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Rejection BAKER STIRS TEARS INVAIN FOR LEAGUE Delegates Give Ovation for Straight Approval Plea, But Vote “No.” RABBI WISE’S TALK LIKED Convention, However, Follows Ma- jority Report on Platform by Decisive Vote. By the Asociated Press. NEW YORK, June 28.—Defeated in the platform committee, where he asked for the adoption of a Wilsonian plank the league, Newton D. Ba- Kker of Cleveland. the dead President’s Secretary of War, made one of the most al heard in a national ¢ frer- noon, but Next t my re said, t tions. “The this ¢ on emotio appeals ¢ a avention this was d beaten d family isively o my daty to my ponsibil . Y rothing 1 the le there is n my life compares wit man whe - here d ground.” ¥e being would 1 Baker exclaimed Calls Referendum Iilegnl “After all these of praise “there that league until Posterous “What league by and deposited us in a cans « v Democratic ught to be is dead, ca maje which sne honeycd phrases he in this plank r the le t a syllabl ¥s we should after revolutic they pi iry ref Hpose i T of party where wh Four w politi They plice the Republ g0 the leagur for it nor affectionately a party are against it: they are disposed, but not d mony." " [ Detailing the steps that taken undsr the referen the speaker called provision that the taken “after ful the President. ¢ ple the polls. then, when all he said, “and my son on a battleficld from which I trying to keep him, perhaps we join the league—after full ation The convention applauded and M Baker continued: A Speaking “T am not spe T am speaking sat over in that across the street about party exped: sick, and I'm matters, not and death There s of cheering must um pix ention to vote should cone be the be by ngi peo- And over." of that dead hall consider- to Humanity.” king to Democrat o humanity. 1 hav room at the hotel listening to talk v until 1 speaking now politics, but about of of lifs another when the lon= outburst former Secre tary declared the committee ma- jority was attempting to_“substitute the leadership of Henry Cabot Lodge for that of Woodrow W ilson Bot another ovation when he declared the trouble with the senators on th platform committer, who had take the other side of the discussion rthat they have bheen in th. long they can't think “When I mention the name of Sen ator Lodge.” he said, “I am not speak ing of an individual, but of a malevo- lent institution The delegates liked it and cheered again Who Will Back League? “Who's zoing to present the cause for the leagzue referendum?” Mr. Republican part and the Democrati to touch it for fe with a | tisan “But what would the Republicans #ay about this plank? T can see the headlines of the Revublican news- papers tomorrow morning saving, if we adopt this plank ‘Democrati convention repudiates Woodrow Wil- son.' 1 can seec him looking over my shoulder now at this plank, and you all can » upon his face that fine contempt that he would feel for that kind of appeal “This is not the kind of leadershi that was son, “When the nominee of this conven- tion. whoever he may be. is asked after the conventio: whether he is in favor of the league of nations, i he says ‘No. then the traditions of Woodrow Wilson are gone; if h s ‘Yes' then the reply will be “W your party was not afrail. Thank ¢ they have nominated a man.’ “But my plank. the plank minority, is easily explained ply me: that we shall go league. “I am a middie-aged man. I am be- yond military age. But on the bat- tlefields of F nce T ha closed the eyes of American soldiers, dying for their country, with but two wishes in their heart—that their mothers might know how they died and that some one might do something that would keep others in the future from their bloody fate “And 1 swore an obligation to the dead that, in season and out, I would lift up my voice until their sacrifices were perfected. Speaks Word of Wilxon. *T served Woodrow Wilson five years. He is standing at the throne of a God whose approval he deserved and won. And as he looks down, 1 reply, ‘I am doing my b You still are the captain of my s And that great leader is through me, ‘Carry on. Do America's duty to herself and to mankind.' When the speaker concluded, many of the women in his audience were dabbing their eyes with soaked hand kerchlefs and tears coursed down the cheeks of some of the oldtimers who had sat through many a fervent platform fight without seelng such another appeal to the emotions. Many of the delegates rose and cheered. The standards of several states were lifted up