Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers and thunderstorms today; tomorrow fair and slightly cooler; moderate southwest and west winds. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, 80, at 4 p.m.; lowest, 64, at 10 p.m. Full report on Page 14. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington. D . 1,005.— No. The WASHINGTON, D. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION C., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE Sunday 29, 1924. —NINETY-EIGHT Star. PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every aflu Smdaymornnwtow = “‘ md mv&:’mllmrtmednub. * FIVE CENTS. 430 KILLED WHEN TORNADO HITS NORTHERN OHIO ANTI-KLAN PLANKBEATEN BY ONE VOTE BITTER BATTLE FOUGHT OVER MINORITY REPORT SCORING HOODED ORDER League Plank Substitute Also Beaten in Session Marked by Tumultuous Scenes. " POLICE CALLED TO QUELL MINOR ROWS AMONG ANGRY DELEGATES Full Platform Adopted as Reported by Committee Amid Clamor as Conven- tion Adjourns Until Monday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 29 (Sunday).—The Democratic platform will not single out the Ku Klux Klan by name. It will not contain a Wilsonian plank on the league of nations. These two decisions came early Sunday morning after a ten- hour continuous session in which some of the most disorderly scenes in convention history were enacted. Tired and keyed to a high nervous pitch by the string of events which had Jed up to the vote, the delegates and convention officials quarreled repeatedly, and in one or two cases the police had to intervene to quiet rows on the convention floor. The attempt to substitute a plank on the league of nations for that submitted by the platform committee was bowled over by a heavy vote. But the vote on the Klan was very close and its taking was surrounded with scene of accrimony and dispute WAR OF FACTIONS OVER KLAN ISSUE IPERILS ELECTION Closeness of Vote Makes It Sure Neither Side Will I}ccept Defeat. INVOKING OF UNIT RULE RESENTED BY DELEGATES Fgcea Gloomy as They Leave Hall After Dramatic Conven- tion Struggle. BY N. 0. MESSENGER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, June 28.—The almost unimaginable cioseness of the vote on thé Ku Klux plank makes it rather immaterial which side was the loser or gainer in the contest, In the opin- fon of many democrats, In so far as the i1l results to the party are con- cerned. The ill-eeling between the factions which has been engendered is so bit- %er that it is hardly to be expected it can be dissipated between now and ’:IOE“HJMM.TV TAKES N THE STAR CARTOONIST TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Democrs Convention News—Pages 1,3, 4,5 and 6. N. E. A. Convention News—Pages 1, 18 ON RUNMING A HOUSE IONS OF THE CONV 20,000 TEACHERS ARRIVING FORN E. A. ANNUAL SESSION THEATER COLLAPSE TRAPS 200 IN LORAIN; SANDUSKY IS SWEPT 2,000 Is Injured Toll—Property Damage Is Millions—Cleve- land and Akron Suffer. GOVERNOR ORDERS TROOPS OUT; LOOTING REPORTED IN PROGRESS Eyewitness Tells of Women and Children Dying—Refugees Fleeing, Fill Roads—Aid Rushed. By the Associated Press. Sweeping sixty miles along the shore of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Sandusky, Ohio, a tornado late yesterday took a toll of life estimated at from 250 to 350, and injured from 1,500 to 2,000 persons. Property damage will total millions of dollars. Lorain, Ohio, was the hardest hit, fatalities there ranging from 200 to 300 with the devastation wrought by the terrific wind and destroyed communicatiofts, making it impossible to fix the precise number. Most of Lorain's dead were counted in the State Theater, f which it was reported eighty bodies had been removed. FIFTEEN DROWNED IN HARBOR. Fifteen were reported killed at Sandusky, Ohio, fifteen drowned when an automobile ferry plying between Sandusky and Marblehead broke her moorings at Sandusky and struck a pier. and possibly fifty other persons killed in towns in outlying dis- tricts between Sandusky and Cleveland. It was the most serious disaster in Ohio since the Dayton flood of 1913, when upward of 700 persons lost their lives. The probable death list is augmented by the fear that several lake steamers may have gone down. Three steamers out of Sandusky are known to have been caught in the storm. Some passengers were reported swept overboard. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28.—Northern Ohio lay prostrate tonight under the fury of winds of tornado violence that swept from Vespers on Capitol Steps This Afternoon election day. and 19. such as have not been witnessed in years on the flcor of a national convention. When after repeated challenges and changes of votes in the various delegations the result was announced, it was 542 and the three-twentieths votes in favor of the plank as the com- mittee recommended and 541 and three-twentieths in favor of the minority plank, Klan by name. Then a roll 'was demanded on the, adoption of the platform as a whole and as submitted by the platform committee. There was more disorder with a bundred delegates calling for recog- nition and the chairman shouting at the top of his voice and scarcely able to make himself heard. When a roll call was demanded on the platform, the chair announced that the re- quired number of seconds were not presented. Then, while all the racket was at its height, Franklin