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A-4 HARRIS NAMED FOR THIRD TERM Georgia Gubernatorial Nomi nation Between Russell and Carswell in Doubt. Bor the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 11—Senator William J. Harris was renominated for a third term, and Richard B. Russell. Jr., and George H. Carswell waged a nip-and-tuek battle for the guberna torial nomination in yesterday’s Demo cratic primary, with the result still In doubt today. Harris overwhelmed former Gov. John M. Slaton, rolling up 394 county unit votes to 4 for Slaton in 153 of Georgia's 161 counties. Th,? popular vote was Harris. 34.885: Slaton, 23.880. Returns from 152 counties gave Rus sel 126 unit votes, Craswell 122. E. D. Rivers 86. John N. Holder 64 and James A. Perry 4. The popular vote was Rus sell, 31,352: Carswell, 28 808; Holder. 24,131; Rivers, 20.981, and Perry, 3,633, Must Have Majority of Units, Under the Georgia system the coun ties must have two unit votes for each of their representatives in the State Legislature. The successful candidates both for Governor and United States Senator must have a majority of the unit votes. There was every indication today that a second or run-off primary between the two high men, apparently Russell and Carswell, would be neces sary October 1 to determine the winner of the gubernatorial nomination. Onlv 3 of Georgia s 12 Representa tives had opposition. Representatives Robert C. W. Ramsperk of the fifth dis tort and W. C. Lankford of the elev enth had long leads over their op ponents. Two counties gave Judge John Wood a slight margin over Represent ative Thomas S. Bell, but these re turns were not considered decisive, and inelement weather hampered the re porting of other precincts. $5,000,000 Deficit Issue. The gubernatorial campaign centered ground ways and means of meeting a deficit of $5,000,000 In the State treas ury. with Carswell, present secretary of State, advocating a plan of temporarily diverting a part of automobile license tag revenue from highways to apply on the debt. Russell, 32-year-old Speaker of the House of Representatives and son of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, championed economies in the governmental machinery’, tax revision and text books to pupils at actual cost. The Democratic nomination in Geor (la is tantamount to election. DEMOCRAT SCORES REPUBLICAN RULE Connecticut Convention Keynoter Finds Corruption Tainting Nine Years in Office. By the Associated Press. EASTERN POINT, Conn., September 11. —Full responsibility for the Nation’s economic ills was placed upon the Re publican party last night by Homer S. Cummings, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in de livering the keynote address at the opening of the Democratic State con vention here. Mr. Cummings, in reviewing nine years of Republican rule, which he found "tainted with corruption,” said the partv in pow’er had failed to re deem campaign pledges, and urged a ■weeping change of regime. The new tariff law. he asserted, "has Increased the burden upon the back of the taxpayer: it has impaired the pur chasing power of the farmer; it has dealt industry a staggering blow at a Eeriod when it could least endure it, and as produced ominous reverberations in every country with which we had built up a friendly relationship and a favor able trade balance." The convention today will adopt a platform and name a State ticket. Prof. Wilbur L. Cross, who retired July 1 as dean of Yale Graduate School, will be named for Governor. ROOSEVELT URGES STATE RUM CONTROL New York Governor Breaks Two- Year Official Silence on Prohibition Question. By the Associated Prea*. ALBANY. N. Y„ September 11.— Gov. Roosevelt yesterday broke a two year official silence concerning the prohibition question to announce him self for repeal of the eighteenth amend ment and substitution of a Federal statute granting each State the right to control the sale of intoxicants. In a letter to United States Senator Robert F. Wagner, made public here, the governor included the subject of prohibition among the topics he be lieved should be stressed at the Demo cratic State convention in Syracuse the latter part of this month and added he was "positive in saying that there must be some definite assurance that by no possibility at any time or in any place the old saloon can come back.” The governor urged that not only should States be given control of liquor but that there should be "definite recognition of the extension of home rule to the lower subdivisions of gov ernment—in other words, a recognition of the right of cities, villages or towns j by popular vote to prohibit the sale of Intoxicants within their own borders.” The eighteenth amendment, the gov ernor said, ’ has not furthered the cause of a greater temperance in our popula tion.” The announcement was regarded with ■pecial interest in view of the frequent recent mentioning of his name in con nection with the presidential candidacy for 1932. FISHER HITS STATEMENT, Roosevelt Proposal Would Be Step Backward, Says Economist. NEW YORK, September 11 UP).