits the
trooping hordes of the national democ
racy. coming to sit there next week in
convention assembled to meet the
Hoover challenge of Republican oppo
nents.
It's a mighty structure the people of
Houston have raised for their guests.
Immaculate in its paint and bunting,
open to every breeze, redolent with
bracing, pungent odor of the forest of
new-cut Mississippi pine that went into
its making, it is more like a seaside
pleasure palace, dedicated to mirth and
music, than a hall designed and built
with an eye single to the prosaic, prac
tical business of politics.
And it's a far. far cry. indeed, from
dingo dilapidated old Madison Square
Garden, now itself but a memory,
where the Democrats last sat down to
gether to ballot endlessly on a party
presidential nominee.
Yet into the making of Houston’s
amazing political pavilion soon to be
dedicated to the surge of that old waltz
tune. “Th? Sidewalks of New York.’’
that rocked the country four years ago.
has gone all that the years have taught
as to the mechanical problems of con
vention holding. It is a building made
to order for the purpose, a political
city under one huge roof.
No Circus Odor.
For the first time there are no im
provised arrangements to worry with,
no haunting, unhappy odors of circuses
of other days to be politely overlooked.
The thing is so vast, so clear of ob
structions to the view, so stunning in
th? diamond groining of timber cob
webbery that seems to leave the trip;e
sweep of rounded roof domes floating j
in air in defiance of every known law
of nature, that it beggars description, |
Just a dav ago. it seems, a huddle of
tumble-down shacks occupied the
ground. , |
Now the wide-flung reaches of this
gas. alluring windswept hall, set with
in its palisado of woven wire and
barbed entanglements to meet the at
tach of gate crashers, stands in land
pcaped. living gardens amid graveled
paths, its windows graced with endless
rows of bright-hued blossoms that come
end go with the hours, changing the
dolor scheme by nature's dictum.
Outside, the hall, graced with orna- ;
mental towers and arches for scenic
effect, is set off with soft cream-colored j
paintwork that shoots back no dazzling
sun reflection to blind an observer. The j
mighty roof is striped with alternate |
b-oad bands of dull red and duller gray i
f•, an added sun defense. And the ;
thanic hospitalitv house, with its acres j
cf open pavilions, its batteries of radio I
soe&kers. which Houston has prepared
for unofficial guests who have no tickets
to the show, is in keeping in form, col
oring and contour with the hall itself.
It all looks like a Coney Island pleas
ure center, transplanted by some magic j
carpet to this Texas port whose sea |
outlet is 50 miles away down a ship
canal.
Platform at Side.
The arrangements scheme in the hall j
itself substitutes a square for the con- j,
ventionai oval layout. The flat main j
Coer is blocked off with squares of ) j
*»ais for delegates, alternates and in- ,
rited guests. Along all one side runs
the platform, the convention control
center, barred off from the floor by a
high, white painted barrier that has ,
only a single narrow stair of approach
from the floor. M .
Seats for the press, more than 600 of
them, stand along the first two levels
above the barrier, facing inward to
ward the high, projecting speakers'
bridge. Above, rising gently to the
second floor balcony level, where the j
open corridor connecting the network •
of committee and work rooms is visible.!
is the national committee space in the
center, flanked on either hand by i
Ingeniously arranged seats for dis
tinguished guests. i
Around the other three sides of the
hall are th? unreserved seats, going up
in gentle slope to the open wire- j
screened sides of the building, through j
which the breezes pour unchecked.]
Bright stnped awnings are available to
shut out a chance shower or cut off a j
lew flung glare of sunlight in late
df**moon or early morning. .
Bui, aside from the amazing wooden *
network of bracing that forms the root
with only a double row of slender pil-"
lars on either band to support it all or |
break the view, the most striking inno- \
ration of this political tabernacle is the j
great runway that sweeps across the !
back of the hall from side to side, j
above and behind the last row of gal- {
lery seats. That is the place where all
the world and his wife may come to |
look in on a national convention in j
action. Big stairways give access on
ehe side from beyond the wire defenses
cf the convention proper and let out;
a;ain on the other tide.
