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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Hoover and Curtis Stand on Platform Calling for Modification Modifi-cation of loth Amendment Would Let State Decide for Themselves. By EDWARD W. PICKARD LET each state decide for itself whether it will be wet or dry. That, briefly, is the prohibition plank adopted by the Republican national i ' ' 1 President Hoover convention In Chicago. Chica-go. It was dictated by President Hoover, and the administration forces, in complete control of the convention, con-vention, put it over after one of the most uproarious sessions in twenty years of Republican Re-publican conventions. The plank is not pleasing to the very wet Republicans and Is completely obnoxious obnox-ious to the dry ones. Onder the Republican plan congress will at all times be In general control con-trol of liquor law enforcement In those states that elect to remain dry. Also, congress will control the manufacture, manu-facture, sale and distribution of liquor within the borders of the wet states. With the platform out of the way the convention proceeded to do what had been whispered in some quarters they might do. They renominated Herbert Hoover for President and Charles C. Curtis for Vice President. The debate on the prohibition plank was the only thing that saved this convention from being a complete com-plete flop as far as thrills and excitement ex-citement are concerned. In all other respects it was about as tame as a town meeting, the selection of standard stand-ard bearers being a foregone conclusion. con-clusion. James R. Garfield, chairman of the resolutions committee, led the fight for the Hoover plank, while Senator Bingham and Nicholas Murray Mur-ray Butler headed the forces demanding demand-ing a plank insisting on the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment Senator Bingham's plank was defeated de-feated by a vote of 6S1 to 472. An analysis of the vote shows that the Republicans In the south swung the balance against, the northern, eastern and middle western states which furnish fur-nish the bulk of the electoral votes for the election of Republican Presidents. Pres-idents. The Hoover plank as adopted reads in part as follows: "We do not favor a submission limited to the issue of retention or repeal. For the American nation never In its history has gone backward, back-ward, and in this case the progress which has been thus far. made must be preserved, while the evils must be eliminated. "We, therefore, believe that the people should have an opportunity to pass upon a proposed amendment the provision of which, while retaining the federal government power to preserve pre-serve the gains already made in dealing deal-ing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow states to deal with the problem as their citizens citi-zens may determine, but subject always al-ways to the power of the federal government to protect those states where prohibition may exist and safeguard safe-guard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and its attendant at-tendant abuses. "Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the states by congress, to be acted upon by state conventions called for that sole purpose pur-pose in accordance with the provisions provi-sions of Article V of the Constitution, Constitu-tion, and adequately safeguarded so as to be truly representative." The entire platform, as submitted by the resolutions committee, was adopted by a viva voce vote. Some of the high lights follow: Approval given an emergency relief re-lief fund for loans to states in need. No direct federal relief to individuals. Shorter work week, shorter work day, legislation to stimulate home building, continuance of restricted Immigration. Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure urged. Further aid pledged through federal fed-eral farm board, protective tariff duties, assistance to solve problems prob-lems of controlling production. Fll protection to Incapacitated veterans pledged. Cash payment f bonus not mentioned. FaVor extension of tariff protection protec-tion to natural resource industries. indus-tries. Committed to maintenance of navy on basis of parity with any nation. na-tion. Opposed to further army personnel reduction. American entry Into league court favored. Settlement of international interna-tional difficulties without "alliances "alli-ances or foreign partnerships" pledged. Rigid laws favored to stamp out activities of gangsters, racketeers racke-teers and kidnapers. Relentless warfare pledged against narcotic traffic. Need cited for revision of banking laws on sounder basis. Retention of gold standard pledged. Participation in International Inter-national conferences on monetary mone-tary questions. Existing status of government In Hawaii