NO WORK FOR THEM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 493, 30 June 1932, Page 1

NO WORK FOR THEM.

Vaudeville for Democratic Convention. PROHIBITION ISSUE HOLD UP. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 30, 10 a.m.) CHICAGO, June 29. The Democratic Convention discovered upon opening to-day’s proceedings that it had no business to transact as the Resolutions Committee was still in a state of deadlock over the platform plank on Prohibition. Tariff and silver questions are giving the farmers difficulties. The Convention therefore listened to vaudeville entertainers, and to Mr Clarence Darrow, Will Rogers and other minor notables, who joked, spoke and sang until three o’clock in the afternoon. Meanwhile there was apparently no solution of the deadlock between the Roosevelt and anti-Roose-velt forces. The director of Mr Melvin Traylor’s campaign for Presidential nomination announced that he was offered a bribe of 10.000 dollars to announce Mr Traylor’s withdrawal in favour of Governor Roosevelt. Senator Farley declared that this story was ridiculous. Mr Traylor is a Chicago financier. Later. A majority of the Democratic plat-form-making sub-committee agreed this morning by 6 to 3 on the wording of the Prohibition repeal submission plank, assuring a settlement of the issue in the Convention later in the day. The Platform Committee voted overwhelmingly to commit the party in favour of Prohibition repeal, the voting being 35 to 17 in favour of repeal.