AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1928, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

PROHIBITION PLANK. ADOPTED BY DEMOCRATS. Jfress Association- Electric Telegraph-Copyrigh (Received Friday, 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, Thursday. A message from Huston, Texas, states that the Democratic Convention adopted a plank declaring for the enforcement of prohibition and sharply assailed the Republicans for what it described as failure to enforce the dry laws.—Australian and N.Z. Press Assn. United Service. HOOVER TO RESIGN. WA SUING TON, Thursday. Mr Hoover’s office in the Department of Commerce, announced that he would resign his post as Secretary of Commerce at an early date in order to devote his entire time to the Presidential campaign. A definite date for the resignation is not announced, but it is believed that Mr Hoover will tender his withdrawal .to President Coolidge about July 15, when lie visits tho President at the summer White House at Brule, Wisconsin. It is rumoured that Mr Hoover will be replaced by either Dr, Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, or by Air Walter Brown, Assistant Secretary of Commerce'. The Secretary of the Interior, Mr Hubert Work, the newly-selected Republican national chairman, will also resign his office about the same time.—Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.