Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Unsettled today and probably local showers, change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ded at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 85, at . vesterday; lowest, 70, at 4:15 Full report on’ page 7. tomorrow, not much Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 29,288, post Entered as second class matter office Washington, D. C. he WASHINGTON, D. C., WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1924—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes ¥ as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 94,412 TWO CENTS. | RALSTON REACHES 196 VOTES ON 93d BALLOT RECESS UNTIL 9 P.M. VOTED, WITH SENATOR MAKING RAPID GAIN McAdoo Strength Drops to 310; Smith Holds 355 During Firs Real Shake-Up. : ALIFORNIAN-URGED TO DROP OUT BY WARMEST SUPPORTERS Advise Action to Give Him Voice in Selection as Forces Rapidly Away. Break Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 8.—S hed . . x more futile ballots today—bringing its total to ninety-three—found the Democratic national conven- tion adjourning for a si hour rec , during which conferences were planned in the hope of finding some way through the whirl- McAdoo lines continued to disintegrate during the day balloting, Gov. Smith’s forces held fast and the much-discussed and looked-for booming movement for Senator Ralston was actually developed on the floor. The word went out to flop in the votes for Ralston, and in today’s balloting his place had risen to third on the last, with a total of 19614. The McAdoo numbers were hammered steadily down during the day’s ballotidg to' a new low record—310 votes— the lowest point the McAdoo forces ever have touched since the convention began. They did recover a. bit, however, on the last ballot of the day and stood at 314 when the convention adjourned. Meanwhile the Smith vote clc all the balloting. the close of last nigh sed at 365! . within 15 of its highest mark in The McAdoo forces had suffered losses between ’s balloting and today’s opening. DAYIS STANDS FIRM. John W. Davis closed well toward his high mark, standing at 68. Senator Ralston, beginning at a figure surpassing his pre- vious high-water mark, was run up in the day’s balloting from 98 to 196%4. Glass in the meantime suffered a slump, losing in the aggre- gate 40 votes. Much of the loss and the losses of others were due to the accretions to the Ralston boom. The talk about the convention hall was that the Ralston movement was going to be given its full chance to develop, and if it did not do so the coalition forces would be centered upon some one else. After Mr. McAdoo had been in con- ference for an hour with his prin pal floor managers he sent a messen- ger to the convention hall to search for William Jennings Bryan and take him to the conference room. Bryan had been a consistent McAdoo sup- porter, but Senator Ralston was on the list of acceptables he laid before the convention last week and the Ralston men had been at work trying to win him over to the candidacy of the Indianian, New Dark Horse Out. In the belief that an end to the long deadlock might come before the end of the day, all sorts of efforts were being made to bring out a new string of dark horses and to quicken the pace of those who have been going wearily through their pre- liminary steps through nearly a hun dred ballots. An attempt was being madg to swing Oregon and Idaho from the McAdoo column to Homer Cummings of Connecticut, and to throw the strength of Illinois behind John W. Davis. Kansas delegates Ralston managers vote of twenty Indiana senator ballot. Despite the plain evidences of a shakeup in the entire situation the changing of large consignments of votes was accompanied by little of the tumult that usually attends such movements in national conventions. For the most part the delegates took it very calmly. A week of work in the hot convention hall and the constant humdrum of the roll calls had turned almost to routine what (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) informed the that the Kansas would go to the on the ninety-first Ralston Nomination Tonight Predicted by Pat Harrison N. 0. MESSENGER. Staff Correxpondent of The Star. NEW YORK, July 8.