Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1924, Page 4

NEW YORK EXPECTS i~ ENORMOUS-CROWD Word Passed Along That More Than 100,000 Are Due at Convention. AMUSEMENTS ARE ARRANGED Special Plans to Keep ‘Ticketless Out of Hall. BY VEW YORK, June rations made Democratic strikini ROBERT T. SMALL. 18.—The here for mvention the publican York something are prepa- being the national are with ar- con- in contrast rangements for the F clave Cleveland th. N that or 200,000 at w has conceived idea like coming to or possibly tion visitors this city during the the weeks of the conven- where they are all coming from and what they are going to do after they here nobody seems to know. Madison Garden has been constructe 14,000 outside “amuse- provided for the 86,000 Probably will try at rash the 1 or at of the They will tind police thrown zurden d persons with- will Lo kept a long way Just zet Square t about persons, so some ment the must be or an 156,000 shut-outs, uts ntion vicin thi he tickets cs were far ittle pol the publ of the About all the do was to try walkers on the and narrow pedestrians a The peopls were ery tion. The <imply sta converrtion expectations. was required where the ses- tion were helda eland cops had to to keep the jay- streets in the straight paths laid down for he busy intersections. of Cleveland themselves orderly about the conven- who failed to get tickets ed away. That made the sk of the ha of the conven- tien quite sh Here in New York 1t is quite different. This is the most town the world. Let a b and cast his eves to the sky half ond a hundred will have gathered around be stretching their necks to it trying to find what it is all sions st people the lim about Hax Caught e the and agination. convention has imagination of the plain they going to n on it if they e The fact Al Smith is going fighting big arena is enough to make Yoriers sit up and take notice. no doubt as to how the idolized in his home He came from the sidewalks York and they'll sing that old housand times in Madison arden hefore the convention This cauzht people that in the New n of New allud i rush of thou- ntion, the hotel report that they Only a dozen re being convention The others quite & normal and there not lik to be at all for the 35,000 or 000 flats and apartments placed at the disposal of the committee on ar- rangements Al Partiex Concerned. Right up to the opening of oonvention the local committee is carryinz on the non-partisan idea and B ation which launched the move to bring the Democrats here. It was a4 strange thing to see sach a Grand Old Party stalwart as Frank A\, Munsey inspecting the Garden to see Iy if evervthing possible was to make the pow- wow of the Democrats a success. In 12 Mr. Munsey was a “Bull Mooser,” | L. like il the good Moosers of those days, he once more back in Republi fold Incidenta a of oosevelt was hung in ha! Cleveland for time since will be no color in York convention. Madison sarden is a striking contrast convention hall at Cleveland the lake the natural new auditorium was »d and outside the big flag and paintings at the back of ihere were absolutely no decora ns. Madison Square Garden bas no natural interior beauty and therefore the angular lines and steel skeletons have been camouflaged and hidden asx much as possible under a billowing mass of flags and pennants, shields and bunting When the crowds get inside it be a gala enough place lay With Bad Name. One eatricul producer must have though the Republican convention Was coming here instead of the Demo- cratic. He has brought out a new play called “Keep Cool." 0 This Is Politics™ is t title of another und it takes some wise cracks at all the politicians . Florenz Ziegfeld has kept his prom- iS¢ 10 bring out a new “Kollies" if the convention arded to New York. Up to that time he had an- nounced his intention to quit the “Folly" business for keeps. Last time the city more t for the isitors, of the Arrying o is the b - first There the the city | heauty of the will [eBs the Associated Press | to | speculator caught A new lies" was produced they charged $22 apiece {or the first night tickets. Only $5.50 will be charged next Tuesday night and the seats [ e ——— * H F perhaps it’s PE— '1 —and then again, it might be because they are the three-button models—that so much in demand. TPOSIC 1325 F STREET house of Kuppenheimer good clothes because they’re genuine Irish Linen Suits but because they’re priced at THE CONVENTION SIDELIGHTSI NEW YORK, June 18—Woman delegates and committeawomen to the Democratic convention next week anoounced today that they would not operate as a woman's bloc and would function as individuals rather than as women. Predicting that the fem inine Democrats will exercise a greater influence on their convention than did thelr sisters at the Cleveland Repubkican gathering, Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vies chairman of the Democragic national committee, said that the women would express their opinion on the convention floor “with- out fear or favor.” The total voting stremsth of the women will be 462 Quite & number of the woman mem- bers already have arrived. They will have a mweting Saturday is or- with Smith is announced. ganizing a “mixer’ campaign the design of “selling” Gov. to the convention delegates. The delegazes are to be looked upon as “buyers® to whom the Tammany “salesmen’ will extol their candidate Groups of Tammany members will mix with the visiting delegates in Jeisure hours and serve as hosts to groups or individuals on every possi- ble occasion ‘Panrmany. it Berry of Tennessee, pres- George L. d Printing ident of the