Show 7 ! Two The new gathering organizations The Associated Pres and The United Press provide dispatches for this newspaper O world-wid- e Stand staff i SUNDAY MORNING MAY 31 1936 COMICS FEATURES -- Test Tells Knowledge G O P Aspirants Of 'Cpmvemtfidinis'' Questions And Answers Reveal How Well Readers Know Lives of Peinmocrafrs a rod O Presidential Tv© Creafr l © For er provides its readers with superior local news written by experienced and accurate men and women WV MAGAZINE SECTION ard-Examin- ' InlaBDs HaH-Bonial- Twenty-fiv- e Aspirants Cleveland Philadelphia Prepare For Throngs of Visitors ALL NOW G UP-TO-DA- TE J? Newspaper Radio Public Address Systems To Handle Speeches V er CLEVELAND May 30— (NEA)— The Republican national convention opening here June 9 might just as well be held in your own 6T parlor Thanks to the wonders of science the proceedings will be covered and brought to the "folks back home as never before in history The largest press section ever provided at any convention will seat 796 reporters and magazine writers Cameramen newsreel men radio commentators and technicians unattached writers and reporters will boost to about 1600 the total engaged in bringing convention news to your home That’s much more than one reporter to of the 1003 delegates each ' All the principal events of the convention have been carefully set at the hours when the greatest radio audience is available ’ a News-pictur- o to point with pride to the Democratic administration at the party’s Fred Steiwer of Oregon (right) nominating convention To Senator will fall the lot of viewing with alarm at the Republican conclave es will go humming out of the hall itself by wire from specially installed darkrooms and will come tumbling into your home that same night in your evening MANY “MIKES” Not’ only will the big events such as the keynote speech of Senator gteiwer and the notification ceremony go' out on the air but also a continual stream of broadcasts of the proceedings A microphone has been installed at the seat of the chairman of every state delegation Members rising to address the convention need not wait for a microphone on a cord to be rushed to them They will simply step up to the “mike” of their own delegation The broadcast and the vast new amplifier system of the hall both carry the message The temptation will be great for their voices heard delegates to get maw and the in this way by in out in Junket Junction Ia or Catspaw Ariz Convention committeemen are a little worried about that They can see how the convention might go on and on Ralph Williams of the convention committee who has served on conventions since that of 1916 says the rush for space for newspapermen writers cameramen and radio people was three times as great as anything he remembers It seemed to Williams that all the 14000 seats in the hall could have been filled by peopre who considered themselves entitled to press privileges leaving the rekids-listenin- vice-chairm- Q an no one porters and themselves cover but to -FLOATING” HOTEL Cleveland' though it has a population of nearly a million people rates as a “small city” to those ex-perienced in national party conventions The sudden addition of near-reporte- rs 50-0- 00 people accordingly presented quite a problem It is being solved in some novel ways The greatest steamer on the Great Lakes the luxurious is going to be docked within a few blocks of the convention hall and 900 people already have arranged to live aboard her during the convention The Vandenberg delegation is expected to- arrive from Michigan by another steamer and to live aboard her Other lake steamers may be brought in if needed togivingcon-a a pleasant nautical touch vention that is not expected to be entirely dry anyway Every downtown hotel installed new bars and cocktail lounges this spring in anticipation of the G O P and other conventions coming to Cleveland this summer Thousands of delegates and visitors are expected to stay in the special trains that will bring them to the convention sleeping in the See-andb- ee - DonkeyTo Join Liberty Bell As Conclave Motif PHILADELPHIA Pa May 30 (UP) — The Democratic donkey will share honors with the liberty bell as a guide to throngs that will pour into Philadelphia for the convention next month The liberty bell motif will be incorporated in the design of that special information--boothare being constructed in principal railway terminals - The donkey will hold sway at other points however and his image will be used in the design of signposts and other markers 'to point the way to Convention hall time-honor- s dition to the 13500 seats on the m&in floor and balcony in the auditorium proper there are 60 side rooms situated off long imposing hallways These will enable each state delegation to have its own conference room Also they will fprovide meeting places for various convention committees and private