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WEATHIR. Cloudy tonight, showers and thun- derstorms tomorrow:; slightly warmer tonight. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at hoon today: Highest, 71, at noon today; lowest, 6 Full report on page 7. 3. at {a.m. today, Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 No. 29,278, bm * Roosevelt KLAN DEADLOCK BRINGS CRISIS AS PARTY CHIEFS STRUGGLE TO AVERT BATTLE ON FLOOR TODAY Platform to Go to Floor at 3 O0’Clock. RECESS TAKEN THIS MORNING Dramatic Appeal for " Unity Made by Cummings. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Democratic party leaders failed today in a re- newed effort to reconcile their dii- ferences over the Ku Klux Klan i sue and avoid an open fight on the floor of the national convention. A morning session of the conven- ,tion was adjourned to provide op- portunity for further peace confer- ences, but after more than two hours’ consultation with other party chicftains the advocates of an out- and-out anti-Klan plank announced that the issue must be settled by . the delegates themselves. Celby to Lead Fight, Bainbridge Colby of New York, a former Secretary of State, was select- ed to conduct the floor fight for the ]Jlnn)f condemning the Klan by name and it uppeared likely that William Jennings Bryan would lead the ele- ment that only wants to put into the platform a general reaflirmation of the principle of religious liberty. Just before the convention reas- sembled for an afternoon s ion to hear the debate and vote its decision the platform committee held another meeting in a final desperate effort toward the compromise which party leaders had failed to attain. Gen. Charles H. Cole, delegate at large from Massachusests, was chosen to assist former Secretary Colby in the convention. Plan of Attack 0. K.d. The plan of attack as decided upon by the anti-Klan leaders was come municated to Gov. Smith Mr. Bren- nan and word was brought back that it had the unqualified approval of the New York governor. - Seemingly hopelessiy divided on the issue aof whether the Klan is to be named specifically, and surrounded by war clouds loaded with threats of a party split, the convention man. agers this morning sent Homer Cum mings, chalrman of the p] form com- mittee, to the bat, to e ain to the convention why the platférm was be- ing delayed and to plead for more e Tired and worn by continuous loss of sleep since last Tuesday, Chalrman Cummings gave as dramatic a recital as ever has been heard in national convention. Explaining the dellbera- tions of the committee and its inabil- ity to reach an agreement, he told, amid a dramatic silence,- how, after an all-night session, the committee- men had gathered around their table in the breaking dawn of the day and recited in unison the Lord's prayer, after which William Jennings Bryan had raised his voice and spoken a prayer for divine guidance. Leaders Disagree. Effort were made while the leaders were in conference to wgain canvass santiment among the individual mem- bers of several delegations, but in the main the discussions and peace efforts were confined to the dozen or so of chieftains who are guiding figures in the convention, The chalrman of one large delega- tion, when it was suggested that the delegation try to get together on a compromise, declared that if such a meeting were called it would last for a week. - There was a disposition on the part of some of the Smith leaders to favor 2 plan to postpone action on the Klan Plank until after the presidential Mominee had been chosen. In that manner it was pointed out, the can- didate could give his advice whether the Kian should be namea in the platform. New York for Plamk. The New York delegation was sald to strongly favor naming the Klan, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, manager of the Smith campalgn. sald the dele- Gates themselves should decide the Klan question without mixing it with candidacles. “If the question the floor of the is brought up on convention,” Mr. ‘said, “the votes com- manded by the various candidates will split. Some Smith supporters will vote to name the Klan and others will not. McAdoo and Underwood delegates also will be found divided. “Therefore, there can be no issue over the Ku Klux Klan as between the candidates personally. Few in Time for Start. The convention was even slower than usual in assembling, and at 9:30, the hour set for opening the session, not a dozen delegates were on the floor. The galleries were virtually empty. A libersl allotment of police and fire officers dotted the arena with the blue and brass of their uniforms, pre- pared to carry out the determination of convention officials to keep the delegate inclosure from invasion by those who have no business there. An entirely new cordon of coppers was ranged behind the three-foot wall ringing the Dbig ellipse, stand- ing at equal intervals like the crew of & man-o'-war