D. Roosevelt, raising himself to his feet on his crutches, made himself heard above the riot, and shouted: “We have now proceeded to the morning of the Sabbath day. I move that the convention adjourn until 9:30 o'clock Monday morning. The platform as a whole was adopt- ot by 5 vive voce vete, in whick the eves and the moes were mixed in & mighty chorus. But Chairman Walsh, bringing down the gavel, declared the motion to adopt the platform carried, and adjourned the session. Floor Fight Bitter. The ses€ion had begun at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon and before reach- ing the Klan issue had passed through = bitter floor fight on the league of nations plank, resulting in adoption of the plank drawn by the majority of the platform committee, reaffirm- ing in general terms the party's faith in the league and the world court. Plunging then into the Kian issue, the convention heard a two-hour old- time convention debate ending in a speech by Willlam Jennings Bryan, which was Interrupted by “boos” from the galleries, but applauded by the delegates in tribute to the fight- ing qualities of its three-time can- didate for the presidency. . State After State Challenged. The Klan 1ssue came to a vote on the question of adopting in place of the religious liberty plank espoused by Mr. Bryan, an open con- demnation of the Klan by name. Much confusion accompanied the taking of the vote from the start, and when it was perceived as the end of the roll was neared that the result might hinge on a few votes, the result from state after state was challenged. Many delegates, to0, attempted to get recognition to change their votes, and the session proceeded amid al- ways growing noise ond disorder. Because of the confusion and the closeness of the result the convention chairman ordered a recapitulation of the emtire vote, with the result that' Wew sources of trouble were foundin which would have singled cut the Ku Klux challenges to the resuits of a half dozen states. Plunging into the platform Rght the Democratic national convention late this afternoon had progressvd beyond the reading of the majority report of the resolutions committee and at 5:30 o'clock was hearing Newton D. Bakér's substitute plank on the league of nations. The Klan plank fight was still in the offing with leaders in a quandry | as to the best means of surrounding it with peace and order instead of threatened disorder and possibly bloodshed. After coming to the conclusion that it would not be safe to discuss the Klan plank in the presence of the packed galleries, the convention lead- ers laid all their plans to adjourn the afternoon session and hold another tonight for the sole discussion of the Klan plank to which only. delegates and newspaper men were to be ad- mitted. - Executive Session Disfavored. But after turning the thing over in their minds and surveying the job of geting the crowd out of the great garden, the leaders came to the con- clusion that probably their plan for an executive night session was not feasible and they engaged in a series of conferences looking to its aban- donment. While Mr. Baker was speaking in favor of his plank, urging the con- vention to reject the plank presented by its platform committee with the indorsement of Willlam Jennings Bryan, and adopt a stralght out-and- out league of nations plank, along the lines of Wilsonian policy, the leaders were trying to make up- their minds whether to go straight through or to attempt the separate session at night. ‘When Mr. Baker finished, a unan- imous agreement was made for two hours, debate on each of the disputed planks, to be divided equally between the contending sides. League Plank Debated. The debate then went forward on the league of nations plank, with Al- fred Lucking of Detroit, speaking first for the adoption of the plank as written by the majority of the committee. There was such a hub- bub on the floor with several dele- gations taking polls on the disputed planks before the debate began that Mr. Lucking was delayed for several minutes in opening his speech. Mr. Lucking declared the majority plank should be adopted because it was briefer-and more to the Point and because the minotity proposal (Continied pa P - 1 | The feeling will be enhanced on the part of anti-Klan faction by realization that, but for the opera- tion of the unit rule and several changes in the vote as it progressed through the stormy perfod of one of the most exciting scenes in a na- tional convention, they might have won. If the vote by which the Klan won had been as proportionate as the vote on the league of nations plank there might be hope of better feeling growing in the party through a sense of yielding to the will of al large majority, case. There were gloomy looks on the faces of the delegates as they left which bore visible witness to their ap- prehension of stormy times ahead of the party. This is a first blush apprehension of the future subject to revision when there is a calmer survey of the situation, The events leading up to the con- vention crisis were dramatic. At 6 o'clock this morning the committee, encountering an _impasse, had ad- (Continued on Page 5, Column 8.) —_—————— FOUR KILLED AT CROSSING Speeding Train Strikes Auto in Blinding Rain. MANSFIELD, Ohio, June 28.—Four persons were Kkilled at the Erfe rail- road crossing on the Harding high- way five miles west of this city today when thielr automobile crashed into the engine of a passenger train. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Vance Wilson and Asheford Wilson, all of Akron, and an unidentified woman who dled on the way to a hospital. The driver of the ill-fated ma- chine, blinded by a terrific rain- storm, failed to see the approaching train, which was running late at a high speed, and crashed into the engine just as it made the crossing. —_—— MISTAKE PROVES FATAL. Mrs. Alexander McKenzie, Drinks Poison for Medicine. YONKERS, N. Y., June 28.—Mrs. Alexander McKenzie, jr., said to be a daughter-in-law of Alexander Mec- Kensie, former North Dakota politi- cal leader, died in 2 hospital here to- day from the effects of a poison Wwhich medical officials said she drank accidentally, mistaking it for a medi- cine. Coroner Edward Fitsgerald as- serted-that Mrs. McKerfsie had been suffering from the effects of a fall and that she arose in the night for her medicine bottle. She drank the contents of the wrong vial, however, and died two hours later. MacLaren Makes New Stop. By the Associated Press. BANGKOK, June 28.—Maj. Stuart A. MacLaren, the British aviator who is attempting a circuit of the’ globe, arrived at Don Maung, west of here, from Tavoy, Burma, today. but such is not the Jr., Maryland and Virginia 26 and 27. Radio News—Page 32. Reviews of New Books—Page 33. PART TWO—12 Pages. Editorial and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 9. News of the Clubs—Page 10. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10. Boy Scouts—Page 10. Veterans of the Great War—Page 11. News—Pages PART THREE—10 Pages. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music In Washington—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 4. Motor and Motoring—Pages 5 to 9. Fraternities—Page 9. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—S Pages. Magazine Section—Friction and Fea- tures. The Rambler—Page 3. ) PART SIX—12 Pages, Classified Advertising. Serial—“Rippling Ruby’"—Page 9. The Civillan Army—Page 9. Spanish War Veterans—Page 9. Financial News—Pages 10 and 11. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 12. GRAPHIC SECTION—12 Pages. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Mr. Straphanger, Re'glar Fellers; and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff, 10 SHOWS CLOSE WHEN CONVENTION BLOCKADES New York Manager Says Broad- way Suffered Because Democrats Furnished Real Show. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Broadway's convention boom exploded tonight. Ten Dplays, whose managers had counted on delegates’ patronage to carry them on for a week or so beyond the season's dead line, closed their doors. “It wasn't 8o much that the conven- tion people didn't go to the theater themselves,” said one producer, “but they actually kept other people from going.” Another said that the rush which the theatrical folk had counted on did not materialize, “Why, the convention's & show in iteelf,” he added. —_— Senator Reed’s Condition Worse. KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 28— Senator James A. Reed spent a rest- less night, his physician reported today. The swelling in his right leg below the knee has increased, it was Mr. Open Convention—700 Addresses During the Week. Educationally, the eyes of the na- tion will be focused on Washington this week, as the National Education Association, in sixty-second annual convention grapples with the vital problems of education—the backbone of American democracy. Ten thousand or more of the coun- try's leading educators and teachers already have completed the “On to Washington” pilgrimage for the great conclave, which gives every indica- tion of being the most important and pretentious in the history of the as- sociation. Ten thousand more are ex- pected to arrive today and tomorrow on the special trains which are com- ing into the Union station hourly CAPITAL THRILLED AS GRIFFS PUSH ON Double tory Over Athletics Likely to Bring Record Crowd Today. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. Raised to a high pitch of interest by the recent winning spurt that carried the Nationals to first place in the American League pennant race, the enthusiasm of followers of base ball in Washington was fanned to fever heat by the double defeat ad- ministered to the Philadelphia Ath- letics at Clark Griffith stadium yes- terday. Staging a sensational batting rally in the seventh inning at the expense of Heimach, the Griffmen overcame a lead of one run obtained off Zahn- iser through Hauser's fecord-setting homer into the left-fleld bleachers, and registered a 4-to-1 victory in the first game, following this with timely hitting in support of Mo- gridge's effective pitching to take the second contest by a score!of 4 to 0. Nearly 13,000 fans were on hand to see the twin triumph of the club led by Stanley Harris, the youngest man- ager in big league base ball, and it is not improbable that with falr weather all records for attendance will be surpassed when the Boston Red Sox open a series at the local park this afternoon. Rise Is Semsation. The recent advance of the Griffmen constitutes one of the most sensa- tlonal chapters in local base ball history, their consisteat pace having carried them from sixth place to the _ (Continued on Page 2, Col from Union. Washington has prepared adequte- ly