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BOOST FOR . 5. ADS SEEN FROM PARLEY Leaders at London Confer- | ‘ence Believe Discussions ! Will Bring Progress. RESEARCH IS ADVOCATED Selfridge Talks to Delegates. Houston Chosen for 1925 Gathering. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July 16.—Serious discus- sion of specific problems of advertis- ing today occupied the third day of the International Advertising Con- vention, which was devoted for the most part to departmental confer- ences. Teaders of the convention expressed theopinion that the conferences this year would form the basis for an immediate opening for advertising on @ universal scale and would allow the United States delegates to bring to bear upon the delegates of nations not yet highly developed along ad- wvertising lines the modern and ad- vanced conceptions of the industry prevailing in the United States. Be- cause of the rapid growth of newer interests in the departmental meet- ings, especially because of the op- portunity they afforded for discus- sion of problems of advertising on an international basis, the present convention was the most important et convened, it was declared. Seltridge Talks to Gathering. One of the most important depart- mental meetings, that of business re- search, which includes the vast prob- lem of industrial and commercial ad- vertising, was addressed by Gordon Selfridge, the American who first in- troduced 'to London the idea of de- partment store advertising on a large scale. Speaking on research in mer- chandising, Mr. Selfridge said the problem of finding material to adver- tise was a great one. He had found that the manner of presenting goods, specially to a skeptical public, such as that of London, required the need of advertising of the highest type. He thought there was a virgin field before advertisers on this subject of Tesearch. Mr. Selfridge was followed by Har- ry Dwight Smith of Cleveland and Ray Vance of New York. The newspaper executives heard Cor- nelius Vanderbilt on the subject of the tabloid newspapers, and L. W. Clayborn of Milwaukee. Malcolm Muir of New York, speak- ing before the Industrial Advertisers, said that the industrial markets in the United States still offered the widest opportunity to the advertisers, but that it was the international market in which the manufacturer was most interested and_ which ad- vertisers needed most to develop. Houston Gets Convention. Houston, Tex., will be the scene of the 1925 International Advertising Convention, being the unanimous choice of the board of club presidents at a meeting vesterday evening. It will be given approval by the general meeting of the delegates Thursday, as it is the only city which will be placed before the convention. Lou Holland was the choice of the board for re-election as president of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World for the next vear, and Jesse H. Neal was also nominated for re- election as secretary-treasurer. These nominations were made without op- position, and they will be placed be- fore the convention for confirmation ‘Thursday. There was no other city in the con- test for the 1925 convention, and no opposition was raised against accord- ing Houston the honor. It was made unanimous by a motion proposed and seconded by the British delegation, which last year won the honor for London, when Houston retired in Lon- don's favor. Mrs. Bernice Blackmood, a Chicago advertising woman, was elected chair- man of the Women's Advertising Clubs of the World at an executive session, and Miss Ethel B. Scully of Milwaukee was chosen to represent the women’s clubs on the executive board of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. Miss Scully did not attend the convention. It is only left for the delegates to approve the action of the board and present minor plans for the next meeting. The decision as to dates for the Houston meeting will be left 1o the executive board. Delegates at Banquet. The delegates last night enjoyed the unique honor of attending a banquet given by the ASsociated British Advertising Agents in the an- clent Guild Hall, in which the Guild merchants of olden time use to sit and which is seldom used, except for municipal functions of the highest importance. The lord mayor, Sir Louis Arthur Newton, the principal speaker, re- called the history of Richard Whit- tington, thrice lord mayor of Lon- don, and his advertising agent, his famous cat. Stanley Resor, president of the As- sociation of American Advertising Agencies, responded. The Americans partioularly appreciated the ooccasion nd one New Jersey delegate recali- that an_anoestor of his 200 years . . Satisfaction —with