and carried up and down the center aisle, and for several min- utes the hall was in an uproar of applause. Before the cheering had subsided, 1t was revived by the appearance on the platform of Rabbi Stephen . Wise to_second the appeal of Secre- tary Baker. He denounced the ref- erendum as a “subterfuge” and de- clared that “the only referendum the party needs is a candidate standing squarely on the league of nations.” Will Save U. §. Honor. *“I have heard it said,” he contin- wed, “that we must decide the league question so as to save the face of this man or the fortune of that man. But the only decision we need is the decision which will save the blighted honor of America. “I am a Woodrow Wilson Demo- crat. The Republican party has ceased to be the party of Abraham Lincoln, but I propose that the Demo- cratic party remain the party of ‘Woodrow Wilson, If at thé behest of compromise and surrender we strike Woodrow Wilson down anew, I remind you that once before he was stricken down by his enemles, but that his soul went marching on and will go marching on- because it is the voice of peace for America " apd all the world. “1 ask that-wre Che to it afraid will taint it d of the It sim- into the for r3 Mr. | posed to matri- | am | and he | taught us by Woodrow Wil- | J". They loved their party el ualified Baker’s League Flan Is Beaten By 2-to-1 Vote On, the roll call, tho#s voting for the Baker Substitute plank voted “aye,” and those inf favor of the majority plank voted “no.” The roll. call followsy ”A bama 24—Yeas, 12%; ona. 6—Yeas. Arkansas 18 California 26 corgia 28— Tduho 8—Ye Illinois 58—Y eas, Indiana 30—Nays, 30, lowa 26—Nays, Kansas 20 Kentucky 161 Louisiana Maine 12— i1; nays, 1. | Maryland 16 16 Massachusetts 36—Yeas, 8; nays, 28 Michig Minnese Mississip Missouri | Montana Nebraska 16 ada 6—Nays. New, 1 <hi 91%; nays, 1y's, 20, 6; nay: . 10; na 20, : nays. 5. as, 6, nays, North Dakota 10—Yeas, 1; nays, Onio 48 Oklahoma 20 Oregon 10—Yeus hode Island 10—Nay: louth Carolina 18— | Dakota 10—Nay Washington 14—-Nayt, Wit Virginia 16— Vens Wis-onsin 26 s Wyoming 6 W Aliska 6 Veus. 11 nay | District uf Columbia 8 | Hawaii 5 | | Philippine rto Ric 16 nays, ITALIAN DEPUTIES | LAUD MATTEOTTI| Opposition Members Eulogize Slain’; Socialist While Voting “No | Confidence” in Government. ROMi, Jun 25.—Afer listening to eul. of the murdered deputy | Matteotti, given by the Socialist | leader Turati. a meeting of about 100 opposition deputies last night passed | a resolution of no confidence in the government. The resolution declares that an essential condition for pacifi- | cation of the country is restoration of moral. political. and judicial order, | | and that such restoration can be ef-| fected only by a government which | would abolish militia forces recruited | from the members of one party, which | would unhesitatingiy repress every | form of illegality and restore the| | authority of the law Deputy Turati asserted that a tab- {1et should be placed on a wall in| | Rome or a monument erected to Mat- | teotti, ving, as an admonition to| rations: hut the ideal which Is in ver will be killed. My ideal |does not die. My children will be proud of their father ard workmen | will bless my name. Long live So- m” then praised Matteotti as a philosopher, financ , orator, organ- | | izer, commercial traveler and Social- {ist, but, above all as one who also | inspired. | " Matteotti, he continued, will re- | main in history as a symbol pointing |out the “sarcasm of pacification pro- {claimed ir words, but prevented by | the violence of facts.” Deputy Turati believed that the Mat- |teotti tragedy “will be a warning to |all those who in good faith think that a regime of threats and over- bearingness can become a reconstruc- tive force.” S e 750-FOOT SKYSCRAPERS | PREDICTED FOR FUTURE New Type of Elevator Declared to Have Made Vertical Trans- portation Efficient. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRI 28.