— Gov. Roosevelt’s proposal for prohibi tion reform would be “a step back ward,” Prof. Irving Fisher, economist, told the Christian Science Monitor to-' day in a statement telephoned from Narraganett, R. I. Gov. Roosevelt, in a letter yesterday to United States Senator Wagner, ad vocated repeal of the eighteenth amendment and substitution of State control of the liquor question. "Both Dwight W. Morrow and Gov. Ro-Jotvcli,’ Prof. Fisher said, "have left out any explanation of how they are going to protect the dry States from the wet States; that is the whole problem. Both have glassed over how it would be possible without using custom houses between States, without any Federal control present, to add thousands of miles to the frontiers to be guarded against bootleggers. “What would actually happen, unless that problem can be solved, is to bring us back exactly where we were before we had prohibition: when it was impos sible to protect dry States against the wet. It was because of that impossibil ity that we went on to National pro hibition. ” “In other words, this pro • posal looks to m* lik«-a step ba&ward, not forward.” Renominated ■Sr VSsßfc. 9 A _ SENATOR HARRIS. FRANK PRIVILEGES HELD USED WISELY Congressmen Do Not Take Advantage of Free Postage, Tilton Says. By the Associated Press. DETROIT. Mich., September 11 Members of Congress do not take undue advantage of their franking privileges, Frederick A. Tilton, third Assistant Post master General, declared in an address here yesterday before the National As . soclation of Postmasters. "If rated at the regular rates, con gressionally franked mail would produce in revenue less than one million dollars per year, which is less than 2 -per cent if the true postal deficit,” he said. "And all free mailings, if rated at regular postal rates, would produce only $9,- 900,000.” Tilton sketched the history of the congressional frank back to pre-Con stitution days in the Continental Con gress. It has been enjoyed ever since, he said, except for a bried period after the Civil War, when it was so abused that all previous free postage laws were repealed. Present-day Congressmen, however, are "careful scrupulously to observe the law governing exercise of their franking privilege,” Tilton said. The privilege of personal free mail, Tilton said, began with an act of 1797 making postage-free mail sent or re ceived by George Washington. Former Presidents enjoyed franking privileges until 1863. he said, but widows of ex-Presidents enjoy it to the present time, the list now’ including Frances F. Cleveland (Preston), Mary Lord Har rison, Edith Carow Roosevelt. Edith Bolling Wilson and Helen H. Taft. LIN HADLEY RACE REMAINS IN DOUBT Representative Maintains Narrow Lead Over Peterson in Wash ington Primary. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, September 11.—The out come of the race between the veteran Representative. Lin H Hadley, and Payson Peterson for the Republican congressional nomination in the sec ond Washington district still remained in doubt today. With 526 of the district’s 584 pre cincts counted, the vote in Tuesday's primary election stood at 17,394 for Hadiey and 16,631 for Peterson. The victory of Ralph A. Horr, mili tant wet, over Representative John F. Miller, who espoused the dry cause de spite the modification plank adopted by the Republican State convention, showed a margin of 3,713 votes in the firs: district. Only one precinct re mained uncounted. As Republican nominee, Horr will oppose Charles G. Heifner, wet Democrat, for Representa tive in November. Representative Albert Johnson, chair man of the House Immigration Com mittee, w’on his third district race for Republican renomination over John T. McCutcheon by more than 5.000 votes, despite the relative large lead piled up by the latter in the early returns. Representative John W. Rummers, Republican, was unopposed in the fourth district and faces no Democratic opposition in November. In the fifth district. Representative Sam B. Hill was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. T. W. Symons apparently won the Republican nomination, hav ing a lead of more than 2,000 votes ovpr J. Loyal Adkison in returns from 461 out of 542 precincts. MAJ. CHARLES STEDMAN LIES SERIOUSLY ILL OF APOPLECTIC STROKE i Continued From First Page ) Palmer, of Greensboro, N. C„ is W’ith the veteran legislator. His