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NEW YORK, July 9.—An effort to | do away with the two-thirds rule of electing nominees for President and Vice President in the Democratic na- tional conventions and thus to pre- vent disastrous deadlocks such as has held the Democratic party in its 8rip during the present convention is (o be launched, it was predicted today by Willlam Jennings Bryan and Homer Cummings of €onnecticut, former chairman of the Democratic committee. ‘The effort to abolish the two-thirds rule and to go to a majority rule, probably will not come until the is the feeling in the present conven- tion have been completed. So bitter is the feeling in the prasent conven- tion that it would be impossible, it is said, to get the rule changed now. Such a change would require a two- thirds vote of the-convention. But once the way has been cleared by the completion of the nomina- tions, supporters of the majority rule will seek to have the present convention go on record in fa of the abolishment of the two-thirds rule, a rule which has maintained for nearly a century and which has been responsible for many famous deadlocks in Democratic conventions. Delegates Ready to Go. Chairman Cordell Hull of the Dem- ocratic national committee, while ad- mitted the desire of some of the lcaders to get the rule changed, pointed out that one thing might prevent its consideration at the | present convention—the desire of the | delegates to shake the dust of New York from their feet as speedily as possible after the nominations have been made and go home. “A proposal to change the two- thirds rule undoubtediy will lead to debate,” said Mr. Hull. “And the delegates probably will be in no mood for protracted debate, once the bal- loting has been brought to a close.” Not withstanding the weary days and nights, the serious _divisions which have arisen in the party as the deadlock has continued. many of the Democrats now assembied in conven- tion still favor the retention of the two-thirds rule. The only hope of the proponents of a majority rule, it was said, is to strike while the feel- ing because of the deadlock is still fresh in the minds of many others. South Opposes Change. Strong opposition to the proposal to abolish the twosthirds rule and go to a majority rule is found among the southern delegates. They argue that the southern states always vote the Democratic ticket; that many of the northern and eastern states with large delegations like New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, rarely vote the Democratic ticket in national elections. Why should these Republican states, the southerners ask, be given such control or influ- ence in the Democratic conventions as they would receive by th: adoption of a majority rule. Nor is the oppositoin confined to southern states. Some of the west- ern delegates believe that it would be a mistake to adopt a majority rule for the same reason as the southerners— that too much influence would be given to the populous industrial states, with their large delegations. Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, for example, said today that he believed the two-thirds rule was a distinct ad- vantage to the party nationally. He said that it operated for the entire country much as the Senate of the United States—each state having two senators no matter how large or how small its population—operates in legislative matters. Hits Instructions. Senator Pittman said that he be- lieved the chief cause of the difficul- ties which have confronted the Dem- ocrats have been the instructions given to delegations to vote for this or that candidate. Do away with such instructions, he sald, and much of the trouble will be avoided in the tuture. 1f state delegations find it impossi- ble to continue to obey these instruc- tions and bring about nominations of candidates for President and Vice President, he said, it Is obvious that these instructions should not be given. But if the state delegations so_instructed do not obey their in- structions, there is always criticism of them at home because of their failure to go through to the end as instructed. Should the convention be unable to consider a change in the rules before it adjourns, then the matter will be taken up with the Democratic na- tional committee, it was said. Of course, the committee could make recommendations only to the next national convention in regard to the matter. But as a matter of fact that is all the present convention could do." No national committee has ever Vet recommended the abolition of the two-thirds rule, Mr. Cummings said. ‘Would Kill Unit Rule. Mr. Bryan, who for years has urg- ed the adoption of a majority rule, said today that if the two-thirds rule is abolished then the so-called unit rule by which many of the state dele- gations are bound to vote as a ma- jority of the state delegations de- mands, should also be allowed to go thesboard. Mr. Bryan himself may Dera Fesolution dealing with the matter, he said, though he had not made up his mind fully in regard to ourse of procedure. Bl Cofact, all ‘of those who are advo- cating doing away with the two-thirds fule, which they declare to be undem- ocratic, are favoring the abolition at