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M3 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 1932 Generals of Field Marshals Forces Keep Tabs on Republican i ---HMi! a- I -J 7 ijl i s-x director; Mrs. Ella Boole of Brooklyn, head of the W. C. T.

(2) Mrs. pgden Mills (left), wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Miss Sarah Butler, daughter of Dr. (1) The generals of the dry forces in Chicago as the Republicans opened their national convention today, left to right, Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington, dry educational Nicholas M.

Butler, on their arrival in Chicago; (3) Samuel S. Koenig, Manhattan Republican leader (left), sits down and talks over the political situation with Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, and William Hill of New York (4). Three leaders which a caucus of the New York delation brought together before the camera. Left to right, George D. Fearon, Charles D.

Hilles and W. Kingsland Macy. Boom for Dawes Persists Although He's No Candidate 'Earth 's Quietest Spot9 Is Little Cicero Town Ganpstrrlrss Former Stronghold of Al Capone Looks Like 'Mortgage Manor' on Long Inland and Sensation Hunters Are Disillusioned By CLINTON L. MOSIIER Staff Correspondent of Theagle Just outside Chicago, June 13 So this is Cicero? Life Is like that; full of disappointments. Why, this place that Is supposed to be crowded to the gutters with gangsters looks like "Mortgage Manor" out on Last Ditch Dry Law Women Seem Scarce New York Lines Up With for Resubmission Some for Outright Repeal Objection to Ruth Pratt on National Committee By FAITH MOORE ANDREWS Delegate from 20th Assembly District Special Correspondent o) The Eagle Chicago, June 14 The old cry of the prohibition leaden that the women of the nation would fight to the last ditch for the Eighteenth Amendment, no matter what the men might do, does not seem to be particularly valid here.

Dry McCooey Denies Political Talk in Meeting Smith Democratic County Leader John H. McCooey said today that there was "nothing to talk about at all" in his -meeting over the weekend with former Governor Smith at Hampton Bays. L. I. McCooey said he went to the Canoe Place Inn.

a favorite gathering place of the Tammany elite, for a fishing trip Friday, and that all the fishing was for fish. "Supreme Court Justice Brower and my youngest son, Everett, went with me," said the Jovial boss. "We had a good day Friday and when we came back to the inn found Mr. Smith there. The four of us chatted for a time.

Mr. Smith asked us how the fish were running and when we told him about our fish he congratulated us." The Brooklyn leader noted that Tammany Boss John F. Curry was also reported to have met with the former Governor at the Long Island stamping ground over the weekend, with the result that there was a good deal of political speculation going on in town. "But that," McCooey added, "is something I don't know about. Mr.

Curry came Just about the time I left on Saturday. Mr. Smith was still there, and I suppose it is quite natural that they should have met. wasn't there." Nothing, McCooey added, was said about Presidential booms, the forgotten man, conventions or delegations. In the Tammany environs, where the meeting between Smith and Curry is reported to have been arranged, the feeling was that the Tammany boss and his allies are still without definite commitments as to the destiny of 50 or so votes they will control at Chicago.

McCooey said that he would lead the Brooklyn delegation to the convention either on June 21 or June 23. 'Unfounded Rumors' Nettle Roosevelt Albany, June 14 UP) Recurring Chicago reports that Governor Roosevelt would appear before the Democratic National Convention If nominated, or that he would take direct charge of his fight for the Presidential nomination if the opposition held have brought this answer from the Governor: "I'm not going to make any statement in answer to the dozens of unfounded rumors that will appear every few minutes during me nexi few weeks." As the different State dele- gations arrive on the ground there does not seem to be much difference In the attitude of the male delegates and the women delegates or alternates. New York Women for Resubmission In our own N. Y. Elate delegation, when the resubmission icpeal plank was put to a mo- tion, it was carried unanimously.