—The sena- torial group in the convention, headed by Senator Pat Harrison of Missis- sippi, was on the floor of the conven- tion to put Senator Ralston of In- diana across as the presidential nominee of the Democratic party. At noon today Senaton Harrison predicted that Ralston would be nominated either late today or to- night. Senator Robinson's friends, of course, were not joining in the drive for Ralston. They are hoping that eventually Ralston will be stopped and the chance will then arrive for their candidate. Ralston has been declared to be the “most available” candidate for the Democratic nomination by the majority of the Democratic senators. There are twenty of the Democratic senators in the convention as dele- gates, and their influence is being cast today in favor of the nomination of Ralston with few exceptions. Acceptable to Bryan. They are using the argument among others, that Ralston is acceptable to William Jennings Bryan. The greatest obstacle that Ral- ston has to overcome, however, is the enemity of many of the Smith dele- gates on the Ku Klux Klan fssue. In the drive for Ralston his total was shown to be 159% on the ninetieth ballot—on the next ballot Kansas de- serted Gov. Davis for whom the dele- gation has been voting and cast its 20 votes for Ralston, amid much ap- plause. The ninety-first baliot gave Ralston a total of 187%. The convention when it reassembled this morning found itself still in a deadlock over the two leading con- testants, with the position reversed by Smith being in the lead with Me- Adoo the trailer. The expected drive for Ralston last night failed to mas terialize, although he did get some votes, but not M volumes sufficient to be “classed as the starting of a landslide. Outlook Discouraging. The outlook at the opening this morning was rather discouraging. Some of the leaders professed to en- tertain the hope that a break may occur during the day and a nomina- tion made, but when they analyzed the situation, with its attendant bare faith, they had to admit that it was more hope than reason which dic- tated their feelings. People have said every day, “This thing cannot go on,” but “this thing” has gone on through all these. weary and seemingly endless days. McAdoo will not yield to Smith and Smith will not give way to McAdoo, and there it is. Each has demon- strated strength sufficient to stop the other. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick, and- everybody around here is well-nigh sick unto death. Conferences Futile, The adjournment of the convention last night out of respect to President and Mrs. Coolidge’s grief afforded oppor. tunity for further “conferences” last night—that word “conference” is getting to be a joke, but as usual they were fruitless Conferences among the units of the two sides, and no efforts seem to have been made to confer between ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 7.) -+ HEY / DID THEY NOMINATE. ANYBODY 7~ WHAT! EIGHTY-EIGHTH BALLOT. Smith . McAdoo . % .315Y; Ralston seeeess 98 Glass ..... . 6675 Davis . =5 . 5914 Underwood . -39 Meredith ... 26 Robinson ... e .23 EIGHTY-NIN .357 .318Y; ..100145 .362 Smith . McAdoo . Ralston Glass Davis ...... Underwood . Meredith .. Ritchie - Daniels Ritchie . Owen ....... Jonathan Davis Bryan ....... Saulsbury .. Walsh ...... Roosevelt TH BALLOT. Robinson .... J. M. Davis. Daniels ..... Bryan ... Saulsbury ... Walsh Roosevelt .. NINETIETH BALLOT. Smith ..... McAdoo . Ralston .... J. W. Davis. Underwood . Glass .... Meredith .. .35414 ..314 .15914 .. 654 . 421 . 30%; .26 NINETY-FIR ...355% .318 ..187y .. 66%; . 461 . 28Y; 26 Smith ...... McAdoo . Ralston .. Davis .. Underwood . Glass .. Meredith J. M. Davis. Robinson Daniels ..... Ritchie ..... Bryan .. Saulsbury ST BALLOT. Robinson ... Ritchie .. Cummings Bryan ... Saulsbury ... Walsh .. 5 J. M. Davis...... NINETY-SECOND BALLOT. ..35514 Ralston ....... ......196% DAVIS Liores. oo vl s s o 1095 Underwood . ... 459 Glass .. . 26Y; Meredith . . 26 NINETY-THI Smifth ................3654 McAdoo .314 Ralston ......... .196%4 J. W. Davis........... 68 Underwood .. . 4434 Glass oo .0 sl oo 2] 26 Meredith RALSTON IS SILENT AS NEW BOOM GROWS Robinson Ritchie ....... Cummings .... Bryan ... Saulsbury .. Walsh ... Houston . - John M. Callahan. RD BALLOT. Robinson ........ Ritchie ....... Cummings ....... Bryan ... Saulsbury Walsh Baker DEMOCRATS PAUSE TO PAY RESPECT Convention Puts Aside Factional Senator Listens In While Vote Mounts, But Declines to Make Comment. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, July 8.