International Pressmenr and Assistants Union of North America. has opened head- quarters in _the Waldorf-Astorin Hotel, from which he is directing his | campaign for the vice presidential nomination Democratic convention nret in Harlem vesterday a resolution in which that the “Democratic always been broad n feet” Waters, who was re-elect- the national negro A nations negroes adopted declared has and they platform enough for Oscar H ed chairman of Democratic committee, said yester- day’'s convention represented 500,000 dissatisfied negro voters. “The col ored people have voted the Republi- can ticket for generations” he said, “but the Republican party is mixed up with people who have a supreme hatred of our race.” Broadway theater men announoced today that seats for all performances at their houses next week were being sold at the regular box office prices. A majority of the theaters reported that plenty of seats vet remained for | nest week's performances. It was said that the top box office price for any New York attraction during the convention would be $5.50, which is the prevalling scale for the big fu- sical productions. Other top-pri. seats will go at $3.8 five nights a week and $4.40 on Saturda others will sell at $2.75, save on Saturday night, when they ill be sold for $3.30, One hundred or more alternates to the convention will have to be seated in the gallery of Madison Square Gar- den rather than on the convention floor. Tickets were printed for 1,334 delegates and it was discovered to- day that there would be 1,436 delegates present at the convention. As a re- sult, said Isadore Dockweiler, na- tional committeeman of California and chairman of the committee on arrangements, the overflow will have to be put into gallery seats. New York restaurants will provide meals for 2,000,000 persons daily dur- ing the convention, it was estimated today by the United Restaurant Own- ers’ Association, which renewed pre- Vious assurances that food prices would not be increased during the week A “police committee” of the organization will make visits to member: restaurants at unannounced times to see that food prices kept down Another committee de- vised menus to provide dishes native to the various sections of the coun- try ed chalrmam 0~ (o — WANTS CONTINUATION OF TWO-THIRDS RULE Missouri Committeeman Says Pleas to Change Procedure Will Fall on Deaf Ears. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, June of the two-thirds was advocated in a night by E. A. Goltra, Democratic na- tional committeeman from Missouri “Had it not been for the observance | of this rule at the convention of 1912, in Baltimore. in all likelihood the country would not have had the bene- ficial services of Mr. McAdoo as Sec- the Treasury, id Mr. declared it odd that Democrats who then tently insisting upon the the rule should now insistently urging its rvation rule 18.—Pr nominating statement last ome of the were per: observance of be quite as abrogation.” Mr. Goltra also intimated that Mis- souri, which had “bowed to the rule when Champ Clark was a candidate, | now had a favorite son. former Gov Gardner, “who as vet is not widely known, but who might become Presi- dent as the result of the observance of the two-thirds ruie.” Mr. Goltra is known as an opponent of the McAdoo candidacy NEW HEALTH OFFICER NAMED FOR RICHMOND Mayor-Elect Bright Vigorous Economy Drive Will Be Waged in Fall Special Dispatch to The Star RICHMOND, Va., June 18.—Mayor- elect Bright today announced the selection of Dr. W. Brownley Foster be chief health officer of Rich- nd, succeeding Dr. E. . Levy, o has held office ubouf ten years. Foster will take office October 1. He is a Richmond man, but has recently resided in Roanoke. The mayor-elect, who a September 1, announced that he will wage a vi aign of econ- omy, and will do away with private use of municipal automobiles for joy riding ELECTION IN DOUBT. of Smuts’ Government Seems Probable. CAPETOW Union of South Africa, June 18.—The returns from the gen- eral elections vesterday are incom- plete and the result is most doubtful. The government party. on the basi of these partial results, has twenty five seats and the laborite-nationalist opposition, thirty. have been allotted almost entirely to prominent New York Democrats, who will see they reach such bona- flde delegates and visitors as wish to go. The authorities have promised to chop off the heads of any cket in the act during the convention period. The reports being circulated by his political rivals that Senator Pat Har- Tison will represent a Ku Klux can- vention in his home state when he starts to keynote the national con- vention makes the opening arrange- ments all the more interesting. Cardi- nal Haves is to deliver the invocation. (Copyrixht. 1924.) Announced m w Dr. Defeat § T R E E T not only S English makes them McADOO STUMPS 0HIO FROM TRAIN PLATFORM Greeted by Large Crowds and Shakes Hands at Stops in Thirteen Cities. By the Asociated Press CLEVELAND, June 18.—William G. McAdoo, candidate for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination, stumped Ohio vesterday from the platform of 4 Baltimore and Ohio train on which he is traveling to New York for the con- vention Although the trip was unadvertised and unheralded, he was greeted by large crowds at thirteen cities in this state where the train stopped for a few minutes. Beca of the brevity of the stops, Mr. McAdoo spent the time in shak- ing hands. It was merely an oc Mh"ri that permitted him to say “hello.” He XD sed the hope that “the Democratic convention nominates a Progressive candidate on Progres- sive ticket.” adding that, f it does 1 promise to come back and a speech during the campaizn The candidate did not attempt any serfous or detailed discussion of can- idates or issues, indicating that the Tatter is for the convention to settle. “I'm glad to be in Ohio, the home state of James M. Cox, whom 1 ad- mire very much,” Mr. McAdoo shouted as_his train pulled out of Tiffin His last stop in the state was made at Youngstown. B = COPELAND BACKS SMITH. Senator Foresees Gloom and La Follette Winning Six States. BOSTON, June 18.