The women wen as much for it as were the men. And there women here, as well as men, who insH that our proposed plank won't do because It doesn't go all the way for outright repeal. On the other hand, in the delegations from the prohibition Slates it is the men who are the dryest of I 'f i Faith Moore Andrews the dry, although Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, dry leader, Is here and doing what she can to stem the tide Sunday was an uneventful day until 9 p.m.

when our State delegation met at the Congress Hotel. Sarah Schuyler Butler and Rhoda Fox Graves, delegates-at-large, were ml Calder Is Seen Receptive to Congress Post Reluctance to Try for Representativ e-al-Large Disappearing Special by Eagle Staff Correspondent Convention Hall, Chicago, June 14 Reliable Information obtained here today is to the effect that former U. S. Senator William M. Calder of Brooklyn Is rapidly approaching a frame of mind in which he will permit County Leader F.

J. H. Kracke to fight to nominate him for Congressman-at-large. The Republicans and Democrats at their State ponventions in the Fall will each nominate two candidates for Congressmen-at-largc to fill out New York's enlarged quota in the House. The suggestion that Calder would make an excellent choice was broached to him some time ago at a Sunday night round-table confer ence at the Union League Club in I Brooklyn.

I He was cold toward it then, but did not turn it down flatly. Since that time he is reported to be showing signs of weakening. He is having an excellent time here, sitting on the important conferences, renewing old acquaintances and generally forgetting his frequent declarations back in Brooklyn that he has no desire to return to public office. The talk of Calder for Governor is not being taken seriously here, for the reason that the place Is almost certain to go to an up-Stater, probably Speaker Joseph A. Mc-Ginnies of Chautauqua County, at the moment the leading contender.

Strong Calder Feeling There is, however, a very strong feeling among the delegates from New York that Calder would do the ticket a world of good and that the logical place for him would be as a candidate for Congressman-at-large. It was learned that he has been telling his friends here that it might not be such a bad thing for him "after all. Aside from his fast-as-appearing reluctance, the only difficulty at the moment is that the Queens organization, headed by Warren Ashmead, is determined to get the congressman-at-large nomination that will come down-State. Queens argues that, despite its size, it has but one whole congressmanWilliam F. Brunner of Rock-away and a half of Congressman Robert L.

Bacon, who has Nassau and Suffolk included in his territory. Heal North Carolina Breach Over Smith Raleigh, N. June 14 (JP) A breach among North Carolina Democrats created in the 1928 Presidential campaign appeared to have been healed today with announcement that Furnifold M. Simmons, for 30 years U. S.

Senator and for almost half a century a dominant figure in the party in the State, would support Cameron Morrison In the second primary. Simmons and Morrison, the present Senator, split over support of Alfred E. Smith in the 1928 campaign. Simmons opposed the New York man. sessions of politicians.

A lot of this excitement over the various so-called issues in Chicago today has been drummed up to deceive the people into thinking that conventions really mean something." Declaring there is "nothing wrong with the country today." Mr. Ford said: "There is nothing wrong with anything except the money system, and Hoover certainly has no control over that. He should have and some day the people will have such control. Act of Hoover Spokesman Is Big Surprise Accepted an an Effort to Keep Real Wets From Stampeding Continued from Page I no obligation to file a minority on it when the committee disapproves it." Dr. Butler rose from his seat and shook his finger in Mills' face.

"Mr. Secretary, you've got an ethical obligation to do what the New York delegates said you should do," i he shouted. Well, I am coming to you now to tell you how I feel so that there will be no misunderstanding latrr," said Mills, walking away from the distinguished cducatoru, who resumed his seat. The delegates, many of whom could not hear the conversation, had watched the meeting with bated breath. 'Went Pretty Far' Today, as the convention met, Macy said: "Of course, we went nrettv far sunoav nicnt our an.