—~The towering coming more imminent with the per- fection of vertical systems of trans- portation. which surpass the present type of elevator system now employed in office buildings, Arthur Longedyke of New York saild in a report sub- mitted today to the convention of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. “Plans have been made for elevator cars controlled by a push button sys- tem to serve a building sixty stories in height, running an express serv- ice similaT to an express service on a railway,” said Mr. Longedyke. ‘‘Stops at the tenth, twentieth, thirtieth and every ten floors to the top are pro- vided, with a local service for each ten floors. While the plan may not be put in operation in the immediate future, I mention it as an illustra- ! tion of the possibilities in future buildings of great height.” The push button system will be in- stalled in the new Standard Ol build- ing in New York, he declared. Un- der the system, 'the passenger an- nounces his floor as he steps in the elevator and the operator pushes a button for that floor. The car is not stobped until it reaches the floor for which the button has been pushed, unless prior to reaching that floor it arrives at one where there 15 a wait- ing passenger who has pushed a floor button. i | | NGS, Colo., June of skyscrapers soul of Woodrow Wilson, incorporated in the league of nations.” Again at the conclusion of Rabbi 11 | | “Isnt PARTY TRADITIONS —— Democrats May Have to Quit Old Practice of Issue Straddling. CHANGE IN BRYAN NOTED | “Cross of Gold” Foe Now Works { With Group Ready to Inflict Another Thorny Crown. BY HEYWOOD BROUN. NEW YORK, June 25.—Excitement ran higher than at any previous mo- | ment in the convention as the Demo- | aited to hear the fight to name the Klan in the platform. The noise was less. Tension muffled the volces and n toe gal- eries. Judging crowd, no l form from the behavior of the other plank in the plat- was of uny moment whateve: In the beginning it was said by some i\nu the Klan issue was a red her- | Ting. That herring has now becom | Leviathtan. And by now it is impos- | sible to maintain that the question is solely one of tactics. Through the developments of to- day it became evident that support- | ers of the Klan were concerned solely | With the fight to keep the name of the organization from being spe- | ¢ifically set down. When Patrick J. Haltigan, reading clerk of the House, | boomed out the ‘majority plank, de- | claring for “freedom of religion, | fre dom of speech and freedom of | worship,” delexutes from Georgia and | vther Klan strongholds cheered vocif- erously, just as they have cheered every ” generality of toleration all week. 1In the minds of the opposing factions a point had been reached by which it became apparent that even the most fervent and scathing de- nunciation of intolerance would be a Klan victory if only the name were omitted. And a plank which said: it possible that upon a few rare occasions the Ku Klux Klan might conceivably go just a wee bit 00 far?" -vould be a strong plank. Traditions Are Broken. The Klan itself seems to have set this test. At Cleveland it asked nothing except that its name should not be mentioned and that is the same stipulation which was presented by members of the order to the Demo- crats. Many see in the struggle an issue even wider than the question of Klan activity. It is not impossible to maintain that a great party has been asked to abandon the local tradition of a century and to say precisely what it means. The general practice has been to make planks broad enough to permit both east and west traffic. The plank proposed by the minority group in the resolutions committee “was recognized as a one- way street. Another ‘tradition was broken be- fore the afternoon ended. The usual practice of conventions s to foment and encourage noise and commotien, but both sides engaged in the Klan fight were obviously anxious .40 throttle down emotion as far as pos- sible. Men in the New York dele- gation signaled to the galleries for silence nmediately the first great cheer rose after the reading of the plank which said “Ku Klux Klan.” Bryan Makes Cynies Smile, Certainly there was nothing orator- ical or emotional in the manner of Pattengall of Maine as he read the resolution. He might have been read- ing the annual report of a success- ful hymn book house to the board of directors. Indeed, once, when he was interrupted by ‘applause he said, Wby don't you wait 'til T've read Upon the platform gathered the forces of the oppos ng camps. Mr. Bryan came up the aisle a little be- fore the platform was read and took a seat close behind the speaking desk. He was applauded by delegates, but not at all wildly and the galleries paid almost no attention to him. The jests of irony move in circles and there may be chuckling among all cynics at the present position of the commoner. The man who came from the prairle country vears ago to tear down the mighty and exalt the oppressed has become now the very symbol of middle class conser- vatism. The man who won a nomi- nation by speaking out s a leader in the Democratic faction which wants _ discreet silence. And the youngster who talked of the ‘“cross of gold” sits now in the shadow of that group which would take another crown of thorns and press it upon the brow of negro, catholic or Jew. ASKS RADICAL CHANGE IN COLLEGE EDUCATION Tufts President Proposes Two- Year Introductory and Two- Year Professional Courses. By the Associated Press, MEDFORD ,Mass., June 28.