Evening star., 1932-07-15
DRYS TO SUBMIT
BOTH CANDIDATES
TO DIRECTORATE
Move for Declaration in
Favor of Hoover Lost in
Close Vote of Board.
POLICY COMMITTEE
VIEWS ACCEPTED
Report and Details to Be Made
Following Action by Eighteenth
Amendment Association.

BY close vote this afternoon the
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
decided to submit the records of Presi-
dent Hoover and Gov. Franklin D
Roosevelt to the dry electorate of the
Nation without an open Endorsement of
either candidate.
The movement. led by DR.. Oliver
Stewart of the Flying Squadron Founda-
ton for a definite declaration in favor
OF Mr.. Hoover, fell but few votes short
Of victory, it was learned at the con-
clusion of the secret sessions of the
strategy board.
The more conservative majority ac-
ton was in the form of acceptance OF
recommendations prepared by a Policy
Committee of seven, which labored most
of last night on the matter.
Final Statement Late.
Details of the motives swaying the
board and a final statement of policy
will not be forthcoming until $50 pm,
after the report of the board has been
submitted to a general meeting of the
Associations of Organizations in Sup
port of the Eighteenth Amendment,
parent body of the Strategy Board.
Responsible dry leaders said. how
ever, that there is little likelihood of
the association not adopting the re-
port of the board.
The declaration Of policy is under
stood to put the organized dry forces
of the country squarely behind reten-
ton of the eighteenth amendment, and
for the election of members of Con-
for the election of members of State
legislatures who will support this atti-
tude.
On Policy Committee.
Dr. Ernest H Cherrington. president
James Cannon. jr, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South are thought to
have drafted the report as finally
adopted. Other members of the Policy
Committee were DR.. Edwin Dinwiddie,
executive secretary of the board; DR.. A.
j. Barton of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention, Col. Raymond Robbins of the
Allied Forces for Prohibition. Mrs.
Ella Boole. national president Of the
Womens Christian Temperance Union,
and Walter C. Clippinger, president of
Otterbein College.
While the action of the board leaves
the dry voters free to select which can
didate they viii support, the statement
of records and public utterances of the
two party nominees is said by the pro-
hibition leaders to be such as to point
clearly to President Hoover as more
favorable to the dry cause than Gov
Roosevelt. The last public utterance of
the President On the dry issue was to
the effect that he favored retention OF
prohibition, While Coy. Roosevelt ex-
pressed himself in entire agreement
n
The forces fighting for resubnlission
as good strategy suffered a defeat yes
terday at the hands Of the old-line
prohibitionists. A number of the young
er dry leaders put forward the proposal
that it would be wise to accent resub-
mission and attempt to obtain a reaf-
firmation of prohibition from the
electorate of the Nation.
Those Favoring Resubmission.
Among those known to have favored
reSubmiSSion was DR.. Clarence True
Wilson, general secretary of the Metho-
dist Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals
Among the leaders said to oppose any
open Endorsement of President Hoover
at this time were Dr. Wilson. DR.. Cher
rington and Bishop Cannon. DR.. F.
Scott Mcbride, general superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League, is considered
the leader of the movement to get be-
hind the Republican ticket.
The action of the board will not
necessarily be binding on the more than
80 dry organizations it represents, but
leaders here said they thought the con-
stituent bodies of the board would abide
by its decisions as to policy.
If President Hoover is not openly in
dorsed today, a strong feeling exists
that more definite action may be
taken following his acceptance speech,
if the tenor of that utterance is dry.