the same time of the unit rule. John F. Costello, Democratic na- tional committeeman for the District of Columbia, expressed the opinion, o0, that deterrgined effort would be made to have the Democrats adopt a majority rule in the selection of can- didates fof the presidency and vice presidency. He said that if the unit fule were abolished at the same time as the two-thirds rule, it would go a long ways toward preventing the con- trol of such nominations by the dele- gations of big industrial states of the north and the east. The opponents of the two-thirds rule believe that the time is x‘!rn. if ever, for a change to the malority rule, while the delegates to present conven- tion have fresh in their minds the dif- ficulties to which they have been sub- smitted because of the two-thirds.xule. i SR regardi: ‘change of prisoners of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, As Edwyer Hailed as One of Greatest to Have Han- dled Cases Before Supreme Court. Services in Britain Commended. John W. Davjs of Clarksburg, W. Va. and New York City, former am- bassador to the Court of St. James and before the solicitor general of the United States, member of Con- gress and chairman of the House Judiciary committee: recognized as one of the world's best orators and one of the ablest men in the Demo- cratic party in thiy generation; a lawyer of international reknown and president of the American Bar Asso- ciation, never has been a candidate for the presidency, yet he came close to being the .compromise nominee of the Democratic conventioh in n Francisco in 1920. It is still fresh in the minds of Democratic leaders how Gov. Corn- wall of West Virginia arose from his seat in the convention at San Fran- cisco on July 1, 1920, and at the con- usion of h speech said: “If you want a man of character; if you want a man of ability; if You want a man of experience in public life, a man trusted by President Wilson, who is without a blemish and who is great in every sense of the word. I want you to nominate the man 1 have named. John W. Davis, now in Lon- don, but a typical citizen of the United States™ Palmer Withdrew. There were long hours when Wil- liam G. McAdoo and Mitchell Palmer were deadlocked in the last Democratic convention, when a little yielding_by the followers of these two candidates would have meant the nomination by the convention of the then ambassador to London. Attor- ney General Palmer, however, with- drew suddenly on the thirty-eightn ballot and thus permitted the nomi- nation of Gov. Cox of Ohio. It was recognized that the Demo- cratic convention this year with Mc- ‘Adoo and Al Smith as close rival con- tenders, and with the two-thirds rule in operation, offered probability of another deadlock and an unusual op- portunity for the “dark horse” or “favorite son.” Halled as Lawyer. While he had virtually retired from politics and, In fact, felt that he was giving up all opportunity in politics when he took up the prac- tice of law in New York a couple of vears ago, yet the Democratic state executive committee of West Vir- ginia formally called the attention of all the voters in this Union to the availability of Mr. Davis as a can- didate, by acclaiming him their nominee. It is as a lawyer that John W. Davis has made his best record His record before the Supreme Court of the United States, while solicitor general, was brilliant. The late Chief Justice Edward White paid Mr. Davis the tribute of saying that he had never seen a better lawyer. John G. Johnson, a leader of the bar until he died two years ago, paid a somewhat similar tribute in fre- quently stating that John W. Davis Was the best solicitor general to ap- pear before the Supreme Court in _lha last fifty years. Still more practical testimony is given by the Associated Press, probably the greatest non- partisan organization with the most intimate knowledge of men and a‘f- fairs, in selecting Mr. Davis as its general counsel. Davis Appeal Stronger. The action of the Democratic con- vention in San Francisco in consider- ing Mr. Davis as the most likely com- promise candidate was in spite of the | fact that he had no organization working for him. It was due entirely to his record as a lawyer, to the very able service he had rendered the Wil- son administration as solicitor gen- eral and at the Court of St. James. While he himself had discouraged every kind of activity which his friends have sought in his behalf, and with a good record for upholding the doctrine of the Democratic party rel- ative to co-operation with Europe, Mr. Davis went before the New York convention with an even stronger ap- peal to the delegates and voters than four years ago. He is the type that either great po- litical party, Republican or Demo- cratic, would naturally cling to as a compromise when facing a bitter con- test between party extremes. The Wilson following in the Demo- cratic convention should be decidedly friendly to Mr. Davis in the event of a deadlock. Native State Doubtful. West Virginia, the native state of Mr. Davis, and which he has always claimed as his home state, Is what is classed as a_“doubtful state,” and this makes Mr. Davis politically suitable. His neighbors in the little city of Clarksburg, W. Va.,, who