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WEATHER. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” Showers this afternoon, followed by generally fair tonight and tomor- row: slightly warmer tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 83, at 4:20 pm. yesterday; lowest, 68, at noon today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 29.277. The Star's carrier system covers every city block-and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,060 TWO CE WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star. Entered as second class matter post office Washington, D. C. -DEMOCRATS CLEAR WAY TO BEGIN "VOTING TONIGHT OR TOMORROW; KLAN CONTEST TO GO TO FLOOR ~ Tribute Paid to|Glass Choice as McAdoo Heir Both Cox and | Hinted in Convention Trend Br yan. But Too Much Significance Should Not| " PLATFORM DUE| Be Attached to So-Called “Test” Vote FOR VOTE TODAY on Yesterday’s Adjournment. ASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1924—FORTY-SIX PAGES. * TS GARL CLEARS UP [6POINTS IN DOUBT IN RECLASSIFYING Renders Decision Affecting Greater Part of Employes in District. Two Reports to Be Made on Issue. LEAGUE ACTION TO BE SIMILAR | RULING BELIEVED TO GIVE BENEFITS TO WORKERS Settling of What Constitutes Aver- age Rate for Class Likely to Bring Some Increases. It would be better to await a little more deflnite test than this before jumping to rash conclusions. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Nominations of Fa- 5 ,‘ Staft Correspondent of The Star. vorite Sons Near- NEW YORK, June 27.—Do not at- . tach too much significance to the seem- ing End. Committee Hopes to Opponentx Confident. = At that, the anied torces which are | Submit All Planks opposing Mr. McAdoo's nomination con- . Tonight. Sixteen questions reg: ful points in the cla | submitted by the civil | mission to Controller lare answered in arding doubt- fic on law, Service € ral M'Cari’ ing defeat last evening of the McAdoo forces on a vote on adjournment of the convention. While it is true that the ob- Ge tinue to be confident, from the polls lengthy decisior v By the Associated Press. " % A e they are taking, that McAdoo cannot o foithrndl e L aathy \.EWM;BRKM | Ject of the McAdoo men was frustrated, | |y “the prade to a two-thirds ma- (= == e o e b . June 27.—The under- | it should not be regarded as strictly a °. laresrg i il afisct Aircciis o jority, and that after very few ballot B S OULD NN are taken this will be demonstrated, . and then the process of elimi: ion and Staff Correspondent of The Star. selection will set in. NEW YORK, June 27.—The plat- currents of fee Klan question became so strong in g on the Ku Klux |test vote, involving the merits of the S LU candidates. McAdoo managers wanted to hold the convention for an evening emplo the Democratic national convention today that the McAdoo campaign managers took measures to openly session, in order to get two or three ballots before the report of the resolu- tions committee on the Ku Klux Kian The effectively staged demonstra- tior for Gov. Smith vesterday does not seem to have started & form will go to the convention with a majority and a minority report on = o = - {in the District of Columbia. Wha P the significance of the entire grou; & of answers wil be resards the welfare of government emploves | not been determined by the es had pede for him among the delegate: It was too obvious that it was manu 2 lo B1% | factured. It swept over the delegate | ably the league of nations plank,| Senator Ralston is too busy at home with his gardening to attend the New York convention. clear-cut issue between McAdd wd the | body without making a ripple e e Ve came at |cept among the delegates who ha EnatorDavid 1 Wal-iof Mussas As a result, a tedious succession | ANt MceAdoo forces, THZ Mote (ol all along been known to be for him. | chusetts said as the subcommittee | of nominating and seconding [bods was wearied, many of the deiezates | Today no reaction resembling « land- | o resolutions recessed this after- | : ad engagements for the evening's enter- 2 5 speeches was broken into by a |had enmagements for the CveRINer away. | cerned. noon. The full committee has been ! yU. U y A 3 tainment y arly predictions of the diffi- demonstration by the