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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 150
BARKLEY TO GIVE KEYNOTE TALK TONIGHT
FARLEY, IN STIRRING SPEECH URGES
THAT NEW DEAL BE MADE AN ISSUE
IN COMING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN CONVENES HUGE
ASSEMBLY AND IMMEDIATELY LAUNCHES
INTO ATTACK ON G. 0. P.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP)—
National Chairman Jim Parley told
the Democratic National Convention
today that the issue of the coming
presidential campaign could be stated
in one sentence: “The continuation of
the New Deal.’’
Delegates staged a wild demonstra
tion as Parley hurled the words into
the vast convention hall.
“Shall we continue the Nevt Deal
which rescued the country from dis
aster and desperation,” said Parley,
“or turn back to the old dealers who
wrecked it?”
Farley predicted a record majority
for re-eiectlon of President Roosevelt.
“But confidence is not enough,”
he said. “The consequences of a re
turn to the old deal are too grave
for us to underestimate our respon
sibilities here. The Republican plat
form, adopted at Cleveland, is un-
DIPLOMAT PRAISES
ENGLAND'S STAND
SIR JOHN SIMON FAVORS
MOVE OF BALDWIN
GOVERNMENT
LONDON, June 23 (TP)—Britain’s
home minister, Sir John Simon, vi
gorously defended the foreign policies
of the Baldwin government in the
house of commons today.
Sir John said the government had
wisely decided to drop sanctions
against Italy. These League of Na
tions penalties, he said, might lead to
war while failing to help Ethiopia.
For his part, Simon declared he was
not prepared to see even a single Brit-«
ish warship sent*to the bottom to
save Ethiopia from the hands of Italy.
Simon’s speech was made shortly
after the opposition in the commons
moved for a vote of censure against
the government.
SON OF DOTSON
DIES IN FALL
Walter Dotson, seventeen months
old son of Traffic Sergeant W. L. Dot
son, was fatally injured in a fall at
2:30 o’clock today from the second
story porch of the Dotson home at
329 West Thirty-second street. The
child was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hos
pital by a Sipple Brothers ambulance,
but died shortly after an examination
was undertaken to determine the ex
tent of the injuries.
The child, says the police report,
was playing on a chair on the high
porch, when he slipped and fell over
the railing to the pavement below.
The accident was investigated by
Police Officers C. L. Carter and J.
T. Stewart.
AGENTS SEIZE GOLD
NEW YORK, June 23 (TP)—The
federal government has seized a mil- !
lion and a quarter dollars in gold to- !
day. The agents acted to keep Swiss ,
bankers from moving the gold out of
the country. The fortune, in S2O gold
pieces, was seized by federal agents
last night.
It was the biggest gold seizure since
the government went off the gold
standard.
SOCIALITE KILLED
MOBILE, Ala., June 23 (TP)
Daniel Smith, 24-year-old Wright,
Florida socialite, was killed and two
younger men were injured today in
an auto collision near Mobile. Sterling
Driggers, driver of a car which police
said was filled with whisky kegs and
an illicit still outfit, fled after the ac
cident. He was captured later in the
nearby woods.
HOOK AND LINE!
* SKIN GAME FAILS WORK
ON STATE POLICE
MAN
HARTFORD, Conn., June 23 (TP)
Taking orders for special shoe arches
proved a lucrative profession for John
F. Corrigan as long as he confined
his soliciting to city firemen and po
lice m:n.
But as soon as he tried to work
his scheme on a state patrolman, it
landed nim in jail.
The 33-year-old Oambirdge, Mass.,
suspect was arrested today on charges
of fraud. Police said Corrigan col
lected two-dollar deposits from a hun
dred firemen and policemen on prom
ises to send the arches by mall. None
k ©f the customers got their orders.
■ T '.c special arches were supposed to
™ bi made of Irish moss.
A state trooper named Joseph
Jarrtenski let Corrigan sell him a pair
©f r.rches —and promptly made the ar
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Savannah Daily Times
surpassed Inplatitudes and vague
promises.”