manning the rail. They had orders to prevent all com- munication between the arema and ries. g 8 e precautions had been taken because of the overrunming of the floor at recent sessions by the armies of demonstrators that had broken through to parade around the hall as a part of the niisemaking for their favorite candidates. At a spe- ial conference of convention officials it had been decided that hereafter only about sixty persons besides dele- Zates and alternates should have ac- cess to the floor—twenty of them be- longing to the staff of the sergeant- at-arms, twenty of them selected from t the corps of newspaper men at work he convention hall andtwenty epresenting the fleld forses of the various candidates. A Many of the delegates Had not heard of the failure of the platform committee to complete ity work at its | been a name to conjure with in this kintered as second class matter office Washington, D. C. Bryan Given Po Factions to Find Compromise Gravity of Midnight-to-Daion @h ¢ Fp ening - WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION St WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 28 1924—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. wer by Klan Wrangle Fails to Bring Solution—McA4 doo’s Manager Sees By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—The cloud of the Ku Klux Klan hung so heavily over the Democratic national conven tion today that the platform commit- tee, in a last effort to prevent an open rupture. on the floor of the conven- tion over the issue, authorized Wil- liam Jennings Bryan to select as many members as he might deem necessary to enlist the aid of party} leaders and the various candidates for the presidential nomination to re- move whal was regarded as a serious threat of a split in the party. Moreover, the members of the com- mittee under instructions from their delegations to support a plank spe- | cifically naming the Klan, volunteered | | EAGUE PLEBISCITE DEMOCRATICPLAN Majority of Platform Commit- tee Would Take Issue Out of Politics. KLAN NAME IS OMITTED‘ Fight on Convention Floor to Specify Secret Order Believed Almost Certain. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The i 7 NEW YORK, June 28.—The. Demo- cratic party Is going to bat. in the coming campaign with a proposal to “take the league of nations question out of politics,” and submit the pro- posal to enter the league to the peo- ple in a referendum held after the November elections, if a majority re- port of the platform committee, which will be submitted to the Democratic national convention today, shall be approved. The Democratic- party will avoid a devastating schism over the Ku Klux Klan issue if the report submitted by a majority of the platform commit- tee -is- adopted. Are Platform Features. These are the principal verdicts which. will, be returned by the plat- form committee today to the conven- tion, in a platform declared by its supporters to be the most progres- sive ever written by any major party. Unable to complete the discussion of the Klan plank, the resolutions committec ‘adjourned at 5:30 a.m. to- day until 1:30 this afternoon, It was expected that the platform will be before the convention before the day _closes, however. This morning desperate efforts were made to bring about a last min- ute agreement not to mention the Kian in a minority report and thus throw into the convention an issue which may split the party so wide open that hope for victory in Novem- ber will be gone. Klan Net Named. The so-called anti-Klan plank sub- mitted by the majority of the com- mittee does not name the Klan. That wag the great issue in the committee —10 name or not to name the Klan. A poll of the committee early this morn- ing showed that thirty-four mem- hers ot the committee were opposed to naming the Klan and twenty were in favor of naming the hooded order in denunciation. The convention itself may upset both the decisions of the committee. Newton D. Baker, who led the fight in the committee for a straightout declaration for entry Into the league of nations, in accordance with the plans of Woodrow Wilson, may take the fight to the floor. Wilson's has . convention. McAdoo supporters on the committee, and those of Smith and other candidates, too, opposed Mr. Baker's plan and voted fof a ref- erendum, They want a fight over progressive and liberal principles of government in the United States— over decent government and corrupt government—they say, not over the league of nations issue. Kilan Fight Bitter. The Klan {ssue has become the out- standing issue of the conventlon. It is being fought out bitterly. A minority report from the committee proposing to name specifically fhe Klan is to be presented, ‘notwith- standing the eloquent pleas of Wil- llam Jennings Bryan and others for peace and ‘avoidance of this issbe, which he declared to be extraneous. Mr. Bryan may take the floor in the convention and endeavor to throw oil