conference rooms for James A Farley national Democratic chairman and other party chieftains 3IASSIVE ORGAN The party’s theme song of the 1932 convention — “Happy Days Are Here Again” — may be played again This time on an organ which is said to be even greater than the one in Chicago’s stadium where the Democrats met four years ago The acoustics in the auditorium are said to be nearly perfect but in addition a highly efficient loud speaking apparatus is available for the keynoter the permanent chairman of the convention and other speakers More than 1000 persons may be seated on the huge stage at the south end of the auditorium In addition there is a ballroom on the “second floor” Another 1800 persons can be accommodated there Though the temperature outside the hall may be in the 90’s during convention time the inside will be comfortably cool An elaborate ventilating1 system keeps the hall free from oppressive humidity ARTISTICALLY BEAUTIFUL So far as the interior appearance of the hall is concerned it is described befet by the words “artistically beautiful” Unlike the usual “exposition hall” designed for size and with little thought to detail the Convention Hall was planned to be an structure Marble bronze and all have been combined in crystal the decorative scheme The hall located at 34th street is far from the din of downtown traffic It may be reached by bus trolley car or elevated lines Philadelphia police officials have prepared a traffic system (o speed up motor transportation to and from the hall Nearby the hall is the University of Pennsylvania campus and the many interesting buildings of the university which was founded by “all-purpos- e” con-convent- ion G $5-000- f - O ed cars Some local residents have been houses trying to rent their entire owners to visiting delegations the moving out and going to stay with Aunt Minnie for the week One society woman is reported as having indicated a willingness to turn over her home to anyone who cared to pay $5000 for the week : Other such homes ranged Benjamin Franklin 408 BY 236 FEET " downward in price to $500 The great auditorium itself occupies the major part of the new DEMOCRATS’ HALL structure 30— covering ground space of PHILADELPHIA May (UP) A stone’s throw from the banks 408 feet in length by 236 feet in The space occupied by the of historic Schuylkill river stands width hall or arena is 300 feet of main — scene of auditorium the municipal the length of the building and 226 the 1936 Democratic national — of the width Its highest point feet in is this here It structure— where President is approximately 88 ' feet — and are no columns to obstruct Franklin D Roosevelt will be re- thereview of the speaker’s' platform the week in the his nominated by party and stage of June 23 — H Completed in 1931 the convention hall as it most commonly is known TOO STOUT EXCUSED offers the Democratic party all LONDON— (UP)—A woman juror the facilities that a political organat the f Leicester quarter sessions ization could desire x There are numerous “exclusive” was unable to enter the jury-boadShe was excused from serving features of Convention Hall In air-conditio- O of Senator Alben W Barkley of Kentucky (left) It will be the duty paper Eight thousand dollars’ worth of platforms had to be built inside the hall so no demonstration might be missed by fans who take their politics at the movies o How well do you know the as-f- in pirants for the Republican presi-- ‘ dential nomination? The names of Landon Borah Knox Dickinson Steiwer Vandenberg and Wadsworth are much heard yet many highlights in their lives are little known The NEA service has prepared an infor The Standard-Examinto test of series questions teresting readers’ knowledge of the various candidates Read the questions below and see how many you can answer — then look at the correct answers which appear following the questions THE QUESTIONS 1 Which candidate fought in and both the Spanish-America- n World wars? 2 Which candidate was called “Pouter Pigeon” when he first entered the U S senate? 3 One of the candidates while in college succeeded in having the ice cream course eliminated from his fraternity’s menu Who is he? un4 Which two candidates are usually ardent fishermen? 5 Which candidate managed" the football team while in college? 6 Two candidates got their start on the same newspaper Who are COVERED WAGON TO VISIT MEET Revolutionary Day Will Be Recalled By Old Vehicle they? 7 Which candidate has been called the “hell raiser for agriculture” ? 8 Which candidate is older than any man ever elected to the presidency? 9 Which candidate served under Herbert Hoover when the former president was head of the United States Food administration? 10 Which candidate was fired from a job for going away to see one of Theodore Roosevelt’s parades ? 