McAdoo peo- | The incident ‘was ‘seized upon. how- | e carly Bredictions, of (e €I0- | 4cked to meet at 3 pm., and every o u ver, b E -McAd forces with s . ple in an effort to convince the re. | SR by the anti-McAdoo forces tew are being bomne outas the day |effort will e made to get the plat- | mn 5y | iorm to the convention tonight. The | jubilance, as indication that he had lost | (60 GT€ GEINE WERE R majority report of the committee, it Service Commission today, as officia had not had time te ment suffic It was the opinion in certain circle. however, that some of the answers 1 disputed questions will operate to t { considerable ben t of government | employes. disavow before the delegates any | was brought in. sympathy on the pa c- |, Thes failed by a vote of pathy on the part of Mr. Mc- | (RO fRUST OF necossarily Adoo for religious intolerance. the Ku Klux Klan plank and prob- ) give the doc study mainder of the convention that the | control of the management ] Continued on Page i, o L vention and could not sway it to his will. (« e (G sue of religious liberty could not as follows successially be raised against thei is said, will omit the name of the ;55;5 v‘rt‘r'»f’ ns Under ang b Klan from the anti-Klan plank, and | P P . | thereo in any bureay 5 Thelomanstration was started ny PLA.":URM SESSIUN SM"H 2ND EHUI[}E She miority skl name theiisn EMakes Remarkable Finish to Campaign of Misrepresenta- | «rrr i it to the platform by the Mty | I do not think that the Klan | pe ion rates Capture Classic Event by Single Stroke. tion Follows Meeting of |erade” undis el - H Unit “Smallex Herriot and MacDonald. | rw. comcronron mosa | mentioned in the | terpreted as ANXIETY BEING AROUSED sion” vaptains to make an addre declaration by Mr. MeAc E Patrick’s day celebr. qouting Jfight on the floor can be avoided,” St. " ioonal & said Senator Walsh all creeds and races sivuld have Jewsan 0. Balcer, (fonmen Secre: equal opportunity. {tary of War, i conducting a fight to The challenge was taken up im- promise the Democratic administra- ciaRy e eRRe as taken n thon, it lected, Tenrance o the| 72.HOLE TOTAL IS 301 Pausing in the midst of the hitter Wilson. Other members itions of i favorites of the | Committee Agreed on All| Wants McAdoo, But Prefers |vroposed v the Democratic national cen- of the committee are opposing this | "‘rf.;lli‘,;;..:uf:,m.l vrnr,_»fl?v‘.'.\ Sote, “Ix £ T Tadeti8 | Issues Excepting League Governor to Nominee of |reporc™™" ™3 make @ minority| American Plays Final Nine in 36 Britain Wants German Economic| cperating under one approprist [ the ynit is the bureau or office, whe Deat Ever, Says Bryan. | La Follette Group. i ‘ Jennings Bryan, as he left While a band in a far gallery play- ed “Should Auld ‘Acquiintance Be detegates every state to Nose Out Whitcombe, stood on their ch: And cheecred the and Ku Klux Klan- Enghsh Pro s'-fll’ bearer T The” aest | TOIL NE;RLY ALL NIGHT|PLACES BAN ON OTHERS |arawn up. e are making. splendid | B the Associated Press. as. if the bureau or office Measures to Have Precedence ing under two or more appropriatic at Conference. | the unit i spropriation n instance of the committee room, said e agt Gl ' reaus offices uperating unde: perate and disastrous battle of fo 2 ooy e s BY HAL OFLAHERTY. appropriation, the T would Veatiag. o CetU e T SIoE progress—by avoiding the contro- ‘”"‘ LAKE, England, June 27— | By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily | PUT3Y OF office S—— " | ol | Walte star American pro- News, Copyrig piagcan mettacs v ) ventod questions” b added with o | Valter Hagen, star American p PRI, 1024 Proteets Tower Grades Il h:'m‘;‘ ;‘:‘::' L More Than Thirty-Five Planks| Brotherhoods Hold Choice of twinkle in hix eye 12::4;1::-:1. :}‘,nn”’e Br‘;ltsh open golf < . . we | LONDON, June eldom in the et - 1zed and unguideq, convesing the Ready—First and Principal Either Would Make Third e Tt AT | BRI I i vy a i | TS ESENTANDN EOWARD © |Sourse of the Six yeare fimhc overwar| oo, e et | Ele stroke, with an aggregate of 301 Suropean press carried so many false rumors, mis- statements and malicious untruths ag | T¢aU and other official heads « have appeared following the meeting | TRt units to strike as m: of Premier Herriot and Prime Min. AVerages as they