—A pro- posal for a radical change in the edu-. cational scheme of Tufts College has been laid before the faculty members by President John A. Cousens. It would do away with the present four- year college course and institute a two-year introductory college course to be followed by courses of two years or more in the Tufts professional schools. “The_ introductory college,” Presi- dent Cousens informed the faculty, “would serve two purposes, general training in liberal arts for all, but so designed as to constitute pre-profes- sional training for some. As to cur- riculum, it should be such a one as would widen the student’s knowledge of the world and of himself, and would stimulate him by precept and example to make the utmost use of his power for self-development and for service to his fellows.” A student completing the two years’ course would recelve the degree of associate in arts, with all the rights and privileges of an alumrius. The departments of medicine, 14W, den- Ustry, theology, teaching, chemistry, engineering, business administration and general research would be organ- ized into, schools, each with Its own dean, giving courses covering at least two years and.leading to the bachelor degree and to gpecial " professional ‘Wise's brief address many of the dele- gates stood and cheered while Senator Pittman of Nevada arose to close the argument for the plank presented by the committee majority. The senator began his speech by de- claring that many of those who had fought side by side with Woodrow Wil- son, and were as loyal to hini as Secre- tary Baker, favored the referendum pro- posal as the practical means of attain- ing the ends they desire. . “When he attempts to say by infer- ence” he continued, those who signed the majority Treport are deserting ‘Woodrow Wilson, he is saying what na intelligent man will.believe. We ‘fought for the league of nations, and we still believe in it. We are fighting, not to. keep out of the league, but to get into the league. It is only a question of method. “We made the league a party issus Avay From The leaghs all of the grest away from the league all of the 'R"l{b"ufll'flo had been in !.'gflx better than degrees. ‘Would Reduce Students. “In the professional schools,” Pres- fdent Cousens said, ‘Ynumbers would be small and strictly limited. The effort would be to sat and maintain the highest ¥ossidle. standards of scholarship. The point of view would be the development of ‘the individual rather than & group. “There is present Jn the university system of America some -danger of too greazt. paternaligm. . There. is far gréater danger of neglecting the in- dividial student.” F would the ratio of teachers to students mnot greater than one to fifteen. T would have each member of the ‘staff teacher in .the art of living, to lpth grodp of students. * 3 Would_have endowment: to_prd- v‘&mmfi' % tndent mn{:n‘nifii H ‘woul Lve sf lent n: 5 Vay dequats salatias o tio' Staf I would havé special endowment for research. Given -alf these, I should expect results not now atained by other lastitytion in Amperiea KLAN TEST SHAKES | SENATOR KEY PITTMAN Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 28.—Despite de- lay caused by the failure of the reso- lutions committee to have a tentative platform ready by the time the nomi- nating speeches were concluded the program of the present convention is up to the schedule of the 1920 con- vention and is only one day behind the 1912 convention in the amount of business transacted up to the sixth day of meeting. The 1912 and 1920 conventions were bitterly contested, as is_this one. They nominated Woodrow Wilson and Gov. Cox respectively on the seventh VOLCANIC AREA LOOKS LIKE CRATER OF MOON New National Monument Utterly Devoid of Reptiles and Has Great Cavern. By the Assoeiated Press. ARCO, Idaho, June 28.