Farley spoke after the delegates
were welcomed to Philadelphia by
Mayor S. Davis Wilson. The conven
tion opqned at noon (EST),
WIFEOF ‘ZIONY’
TO TESTIFY AT
LUNACY HEARING
“MADCAP’* CONGRESSMAN
TO ACT AS OWN
ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON, June 23 (TP).—
District of Columbia commissioners
revealed today that Mrs. Zioncheck
has been summoned to testify against
her congressman husband at his lu
nacy trial on Friday.
Mrs. Zioncheck will be one of 21
witnesses who have been called upon
to tell about his actions which led
to his commitment in Washington's
Galinger hospital for mental observa
tion several days ago.
The Washington state congressman
was served late last night with his
summons to appear in the district
supreme court to defend his sanity.
(He told the marshal then that he
would act as his own attorney. He
is known as a skilful lawyer in his
home state.
The trial will take place before a
lay jury.
STAGE ITSET FOR
“TERRORIST” TRIAL
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DATE FOR FIRST CASE TO
BE NAMED TODAY
DETROIT, Mich., June 23 (TP).—|
Prosecutor Duncan McCrea and As- j
sistant Attorney General Chester
O’Hara are to announce a date for
the first of the Black Legion murder
. trials today. ,
The confessed Legion trigger-man
Dayton £>ean, will be first to stand
trial. He and 12 men whom his con
fession implicated are charged with
the murder of WPA Worker Charles
Poole.
Police refused to say what infor
mation they received from the latest
suspect arrested in the probe. They
charge that the prisoner, 54-year-old
Whitney Fleming, introduced Dean
into the Legion and sponsored his
initiation.
State’s attorneys said, their case,
against Legionnaires is going to be
“air-tight.”
SERIOUS RELIEF PROBLEM
CONFRONTS GOVERNMENT
| EASTPORT, Maine, June 23 (TP).
| City officials at Eastport looked
glum today as they pointed out they
have an Increasingly serious relief
problem on their hands. Only 300
j .vorkers on the huge Passamaquoddy :
federal power project will be retain
jcd after July 1. Six months ago,
j 5,000 men were employed there. Con-
I gress failed to appropriate additional
funds for the huge project.
Officials say no other form of em
ployment Is available for the retiring
workers. They have appealed to
Governor Brann to take the problem
up directly with Washington relief
heads.
HUSBAND AND WIFE
AGREE TO SANITY TEST
CHICAGO, June 23 (TP)—An
angry wife arid her determined hus
band agreed on a double sanity test
for each other today. Each wants the
custody of their four-year-old daugh
ter.
Mrs. Suzanne Horner told the court
that her husband had her sent to an
insane asylum and then ran off with
the girl. The husband said his wife was
feeble-minded. She said it’s the other
way ’round. The J ,dge continued the
case until doctc s find out who is
right.
FRANCE DICTATES TO LEAGUE
WILL INSIST THAT SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY BE
LIFTED; CALLED “SYMBOLICAL GESTURE’’
BY FOREIGN MINISTER.
PARIS, June 23 (TP)—The French
foreign minister, Yvon Delbos, an
nounced today that France would in
sist that the League of Nations lift
the sanctions against Italy.
Delbcxs agreed with the view of the
British government in stating that
sanctions had proved a failure. He
said they had degenerated into a mere
“symbolical gesture.”
PHONE 6183
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Miss Madeline Pugh of Des Moines,
lowa (above)*, is the busiest girl in
Philadelphia these days. She sup
plies any and all information to
newspapermen, delegates, altern
ates and visitors, at Democratic na
tional headquarters—which is quite
some job.
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MUCH DEBATED
TAX BILL SIGNED
BY ROOSEVELT
$800,000,000 MEASURE BE-;
! COMES LAW OF LAND
BY SIGNING
WASHINGTON. June 23 (TP)
; President Rooesvelt today signed the
new tax bill intended to pour SBOO,-
000,000 in revenue into Uncle Sam’s
treasury.
