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MAYFIELD 63,000 - AWEAD IN TEXAS Ferguson Concedes Defeat in Senatorial Run-0ff Balloting. BLANTON LEADS RIVAL| Representative Has 25419 to 15,484 in Congressional Contest. ress X. August 28.—With 50.000 to 60,000 additional votes to come in, Earle Mayfield's lead ast night for the democratic nomi- nation for United senator was At the last yield was by ap- proximately 60.000 votes, but reports that came in dur- ing the d the but shows, reduced the approxi- B, MAYFIELD, Jatoy 000 Kot andidate, ov. James the Ku Klux Kian ent is former 282,043 May field. lieutenant governor is leading C supposediy 1 id, s ir Mares Lesds Bentley. N. Marrs leading I said the Ka R Klan race i to have 2010 votes in rintendent of public in- is th unced until which will his opponent, the run-off omplain. against great loyalty of my friends could not overcome. [ extend to my opponent whatever congratulations he is entitled to,” he declared. nall not \ figh which even Mr. Ferguson said that he would continue his campaign against the Ku Klux Klan. PUSH MISSISSIPPI VOTE. Campaigners After Full Poll at Next Week’s Run-Off. JACKSC Miss., August 28—Be- ginning today 'Mississippi democrats enter into the last week of campalgn- ing for the run-off primary Septem- ber 5, for United States senator be- tween former Sendtor James K. var- daman and former Representative Hubert D. Sl"phuni to succeed Sena- tor Joku Sharp Williams. Hundreds of speakers have volun- teered and the entire week will be ed with political meetings in every county in the state. At the first primal held August 15, Vardaman received 73 votes, Ste- nh 80 Miss Bell Kearney 1 3 .re are more than 200,000 registered qualified voters in the state, of which only 158,538 voted in the primary of August 15. Extraor- dinary efforts are being made to bring out the full vote to the polls. DELAWARE HAS PRIMARY. Thomas Bayard Is in Lead for Senate. WILMINGTON, Del, August 26.—As a result of the state-wide democratic primaries held in Deleware today to rlact delegates to the siate conven- tion in Dover on Tuesday, indications nomination of vard as United States 2ayard obtalned twenty- nine out of the thirty delegates in Wiimington, a2nd has ‘a_majority of delegates in rural New Castle county. convention, besides nominating 4 senator, will nrame a representati State trea insurance comm «<ioner and auditor. The wet and dry big factor in the cam- ington, the former win- fared badly. but two velng clected as delegates. CALIFORNIA FIGHT WARM. 28 —Vot- will be called out mary election to- to pick party candidates for tes semator. governor, rep- tive in eleven districts, and a nt state offices and + at a state-wide pr morrow resen number of im Judicial positions Interest today centers around the for the republican nomination United States senator between Hiram W. Johnson, the incumbent, and Cha €. Moore of San Fran- cigeo. On, of the warmest political con- s since the day when Senator Johnson was elected governor of this state, has been under way during the iast month. with many former sup- porters of the senator mow aligned with his opponent, and many of his former encwies now his supporters. Every county in the state ia re- cording to the registra- wich is the heaviest in the his- of ‘the state. Therew ill be no _-ajx of the state’s eleven Representa- Nolan, H. Frye Barbour. Arthur M. Free and Phil D. Swing Rave a clear fleld for both the republican and democratic nominations. Day Dictates the Clothes. From the New York Sun. To be really in the fashion in Siam t is not enough to have clothes of the latest and a knowledge of what, when and where to wear thése zarments. Good taste does not help * jnuch either. There is a rigid rule ‘or every day of the week, which is tollowed by those who have the fn- clination and the price. ©On a Sunday the things tq wear &re Monday stripes and-cat’s ‘or Wednesday. No o ¢ smart on a Thursday without going out in green with cmeralds. Light isite and diamonds are the thing for Friday. and on a Saturday one wears Cork blue and sapphire - DAVIS HAS PARLEY odds, | QUITS SHIP BOARD POST. dent and General Counsel. Chairman Lasker announced today the resignation of Plmer Schlesinger s vice president and general counsel of the Shipping Board, effective Sep- tember 1. Mr. Schlesinger will be- come associated with the law firm of Stanchfield & Levy