Must Keep Moving.
AH who will may come and go across j
that bridge, provided only that they
keep moving The whole picture of the
convention will be before their eyes as
thev shuffle along, cut off from them !
only by a high, tignt woven wire screen. |
For the fin>* time in fact as well as
fancy, a national convention is to be I
open to all comers j
Crow’s nests for the cameramen, each •
with a battery of huge s*archl.ght£
available to flood th® scene below with
th-or white glare, have been set clos*
against the roof at the top of each of
the dozen or so supporting pillars. The ;
main ro> f span covers a space 120 by
326 feet without cross girder or ob- j
s*~ruction of any kind It is just a sin
gle mighty wooden cave with gently j
rounded roof above, wlerd in the j
strange diamond patterning of the
bracing.
In th* center of each gallery bank j
1* the reservation for a band and three
of them will alternate continuously
during the non-business hours in th*
hall Around th? Louvres are set bunt
ing sunbursts made up in semblance of j
th? jjone Star flag of Texat while m j
th* center over the platform a rmghtyi
carved reproduct-on of the great eea<|
cf the United States is set in gold and
b’m fringed over the top sector with
s sonr» of silken national flags drooping ?
gracefully from spear-pointed staffs
And down in one corner, flanking th-;
platform with an entrance ail its own
but separated and set off from the rest I
cf the convention by woven wire
fecreens is one fettle corner that makes
the observer know this is Dixie land ;
It will sea? maybe 20'J folks or so and]
above i' boldly painted U the single
word "colored "
And thus Lias ths stag* beer. set. with j
lavish Texts hospitality, for the great
var council of 1928 of the national
Democratic party.
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CAPT. CLAUSEN LEAVES.
Officer Completes Tour of Duty at
Press Bureau.
Card Walter B Clausen, General
Buff Military Intelligence Reserve, has
completed six month? active duty in
th? press bur'-a u of the War Depart
men* and he? returned to his home
in I/>* Angela* Capt. Clausen, an ex
perienced newspaper man, was for
mer! a»tach*d to the Doe Angeles 'limes
and !he Associated Press-. During the
world War he was a member of th*
r'njbd St&».**- Service Committee on
| %■ Inform?'.an m charge of th*
’ y.r UaMcrn ptew- C»M* service.
| WHERE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WILL MEET AT HOUSTON
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In a new hall built purposely for its session, the Demorratir national convention meets at Houston Tuesday. Above is a picture of the haM. below is its
Interior before the intallat'on of seats for the delegates and visitors. —Associated Press pnoto.
FOES LACK UNITY
IN DRIVE TO STOP
SMITH AT HOUSTON;
(Continued from First Page.)
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Georgia, both in this city, have issued
stataments declaring themselves 100 i
per cent dry. But they have not de
clared that A1 Smith could not run
propsrly as a candidate for President. !
They both insist that issues other than
prohibition are the issues of the com
ing campaign against the Republicans,
and that proh.bition cannot legitimately j
become a major issue in that campaign.
Senator George put out a formal state
ment today saying:
• Personally I am committed to the i
eighteenth amendment and am op
posed to any weakening of the en
forcement act. Honest Democrats dif
fer upon this question, and I have not
sought to force it forward as the domi- !
nant issue. I am unalterably opposed to
every effort to commit the Democratic
party to a wet program. Conditions j
have made frauds in elections, graft
and ocorruption in office the issue of
supreme importance, and the party
must meet this issue both in its nomi- f
nee and its platform. The question is
who can carry the fight against graft ;
and corruption—who can place that
issue first and keep it foremost? The
chief duty of Democracy at this time
is to put its hand upon that man.