The measure which was passed af
ter months of wrangling in Congress
follows the chief executive’s demand
that heavy taxes be imposed on un
distributed income of corporations.
The bill is designed to raise the nec
essary expenses for government spend
ing in the coming fiscal year.
At the same time, the President
scribbled his name across the inter
ior department's appropriation bill for
the 1936-37 fiscal year.
LANDON SEEKS
OPENING SITE
G. 0. P. NOMINEE PUZZLED
OVER CITY FOR CAM
PAIGN START
TOPEKA, Kans., June 23 (TP)
Governor Alf Landon is confronted
today with the task of selecting a city
from which to make his first cam
paign speech.
Party leaders from New York, Chi
cago and west coast cities are be
leageuing the ogvernor to accept their
bids for the opening address. How
ever, the G. O. P. standard bearer is
believed to favor his birthplace, West
Middlesex, Pa.
. Landon is clearing off his desk to
day. He leaves tomorrow night for a
two-week vacation at Estes Park, Colo.
BELGIUM FOLLOWS LEAD
OF LEAGUE ON SANCTION
BRUSSELS, June 23 (TP)—Bel
gium has charted her course today
through the League of Nations on
the policy of sanctions against Italy, i
Belgium will vote to abolish them. An
official communique issued after last
night’s cabinet meeting said Belgium
will support any collective action de
cided upon by the league in the sanc
tions discussions.
Delbos thought that plans for the
reform of the league were unjustified.
He said that France would continue
to support the league as it is now
organized with only one important
change. He proposed that the league
set up an international commission
to control the manufacture of
materials,
SAVANNAH. GA., TUESDAY. JUNE 23. 1936
POLITICIANS MEET
DISCUSS MERGER
WITH NEW PARTY
VARIOUS FACTIONS EYE
THIRD GROUP WITH
APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, June 23 (TP).—
Representatives of the Townsend,
Share-the-Wealth and Coughlin
groups converged on the capital to
day for a conference on the new
third party.
The leader of the share-the-wealth
ers, Rev. Gerald Smith, said the three
groups may decide to throw their
whole support behind the movement
to send Representative Lemke of
North Dakota to the White House on
a union party platform to “end eco
nomic slavery.”
The new third party has already
won a rousing appeal for support
from the radio priest Father Charles
Coughlin, Rev. Smith has indicated
the Townsend and Share-the-Wealth
backers also will swing into line be
hind Lemke’s presidential campaign.
Formal action awaits only the nation
al conventions of the political groups.
LABOR LEADERS
CALL OFF STRIKE
BELGIUM WORKERS FINAL
LY AGREE TO RETURN
TO FORMER JOBS
BRUSSELS. June 23 (TP).—Bel
gian labor leaders agreed almost
unanimously today to call off their
national strike movement.
The national committee of labor
unions has recommended that the
workers return to their jobs tomor
row. Most employers have already
met the demands for higher wages,
vacations with pay and a 40 hour
week.
At the height of the strike several
; hundred thousand men threw down
| their tools and stalked out of the
! idle factories.
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ENGLAND PAYS TRIBUTE
MONARCH’S BIRTHDAY
LONDON, June 23 (TP)—The Un
ion Jack was unfurled throughout the
British empire today in honor of King
Edward’s 42nd birthday.
The spotlight turned on the King
himself In London where he reviewed
the traditional birthday ceremony of
trooping the colors by the Royal
Horse Guards.
Queen Mary ,was an enthusiastic
spectator at the ceremonies honoring
her sovereign son. The occasion mark
ed the first public appearance of the
Queen mother since the death of
King George.
Later, King Edward and the royal
family attended a birthday luncheon
at Buckingham Palace.
FRENCH HARBOR STRIKE
HAS OWNERS FRANTIC
MARSEILLES, France, Jne 23
(TP). —The morning sun kissed red
flags this morning as they fluttered
over the ships in Marseilles harbor.
