Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. tonigh not _muc! Partly cloudy generally fair; temperature.. 76 at 3 p.m. v 8:30 am. tod Full report on page Temperature hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, sterday; lowest, 61 at tomorrow change in for 21 Closing®. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 16 No. $9,283. post intered as second class matter oftice Washington, D. C. The Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION n Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1924 _TWENTY-SIX PAGES. * “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers eyery city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 95,944 TWO CENTS. DEADLOCK ON 54th; CONVENTION RECESSES RALSTON DRIVE GAINS SPEED AFTER SLUGGISH START; McADOO FADING Senator Takes Mississippi and Missouri From Californian; Total Now 93. SMITH HOLDS FAST TO 320, WHILE Iowa Delegation INDIANAN Splits Many CLIMBS Ways. * Morning Voting Gives Signs of Definite Breaks. Rr the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 3.—The fifty-fourth ballot: leaders stood as follows on the McAdoo, 427; Smith, 320.5; Ralston, 92; Davis, 62. On this ballot McAdoo gained 4! Ralston lost 2 and Davis lost 1. After the fifty-fourth ballot o’clock tonight. %, Smith was unchanged, the convention recessed until 8 On the fifty-third ballot the leaders stood: McAdoo, 423.5; Smith, 320.5; Ralston, 94; Davis, 63. The figures showed a gain of 10 for McAdoo, Davis gained 4, Ralston gained 1. Smith was unchanged. NEW YORK, July 3.—Thomas Taggart launched today his long-heralded offensive for the nomination of Ralston of Indiana by the Democratic national convention. As the long succession of ballots approaches the half-century mark the Indiana leader began to bring from under cover the votes he has been holding out until he was convinced the leaders had been eliminated. . The first result was that on the forty-ninth ballot Ralston further crippled the McAdoo strength by taking the solid 20 votes of Mis ippi. The Indiana senator also picked up 5 in Hlinois and 1 in Minnesota, making his total 57. in place of the 31 given him on a long string of preceding ballots. Taggart said he expected to ride the boom for all it was worth, hoping his man would prove the candidate on which the tightly deadlocked convention could unite as a compromise. At first the progress was slow, but Taggart did not appear to be discouraged. The defection cf Mis ippi, following that of Okla- homa, which earlier in the balloting had swung over to Senator Robinson of Arkansas, appeared to have materially crippled the McAdoo forces, who were fighting for a majorit in the hope that they then could put over their man by abolishing the two- thirds rule. Total Drops to 462 On the forty-ninth ballot the Mec- Adoo total, which had mounted above 500 last night, had fallen to 46212, Meantime Gov. Smith was holding his own, with 320 votes. and most of the other didates were running along as usual except for the gain to Tobinson resulting in Oklahoma's de- parture from the McAdoo camp. While the voting went on William G. McAdoo held several conferences \ith his advisers and carefully out- ned a strategy. which, he gtill in- sisted, would result in his nomina- He told his friends efforts made to make the Smith for disclose their strength and, while he knew that the oppoition had little reservoirs of strength here and there among the delegates, that when the Smith showdown came it would result in a reaction. Two Tickets Discussed. THere also were little informal con i fabs in the convention lobbies among ; the various leaders looking to a com- promise. In this connection there was talk of Ralston and Cummings as a ticket, while others wanted Walsh and Cummin Friends of Jobinson were pressing his claims in these conferences. Headway Is Slow. ¢ As the roll calls succeeded one an- other in the early afternoon it be- came apparent that if Taggart ex- pected to put his candidate over with a rush, he was to be disappointed. The Ralston movement made but a small_dent in the deadlock on the fiftieth ballot, and again on the fifty- first most of the McAdoo and Smith delegations held steady. But it was apparent there was in- creasing