your roofing job is bound to be high- est, when we do the work. {IThe name “Colbert” is synonymous with 100% reliability where Tinning, Heating and Plumbing are involved. SONABLE PRICES. urice J. Colbert ing—Plumbing—Ti Phone 3016-3017 H 621 F Street HENRY D. SAXTON. HENRY D. SAXTON RETIRE; AFTER 63 YEARS’ SERVICE Career in U. S Quartermaster’s Corps Began at Time of Civil War. After sixty-three years' service to the United States Government in the office of the quartermaster general Henry D. Saxton retired yesterday at the age of 81. Mr. Saxton is believed to have been in the service of the government longer than any other employe now in Washington. Mr. Saxton, who lives with his sis- ter, Miss B. C. Saxton, at 1922 Calvert street, was born in 1843 at Spring- ‘ield, Mass. As a young man he en- tered the service of the government in the office of the chief quartermas- ter of the division of West Virginia. During the war in 1862 he was attached to the office of Col Clary, chief quartermaster of the Army of Virginia, and was captured by Stuart’s Cavalry at Catletts Station, August 2. of the same year. After more than a month's confinement in Libbey prison he was paroled and again entered the service under Col. Clary, who was then chief quarter- master of the department of the orthwest. "°He served at St. Paul, Minn., Madi- son and Milwaukee, Wis., and Wheel- ing, W. Va., and was later appointed in the quartermaster general's office in Washington, where he served as chief clerk for a number of years. 'Yesterday his fellow employes at- tended an informal gathering, at which Acting Q. M. Gen. Bellinger made an address felicitating Mr. Sax- ton on behalf of the corps. WINS 1924 PARIS PRIZE. Chicago Youth First in Architec- tural Competition. NEW YORK, July 16—Harry F. Bieg of Chicago is the winner of the Paris prize for 1924 of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects. The award was announced yesterday at the So- clety Beaux Arts Institute of Design by H. O. Miliken, chairman of the jury. JUMr. Biez is a graduate of the Ar- mour Institute and the Chicago Atelier. The award amounts to $3.000 and entitles the winner to ad- mission to the advanced class at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Paris. The subject for the Prize was a transpor- fation institute, to house an imagi- nary private foundation whose funds are devoted to the study of all the means of transportation. Reich Approves Gold Note Bank. BERLIN, July 16.—The government of the reich has approved the text of the bill for the establish- ment of the new gold note bank. It will decide later when the bill will come into force. —e e ago presided over similar banquets as lord mayor. The delegates who did not attend the lord mayors banquet and who were not entitled to sit at the meet- ing of the club presidents were en- tertained at a_bangquet given by the Society of British Advertisers. 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By the Associated Prese. ONEIDA, N. Y., July 16.—Pierrepont B. Noyes, who was Rhineland com- missioner for the United States, ves- terday predicted the doom of the Dawes report and a deadlock between France and Germany unless the United States representatiye at the coming conference of premiers in Lon- don is instructed by the government to inform France that the United Su.ta!“deslras that country to give up its “independent policy” in the Ruhr. Mr. Noyes’ statements are contained in a letter written by him to Charles G. Dawes, made public here. Needs Positive Action. “The Dawes report can be saved only by positive official word from the American representative at the Lon- don conference,” Mr. Noyes wrote. “Your new relation to the Renublican party entitles you to urge upon the administration that Ambassador Kel- logg, at the London conference, abandon that half-hearted attitude that has been imposed upon all our representatives in Europe during the past four vears and state plainly to France that the United States be- lieves the time has come for that country to give up her independent policy and make such concessions as are necessary to get together with Great Britain in an honest and effec- tive attempt to put into operation the Dawes plan.” Mr. Noyes added that he had ‘re- luctantly arrived at the conclusion that your plan is about to go into the discard along with the many pre- vious plans .for settlement of the Franco-German feud,” adding that “the death of the Dawes plan may be graceful and gradual, but unless some new factor intervenes it seems cer- tain.” “The American people have set their hearts on the success of the Dawes plan,” Mr. Noyes continued. “They will be shocked at my state- ment and