—United States Senator Samuel M. Ralston was listening today on the radio at his farm home when the eighty-ninth ballot taken in the Democratic na- tional convention for nomination for President was announced, showing the Quarrels to Express Sorrow for President’s Grief. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, July 8—The Demo- cratic national convention paused in {ts factional quarrels today to pay re- spect to President and Mrs. Coolidge in their hour of sorrow. When the session began Rabbl Stephen Wise, New York, offered the following resolution on behalf of senator had received 100% votes, his high mark. Mr. Ralston declined to comment. The Hoosier solon continued to re- ceive telegrams today declaring that his nomination will restore harmony in the Democratic party. Mr. Ralston made public one such message, re- ceived just after the eighty-ninth ballot from B. F. Yoakum, New York business man and widely known in farming circles, as follow: “The Democratic national conven- tion is becoming a joke throughout the country. Your nomination would restore its respect and confidence not only among the delegates, but the country at large.” The senator said he was not reply- ing to messages recetved since he re- quested the withdrawal of his name from consideration by the convention onJuly & - L L Franklin D. Roosevelt, chairman of the New York delegation. “This convention of the Democratic party gathers this morning under the shadow of the grief that h come to the home of the Chief Magistrate of our nation, together with all our fellow Americans. We bow our heads in sympathy and reverence by side-of our President as he and his family pass through the valley of the shadow of death. “We pray that the divine omfort and healing may -be vouch: to the sorrowing parents. May the father and mother of the lovable youth who has been called from life to life find solace and strength in the thought of the loving sympathy of all the American peo “In token thereot this h&:n;:;uon lently bows its head with loyal and N eetionate: d for the President ———— $12500000 ASKED FOR 1525 SCHDOLS Budget, Largest Ever Sub- mitted, Goes to Commis- sioners From Board. $500,000 OVER LAST YEAR New Salary Schedule and Reclas- sification Act Account for In- crease, in Main. Carrying a total of approximately $12.500.000, the school estimates for the next fiscal year will be transmit- ted to the District Commissioners this afternoon by Robert L. Hay- cock, acting superintendent of schools. The budget was approved by the board of education yesterday afternoon at an executive confer- ence which followed the final public session until September 3. The new budget, the largest ever submitted, is about $500,000 larger than the one rubmitted to the Com- missioners last July for the current fiscal year, which totaled $11,858,086. The increase is due to the new salary schedule provided for the teachers in the Keller salary bill and the higher remuneration granted the cus- todian and clerical forces under the reclassification law. Follows Building Program. Following closely the five-year building program to which the board committed itself three years ago, the items for the expansion of physical equipment call for an appropriation of about $5,000,000, of which $2,000,- 000 will be used for new buildings and the remaining $3.000,000 for the purchase of property for playground purposes and as sites for schools which it is planned to erect in the tuture. A major portion of the $5,000,000 bulldings ‘and grounds_items will be used to begin the construction of the new McKinley Manual Training School at 2d and T streets northeast, and the two junior high schools, one for white and the other for colored pupils. The white junior high school will be erected in the vicinity of 7th and G streets northeast, and the colored near Rock Creek Park, in the neigh- borhood of 20th and O streets. Business High School. The estimates, it is understood, also include an item for the preparation of plans for the proposed new Busi- ness High School which it is planned to erect on the property already owned by the District government at 14th and Upshuh streets, on which the Macfarland Junior High School is now located. The new health school which will replace the Hamilton School, on Bladensburg road, af will be placed Y| on this site. Among the other schoolhouse ac- commodations provided in the budget are elementary schools in Manor Park, .in the vicinity of 3d and Rit- tenhouse streets, and