11 Which candidate worked four years to make amends for a partner’s deals? —12 —Which" candidate once ran a vice gang out of Sault Ste Marie Pa May 30 (UP)— sound familiar in creaking days when covered wagons rolled across barren plains will echo at the Democratic national cosrvention wheen a Reading man drives an antiquated Conesto- Mich? 13 ga wagon down through the valley Which candidate was known for which it receives its name into as “The Fox” while in college? 14 Philadelphia Which candidate practiced The old vehicle said to be cen- oratory behind the barn of his turies old will roll down the Phil- boyhood home? 15 Which candidate might be a adelphia pike with Harry A Obold in the driver’s seat in something favorite son of four states? 16 A certain candidate was ediakin to the era when freight-loade- d Conestogas rumbled across tor and general manager of a iarge Pennsylvania from Philadelphia! to daily newspaper when only 22 years Pittsburgh to become one of the old Who is he? was the 17 Which candidate sights of the Democratic meeting Obold who has letters from only Republican governor reelected President Roosevelt and other Dem- in 1934? 18 ocratic leaders approving his novel Which candidate when askidea wants two white mules to ed if he would accept a place on draw the wagon as was customary the Coolidge ticket in 1924 rewhen this type of travel was com- sponded “Which place?” 19 Which two candidates were monplace “He’ll use the best two- mules among the five Republican senators in 1934? available however if he can’t get 20 Which candidate belongs to white ones Obold has volunteered his wagon and services in driving the same college fraternity as did it to the convention to show his the late Calvin Coolidge? 21 Which candidate acted as interest in the new deal’s success The pioneer wagon still in com- floor manager for Gen Leonard paratively good shape was brought Wood’s candidacy at the 1920 Reto Berks county in 1732 by Peter publican national convention? 22 Which candidate presented Rothermel when he settled jn what now Maidencreek is township his college fraternity with a cusObold purchased it from a neigh- pidor? 23 Which candidate is unusubor The many owners of the wagon ally fond of Shakespeare’s works? 24 Which candidate was apare not known 4pointed an Indian commissioner by President Taft? PLANES SCATTER 25 Which candidate was admonGRASS VALLEY Calif— (UP) — ished by his dying father to “alAll surrounding foothill districts ways be a Republican”? THE ANSWERS have been sewn with poppy seed 1 Col Frnk Knox rode with from airplanes in an effort to beauTheodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders tify the valley READING A ed - the Spanish-America- n war and was a major of artillery in the World war 2 Political opponents dubbed Senator Arthur Vandenberg “Pouter Pigeon” because he paid little attention to the senate’s traditional seniority customs 3 Gov Alfred M Landon was responsible for disappearance of ice cream from his fraternity’s menu 4 Senator Frederick Steiwer and former President Herbert Hoover are enthusiastic fishermen 5 Herbert Hoover managed Stanford University’s football team 6 Both Senator Vandenberg and Colonel Kriox started their newspaper careers on the Grand Rapids (Mich) Herald 7 The late Nicholas Longworth once called Senator Dickinson the “hell-raiser- Gentleman - Farmer Feels Balanced Budget Necessary £ ' yA r ®fsasis — EVER COURAGEOUS r Believes In State Care of - Unemployed and Indigent Aged j J By FRAZIER HUNT r Hi” ' -- - - - ' may be only a dark horse presidential possibility and not even a formal candidate but he certainly is way out in the open when it comes to facing tough issues Even on the ticklish question of relief he showed n d hesitancy in coming out squarely for payments in cash — which with its cellophane off means by a dole — rather than for the “made work” type of present relief ik1 'V- - - RE PiRESENTATIVE W WADSWORTH Ilf - r 'vyirt agriculture” of Senator William E Borah at 70 is older than any man ever elected to the presidency 9 Robert Taft was assistant counselor for the Food Administration from 1917 to 1919 10 Senator Vandenberg lost a billing clerk’s job by leaving work to see a Teddy Roosevelt parade 11 Herbert Hoover worked four years to see that no customer or creditor of his firm would lose as a result of a partner’s deals 12 Colonel Knox drove a vice gang out of Sault Ste Marie Mich when he was a rising young newspaper publisher there 13 Governor Landon’s shrewdness in fraternity and campus politics earned him the sobriquet of “The Fox” at the University of Kansas 14 Senator Dickinson orated behind Iie barn" of his boyhood home 15 Colonel Knox— rbom in Massachusetts reared in Michigan publisher “of"" 'newspapers in Michigan New Hampshire and Illinois — son of four be the favorite might 8 Jp- - - ? 