—The “Cra- ters of the Moon" section, located about forty miles south of here and recently made a national monument by action of President Coolidge, is s0 named because its weird lava for- mations bear a marked resemblance to the moon as seen through a tele- scope. Countless years ago this area, lo- cated in a valley about twenty-five Tmiles long and three miles wide, was the scene of great volcanic activity. Surrounding the district is timberland which abounds with wild animals. A freak of the region is an im- mense underground cavern, hollowed out by @ seething flow of molten fava, and down which automobiles can be driven for a considerable dis- tance. Other caverns glow with phosphor- escent tints of.volcanic ash, dead and cold, yet presenting the appearance of @n active volcano. There are no fattlesnakes or other reptiles in the Qistrict, desite the fact that similar fava territory elsewhere is literally live with them. Why there are no Snakes in.the “craters” is a question which one can;decide. The -region’,i8 not far from the beaten: paths of tourist travel to Yel- lowstore Park. Industry:Seeks More Research. American captains of industry are each year:taking more advantage of the scientific,resenrch possibilities to be found by ‘establishing fellowships in the ‘various universitles. In co- operation with " the' United States bureau -of mines, fellowships in min- ing; " wetall and chemical re- semrch. will be offered this coming schaol térm in the Universities of Alsbama, . Arizona, | Ohlo Stdle; 'Ytah, Washington, Idaho and Carzegle Institute _of . Technology. & "Petrified Forest Found. - On the.edgs of the Mojave'desert 1n’ Cality " &'DEW natunal wonder has Bean seuld 15 the-pdeusy oF & pernis A )i one: traveled by tourists only ocoasionally by tists on exple JUNE NEWTON D. BAKER. Convention Working as Fast As Did These of 1912 and 1920 working day. There remains two days of the present convention in which to equal this record. In comparative progress the present convention has paralleled exactly the last one. It required two days of organization, two days of nominating speeches and a day for the discussion of the platform before the delegates were ready to ballot in the 1920 con- vention. This is the point at which the present session has arrived after five working days. On the ability of the contending groups to compose their differences in two days hangs the hope of the Madison Square delegates to return to their homes as speedily as the delegates at Baltimore and San Francisco in previous battle years. WALL ST. DEPENDENCE ON WOMEN INCREASES Recent Census Shows Many Are Being Employed, But Ratio Stll Is 2 to 1 for Men. By the Aseociated Press. NEW YORK, June 28—Wall street is becoming more and more dependent upon women; the average space for each office worker in the financial district of ‘Manhattan has been cut down over 6 per cent in the last decade; bankers maintain more mag- nificent quarters and give their em- ployes less elbow room than all other tenants of the most pretentious sky- scrapers. These are the outstanding conclu- slons of experts of the Building Own- ers and Managers’' Association, after a survey of a group of the world's largest office buildings undertaken to obtain data for the use of architects in_designing skyscrapers of the future. Ten years ago, When the last accu- rate door-to-door census of first-class office buildings in the Wall street dis- trict was taken, it. was found that there were four man employes for every woman, and_that the average floor space for each worker was 125 square feet. A similar census in a typical office building recently revealed. that in a total population for the structure of 10,868, the proportion of men to Women was-only two to one, and that the average working space had been reduced to 107 square feet. e Mars Nearest to Earth in August. The planet Mars will be nearer the earth mext August than at any time in the last 120 years. 'This will be used as an opportunity for-physicists and ‘radio experts to see whether there is any Ifkelihood’ of ‘communi- cation“with Mars. The attenibt will be conducted from the ‘helghts of Jungfrau Mountain, in the Alps. It is about 14,000 feet above ses level. Astronomers- will use powerful tele- scopes to see if there is any sign of life on the planet. RN o e 118 Power Companies in U.'S. There are in the United States to- day 116 electric light and power com- ies, which each has gross earnings in excess of $2,000,000. Of these com- panies 98 have preferred stock out- standing. The_ outstanding stock of 29, 1924—PAR HARRIS - EvING. RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE. 3,000 HUMAN SOUNDS IN ‘LIBRARY’ COLLECTION Folk Songs and Instrumental Mu- sic of Many Lands Registered by German Scientists. By the Amsociated Press. BERLIN, June 28.