I am for the best way to remedy the present situation. "If it appears that the people of this country would be more likely to support a substitute for the 18th Amendment rather than outright re- peal, then I think most of us would be for the substitute. "Will New York support a mild resubmission plank that fails to provide for resubmission machinery?" he was asked. "We will not," he replied. The situation toda yis encouraging from the standpoint of those who are fighting to retain for Ruth Baker Pratt her place on the national committee.

She arrives here today. That issue is due to come to a vote tomorrow night and the hostility to hpr among all but the Hoover leaders has died down considerably. The fact that Mrs. Pratt is a heavy and willing contributor to bhe State organization is a strong factor in her favor. The opposition to her is based on the idea that, because of her very excellent White House connections, she has assumed too much power.

Very Fine Distinction The drys in the delegation are beginning to realize that the distinction between asking Congress to repeal so a vote can be taken and committing the party and the country to repeal is a very fine one and will be hardly discernable to their constituents back home. One of those who has experienced this awakening is Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves, the farmerette from St. Lawrence County, the only woman number of the Legislature. Mrs. Graves is a dry and she rnmcs from a dry district.

She sat In the conference room at the Congress Hotel Sunday night when the plank went through. How It Was Adopted It was adopted by Macy saying, "All those In favor say, 'Aye'; contrary-minded, The motion is adopted." There were a half dozen "ayes," no "no's" and the thing was over. A few hours later Mrs. Graves began to worry. She realized that to save her sent.

In t.ho T.PEriclat-nrp cVi uHll have to go back home and conduct a courw ln constitutional law for the benefit, nl her rural mnMhint William H. Hill of Binghamton. the dry leader, is also disturbed about the dry Coniressmen. If. bv any chance, the New York plank should be adopted by the convention, these Congressmen, if they stood by the party, would have to vote in Congress for repeal.

They would vote dry later, but thev would be nn record in Wash ington in favor of repeal, whereas Hill and the other drys not In Con gress could simply vote dry when It came time to select delegates to the State convention. servative representation leaders guard the submission of a substitute for the Eighteenth Amendment as a better vote-getter, as far as the ex- trpma tL0t ara rnnrtarrtfiH AltVtrttmV thPlr' mnf no repeaj. present. Ruth Pratt, the other one I eity for the Republican and Demo-of the "Big Three," was, annaientlv cratic National Conventions. Four tion.

Part of the Administration Is Mr. Curtis. Mm. Longworth Nearby While Mrs. Gann was staging her act at the headquarters in Congress Hotel, Mrs.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who engaged in the historic fight over precedence when Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth was alive, was down the street at another hotel. Mrs. Longworth resents the implication that she came here to agitate against Mr. Curtis' renomlnation. or that she had the slightest part in it, yet if he is deprived of this honor it cannot but be gratifying to the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, whom Mrs.

Gann worsted in a battle for official rank. The Hoover Administration Is bound to go through the motions of supporting Mr. Curtis for the nomination, But there isnt much heart in it. General Dawes has meanwhile announced that he is "not a candidate," but he has failed to state that he wouldn't accept the nomination if tendered. Alternative Favored Whether Mr.

Dawes is nominated or not, whether he accepts or not, the chances all favor the choosing of an alternative to the present Vice President. This is all the more probable because this convention, which now faces the prospect of a compromise on prohibition repeal is in the mood, as mi tuiivenuuiu! are, to assert Its Independence through the nomination of a Vice President of its own choice. The Hoover Administration has handled the preliminaries of this convention with almost Incredible ineptitude. On three major points delegates have been left in the dark No one knew (1) what the President wanted in the shape of a pro hibition plank, (2) whom the President wanted nominated for Vice President, and (3) whom the President intended to name as chairman of the Republican National Convention. Where Does Butler Fit? An example of the Administra-.

tion's ineptitude was evidenced last night- in the caucus of the Massachusetts delegation. It has been assumed here, and with good reason. tnat the President was inclined to name former Senator William M. Butler as chairman of the Republican National Committee a position which he filled during the Coolidge campaign in 1924. Yet when the Massachusetts delegation met, one of Mr.