in. North Pet- worth. These new schools are de- signed to relieve congestion in the schools of Brightwood, Brightwood Rark, Petworth and Takoma Park. Many of the jtems in the estimates are for the needed extensions of yards for playground purposes, which were stricken out.of the budget last year Dby the budget bureau when it cut the board's original estimates from $11,- 858,088 to $8,018,470. > Additional Land Sought. The item for the new Business High School, which was eliminated from the budget last-year, called for an a propriation of ~$200,000. The same amount, it is understood, is asked for in the new budget. HERRIOT PROPOSE COMPROMISE PLAN INDAWES DISPUTE French Premier RetainS Pow- er in Reparations Body to Declare Default. NEW COMMISSION GETS RIGHT TO DECIDE GUILT MacDonald’s Approval of Move to Pacify Poincarists Sought During His Paris Visit. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 8.—Prime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain arrived here this afternoon and found the stage set for Premier Herriot's last attempt to save the interallied con- ference, planned to take place at Los don July 16, from the opposition's move to forestall furtherance of the Herriot~MacDonald peace plan. Herriot met MacDonald at the sta- tion. A crowd cried, “Long live peace!” There were a few scattered cheers for M. Herriot, but the absence of cheering for Mr. MacDonald was marked.” After a short stop at the British embassy the premiers pro- ceeded to the Quai d'Orsay, where they began’ their conference. Debate In Deferred. The opposition decided to defer in- terpellations till Thursday. 3 A eompromise plan for continuing the reparations commssion in con- trol of the execution of the Dawes plan was to be proposed to Prime Minister MacDonald by Premier Her- riot at the French and British pre- miers’ meeting this afternoon, it Is stated. The reparation commission, under this arrangement, would de- cide whether Germany was in default, but a separate body would be cre- ated to determine whether default was voluntary. A note explaining the French atti- tude on reparstions which Premier Herriot drafted'in collaboration with his advisers was approved by the cabinet this forenoon. After being presented to Mr. MacDenald it will be sent to the various allied powers. Criticlam Still Stronx. The projected note to the allied nations, says Le Journal, will be sent only after an agreement is reached between the two premiers and that it will thus become a Franco-British document. Meanwhile “Pertinax.” political ex- pert of the Echo de Paris, and his Poincarist gompeers are making cap- ital out of both Mr. MacDonald's visit and his speech in the British House of Commons yesterday. They declare the announcement of his visit given out here yesterday made it appear that Mr. MacDonald was coming on his own initiative, whereas the Brit- ish premier himself stated to the commons that he was going on the invitation of M. Herriot. “Pertinax” describes the invitation as a “desperate expedient” on the part of the French premier, unable further to hide his “capitulation” at the recent Chequers conference with Mr. MacDonald. Herriot Fights Back. The opposition press. dealing with the British prime minister's speech, gives prominence to the portion in which he afirmed that the document accompanying the jnvitation to the London conference, and about which there has been so much talk, was an exact summary of the Chequers con- versations. The conviction that the Herriot cabinet was in danger had penetrat- ed even government circles. Post- ponement of the debate in the Senate necessitated by the visit of the Brit- ish prime minister makes little change in the situation, but it gives M. Herriot time to make a further effort to come to an agreement with the British premier before he in- terpellated in the upper house. 