of New York. No successor has been selected. THEEDALE REFUSES ALEYANDRIA OFFER iCity Managership Tempting Position in Place of Such Promise, He Says. L] Alonzo Tweedale, for twenty-four vears prominently identified with the District governmgnt, and treasurer and general controller of the United States Shippirg Board during the war, today declined an offer of the managership of the city of Alexan- dria, and, in a letter to W. A. Smoot. | ehairman of the city couneil of that . said that his connec- | tion with the C Service Company, of which he is treasurer, prevented him fromi accepting the “very tempting pos : To a ive of The Star Mr. lale said: “It is with much re- 1 am compelled to give up t attractive proposition. | the south thut than Alex- nd when the council of that city red me the managership it took me more than a minute to con- ider refusing it. its its in ¢ outiook wn Future. t “With bnt, p water and its | proximi of the | nation, our It to the uth should and 1 feel certain will in short time of the most pros- rous and thriving communities, in his scction of the country. Theré is » splendid opportunity there for the right man_ and 1 feel highly compli- | mented that the Alexandria council ! thought of me for the position. The former auditor of the DI said further that the work connected with the mar ship was much to i | hi [ i 1 its detuils, and that only inereased the com- s identified pre- | “dabbing” such an so referred e by former Com- s Brownlow in a simi- n at Petersburg, Va. Mr. Brownlow had been t that he accept the offer i the city of Alexandria. s impossible, though.” sald Mr. ale, in conclusion, “for aside rom my regular business 1 am the | resident of the National Assoclation f Controllers and counting Officers, #d this, 100, necessitates many trips | { through the eountry.” { R e e | i WITH STRIKE HEAD | Labor Secretary Makes New Effort to Break Hard- Coal Deadlock. " PHILADELPHIA, August 28.—Sec- retary of Labor Davis conferred here today with John L. Lewls, interna- tional president of the United Mine Workers, in the hope of breaking the deadlock in the anthracite strike. Mr. Davis left for Washington imme- diately after the conference. Neither he nor Mr. Lawis would talk. Only coal operators who have their offices in Philadelphia were in the city today, and Mr. Lewis and Inter- inational Vice President Philip Murray of the miners’ organization are the only representatives of the coal dig- gers still here. The next e in the strike is look- ed for at Washington. ) The miners still stand for a re- newal of the old wage agreement un- | itil April 1, 1924 without arbitration, iwhile the operators have mnot an- nounced any change in their ofter which provides for the renewal of the old wage scale until next April, and itthe fixing of the wages for the fol- lowing coal year by arbitration. Samuel D. Warriner, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- pany and chairman of the anthracite! operators’ policies committee, arrived here last night from his summer home lin Montrose, Pa. Simultaneously it | was learned that United States Sena- tor Pepper of Pennsylvania had come from Devon, Pa., to meet the spokes- man of the emplovers to discuss meth- ods of bringing peace in the hard coal regions. A conference between Mr. Warriner and Senator Pepper was said ‘to be scheduled for today. The Pennsyl- vania senator last week spent some- {time with Jobn L. Lew president of ithe United Mine Workers, and other union leaders in an effort, he said, to familiarize himself thoroughly with the union point of view: RITES FOR PUBLISHER. Delavan Smith of Indianapolis to Be Buried Today. CHICAGO, August 2. election of the pallbearers completed arrange- ments for the funeral late today of Delavan Smith, publisher of the In- dianapolis News, who died Friday at his Lake Forest summer home. ‘The honorary palibearers were: Vic- tor F. Lawson, John Farwell, Thomas D. Jones, Hugh J. McBurney, John Dorr Bradley, Prof. Malcolm Mc- Neil and Frank W. Read of Chicago; Hilton U. Brown, general manager of the Indianapolls News; George A. Ranney, Charles R. Williams, Prince- ton, N. J.; Richard Smith, managing editor of the Indianapolis News; John ‘Whitworth and Henry K. Gilbert. The active - pallbearers ‘were: Charles ark and Lott Lee of the Indianapo- News staff, Lawrence Willtams, ¥rank Dunne, Prof. W.,Burnat, Lake Forest, and Dr. Victor F. Keene, In- | i Will Keep You Warm C. A. MUDDIMAN & (0. 