40 J- -- U' y On all the other nine questions which I have presented tp the Republican presidential possibilities he was just as straightforward and professional Certainly there were no earmarks of the amateur about him He was an old fire horse who smelled smoke again and had to run with the engine For 21 long and strenuous years he had been in public life — not counting the four years immediately before he went to the U S senate or the six years of his retirement following his defeat for a third term -- states 16 was Senator Vandenberg made editor and general manager of the Grand Rapids (Mich) Herald at 22 17 Governor Landon was the lone Republican governor returned to office in 1934 18 Senator Borah queried “Which place?” when asked if he would accept a place on the Coolidge ticket in 1924 19 Senators Steiwer and Vandenberg were among the five Reto the senate publicans in 1934 20 Governor Landon belongs to Phi Gamma Delta which was the late Colvin Coolidge’s fraternity 21 Colonel Knox directed General Wood’s bid for the Republican nomination in 1920 22 Governor Landon donated a cuspidor to his fraternity 23 Senator Borah reads Shakespeare at every opportunity 24 Colonel Knox served lis an Indian commissioner 25 Senator Vanderberg was admonished by his dying father to “always be a Republican” ed HUNTERS TURN ANTIS STUTTGART Ark— (UP)— Eastern Arkansas sportsmen have bandassociation ed into an in an effort to have the state and fish commission recall its order changing the squirrel hunting from May and June to August and anti-hunti- ng Convention Hall Gets New Paint During those 21 years all you had to do - to find out How Jim Wadsworth stood on pny pdblic question was to ask him point-blan- k He’d answer you just as point-blan- k FRANKNESS COSTLY This courageous frankness has cost him plenty For his stand against the eighteenth amendment he paid in full with his senate seat But that didn’t dull his courage or his frankness 1 Do you favor balancing the budget? If so do you advocate reducProphets and political soothsayers taxes? If by taxes what kind ing relief expenditures or increasing Balance the budget by all means It is vital To accomplish it hold rather unanimously that the taxes must in all probability be increased somewhat but a sharp reduc- farm states of' the middle west will tion in expenditures must be relied upon to go most of the way Relief decide the election this Novemcan be reduced by the elimina- ber This almost automatically calls expenditures will have to continue but tion of waste Very large savings can be made in other goyernment they claim for the Republican hope activities many of which are grossly extravagant and in some instances to come from this belt absolutely useless He must be at least somewhat of Should relief be by direct cash payments or as wages? Should a Landon 2 Vandenberg Knox and relief be paid for and administered by the federal government or by the Dickinson all pass this test — with states or both? I’m reaching the belief that direct cash payment will be more satis- Borah and Keynoter Steiwer far of westerners passing with a venthan the “made work” method of relief It would take care factory to the be not would and less with open as money people many geance But Dark Horse Wadsworth just abuses incident to the “made work” program The federal government according to these should make allotments to the states in proper proportions each state comes from the wrong side of the undertaking to contribute a certain percentage of the sum needed The actual administration should be left to the states and their sub- Allegheny mountains Anyway he is the one genuine boards cutting out politics divisions under farmer of the bunch present-da- y How should the problem of oermanent unemployment and care In the rich Geneseo valley in 3 of the aged and unemployed be handled? New York he runs his 14000 ancesThe permanently unemployed as contrasted with unemployment tral acres fattens his thousand due to depression should be cared for by the states Likewise the head of steers each year and conindigent aged cerns himself with every detail of his large operations ' stabilization or dollar of the devaluation Do you favor further 4 of form currency change at present gold content? Do you believe in any to COUNTRY SQUIRE inflation a return gold standard the recurrency inflation or credit one Listening to Wadsworth monetization of silver or a managed currency? Currency caught the feeling that here was a There should be no further devaluation of the dollar and credit inflation should be abhorred A managed currency is im- man who unconsciously accepted world manages in the same way and at the his own inherent superiority He possible unless the whole of currencies can be accomplished only by was secure in family wealth and same time Stabilization international agreement It should be done as soon as the world is position He was to the manor ready for it born He represented the last or fix wages dying gasp of our true landed whose 