many will be incredulous. I firmly believe, however, I am right. “The conference of premiers in Lon- don faces an unsurmountable ob- stacle. Herriot cannot agree to share with Great Britain and Italy the power she now has in the repara- tion commission to independently declare Germany in default. Great Britain, on the other hand, cannot agree to join France in enforcing penalties against Germany if she has no voice in decreeing those penalties. Again, if Premier Herriot were to Weaken Poincare and the military party would break him.” After suggesting that the Repub- lican vice presidential candidate urge the administration to instruct Am- bassador Kellogg to call upon France to abandon its “independent policy,” the letter concludes: “The present Washington admin- istration has, in its platform, as- sumed much credit for the work you did in Europe. It is only right and proper that it should now back up that work. Such action would today be recognized by the American people as a master stroke for peace and for economic revival in Europe, so badly needed in the interest of the farmer and of all business in Aunerica.” Iron Companies Lose Case. CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 16.—Fed- eral Judge D. E. Westerhaver yester- day overruled a motion to quash in- dictments brought by United States District Attorney A. E. Bernstein, charging fifty-two malleable iron manufacturing companies and forty- nine other independent concerns with ;:fru:uon of the Sherman anti-trust w. THE CHIEF OPERATOR is the indis U. S. AID STRESSED AS ALLIED PARLEY BEGINS IN LONDON (Continued from First Page.) offering an easy, assured way out of the reparations difficulty that it was thought it would offer when it was first published. ‘The Telegraph stresses “the very real need for the temper of accom- modation and the taking of long views in dealing with the questions to be raised.” It realizes, however, the grave importance of an agre: ment, declaring that “should this en- deavor to solve the problem fail, it will be difficult to find materials’ on which any subsequent attempt ean be vased.” COMMISSION ACTS. Offers Suggestions Asked in Mac- Donald-Herriot Note. By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 16—The reparation commission devoted all of yesterday and a good part of the night to the request made in the joint MacDonald- Herriot note of last week that it sub- mit to the London interallied con- ference suggestions with the view of establishing a plan whereby the economic and fiscal unity of Germany should be re-established as soon as the commission had decided that the Dawes report was in force. The reparation body began by di- viding tbe problem into two parts, discussing _first the possibility of a plan providing for the transition from the present economic organization in the occupied regions to the organiza- tion provided in the Dawes report. The commission, however, came to no agreement, deciding instead to ask the allied governments to supply it with supplementary explanations. It also passed the next part of the problem, namely, to define when the Dawes plan might be considered to be put into execution. Offers Five Conditions The reparation commission laid down what should in its opinion con- stitute “the putting into operation of the Dawes plan.” These conditions, five of them, were adopted unani- mously at a long day and night ses- sion. They are: First. Voting by the Reichstag in a form approved by the reparatior commission of laws necessary to the working of the plan and promulga- tion of these laws. Second. Installation with a view to their normal working of all of the executive and controlling bodies pro- vided in the plan. ‘Third. Definitive constitution in conformity with the provisions of the respective laws of the German Bank and of the German Railway Company. Fourth. Deposit with the trustee of certificates representing railway bonds and such similar certificates for in- dustrial debentures as may result from the report of the organization committee. Fifth. Conclusion of contracts as- suring the subscription of a loan of 00,000,000 gold marks as soon as the plan has been brought into operation and all the conditions contained in the experts’ report have been ful- filled. =L — DELEGATES OPTIMISTIC. Arrival of Germans Increases Hope for Parley Success, By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1034. LONDON, July 16.