61612th St 1204 G Se. | The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship. Schlesinger Resigrs as Vice Presi-| ' HowsaBoY AINT 60T A TICKETS FOR TH' FIGHT - THAT AN T WORKIN HAVE VA ? Don TCHA How DY, 7Ac GooPD. SAY. TACK YA JAck? v TH Guy You MET UP AT TH BALL PARK 1N 19 {8 CHARLIE NORRIS INTROOUCED ME . SAY, How ABouT Two — NS DOWN PLEA EEisie) || OF SCHOOL LEAGUE How ARE va 7 By GEORSE, IT's 600D T SEE YA AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! BY TH' Examiner Holds Roure-Trip ‘- Fafe Plan on Railroad | Not Unreasonable. th of ?°ATs PAIR A Way, JACK., COULDJIA Fix ME UP Wi A CouPLA TICKETS FOR T FAIGHT -/ vh m Maintenance of interstate round trip fares between Washington and Alex- andria on a lower basis than those below Alexandria on the line of the Washington-Virgina Railway Com- pany do not result in “unreasonable {tares and charges” as alleged in a complaint filled with the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Snow- den Civic School Ieague, according to a tentative report made to the com- mission today by Examiner Warren H. Wagner. Examiner Wagner fur- ther points out that maintenance of | the twenty-six-trip ticket and failure | of the road to provide baggage check ng arrangements, protested in th complaint of the lgague, do not con stitute undue prejudicial rates. He recommends to the commission that the complaint of the Civic School | { League be dismissed. The complaint of the league, filed | with the commission last spring, and | heard before Examiner Wagner in! May, alleges that_establishment the ~ Washington-Virginia Company, effective January of reduced round trip fare Washington and Alexandria copsti- tute undue prejudice to persons I¥ing along the road below Alexandria. The | commission ‘was asked to prescribe just and reasonable rates of fare. The complaint also assailed ‘maintenance of the twenty-six-trip monthly ticket | |and failure of the road to provide | | baggage checking arrangement. MY NAME'S FERD Fimik , HERS RoTH ToLD Me To CoME UP AN SEE YoU . HE SALD You' P Fix ME UP WITH A PAIR OF TICKETS FOR TH FIGHT, | CouLo REMEMBER ME, AMD .— STATEFUEL HEAD MAY TRACECOAL Given Full Power to Help Rush Shipments to Their Localities. Blanket permission was given state fuel administrations today by tho central coal committee, /enabling them to trace delayed shipments of coal consigned to the various states. Representative Bronnan, republican, Michigan, had irequested permission for the Michigan state fuel admin- istration to trace and expedite coal cars held up on the way to Michigan, and tho permission was made general by the committee. Coal for Baltimere. Allotment of,100,000 tons of coal to Baltimore to provide an emergency fuel ‘'stck for the city was announced by the committee. Senator France, republican, Mary- land, asked for the allocation to en- able the city to provide quickly for the relief of sore spots developing among the smaller consumers. Guar- antees for the price of coal, it was explained, Is to be arranged with Bal- timore banks and retall dealers. Shipment of 30,000 tons to' Balti- more, officials said, already had been made out of the 100,000-ton authoriza- tion. which is in addition to fuel al- lotted Baltimore .for public utilities. Roads Faver I C. C. Plan. Railroads in various sections of the country, according to committee of- ficlals, are anxious to get away from the priority system of coal dlstribu- tion 4nd are seeking a return to the assigned car orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Efforts are being made, it was said, to provide for the fuel wants of the railroads without allowing the carriers to ac- cumulate too large stocks of fuel which might be used by public utili ties and other necessary consumers. —— Point Barrow, the largest Eskimo village in Alaska, has seven white pe- ple and 600 Eskimos. It also contains the only hospital within a radius of 1,000 miles. Graduate Eyes Examined McCormick Medical || DR.CLAUDE 5.SEMONES ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE PAPERING AND PAINTING done this fall? If so it will pay you to see us. CORNELL WALL PAPER (0. ALL \WANTED WASTo SELL YOU SOME STOCK INTHE HOOPLA O1L COMPANY . \WE'RE LETTING | A FEW PROMINENT BUSINESS , | MED 14 o THE GROUMO FLOOR FREED IN MURDER CASE. ATLANTA, Ga., August 28.