have units or i ister MacDonald at Chequers, last Propriations under them. thus prot | said gratitude of the democracy for the benefit of cmploves in allowi Party Uinecessary, “Mr. Bryan, shall we tell them|for the seventy-two holes of medal agsressive fight of the former Ohio L ; £overnor to stem the mighty Re- DA about the word you used in the com- | P1ay, against 302 made by E. R. Whit- mittee room?" combe, the brilliant British profes- sublican ti 2 5 AV AWRENCE. Mo Bryan assented. T ‘wa y- | sional performer. | publi tide of 1920. By the Associated Press. BY DAVID LAWRENC e e hes Srinaaiia| . Hagen took 41 for the fitst nime. of 0 Ohio led in the demonstration which | NEW YORK, June 27.—An open| MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. beside the bier, when one of the com- | his last round, and his chances looked lasted for a quarter of an hour after 2 g ljyred for w quarter of an hour after |agne in the Democratic national con- | YORK, June 27—Definite overtures [mittce hopped up and declared it|slim. However, he played the last week end. ably making for higher ave Domination for the Tresidency. by |vention on the Ku Klux Klan issue|have been made by railroad labor to |®ould mever do to say standing be-|pine in brilllant fushion in even 4s The British foréign office is qel- | Salaries swton D. Baker, President Wilson's [was forecast today by the platform |leaders of the Democratic party as- Ebler. X uide thel| Hagen started his uged with inquiries arising from in-| In answering another —quest Scores Republicans. vartime Secretary of W - D of course. was ‘standing beside the on last lap 2 . VAP receivin “‘ '“meifl' “‘hér hln}- builders after they had spent three |Sembled here to nominate the type of |bier of President Harding.'" toward the goal with a gallery of sinuatio printed on the continent | concern th aver carted wel- ascribing to Mr. MacDonald ideas of | tion, the contro Come and aroused repeated applauss |more hours in an effort to come to |candidate who will make it unneces- With the big, preliminary noise of | 2lmost 10.000 persons watching him. arc a < 2 = the convention = behind them—the| E. R. Whitcombe made 78 on his 5 PTaise for the Wilson policies |an agreement on this subject and |S4ry for a third party to be formed | Yo" n" Nomination. of MeAdoo, | final round fof an aREregate of 305 oment later the delegates returneq |the declaration with regard to the|at Cleveland. Smith, Underwood and others—the | He Was out in 43 and back in 35. . Six railway unions and a score of |delegates to the Democratic national | Hagen began with a 6 at the 410- id a military pact with France, threat- | $5¢m, 10 be evident that tl er s of Congress general use of funds es Representative Was Il Four ening mnotes to v;'nm.,\, and even | plans for turning The leag ’ to their rivilries over McAdoo and |league of nations. Ay . kich | h % The league of na- |appropriated for the Sl convention today have their minds | yard first. His second snhot was : 52 tions into the old ga a class gra t sm v 3 onstrations inork i v state- | tions into old game of alliances | of a class or grade to e b = 5 seedad Seith v s ¢ settled, first, the adoption of a plat- |got a or a par at the 355-yard EMA9 grade her words from a dozen siates proceeded with a |Subjects will be presented by the il 5 o : | &2 5 . or zra her 1ong strink of seconding speeches: | subcommittee to the entlre resolu. |Practically all but two of the men |form. and, ‘xecond, the naming of second. On the long third a°misshit pine Rebellion Trouble-Makers Busy. oz the a provision i 5 * Nominating speeches also were de- : 5 before the convention as objection- | their standard beare rassie shot found a bunker, and his . | Since the French and Britist sought t vent using the 1 % e dat tions committee later in the day, com- The delegates are in no mood to|approach took him beyond the gree ish' pre; e ed for a livered for the candidates not reached & 2 able in the sense that their nomina- # egates: & i O o th £ Ereen, | miers met every force of hatred,!dmount 1 on vesterday's roll call and the way | mitteemen said, with little prospect | 30/® 10 (B¢ "ehse (088 COUF DOAZ ook further delay for mere noise, |40 that he needed a . He got a fine [[icealmas Severs of hatred, | {] o : cleared to begin balloting tonight or [that the fifty-three men who have : They are fed up on moise. There is gr“_m; lheeh:fl.?." ourth after over- Representative Edward C. Little of | YePF¥efulnes and, perversity has | higher salaricd 4 tomorrow. e harsed with reporting a plat.