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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 153
ROOSEVELT TO BE NOMINATED BY ACCLAIM
Platform Echoes Ambitions Os President
NEW DEAL USED
PLANK NUCLEUS
BY DEMOCRATS
PLATFORM EMPHASIZES
SOUND CURRENCY
TO CONTINUE
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP)
The Democratic party has given the
signal for full speed ahead!
The 1936 platform adopted at its
national convention in Philadelphia
last night is the most militant ap
proved by the party in power since
the colonial fathers revolted against
England in 1776.
The philosophy of the New Deal
dominates the platform from the
opening paragrpah to the last. Brief
ly, the Democratic party declares
that if it is given four more years
In power, it will march towards the
same objectives it has tried for dur
ing the current administration.
Echoes of President
The Democratic platform echoes
with phrases coined by President
Roosevelt. In the very first plank
promising protection to the home and
family—the Democrat classify what
they call “malefactors of great wealth
who defraud and exploit the people’’
—with kidnapers and bandits.
Six months ago President Roosevelt
ended his first big speech of the
year with the phrase: “We shall not
retreat!” the Democratic platform of
fered the nation today is the full
embodiment of that idea. The admin
istration does not back down from its
announced intentions in a single im
portant issue. Unemployment relief
will be continued under federal super
vision, until private industry has ab
sorbed; those oub of work. The cur
recncy is to be kept stabilized, but
there is no mention of a possible re
turn to the gold standard, not men
tion of international stabilization. As
if in answer to the Republicans and
the conservative wing of their, own
party ,the Democrats proclaim'
“We have the soundest currency in
the world today!”
The party pledges itself to achieve
its aims within the constitution. In
making this promise, however, it de
clares thab there is need of a new
definition of the respective powers
of state and federal government.
Want New Interpretation
What the Democrats believe neces
sary is a new interpretation rather
than a change in the constitution it
self. But they declare that they will
not boggle at amending it if amend
ing is necessary to regulate commerce
and safeguard economic security.
In on? important respect the ad
ministration indicates it has felt the
sharp attack of critics. That is in
the matter of civil service. The plat
form pledges the extension of the
merit system to all federal job holders
who do not decide matters of policy.
Cheers came from the National
League of Women Voters, which has
led a fight against the spoils system.
In other respects, the Democrats
plan to forge ahead on the course
they have already charted. Farmers
will continue to receive benefit pay
ments for soli conservation. Th? gov
ernment will continue the develop
ment of cheap electric power. In for
eign affairs, it will play the role of
the “good nrtghbor.” It will pursue a
general ncutraltiy policy. The admin
istration believes In taking the profits
out of war. It will go ahead with re
ciprocal tariffs but will try to pro
tect both farmers and manufacturers
from unfair foreign, competition. It
promises to balance the budget at
the “earliest possible moment.” Wibh
these claims and the Democratic
party—with Franklin D. Roosevelt at
the helm—will ask the American peo
ple for another four years term to
complete the work it has started.
The text of the platform follows:
• We hold this truth to be self-evi
dent —that the test of a representa
tive government Is its ability to pro
mote the safety and happiness of the
people.
"We hold this truth to be self-evi
dent —that twelve years of Republican
leadership left our nation sorely
ttrlcken in body, mind and spirit: and
that three years of Democratic lead
ership have put it back on the road
to restored health and prosperity.
"We hold this truth to be self-evi
dent —that twelve years of Republl
ean surrender to the dictatorship of
i privileged few have been supplant
td by a Democratic leadership which
has returned the people themselves
io the places of authority, and has re
vived in them new faith and restored
lhe hope which they had almost lost.
“We hold this truth to be self evi
lent—that this three year recovery in
ill the basic values of life and the
« establishment of the American way
»f living has been brought about by
humanizing the policies of the federal
government as they affect the per
sonal. financial, industrial and agri
cultural well-being of the American
people.