colleagues in the House annually pay distinguishing tribute in eulogies to Maj. stedman upon his birthday an niversary. He served with distinction as a Confederate officer with Lee’s army during tha entire Civil War, was wound ed three times and surrendered at ! Appomatox. Maj. Stedman entered the University of North Carolina at the age of 16, and was graduated from that institution when he was 20 years of agei Before the commencement exercises he re sponded to a call for volunteers, and entered the Confederate Army as a pri vate in the Fayettesville Independent Light Infantry Company, which was in the Ist North Carolina (or Bethel) Regiment. Upon the disbanding of this regiment he joined a company from Chatham County, and was successively lieutenant, captain and major. Immediately after the war he read law and procured his license to prac tice. He was married 1866, and has a daughter, who will be present in the House gallery on February 6 when her distinguished father makes his speech. In 1880 Maj. Stedman was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Four years later he was elected lieu tenant governor of North Carolina. In 1888, after a prolonged contest, he was defeated for Governor by a small ma jority. He served as president of the North Carolina Bar Association. In 1909 he was appointed by Gov. Kitchin as . director of the North Carolina Railroad ; Co., and afterward elected its president. ; He has served continuously since the ’ Sixty-second Congress. I • 1 EASTERWOOD TO SAIL r 1 PARIS, September 11 </P).— Col. W. E. Easterwood, donor of the $25,000 s prize won by Coste and Bellonte for 5 their flight to Dallas, Tex., today cabled * to Coste in New York that he would ■ sail for home on the liner Leviathan. ? "I am ready to present the check at - your convenience." said the cablegram - “Please advise probable date.” The Leviathan is due in New York ■ SAiurday, September .20, and Cpl. JEmt , ter wood hopes -to arrive there before Coste leaves on his goodwill trip. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930. CRAMTON IS AUTHOR OF LUMP • SUM PLAN FOR D. C. FINANCING Michigan Republican Also Father of Park and Plan ning Commission. If Defeated He Will Complete 18 Years’ Service on Next March 3. Representative Louis C. Cramton. Re publican. of Lapeer, Mich., who finished In Tuesday’s primary 135 votes behind his opponent, Is the author of the $9.- 000,000 lump-sum plan for financing the National Capital. If defeated he will end 18 years of continuous service on March 3. Representative Cramton is ranking Republican member on the House Ap propriations Committee, and because of the ill health of Chairman Will R. Wood there has been considerable speculation about the Capitol regard ing the likelihood of Mr. Cramton be coming chairman. Active in District Matters. Throughout his long term in Congress he has taken an outstanding Interest in District of Columbia legislation. He is author of the law creating the National Capital Park and Planning Commission ! and of the George Washington Memorial Parkway project for development of boulevard drives on both sides of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon and Fort Washington to the Great Falls, with a recreation ground at Great Falls. He has led the fight for preservation of the Great palls and the gorge of the Potomac irom being despoiled by pro posed water power developments. He was largely instrumental in having Arlington House, the former home of the Confederate leader, Gen. Robert E. ; Lee, in Arlington National Cemetery, ' restored and preserved. It was w’hile serving temporarily as chairman of the subcommittee on the District appropriation bill that Repre | sentative Cramton carried out success fully his plan to substitute in an t Judge Declines Rule On Health of City vs. Country Flies By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 11.— The Municipal Court of Judge W. w. Damron has declined to rule upon the relative health of city flies and country flies. The charge against Steve Nichopulos was that he displayed thin skinned fruits without pro viding any protection against flies. "You can't make me believe,” the court said, "that those peaches and other fruit neve had any flies on them before they came to Chicago." "Granted.” said a health officer. "but those were country flies. It Is city flies we are complaining against.” SOOTH CAROLINIAN MAY ASK RECOUNT Johnston, Trailing in Gover nor Race, Considers Filing Primary Protest. By the Associated Press. COLUMBIA, S. C., September 11.