unrest over the resultless battle, and in succession lowa and Kansas cast their votes for McAdoo only to have the action challenged by members of the two delegations. A final decision as to the column in Svhich lowa znd Kansas would be recorded was delayed pending a poll. The report was that lowa was verging toward an agreement to break the unit rule and let the twenty-six votes scatter according to preference. McAdoo Forces Franmtic. The McAdoo managers were busy on the convention floor trying to stem the tide of dissension, but they apparently were doubtful whether their frantic efforts would be en- tirely successful. In North Carolina McAdoo lost one to Glass and one to Davis of West Virginia. Ralston picked up one in Arizona from Davis. There, was more than the usual ronfusion on the convention floor, but no very clear signs whether an actual break was imminent or whether the convention only was passing through another momentary diversion. The Indiana delegation and a few others cheered loudly every addition to the Ralston column, while most of the delegates sat silent and thoughtful, wondering whether 1o leave their favorites and where to &0 If they did. McAdoo Seeks Other Votes. Efforts were made during the night to get Virginia and Arkansas to join the McAdoo standard, while the Mc- Adoo managers had the advantage of holding Missouvri, Mississippi and Oklahoma. The negotiations were unsuccess- ful. Virginia was not willing to leave Senator Glass until her dele- Soley wars ibetter Castifed ey could joln a winner; Arkansas was (Continued on Page 5, Column 4) TENSE DELEGATES HOLD FIRM FRONT Settle Down to Bitter-End Voting as McAdoo Stalls " on Early Ballots. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Sta¥f Correspondent of The idar. NEW' YORK, July 3.—An air of tenseness pervaded the delegates when the convention opened today, a tenseness more marked than at any previous session. It was realized that they were at the beginning of what might prove a crucial day; that if McAdoo should hold the gains he made” yesterday and last night he might attain such headway that the opposition ‘could not stop him and he might “go over” the two-thirds line with a rush. The McAdoo people were counting heavily on “the band- wagon” spirit to push him along. But the landslide did not develop on the early ballots. Concerned but not dismayed by the gains made by McAdoo, the opposi- tion still maintained a stout front. Smith, Taggart and Brennan all made statements disparaging the McAdoo progress and declaring that he had shot his bolt. The McAdoo managers for their part insisted that the land- slide for McAdoo has really started and will move slowly, perhaps, but irresistibly. Divide on Prophecies. The opposition, while agreed in their assertions that McAdoo cannot get the nomination, were at yariancesas to who will get it. Brennan stoutly insisted that it will go to Gov. Smith, as he is the only man who could carry New York and the eastern states in Novem. ber. Taggart argued that Ralston is the logical candidate, and his nomina- tion is necessary to hold Indiana and the middle west. .Bryan in his speech yesterday gave Ralston a card of com- mendation, rather besl;:dunxly, it is true, stamping him as a “Democrat, a progressive Democrat” Taggart's strategy through all the voting has been not to urge his candidate too strongly, but to have him wait until the ‘collapse of McAdoo, should it oc- eur, cl the fle]d for Ralston. Mississippi’s flop to Ralston was another shock to McAdoo and threat- ened to put a crimp in the McAdoo plan’ to capture Arkansas and Vir- ginia. A proposition was being discussed among some delegates in midafter- noon to offer a resolution providing (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) Radio Programs—Page 9 | ....503.4 ..318.6 McAdoa Smith ..... J. W. Davis Cox Underwood Raliston .... How Robinsonr ...... Underwood McAdoo .......... Smith ... J. W. Davis Cox Robinson .. Underwood Ralston ....4844 ..319.1 e L .. 54 .. 44 McAdoo J. W. Davis... Robinson . Underwood Underwood . ... 37Y% McAdoo . Smith ... J. W. Davis...... Cox cee. 54 Robinson ............. 45 Underwood ........... 3814 FORTY-EIGH' 4831 321 70%; Robinson ............. 44 Underwood ........... 