—Soup Kkitchens and bread lines and victory for Sena- tor La Follette as presidential can- didate in surely six and possibly twelve states were predicted last night by Senator Royal S. Copeland, who d _the nomination of Gov. Smith of New York before the National Democratic Club of Massa- Cchusetts Serator Copeland devoted most of his speech to “the plight of the Amer- ican farmer and the indifference of the Republican administration toward him." “The farmers” he said, “are either bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptey. More than 500 banks in the northwest have been closed up because of deplorable conditions there.” The New York junior senator said that the gloomy aspect of things would remain unaltered unless a candidate of marked sympathy for the needs of the American farmer and the people in general was put up by the Democrats to drive the Republicans out of power. Honorary Degree for Marshall. WATERVILLE, Me., June 18.—For- mer Vice President Thomas R. Mar- shall of Indianapolis was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the Colby College commencement to- day. It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are procured through them make | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C WEDNESfi'AY‘ -JUNE 18, 1924 M’DOWELL'S SECOND |RED LEAVEN SURE TO DEFEAT ST. PAUL CONVENTION AIMS Conservatives in Farm-Labor Movement Must Elimi- nate Communists or Give Up Hope of Any Success. TRIAL IS OPENED Prosecution to Insist Upon Death Penalty of Boy Accused of Parents’ Murder. INSANITY BASIS OF DEFENSE { Twenty Witnesses to Testify for State—Confession Read. CLEARWATER, Fla., June 18.—The trial of Frank McDowell, the second time in two weeks on A& murder charge, was resumed in Pinellas County ecircuit court here today A jury to hear the evidence that may send the nineteen-year-old boy to the electric chair or to the insane asylum was completed late yesterday. That the defense again will rely entirely on the insanity plea was indicated by questions propounded by the McDowell counsel. It was equally apparent that the state, in this trial, will insist on the death penalty for the youth who is being tried on the specific charge of killing his mother at St Petersburg last February, when he also shot his father to death. Twenty witnesses were sworn for the state. The number that will ap- pear for the defense was not stated Neighbor Testifies. a neighbor of the Me- Petersburg, was the by the state. He de- condition of Mrs. Mo- Dowell's body when he went to the home. the urgent request of Frank, about 1 am. There were two bullet wounds In her head, the wit- ness said The boy came to his home, across the street, Stone testified, knocked on the side, frantically calling, “Come quick and get a doctor; some one has shot papa.” He found the boy kneeling at the side of the bed “weeping as though his heart would break." The boy told him, he said, that a man had entered the house, knocked him unconscious with a blow on the head one testified McDowell declared that 4t was just one year ago to- night that somebody burned my sis- ters to death at Decatur, Ga. T am all alone in the world If they had only w Dowell's first called scribed the 1. Stone, in St left me just one Note Read to Jury. witness also told of finding the heart-shaped “Holy Ghost” note between the bodies. This note was read to the jury by the state. It in- cluded a paraphrase of the lord's Prayer. D. C. Wilkerson, St. Petersburg notary _public, next witness. told Judge McMullen, during absence of the jury, that McDowell appeared be- fore” him and voluntarily signed a written confession of the murder of his_parents. The entire confession, which also described the burning to death of the fwo sisters at Decatur, Ga., in Febru- ary, 1923, was admitted as evidence, the court ruling that unless mate- riality of reference to the Georgia crime was shown it would be ruled out The WOMAN SEEKS ELECTION. of Impeached Governor Would Vindicate Name. TEMPLE, Texas, June 18—Mrs Miriam A. Ferguson, wife of former Gov. James E. Ferguson, yes Wife Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas by issuing a statement ap- pealing to the voters of the state to clear the Ferguson name by nominat- ing and electing her. 3 Mrs. Ferguson referred to the im- peachment of her husband by tne state senate in 1917 and asked that the voters repudiate the impeach- ment by placing her in office. The former governor is not eligible for office in Texas as the result of his impeachment e LA FOLLETTE IS LAUDED. Called Greatest Friend of United States by Democrat. CLEVELAND. June 18.