“We hold this truth to be self-evi
dent —that government in a modern
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PHONE 6183
A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA
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Conflicting wireless messages from the army transport Chat- j
eau Thierry shed little light on the tragic deaths of Captain |
1 Lindsay M. Bawsel (left), army flier, and his three children.
One story tells of the father giving his life in an effort to save
! the three children, swept overboard in a storm. The other pic- j
tured the father, in a moment of derangement, leaping into the
sea with the three children in his arms. ,At right, from the top,
are Virginia, Lindsay, and Robert Charles Bawsel.
FRENCH STRIKE ENDED ANEW
\
SAILORS AGAIN WIN POINTS WHEN PAY FOR LOST
TIME IS GRANTED BY OWNERS.
MARCEILLES, France, June 26
(TP) —The general strike of French
seamen in the Port of Marseilles was
called off today for the second time.
Maritime officials announced that
the 9,000 striking sailors would go
back to work at once.
More than 50 were tied up
by the walkout of the sailors. The
sailors first struck for a• 40 hour
week. When that was granted they
struck again to win pay for £he time
they spent on strike—and to get a
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BEAR MAULS MAN
PORTSMOUTH, Ohid, June 26
(TP). —A seriously injured man j
dragged himself half a mile to
his home today and told a strange
tale of being attacked by a huge
black bear.
The victim, Milton Webb of Ot
way, was gathering herbs on the
banks of a small creek 18 miles
west of Portsmouth. Suddenly, he
heard a crashing noise in the
bushes and the next thing a big
black bear came lumbering to
ward him. The bear attacked
Webb, inflicting serious injuries.
Authorities believe the vicious
animal escaped from the nearby
Roosevelt game preserve.
LEMKE PREDICTS
WINNING BATTLE
THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE
OPTIMISTIC OVER
CHANCES
DETROIT, June 26 (TP)—Rep.
William Lemke of North Dakota an
nounced today that he will lead the
Union party to a clean sweep at the
November elections.
The third party’s presidential can
didate emerged from a conference
with the Detroit radio priest, Father
Coughlin. Lemka expressed some
highly optimistic views of the future.
He said he would carry all of New
England, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
most of the west.
The Union party leader frankly ad
mitted that he is seeking the support j
of the farmers’ union. Dr. Francis I
Townsend's old ag? pension group,
and the farmer labor party. Both '
he and Father Coughlin remarked,
however, that they have mace no I
overtures to the Townsend forces.
guarantee that strikers would not be
discharged. • The ship owners bent
to their demands in order to free
their vessels from the strikers’ hands.
Today red • flags were lowered from
the mastheads of the French ships
and the tricolor again ran up the
halyards.
At Paris, government officials sigh
ed with relief. They said the ranks
of the strikers throughout the country
have new been reduced to some 156,-
000. Three weeks ago 1,000,000 men
were out. .
THUNDER RUMBLE
IS FALSE ALARM
TO DROUGHT AREA
CONDITIONS BECOMING IN
CREASINGLY ACUTE
IN MIDWEST
CHICAGO, June 26 (TP)—The
rumble of thunder was only a false
hope today to drought-stricken farm
ers throughout the middlewest.
Black clouds rolled across the
parched central plains, but weathec
forecasters said very little rain was
in sight. Chicago crop experts place
the damage already inflicted on the
midwestern farm belt conservatively
at $10,000,000.
Kansas and the northwest, in addi
tion to being scorched by the heat,
are overrun by grassoppers and other
destructive insects. The second worst
drought on record is causing prices to
scar on many of the nation’s markets.
Wheat is selling at 10 cents a
bushel over its price on the same day
last month. Corn prices increased six
cents in the same period. Seared pas
turage on dairy farms forced butter
prices up to the highest peak since
1930.
Livestock prices are rising even
though farmers are shipping* their
cattle into markets as fast as they
can. Dealers said much of the live
stock is of poor quality due to weeks
of insufficient feeding.