to welcome the enormous multi- tude of visitors, who in number, will rank second only to the thousands of ‘“nobles” who stormed the Na- tional Capital last June for their an- nual pilgrimage to Mecca. These teachers will be received royally. They will be given the keys to the city; they will be feasted and en- tertained and they will go home ap- preciative of the beauties of the Na- tion’s Capital and the sincerity of her people. From every city. town and hamlet in the United States the teachers have come, bringing with them the educational problems peculiar to their respective communities. With them on their homeward . journey will go an enriched knowledge of the National Caplital and a better under- standing of the fundamental prin- ciples of the American government, gained through personal contact with the nation’s leaders and a first hand inspection of the numerous patriotic and historic shrines scattered throughout the city and contiguous country. the forty-eight states in the Benefit te City Seem. The coming to Washington of these thousands of teachers inevitably will result in improved educational conditions here. With a plank in the association’s platform favoringa model school system for the District, officlals point out that one of the first steps taken by the visitors upon their arrival here will be to inspect the public schools, noting particu- larly the undesirable conditions which Supt. Frank W. Ballou has condemned repeatedly. The comprehensive program ar- ranged for the convemtion places special emphasis on relation of citizenship to government, moral education, teaching tenure, retire- ment systems for teachers, and a score or more of other topics rele- jvant to the broad question of educa- tion. The chief topic of discussion which is expected ‘to precipitate a prolonged debate is the proposed establishment of a federal depart- ment of education which will once and for ail divorce the training of the nation’s youth from politics. Bill Up Tomorrow. The education bill which the as- soclation sponsored and has vainly endeavored to press through Congress for. several years will come up. for consideration at the initial session of the representative's assembly to- morrow morning when Dr. George D. Strayer, professor of school admin- istration of the teachers' college of Columbia University and chajrman of the association’s legislative com- mission, submits his report. The or- ganization’s previous deliberations over the education measure have pro- from Cleveland to Sandusky along the shores of Lake Erie, iso- lated Sandusky and Lorain, killed possibly 400 persons, injured another 2,000 and caused property damage of possibly millions. As the stricken cities began to try to establish communica- tion, word began to trickle out which substantiated the early re- ports that the catastrophe may be one of the greatest in the history of the country. Lorain alone, according to word obtained in circuitous fashion from there, will have 300 dead and 1,500 injured. One hundred and sixty-five bodies have been taken from the State Theater there early today, Chief of Police E. J. Stankard of Elyria re- ported. A steamer was being loaded at Cleveland with supplies for Lorain at midnight. In Sandusky, estimates of the dead ranged to seventy-five. The probable death list is augmented by the fear that lake steamers may have gone down! Three steamers out of San- dusky are known to have been caught in the storm, and reports Have it that passengers were swept overboard from the decks of one of them—the Reliance. Scenes of the wildest terror and confusion were enacted in the cities as the furious winds blew men and buildings inte the lake, blew railroad cars off the tmacks and pushed structures over. DARKNESS ADDS TO TERROR. As the darkness came on unlighted streets and homes added to the terror, while pouring rain fell. Refugees were clogging the roads out of Lorain and Llyria to Cleveland, reports said, while relief workers and newspaper men were rushing into the stricken area. Gov. Donahey at Columbus has ordered northern Ohio units of the National Guard to proceed at once to the three cities, and some of them have started. Tomorrow the Governor and Adjutant General Henderson will proceed into the storm area. Reports early in the evening had Lorain burning, no water with which to fight the fire. The mayor of Sandusky, in a frantic appeal to Gen. Hen- derson for troops, said the city was in ruins. The area of tornado violence seems to have been in the sixty- mile stretch from Cleveland to Sandusky, along the lake, al- though other Ohio cities reported violent wind and rainstorms, with much property damage, but no deaths. EIGHTY DEAD REMOVED. Eighty dead had been taken from the State Theater in Lorain, the chief of police of Elyria, nine miles away, reported at 9:30 p.m. At 11 p.m. the chief of police said that the latest reports available there estimated the dead at Lorain at about 200, with hundreds injured. A number\of the injured were being brought to Elyria late tonight. Elyria escaped the tornado entirely. No telephone or telegraph communication with either Lorain or Sandusky was available from Elyria. REFUGEES JAM ROADS. The entire Elyria fire and police departments and ambulance with equipment have been sent to Lorain. The only way to reach Lorain from Cleveland is through Continued an Page 2, Column )