—One ~f the most interesting by-products of the world war has been the founding in Berlin of an “anthropophonetic” library as a part of the Prussian state library. It is an aggregation of human sounds perpetuated upon phonograph plates and was founded by Prof. Wilhelm Doegen. Struck by the idea that the presence of prisoners of war from every quar- ter of the globe in German intern- ment camps afforded a unique op- portunity for assembling a collection of sounds and songs and.pronuncia- tions of words, he undertook the task. Prof. Doegen spent months in visit- ing the prison camps as head of a commission of scientists. and asked the prisoners to sing folk songs and pronounce words and utter various characteristic sounds. The collection was later extended to include the characteristic music on native instru- ments of varfous countries. The collection of sounds now num- bers some 3,000, and includes those from most nations of the earth, as Prof. Doegen’s researches were great- ly extended after the war. Of each reproduction three original plates are made with an estimated life of 9,000 or 10,000 years. These are carefully stored in 'the vaults of the library, while ordinary hard-rubber plates are used for the demonstrations. More lately the collection has been extended to include noises in nature, such as the rustling of leaves, the whistling of the wind, the roar of the ocean and the roll of thunder. WINDOWS GET BETTER. Shop Displays Become More Elab- orate and Artistic. From the Youth's Companion. With every passing season the dressing of shop windows, especially at Christmas time, becomes more artistic and. elaborate. Compared with the gorgeous, glittering miles of alluring objects that every city of any pretensions can now display, the shops of a hundred years ago were poor and dingy indeed. Yet the lure of city shops for the rustic from village or backwoods is ages old. So far back as the reign of Louis XIV of France Paris was already the greatest mart for luxuries_and objects_of art and fashion. Even then France had settlements in Africa; and it happened that a Sene- galeso, son of a black chief who had been serviceable to the settlers, was taken under the king's protection and sent to receive his education in the capital—a —lone precursor of the many thousand Senegalese blacks who were to help France fight her battles in the great war. - After the young chieftain had ‘seen the wonders King Louis graciously asked him to choose a present for his father, promising that whatever he selected should be promptly dis- patched to Africa. Unhesitatingly and in tones of im- ploring eagorness the youth ex- claimed: “Mighty monarch, let me send a shop!’ - AN Quick Work Needed. From the Amaricsn Leglon Weekly. | ston would welcome anti-Klan, and any | ed by ISSUES SUBMERGED IN FIGHT ON KLAN Managers Recognized Fate of Candidate Might De- pend on Result. UNDERWOOD MEN HAPPY Point Out Fact That Alabama Senator First Brought Issue Before Party. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 28—The Klan issue overshadowed all else today at the Democratic national convention, and “boom row"—the candidates’ headquarters—was almost deserted, and the campaign managers virtually ceased to campaign. Disposition of the Klan question in the platform fight waged in platform committee and in the full convention down in Madison Square Garden touched so directly on the candidacies of several of the aspi- rants for the party’s highest honor that the forces behind these ‘men packed up and went to Madison Square Garden. Besides, all of their working material—the delegates— were down there. Most of the emanations from the headquarters, as it was, revolved about the Klan question. Denfes Smith Will Withdraw. Franklin D. Roosevelt, manager for Gov. Alfred E. Smith, denied that his candidate would with draw if the convention voted down the Smith-supported plank for spe- cific condemnation of the Klan. David L. Rockwell, forces behind William G. McAdoo, also touched on the Klan question in a public statement, declaring that should 4n anti-Klan plank be voted into the platform Mr. McAdoo would in no way considers himself elim- inated or his chances adversely af- tected. Taggart Lays Low. Thomas Taggart, the Indiana lead- er, like Brer Rabbit, “lay low"” while the Klan fight was the hottest, but even he had been forced out early in the day when an attempt was the | campaign | | leader of the | made in some quarters to fasten the | <lan label on hix candidate, Senator amuel M. Ralston. Taggart denied it vigorously, meeting the stories with a smile, but declaring that