Sailors are conducting an occupation
strike aboard 50 ships. They ran up
the crimson flags and they won’t tak»
them down. They want higher wages
and a 40-hour week.
Ship owners telegraphed frantic
pleas to Premier Blum, demanding
that he tell them what to do. The
premier hasn’t replied.
| CONVENTION FLASHES |
DELEGATE PESSIMISTIC
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP)
Not all the Democrats are optimistic.
A Democratic woman leader predicts
that Rhode Island will go Republican
in November.
The pessimistic prophet was Masie
Quinn, sister of Rhode Island's Lieu
tenant-Governor, Robert E. Quinn.
“It hurts me to say it,” Miss Quinn
admitted, “but the G. O. P. will carry
little Rhody. The Triple “A's” pro
cessing taxes hurt our cotton mills.
Many of them are closed. The trend
in my state, if I must be honest, is
j strictly G. O. P."
WANTS COAL ACT PLANK
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP)
Senator Guffey and other Pennsylvan
ia Democrats attending the national
convention mustered support today for
a ccal regulation plank in the party
platform.
Guffey said the state delegation will
sponsor a plank which calls for gov
ernment regulation of the bituminous
j coal Industry. The plan would follow
aims of the Guffey-Vinson Coal Bill,
which was defeated by a filibuster
I during the final hours of the last
Congress.
FARMERS AND NIT WITS
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP)—
The sage of Baltimore, H. L. Menchen,
shifted his cigar from one side of
his face to the other today and an
nounced his own platform for solving
the farm problem.
“In some sections,” he said, “there
are no good farmers —just nit-wits. |
All of them should be captured and |
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PARK PRIVILEGES?
BALTIMORE, June 23 (TP)
The Park Love League anounced
teday that it had chosen a full
board of directors and was all set
to carry on its fight against restric
tions on park bench courtship.
The president of the league, Bill
Herson, said a campaign program
will be announced at a meeting to
be held later this week. Members
of the group argue, with tongues
in their cheeks, that laws against
courting in public parks are un
! constitutional because they inter
fere with the pursuit of happiness
afforded all citizc&s under the Con
stitution. The league will solicit
members among high school and
college students.
FARMERS SEEK TO
OUTRACEDROUGHT
BY SELLING STOCK
CONDITIONS BECOMING
ACUTE IN STRICKEN
SECTIONS
CHICAGO. June 23 (TP)—Mid
western farmers are rushing cattle
and field to the nation’s mar
kets today in an effort to save what
they can from the drought.
A continuous stream of underfed
livestock is pouring into the stock
yards of Chicago, Kansas City and
St. Paul. Farmers in the great wheat
belt of the northwest are speeding
their WN<at harvest, even though the
grain is shriveled and of poor quality.
Chicago grain experts say the na
tion faces a winter wheat shortage
of at least 150,000,000 bushels. The
forecasts were reflected on the grain
■ markets where price have jumped 10
cents a bushel in less than two weeks.
Farmers as far south as Louisiana
and Mississippi reported a scorching
i sun practically ruined their crop. Cot
l I ton planters said only a small per-
I centage of their crop is worth pick
| ing.
PETITION FOR DAMAGES
RESULTS FROM DEATH
A suit asking SI,OOO from the Life
and Casualty Comapny of Tennessee
was filed yesterday in city court by
Leonora A. Puder, administratrix of
the estate of Georeg Marr, who was
drowned when the steamship lowa,
of which he was a member of the
crew, was lashed by a storm in Ore
gon last year.
The petition sets forth that death
resulted from a blow on the head,
which rendered the deceased uncon
scious and resulted in his death. An
“industrial travel and pedestrian
policy” on which the deceased paid
a weekly premuim of 10 cents is
claimed to have covered the death.
ALLEGED MURDERESS
IS AWAITING BAIL
TOWSON, Md., June 23 (TP).—
Attorneys for Mrs. Mary Almony ex
pect to arrange today for bail to re
lease her from jail in Towson where
she is being held on a charge of mur
dering her husband.
