B O M FAVORS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OPENS AT KANSAS CITY 50 n . I M ON PENNSYLVANIA SWINGS KEENRSTREET OVER TO HOOVER; HIS Selectmen to Ask Next Town Meeting to Approve New NOMINATION •<S» Layout— Hold Monthly i G .O .P. PLATFORM Secretary Mellon and National Chairman Butler, Most Session. LIKE THAT OF’ 24 Powerful Fipres at Convention Come Out Openly for Following a public formal hear­ Cabinet Candidate^Just Before Parley Opened, But- ing on the re-establishment of high­ way bounds on Keeney street that Farm Relief Plank and Few at times closely resembled a typical leir Announces President Coolidge Out of Race; Pros­ "Fighting Fifth" district meeting, Manchester’s Board of Selectmen Others May Start Discus­ perity, the Issue in Coming Campaign, Declares Sena­ last night voted to recommend that fifty-foot street lines be estab­ sion. tor Fess in His Keynote Address. lished by town meeting. Keeney street, which runs from Wetherell Kansas City, June 12.— Except Convention Hall, Kansas City, F HEBE’S TODAY’S PROGRAM street,to the Glastonbury line in AT G. O. P. CONVEN’nO N the extreme western part of the for farm relief, the 1928 Republi­ June 12— A political bandwagon town, was established in 1753 when can platform was practically cut with Herbert Hoover sitting in the grants of land were made from the and dried today. Kansas City, June 12.— ^The driver’s seat lumbered into Kansas program for the opening day of Hartford East tract to some of the There may be a squabble over one town’s ' oldest f a m i 1 i e s— the City’s convention hall today for the the Republican national conven­ or two planks other than the agri­ tion follows: Keeneys, Olcotts, Olmsteads and first session of the Republican na­ cultural issue, but to all intents and Called to order by Chairman so on. The original lines, if ever tional convention. plotted for record, have now been purposes the platform will be William M. Butler of Massachu­ lost, although there is a record that adopted substantially as already There was scarcely a delegate on setts at 11 a. m. (Central stand­ a 66-foot road once was intended. written by Sen. Smoot, Republican the floor, nor a party chieftain on ard time). ■ Town Engineer Bowen has spent of Utah, who is to be chairman of Invocation by Bishop S. C. the platform that did not concede Patridge, (Episcopal). much time over a period of two the resolutions committee. This is the nomination of the candidate on years tracing all’ available maps, the opinion of. leaders of various “ The Star Spangled Banner.” shades in the party. the first ballot, probably Thursday. the convention being led by Ma­ deeds and other records, in an at­ The .Butler-Mellon announce- tempt to lay out a street following The tentative platform, of about dame Schumann-Heink. j 30 planks, hews closely to the 1924 an hour before the convention’s as­ Presentation and adoption ot j the original. bounds as closely as sembly that “ Coolidg'- is out of it” possible. Twenty-four of the pres­ pattern. It is wordy, lauds Coolidge the temporary roll of the con- ent Keehey street property owners economy and prosperity, extolls the and “ Hoover is the man” was on vention. i were present at last night’s hear­ protective tariff, favors strict law everybody’s lips. On the floor some Reading ' the call of the con-' ing. Fourteen of them favored the enforcement, endorses the adminis­ of the wavering delegations were vention. j establishment of a fifty-foot high- tration’s efforts to outlaw war and caucusing as the convention opened Brief address by Chairman ■ wavi th© rekt being rather bitterly denounces corruption in govern­ and voting to support Hoover, Butler. I ment and elections. Idaho, which had indicated its Selection of Sen. Simeon D: oppos.ed^,. There are 57 properties Fess of Ohio, as temporary 1 on the street divided a ^ n g 51 As originally drafted by Smoot, first vote to its favorite son. Sena­ the farm relief plank over which tor Borah, was one of these. The chairman. owners. The Select^lei^yt6ok it for Senator Fess’ keynote speech. granted that if a property owner the big fight has developed, prom­ delegates decided to show their ised a tariff readjustment to bring support of the nominee by going to Adoption of the usual resolu-j did not appear at the hearing he tions creating committees on approved the layout. agriculture and industry more near­ him at the start. Over in the New ly on a parity. platform, credentials, rules and ! Those Present Jersey section, where there were, order of business, and on perma- ! A copy of Ihe Smoot draft was some Lowden delegates, the dele­ Those present last night were as nent organization. I One of the “big quadrennial political