Hoover' friends in the war relief work, John Richardson, was put forward as candidate for National Committeeman from Massachusetts, and Mr. Butler was voted down for this job, 18 to 15. Where this leaves Mr. Butler, as prospective Republican chairman, is not evident. Meanwhile, R.

Benjamin of California. Mr. Hoover's tall, blond personal friend and adviser, received little consideration at the hands of the California delegation. Instead of naming Mr. Benjamin to the Resolutions Committee, which will frame the platform, the Californians named C.

C. Teague, former member of the Farm Board. Two Consideration The prospective compromise on prohibition is based on two considerationsfirst, that a mere declaration for resubmission, as the Administration desired, would be without meaning, and, second, that a declaration for outright repeal would be altogether too extreme. Between thes two there was the obvious middle ground still a wet ground of recommending a substitute for the Eighteenth Amendment, in the m.bi "i oiaie oi uquor unaer I J-euciai cuniroi. loucn a plan, might be mentioned, will have much more chance of securing the votes of 36 State conventions than straight repeal.) The Administration has advanced toward the wets in this compromise, while the more extreme wets have retreated towaid a more practical plan than outright repeal without an alternative.

Outright repeal sounds good, but such an extreme commitment aoes not commcna u- self as wise from a political view point. Sees Drys With G. O. P. Republicans would not be surprised if the Democratic platform soes the full length.

Since it would lume iur iiiv pi umuiuuii luiLrs to Doit, notn ticKeis. me Adminis tration thinks that the prohibition ists will remain with the party that: Continued from Page 1 fering a substitute under which States which desire to retain prohibition would be protected under Federal auspices from their wet neighbors. Adoption of such a substitute, based on certain portions of the Wickersham report, would be open to the charge of straddling, Administration representatives recognize, but so certain is President Hoover that the prohibition voie is still a powerful factor in the nation that the middle ground is now a wet ground. The wets, with the exception of the extremists, were not anxious to accept this substitute, but recognized that submission of flat repeal to the voters might well result in rejection. Thirteen States can prevent a change in the Constitution which would signalize a return to the pro-prohibition era without restriction as to the saloon or otherwise.

See Curtis Denied Unless word comes from the White House, it is probpble that Vice President Curtis will feel the weight of precedent and be denied a renomlnation The speed with which the anti-Curtis movement has materialized is amazing. The strange case of Charles Curtis lies in the fact that he appears to have been more unpopular among Republicans outside of Washington than at the capital. The first growllngs of dissatisfac tion came from delegates from remote sections. Senators and Representatives were without enthusiasm. The two groups coalesced in their diatribes against renominating a man in his middle 70 who could neither bring political strength to the ticket nor wage a vigorous campaign.

Dawes' if lie Wants It When the name of Dawes was brought into the picture the response was immediate. It was at first feared that Mr. Dawes, himself 67, would not accept the nomination. Then General Dawes began to issue equivocal statements at Washington. Word which appeared to be authoritative came that he would run if "drafted." The anti-Curtis drive ran into high gear.

The Iowa and Texas delegations met last night and voted to support Mr. Dawes, so it appears as if the nomination is his if he wants it. Even if Mr. Dawes doesn't accept, there is a strategic purpose in bringing his name before the convention, because thus opens up the nomination for Vice President to other possibilities, among which a multitude of names are mentioned, such as former Senator Wadsworth of New York, Maj. Gen.

James G. Harbord of New York, Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills of New York, and others outside the Empire State. But Mr. Dawes is the favorite.

No White House Enthusiasm All the drama and fire here, of which there has been precious little, had been on prohibition up to the time when the nomination for Vice President began to enter the realm of the dubious. The first impression of most observers was that Mr. Curtis, although weak and somewhat unpopular, would be renominated. It soon became apparent, however, that the White House was not enthusiastic about this Kansan running again with Mr. Hoover.