have called the attention of the country to his availability as a candidate and to his capability in the event of election, while proud of the positon that he has taken in national and world affairs, know him best as a kindly and pleas- ant neighbor, taking an Interest at all times in the affairs of the home community. Mr. Davis was born in Clarksburg, April 13, 1873. His father before him was a native of the town, eminent as a lawyer, who took an active interest in the affairs of church and state, and who himself twice represented his district in Congress. Mr. Davis' mother was a native of Baltimore and his superior education today has been built on the careful foundation which his mother laid in conducting his studies in early youth. Took Up Law Practice. Mr. Davis graduated from Wash- ington and Lee University in 1892, and received his LL. B. degree from the same university in 1895 He was at once elected to the faculty of the law school, but served only one vear, as he preferred active work in his profession. He then entered his father's law office in Clarksburg. From earliest manhood Mr. Davis took an active interest in politics. In 1898, while a delegate to a state con- vention, he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives, having previously declined the honor three times. While in the legislature, he was chairman of e Jjudiclary committee, which carried with it the distinction and responsibility of floor leadership. It was due to the successful perform- ance of his dutles as floor leader that personal and political friends im- portuned him to make politics his life work. 195@ was a presidential elector in He was a delegate to the Demo- cratic national convention in 19504 and 1908, Mr. Davis was elected to Congres: by the Democrats in the first West Virginia district in 1910 by more than 3,000 votes, although for wmore than twenty years this had_been a Re- publican’ stronghold. He was re- elected two years later and it was while serving his second term that he accepted appointment by sident Wilson as solicitor gene! of the United States. A Alded Impeachment Trial ‘While in Congress he attracted notable attention in the proceedings which resulted in the impeachment of Federal Judge Archbald, and it ‘was this that led President 1son to select him for his solicitor general. Mr. Davis was sent by the sident in the summer of 1918 as representa- tive of the United tes on a com- mission to negotiate with Germany ng the treatment ~and ex- 'war. This and Statesman commission was in session at Bern, Switzerland, when the armistice was signed. Before Mr. Davis could re- turn to the United States he wa asked by cable by President Wilson to take the post of ambassador at the court of St. James as successor to Walter Hincs Page Halled by British. Mr. Davis with distinetion in that b gned in 1921, relieved him in remembered that v inbassador during trying period immediately fol- lowing the cessation of hostilities when matters reciuired extremely delicate handling. The press of Eng- land and officials of the Lioyd Georg government, together wiih member: of the oppos " Were unanimous in their prai Davis wihe red. He was a send-off W dipld es his position While in E i Ambassador Da- vis was cons dered the best speaker in that part of the world, and Balfour said that he had never met a man of Such notable ability. He has been in constant demand as a public speaker throughout Enzland lenged Bryce Opinion. When hearings were conducted last January before the House commit foreign affairs, w sulted in the passage of the Rogers. bill, reor- | ganizing the foreign service of the | United States, Mr. Davis was called upon for expert testimony from his own practical experience. In the | hearings is an incident narrated by Mr. Davis, which shows that he had the temerity on one oceasion to chal- lenge the public statement of Lord Bryce. He told this story to the com- mittee as follows “I heard Lord Bryce say in an address delivered at Williams College, when he was over here @ year ag that since the coming in of the tel graph the functions of the ambassa- dor and minister have become les important than in the old days when he sailed away for a six-week 3 age and was out of contact with his government months at a time, and, therefore, was left solely on his own initiative and compelled to act with- out instructions. Now, when the tele- graph wire is working every day, and he gets instructions constantly from the other end of the line, his service has become not less bur- | densome, rather less indispensable. | served until he Harvey It must on Says Dutles Multiplied. did rather a rash thing, for a man who challenges Lord Bryce on any proposition more or less takes | his life in his hands. I think he had the most encyclopedic mind 1 ever met, and when it is a question of knowledge, and not of opinion, T can hardly imagine anybody challenging him on anything. ~ But I ventured to discuss that with him and told him J thougth perhaps he was mistaken about it, and that instead of a diplo- matic officer hav come less im- portant and le ry by reason of the telegr a become more s0, because unq Ably the exist- | ence of this rapid communication has | greatly multiplied