—Arrival today of Dr. Meyer, German commissioner of war obligations, accompanied by two experts, strengthens the belief ex- pressed privately by many diplomats that the allied conference will agree upon means of applying the Dawes scheme. Dr. Meyer declared on his arrival that he came to place himself at the disposal of the conference. appar- ently upon receiving intimation that his servioes will be needed, if -not immediately, at least before many days have elapsed. German diplomatic representatives in London, in guarded statemiénts, declare Germany's sincere desire to see the Dawes scheme in operation, To some extent they are disappointed at not having been invited to attend the conference, but they feel that the allied premiers will soon turn to them for final agreement upon & reparations settlement. - Delegates’ Mien Serious. Amsembly of allied delegatep at the foreign ce this forenoon was marked by serious faces and solemn demeanor of every one entering the gray- portals. This solemnity was not indicative of any misgivings regard- ing the outcome of their deliberations, but of a grim determination to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Ambassador Kellogg, upon whom will fall the responsibility of inter- preting America’s rather vague pol cles as to future action, calmly r mains optimistib regarding the out- come of the meeting. His word may decide several vital questions upon which Great Britain and France hold djvergent views. FIANCEE SHOOTS NOTED WRITER TO END AGONY Jan Zoznowski, I1l, Begged Girl to Kill Him—Expected to Die. By the Associated Prese. PARIS, July 16.—Slowly dying from an incurable malady, Jan Zoznowski, a well known Polish writer, repeat- edly begged friends and attendants at the sanitarium at Vallejuif to put an end to his sufferings. Today his fiances, Mlle. Stanislawa Unicuska, visited him, and was so overcome at the sight of his agony that she could not resist his pitiable pleadings. She shot him in the head and he is not ex- pected to recover. Following the shooting, Mlle. Uni- cuska collapsed and officers who were summoned to make the arrest left her in the care of the sanitorium. She is only twenty-two years old and noted for her beauty. She had been a constant visitor to her flance’s sick room. Zoznowskl, a talented writer, is thirty-five years old. He came from Warsaw to Paris to seek medical ad- vice. The best French surgeons op- erated on him twice, but were unable to give him relief. HEADS WOMAN’S LEAGUE. Miss Mary Bogart Elected Presi- dent of War Group. SAN_FRANCISCO, July 16.—Miss Mary Bogart of New York City yes- terday was clected national president of the Women's Overseas League in annual session here. Other officers elected were Miss Hortense Snowden, Philadelphia, re- cording secretary; Mrs. Albert Bullus, New York City, corresponding secre- tary; Miss Ethel Boyd Bowers, New York City, treasurer. The league unanimously adopted a resolution “afirming its belief in the principle of arbitration as a means of Rettling international disputes, while pledging support to the United States government in carrying out its pro- gram of national defense.” s Sa— Cyril Maude's Wife Dies. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July , 16. — Winifred Emery, the actress, who in private life was Mrs. Cyril Maude. died yes- terday evening at Bexhill, Sussex. 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Philips, former Republican state committeeman of Georgla, collected in “graft” a total of more than $500,000 out of the sale of lumber from Army cantonments, and that Frank T. Sulllvan, lumber- man of Buffalo, N. Y., obtained large quantities of valuable lumber at half its true value and made $300,000 on its resale, which, the prosecutor con- tended, had been divided with John L. Philips. Mr. Parker also asked the conviction of Charles Philips, Jr., brother of John L. Philips, and of Charles S. Shotwell, former business manager of the Army air service, as “aiders and abettors” in the alleged conspiracy to mulct the United States. Mr. Parker contended that John L Philips had conspired with George M. Chambers, _the Government in- spector now dead, who fixed the prices to be paid to the United States for the lumber, and that Philips and Chambers divided profits growing out of the resale of the lumber. Denfes Any Framl. Attorney Abner H. Ferguson ad- dressed the jury on behalf of John L Philips. He contended that the Government had falled to sustain the conspiracy charge, and declared the testimony falls to show that the Government had been defrauded, but, on the contrary, had gotten a fair and reasonable price for the lumber. He pointed out that Philips & Stephens sold a great deal of the lumber for more than the base price fixed by the appraisers for the gov- ernment. and accounted to the United States for such difference, which amounted to $247,000. Arguments are expected to con- sume two days, and the jury may get the case Friday. Calles’ Son Chose: NOGALES, Ariz, July 16.