—Represent. ative George Huddlestone, Democrat, Alabama, addressing the convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers vesterday, attacked Presi- dent Coolidge’s attitude toward labor and declared that Senator Robert La Follette, Wisconsin, was the “great- est friend of all the people in Amer- ica today. “I don't know what the Democrats down in New York are going to do. or who they are going to pick for their standard bearer, but unless they adopt a platform of progressive ideals_one which will conform with labor's needs—you may have the op- portunity of voting for that fighting senator from Wisconsin who has the courage and ability to fight minority controlled political machines and stand up for the rights of all the Ipeople.” he said. terday opened her campaign for fhe | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ST. PAUL, June 18 —Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin has truly delivered a death blow to the so- called Farmer-Labor-Progressive con- vention assembled here so far as political significance is concerned. He will be offered nomination, but he cannot accept, for the convention has already done what he vigorously pro- tested it should not do. It has ad- mitted avowed communists as dele- Kates as well as officers of the con- vention Without La Follette this gathering is hardly of national importance. Whoever is nominated and runs on the ticket apart from La Follette will receive a negligible vote at the polls. But certain things happened here which are national, if not interna- tional, in their significance. In the first place, the communists revealed themselves as a small minority even in this convention of radicals. Talk- ing with them individually one finds | their bark worse than ()H‘Il'“hl"llnd They speak of their afiliations with Moscow ax fraternal, but when you | pin_ them down (o a formula for so- | curing their obj ives ihey do not clearly indicate that they mean rev olution by force of arms. They know how remote even is their possible triumph by means of - the ballot. They are Communists in theory and not many of them would practi what they preach if it came to showdown. Indeed, their every acquiescence in a convention which plans to put a ticket in t| e fleld to be submitted in the constitutional way to | the electorate is an admission that | Russian methods are, at this stage | of the game at least, futile, ! Attitude of Majority. And If there is cause for gratifica- tion in the fact that in a nation of 110,000,000 of people only a handful of Communists are in evidence, there is also an interesting revelation in the attitude which the real Farmer- Labor leaders of Minnesota arnd the friends of Senator lat Follette take | towards Communism. enator Magnus Johnson.of Minne- | sota stayed away from this conven- tion. The leaders of the Farmer- Labor party and their newspaper or- | gan shunned the meeting and de- | nounced it in bitter terms There | were many members of the Farmer- Labor party of Minnesota seated fs delegates and there were radicals from other parts of the country, but they were men who tolerate commu- nism as a harmless theory and do not think as much influence can he | wiclded by snubbing their radical | brethren as by sitting with them and a | national attempting to persuade them to mod- eration. Stated by La Follette, The whole case against the con- vention was put in a nutshell by Senator La Follette when he said: “Although the national Communist organization as such may be granted only five delegates in the St. Paul convention, the basis of representa- tion adopted is lending itself to their purpose to control. Reposing plete eonfidence in the the deliberate judgment of the Amer- ican people, 1 have no apprehension that the Communist party can ever command any considerable support in this country. 1 do not question their right, under the Constitution, to submit their issues to the peopie, but 1 most emphatically protest against their being admitted into the councils of any body of progressive voters.” Notwithstanding Mr. La Follette's advice, the leaders here did admit the Communists and give them important places on the committees, and even selected as permanent chairman State Senator Charles K. Taylor of Mon- tana, & friend of William %. Foster and 4 man who, while not & member of the Communist party, admits his sympathy with that group, com- Mahoney Shows Hand. At the very outset William J honey, temporary chairman, cat out of the bag by revealing that although La Follette's letter was a cruel blow, nevertheless he had a well advertised name ana It would be a splendid club with which to break up the Republican and Democratic par- ties. That's why there is still a de- sire to name La Follette, but the Wis- consin senator knows that if he is to have the support of the conference for progressive political action, which meels at Cleveland on July 4, he must continue to keep himself from being in any way connected with the St. Paul convention and its Communistic delezates The fight here is to make a perma- nent party organization and there are enough Communist delegates to per- mit the national executive committee to accept uvowed Communists in its personnel. This committee would be analogous to the national committee of the Republican or Democratic parties, and ist chances of amount- ing to anything in the future depend upon its willingness or unwillingness to oust the Communists. Ma- let the Purposes of Communists. Irrespective of what happens here one may predict a short life for the committee if it doesn't ultimately get rid of the munists. They belong in no scheme which has for its object constitutional methods of securing political power Their purpose is only to sit in the executive Canadian Crash is the perfect combination of feather weight — and dressyness. You'll feel dressed up; and yet enjoy the perfect comfort of its lightness. They are tailored efficiently; are available in several shades—and offer a better solution of the cool clothes question than any you've seen. They are two-piece Suits —smartly modeled. 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