“The party must present a platform
upon which the liberal forces of the j
1 country can in good faith stand and
make their fight.
“The Georgia delegation is enroute!
to Houston and it earnestly desires the
party to present a candidate who can j
marshal the liberal forces of the Nation.
It is prepared to fight to that end.
Behind the nominee of the party, j
Georgia will likewise stand to the end." j
Robinson to Arrive.
The South is relied upon by the j
opponents of Smith to play the big I
: part in “stopping” the Governor., Yet
i Governor Smith already has made in
; roads into that territory. The Louisi- !
anna delegation is for him. He has
; several delegates from North Carolina; j
! Kentucky, a border State, has declared
I for him. In a word it seems that |
j the South is “cracking" in its opposl- j
i tion to the New' Yorker.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Dem
; ocratic leader of the Senate, is due
| here tomorrow. He might put the
final touch on the Smith victory be
fore the convention opens by declaring
that the Arkenns delegation will vote
! for Smith. It has been widely pub- j
i iished that a larg- majority of the
i Arkansas delegates are really favorable
|to the New York governor, although
i they are prepared to go where Senator
Robinson indicates on the first ballot
; Robinson might do for the Smith can
didacy very much wnat the declaration
| of the Pennsylvania delegation did for
Hoover at Kansas City.
The Texas delegation is divided over
Smith, although it is pledged to a dry j
platform and a candidate who can
stand on it. The Smith people are j
j claiming an actual majority of the
! Lone Star State delegation. Gov. Dan
[ Moody, however, heading the delegation,
!is committed to the dry caum. He
! may be called upon to lead the dry
forces in th* convention when it comes
to the adoption of the platform. The 1
platform fight comes before the nomi- ;
nation of th- presidential and vice i
presidential candidates.
See Early Victory.
The Smith people expect to nominate
Gov. Rmhh within the first three bal- i
j lots. The opposition hopes to prevent ;
| th* nomination of smith for at least five
ballots If they can hold more than a
third of the delegate* in line against
j Smith that length of time, they assert
; they can prevent his nomination
No open talk of the religious issue Is
h-ard in Houston, The campaign
against Smith is waged on the ground
I that he is a wet and Tammany man.
i But underlying it all is the opposition
j in th- South and elsewhere to th- elec
tion of a Catholic President of the ;
United Stat-s The prohibition talk Is ’
largely a cloak for th- real opposition j
|to him by many of those who are [
fighting him On* factor that is help
ing Gov, Smith in his race for th- nom
ination is the belief of other candidates ,
i that if Smith is not nominated, the
fyemocratic nomination for President is
not worth anything to the man who j
j finally gets it. i
j When Senator Reed of Missouri ar- t
rived in Houston today, it was the ex- ,
pectation of the Smith opposition that |
things would begin to pop, and that a >
real attack on Smith might at least ]
be developed But Reed made a state- j
ment no more fiery than the statements '
j issued by the other candidates The ;
opposition appears to have trouble get
ting under way
Vice presidential candidates are un
der discussion already, though th-
Smith people are keeping hands off at
present Senator Robinson is among j
those prominently mentioned and so If
Hull. Evans Woollen of Indiana bar. lit*
following and so ha- Donahcy of Ohio
If another wet t-houid be p eked and he
would have It, Reed of Missouri might
j be the selection.
The delegations are slow getting here
j Many of them will not arrive until
i Monday New York's delegation is to
caucus then and will determine what it
will do about platform planks, if any
i thing, and who is to represent it on the
I resolutions committee
1 Senator Wagner u one of the late I
arrivals here.
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REED AND SOUTHERNERS SEEK
367 VOTES TO BLOCK SMITH
: Senator Says Missouri Will
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Stand by the Ticket
Chosen.
Warns Delegates That His
Fight for Nomination *
Is Not Over.