—Forrest Huggins, twenty-four, of Cunton, Ga. Who has ‘been held as a suspect in con. neétion with-the Kkilling last month of | Homer C. McEireath, was released from custody vesterday on an order signed by Justice of the Peace J. Suber, after private -detectives working on the case claimed they had sufficient evidence to show that Huggins was not’ the man wanted. OLO MAapM, ITLLTAKE ‘S,ooa = WORTH OF YouR BUNK SToCK..You RE THE FIRST MA~ To COME 1t HERE AMO NMOT ASK FOR TICKETS To WE FIGHT ! i ] Page Mr. Peter l;c!er,_ Pumpkin Eater HIS favorite food in its foremost. form is here —fresh- pumpkin pie. The W.ALLIS farms are sending lus- cious golden pumpkins and the WALLIS bak- ers are doing the rest. Coppright, 1023, . 7. Wobstar NEW BISHOP ASSIGNED. DICKENS’' GREAT FEAT. From the Diary of Mrs. James T. Fields, Methodist Prelate, Recently Chos- |~ , 12 Hlarvers Magazioe. April 7, 186 Dickens * * * told 3 on. Prestdes in Texas Conferenes, |Jamie (dr. Ficlda) the other day. in Itgunforgembly good. i walking that he wrote “Nicholas| - Come in and have a WACO, Tex., August 28.—Bishop J. NicKleby" and “Oliver Twist” at the piece! Wallis’ “Washington’s Largest Restaargnt” 12th and G Sts. NNW. R T same time for rival magazines from month to month Once he was taken ill, with both |magazines waiting for unwritten sheete. He immediately took steamer for Boulogne, took a Toom in an inn there, secure from interruption, and was able to return just in season for the monthly issues with his work completed. He sces now how the work of both would have been better done had he worked only upon one at a time E. Dickey of Georgia, one of the new bishops elected at the Hot Springs conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has been given the presidency of the Texas conferences and will reside here. He succeeds | Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, who goes to Macon Ga., to preside over the con- ferences of that state. Bishop Dickey is ‘expected the latter part of this . MR. LOUIS MARKS Formerly Designer and Fitter With Geo. T. Keen, Inc. Is now associated with - J. M. STEIN & CO. R. MARKS brings with him a marked degree of experience gained in the high-grade tailoring world. For the past five years he has brought satisfaction to thousands of men who appreciate quality in cloth— perfect fit and the finest df workmanship. Previous to his Keen connection, he filled-in a similar capacity with the well-known house of Wm. A. Green, of.Richmond, Va. He is a valuable addition to our organization—bringing with him such a record of achievement. 3 Mr. Marks may have served you in his previous con- nection. If so, and if there is any individuality J of style, fit, and workmanship which you feel you cannot obtain elsewhere, he will be pleased to have you pay him a visit here. The new line of imported and exclusive woolens has arrived. They are a wonder- *ful assortment.’ It is advisable that you call and make an early selection for your fall requirements. . English “Tailors & Drapers 523 13th 8¢, N. W. Just Below “F” i | | ' | \ | | GUATEMALA REVOLT ENDS The Guatemslap legation - hery ‘was ad and that order had boen reesta 1ish _ Tyt have been caused in part by religious excitement and local partisan strifes. was at no time imperiled, and that officials ware endeavoring o punisl ose responsible. IBREBEEERANNNNEEESEIRAREEINSECEIEI0ITAHSEENNIRTE NI IRV VIR RRRAIA . MANTEO, N. €., August 28.— B D/ Crisp, throughout eastern North Carglin® as an attorney #nd leg- islator, was drowned yesterday when | he fell overboard from a wharf here. Mr. Crisp represented Dare county in ahe ‘H." Ieflll:tum the last two terms. “He served tw y ¥ € WO terms as mayor —_— e America's largest coll stora, lant in Montre: The bulldll‘l: ’eo“l (280,000, and took two years to com- vised today by its government that e revolt started in some provinces Guatemaia had entirely collapsed, b- ed. The disorders 1 were said’ It was added that the govornment is K STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES ‘and Stein-Bloch Suits | That Call for -Prompt Action 414 Three-piece Suits; Worsteds, Serges, Cassi- $ meres and Tweeds— ATIONS AT COST weights suitable for early Fall. Former val- <ues $35 to $65. 29 Top Coats; former values up to $45. 10 Silk Suits. 16 Linen Suits. 15 Mohair Suits. Former values up to $25. 89 Tropical Suits. 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