on_the troubled waters.. = - The text of the foreign relations plank proposed by the committee majority, proposing ‘the referendum of the league, which was lald before the convention follow: “The Democratic party pledges all its energies to the outlawing of the whole:war system. Wo refuse to be- lleve ihat the wholesale slaughter of human beings on the battlefleld s any more necessary ta man's highest develapment than killings by indli viduals. - “The only hope for world peace and for economic recovery lies in the or- ganized efforts of nations combining to remove the cause of war and sub- tituting law and order for violence. B nder Democratic leadership . a ifium&d on Page 4, Column 6.) —© ) | Accord Likely. to confer with their colleagues and urge that there be a reconsideration of the qustion. Rockwell Sees Agreement. David L. Rockwell. campaign man- ager for McAdoo, declared after the recess of the morning session of the convention that the outlook for agreement on the Klan plank was most promising. “The judgment of the wiser men in the Democratic party is about to pre- vail,” he added. “By that I mean that the platform will reflect a national party view rather than a local view." From midnight until dawn the Klan issue was a subject of intense debate. But as the first light of a new day atole softly through the multi-colored ndows _where the (Continued on Page 4, Column 8) 0., SUFFRAGELEFT 0T OF LATFORN Rules Committee Rejects Plank by Decisive 2-to-1 Vote. SENATORS OPPOSED PLAN Three Suggestions Made, But All Are Defeated—Strong Pleas Unavailing. S1afP Corregnandant of The §1ar NEW YORK, June 28 —The™Dis- trict's fight for a sufferage plank in the resolutions committee finally was lost last night. The committee voted down a revised plank, offered by C. C. Carlin, the District's representative on the committee, which limited the proposed sufferage to local affairs. Mr. Carlin said today that about one- third of the committee voted with him, but that the other two-thirds turned down the proposal. The subcommittee on resolutions had previously refused to place in a tentative draft of the platform any of the plans for suffrage for the Dis- trict, three of which had been sub- mitted, including the so-called na- tional representation plank put for- ward by Col. Robert N. Harper. Senators Oppamed Plank. Mr. Carlin said that he had two votes in the committee on suffrage. On the first vote, the plank proposed was that supported by the District delegation, headed by John F. Cos- tello the national committeeman for the District, proposing that the prin- ciple of suffrage for the District be recognized in local and national af- fairs. Members of the Senate on the reso- lutions committee opposed granting suffrage to the District on national affairs. So the plank was amended and in final form related onlv to the general principle of suffrage. But this, t00, was defeated. Mr. Larlin today expressed the opin- fon there was no hope of getting any kind ‘of a suffrage plank into the platform which will be adopted by the Democratic national convention. Plea Inx Unavailing. Mr. Carlin made a strong plea be- fore the committee last night, urg- ing the District plank be He pointed out'that the committee was granting what the Philippine Islands had requested—a promise of independence. He said it was unfair to the people of the National Capital to deny them even the right to par- ticipate in their government, a gov- ernment which makes laws, levies taxes and spends the money of the people so raised. Members of the committee, how- ever, declined to be shaken in their opposition to - placing in the party platform any promise to grant the Ppeople of the District suffrage. D. C. Delegates Split on Naming Klan in Platform From a Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, June 28.—The Dis- trict of Columbla's delegation to the Democratic national conven- tion ‘is split over the Ku Klux Klan issue, though it is likely that a majority will vote against naming the Klan in party plat- form if the matter comes to the floor of the convention. \ ‘The committee acts under the unit rule, and unless this-is not get aside s expected to cast its six votes against the proposal to name the Kilan. Charles A. Dpuglas, Mrs. Hiram Snell and Danlel C. Roper are op- posed to naming the Klan. Oh the other hand, C. C., Carlin and F. J. Merkligg of the Undirweod forces are aeti against the Klan and 4 the maming of the . organizati e @ adopted. i ‘ Delegates See Issue. CANDIDATE ROW| NOW SECONDARY Managers Firm in Stand to Fight to Finish. BY N. 0. MESSENGER, Staft Correspondent of The Star, NEW YORK, June 28.