'aim is to controk 5 Do you favor any program ' work week? gentry working hours or a shorter At 27 he started his political A federal program to control or fix wages and working hours involves inevitably a fixing of the quantity of production and of prices career as an assemblyman at Alas a bany Three years later he was I do not favor it Nor do I favor increasing the cost of production means toward increasing purchasing power It doesn’t make sense elected speaker of the assembly and after serving for four years Do you favor an amendment to the constitution authorizing the left 6 politics to become a Texas national social and problems federal government to deal with economic In 1914 he returned to rancher of in scope or of limiting the courts as to their right to declare laws state and was elected York New unconstitutional? congress senate U to S the he the constitution to the authorizing atI do not favor an amendment any became fnvolved in the bitter federal government to exercise these powers nor do I favor performance of its function of fight and in 1926 thp tempt to limit the supreme court inof the laws enacted by the congress We drys ran a Republican passing upon theourconstitutionality federal union of states and our liberties as guar- against him enabling independent must preserve Robert anteed in the constitution Wagner ar Democrat to grab 'laws prize 7 Do you favor modification or iuspension of the anti-truFor the next six years Wads to enable businessmen to get together: (a) To agree on trade practices of on retired from active politick worth control To producrelations on agree (c) labor To (b) agree four years ago he was elected but tion (d) To attempt to fix prices? laws (as to the lower house j I do not favor modification or suspension of the anu-tru- st It’s a small- stable for such a under the defunct NRA) to enable businessmen to reach agreements as listed in the questionaire big horse — and especially such a dark horse What is your remedy for the farmer? Do you favor the curtail- big 8 ment of production industrial or agricultural? (COMING: Dark Horse Senator upon a permanently prosperous basis Agriculture cannot be kept or by the exercise of force in the con- Dickinson and summary J by the payment of subsidies trol of the production of crops Such a program would reduce the farmer (Copy right 1986 NEA Service Inc) — to the status of a subject and destroy his life As to the crops of which we produce a surplus our foreign market should be developed again and at the same time the domestic market should be preserved for the 1 How He Answered Questions REPRESENTATIVE JAIMES VV WADSWORTH ('out-and-o- ut log-cab- in corn-and-hogg- er vote-counte- rs non-partis- an : Re-elect- ed antij-prohibiti- st - - farmer ' : in favor of the policy of making reciprocal trade treaties q Are youforeign trade or reduce tariff walls? to encourage of crops which importation I do not favor reduction of duties on theshould be protected As to we produce in Sufficient quantities They condition The nations are living other tariff duties we face a world-wid- e in trade-tigcompartments Economic nationalism is rife InternationOnly by al trade has been cut in two No one nation can break the spell so as to quotas be readjusted international agreement cap tariffs and such as ours restore international trade and work no harm on aif nation but we are to takepart I believe such readjustments should be made in them’it must be with the approval of the congress and not by the star chamber process IO Do you favor a policy of public development the continuance of expansion of T V A and control of utilities through the utilities holding company act? I am opposed to the government going into the electric power business Private industry is competent to undertake’ and manage such a business devoid of politics The federal government in the of interstate companies public interest should regulate capitalization and interstate companies and interstate rates The states should regulate ‘ ht Refurbishing of Cleveland’s mammoth public hall is proceeding at a rapid rate in preparation for the opening of the Republican convention on June 9 New floors have been laid cleaners are making the great auditorium spick and span and painters are plying brushes with vim and vigor Here a crew is shown at work on the walls near the center of the halL intrastate activities Founder's Dream Cleveland's Rise CLEVELAND May 30 (UP)— General Moses Cleaveland who founded the city that bears his name minus one “a” chose the spot on Lake Erie in 1796 because of its transportation advantages j Progress proved the general was more than right He did not forsee that the city site wouldbe the future meeting place of iron ore from the Superior region and coal from Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia one of the nation’s important £rffl5srsL?4s copmverce 1 - vL on |