Friends of the President who came to Chicago praised the Vice President in lormal words, but it was said that Mr. Hoover would leave the choice to the convention; that he had indicated no preference, and that he would express no opinion on Mr. Curtis even if requested. This sounded as if the White House was Indifferent, even perhaps hopeful, that the Vice President would be ditched. Later, some of Mr.

Hoover's friends began to bluster about "fighting'' for the renom-ination of the 1928 running mate, which caused a laugh. Delegates Revolt The delegates meanwhile began to revolt. Hrs. Everett Edward Gann, with her husba.id, arrived from Washington, came vo headquarters, and forgetting all question of rank nd precedence, shook hands with sought to 'sustain sentiment tor Mr. Curtis She entered the lists as a political speaker, under direction of the Republican National Committee.

Her theme, which as the rennmination and re-election of Herbert Hoover, tM Uje support.) Qui Young Republicans Ask Resubmission The National Affairs Committee of the Brooklyn Young Republican Club today sent a resolution to the Brooklyn delegates at the Chicago convention, urging them to work for resubmission of the liquor Lssub to the States, In conventions, and also for an amendment to the 18th Amendment cf the Constitution. The resolution urges the creation of a Federal Liquor Commission to sell beverage liquors "in thos States which their sale mitted h.v the laws of the respec tive States to purchase such liquors." Dcrmod Ives Is chairman of the committee and Willard M. L. Robinson acting secretary. Raiders Mop Up Chicago Loop Bars Chicago.

June 14 (Pi While th anti-prohibition crusaders were staging their big downtown rally and convention crowds milled about hotels, Federal prohibition agents smashed into seven Loop speakeasies last night, destroying bars, equipment and liquor. The raiders said they understood the campaign was part of the extended local drive to "dry up" th speakeasies were also raided on the North Side and a number of arrests made. IDKXTIFY RAIL VICTIM Th man electrocuted by the third rail of the Long Island Railroad at the intersection of Atlantic Ave. and Chestnut yesterday, was Identified last nieht as Luigi Sciutto. 72, of 74-02 McKinley Woodnaven, Queens.

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There are a number from which to choose and high in the list is "Pilgrim" standard in Brooklyn and on Long Island for 38 PILGRIM LAUNDRY BROOKLYN HUgunot42800 Serrire anrttiW in Brooklyn. Long Island with the Lis Pen--- dence (the little blue flower) growing In the back yards and the bill collectors decorating the front porches. Your correspondent came here this afternoon with a 240-pound Assemblyman for protection, an up-State judge or near Judge whose name he didn't get and enough other politicians to fill up two taxi-cabs. And the whole party, after driving up and down the streets for three hours, insulting pedestrians in the hope of getting shot; at, and searching for some excitement, left here sadly disillusioned. So this is the former hangout of Al Capone.

now spending his time in one of Uncle Sam's chain boarding houses Atlanta? It must be a case of "The king is dead." without "Long live the king." He has no successor here. Cicero died when Capone left. The two-cab parade made a noisy departure from the Hotel Stevens, ducked in around a half-dozen side streets and straightened out on a broad, cobblestone highway with car tracks down the middle, a highway leading to the south side of the city. Take Vt to Cicero "Take us to Cicero," some one directed the driver. Where do you want to go there?" asked the driver.

"Oh. take us where we ought to go," shouted the up-State Judge or near judge with the Court of Appeals collar. The cabs went on and on past huge industrial plants, a hospital for contagious diseases and here and there a string of poor looking anartment houses. Suddenly the driver announced, "When we pass the next street we will be in Cicero." Looked Just as It Had When we passed the next street It looked just like it had before we got there. Where can we get a drink?" we asked the driver.

He didn't know. Some one suggested we call' a cop. We couldn't find a cop. Another cab driver contributed an address of a store with the shades pulled down in front and a small bar in the back. The bartender was a thin, nervous man like your average bartender back home, maybe not as tough He drew a half-doien steins of home brew and said it was all he had.