—The most dramatic scene in a national con- vention which has been witnessed | in any national convention since the | silver Republicans walked out of | the Republican national convention of 189, was presented today when | Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the convention on resolutions, | graphically told the convention of ‘:hc gravity of the situation over the Ku Klux plank and asked for a re- cess until 3 o'clock. Speech Impressive, His frank and clear speech made a | profound impression upon the au-| ai He confirmed the statements | reiterated in these dispatches of the| seriousness—not only to the Demo- cratic part but to the whole na- tion—of this religious issue. An almost prayerful silence fell over the entire vast audience as he ! proceeded and when he told of Wil- | liam J. Bryan's making a prayer for | divine guidance for the committee | “in_this hour of stress.” ‘The purpose of Mr. Cummings was to prepare the convention's mind for the possible presentation of a com- | promise and to quench the fires of | religious dissension in the convention, which are growing In intensity. | There were evidences of the gath- | ering clouda as the delegates assem- bled this morning. The text of the denunclatory Klan plank w. lished in the morping pape: read with deepest interest by delegates. Looking down from the ress desks over the faces of the clegates, evidence can be discerned in the seriousness of their faces and de- | meanor of their appreciation of the | gravity of the proceedings that are | to follow and realization of the con- vention consequence that may follow, whatever action is taken by the con- vention on the Kilan plank. 1 Candidates Subordinated. | For the moment. while intent upon | taking this first hurdle of disposing of the Klan crisis, interest in presi- dential candidates is subordinated. There will be many hurdles to take and some water ditches, too, when the convention enters upon balloting on the nominations that have been made. The only hope for the early selection of a nominee lies in the re- lease by one of the two leading can- didates of votes to another candidate, | thereby gaining the credit of having | influenced the selection. Gov. Smith | swears up hill and down dale that he | is in the fight to a finish, and he, of (Continued on Page 2, Column | GRIFFS AND MACKS IN| SCORELESS TIE IN 20| Line-up. . PHILADELPHIA. ‘WASHINGTON. 2b. Rice, rf. 1 | | BY DENMAN THOMPSON. ! IFFITH PARK, ‘Washington, June 28.—Paul Zahniser was Manager Harrls' selection for mound duty against the Athletics in the first game of the double-header today. He was opposed by Fred S. Hei- mach, Connie Mack’s big southpaw. There were about 8,000 fans on hand to see the Griffmen battle to retain the league leadership. | FIRST INNING, | PHILADELPHIA — Bishop flied to| Rice. Strunk walked. Strand flied to Matthews. Goslin muffed Hauser’s fly, but retrieved the ball. and his throw was relayed by Peck to Ruel, who nip- ped Strunk going into the plats. No Tuns. WASHINGTGN—RIce singled to cen- ter. Matthews forced Rice, Hauser to Galloway. Riconda threw out Harris, Matthews taking second. Goslin rolled to Hauser. No runs. SECOND INNING. PHILADELPHIA—Simmons flied to Matthews. Bluegs: threw out Riconda. Peck threw out Galloway. No runs. WASHINGTON—Strand backed up agalnst the fence for Judge's long fly. Ruel flied to Simmons. Peck beat out a hit to Riconda. Bishop threw out Bluege. No runs. T ANOTHER Twelve-Page Rotogravure Section WITH The Sunday Star Order your copy of to- morrow’s Star from your newsdealer today. | struments | age. | number TORNADO KILLS & NEAR PEORIA, ILL. Fierce Storm Wrecks Prop- erty Over Big Area—Traffic and Communications Halt. Ry the Associated Press PEORIA, 1L, June 28—Five per- sons were Kkilled and scores injured in a tornado which broke over Peoria and surrounding territory early this| morning, according ports. The bodies of a woman and her baby were found in a field far from their home at Cloverdale, and at Morton two are reported killed and many injured. No trace of a westbound Big Four passenger frain could be found. The train was due here at 6:45 a.m. The storm path was two miles long to available re- and three miles wide, over the down- | town section of this cits. Three or four persons are reported to have been drowned when house- boats on the river front capsized. The roof of the weather bureau was blown away and the rechrding in- ama s The wind struck the city with the force of an explosion after an hour of_electrical display. Hundreds of plate-glass windows were blown In, awnings stripped from the fastenings and telephone and street car traffic demoralized. IOWA HIT BY GALE. Two Injured and Property Worth Thousands Damaged. DES MOINES, lowa. June 28.—A tornado here early today caused thousands of dollars’in property dam- Two persons are known to have been injured. HEAT WAVE IN MIDWEST. Temperature Reaches 100 Degrees Near Storm Area. CHICAGO, June 28.