By the Associated Press,
HOUSTON. Tex.. June 23.—A de
termined battle - scarred campaigner,
i - Jim'' Reed of Missouri, and a silent
but busy band from the Southland
were on separate trails today in search
I for that necessary bloc of one-third ol
the Democratic convention votes —
367—t0 stop Smith.
Playing his customary lone hand
game in hLs greatest political battle.
Senator Reed was carefully assessing
the situation before entering the ring.
He did speak out. however, to the relief
of the harmony preachers, with a
declaration today that whatever the
outcome. Missouri would stand by the
ticket. He knew A1 Smith today was
close to heading that ticket.
Reed and the group of Southerners
who are conferring here and there on
plans for blocking Smith apparently
are in accord on that proposition, but
i their movements against Smith are of,
different purposes. The Southerners
make it plain that they are against
Smith because he is Smith. Reed is j
against Smith because he is the man he ;
must down to win the nomination him
self. To that end Reed and the
Southerners are sympathetic, but there
is no coalition.
“To End of the Road."
His steel gray eyes flashed the old
fire of battle as Reed went over the ;
situation at a series of conferences;
during the night and early today, and
he interrupted these discussions long
enough to tell a throng of newspaper j
men that “the only maxim Missouri j
knows is 'to the end of the road.' ” j
| ‘To the end of the road" was th? j
word passed along by Reed's, friends
also, but what course will be pursued
in the final drive of the Missourian was
still under consideration tonight. There
are some who are urging him to go
personally before the convention. They
want him to take a place on the Mis-
I souri delegation and place before th?
I convention his plea for a brief plat- i
form. hUting principally at corruption
in government.
1-aced with conflicting reports on th
present status of the convention line- j
up, Reed was smiling and confident to
day when he met the newspaper men in
accordance with an arrangement made j
before his arrival last, night. But h? j
withheld any opening “war cry” pend- 1
ing further meetings, indicating that'
I tomorrow he might say something along
that line.
Will Support Ticket.
To the crowd of newspaper men j
; closely surrounding him in the spacious
reception room of the “Reed headquar
ters” on the mezzanine floor of the Rice
; Hotel—just across the lobby from Smith
I —Reed said:
! “The Missouri delegation came down !
j here to win this nomination if possible, j
i Thcv believe it can b* won. If they j
’ lose they will be found supporting the;
| ticket w ith absolute loyalty.
“So far as my personal viewvs are co-%
! cerned. I think I have made them plai>j
in some 50 speeches over the country. ;
“The only maxim Missouri knows is j
‘to the end of the road ’ ”
Conferences continued today among |
the Southern group, but still on the
quiet. Senator George of Georgia, i
Representative Cordell Hull of Tennes
see and Gov. Vic Donahey of Ohio were
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prominent in these discussions, and it
seemed likely that no one man would
be determined upon as the selection of
the anti-Smith men. Votes for each
probably will be east on the first ballot,
although it Is not certain that Donahey
will be placed in nomination, Ohio hav
ing instructed for Atlee Pomercne, for
mer Senator from that State.
Th? “solid South" was not a unit in j
the last ditch fight against Smith.;
Louisiana will vote for Smith. Some of
the other Southerners are known to
look sympathetically on the talk for
harmony, and while they are not ex-1
pected to support Smith they are under
stood to have given word that they will
not go Into any "battalion of death"
against him. Prohibition was the key
of the discussions in these parleys.
Reed's friends are busy and they in
! elude, besides the stanch Missouri del
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! r gat ion. former Senator Gore of Okla
homa and others. They believe that
: Reed is the most logical foe of Her
bert Hoover, whom he has fought al
* most ever since he assumed the role
of food administrator during the war.
The Reed supporters declared the Mis
sourian stood the best show of beating
Hoover in the West.
Among those who have called on the
Missouri Senator are leaders of all
factions, including Norman Mack of
New York, an old friend of Reed's
and a lieutenant of A1 Smith.