should be maintained. President's "constructive program" lauded as an attack on the depression de-pression with "far-reaching objectives, ob-jectives, but entailing no danger to the budget" Republican control of the federal government will "insure the orderly or-derly recovery of the country." T X rHII.E the Republicans were busy In Chicago, the Democrats made small progress In settling their pre-convention pre-convention squabbles. One development develop-ment was the rumor, originating in Chicago, thai Melvin A. Traylor, the banker who Is one of the dark horse possibilities for the Presidential nomination, nomi-nation, might be put on the Roosevelt ticket in second place. It was said the New York governor would welcome wel-come this move. The Traylor campaign cam-paign managers seemed to think the better ticket would be "Traylor and Roosevelt" Support of the nominee, whoever he may he, was pledged by leaders of the party In a united appeal for completion com-pletion of the party's $1,500,000 victory vic-tory fund before the opening of the national convention on June 27. The message to the rank and file was signed by Alfred E. Smith, Gov. Franklin Frank-lin Roosevelt, Jouett Shouse, Owen D. Young, Newton D. Baker, former Gov. James M. Cox, John W. Davis and 54 other leaders. , TRAGEDY stepped in to halt the debate on Representative Wright Patman's soldier bonus bill when Representative Rep-resentative E. Eslick (Dem., Tenn.), Wright Pat-man dropped dead on the floor of the house while making an Impassioned Im-passioned plea for the immediate payment pay-ment of the $2,400,-00 $2,400,-00 0,0 00 bonus. Shocked by the dramatic dra-matic turn of events, the house adjourned Immediately as a mark of respect Mr. Eslick had about half completed a ten-minute speech in behalf of the bo nus. Picturing the World war army as "the flower of the country's manhood," man-hood," he waved aside questions of finance and said: ' "Mr. Speaker, I want to divert from the sordid " He never finished the sentence. As he collapsed, he clutched at a table and partially broke his fall. Dr. George W. Calver, Capitol physician, said he had died before he struck the floor. Mrs. Eslick was in the members' mem-bers' gallery at the time. Tragedy added to futility is the history his-tory of this bonus bill. Hours of debate, de-bate, largely for home consumption, wasted on a measure that was foredoomed fore-doomed before it was presented. Though it passed the house by a vote of 211 to 176, there was no possible pos-sible chance that the senate would pass It, and President Hoover had announced that he would veto it if it should be passed. FRANZ VON PAPEN, Germany's " new aristocratic chancellor, held several conferences with the premiers of the states and the German agricul tural council and succeeded suc-ceeded in part in allaying al-laying their fears that his government Intended eventually to overthrow the republic, re-public, lie assured them solemnly that his rule would be "based entirely on the constitution of the reich," and denied that his cabinet was unsocial or reactionary. reaction-ary. The d i s s o 1 u-tion u-tion of the reich- M'nz von Papen stag and the calling of elections were thought necessary, he said, to a new unified expression of the national will, and it was his belief be-lief "that a new parliament will more readily produce a clear-cut majority for a policy of spiritual and ethical rehabilitation and an economic orientation orien-tation that shall rest on Christian, national na-tional and social foundations." 1TITH0DT debate the senate adopted a resolution presented by Senator Joe T. Robinson, Democratic Demo-cratic floor leader, calling on (he President Pres-ident to specify how and where additional addi-tional savings were to be accom- 1 pllshed. Tlie resolution was introduced intro-duced in answer to President Hoover's demand that congress save $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 more. In some quarters, the prediction was made that the need for additional budget bud-get balancing funds will serve to revive re-vive the sales tax, notwithstanding the fact that the billion dollar tax bill o4ready has been enacted into law. The conference committee, still wrestling with the economy bill, has come to a virtual agreement on the plan for enforced furloughs for federal fed-eral employees. Instead of the 10 per cent pay cut plan. STANISLAUS FELIX HAUSNEK, the aviator, who attempted a flight from New York to Poland, was rescued res-cued by the steamship Circle Shell after aft-er drifting eight days on the Atlantic on his wrecked airplane. Hausner was completely exhausted when rescued and literally fell into the lifeboat that was lowered to pick him up. The captain cap-tain of the ship reported by radio that Hausner had received only minor injuries in-juries