—The tornado at Peoria, Il1, causing the death of a of persons and injury to many others, and a destructive storm at Des Moines, lowa, are a part of the disturbance developed in the west yesterday and reached the Mississippi valley, accompanied by thunderstorms over a wide area, the local weather bureau stated. The heat wave in the southwest | has pushed northward and northeast- ward, weather reports today showed, spreading across Kansas and Missouri with maximum temperature readin exceeding 100 degrees in Kansas ye terday. In the northern districts the temperatures continue seasonable. |MAJ. COUPAL NAMED COOLIDGE PHYSICIAN Curator of Army Medical Museum Served in Mexico and in * World War. Maj. James F. Coupal, Medical Corps, United States Army, has been appointed phbysician to _President Coolidge, succeeding Brig. Gen. Saw- yer, resigned. Maj. Coupal is curator of the Army Medical Museum of this city and also is president of the Internation Asso- clation of Medical Museums. He is a specialist in bacteriology and pathology and is an author of note on these and other medical subjects. Maj. Coupal was born in Springfield, Wlass, January 26, 1884. He was graduated from Tufty College in 1909 and two years later entered the Medi- cal Corps of the Massachusetts Na- tional Guard. He was a major in the Medical Corps, National Army, in 1919 and was appointed to this rank in the Regular Army July 1, 1920. He saw active service on the Mexi- can border with Gen. Pershing’s pun- itive expedition and was with the 1024 Field Hospital, 26th Division, in the world war overseas. WATCHES 15,899 TRUSTS. Administrator’s ‘Worth 850 Million. LONDON, ~ June 25.—The public trustee, which looks after and admin- isters estates, has increasing respon- sibilities year by year and now has 15,899 trusts on its books, valued &t about $850,000,000. New business left to the trustee to administer aver- ages-about $75,000,000 yearly. 3 Public Cares IN THE 1M No UPPER POLITICIAN MYSELF BUT| MY WIFE IS AR 2> DELEGATE ND A HUMDINGER! THiS VisiToR. WaS DETERMINED Tc J'Boy Seeking Ice | Crushed to Death By Wagon Wheels Gerard Biers. seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Biers, 2020 Pierce Mill-road. was crushed to death beneath the wheels of an ice wagon In the alley in rear of his home today. aying with several little ch nd following his, boylike to ket a bit of ice, he fell under a wheel of the wagon. When T. J. Volluse, a helper on the wagon, returned from deliver- ing an order of ice ne found the little boy lying unconscious on the ground. " Francis E. Maloney, 2055 Rosemont avenue, & neighbor, rushed the boy to Garfield Hos: pital. but he died on the way. Mrs. Biers said she did not be- licve the accident due to any fault of the driver. Such a thing might happen to any boy, it was said The driver of the team, Ross Thomas Oakes, however, is heing held by police pending the inquest O PLAYGROUNDS TOOPEN LY 7 Use of School Yards Will Make 70 Places Available Under Supervision. Forty school vards will be thrown open as summer playgrounds July making a total of approximately seventy places for children to play safe from the dangers of the streets, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, announced today. This will be the largest number of recreation centers the ¢ has ever had avvailable during a vacation period, and the increase is made possible by the generosity of Con- &ress in raising the allotment for summer playgrounds from $15,000 to $21,000. ! Until a few vears ago the school i although equipped with ment apparatus, had to remain locked during the summer because the board of education’s funds were restricted to the scholastic months. Oyster Suggested Plan, Commissioner Oyster inaugurated the movement which brought about the appropriation of a special fund to open these yards, his purpose be- ing to get as many boys and girls as possible off the crowded streets, where they were constantly in dan- ger of being injured. Mrs. Rhodes today impressed upon parents that their young ones are safe on a municipal playground, where trained supervisors watch over them. The list of school yards to be open- ed has not been completed, but the following have been decided on: White—Adams, R. street between 17th street and New. Hampshire ave- nue; Arthur, on Arthur place; Bowen, 3d and K streets southwest; Brook- land, 10th and Monroe streets north- east; Buchanan. E street between 13th and 14th streets southeast; Bur- roughs, 18th and Monroe streets northeast; Cooke, 17th street and Co- lumbia road; Corcoran, 28th street be- tween M and Olive streets northwest: Dennison, S street, between 13th and 14th streets; Eaton, 34th and Lowell streets; Emery, Lincoln road and Prospect street northeast; Bradley, 10th and D streets southwest; Hayes, 5th and K _streets northeast: Jeffer- son, 6th and D streets southwest. Johnson-Powell, School street and Park road; Polk-Henry, 7th and P streets northwest; Seaton, I between 2d and 3d northwest; Takoma, Tako- ma Park; Thompson, i2th and L north- west; Wallach-Towers, D between 7th and 8th southeast; Orr, 22d and Prout southeast; Ketcham, Anacostia; Ten- ley, Wisconsin avenue and 'Yuma street; Fillmore, 35th and R streets, and Brightwood Park, Sth and Ingra- ham. Colored—Birney, _Nichols _avenue, Hillsdale; Briggs, 22d and E streets northwest; Bruce, Kenyon street be- tween Georgla and Sherman avenues; Burrville, at Burrville; Dcanwood, Whittingham and_Lane place north: east; Glddings, G between 3d and 4th southeast; Magruder, M between 16th and 17th northwest; Slater- Langston, P street near North Capi- tol; Crunimel, Gallaudet and Central avenue northeast: Cleveland, Sth and T northwest, and Logejoy, 12th and D streets northeast. NAMED ENVOY TO RUSSIA. 