1t is admitted that it will make an " (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ‘REAL ESTATE RING FACES JURY PROBE Special Body Called to Inves- tigate Charges Made by Senate Committee. United States Attorney Gordon will submit to a special grand jury which has been called for July 23 the evi- dence collected by investigators for the ~United States' Senate in con- nection with the alleged existence of a ‘real estate ring” to boost rents and values of property in the Distric. The work of the regular grand jury for the July term is so crowded that Maj. Gor- don decided to call an additional grand Jury to look into the charges. Among the allegations contained in the report. of the investigators. submitted to the United States at- torney by Senator L. Heisler Ball, chairman of the District committee, is one relating to aMeged pyramiding of trusts om apartments and office White House Flag Alone Half-Staffed For Coolidge’s Son Although President Coolidge per- sonally expressed a wish that the death of his son be not officially recognized, at the insistence of his advisers the Executive allowed the ‘White House flag to be lowered to half-staff this morning after it had been in the peak position for sev- eral hours. Members of the cabinet who call- ed at the White House convinced Mr. Coolidge that the flag over the building in which the dead body of Calvin, jr., lay should be lower- ed as a mark of respect, and the President consented only on that basis, it was learned. Flags on the government depart- ments will remain at full staff. They are lowered only when heads of this or other guvernments die, or by Executive order. President Coolidge maintains that his son’s demise has no official bearing and he wishes as little publicity given to it as possible. Strict orders were issued even that no photographs be made of the funeral. YANKEE ATHLETES BAIN COMMANDING LEAD IN OLYWPICS Wins in Shot-Put and Broad Jump Run Points to 98. Finns Next With 54. By the Associated Press. -OLYMPIC STADIUM, COLOMBES, France, July 8—Making a clean sweep of the first three places in the shot-put and sending the Stars and Stripes up three stadium masts for the first time, the United States today swept into a commanding lead for the Olympic track and field cham- plonships. The twenty-one points Eained in this event ran the total for America up to ninety-eight, or nearly double Finland's 54. Other points /after today's events were distributed as follows: Great Britain, 28%; Sweden, 14%; France, 913; Hungary, 7%; Switzerland, 5: Norway, 4; New Zealand, 4. Hauser Wins Shot Put. Clarence Hauser, the California colleglan, gave the United States its second triumph in winning the shot put. Clem Hartranft of Leland Standford and Ralph Hills of Prince- ton took second and third places, and Norman Anderson of University of Southern California fifth place in the terrific battle of the shot put giants. Torpo of Finland was fourth in the Finn, was sixth, but Porhola. the shot Put, and Nicklander, another Olympic champion, was unplaced. Hauser's winning toss was 49 feet 2% inches. America’s first triumph of the day came in the broad jump, when De Hart Hubbard leaped twenty-four feet six inches to take first place, while his countryman, Edward Gour- din, took second place, adding 15 points to the United States total. Finland suffered a serious setback in the broad-jump event, picking up only 3 points by virtue of the fact that Tuolos took fourth place. Hub- bard’s jump was below the Olympic record and exactly one foot shorter than the mark of twenty-five feet six inches, a world-record performance, set by Robert Legendre, Newark A. C. in the pentathlon vesterday. Walter A. Comins of Yale, another of America’s broad jumpers, injured his leg on the first leap. He was in- tercollegiate champion in 1923-24. Romig Thrilis Ameriéans. John Romig. Penn State, gave the Americans their first thrill of any Olympic distancé race so far when he won the third and last elemina- tion trial in the 5,000 meter event, leading Edvin Wide, the Swedish star, by fifty yards, and Willie Ritola, the Finnish ace, by more than 100 yards. Romig ran a heady race, letting his two Scandinavian rivals set the pace for nine laps, then shooting out in front in the tenth and last lap, run- ning away from his noted oppdnents, who in the last stages of the run did not try to catch the fiying American, being assured of qualify- ing places. Romig’s time of 15 minutes 14 3-5 seconds was the fastest of any of the three trials, the other two of which were wor by the famous Nurmi and another Finn, Hursda Rastas. The other three Americans entered in the 5000-meter event were out- classed and did not qualify. J. K. Lermond, Boston College, finished | sixth to Romig, Rilus Doolittle, But- ler. College of Indianapolis, finished sixth to Rastas and H. A. R. Phelps, University of Iowa, finished seventh to Nurmi. Great Britain conquered ithe United States when D. G. A. Lowe, teammate of Harold Abrahams, winner of the 100 meters yesterday, led