The first man to throw his head back and gulp down the very poor beverage spied a row of unspent bullets ranged along the top of a wooden partition behind the bar. Next to the bullets was a bottle containing a well-known brand of indigestion tablets. "Now that looks like business." said the drinker. "Oh. them," said the bartender.

"They're just souvenirs so people will think this place is tough." Then he broke 'Quietest Spot on Earth' "Why this is the quietest spot on earth," he confessed. "There ain't nothing tough about this here suburb. That's the bunk." The rest of the trip proved he was right. The beer got worse and the town quieter. On cither side of the streets are middle class, detaehed homes with the grass plots well cared for and plenty of shade trees lining the curbs.

The kids came tripping home from school and the housewives gossip over tne bacic lence ana everything's dead as a door nail. Must Do Something But after all a delegate, waiting for the convention, has got to do something to pass the time. It's eithrr smhtseeing or cutting out paper But don't ever let any one tell you Cicero's a tough town. If It is, you can'( find it. I of Detained in Washington.

Congressman Parker was also absent, and his alternate, Natalie Couch. Secretary to Supreme Court Justice Tompkins, was his substitute. The leader of our countv. Fred erick J. H.

Kracke. had the honor of naming the chairman of the State Delegation. W. Kinssland Macy. Miss Lillian, Garing.

vice-chairman of Queens County, was named secretary, her name being presented by Warren Ashmead. rian Clubs-Mrs. Ebba Winslow, also of Queens, and an alternate to the convention, has been appointed one of four memberh from New Yorlc State on a committee to form "National 32" clubs. The election of two members of the National Committee from New York was deferred until later in the week. Rumor has it that there is objection to Mrs.

Pratt because she Is from the same part of the State as Mr. Hilles and is at the same time a membpr of Congress. The h'gh light of the meeting was the way in which a motion for the re-submission of the Eighteenth Amendment was carried unanimously and without debate. Women workers for the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment, are stationed on the street-corners giving away "vote wet" buttons. All the Brooklyn delegates and al ternates have now arrived.

Ralph Halpern and Jim Greenberg. both from the 9th Congressional District, motored here. Those who are attending the convention from Kings, especially the feminine visitors, this morning received their tickets in a grand rush upon Harry Barrett and Senator Westall. of Westchester, seated on a dais in judicial s'ple in the Wal- rrnt Room of the Congress Hotel. The latter were acting as deputies for Lafe Gleason, secretary of the convention.

SAIL FOR El ROPE Mrs. Jacob Krive and daughter. Miss Gertrude Krive, of 856 E. 15th sailed for Europe on the motor-ship Milwaukee of the Hamburg-American Line, yesterday afternoon. After spending some time in Paris, where they will visit relatives, they will go to a French health resort for several weeks and return to Mtyqua fijsfe uses -SjtJtlX' Ford for II oover, Chicago Means Nil; Jobs, Cash in Jean Is Issue Detroit, June 14 iP) Henry Ford believes the issues "now "being stirred up at the political conventions" mean nothing and thinks they will not have the slightest effect "on the things that we are all interested In today economic recovery, jobs and money in the pocket the average man." Tn an Intorvtpm tnHov Afr Fnrrf lauded the abilities of President Hoover and said he expected to see him re-elected "because he is the best fitted man for the Job." "One thing that should be cleared up." he said, "is that these national conventions are not so important as they are made to seem.

They can't give the people anything and thev can't take anthlne awav from the people. So far as the Constitution of the United States is "We are Interested today ln put- all visitors and' boomed her money in the pocket of the I er. Mrs. Gann for months has averare man, reversing the economic spiral by putting men to he said, "and all this stuff in Chicago has no effect whatever on that. The country knows what i's retil tasic is, and is not going to be switched off by propagandist of Is least objectionable ln thin feature I doubt that a substitute will bring Brooklvn in tn Fal1-of its platform.

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