'LONDON, June 28.—Dr. L. H. Guest, Labor member of the House of Com- mons, has been chosen British am- bassador to soviet Russia, says the Daily Mall. Dr. Guest was secretary and physiclan to the Labor delega- tion to soviet Russia in 1920, supervisor, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city blogk and the regular edi- ar, tion is deliv as fast as t Yesterday Miss Mae KENNEDY oF NEW YorK Vice GIAIRMAN OF THE WORLD CHAMBER ADMITS GERMANY Commercial Bodies Must Agree to Reparations Views and Dawes Report. | By the Asociated Press | PARIS, June 28.—Germany has been |admitted to membership in the Inter national Chamber of Commerce. |" The motion admitting Germany wa made by one of the Belgian members and supported by Etienne Clementel, French minister of finance, on behalf of the cabinet. The motion was adopt- ed by the council of the chamber unanimously. Two conditions were made by the council. One was. that German com- mercfal interests should agree to a former resolution of the chamber re- specting reparations and the other that the Dawes report be accepted Hoped for Admisaion. The German Chamber of Commerce admitted to the international body. The Germany emb:#y in Paris, with which the council of the international chamber has not communicated, re- quested permission today to send rep- resentatives to learn the precise man- ner in which Germany can henceforth take part in the chamber. troller of naval construction, came from London especially to present considerations for admitting Ger- many immediately. He said that in this period of concillation it would e of the first importance for finan- cial and business men of other coun- tries to sit on the same board with Germany and learn at first hand how the German economic interest felt. Plea by Frenchmen, M. Clemental, in an earnest address, said that Frenchmen could now dis- cuss common questions with Germany face to face. The Belgian members showed strong emotion in moving the reso- lution for the admission of Germany. It had been from Belgium, rather than France that the opposition to admitting _Germany_had come pre viously, Willis H. Booth, jr. presi dent of the International Chamber of Commerce. had made a special visit to Brussels last month especially to feel out the - Beigian attitude. He did not obtain the assent of the Bel- gians, but left with the feeling that they would be amenable to the de- sires of other governments. Anticipating that the German ques- tion would, be brought up, the meet- 1ing of the council fourd representa- tives from nineteen countries present. America was__represented by Mr. Booth, Blyth W. Branch, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in_Paris, Nelson D. Jay and Basil Miles. PRESIDENT IS GOING ON WEEK END CRUISE Coolidges and Guests Leaving on Mayflower This Afternoon. Return Monday. President-Coolidge intends to spend another week end aboard the presi- dential yacht Mayflower. It is likely that the President will sail about 2 or 3 o'clock this afternoon, and will be accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, Iy for the citizens' military training camp at Camp Devens, Mass, and Frank W. Stearns of Boston, a White House guest, and probably one or two other guests. Secretary Clark said today that it was the President’s intention not to return before early Monday. President Coolidge had an uninter- rupted day, having made no engage- ments, thereby affording him oppor- tunity to give his full attention to accumulation of routine matters and to the completion of the speech he is to make to the delegates to. the Na- tional Iducation Association con- ference July 4 at Central Stadium. |Radio Programs—Page 11. has been organized for some time in| the hope that its delegates would be | Sir Alan G. Anderson, British con- | their sons, who expect to leave short- | ered to Washington homes he papers are printed. ’s Circulation, 94,937 TWO CENTS. 