|Into the contest of Senator La Fol- the During the afternoon the Cox|form will be able to report such allette of Wisconsin. Kansas died at Garfield Hospital at | ¥WoTked ceaselessly upon the forthcon to bring disastes e a tense atmosphere about the con- | ting dissster |1 Playn Great Third Round. s o1 2 i . . eritic i i 6 o'clock this morning after an ill- ng allied confer- | ¥ demonstration had counterpart in |Kian plank ‘as will avoid & row in| The frst choice of the railroad |Vention mm‘ Dl"umls@fiilgouhl- It the| Hagen's third round fell little Short | ness of about four weeks ence. To some extent, their explana- Higher Gradex Alxo Protected. nation of Gov. Charles W. Bryan of | 0 " oR: group is Willlam Gibbs McAdoo and |Prover spark ls applied. |of perfection. His Judgment of a wind{ Just prior to the adjournment of | °TY Stalements to their respective| «it is contemplated by the av Nebraska, brother of the great Want Undisputed Planks. it is promised that if he is named | Several nominating speeches and |of ever varying strength was excel- | Consre = | parliaments have served to defeat the y t e commoner. At the name the con- Bress, presentative Little be- s ns provision that the under any lump sum appropriatic - 3 8 % e seconding speeches remained to be | lent and his putting was superb, sav Except for these two planks, the | Senator La Follette will not run. The | SSIONT0E SPenches, femained lo be)lent and hls putting was superb. save|gun to feel the results of overwork vention rose cheering and several obstructionists, but there remains western delegations started a parade | platform practically is completed. A |spokesman for labor say they can|and then the platform was to come.|putts. One putt sufficed him at threa | but stuck to his post. A short time | COPSiderable anxiety over points| (i) comply with the reguirement around the hall. long contest was expected in the en- | state this with authority. & Rt s Roles. He' was twice bundered at the |later he suffered a nervous breake | f41¢d I the expert commitiee plan | {1 lunr ahether the pociions mas Bryans Get Ovation. tire committee on the invisible em- Will Accept Smith. As the delegates gathered it was| Allowing tac Jttls for the head.|2°Wn and about three weeks ago was | “;"“:’;"“g;_"f’"” 1 within Germany. | 1 rar he filled or vacant, except in s Once again a Democratic conven- | Pire and doubt was expressed that| gpe gecond choice appears to be |in’the expectation that the platform|®ind at the short eleventh, Hagen|!®Ken to the hospital. A slight | ¢ ihe hain iheoh g anol a8 A0l | for as the express exceptions have tion rang with shouts of “Hurrah for |the platform could be whipped into|Goy Al Smith of New York, thoush |would be handled before adjournment |PiLched Into a hummock beside the | stroke of paralysis followed. from | Dawes scheme to Germanse’ internal | been provided. * * * 1f vacancies o -d the |Shape in time for presentation to the | the petition will mot say so in as sandy river bank, and took 4. There | which Representative Little was not | ®conomy b Bryan” while the band play: tonight and that possibly the bal-|were no other lapses in his . 4 fore any ‘contentious | cur in the lower rates, which would ¥ An o < " play— | . romees points such as French sec: ana| £ sulariesiaf tunes of the old days when William |convention tonight. ] many words. While McAdoo s Dre- | oting for the nominee for President |only Kolf of superlative skill His|SUONE enough to recover. Death, | B0U "y Bl Ahanch SecUrity and | cause” the averae of the salarios o Jennings Bryan, now a delegate from g,‘“’;"“,'",',“,'f e e 5 | ferred, the candidacy of Al Smith is | would be begun. card: however, was unexpected. uo for settlement | the persons In the remalning rates Florida, was his party’s undisputed | GIEEICR, OB A COrEn N mmittes | Said to be acceptable. His name does | prom sources in touch with the|OUt---o.