Police say Mrs. Almony, the moth- j
er of five children, admitted shooting
her husband, Hollis Almony, yester
day after he beat her and threatened
to burn down ther home. A shotgun
was found near Almony's body A cor
oner’s inquest into the fatal shoot
ing will be held tonight.
penned up in Arkansas. Then the gov
ernment could feed them three times
a day and set them to work squirting
tobacco Juice at a mark.”
WALLACE PULLS “BONER”
PHILADELPHIA. June 23 (TP)
A quiet-spoken middle-aged man wan
dered into Independence Hall, gazing
at the Liberty Bell and the framed
copies of historic documents
The man walked to a guard at the
door and asked: -
“Where do they keep the original
of the Declaration o flndependence?’’
The guard answered, impatiently:
“Why the Declaration of Independ
ence is kept in Washington, in the
Library of Congress.”
Then the guard took another look
at the questioner.
It was Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace.
WOMEN ARE ACTIVE
PHILADELPHIA. June 23 (TP)
Politically-minded club women turned
their eyes today to the big auditorium
in Philadelphia—where the Demo
cratic national convention is starting j
at noon.
A half dozen women’s clubs, most
of them non-partisan, are established
close to convention hall. They are
jousting for hearings before the plat
form committee, armed with the
planks they want included in the
Democratic resolutions. For many of
the women, it’s a second appearance.
They went through the Republican
mill at Cleveland, complained that
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PRESIDENT BUSY
SHAPING PLANKS,
FIXING SPEECH
ROOSEVELT SPEEDS WORK
FOR TALK IN ‘PHILLY*
ON SATURDAY
WASHINGTON, June 23 (TP).—
President Roosevelt is busy today
shaping planks for the Democratic
platform and putting finishing touch
es on his Philadelphia speech.
The president is expected to hew
out a liberal platform, especially in
the case of labor. The whole-hearted
support given hm by President John
L. Lewis of the United Miners may
show definite result in the platform’s
j labor provisions.
It is believed unlikely that the
j president will take up the mass of
bills dropped on his desk before con
gress adjourned. On one of these
measures—the Walsh-Healy govern
ment contracts bill—a major battle
is looming. This bill permits the gov
ernment to reject any bids on gov
ernment contracts by firms who fail
to observe the 40 hour week. The
president's friends in the navy de
' partment are said to be violently op
posed to the measure. They argue
j that all of the 4.000 trades and in
dustries involved in the building of
battleships could never be induced to
I comply with the Walsh-Healy labor
provisions.
FLORIDA VOTERS
FLOCK TO POLLS
PETTEWAY AND CONE ARE
CANDIDATES FOR
GOVERNOR
TALLAHASSEE. Fla., June 23 (TP)
Florida Democrats are flocking to the
polls today to choose between W.
Raleigh Petteway and Fred Cone as
their nominee for governor. But, of
course, being nominee for governor
on the Democratic ticket in Florid?,
means the same thing as being elected
governor. •-- -■*
Cone and Petteway led a field of
• 14 in the general primary earlier this
month. Petteway was about 5,000
votes ahead of the field but Cone
skinned in with fewer than 1,000 over
two other candidates.
Petteway is a Tampa criminal court
judge. Cone is a Lake City banker,
farmer and lawyer. Both are vigorous
supporters of the New Deal. Cone Is
believed to have the support of Gov
ernor Dave Sholtz.
Thera’s also a close congressional
rase between R. A. Greene of Starke,
and W. J. Sears of Jacksonville in
the second district and between Jo
seph Hendricks of Deland and W. J.
