Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1928, Page 15

CANPAIGN CLOSES BUNION DERBY Hoover and Smith Face Ver- | dict of Ballots in Pri- mary Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 28.—The i last Republican delegates to be selected before the national convention at Kansas Citv next month will be named | at the West Vir- ginia primary tomorrow. Demo- cratic de)egates also will be elected, but other States will take later ac- tion in naming this party’s delegates A bitter primary eampaign. which was virtually con- cluded last night, found Se~retary of Commerce Hoover the fa- candi- Senator West Virginia fOr geeretars Hooves the Republican o Moo presidential indorsement. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York and Senator James A. Reed of Missouri will figat it out fer the Democ preferential vétes. A United States Senator. gov complete State tickets. and county, d triet and local officers also were o be nominated, the ballot being one of the longest in the b of State elec- tions. More than 12000 citizens are seeking one office or another. A complex situation is presented in the contests for the 19 Republican and 18 Democratic delegates. as the State 1aw carries no legal obligation for dele- gates to support the popular choice in the preferential primary On the Republican side, several dele- gates pledged themselves to Hoover. 2 few to the popular choice and on: to Goff, but the majority failed to indi- or. try Crew Stick Close to Big- ‘ Hearted Promoter. [ Diet Indorsement Line Ex-; | pected to Form Prior to *100-Mile Grind Friday. | BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, May 28.—C. C. Pyle’s | spavined herd of cross-country runners |are today sticking closer than a corn | plaster to their big-hearted boss. { " Those among them who had money | have moved to Pyle’s hotel. and, as op- | | portunity arose, reminded him that $100 | |of their $125 entrance fees was to have | Ibeen repaid on completion of the race. | |Some of them got part payments, with | promises that the rest would be paid | ‘dunng the week Anton Isele, Australian runner, who was left in the cellar of Madison Square Garden in his running trunks and no money. was in a bad way until some | of his friends promoted a pair of | | trousers for him. From force of habit, he galloped all the way across town to the Pyle menagerie, on Park avenue He got $20 $48,500 Due Friday. Pyle is due for a $48.500 2 money pay-off Friday after the boys trotanother 100 miles at the garden. He admits that he is away in the red, so far as the finances of the race are concerned, but | prom that the money will be paid. | The promoter did not seem in the least 1rh(iulbr'1 by the action filed here by | which the Illinois Trust & Savings | Ba of Champaign. Ill, seeks affirma- |tion in the New York courts of an Il- |linois judgment against Pyle for $15.- 1626.19 le. refreshed and at ease, apparen frered no ill efiects trom his grueling cutomobile trip across the country. . Andrew Payne, the Claremore, Okla., v, winner of the first prize of $25,000, cate In their certificates of candidacy | Political the who they would support. leaders have held the result of carried a “moral ol 10_the delegates who were unpledzed The Democratic presidential prefer- ence contest doveloped into a direct Smith and anti-Smith fi with no del- egates actively supporting the candi- dacy of Reed. C. W. Osenten. Demo- cratic national commitieeman for West Virginia, placed a complete slate of Smith delegates in the field. An anti- Smith slate also made its appearance. pledged to go uninstructed to the H: ton convention. The anti-Smith slate the t Virginia The Hoover or- ganization pieked a group of seven delegates at large, but only two are peldged to the Com merce Sccre- The c 3 ndugates o tion are Gov. How- ard M. Gore Dr. H. D. Hatfield an #X - governor. Benjamin L.Rcn- § bloom. 2 former Congressman. All three made active cam paigns, Gore and Hatfield g erally upcn t records as governor and Rosenbioom as an opponent of pro- | hibition. Gore and Hatfield are ary. | Senator M. M. Neely seeks renomina- | tion on the Democratic ticket and is une candidates an: publican gubernatorial nomination. but early in the campaign the contes: nar- | rowed down 1o a former State attorney | general, W Conley. and H Roy Waugh, circuit court judge. Seeking | the mm'x;:m nomination for gov- | ernor are Eugene H. Armold, Judge R. | D. Balley. Dr. Gory Hogg, J. Alfred | Taylor. Minter L. Wilson and A. J. ‘Wilkinso on The Hoover and Smith campaigns mwmmflmby!mwlm’f&f both West Virginians and outsiders. Goff was the only presidential aspirant € in his own behalf, Senator Reed spoke in several efore he filed his certificate of Nesutor Goff. nced for the Re- | cities 125 U. S. ARMY OFFICERS