a brilliant field to the finish in the 800-meter final. It was the.team work of the Bri- tons that gave them the victory, for H. B. Stallard, the favorite, set a terrific pace for three-quarters of the way when Lowe came through with a burst and broke the tape in 522-§ seconds, only a half second slower SON OF PRESDENT DES AT HOSPTA RTESIN ., W BURILIN VERHONT Calvin Coolidge, Jr., Suc- cumbs to Septic Poisoning After Heroic Battle—Par- ents Bearing Up Well. SIMPLE WHITE HOUSE CEREMONY TOMORROW Executive and Wife at Bedside to Last—Body Returned to Man- sion Early Today—Resting Place Likély to Be at Father’s Birth- place at Plymouth. Once more the veil of death has enveloped the White House, and to- day Calvin Coolidge, jr., youngest son of the President and Mrs. Cool- idge, lies wrapped in the peace of his immortal sleep. Comforted to the last by his stricken parents, Calvin passed away last night in Walter Reed Hospital after a gallant, but hopeless, battle against the ravages of blood poison- ing which had tortured his weak- ened body since last Wednesday. Simple Funeral Tomorrow. He faced the inevitable when the end came with the same indomitable spirit that had marked his battle for life, and even during the hours when he was conscious he quietly obeyed every order of his physicians and bore the pain of their ministrations with surprising fortitude, Tentative plans for the funeral were understood today to include a simple service at the White House at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the body then to be taken to Northamp- ton, Mass,, the Coolidge home, where another service will be held, with burial Thursday at Plymouth, Vt. where the President was born. Coolidges Are Brave. At the White House this morning Frank W. Stearns, friend of the Cool- idge family, who has been with them throughout the ordeal, said President Coolidge was bearing up under grief and that there had been no breakdown on the part ef Mrs. Cool- idge. Although Mrs. Coolidge realized what the end must be, she bravely watched the unwavering courage of her dying son with a fortitude that never fatlered, and even in that last agonizing minute before the weaken- ing heart ceased to beat she smiled hopefully at him through unshed tears. By her side stood the Presi- dent, comforting both as best he could in the face of the inevitable. End at 10:30 P.M. It was just 10:30 o'clock when Cal- vin's eyes were closed in death, and doctors and nurses declared that both the President and Mrs. Coolidge bore the announcement of the end with- out flinching. There was nothing for them to do but return to the White House and wait for their boy to be brought home to them. The President tenderly helped Mrs. Coolidge to their car, and as it turned out into 16th street it was met by one bearing the President’s secretary, C. Bascom Slemp. At the White House the doors were quickly opened. News of the end had preceded them. Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, a guest at he man- sion, and John Coolidge, the elder son, met the couple in tha reception room. Mrs. Coolidge ieaned on her hus- band’s arm as she entered the White House, and after a hurried word with Mr. and Mrs. Stearnes, they went to their rooms. Save for a few minutes at infrequent intervals, their Vigil by the side of their son had been unbroken since he was taken to the hospital, and both showed the effects of the strain. Guard About Quarters. The first announcement that the end was near came at 8 o'clock last night, when & military guard was thrown around the presidential wing and word was sent out that Calvin was dying. More than two hours elapsed, however, before the stout little heart gave up the struggle. The end came a minute after a sinking spell reduced the heart beat to an al- most unnoticezole pulsation. His last minutes, it was announced, wers easy. Death has stricken the last taree administrations in the White Housc, by calling home members of the imme- diate families. The first was Mrs. Wil- son, who died during President Wilson's first term, and the Fresident, him- self lay the verge of death the last yr is second administra- tion, succumb three years later. S Then President Marding v stricken in the prime of his carecr and died with a suddeuness that shocked the world. A year before Mrs. Harding kad lain i t:e White House desperately il for months, and “T(Continued oa Fage & Column 5.) Continued oa Page b, Cojuma 2)