and was progressing satisfactorily. satisfac-torily. FOLLOWING the abortive attempt - of three young Cubans to assassinate assassi-nate President Machado by throwing a bomb at him, the police of the island republic made a series se-ries of raids on the homes of prominent persons and asserted they had uncovered three separate plots against M a c h a d o's life. Nearly a hundred hun-dred leading citizens of Havana were put in prison, and arms and explosives were seized. Capt Miguel Calvo, chief of the police expert bureau, said : "Cubans have Gaston B. Means ki5 . ti President Machado turned to terrorism in a desperate effort ef-fort to oust President Machado dead or alive. I am convinced that Havana's Ha-vana's leading men and women have gone crazy. The revelations are astounding as-tounding and most disappointing for the future of Cuba and the Cubans." The "society terrorists" belong to the ABC organization which sought to overthrow the government on May 20, independence day, but were foiled by the discovery of their plot Police say that other government leaders besides Machado are "marked for death." ARLOS DA VILA apparently was not sufficiently radical in his policies pol-icies toward foreign interests In Chile, so he was forced by the military and socialistic junta to resign as provisional provision-al President Col. Marmaduke Grove, who had a great deal to do with the ousting of President Montero, remained re-mained In control, but there were rumors ru-mors that an army group was plotting to bring ex-President Carlos Ibanez back from exile and form a new junta with Davila's aid. Capt Alejandro Lazo, an intimate associate of Davila and of Ibanez, was arrested. Extremist sentiment against Davila's Da-vila's continuance in the junta arose as a result of attacks against him by the leftist newspaper Opinion, which has led efforts of certain elements in northern Chile to force dissolution of the $375,000,000 Cosach organization. TT LOOKS as If Gaston B. Means, one of the slipperiest individuals in America, would have to spend another an-other term in a federal penitentiary. A federal jury in Washington found him guilty of stealing $104,000 entrusted to him by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean for the purpose of ransoming ran-soming CoL Charles Lindbergh's baby, the court inflicted a sentence sen-tence of 15 years' imprisonment im-prisonment and a fine of $2,000. He was acquitted ac-quitted on two embezzlement em-bezzlement charges. His attorney moved for a new trial and gave notice of appeal, ap-peal, and meanwhile Means was put back in jaiL POLICE action in the Lindbergh case is being attacked on both sides of the ocean, following the suicide of Violet Sharpe, English maid in the service of the Morrow family. The young woman had been questioned repeatedly re-peatedly by the police, and many persons per-sons In America and in England believe be-lieve she had been so persecuted that she was driven to self-destruction, although al-though it appears she was in no way implicated in the kidnaping. State Senator E. L. Richards of New Jersey attacked the administration of Governor Gov-ernor Moore as responsible for blunders blun-ders in the case and said a legislative investigation was "virtually certain." In London a member of the house of commons brought up the matter by asking the foreign office if the government gov-ernment had its attention called to the suicide of Miss Sharpe and if it would make representations to the Washington Washing-ton government suggesting an inquiry as to what responsibility the police had for the girl's death. XriTH the avowed purpose of find- V lug gome formula to replace the expiring Hoover moratorium, the reparations rep-arations conference opened Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland. In preparation prep-aration for this meeting, Prime Minister Minis-ter MacDonald went to Paris and conferred con-ferred with Premier Herrlot, and tb.3 result was, according to one dispatch from Paris, that the two statesmen "constituted themselves a ways and means committee for saving Europe by presenting a united front against Germany." Other correspondents thought the most likely outcome of the confab of the premiers would be an agreement for a new moratorium for Germany. The Franco-British project is believed be-lieved to include a temporary renewal of the moratorium which expires June 30, together with the appointment of a commission to study means of prolonging prolong-ing the moratorium indefinitely and the establishment of an equalizing system sys-tem which eventually would annul both debts and reparations. This temporizing tem-porizing solution, it Is felt, would permit per-mit watching for a propitious moment to spring a new cancellation scheme -n the United States. . Hil. Western Newspaper Union.) |