CONVICT FACES CHARGES
MbALESTER, Okla., June 26 (TP)
! —prosecutilng attorney prepared
j murder charges today against Roy
Glasby, a convict at the Oklahoma :
State Prison.
The 24-year-old prisoner stabbed his
cell mate, William Barfield, during
i an argument over a 25-cent debt. Both
men were convicted robbers.
SAVANNAH, GA.. FRIDAY. JUNE 26. 1936
BLACK EYES COLOR CONVENTION
FREE-FOR-ALL ENLIVENS SESSION WHEN FRIENDS OF
AL SMITH START FUTILE RALLY FOR HIM.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP).—I
The week’s most exciting Democratic |
convention session—the platform ses
sion—is the subject of buzzing table
conversations today.
For the first time since the con
vention met, some of the old spirit
that made Democratic conventions
slam-bang affair in other years came
back to life.
High Spirits Prevail
Everybody in the packed conven
tion hall was in high spirits. High
cheers kept up a constant thunder
and banner's moved back and forth
in ceaseless waves.
There was even a fist fight to pep
up the proceedings. That happened
when a group of men, bearing ban
ners which said: "Give us Al Smith,”
marched into the balconies. Ardent
New Dealers went into action with a
rush. Fists flew. The Smith ban
ners were torn to shreds. Convention
hall cops used strong-arm tactics to
part the battlers and the Smith sym-
CO-OPERATION IS
DEMOCRACY’S NEED
CLAIMS WALLACE
HEAD OF AGRICULTURE
PLEADS FOR CLOSER
ALLIANCE
NEW YORK, June 26 (TP)—Sec
retary of Agriculture declar-
ed today that coopera w au and still
more cooperation—is the only thing
that can save democracy in the Unit
ed States.
i Wallace, writing in Scribner’s Mag-
July, tells about the co
s operative movement in an article call
ed “The Search for the American
( Way.”
The Secretary thinks that consum
ers’ and producers’ cooperatives will
eventually play a large part in Amer
ican life. The development of the gen
uine cooperative idea to the limit,
Wallace says, is the only way democ
racy can survive the logical onslaught
of the dictator-state aspects of com
munism and fascism.
Wallace’s article touches on the
Supreme Court rejection of the AAA
set-up. The Secretary says that the
court in its decision chose to inter
pret the constitution in the “light
of a handicraft age.”
juryHconslders
DRUKMAN CASE
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY IN
LAST STAGES OF
TRIAL
BROOKLYN, N. Y„ June 26 (TP)
-T|i* Drukman consipracy case
goes to the jury today. The five de
fendants charged with attempted ob
struction of justice in the probe of
Samuel Drukman’s murder may know
their fate by nightfall.
Drukman was murdered more than
two years ago in a Brooklyn garage.
Three men were arrested, questioned
and dismissed by the examining grand
jury. Special Prosec Jjr Todd took
over the case, got a new grand jury,
returned indictments and sent the
same three men to prison for Druk
man’s murder. The men on trial to
day are charged with bribery and con
spiracy to prevent those three men
ever coming to trial.
CONVENTION FLASHES
THINKS NEW DEAL O.K.
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP).— ]
A woman from the heart of the
farming country thinks the New Deal!
has done all right by the farmer and
farmers’ wives. She is Mrs. Anna
Aleson, director of the emergency re
lief council in Minnesota. This morn- i
ing she addressed the third woman’s ‘
breakfast held by Democratic wom
en in Philadelphia.
The electrification of rural comma- i
nities in the farm belt has done as'
much for farm women as any other
New Deal project, she said. Instead
of being doomed to a life of drudgery
the farmer’s wife can now look for ,
ward to some leisure.
The New Deal was also credited
with saving the homes and property
of thousands of farmers. In Minne-1
sota alone, the speaker declared, the
Farm Credit Administration lowered
the debt of farmers 16 per cent.
WOMEN SATISFIED
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP).—
Democratic women leaders rallied
warmly to the party platform today
•with chirrups of satisfaction.