Steed of Kissimmee in the fifth dis
trict-
LEADERS IN PLOT
GET LIGHT TERMS
HUNGARY IMPOSES UN
USUAL SENTENCES ON
PRISONERS
BUDDAPEST, June 23 (TP) —
Hungarian courts handed 117 con
spirators a figurative slap on the
wrists today for their plot to over
throw the government. Three ring
leaders in the plot bared months ago
go 10 to 12 months in jail. The
others got much shorter terms. Most
of them have already served longer
jail terms awaiting trial than they
will serve in carrying out their sen
tences. The exceptionally light punish
ment was believed accounted for by
the fantastic nature of the plans for
the revolution.
The courts agreed that the govern
ment was never threatened
by the plotters.
ELY ANXIOUS TO AID
LANDON IN CAMPAIGN
WESTFIELD, Mass., June 23 (TP)
The bolting Democrat, ex-Govemor
Joe Ely, is ready to take the stump •
for Republican Alf Landon. Ely :
joined A1 Smith, Bainbridge Colby, i
Daniel Cohalan and Jim Reed in the
loud repudiation of Franklin Roose- |
velt. Ely—a director of the Ameri- i
can Liberty League—got prominent I
mention during an ill-starred move- 1
ment for a coalition ticket at Cleve- i
land. ,
Said Ely—“l’m ready to work for <
Landon, but—perhaps he would rath- j
er I kept quiet.” I ■;
BRYAN WANTS BIMETALLISM
SON OF THE “GREAT COMMONER” TAKES UP FATHER’S
CUDGELS; SAYS TIME IS COMING WHEN THEORIES
WILL BE REALIZED.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP).—
The old cry for bimetallism that
once was raised by the great com
moner, William Jennings Bryan, is
echoed in his son, William Jennings
Bryan, Jr.
Bryan, who is attending the Demo
cratic national convention as a Cali
PHONE 6183
Convention Is Opened
By Democrats With
Tribute Will Rogers
DELEGATES GIRDED FOR BATTLE AGAINST ANY DIS
CONTENTED ELEMENT; CLARK HOWELL IS GIVEN
TALMADGE’S POST AS NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (TP). National Committee
Chairman Jim Farley brought the first session of the Democratic
National Convention to order at 1:05 P. M. (E. D. T.) today.
The vast convention hall was crowded to its far corners with
over a thousand delegates and almost 11 celebrities, newsmen
and spectators.
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Poiiuiiiaster General
Janies A. Farley
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Chairman of the National
Democratic Committee, who
called today’s convention to
order.
HAMILTON SEEKS
TO SNARE SMITH’S
AID FOR PARTY
Q. O. P. CHIETAIN LAUDS
' DISCONTENTED DEMO
CRATS FOR STAND
HEW YORK, June 23 (TP)—The
Republican elephant .rumpefced loudly
for support from insurgent Demo
crats today. John Hamilton of Kan
sas blew the lid off the grand old
party’s campaftgn and rang the raft
ers in praise of A1 Smith.
Chairman Hamilto of the Repub
lican national commitee praised the
bolting Democrat last night in' a
thumping speech before the massed
power of eastern Republicans. But it
must be recorded that the praise was
an afterthought. Hamilton spoke to
4,000 assembled Republicans and to
millions of listeners on a national
radio hookup. One hour before he
rose to speak there was no mention
of the bolting Democrats in the copy
of his speech. Hamilton slipped away
from the banquet table and dictated
the exciting paragraph to stenog
raphers while the newshawks waited.
Said Hamilton: “At least five dis
tinguished citizens led by Alfred E.
Smith apparently have made the
choice between party and country, as
millions of others will do before the
general election in November. We
honor them for their high ideals.”
HUNG ARIA IN MOVE
TO SQUELCH NAZISM
BUDAPEST, June 23 (TP)—The
Hungarian government tried to
squelch Nazism today by a mass sen
tencing of condemned Nazi plotters
The government sentenced 117 Hun
garian Nazis to jail terms ranging up
to a year. They were accused of plot
ting the overthrow of the government
by a march on Budapest. The organ
ization called the “Sickle and Cross’’
mustered up 700 men for the march
on the capital. They demanded that
a dictatorship be established to crush
Jewism.
fornia delegate, believes that the
United States should try a bimetallic
monetary system, having stuck to the
gold standard for 70 years.