Ral- Klan other kind of support he could get, as he was “the candidate of all factions and peoples” even though he was not a Klansman, These declarations by three of the leading campaign managers were in- terpreted as a move te Set the sails of their candidates so that regardless of the shift of the wind over the | Klan question in the convention, their crafts would not be blown out of the water. Underwood Men H Y. The Underwood backers, however, seemed to take particular delight in the convention's Klan fight, and con- tinually pointed to declaration by the Alabama senator months before the convention which asserted had been largely instrumental in bringing the Klan issue today before the conven- tion. The minority plank on the Klan was placed before the conven- tion by William R. Pattengall of Maine, who seconded the nomination of Senator Underwood, and support- ers of the Alabama man said that op- tion if nothing else was sufficient to tell where treir candidate stood. The Klan controversy was declar- the proponents of the move- ment behind John W. Davis, to have unaffected their campaign except as it brought a day of inactivity be- cause the mind of the convention and its component parts was centered not so much as to whom the nominee should be as to what the platform should contain. Suspension of activity also was noticeable about all the other head- quarters, _including those opened for Senator Glass of Virginia, former Gov. Cox of Ohio, former Secretary Houston, and Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land. CRAZED MAN'S BLOW FATAL TO PATIENT, 74 Iron Pipe Wielded by St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital Inmate Believ- ing He Was “Hoodooed.” Under the delusion that he was a victim of sorcery, David Lee, colored, forty years old, an insane criminal patient at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, battered the skull of a seventy-four year old fellow patient, Albert Dor- sey, colored, Wednesday afternoon, crying “Hoodoo, hoodoo,” and wield- ing a plece of iron pipe. Dorsey died last night. Details of the fight were given to the police by offcials at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Lee ran amuck at a base ball game during a recreation period in the hospital grounds. After attacking Dorsey, according to the report, he turned’ on guards who sought to arrest him and threatened them, Attendant Green stood in front of him, cajoling, while three other attendants went to the rear and rushed him. He was placed in_solitary confine- ment, in Howard Hall, where he is still being held pending orders of the coroner. Dorsey was rushed to the institution emergency room where it was found that his skull had been fractured. Efforts to save him through operating were fruitless. Attendants at the hospital believe that the pipe was obtained from a pile of trash mear the athletic_field where the inmates were being allowed a recreational period. THREE EXECUTIONERS END LIVES IN GERMANY One Had Cut Off 125 Heads in Career, Others 123 and 48, Respectively. By_the Amociated Press. ERKNER, Prussia, June 28.—Fxe- cutioner Krautz, who recently killed himself in this village, is the third éxecutioner to meet death by suicide in any within three months. Krauts hsd cut off the heads of 125 prisoners, while Schwietz and Spasthe, the two Breslau execution- ers who ended their own lives, had carried out 3!‘1!{ 123 and 48 execu- tions, respectively. In his last years Krauts wandered about the villages of Prussia, telling stories of the 125 persons he had put to death, and suffered many delusions. He slept with his executioner's ax at his head, and said he was unable to_rest well without it Krautz regarded guillotining as an art and was always trying to perfect himself in its practice. Both he and Schwiets regarded Jules Deibler, the 20,000 AT MEETING SHOUT FOR RITCHIE" Baltimore Citizens Indorse State Executive for Nomi- nation for Presidency. WIRE NEW YORK MEETING | Mayor Bryant Leads Maryland's Biggest Demonstration—Gov- ernor’s Voice Heard Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, June 2 greatest demonstration ever given Marylander was staged here when a mass meeting i plaza was held to indorse the can dacy of Gov. Albert (. Ritchie for 1 Democratic nomination for the dency. Twenty thous, square in front Acting Mayor Howard Br ed the meet with which he extolled the ties of Maryland's & the resolutions adopted by the qu ly formed Ritchie-for-Pr setting forth the gov and fitness to be Preside Ritchie Speaks by Wire. Gov. Ritchie, over