— Prospects of a demand for a recount in the closely contested Governor’* race overshadowed the apparent defeat of Senator Cole L. Blease by James F. Byrnes yesterday as virtually complete unofficial returns were assembled from yesterday’s run-off Democratic primary. Olln D. Johnston, vigorous opponent . of the State’s $65,000,000 highway pro gram. was en route to Columbia from his Spartanburg home to confer with lieutenants in regard to a protest. On the face of returns from all but five small precincts out of 1,423, John ston was 1,184 votes behind his fellow . townsman, Solicitor Ibra C. Blackwood, i The vote was: Blackwood, 118,407; Johnston, 117,213. Senator Blease. for 42 years an active and often stormy figure in the State’s ■ political life, refused to concede defeat i and would make no statement. With 1,398 boxes accounted for. Byrnes, wBo : j lost to Blease in a run-off six years ■ ago. held a lead of 4.849 votes. A survey of lacking boxes indicated that the out • standing votes would not exceed 1,500. ! The vote stood: Blease, 115,044; Byrnes, 119,893. MBS. FULLAM RITES SET Funeral Will Be Held Saturday in Annapolis. Arrangements were completed today for the funeral in Annapolis Saturday of Mrs. W. F. Fullam of Washington, i the widow of Rear Admiral Fullam, who died recently in Burlingame, Calif. ■ The services will be conducted at i 11:30 o’clock In the morning at St. . Anne's Church. Burial will be in the i Naval Academy Cemetery. r Mrs. Fullam is survived bv Mrs. Emory . Sands of 1713 Eighteenth street and ; Mrs. Raymond Welch of Burlingame, < Calif., daughters. 11 I I 3&OStS 6? Sons F Street at Eleventh i i AUTUMN ! \ ‘ I FIRST FLO ° R ' I M' Jh|^^ . j T REPRESENTATIVE CRAMTON. emergency his proposal for a $9,000,000 lump sum contribution by the Federal Government for the substantive law au thorizing a fixed proportion as the Fed eral Government's share in the costs of supporting the National Capital. The lump sum plan has been continued as a rider on the appropriation bill by Rnnual action, but has never become substantive or permanent law. Advised Chairman Simmons. When the long and bitter fight be tween House and Senate conferees on the District bill in the closing days of the last session of Congress ended with a compromise Increasing the $9,000,000 to $9,500,000, Mr. Cramton w-as prob ably the closest adviser of Chairman Simmons of the House conferees and on the floor declared that the $500,000 increase must not be considered as a precedent and that hs would fight pro posals for future increase. He appeared at House committee hearings in opposi tion to the bill introduced by Repre sentative R. Walton Moore of Virginia providing for r special joint commission for an impartial study of the fiscal relations problem and spoke In opposi tion on the floor of the House. WETS TRIUMPH IN DRY MICHIGAN Liquor Foe in House Unseat ed —Couzens and Brucker Are Nominated. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 11. After years of unsuccessful efforts, the wets Anally have carried trophies of conquest from the political battlefields of “dry Michigan.” One clear-cut victory was marked up for the opponents of prohibition in the State-wide primary Tuesday. Repre sentative Grant M. Hudson, former superintendent of the Michigan Anti- Saloon League, was unseated in the largest district in the United States, de cisively beaten by State Senator Sey mour H. Person, who was given the sup port of wet organizations. Cramton Behind. In another district, known as one of the "driest” in the country in past campaigns. Representative Louis C. Cramton, dean of the prohibition lead ers of the Lower House of Congress, will not know until the official count is completed whether he was defeated by a man who had wet support. A correct ed tabulation of returns from the 194 precincts in this rural district today showed Cramton’s opponent, Jesse P. Wolcott, running 135 votes ahead. Cramton had 25.515 and Wolcott 25,650. Wolcott, youthful prosecuting attor ney of St. Clair County, advocated a national referendum on the prohibition issue. Person’s plurality in the sixth district probably will amount to 15,000 or more on the final official count of the 690 precincts. His victory was made pos sible by a heavy vote in the industrial area around Detroit and Pontiac. Hud son carried three other out-state coun ties. Two others in the race trailed far behind. Praetically complete returns in other races in the primary today showed that Senator James Couzens defeated his op ponent for nomination for the Senate, Chase S. Osborn, former governor, by about 250,000 majority. Brucker Is Nominated. Wilbort M. Brucker, attorney general, won the Republican nomination for I Governor of Michigan over Alex J. | Grorsbeck. former Governor, by approxi mately 5,000 majority. This was shown today as the tabulation was completed of the vote cast in all but seven out- State precincts. The poll from 3,312 of the State's 3.317 voting precincts gave Brucker 369.577, Groesberk 364.735. Judge Edward J. Jeffries of the Recorder’s Court of Detroit polled 100,- 544 votes In these precincts, getting most of them in Detroit, the Groesbeck stronghold. With the exception of Hudson and Cramton, all of the incumbent Repre sentatives in Congress were renominated. An official canvass of the vote in one small Michigan county was under way today and was expected to show whether Representative Louis C. Cram ion dean of the House dry leaders, ' has lost his seat to Jesse P. Wolcott, a wet. LEWIS LAUNCHES SENATWAIGN Farm Relief, Unemployment and Prohibition Are Made Race Issues. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, 111., September 11. —James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, launched his campaign for a return to the United States Senate from Illinois today, emphasizing almost equally as issues farm relief, unemployment and prohibition. In a speech today the Democratic nominee urged return of liquor regula tion to the States, Immediate Govern ment loans to banks in needy farm communities and work for the unem ployed on Government construction projects. He also advocated return of the national Income tax revenues to the States from which they were col lected. Lewis is opposed by four other candi dates—Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, I who defeated Senator Charles S. De neen, incumbent, for the Republican nomination; Mrs. Lottie Holman O’Neill, an independent dry; Louis Warner of Chenoa, also an Independent dry, and C. Emmett Smith of Chicago, independ ent, whose platform has not been an nounced. Mrs. McCormick's Stand. Mrs. McCormick has announced she would abide by the verdict of the elec torate in the wet-dry referendum in November. Mrs. O’Neill has the sup port of the Anti-Saloon League. Lewis was sent to the Senate as Illinois’ rep resentative in 1913. He was defeated : for re-election by the husband of his present Republican opponent, the late i Seator Medill McCormick. Making only brief reference to his opponents, the Democratic nominee lauded Mrs. O’Neill for "commendable courage and noble frankness” In her dry stand and accused Mrs. McCormick of offering nothing to take the place of national temperance laws In the event the verdict of the referendum Is for repeal. "We of the IlUonis citizenship democ racy demand State control of prohibi tion and temperance,” he said. ”We demand the national prohibition acts of law or Constitution, which for 10 years have stood in obstruction of these rights of citiaenship and defeat of all temperance, be modified or repealed to | any extent necessary to return the priv- | ilege to the States to fulfill the spirit of the eighteenth amendment.” Score* "Eastern Farm Enemies.” Blaming the plight of the farmer on what he termed the "reactionary and Tory policies of the Eastern enemies of the West,” he said: “There is no de fined issue between the Democratic and Republican parties in Illinois. The real i duty of the day is for the earnest men and women of all parties to find the I remedy for all and start the relief.” "The unemployed.” he said, "ought by order of the President and cabinet heads be put at once to work in the constructing of the many buildings now provided by law for soldiers—hospitals and comfort refuges—also for post offices and court and custom houses, bridges and Government wharves and water ways. As our Nation needs these con structions. let us start now and give work to the appealing army asking for rescue from hunger, as we save families from distress.” The Chauffeur Assistant. The chauffeur is relieved of the ne cessity of leaving his seat to manipu late the doors of the garage by means of a new arrangement mounted inside the garage. A slightly raised platform is placed on either side of the door, which enables him to run the front wheels upon it. The weight of the car sets ‘ the device in operation, and the door opens. As the car leaves the platform entering the door is closed without any attention on the part of the driver un less he desires to lock it. Circus Lions, Left As Surely for Bill, Eat Up City’s Funds By the Associated Press. SANTA FE. N. Mex., September 11. —The lion situation in Santa Fe is almost out of hand. The population was disturbed but not anxious when it learned that Queenie and Duke, two lions left here by a circus in lieu of a S2OO unpaid bill, rapidly were running up a meat bill which threatens to overtake the circus debt. But when Mayor Jim McCon dery received a telephone message from a woman that "the lions cried all night last night,” the city administration as well as the Humane Society and residents within hearing of the lions’ cage began to regard the two animals as a crying city problem. G n O S N E R • S ■■■■■■■■■■PKssßoapT'iawTO IS l J F* STREET ■— r iiiii mwnm—■■■ ■■ 11 him— 1 Hundreds of folks are \ R 1 always on the lookout for I T3&V L 1 BARGAINS .. . items I 4-j W 1 of quality at reduced 1 j prices . . . and here are \^> ,W 0! • Special Purchase Friday <£ QC Only V »y 0 Shades of pearl or steel gray and J Regular $ 7.50 & $lO fj ji I I Knickers 11. |l i Friday (t» QC LI Jj Only 3) #7v / Gray and 'w / 2». W tan Plus 4’» in W I all sizes. M‘ ©IPtDJNEIRtf ! 