“The time will come when my fa
ther’s theories wil be proven true,”
Bryan said. “However, it would be
useless to ask for a bimetallic plank
at this convention.”
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Tribute to Rogers
The convention opened with a mo
ment of silent tribute to the late hu
morist, Will Rogers. Chairman Jim
Farley called the delegates to order
soon after 1 o'clock. After the invo
cation, the vast throng stood for one
minute in a complete silence in mem
ory of Rogers, who had been a prom
inent figure at, conventions for many
years.
Stretching away from the central
platform was a sea of faces. The hall
buzzed like a monster bee-hive.
The opening session at Philadelphia
is little more than a ceremony. The
national committee secretary, W.
Forbes Morgan, read the official call
for the convention, then announced
temporary officers.
Mayor Wilson of Philadelphia wel
comed the visitors and National
Chairman Jim Farley answered the
mayor. Senator Alben Barkley of Ken
tucky was named as temporary char
man. Tonight he will deliver the key
note speech. That's the real send-off
for the convention .
The delegates are apt to regard
themselves as the actors in a pre
arranged drama. Everyone knows that
the convention will renominate Presi
dent Roosevelt and adopt a platform
which meets the president’s approval.
Talk of third parties and the A1
Smith bolt seemed forgotten in the
atmosphere of harmony as Jim Far
ley banged down the gavel for the
opening session.
Girded for Battle
[ The Democratic party meets today
to renominate Franklin Delano Roose
velt for the presidency of the United
» States and to chart the course of the
New Deal for four more years.
The party meets in
more exciting than expected a few
days ago. For weeks the Democratic
convention has been expected to be a
cut-and-dried affair. All it had to
do would be to renominate Roosevelt
and Garber, approve the platform
drawn up by the administration and
go home.
Today finds the delegates fairly
aching to jump into the battle which
A1 Smith and four other conservative
Democrats started by asking the par
ty to desert Roosevelt. Every state
delegation leader will have a chance
to speak from the floor of the con
vention, and at least half of them
today were planning to conter-attack
the five Democrats who challenged
the New Deal leadership.
Most important was Gov. Herbert
Lehman of New York—whom the
Democrats are begging to run again
and carry the state for Roosevelt.
Lehman—who is a close friend of
both Roosevelt and Smith—has come
out strongly against Smith’s mes
sage. That isn’t all. Lehman got
such a big demonstration of popu
larity that he is almost ready to
agree that he will run for governor
again.
For the women, the convention got
underway at 9:30 o’clock this morning
A group of civic-minded Pennsylvani
ans gave a breakfast to the visiting
lady Democrats in order to introduce
the famous breakfast dish known as
Philadelphia scrapple. After the
scrapple breakfast at the Penn Ath
lete club, the convention got down
to serious business at noon. Two
hours later, Jim Farley delivered the
first speech. Then the delegates will
stroll back into the hall at 8 o’clock.
(E. D. T.) to hear the keynote ad
dress of Senator Barkley of Ken
tucky.
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WHATAGAIN?
UNITED STATES MAY PLAN
FOR NEW DIRIGIBLE
WASHINGTON. June 23 (TP).—
The possibility that Uncle Sam is
looking forward in the near future to
building a giant new dirigible is fore
seen by official observers in Wash
ington t oday.
They base their assumption on the
fact that a member of the navy de
partment’s policy board—Admiral
John Greenslade— will be a passen
ger on the German Zeppelin “Hin
aenburg” when she takes off tonight
for . h ? r _ next trip across \e Atlantic.
?, reenslade is to b one of the
naval off lC er s who will be called upon
ths summer to decide whether the
government should undertake to
build a new dirigible.
With Greenslade on the trip will
be Lieutenant A. E. Zimmerman, in
spector of naval aircraft at the
Goodyear factory at Akron, and Lieu
tenant Gerald Zurmehlin. of ib«
Lakehurst naval air station.