- 4 55 4 4 4 3 4 4—37 Representative Little, a Republi- Herriot Pleanex Britixh. [ es. Hxea that srade unde leader. The demonstration, like that | report tonight the uncomtroverted | not appear in the list which will be |representative of the Ku Klux Kian [IN-------- 4 4 4 34 4 6 4 4—37—74|can, was serving his fourth term in| M. Herriot's statement strikes Brit- | the classificition act, 1 am constrain for Cox, manifestly was another trib- | subjects, so that a start can be made | opposed. ho:e i:xv;a; rrlrl‘grt;d «hudn:.-k xmbn, A p}'nleslhwii' madah(g l‘he‘ rudl the House. He was known as an au- |ish minds as a refreshing contrast to | €4 to hold H;v-' the law ki joe= 2 ! arty his- |t disposing of the party declaration | “"p ceskndl _ | not satisfied w e stand taken by |committee that Hagen had violated a | thor an: e = Seisiaaateb 0| Quire the reduction or « wation « ute to a name revered in party his- |28 JISROSINE OF (O6 PACLY Coclartation | For several weeks it has been D |\foadoo, -has practically decided. to |tenet of the Kame by opening up a d had served In the diplomatic | M. Poincare’s oft-repeated formulas. | e persons in the higher rates of th tory rather than a manifestation of Gl i " parent that the conference for pro-labandon him. The rumor persists|clump of grass in which the ball lay | °TPS as consul general to Z5ypt. As|He displays an open mind and a free- | grade pending the fil gressive political action which has|also that McAdoo has abandoned the |at the sixteenth hole this morning. |8 lieutenant colonel of the Kansas|dom of prejudice which, if they do | cancies in the lower Klan. | He was let off with a warning not to | National Guard, he took part in sev- ng of the vi- support for the man placed in norina- tion today. ates. sion will b Bellieve Accord Posaible, x = s in not & clidnze srench pol. | This part of the The order of business called for| o Gl o plattorm | 118 convention scheduled for July 4, Seek Bryan Atd do it again. eral engagements in the Philippines, | 20t denote a change in French pol- |\ Gy S50 del ernment consideration of the platform as soon P at Cleveland, comprised a Democratic S Aid. e lsin it ser il o ey at least leaves diseu ol as_the nominating speeches are con-|committee still were of the opinion| ./ 3" papuplican section. The rail-| The Klansmen are seeking desper- id Sinfth bad v — 2 skt ey the fiuat sr»‘n et The same decision dered, but the McAdoo foreeS Were | that differences over the league could . W, s. |ately to prevent th il MacDonald Smith had two rounds| ;. Little was born in Ohio and | M2l since the war to admit that in to say that “the smount of salary Pressini to take a start on the bal- |y & CESrenEen SVer ThE TeaEhe SO | roaa brotherhpods led by Warren . \ately to prevent the oreanization be-|of ira today. and ended with a total| Leoig iy Kansas in 1566, He was | oWy Shavol &5 France needs we: | 0 s \aine podition could not pres atfo s in. D he entire committee, | o ng named in the Democratic plat- 04, which should put him wek up. . o g e & | eurity and i evident that this| . 3 for the e blishme of & L Joting before the platform comes in-| byt others were less optimistic. Stone, are friendly to McAdoo, and if plat- |of 304, whicl P ». directly as the pa® |used for the ablis 1 ad . i & e s Iniversi admission com The bined forces opposed to the it g - 7} _|form. 1t is said efforts are being|His count tied that of Frank Ball, a|graduated from the University of |2 n_con t M dra movement declared that the| Chairman Homer S. Cummings an-|he should be named by the Demo-| on & 2 S2IC CIO0S 266 DEnE | orjpianer. Kansas and began the practice of law | §HIL of Terriot's conver. A e amers wanted to let their | nounced after the session of the sub- | crats a serioys effort has always been made 3 . preterably | Pl R nes, who has rounds of 79| tThat wiace in 1586, Mo hed. brer | MacDonald, who impres S e tions get started on the bal-| Sommittee that there were those con- | expected to have lhe‘ next Cleveland | William Jennings Bryan, to take the|and 75, today finished with 309, and i : = 2 the hecessity of making the pact for | 100 L oF salarfes, after the establish i etore they were obliged to| LSRAIng for “a bald, unadorned, ex- | convention indorse him. Not caring|foor in opposition to ‘dragging the |is due to be well down the list. profecuting attorney, secretary to tha| Security bi-laferal. Elving Germany {0 ¢ of nitia) selavics on/July 1,1924 {25 position on the Ku Klux Kian | Plcit and unequivocal® declaration | to wait, however, the railfoad 1abor |3, question into the Democratic| George Duncan, who had been one | governor, chairman of three state |f, Tl Shure ¥ protective ar- |\l der the provisio the ol iisue in the fght over the PIALOTM.