Congresswoman Caroline O’Day of
New York was tickled pink. She said ■
I pathizers were hustled outside.
Later, Pennsylvania’s Democratic
Chairman Lawrence told the conven
tion that the Smith demonstrators
were Republicans from Philadelphia’s
south side. He said the invasion
was carefully pre-arranged—even to
the movie cameras which were ready
to take pictures of the fracas.
Smith’s Name Boed
Senator Clark, chairman of the
rules committee, referred to the
Smith placard-bearers as “paid hood
lums.” Clark was first to mention
Al Smith by name in the convention
hall. A hurricane of booing greeted
the mention of the man who was
once the idol of the Democratic
party.
Clark drew boos his own way a few
minutes later when he reported his
committee’s decision to scrap the old
two-thirds majority rule. Chairman
Robinson declared the rules commit
tee motion passed over a storm of
protest from Southern delegates.
I ARAB UPRISING
GAINS RECRUITS
IN PALESTINE
BEDOUINS MASS FORCES
FOR CONCERTED AT
TACKS ON JEWS
LONDON, June 26 (TP)—A mass
uprising of Arab nationalists in Trans
jordania was reported underway to
day.
Transjordamia, which is a neighbor
ing state of Palestine, is held by
Great Britain under a League of Na
tions mandate.
The London New Chronicle reported
today that 60-.000 armed bedouins
were massed in Transjordania and
read}’ to cross „ the Jordan river to
help the Arabs fight in Palestine.
The sensational report of the upris
ing was not confirmed by the British
colonial office, but high authorities
stated that they were ready for any
emergency. The Bedouins have been
traditionally cool to the Palestine
Arabs, although they are united in
their determination to resist the Jew
ish colonization of the near east.
British officials understand that 200
sheiks in Transjordania are meeting
to decide whether to join the Arab
revolt now under suppression in Pales
tine. Regardless of their decision it
is feared these shrikt and their leader,
, the Emir Abduhah. might be unable
i to restrain their hot-blooded followers.
SPAIOORBIDS
LANDING OF GUNS
ENGLISH MUNITION RUN
NER IS HALTED AT
PORT OF CADIZ
MADRID, June 26 (TP).—The
Spanish government forbid a British ,
vessel to land machine guns at the
port of Cadiz today.
The vessel. Santa Maria, steamed
into port with 11 cases of machine
guns in her holds destined for an un
due losed party. The port inspector
immediately advised the Madrid gov
ernment of the shipment. The gov
ernment denied knowledge of any de
livery of machine guns. Cadiz offi
cials suspected that the guns were
destined for Spanish revolutionaries.
the peace plank is first rate and that |
i the social security provisions mean a
lot to women. Chairman Mary Dew
son of the women’s division of the
Democratic national committee
summed up. Said she:—“The whole
platform embodies what we women J
i are trying to do, hoping for. I think
j the platform is a perfectly superb '
expression of the whole policy of the
i Democratic party.”
HITS AT ONE PLANK
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP)
The director of the National League .
for Women Voters, Mrs. Larue Brown
thinks the Democratic platform did
not go far enough- on its civil serv- I
ice plank. She said today that fail- ■
ure of the platform to pledge repeal ■
of .section 213 of the 1932 economy
act was a great disappointment.
Until this section is repealed said
ZMrs. Brown, "the federal civil serv- 1
ice will not offer equal opportunity
for all qualified persons.”
The Women’s League interprets I
this year's plank to mean that all I
postmasters, deputy collectors of in- [
ternal revenue. U. S. marshals and ;
other positions will be civil service |
jobs. These have long been patron-1 |
age positions.
PHONE 6183
PARTY’S CHOICE AGAIN
IBF
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PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
SELASSIE BEFORE LEAGUE TODAY
DEPOSED RULER OF ETHIOPIA WINS LION’S SHARE OF
ATTENTION IN ARRIVAL AT GENEVA PLEAD CAUSE.