38Y; .484.4 .320.1 McAdoo . Smith ... McAdoo - 5 Smith . J. W. Davis... Ralston . Cox .... 4627 3201 63 57 53 Candidates FORTY-THIRD BALLOT. PROGRESS OF BALLOTING Closing Ballot Last Night 'PORTY-SECOND BALLOT. Robinson .... Ritchie ..... Saulsbury ... Owen ...... J. Davis . Cummings ... Fared Ralston ..... Glass ........ Ritchie . o Saulsbury .. Owen ...... J. Davis. Walsh ...... FORTY-FOURTH BALLOT. Glass ........ Ritchie . Saulsbury Owen... J. Davis Walsh _........... Edward 1. Edwards. .. FORTY-FIFTH BALLOT. Ralston . Glass .. Ritchie Saulsbury Owen . J. Davis . Saulsbury ... Owen . s J. Davis .... Walsh ... FORTY-SEVENTH BALLOT. Ralston ..«<.. Glass ...... Ritchie ..... Saulsbury .. Owen ry o J. Davis ... Walsh ..... 'TH BALLOT. Ralston Glass ..... Ritchie .... Saulsbury . Owen J. Davis ... Walsh ... FORTY-NINTH BALLOT. Underwood Glass ...... Ritchie .... Saulsbury Owen .... J. Davis .. Robinson FIFTIETH McAdoo ....... 461Y; Smith ... J. W. Davis..... Ralston ... Cox ... Robinson ...... McAdoo .. Smith J. W. Davis........... 67% Ralston .............. 63 Cox ..... T Underwood ........... 43 McAdoo Smith .. Ralston ...... J. W. Davis. . Cox . Robinson ... Underwood .. 413, szoé 93 59 54 42 38Y; McAdoo .......... Ralston ...... . J. W. Davis. . ... 63 EOX (o it s ok Robinson ............. 43 .423Y; .320%; 94 McAdoo ..............427 Walsh BALLOT. Underwood . Glass ..... Ritchie ... Saulsbury Owen ... J. Davis .. Walsh ... FIFTY-FIRST BALLOT. Robinson .... Glass .: ... Ritchie ... Saulsbury . Owen .... Walsh .... FIFTY-SECOND BALLOT. Glass. . James G. Battle Ritchie ... Saulsbury C. W. Bryan... Owen .... Walsh. ... FIFTY-THIRD BALLOT. Underwood .. Glass ... Ritchie .. Saulshury ... Bryan ... Owen ... FIFTY-FOURTH BALLOT. Glass ....... Smith . 320Y; Ralston 92 62 43 KIDNAPED BOY RESTORED 7O MOTHER BY PRATTLE CHICAGO, July 3.—A five-year search by Mrs. Florence Smith, Taun- ton, Mass., for her son Russell, kid- naped from their home near: Bostor, has end\ed here with the finding of Bryan Saulsbury .. the child, now eight years old. A _year ago the boy was picked up in a daszed condition by a policeman and turned over by the 1‘1'.!". au- thorities to Mrs. D. nzelman. His frequent repeating of the word “tonton” led the foster mother and authorities to communicate with the Boston police, who communicated with Mrs. Smith. Through photmh- Mrs. Smith established the ity of the boy, who did not recognize ber. 5 Ex-SenaTor PHELAN OF THE Meaboo Fol D. C. HAS VARIED JULY 4 PROGRAM Mass Assemblies, Commu- nity Parades, Water Battle and Picnics Arranged. PRESIDENT T0- SPEAK Will Address N. E. A. Convention in Central High Stadium and Ob- serve 52d Birthday. President Coolidge tomorrow will celebrate both his own and the na- tion’s birthday on the 4th of July, leading patriotic observance not only in Washington, but throughout the ‘republic. President Coolidge will be fifty-two years old, and the nation 148 years old. Calvin Coolidge was Yorn in Plymouth, Vt.; the nation was “born™ in Philadelphia, upon signature of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. To his own natal day, the chief executive is expected to give little at- tention, aside perhaps from inviting a few friends to dine. To the nation, however, he will give more. At Cen- tral High School:Stadium the Presi- dent will address the National Educa- tion Association, meeting here in an- nual convention. Tt is expected that he will take opportunity not only to express himself on matters relating to education, but will voice, as Chief Executive, the patriotic sentiments of the American people. Fireworks Banned. A gunpowderless but jolly Fourth of July is In prospect for the District of Columbia. “Fair and no change in temperature,” says the weather man. Supplanting the old-fashioned ex- plosive “Fourth” with its burned fingers, singed hair, shrieking fire engines and clanging ambu- lances, the District will continue its “safe 'and sane” celebration, with numerous occasions throughout the city when patriotism and sport will hold sway. Nothing 'but “sparklers” say the police—no firecrackers, toy cannon, roman candles, skyrockets, pinwheels, or any of the gimcracks which used to delight the heart and burn the hands