| (ihars. he said, Are disposed to trent | oas meries Pas montest nere actually |platform it the Klan I of the British hopes, had a 74 on his| conventions, having been unanimous- | ~Germany no longer occupies the |cation sct, within the limitaiions o = $he sblcct we & Dondberiil o o hand ""l’,,“o‘:s,',“fhce‘";i:fl"?::f A o | Tually taken Lo the Haor oo it i 1% third round, but on his last trip re- | Iy elected cach Ume, ‘and delegate at | position. o & hated and s cihe | fhe avaflable appronriations, mi - = starts, 2 uireq . and totale . large to two national conventions, in | e v, but enters onc: ore ¥ olate the erage provisions " international policy. b bability until a|threatened to do. Qi enemy, bu ce more into the = e i3 3 e issued in all probal y Gene Sarazen, American pro cham- | addition to his diplomatic and mili- [ comity of nations, provided ¢ tha - The convention hall had been put) —AMr. Cummings said there was sen-| climax comes in the balloting. Orators Delay Work. plon, took 82 for his first round today, | tary service. St I Sisarmed M ey that QuistonEORe Man N to rights overnight and ‘lihe.u reckage | timent among some members of the e it Mg The subcommittee met again about |and ‘at the end of fifty-four holes had | _ He married Miss Bdna Margaret | physical Hertlot's accantance. ot and rubbish of yesterday's riotous| {0 S| - Cool 5 242, teele in 1889, who, 1w one_ son, | Germany's new status brings hi n league at all, but added that such & | o oo o oo ooae are un- | RO @Rd the full platform commit- s ings him derstood to take the view that as be- tional positions of the hizles r sation with | G would further exceed the averag d upon him e ¢ * Any new adjust ssift Wreckage Cleared Away. One of thc novel questions pro pounded was, “Where there is only one employe of an appropriations unit A o 2 Gil Nicholls, another American, has | Donald, a student, survives. While in | into close and sy mpathetic - ageme. demonstrations had been cleared | proposal had not been put forward tee at 2 o'clock. The committee has | 239 for ity i vi hot | Washington, Representative Little | ment . cDoRald. who all’ Ston; The long rows of kitchen|in the subcommittee. 8|22z EorSactELons fojess navins e i mis tarn I e Geo ment with MacDorlald, who all along away. . been delayed by floods of oratory|a 79 on his third round. and his family lived at the George|has refused plans for peace which |i, any grade, does the restriction chairs were again neatly in place No Obstinacy Seen. tween President Coolidge and a| o .~ "|®The British veteran, J. H. Tavlor,| Washington Inn. Their residence in | failed to include former enemies. i i hat that emiployl and the rumpled and disordered dec- Democratic candidate expresaly favora- 2 wn members. One dis. limping from lumbago, broke under [ Kansas is in Kansas City quoted so apply thal “I do not think there is any dis- salary greater th tiguished orator on the committee |the strain, and took 79 for his third; Mr. Little’s body will be taken from | has delivered twelve speeches. Sev-|round for an aggregate of 228. here tomorrow to Kansas City and from BELGIUM BACKS NOTE. cannot be paid ble to their viewpoint, all forces should o ratonimaten orations had been rearranged. The| pogition on whe part of the committee i day was cloudy and threatening rain, > concentrate on the support of a Demo- | St there to Abilene, Kan., for burial. = i - i ivith just a threat of being muggy. members to be obstinate,”” Mr. Cum-| - ana avoid ting votes on a third e‘ral of the senatorial members of the i Stand on Disarmament Proposal |SP¢C fied for his grade? - e T gave promise of a sticky time in|mings said. “There are some people | 2% 373 ¥ = Congress have also conducted them- | AMUNDSEN EXPEDITION | | "in answering this. the controller the convention hall if the day|who favor a dedgration in favor of | PRIty ticket. selves on the theory that the Senate FlGHT FOR D'STR'CT | Stated Officially. [held that there could be mo “aver- brought out any serious fighting. But there are Democrats here who [rule of unlimited debate prevails. age” where there was only one pe ‘Phere were outward evidences that | ‘2KInE the loague out of politics by the convention was clearing decks suggesting a referendum. 