■I ■ _
GENEVA, June 26 (TP)—The de
posed ruler of Ethiopia, Emperor
Haile Selassie, won the lion’s share
of attention today when he arrived
at Geneva for the crucial League of
Nations sessions.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and the French Foreign Min
ister Delbos slipped in the city of
international peace almost unnoticed.
But thousands of people were on
hand to cheer Selassie and wish him
luck in his appeal for help, from the
‘GENE’ AND ‘DICK’
PROMPTLY DENY
ALLEGED ‘TRADE’
ARCH POLITICAL ENEMIES
RE AFFIRM POSITIONS
(Special To The Times)
ATLANTA, June 26.—Persistant
rumors here of a deal "between Sen
ator Richard Russell and Governor
Talmadge were denied today by the
senator from his home in Winder and
by the governor’s office.
Rumors to the effect that Talmadg?
would back Russell for re-election and
would in turn receive the senator’s
support *for a third term as gover
nor were termed “absolutely unfound
ed” by Mrs. Eva Drew, secretary to
the governor and by Senator Russell.
Two indicants strengthened the
rumors. One was a causus of Tal
madge followers Wednesday. The
i other was the fa£t that Senator Rus
sell returned to his home at Winder
from Philadelphia where he was to
; have seconded the nomination of
I President Roosevelt.
Senator Russell today reaffirmed
his allegiance to the president, and
said he had not >x.irned to Philadel
phia because he felt the president did
j not need his help.
The senator came home to be with
. his brother Robert Russell, injured in ;
an automobile accident.
VETERAN LOSES
IN WPA FIGHT
INJUNCTION RULED NEGA
TIVE IN FEDERAL
COURT
WASHINGTON, June 26 (TP)
The federal court for the District of
Columbia today threw out an injunc
tion suit which WPA authorities said
would have tied up their works pro
gram on a national scale.
Justice Gordon dismissed an action
brought by the Philadelphia >* r vet
eran, Benjamin Sprang, who asked
that the government be compelled to
give veterans, their wives and widows
preference on all works relief jobs.
• league. Selassie was accompanied by
r Prince Kassa, the Ethiopian comman
-5 der of the northern front in the late
war. An even more famous Ethiopian
1 chieftain. Prince Nasibu, also arrived
f from Jerusalem.
The league council of 14 nations is
’ meeting today. Interest In this ses-
• sion is far overshadowed by the open
t ing of the league assembly next week.
' It is expected that the council will
> recommend all decisions on lifting
i sanctions against Italy to the full
? league assembly. •
STILL PAYING!
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June
26 (TP) —A negro bootblack nam
-1 ; cd Sammy Hills is going to be busy
I rtith the brushes and polishing
I rags for the next few months.
; , When he gets through, he won’t
have a cent to show for it. It’s
all Joe Louis’ fault, or- maybe
Sammy blames it on Max Schmel
ing.
You see, Sammy went down
heavily on the fight last week,
only instead of betting money he
j bet his customers shoe shines. In
some cases he quoted odds as high
as 30 to 1 on Louis to beat the
German heavyweight. Now Sam
my owes just 3,800 shines to citi
zens of San Francisco.
Sammy savs he knows now who
Louis Armstrong, the colored band
leader, is thinking of when he
sings his famous song, "Shoe
Shine Boy, You Shine Shoes Ail
Day.” Sammy wants to add anoth
er line to the ditty. It is, “And
You Never Get No Pay!!!’*
HAPPY LANDINGS!
PERSISTENCY WINS BRIDE
FOR CLARENCE CHAM
BERLAIN
FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine, Jun»
;26 (TP).—Twenty-four hours after
Clarence Chamberlain s fiance had |
accepted his 101st marriage proposal, j
they told it to a minister today.
The noted transatlantic flier and I
Miss Louise Ashby were wed early I
this morning at the bride’s home in 1
Fort Fairfield. The ceremony was
attended by relatives and members
of Miss Ashby’s immediate family.