—Rudolfo Calles, state treasurer of Sonora, Mexico, and son of Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, has been appointed treasurer of the National Railways of Mexico, according to advices received here yesterday from Hermosillo. Senor Calles will succeed Juan R. Platt, who becomes governor of the southern district of Lower California, vas announce LEACH IS CONFIDENT OF “SHOOTING” NIAGARA (Continued from First Page.) Leach’ and they sign ‘John Doe’ from China And I hand ‘em $1,000 in cold cash when I gets sewed up in my rubber ball And that's that. “Now, here's the way its going to work. At the head end of the ball is a big ring, to which it will be at- tached to the bottom of the airplane by a rope. A cutter, operated from the pilot's seat by a lever will release the ball at the right place. I'll tell them to drop me in the rapids near the Toronto power house. Then for the ride. There'll be enough air in- side the ball to keep me alive for an hour. But if I am not picked up be- low the falls within twelve minutes, T'll never be.” There is another obstacle besides the duly appointeq authorities that stands. between Bobby and his plans That s his family—“the old girl” and “the little girl,” as he calls them. “He won't have any homé any more,” threatens Mrs. Bobby. “If he hadn’t already dore it once I wouldn't say anything. Let some one else do something he hasn't done anq let him do that” Has Beautiful Daughter. “The little girl” is Bobby's fifteen- year-old daughter, Pearl. Her beauty is one of those rare Castilian types. Tall and stately for her age. she dresses like a grown woman. A wealth of jet black curls that are as famous in Niagara Falls as Mary Pickford’s are in the movies, hang down over her shoulders. Bobby Leach is noted for one other thing besides, being the only man in the world who has traveled from Lake Erie to Lake Ontaric via the Niagara River. Though he is in per- fect health despite his sixty-five years, no life insurance company can be found that will gamble a policy on him. They all know his habits too_well. “Money, you know, that long green stuff, that's why I went over the falls’ the first time and that's why Tm going again,” says Bobby. “And did you cash in at the box office the first time?” asked one. “Did 17" retorted Bobby. He put boths thumbs_under his suspenders and swayed back and forth on his heels. Finally he said: “Well now, that first time was thirteen years ago, and you don't see me working yet, do you?' Badly Hurt i Trip. Bobby Leach made his first suc- cessful trip over the falls on July 25, 1811, Though he escaped with hi life, he suffered serious punishment. His jaw was broken and both knee caps crushed. He was in the hos- pital for twenty-three weeks follow- ing his adventure. The last man who attempted to ride_the falls was Charles Stephens, an Englishman. He went over in wooden barrel on August 15, 1920, Both bnrrel:nd occupant were dashed to_pieces ol the rocks. “I warned the man he'd never get away with it.” said Bobby today. “But now take my rubber ball, there's absolutely no danger at all.” Beside going over the falls on one previous occasion, Bobby has these other daredevil stunts to his credit: A parachute descent from a balloon at an altitude of 12.000 feet, or more than two milex; a dive from the steel arch bridge into the river below the falls, a distance of 208 feet, the high- est dive in the world, and a shoot through the rapids, he being the only man to do this and come out alive. ‘There is only one thing I haven't done” commented this aged dare- devil. “I haven't gome up the falls DIRIGIBLE IN MANEUVER. Shenandoah to Join Heavier-Than- Air Craft at Newport. NEWPORT, R 1, July 16.—Word was received today that the Navy dfrigi- ble Shenandoah would arrive here Au. gust 1 to operate with the heavier-than- air craft based here with the scouting fleet. It will be the ship's first effort to operate with a fleet in scouting man- euvers. The auxiliary Patoka, with mooring mast, which was to have been used in the proposed North Pole trip. has been here since Sundar, and will take care of the airship in lieu of a hangar. Georgians to Inspect Roads. ATLANTA, Ga, July 16.—To com- pare the highway needs of Georgia with the systems now being used in her sister States, twenty-one mem- bers of the General Assembly will leave here Thursday for a motor trip to North and South Carolina. They plan to return Monday. Tentative arrangement call for stops at Hart- well, Ga., and Anderson, 8. C,, Thurs- ville and Ashe Saturday, and a trip to Chimney Rock and Hendersonville, N. C., Sunday. 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