shows is on. The Republican National Convention opened in Kansas City today with conveyed to Hoover lieutenants. gation informally agreed to support follows: Cheney Brothers, repre­ Word was sent back that it was too Adjournment until tomorrow I the rap of a gavel in the hand of ex-Senator William Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee. The keynote Hoover solidly from the first ballot _________________________________ rft sented by Howard I. Taylor; Martin •‘moderate’’ in its offer of aid to onward. '■ '’■'I Haberen; Amie Demars, Garfield speech of the convention was delivered by Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, after which Senator George Moses was named per­ agriculture. Hoover representatives Keeney, Arthur E. Loomis, Henry manent chairman. In the upper right is a scene in the interior of Kansas City’s convention hall. In the lower left is an ex­ then started revamping ,a farm By Acclamation. and Mr. Butler spoke their momen­ '■fil ,s;- McConville, Clinton D. Keeney, terior view of Republican’s meeting place. plank. At this rate of Hoover progress, tous pieces at the hotel a few blockf Everett j. Keeney, East Hartford It is now the policy of the Hoov­ it may be possible to nominate him distant. letter, Louis Lane, Robert J. Smith, er people to offer an affirmative by acclamation. Routine Business . u Carl J. Earn, Andrew Earn, repre- farm program based on the princi­ The captains of the Allies were When the dull business of rr i •- .-euted by brother; Carl J. Earn; NOBILE HAS FOOD ples of the. so-called Jardine coop- not mUc.h in evidence. They, had ing-the call had > -been eoncluf . Maria Turkington, represented by New York Belegation -erative. noaHcetihg aid plan. — Thisf little tb^say buf ft is'probable that Butler again took charge of f j A 1 bert Jackson; Marietta^''Brown, is an effort to convince the farmers the next few days will eee some proceedings. ■Wihner E. Keeney, Wallace I. that they can count on assistance ruffled feelings softened under the FOR FIFTY DAYS from an administration headed by “ We are now assembled pursuant Palmer, Thomas and Louke Pren­ ministrations of party doctors. to the call,” he said. “ We will op­ Divided Into Hoover. , The floor was packed and the tice, Robert J. McLaughlin, repre­ Hoover Idea erate under the rules adopted by sented by George H. Waddell; Ed­ galleries jammed to suffocation the last national convention.” He The Hoover Idea is expected to when Chairman William M. Butler ward H. Keeney, Albert J. Burns, prevail finally in the platform, es­ explained the mechanism of nation­ John Otiara, George Stamler, and Asks for Supplies of Cloth­ Kansas City, June 12.— The ^States Senator James W. Wads­ Miss Mabel Boll With Two strode on the rostrum and banged al conventions and of the national pecially as Hoover leaders are his gavel sharply at 11 a. m. Above Howard E. Keeney. turning down of Ogden L. Mills, worth, Jr., and Mrs. Charles H. claiming that will have a majority committee, explaining that each Those who opposed the proposed under secretary of the treasury, and Sabin of New York, national com­ his head and immediately behind^ cooventlon passed out of existence ing and Medicine— Two Companions Leaves Field on the resolutions committee. Mem­ him were two gigantic pictures— layout were Cheney Brothers, Mar­ the substitution of Ambassador mittee woman, Hilles and Morris bers of the committee are being at its conclusion and bad no powers tin Haberen, Clinton D. Keeney, Alanson B. Houghton as New engineered the move which cost carefully selected. Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Cool­ to control any future conventions. idge. Everett J. Keeney, Louis Lane, Carl Of Crew Injured. York’s representative on the resolu­ Mills the much coveted place on the At Early Hour. It was learned today that recent­ The only connecting link between J. Earn, Andrew Earn, Wilmer E. tions committee, today split the resolutions committee.’ ly in Washington Secretaries Hoov­ They were the only pictures In the various conventions he said, Keeney, Erward H. Keeney, Albert Empire state’s delegation wide As the leader of the Hoover er, Jardine and Mellon conferred on the vast hall. was the Republican national com­ open. forces in the New York delegation, * b u l l e t in : Chairman Butlef looked as mittee. He went Into considerable J. Burns, and Howard E. Keeney, Rome, June 12.— In a wireless farm relief. Thay agreed on the Wilmer E. Keeney would favor the Friends of Mills predicted there ; Mills will be in a position to “ clean Halifax, N. S., June 12.— general terms of an agricultural solemn as a treeful of owls. No detail as to the functioning of the message received here today.