a from New York with amplific the speakers' stand. made dress in which he thanked of Baltimore and of their good wishes and said th ing entered the fight for the . he would stick to t S8 meeting: various sections rades through t followed the The city hal and searchlights crowd surrounding brilliant searchlight a screen hung on War Mem: building, where a gigantic picturs Gov. Ritchie was shown Adherents Jubilant. Ritchie adherents here are jubilant tonight over the report brought by Capt. George Iverson, one of th Maryland delegation, who came down 4 from the convention to arrange the ' , celebration. Capt Iverson said that Ritchie was the strongest of the sec gnd-chulc-: candidates in the field to- Following the meeting, Mayor Bryant sent the follo gram to the chairman of each and _territorial delegation atte the New York convention “Baltimore city tonight, taneous meeting of ard of parties, unanimously indorsed Go Ritchie for President. All the cit and towns of the state did likewis Maryland with one voice support for Ritchie.” city ople ed pac an ad illum over was played bul was by asks ¥ MANHATTAN DAYS AND NIGHTS BY HERBERT COREY. NEW YORK, June 27.—The wa: old gentleman put a hand on my ar “Wait a minute,” said he We stood at the corner and about this and that. Then he took off his hand and said we might go. I wanted to know the reason for the hold-up. “An armored car,” said he. “was in the middle of the block, unloading the factory pay roll. You can r tell nowadays. Gunmen might have attacked it. 1 always play safe.” One of the sidelights on life great city. A suit in court revealed some of intricacies of the art business. ( man had secured an option on a pie of tapestry held by a dealer for $8.0 “I could have sold it for tw three times that sum,” said he, “if ¢ dealer had not refused to make g0 on the option. He sold it himself f $25,000 or more.” The court asked what was the true value of the tapestry. “Such things," he “have mo real value. customer- effect, said, in You Lady uptown in violent hysterice She went to a hair specialist to hate herself made beautiful. That sort pf thing used to be more or less = titious. Now it is as open as son Square. “Henna,” said the specialist. "% ing you a warm shade of red h ‘would render you enchanting ‘Well, of course, that was enous But he took the henna out of ! wrong bottle or something and turned her hair pink. pinkiest hair you ever saw. Just the shade of a blush 1ose. And nothing can oe done about it except sue. She has tended to this detail, but her bhair is still pink. Very fine new rabbi came to town the other day. His co-religionists gave him a reception at the Chasan efer Synagogue. Capt. MacKenzie called out his Clinton street p handle the crowd. “Only rabbis are to be a he was told by the committee “Rabbis,” said Capt. Mac “Rabbis! How can I tell a rabbi By their beards,” said the ¢ mittee. So the thirty policemen cried in true scriptural style to the crowd that only beards—fine, long, grand beard —were_to enter the synagogue. At that MacKenzie had thirty-four beards and a couple of goatees left over when the synagogue was filled. om- This may be an immoral and law- less town, but the policemen always get a big hand on their annual pa- rade. They marched down 5th ave- nue the other day and the various sections received applause about in this order: Glee club, two parts; riot battallom carrying clubs, three parts: riot bat- talion carrying riot guns, four parts; riot battalion carrying machine guns, five parts; riot battalion pulling little machine guns on wheels, six parts. One guesses that New York as a body is opposed to rioting and other corrosive joys. (Copyright, 1924, by Herbert Carey.) Kleisthenes First Democrat. Kleinsthenes, an Athenian scholar and statesman, was the first Dem- ocrat really to raise his voice in _the interest of the common people. This ocourred in about 510 B. C. About eighty years before a spirit of revolt made itself felt in Attica, owing to heavy taxes and the arrogance of the nobles. Solon, ~another eminent statesman and lawmaker, was au- thorized at that time to take some steps to remedy a situation that was already feared by those in power. Chewing Gum Called Drug. It remained for a Tacoma, Wash., justice of the peace to determine the classification for chewing gum. He classified it as a drug when efforts to call it either a food, drink or cos- Parisian _executioner,- as the great | metic failed, and authorities on the master of craft, and exchanged subject igmered the idea of giwing