She is the daughter of State Senator
George F. Ashby of New Jersey.
Chamberlain flew to the Ashby
home from New Jersey Wednesday.
He proposed Wednesday night for the
101th time— and Miss Ashby accept
ed him.
Chamberlain is in the Pine Tree
state completing arrangements for
his proposed substratosphere flight
to Paris during July. He is said to
be trying to Induce Miss Ashby to ac- ;
company him on the transatlantic
hop as a sort of novel honeymoon I 1
trip.
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TRANSRADIO PRESS
President’s
Name Stirs
Stampede
PLACED IN NOMINATION
BY JUDGE MACK, NEIGH
BOR AND FRIEND
PHILADELPHIA, June 26
(TP). President Roosevelt’s
name was placed in nomination
today.
An old friend and neighbor
of the President, Judge John
Mack, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
offered the President’s name to
the Democratic National Con
vention.
The nomination started a
wild stampede with horns, band
music and a pipe organ adding
to the din. Mack said:
“I give you as your candidate
for President, not a citizen of
one state, but a son of all the
forty-eight states—Franklin D.
Roosevelt.”
AWAIT F. D. R
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 (TP)
—Tomorrow, Saturday, has been
proclaimed “President Roosevelt
Day” in Philadelphia.
The official proclamation was is
sued in honor of the President’s
appearance to accept the Demo
cratic nomination in a giant open
air celebration at the University of
Pennsylvania Stadium.
The elderly judge’s last
words sent thousanArtrf-wiroop
ing delegates surging through
the hall.
Judge Mack sketched the
president’s political career from
the time Mr. Roosevelt became
a state senator in New York.
“We were raised as boys in adjoin
ing towns,” the judge said. “But we
have different horizons. My horizon
was the Hudson valley—his the uni
verse.”
Tells of Rise
He told how the president rose
from the New York senate to become
the Democratic vice presidential
nominee In 1920. He mentioned a
serious illness which kept Mr. Roose
velt from public life for several years.
Judge Mack said: —
“All • the suffering through which
he has gone has broadened his heart,
has given him a greater capacity for
sympathy and understanding of hu
man needs.”
The judge maintained that the end
of the Hoover administration found
the country in grave economic dis
tress. President Roosevelt, he said,
has brought the country back to
health.
“Our faces are toward progress.”
he said. “We shall not turn back in
this conflict between humanity and
greed.”
President Roosevelt told newsmen
in Washington today, that he isn’t
going to comment on the Democratic
party platform until he makes his
acceptance speech in Philadelphia to
morrow night.
The chief executive has’ almost
finished work on the speech which
he will make at Franklin Field Phil
adelphia. Besides the speech, Mr.
Roosevelt said laughingly, he has
been signing bills in three shifts.
There are still 100 measures or more
to be disposed of before his White
House desk is clear. Among them
are the Walsh-Healy bill on govern
ment contracts and the ship subsidy
measure.
The president said he will go to
Hyde Park N. Y„ directly after his
acceptance speech. He will stay at
the New York estate until Monday.
Earle Busy Man
Elaborate plans are taking shape
at the Democratic national conven
tion to keep Pensylvania in the
Democratic column in November.
The state’s governor, George Earle,
started the campaign off with a wild
demonstration of enthusiasm in his
speech Tuesday night.
Party leaders have taken care that
the fire of that demonstration be
kept alive. The governor announced
that he would stump every county
in the Keystone state for President
Roosevelt.
Earle’s popularity with the conven
tion throngs has increased day by
day He is expected to exert a pow
n^rence in the campaign.
The state’s Democratic leaders an
nounced today that Mr. Roosevelt
will in Pennsylvania at le?st
stX? l S ng ? he car *P ai S n - United
States Senator Joseph Guffey who
has championed labor legislation will
hiS blt ‘ Guffey’s popularity
with workers in the western part of
u. enns Z vanil “ counted on to d«-
llver the Democrats a huge volt.