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Show DEMOCRATS HAVE LIVELY TIME; VERBAL FEASTS, FISTIC ENCOUNTERS, OTHER SPORTS Police Stop Clash Caused By Religious Freedom Free-dom Demonstration; Chairman Sounds 'Dry' Note In Address HOUSTON, Texas, June 27. (UP) Fights that caused police to intervene disturbed today's session of the Democratic Demo-cratic national convention. Hull and Smith men clashed in the forward part of the hall at the foot of the speaker's platform as Chairman Joseph Robinson of Arkansas voiced a cry for religious freedom. Soon men were milling and pulling and screaming at each other in the middle aisle. A Smith man, W. 0. Sanders, of Elizabeth City, New Jersey, sought to rush through with the North Carolina banner to join the demonstrating marchers, who applauded Robinson's reference to Jefferson's views in favor of religious freedom. A man rushed him and sought to pull down the banner. Later a similar incident swirled around the Tennessee banner as ex-mayo"r Crump of Memphis sought to jump through into the parade. Eventually the police separated the squabblers ; Robinson coldly demanded order henceforth, and the convention's con-vention's business continued. Before the combined fight, march and demonstration, Robinson had been chosen permanent chairman, and had said F in his opening address that there should be no wet plank in the party's pktform. j The session made quick work adopting the report of the I committee on credentials which dismissed several contests. i TV 17. CONVENTION HALL, Houston, 1 Texas, June 27 The Democratic national convention was advised today to-day by its permanent chairman. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, that there need' be little fear of repeal or nullification of the 1 Eighteenth amendment. ' Scores Alleged Corruption He sounded this note, together ""with a blast against alleged Republican Repub-lican corruption and a plea for economic equality for agriculture, In his address to the third session ! of the quadrennial meeting, p Assembling here before noon, the : thousands of delegates and guests ' anxiously awaiting the now assured j nomination of Governor Alfred E. r Smith, of' New York, as presidential i condidate, heard Robinson continue - the anti-corruption attack which Claude Bowers of New York voiced in his keynote speech last night. i The convention sweltered in oppressive op-pressive humidity. A rainstorm which last night wet part of the , convention hall, had failed to bring relief, but delegates still had the holiday spirit. Bands furnished r plenty of noise; and the notice of a fight over report of the credentials committee served to thrill the delegates dele-gates and guests. Their attention was centered around the contest of the Louisiana delegation In which j the credentials committee had ruled rul-ed that Mrs. Genevieve Clark j Thomson daughter of the late , speaker Champ Clark and her fol-I fol-I lowers were improperly chosen. Formality of Public Hearing j ! Meantime the platform committee had convened for public hearings on prohibition, farm relief and : other platform planks. Eight hours were allotted for this, though the - leaders were in general agreement already as to what the planks had been among others, a dry law ' enforcement plank and a strong promise of aid to the farmers. J The definite moulding of the platform plat-form will come tonight when members mem-bers of the resolutions committee meet in private. Their product will be offered to the convention tomorrow, tomor-row, i |