10,000 DELEGATES FORANNUALN.E.A - SESSION DUE TODAY Four -Specials Coming This Afternoon With Parties From Middle West. |ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR MORE THAN 20,000 Hundreds From Pacific Coast and Southwest Expected Early Next Week. Registration of the vanguard of delegates to the sixty-second annual meeting of the National Education Association. which convenes tomor jrow for a six-day session, was start ed this morning at the convention headquarters in Central High School ;The regisiration booths were opened at 8:30 o'clock, and by noon approxi- | mately 1,000 teachers and educators from various sections of the United ates had officially reported at head- quarters. Virtually every train which arrived at the Union Station today brought a quota of the teachers and prominent | educators who are to take part in the great educational conclave. The first lof the special trains bringing the | state delegations scheduled arrive this afternoon, and before sun- Set more than one-half of the who have arrangements to come to Washington for the mee are expected to be in the city. T | peak loads, however, will not be here | until Monday morning, when the first general session of the convention will Eet under way is made Westerners Due Today. Four special trains carrying 1.000 of the educators and teachers, left | Chicago last night over the Baltimore ! and Ohio lines, and are due to arriv | in the Union station this evening at 30 o'clock. Delegations from lowa | Minnesota. Nebraska, North and South | Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Cole- | rado are on these trains. The Chi- | cago delegation, 700 strong, is occu- pying an entire special train i The delegation from Mississippi scheduled to reach here this afternoon at 2:45 o'clock. The Detroit delega- tion left this morning and is due in Washington tomorrow morning at | 10:30 o'clock. There are 150 in this delegation. A delegation of fifty from the University of Virginia arrived yesterday afternoon over the South- ern railroad. | | scores far | route, Many Trains on Way. of special trains from the west and southwest also are cn with the teachers and edu- | cators, and the exact time of their ar- | rival has not been definitely deter- mined. A majority of them will not reach here until Monday, and a few are not expected until Tuesday, Hustle at Headquarters. Convention headquarters at Central | High School were a beehive of activ | ity this morning as the members of the numerous local commitlees | worked with machine-like precision |in preparing for the hordes of h- | ers. Workmen were putting finish- |ing touches on the scores of educa tional exhibits which flank the long lcorridors in the basement of the | school. The clerkx behind the reg | tration booths were answering volles after volley of uestions ftired at | them by the visiting teachers. Many of the teach who regis- tered early spent the morning \éew- ing the numerous educational ex- hibits. Others w seen studying ps of the Distri and reading the vast quantity of literature given {them upon their arrival i Hold Group Conferencex. | Meantime, at the National Educa- | tion Association headquarters, at 1201 {16th street, offictals of the organiza- | tion were holding group conferences. mapping out the final plans for the convention. Pre-convention se of the organizations allied with the N E. A. also were held this morning. These included the national confer- ence on thrift at the New Willard Ho- tel, the Classical League at the New ational Museum. and the executive committee of the N. E. A, which met at the assoclation’s headquarters, and the conference on the Pan-American Pedagogic Congress at the Pan-Amer- ican building. § The board of directors of the Na- tional Education Association will meet this afternoon the Library of Central High School. A meeting of the committee of one hundred on classroom teachers’ problems also is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock this eve- ning at the association’s headquarters Plan Forestry Exhibit. Delegates to the convention, it was announced today, will have an oppor- tunity to,make a close study of for- estry conditions in the United States through an exhibit which will be on display next week at W. B. Moses & Sons, 11th and F streets. Timber de- pletion, farm forestry. utilization of forest products, recreational advan- tages of wooded areas and the men- ace of man-caused forest fires will be shown. Special lantern slide lectures will be given at 2:30 and 4:30 o'clock each afternoon. The exhibit will be in charge of Mrs Lilllan T. Conway, assisted by L. M. Helsley, Miss Beryl Garner, Miss Ber- nice Geddes and Miss Edith Levy. The special lectures will be given by As- sistant Forester Will C. Barnes, Dr M. C. Merrill, G. H. Collingwood and Miller Hamiiton, all of " the forest service. A The District school teachers, in con- nection with those of Virginia, it also was announced, will give a joint re- ception to all the teachers attending the convention and their friends Mon- day night at 9:30 o'clock at the Wil lard Hotel immediately following the general session at Central High School. Music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band. ADOLPH SPRECKELS DIES. Sugar Magnate Succumbs in San Francisco Home. SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—Adolph “Spreckels, nationally known sugar magnate and manufactarer, died at his home here today.