or snuff out lives of children. But just over the District line, in Maryland and Virginia, are numer- ous stores where the confirmed gunpowder celebrants go this time of year, buy fireworks and shoot off their noise in deflance, tweaking the nose of the District, \as it were. ‘Will Have Mass Oelebrati All government workers will have the holiday, and banks, many stores and places of business wiil be closed for the day. Fishing, boating, bathing and ex- cursions up the Potomac and to other places will be the order of the day for thousands. Beveral organized celebrations will take place throughout the city. At Memorial Continental Hall there will be a patriotic mass meeting, opening at 2:30, at which Mrs. Anthony ‘Wayne ‘Cook, president general of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, will speak, and Mme. de Pas- quali, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera_Company, will sing. \ In Petworth there will be a com- munity celebration, including a chil- dren's parade, under auspices of the "~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) No 35:30 Edition e SENATOK_. SR CARAWAY orF IMPRESSIONS BY BE Russian Cathedral, Worshipers Gone, To Become Museum By RAD. July 3.—Church attendance in bolshevik Russia has decreased to such an extent that many churches are on the point of closing their doors. Contribu- tions from the congregations are £0 meager that they scarcely main- tain the churches and pay the slender salaries of the clergymen. As a result the governing body of St. Isaac's Cathedral has de- cided to convert the superb edifice, erected at a cost exceeding $11,000- 000, into a museum and charge ad- mission. Tourists for years have been impressed by the cathedral's col- umns of red granite, golden dome, doors of solid bronze, pillars of lapis lazula and malachite, rich sculptures in striking bronze re- lief, magnificant paintings and mosaics, priceless ikons and huge ecclesiastical vessels of gold and silver. e RETIRENENTFUND PAYNENTS GO UP Federal Employes Must Part With 2 1-2 Per Cent on Entire Salaries. Between two and three millions of dollars more will be credited to the federal employes' retirement fund this year tban last year, but the sums to be taken from each government employe’s salary during the current fiscal year which began last Tues- day, July 1, will be greater this year than in any year since the retire- ment fund has been in operation and the net results for the present fiscal year and for succeeding years will be a great increase in the amounts paid into the retirement fund’ Due to Bonus Loss. This increase in the fund and the increased amounts deducted from each government employe's salary comes about, it was explained at the Interior Department today, by reason of the effectiveness of the reclassi- fication act, which on July 1 absorbed the $240 bonus paid to federal em- ployes with salaries of $2,500 a year or less. There is no more bonus, and, there- fore, the 23 per cent deducted an- nually from each employe's salary will be computed against the entire pay, instead of as heretofore against the ‘base pay, which did not include the boaus. n past years an employe receiving $1,200 a year, plus the bonus, with an annual total pay rate of $1,440, paid 2% per cent into the retirement fund only on the base pay of $1,200. The bonus did not figure in the retire- ment fund at all. Now it has been absorbed and its absorption into the so-called base pay will bring in sev- eral millions of dollars additional to the retirement fund besides taking a generous slice out of each employe's salary above the sum he has paid into the fund in the past. Increase of Millions. Officials of the division of book- keeping and warrants, in charge of handling the -retirement fund in the Treasury Department, today esti- mated the income from government salaries for the retirement fund at $17,000,000 for the current fiscal year. For the fiscal year ended June 30 last it was between $14,000,000 and $15,000,000, so the fund is expected to show an increase of between two and three million dollars this year. In most cases the shock wiil be easier, however, than it would have been in former years, for most govern- ment emplpyes havé benefitell by :l.luy