1 think for action. Some rows of chalrs|that the decision of the committee on which have hithe Ly favored ones By the Assaciated Press, is en- Zon in the grade, and “such one VOTE PLANK KEPT UP| . BRUSSELS. June ottt was om- |tiied to ans’ cimpensation” aimint- cially_announced today that the Bel- |tratively fixed within the minimum gian government agrees to the terms |and maximum of the krade. of the Franco-British disarmament| Nothing in the classification | take the opposite view. They want a| If it is found to be impossible to third party in the field, believing that | T€Port the platform today, the con- | T 3 vention, weary of waiting for the re- | such a contingency might split the + S the Associated Press. rto been occupled | the league of nations will very much | Republican party this vear as in 1912 [POTt of the resolutions Hellete P CHRISTIANIA, June 27—Roald S | depend on the language used in fram- |and thus insure Democratic success. | {eY SCell 1o Dng about balloting on | \ T /qcen " the' explorer. who has note to Germany. There had been ct an- : : controller ruled, in answe \ platform were cleared away and the | jne the plank. The friends of the conservative can- : airplane expe- : ) ol T d Lo controller KU o . be. fnterpreted space was used for long tables for| ““rhe committee stands half and | didates in the field have said all along | the platform, This te likely to lead | bren prepating fof on STPIAES S0n7 C. C. Carlin Today Seeks to Get|press reports that Belgium was not e ioitink Aan increasc i the tally] cleslis g adoini washiics. half as to whether the platform will | that wint La Follette running a0 % 2% Talioting and the Smith | nounced that the trip hasbeen post- Favorable Action by Whole munication. 2 Aamber of positions estimated for Rain Dampens Delegates. €0 to the convention tonight. Final| Democratic candidate would be the | £5€ 107 T0€ BE00 o:ponenlu ot Mo | poned because of economic difficul- y The creation of such positions, he : decision® as to when it can be sub-|beneficiary, provided he was not a : dispatch from g < E e of 3 o a S| T e onohed nod {he | mitted will depend on the length of radical. They have argued that a|Adoo will seek to prevent it. The LS apcording (o, & SRaCe, "acl| Resolutions Committee. felegates came trooping in, many of | this afternoon’s session. radical Democrat would win only the [ Order of business adopted by the con- | 15, 5% 3011q be out of the ques- | oz e in a somewhat dampened con-| 'The Klan issue will go to the con- | radical Democratic votes, while the Vention provides for the considera- | dition. | Madion Square Garden roof, | Vention with a minority report and |radical Republican votes would still [tion of the platform before balloting | U0, By a Staff Correspondent - Which is somewhat like the historic | Will be taken up on the floor. g0 to La Follette, and that even if |begins. But the lr;luvallnnt delegates i NEW YORK, June 27.—C. C. Carlin, Participation. All Reduc Yoot on the Arkansas Traveler's Other Unsettled Insuen. the Wisconsin senator didnt run, the |may iry to upset this. Recent dispatches stated that the | the District’s member of the commit- | o\, \,cociated Press. The Civil Service Commission asked house, soon let those in the hall| .rnere are other subjects besides|Sombined radical vote of the Repu T arker Guie Clad. factories at Pisa had refused to de-[lee on resolutions In place of Frank jBs i peeltpl e, o L L L e e erade 5 and grade 13 know that it was raining. Pretty | e jeague of nations yet to be dis. | (Continued on Page 4, Column Z.) Should the platform committee find | liver the Amundsen airplanes until a |SPrigg Perry, will seck today to have | PARIS = June = Z7--fremie er- | how a soon the raindrops were trickling |,oqeq of, as for instance, the water- v itself hopeless and helpless in reach- | balance of £14,000 had been paid on [the committee include in the Demo- riot's debut before Farllament as for- |of the clerical, administrative and fiscal down through the decorations hUNK | y,.s and - hydroelectric 'development ing a decision on the big issues|the purchase price. It was also re- | cratic platform a suffrage resolution |eign minister, in giving an account of t be within the limit of the ion and with sonnel classis- PRAISE FOR HERRIOT. | neld. — | total available apy tion for his expedition to start this | Le Matin Gratified at United StA!esl;\’Z:nun board.” fonx Provided For. i o q ngl servic hould be arrived at, to which among the " girders overhead and < resented, the proposal may be made | ported that if the explorer was un- |for the District of Columbia. hiS visit to England and Belgium, has | service « sl fo which :nra)'lgnl: the audience on the floor. q“f#,‘:"fi'ork of the committee is not Radio Ba]]ot ?a go ahead l‘r’ld pnnme chlndld:(: Ehle to raise the money, the pro- h i\dl ‘!hel m‘ee:‘?sfl“t‘;f :,:‘te v‘t;lmmm?e ;:;Tl-_dl:ir{";l);:_auwon of the news- | the cumrgnor replied n |vv|r(. Ee:‘Ar The folks in the galleries were ueky | poing delayed in the hope of getting and let him in a measure determine |Jjected expedition would be taken over | held last m& antoy the early | vaper L 0" and Herriot have|InE in mind that the average of all because all the lower galleries had |, ;" greement on the Klan. The delay for the the platform on which he will stand. by the Itallam government, and|hours of the morning Mr. Carlin |, OFarO0nT o, M0 (T e lipers: | grades established by the classification the protection of the upper ones. does favor an opportunity for adjust- = Some of the delegates foel that any | Lieut. Locatelli, who was to hive pi- |asked that the District suffrage plank pbrousht dmerea into thayr deiibera | KRGS0 Ncide with one of the Admissions Tighten Up. ment, but we are going ahead with Democratlc man who obtains a two-thirds vote loted the leading Amundsen plane, | x4 @000 Viitee drafting the plai- | says editofially, adding: “If words |rates fixed therein, the ‘average' must of this convention for President will | placed in charge. have the confidence of the convention to a sufficient extent to permit him - v . When The admission to_the floor yester- |our work as fast as we can. Wi rsons having no | the platform has been approved by A o e s n the committee of resolutions it must have meaning, it must be recognized [ mean the actual mataematical average that for the first time since 1918 a |of the salary rates, and not necessarily E um which may happen to coincide . form had omitted the District plank laying aside all three of the propo als submitted, including the national | British premier has firmly declared |a Convention 4 no other business ), 3 (deiogate badges At Mecent to make | go to the committee on form. There to decide what'the platform shall say. Today’s Game Off. [als submitted including the national| Bc win to be by France's side rof | with one of the rates fixed for a grade . I iea for Smith had caused a great are parts which should be taken out Keep your own record of the | |It was pointed out that the Demo- | Rain prevented the base ball game |Robert N. . Harper. the . memeral | the execution of the treaty of peace.” |in the classification act.” ] balloting. Page 37. rotest to the convention |and the language carefully revised.” dme:y:-:.‘n? Today somebody made a| On ail other planks, including even gesture at least of tightening up on [those dealing with prohibition, agri- {Continued on Page 4, Column 6J | (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) cratic platform was changed t uit jona e - Concerning ‘“reductions,” the con- " Judge Alton B. P‘l‘k"JW" ago when :ét'dl::' ?:"I:"i.?x"iin'fn‘mfl-. B:n;?:m.AmA :m:‘;«.fl:::l 52‘:.‘.’3.1€f=e?.3’..n”5‘3‘§n troller held that the only ones au- 3 he was nominated. He Msisted upon | double-header will be played tomorrow, F. Costello, and the plebiscite propos- | R o djo/Progr: Page 37, | Siecized were provided for under rule (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) starting at 1:30 o'clock. als of Frank Lord. 1 grams—Pag + ~ (Continued on Page 2, Column €)

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