the communi tions between governments, and drawing together the world by | rapid transportation has greatly in- creased the number of questions hich bring governments into colli- sion. “It has made it possible, of course, for one foreign office to correspond directly with other foreign offices by telegram or by mail without the in- | tervention of the personal equation at all. is the | Acts ax Adviser. __“But if it must do so without hav- ing a man on the ground at the other | end who can say. “What sort of indi- vidual is this who is being addressed, what are personal limitation what are his prejudices, his views, how far can he be expected to go along this line or on that, the for- eign_secre is like a man with a blindfold over his eyes, simply talk- ing into the air. “The function of the diplomatic of- | ficer nowadays is to let his govern- | ment know who the man is at the | other end of the wire, and what sort of influences are working on him that will make him amenable to this sug- gestion or make him disposed to re- fuse that. A diplomatic officer of to- day who is receiving by wire corre- sponding for transmittal to the gov- ernment to which he is accredited, even where it comes, as it frequently does, in the shape of a formal note, prepared in the State Department, must feel it his duty to examine that note in the light of his acquaintance- ship with the men on the ground. If he finds anything in_ it which his knowledge convinces him is inexpe- dient, it is his duty to advise his government that in that respect the note ought to be corrected to meet the particular situation.” Thus does John W. Davis show that he has a_broad conception of the du- ties of the diplomatic service, which he calls “the first line in the coun- try's defense” and the ability to recog- nize and argue in the nation’s be- half important fundamental prin- ciples as they arise. 4 Quote Hughes' Statement. Mr. Davis' notable service in one f the most important foreign mis- ons is pointed to by his supporters as an outstanding illustration of what an able executive he could be if he should be elected. They quote also from Charles E. Hughes, Secre- tary of State, as showing the high service required in the diplomatic and consular offices: “In every part of the earth ghe diplomatic and consular officers of the United States are watching every turn of events in their relation to the general policies of their govern- ment. They report every source of international irritation; they note the signals of economic and political un- rest, of international rivalries, preju- dices, subversive tendencies and dis- criminatory policies. They aid the government not merely in settling disputes, but In removing or limiting the causes of possible controversy.” Urges Five Reforms. Out of his extraordinary experi- ences before the three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial, and in foreign affairs, Mr. Davis has very decided views on public questions and has advocated five important reforms as his per- sonal platform. These are: 1. The inauguration of the Presi- dent and Vice President and the con- vening of the new Congress within a few weeks after election, instead of on_the following March 4. 2. The appointment of a _special commission of the American Bar As- sociation to codify the federal stat- utes. (This was one of the chief themes of his address before the as- soclation at the 1923 convention.) 3. An_amendment to the Constitu- tion permitting the President of the United States to veto specific items of an appropriation bill. Backs World Court. 4. The ratification of treaties by a majority vote of both houses of the national legisiature, instead of by a two-thirds Senate vote. 5. America's active participation in_a world court. In arguing for the-first plank in this platform, Mr. Davis points out that a new President often is elect- ed in November on important is- sues, some of which may have faded by the time he is inaugurated in March or Congress convenes thir- teen months later. This was not in- tended by the framers of our Con. stitution,” Mr. Davis feels certain. He finds as another fault that if & .cant te has not a majority of his i RESULTS OF YESTERDAY’S BALLOTING 88 362 3i5%% 98 , 594 664 89 387 3184 1004 64% 664 41 26 205 19% 22y, Smith . McAdoo Ralston J. W. Davis. Glass Underwood Meredith Robinson ....... Daniels Ritchie Owen Jonathan Davis. . Bryan Saulsbury . Walsh Roosevelt Cupmings Houston .. - J. M. Callahan. . Baker Copeland C. Stewart Marshall votes in the electoral ecollege the election is thrown into the House of Representatives. This has happeno! twic three times, if the Hayes- Tilden controversy is taken into con- sidevation. One party might be re- pudiated at the polls in November. 