increases wander reclassifica- on. /r;z;:md Py R RM To Pour oL ON THE . RAGING RRYMAN. MODELD. G SEHo0L PLANT I.E A GOAL Resolutions Drafted Also De- mand Secretary of Educa- tion in Cabinet. BALK AT LEAGUE ENTRY Jesse H. Newton of Denver Elect- ed President for Year—Treas- ury Has Deficit. The general assembiy of the Na- tional Education Association at the final business session of the sixty- second annual conventon this after- noon stood on the brink of voting for entrance of the United States into the league of nations, but was steered from this course by Fred M Hunter, superintendent of schools, of Oakland, Calif. The association had a motion by George M. Davidson of the New York delegation, offered as a substitute to a resolution on_international rela- tions, which set forth that the United States should endeavor to secure the establishment of co-operative tribu- nals to regulate international rela- tions. Mr. Davidson declared that the association would be pussyfooting if it adopted such a policy. Dr. Hunter, however, that should they indorse the argued league i the teachers of the nation would be |accused of entering partisan politics. As a result, Mr. Davidson withdrew his motion and the foreign relations resolution was adopted unanimously along with fifteen others as present- ed by the resolutions committee. Officers Are Elected. o The entire slate of officers submit- ted by the nominating committee was elected unanimously. They are: Pres- ident, Jesse H. Newlon; superintend- ent of schools of Denver; treasurer, Cornelia S. Adair, junior high school teacher of Richmond; vice presidents, Olive M. Jones of New York, the re- tiring president; Albert S. Cook, state superintendent 'of schools of ‘Mary- | land; Harold W. Foght, president of the Northern Normna; atiu s School of Aberdeen, S. D.; J. M. F state rural supervisor of the state department of education of Louisi- ana; Florence M. Hale, state asent for rural education, of Augusta, Me. J. O. Marberry, principal of a school in Rockford, Ii.; Mary K. Mooney, vice principai of the Wash- ington High School of San Francisco; Helen B. Shore, principal of a school in Minneapolis, Minn.; R. M. Sealey, state high school inspector of Talle- hasse, Fla.; A. A. Slade, superintend- ent of schools of Casper, Wyo.; Cora Steele, principal of a school in Terre Haute, Ind., and W. ebb, super- intendent of schools Globe, Ariz. Stands Platform. Dr. Newlon, in accepting the office of president, declared that he had been given the greatest honor that can be bestowed upon a school teach- er in America. “I stand unreserved. 1y,” he said, “behind the program of the National Education Association, especially the education bill.” The chief resolution reaffirms the as- sociation’s unqualified support of the education bill now pending in Con- gress. Another reaffirms the resolu- tion adopted last year at the Oakland- San Francisco meeting favoring a model school system for the District. It also urges Congress at its next ses- sion to pass legislation which will en- able the ,educational authorities of Washington to institute and carry to completion an adequate school build- ing program. ‘World Co-Operation Asked. While not specifically mentioning the world court, a resolution on in- ternational relations declares that the government should endeavor to se- cure the establishment of co-opera- tive tribunals to regulate internation- al relations. The resolution points out that the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Jate, LA FOLLETTE ASKED FORMALLY 0 MAKE PRESIDENCY RACE Reply of Wisconsin Senator Expected at Cleveland Con- vention Tomorrow. INFLUX OF DELEGATES |abiy ARRIVING FOR SESSION Miners and Socialists Represented, But Lack Power to Bind Organizations. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 3.—Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin today was asked formally to permit the use of his name as a presidential candidate by the national committee of the conference for progressive po- litical action, which opens its conven- tion here tomorrow. A subcommittes drew up a message to the senator, which was submitted to the full com- mittee for approval, and then dispatched to Washington. A favorable reply is confidently ex- pected by the leaders of the Cleve d gathering. They said it would prob- be brought by messenger from the National Capital, or intrusted to the hands of me delegate to the convention, so that it might be given to the convention late tomorrow. A big influx of delegates was ex- pected today. Among these was Wil- hx_m Green, secretary of the 1 )’IHQ_ ‘Workers of America. W credite® as a delegate and en a seat in the convention, he was given no power to bind his organiza. tion, his instructions being to report back on the results achieved. i Many Socialists There. Many socialists who will in the national convention party opening July 6, were also here in the role of observers, although their organization is represented as an official unit of the conferenc | Morris Hillquit, a member of the na- | tional committee of the socialists,' also a member of the national com- mittee of the progressive conference He said that if the conference shows signs of being a permanent political organization “and not simply a one campaign affair, we will not quarrci about whether it is called a party.” Regardless of this detail, however, the Jaunching of the La Follette candidacy is the firm determination of every delegate to the conference who has ths far announced himself take part of that Score 0ld Parties. They assert unanimously that the, cld parties have failed to consider the wage workers, farmers, salaried men generally and independent manufacturers and bankers, and that the only hope of those not allied with “the interests” is to take independ- end political action. One of the concrete this feeling may be a visit from a committee from the American Federation of Labor. If this repre sentation comes it will tell the con- ference how little union labor has received from Republican and Demo- cratic organizations in the past, and that there is only a minimum of promise it in "the platform for 1924, examples of to Progrexsives Invited. - Besides the all-important message to Senator La Follette, invitations to address the gathering were sent to several progressives in Congress by the national committee today. One of these. signed by Edward Keating. former congressman. was sent to Representative Henry Allen Cooper at Racine. Wis. 1t urged him to come and let progressives “cheer in the same hall ‘where the plutocrats jeered” when he presented the Wi consin platform to the Republican national convention. It was reported semi-officially that Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin will be Senator La Follette's campaign man- ager. He said yesterday this “premature,” but the report pers despite this denial WAITS ON DEMOCRATS. i T La Follette Bides Time Before An- nouncing Candidacy. Senator La Follette intends to hold his peace with reference to his nomi- nation to run for President until a Democratic candidate has been se- lected in New York. it was said to- day by a group of his supporters Who held a conference here. The Cleveland convention. which is to name him. will meet tomorrow, but it was suggested here that it might mark time, if necessary, to await the Wisconsin senator's pro- nouncement, which will be first made public when it is received in Cleve- land. A committee representing organi- zations endeavoring to bring out the ticket with Senator La Follette at its head will receive at a private gathering in the senator's home a sealed copy of the message which he will' transmit to the convention Senator La Follette's supporters here were said to be anxious that he be nominated at Cleveland tomor- row, but this course, it was added, might be upset by the senator’s de- sire to hold off until completion of the Democratic program. SLAYER OF WIFE GETS TWENTY-YEAR SENTENCE Dr. Clinton D. Miller, 64, Given Minimum Sentence for Second- Degree Murder. Justice Hoehling in Criminal Divi- sion 3 today sentenced Clinton D. Miller, sixty-four years old, a chiro- practor, at 138 B street northeast, to the penitentiary for twenty years Dr. Miller shot and killed his wife, Emma Miller, at their home August 5 last. He was indicted for murder in the first desree and pleaded insanity The jury returned a verdict of sccond degree murder, and the court imposed a minimum sentence under the law.