The forces of Senator Reed were
augmented today by the arrival of j
Charles Howell of Kansas City, who j
will place th? Senator in nomination, i
and of Sam Fordyce. chairman of the
Reed-for-Prcsident committee.
Rattle Not Over.
In a brief talk to the Missourians at
the Reed headquarters, the Senator
warned the delegates not to be stam
peded “by this talk that it’s all over,
for it certainly is not all over.”
Mr. Fordyce issued a statement re
feriing to Reed's record and his long
standing opposition to Hoover, adding
that “if Hoover dares take the stump
Reed will drive him from it in 10 days'
time.”
"Millions of Progressives and old-line
Republicans." he said, “who desire to
preserve the integrity of the Nation are
not willing to accept either the yoke
I of Great Britain or of William S. Vare.
and who would rally to the support of
Reed."
The first open declaration of confi
dence from the Southern anti-Smith
I folks came tonight from F. A. Hamp
ton, personal representative of Senator
Simmons of North Carolina, arch foe
of the New York Governor.
“We have between 420 and 460 votes
that are anti-Smith." Hampton de-
I clared. "We have confidence that they
will remain against Smith. This has
been determined after a careful survey
of leaders on hand."
Hampton has been busy with some
other Southerners feeling out sentiment.
He is a Hull supporter. There has been
no definite coalition of the Southern
group and it seems to be the plan of
the anti-Smith forces to support their
! favorite sons until, and if, Smith is
stopped.
LEADERS BELIEVE CONVENTION
WILL BE ENDED BY FRIDAY
Shaver to Call Delegates to Order Tuesday
No on —After That Program Is Due
to Be Speeded.
By the Associated Press.
HOUSTON. Tex., June 23 —The Dem
ocratic national convention will he brief
and to the point, if party leaders have I
their way. They intend to speed up ’
proceedings so that delegates ran be I
on their way home before the end of
next week. As they figure it. the ron _
vention will be over Friday, or Satur
day at the latest.
Delegates, assembling in the big tern- ■
porary coliseum, which will bo dedicated
tomorrow, will be called to order Tues
daw noon by Chairman Shaver of the
national committee. After an opening
prayer by Bishop S. R. Hay of the Met.h- !
odist Episcopal Church South and the >
usual preliminary formalities. Claude C.
Bowers, New York Evening World edi
torial writer, will deliver the keynote
address.
Membership of committees on creden
tials. rules, permanent organization and
platform, with each delegation having
SPEECH PRIZES AWARDED
IN OUTLAW-WAR EVENT
First-Place Winner Gets Money for
Trip to Geneva—Washing
tonians on Committee.
For the best original speech submit
ted in a national contest on the subject
of outlawing war by the ratification of
arbitration treaties, P'rances Elizabeth i
Klander of the Friends High School, j
Moorestown. N. J., will receive an
award of SSOO for a trip to Geneva, \
Switzerland.
Miss Klander. it was announced yes
terday. was selected as the contest win- j
ner by a committee of judges consist
ing of Dr. John H. Finley, editor of the
New York Times: George W. Wicker- [
sham, former United States Attorney ;
General: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.
chairman of the Conference on the
Cause and Cure of War: James G. Mc-
Donald. chairman of the Foreign Pol
icy Association, and Mrs. Edgerton
Parsons of the International Federation
of University Women.
The second prize, of S3OO. was award
ed to Harwood Stump of the Long
Beach High School. Long Eeach. Calif..
! and the third, of S2OO. to Robert Picken
of Simpson College. Indianola. lowa.
Bronze and silver medals also were
| awarded to winning speakers in high
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| representation, will then be announced
and th° first day convention session will
| be over.
On Wednesday the report of the cre
dentials committee will be the first
; order of business, with th° other com
! mittees following. In the ev«>nt the '
platform committee is not ready with
! its report, as has been the case in the
last two conventions, nominating
i speeches will be but balloting
will be deferred until after the plat
| form is adopted.