1l control the House of Rep- ntatives until the new members the successful party took their ts in March. The advent of a third major political group might give to the outgoing representa- tives the opportunity to elect the de- feated candidate of their own party. Points to Disadvantages. He argues that this could not hap- pen if a new House of Representa- tives went into power on January 1, following the election, canvassed the votes and then named as the winner the candidate receiving the majority in the electoral college, who would be_inaugurated at once. The session of a retiring Congress. with the administration of a retiring Exccutive, is really powerless to do more than mark time, or perhaps to rush through measurés that will be repealed within a year, Mr. Davis d, and cites the recent elections in at DBritain as illustrating this point. In eral that statut, urging codification of the fed- statutes Mr. Davis points out there are two kinds of laws, laws_and treaties. If a law conti with a treaty, or a treaty with a law, the later one repeals the earlier. Treaties are ratified by a two-thirds vote in the United States Senate and approved by the Chief Executive. On the other hand, stat. utory laws are passed by a majority vote of both branches of Congress and approved by the President. Cites Lost Treaties. He is thoroughly convinced that treaties should bg ratified in the same way that laws a passed—a majority vote in both houses. He recalled that because of the present system a treaty for the annexation of Texas was lost in 1844; that the Virgin Islands were offered to this country |in 1865 for,one-third the price finally {paid: that for twenty years after the defeat of the treaty of 1888 the fish- eries dispute with Canada was left to disturb relations, and the treaty of peace with Spain was carried by only a single vote. Mr. Davis calls attention to the historical fact that the two-thirds rule was dictated in the constitu- | tional convention not only by the pre- vailing Jealousy of executive power but- also by recollection of the re- quirement under the Articles of Con- tederation that nine of the thirteen states voting as units should aseent to any treaties entered into by the “United States in Congress as- sembled,” a provision which in turn derived directly from the mutual jeal- ousy of the colonies. Would Cut Wastefulness. THe United States has made a no- table advance toward financial re- sponsibility in government through the establishment of the budget sy; tem, Mr. Davis feels, and by the action of the House in so reforming its rules as to return to a single com- mittee on appropriations the' power which as a result of an old political revenge had been scattered among a dozen different committees He be- lieves, however, that concentration of authority and responsibility for in- come®and outlay such as is afforded by a parliamentary system based upon a responsible minister is still lacking. Instead of forcing . the President to aporove or disapprove everything an appropriation bill con- tains, he feels that the President should be permitted to disapprove any particular objectionable item. Mr. Davis feels that there should be concentrated in the President to this extent that responsibility, the wide and impersonal diffusion of which has done more than any or all other causes combined to make a wasteful government, he says. Favored League of Nations. The people are ¢ntitled to be heard in the making and amending of con- stitutional amendments, Mr. Davis in- sists. He would have ratification of such amendments submitted to the conventions of the several states’ or to legislatures selected after and not before the amendment had been pro- posed. As a stauch advocate of the league of nations, Mr. Davis during the last presidential campaign made several speeches in which he strongly urged the entrance of the United States into such a body. In_an address at Cooper Union, New York, he said: “To my mind, from purely selfish motives it is of the highest impor- tance to America and the American people that they should no_longer wait’ distantly in the ante-chamber, but should sit at the council board.” Says Reason Must Rul After Ris return from London he told the members of the New York State Bar Association that “discus- sions of the foreign relations of the United States have not only cut to | the quick in the last three years, but they also have touched many on the raw."” “Soori or late” he said, “passion and partisanship must have their day, and realism—the only realism that is lasting, realism inspired by great ideals and lofty purposes; realism resting not alone on finite reason but also on faith—must come into its own. “When the hour of calm reflection strikes who will deny that the place of America is by the side of the Per- manent Court of International Jue- tice, to which by example and pre- cept she has been so great .a con- tributor? Will not sentiment, rea- son and self-interest then show the way to her full participation and support?” i N Liquor Violations Increase. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, July 9.—Increased drunkenness and increased arrests for Volstead act violations for the month of June are contained in a police report just made public. Ar- rests for all violations exclusive of those growing out of traffic charges also showed a slight increase, the report says. .Arrests for violation of the Volstead act, which are made by federal officials and in which the lice do not figure, also jumped w 140 persons were sent to the States commi 's office for hear- ings in June, against 89 in May, JULY 9, 1924, Move to Kill Two-Thirds and Unit Rules Is Growing Davis Noted for His Ability % 3541 3i4 15974 65%4 301 2y 26 20 19 165 91 355%% 318 1874 66 462 26 20 23y 16Y% 92 3554 93 365 314 196 ~ 68 27 4434 2 9 v 37 39 CALLS CONVENTION FANATICS' MEETING Prominent Democrat Bitterly Arraigns ‘Aggregation of Freaks’ in New York. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. NEW YORK, July 9.—"This is not a Democratic convention, never has been a Democratic convention, and should not be compared with any Democratic conventions of the past. |is one of the most prominent Demo- crats now in New York City. 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Take Woodley Road bus to 34th street, then block south. moderation of thought—all have been swept overboard by a bolshevik crew which has had but one thought in its |head from/the beginning—the scut- | tling of the ship. Does Not Fix Blame. | “I am not attempting to fix {blame upon one camp or another. {simply know that this monstrous {thing in Madison Square Garden has not been a Democratic national con- vention as I have known such con- The Prices and Terms are Quite Moderate $16,500 up ' 4 1430 K Street ventions during the last thirty-five years. How the party can survive this awful growth upon its back, this | parasite, 1 do not know. We have| seen no play of politics here, no meet- | ing of political minds. It has just been a hobgoblin go-as-you-please affair, reduced to a farce by stub- | bornness and intolerance. The whole | country will sigh with relief when | this side show of alleged Democracy, this aggregation of freaks, ad-l journs.” | For the past forty-eight hours the | Democratic national convention has | been in serious danger of being dis- | possessed from Madison Square Gar- den. The patience of Tex Rickard, prize fight promoter and lessee of the | big meeting place, was exhausted | when the second week of the conven- | tion ended with no solution in sizht. Tex, according to some of his cfose | friends, has been losing nearer $1.500 | a day than the estimate of $1,000 a day early in the gathering. Further- | more Tex had leased out the swim- | ming pool privileges at the Garden The pool is right under the center of the convention floor. Or at least it| was there until the convention began. | Then it s drained and within its concrete walls temporary newspaper Workrooms were set up. The man who leased the pool has | been afraid that the summer would be | over and done with before the Demn-; crats ever cleared out. Rickard has| been induced day by day to withhold | drastic action, but it is not surpris- | ing that he should be in a mood to swear out a warrant of ouster and Qrive the delegates to some other meeting place. It long has been the custom of po- lice and public safety departments to call out the fire department and turn the hose on unruly crowds. Tex has wanted for days to turn the hose n the delegates. Ot the rate the delegates have been fading away the past two days their meetings could be held in a very <mall space. Even the Democratic New York Times came out editorially this morn- ing advising the Democrats to ad- journ and “go elsewhere.” There was welcome on the mat when the Demo- cratic hosts first arrived, but the wWelcome sign was taken in long ago. There was a great howl of derisive laughter in the convention Tuesday night when a resolution was read re- ferring to the opening date of the powwow as June 24. Most of the delegates had forgotten just when the affray actually did start. There was another shout of laugh- ter when the permanent chairman of what has seemed to be a permanent convention declined to abrogate the unit rule in the Oklahoma delegation. It appeared that Oklahoma had been voting from the first under the unit system, but there was no official re- cording of such instructions from the state convention. Some of thesdele- gates suggested that the rule be ab- rogated, but Mr. Walsh said such a suggestion should have come earlier than the ninety-eighth ballot. “Under a decision of the United States Supreme Court,” he said, “it has been held that where a practice has been established over a long number of years—" It was minutes before the chairman could_proceed after that unconscious bit of humor. ~ Former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, leader of the party in 1920, who was urged to come here on Monday to see what he could do in helping to straighten out the tangles of the convention, has hardly had a wink of sleep since he arrived. The first night he was in conference until 5 o'clock the following morning and then was routed out of bed before 7 o'clock. Tuesday he worked virtually the whole night through. Gov. Cox is one of the most fit men physically ever in public. life. He keeps himself always in the best of condition. His muscles are as hard as iron. He never kmnows the meaning of the word fatigue. Most of the delegates had just about forgotten that Willlam Jen- nings Bryan still was in town when it was announced Wednesday morn- ing that the Commones ‘had been called in conference with his friend Mr. Mcidgo to help decide upon the T Massachusetts Park The Triangle of Increasing Values —between Connecticut Ave., Massachusetts Ave. and Woodley Road (Cathedral Ave.). 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