132 J F STREET GALA DAY AT VIRGINIA AVE. PLAYGROUND . : ; V - ; :fv j ( y SERIES OF EARTHQUAKES ARE FELT IN PANAMA Frequent Shocks Hit Area Near Baru, Volcano Extinct for Centuries. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, September 11.—Telegrams from Boquete state that strong seismic disturbances are occuring at frequent intervals in that section of the province of Chiriqui. Five of these earthquakes occurred yesterday and last night. In close proximity to the Boquete region Is “Barn," a volcano which has I been extinct for centuries, without a sign of resumption of activity. No damage to propercty or loss of life has been reported today. SMOOT RETURNS TO U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, September 11 ()P). —United States Senator Reed Smoot of Utah arrived here from Honolulu on the Malolo yesterday with Ills bride, the former Mrs. Alice Sheets of Salt Lake City. Senator Smoot, co-author of the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill, said he no ticed beneficial results of the new measure while in the islands. "W& have virtually saved the sugar industry in Hawaii and the Philip pines,” he explained, Above, left to right: Howard Coster, 920 I street southeast, and Laura Smith- j rrs, 813 Longfellow street. In Dutch cos tumes from Voiiendam, Netherlands, | sent by their aunt. Below: Ethel Stiers, 1005 K street southeast, who won first prize for the prettiest human doll.— Star Staff Photo, j WATSON SAYS GM REDEEMED PLEDGES Senator Opens National Campaign With Vigorous Defense of Hoover. By ths Associated Press. LINTON, Ind., September 11.—United States Senator James E. Watson, In a speech prepared for delivery at the opening of the Republican Fall cam paign in Indiana here today, declared that President Hoover and his party have redeemed every pledge and promise made to the voters in 1928. He defended the present tariff act at length, and asserted that the adminis tration had done much toward bringing relief to the farmers. In addition, Sen ator Watson said, the party had dealt quickly and successfully with the stock market collapse of last October, the wheat surplus and the drought. The Senate Republican leader denied that the tariff act had anything to do with the present decline in prices, and placed the responsibility on world-wide depression. “We can neither foresee nor legislate against a collapse in the price of stocks, or a widespread and disastrous drought, or an economic depression that em braces the whole earth, and, but for such sudden, unexpected and inescap i able catastrophes, we would be enjoying , 1 our customary degree of prosperity," ' Senator Watson said. Henry Ford, Detroit automobile man- ! ufacturer, and Alfred P. Sloan, president > of General Motors, were criticized by i Watson for engaging in manufacturing in foreign countries, and along with others similarly engaged, in seeking ; free trade in this country. Senator Watson’s speech was recog nized by the Republican National Com mittee as formally opening the Nation- ! wide senatorial and congressional cam- i paign. He will speak in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio and possibly Kansas be fore the November election. Ide Named Observer. John J. Ide of Paris, European tech nical assistant to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, was desig nated by the State Department today ! | to act as unofficial American observer) at the Ninth International Congress of i the Comte-Juridique Internationale de L’Aviation at Budapest, from September 29 to October 3. Textile Strike Settled. ROBAIX, Fiance. September 11 A textile strike which at times has in- I volved 30.000 workers during the past seven weeks was settled today. Work will be resumed in the factories on j Monday, September 15. ] Every Saturday and Sunday I $1.75 &7 1 to Baltimore Tickets Good on All Trains Saturday and Sunday, Return Limited to Last Train Sunday Night Express Trains Every Half Hour on the Hour and Half Hour 80 Minutes—Heart of Baltimore to tieart of Washington $ 1 .00 &r d : to Annapolis Tickets good on all trains Friday, Saturday and | Sunday, return limited to last train Sunday night | PRESIDENTS CUP REGATTA Annapolis, Sept. 12 and 13, Afternoon and | Evening Events off U. S. Naval Academy Direct Trains Via Washington, Baltimore and Annapoiis Electric R. R. Co. RUM SHOWDOWN SOUGHT IN OHIO Wet Delegates Determined to Force Question Despite Party Leaders’ Opposition. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 1L— Wet delegates came to the Republican State convention today determined to force the prohibition Question to the fore despite the opposition of party leaders. Notwithstanding that their keynote speaker, Senator Simeon D. Fess, Re publican national chairman, has said prohibition is not an issue unless the Democrats make it so, proponents of repeal were expected to make strong efforts to place some definite declaration on the question in the party platform. Those opposed to the eighteenth amendment were heartened by the decla ration yesterday In Cleveland of Na tional Committeeman Maurice M&srhke that he favors a State referendum on the subject. Maschke said he would not bring the matter up himself In defer ence to Senator Fess. The fight for a prohibition stand was expected to be led by State Senator Joseph Ackerman of Cleveland, who de clared he would carry the fight to the convention floor if the Platform Com mittee refused to handle the subject other than contemplated by the lead ers—a declaration in favor of enforce ment of all laws. Ackerman said he would have the support of a number of delegates In his fight for a plank declar ing in favor of referendum, repeal or modification. Virtually Ignores Prohibition. Steadfastly maintaining His position that prohibition is not an issue in the coming political campaign. Senator Fess virtually Ignored the subject in his keynote speech. His only mention of prohibition was in summing up activities of the Hoover administration in reorganizing govern mental machinery and appointment of “the highest available personnel to in sure greater efficiency in the admin istration and enforcement of law by the appointment of a commission for the study and recommendations of better means of enforcing the eighteenth amendment and all other laws.” The Senator's keynote address waa based solely upon activities of the na tional administration which he said had redeemed all pledges made in the Kansas City platform on which it went into power. Two of these in particular, the tariff law and farm relief legisla tion, were stressed. "The lonaest-visloned policy of Gov ernment aid to assist the farmer to turn his buying market Into a selling mar ket was announced with a board of 1 ample powers and adequate funds to make the law effective,” Senator Fesa said with reference to farm relief. He added that the tariff act “gave the greatest protection to agriculture yet proposed in the form of law.” Protects Cripple Industries. Besides aiding agriculture, he said, the tariff law “also gave additional protection to those industries crippled by foreign competition, most of which received Democratic votes as well as Republican. The primary purpose of the tariff law, he said, “is to increase the American market and preserve it for the American producer and Amer ican labor, including the farmer.” Absolving the administration from responsibility for the present economic depression, the keynoter declared the drastic measures taken by the Presidnt in limiting such immigration as may aggravate the unemployment situation, “is additional evidence of the purpose, method and determination of the Presi dent to meet the problems of unemploy ment during the period of depression, which, if allowed to have taken its course, would have been on us for an indefinite period, but which under this leadership has already begun improve ment.” Declaring that the State campaign issue this Fall is "clearly the record and accomplishment of the present administration.” Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, in his address before the convention today said all his promises made two years ago have been kept and his party is ready to go before the voters on the issue. Asserting that the party "never was so united as it Is today,” the Governor predicted that the November vote will add Ohio’s indorsement to the adminis tration of President Hoover, who, he said had “inspired by constructive leadership,” and whose "courage, ca pacity and fidelity in meeting the great responsibility without regard to political expediency entitled him to the con tinued confidence of the American peo ple.” Declaring his personal and official position on prohibition as well known, the Governor said: “I am for prohibi tion and I stand for law enforcement. So long as I am Governor, it will con tinue to be the fixed policy of my ad ministration to enforce the prohibition laws as well as all other State laws.”