This probably will come late Wednes
day or Thursday, with party leaders ex
j pecting balloting for the presidential
j nominee to get under way before ad
journment Thursday. It is probable
that an overnight recess will be taken
before any attempt Is made to place
vice presidential candidates in nomi
nation, and unless there is a hitch In
proceedings somewhere along the line,
this will be disposed of Friday, and the
convention will be history.
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schools and churches. There were no
local entries.
The prizes and medals were offered
by Clement M. Biddle of New York
City to encourage discussion of the
! subject of obtaining peace through
treaties and to stimulate public speak
; ing by school children.
The contest was in charge of a
national committee of 100 prominent
educators, editors and publicists. The
committee included the following
Washingtonians: Selma M. Borchardt,
vice president of the American Federa
tion of Teachers; Joy Elmer Morgan,
editor, Journal of the National Educa-
S tion Association: Rabbi Louis J.
Schwefel of Adas Israel and Arthur
Charles Watkins, associate secretary.
National Council for Prevention of War.
•
Master Sergeants Retire.
Master Sergts. Green B. Cook. Ord
nance Department at Fort Eustis. Va..
and Lawrence Collins. 25th Infantry, at
Nogales. Ariz.. have been placed on the
Army retired list on their own applica
tion. Each has had more than 30
years military’ service.
Danish Officer Assigned.
By authority of the W r ar Department.
Lieut. S. A. Anderson of the Danish
.artillery, has been attached to the U.
S. Coast Artillery of the 2d Corps area
for a ten-week instruction period. His
first assignment is at Fort Totten. N. Y.
5
0. C. DELEGATION
REACHES HOUSTON
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Costello to Sit With Commit
tee Monday, Deciding
Contests.
By a S’afT Correspondent.
HOUSTON. Tex.. June 23 —The Dis
trict of Columbia delegation arrived
here tonight and established head
quarters at the Auditorium Hotel. Na
tional Committeeman John F. Costello
immediately established contact with
the national committee and will attend
a conference tomorrow morning ind
will sit with the full committee Monday
morning when the three tontests are
to be decided. The national committee
will seat the Costello delegation by in
cluding them in the temporary roll of
delegates.
Accompanying Mr. Costello are John
B. Colpovs. chairman of >ne State cen
tral committee: James William Piyan.
Beckinridge Long. Mrs. Mari? D. Marye.
M Carter Hall, John F. Killen, Roland
B. Maheny and Dr. John T. Ready.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is coming to
j Houston on a special train, reaching
here at 2:10 pm. tomorrow. She is
accompanied by Mrs. Florence J. Harri
man. Democratic national committe*-
woman for the District, and her broth
| er, R Wilmer Bolling, delegate from the
District. Mrs. Wilson will be met at
the station by a local reception com
mittee. headed by Maurice Hirsch. and
several thousand admirers and followers
of Mr. Wilson, who are planning a tre
mendous ovation. Mrs. Wilson is to
formally dedicate the Convention Hall.
She is to be the guest of honor at a
breakfast by the clubwomen of Hous
ton and many other States Monday
morning on the roof garden of the Rice
Hotel.
Th«* District delegation offers a new
candidate for Vice President, and Mr.
Colpoys is ready to nominate Bennett
Clark, son of the late Champ Clark, who
was supported by the District delegation
on all of the 46 ballots In the Baltimore
convention.
The contesting District delegation
has arranged for a hearing tomorrow
afternoon on the protest against the
so-called Costello or “regular organiza
tion" delegation, which, for the pur
poses of early organization, has been
placed on the temporary roll of the
convention. Bruce Kramer, national
committeeman from Montana, who Ls
chairman of an informal contest com
mittee. has agreed to give the contest
ing group from the District ample time
to present its case.
William McK. Clayton, candidate of
the A1 Smith Club delegation for na
tional committeeman, will arrive to
morrow morning.