HELD IN SERVICE ABROAD | By the Amociated Press ‘The United States Army is maintain- ing approximately 125 of its officers on Guty in foreign countries. The majority are military attaches or assistant mili- have e &re langusge studen B &nd Spain, and some attend- Oxford University in England. Pif- officers are on duty eisewhere in- the Nicaraguan mission. an Corps mission v Cuba, the Graves | 3 tion Bervice, the Battle Mony iments Commission in France a quarte: master in Jupan and a representative the Army War Coliege t - “ h Marriage Licenses. axe lirenses hate beer Dyeon and Battie ¥ Hertert Wonrs 554 Basiricn Mance WeHorwr and M " FOR WEDDINGS AXD SPECIAL OCCASIONS Cadtlises—Lincoins—Plerce Arrows BROWN'S AUTO SERVICE MAIN 470 AYVILIATED WiTH PLACK & WHITE—YELLOW CARS 223 S LR TLTTTERE THE WILLARD Announces the Opening of its Roof Garden Restaurant MONDAY May 28, 1928 Breakfast Luncheon and Dinner M HHEHTHHT I T T I T I I T Sttt RS R R a & S | | | | and { S | | | | weind | ATTHEATL T T G TR S SR SRR pay-off The lean, sandy-haired youth hoofed his way around the town Sun- day without limping and seemingly fit and carefree. | He. like John Salo. second prize win- | ner, and most of the others. is elab- | orately noncommittal about Pyle and { the race in general. Ten of them are | waiting hovefully for the prize money | and the others are open to indorse this { or that as an invaluable aid to cross- | country running. | Ready to O. K. Acid. | Even H W.Kerr. Minneapolis broker, | and John E. Pederson, leaders of the | left wing of the bunioneers out on the | road. avoided any discussion of Pyle or { his conducet of the race. The contracts | for the big indorsing tournament will | be made through Pyle “If somebody will just show me a } tenderloin steak with onions I'll indorse Prussic acid for training diet.” said one limping and tattered young man on his | way over to Park avenue to try to col- the price of a place to sieep. i Le “Nickev' Fisher of Los Angeles. train- | e FURS STORED AND REMODELED Guarantess vanits Expert fur work gree storaze with avery remodeling b and un Chokers Made NEW{ ENGLAND FURRIERS 618 12tk St. i B " wour outofdate $5 Searfs and we will remode) them in the latest styles. New England Furriers Benjamin Aherman. Prop BIR 12th N —Franklin 6158 } A It’s DelLuxe” and includes HAND- FINISHING of the Wearing Ap- parel. pYLE AS pAY-OFF TlME NEARS m:l\:.v'hen the board of health got after | the road in a cold rainstorm. “Ready-to-Wear” Laundry Decatur 1120 and quickly arrange for a careful “All- Ironed, Ready-to-Wear” com- plete family Service. MANHATTAN LAUNDRY ~—With the Famous NET BAG System 1336-1346 Florida Ave, N.W, THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. bawled them out plenty. He got them all out in the rain. Slept in Jails. HERD HAUNTS in some Texas town, they washed the blankets, but that was the only time. i ‘The boys kicked about this all the way across. ‘ “On the road, they used to think they were lucky if they found a jail or a ga- rage for a night's lodging. Many of them slept in jails. About 35 or 40 of the boys had a little money. The others | had nothing. They developed astonish- | ing appetites and the $1.50 a day for | meal's didn't go far. | “When we saw those 15,000 empty | seats in the Garden Saturday night we |knew that the big New York clean-up. which Pyle had ballyhooed all the way | across, was a washout. Some of the | boys were considerably discouraged, but, | if their legs are stiff, their wrists are still limber and they figure on doing a | heavy indorsing business. I wish them luck, but I haven't seen anybody with | any’ contracts hanging around Pyle's | hotel yet.” | (Copyiieht. 1928.) DEATH COMES SUDDENLY. | Rescue Squad Unable to Save Ll(e: of Cement Worker. Guy J. Wilcox, 55 years old, a cement | worker, suffered an attack of heart | disease yesterday afternoon while at | | his home, 619 Newton street. Members |of the Fire Department rescue squad | rendered first aid, but their efforts | proved futile, the sick man dying soon after he was stricken. A certificate of | death from natural causes was given. | Lo S e NS L i | | | | C. PYLE. er and interpreter for several of the runners. was less reserved “These boys have an idea that the indorsement line is going to form to- morrow.” said Fisher. “That's why they went through that last 20-mile grind Saturday night and why they will take on the additional 100-mile run Friday, although they are not in the |A Choice of 40 Different Routes to | prize money. | California Given in This Free Book. “Pyle has kept them going from day | “40 ways and more to California and to day—he is clever and shrewd—and | the North Pacific Coast.” Select the whenever they made it a showdown he | route best suited for this season of the always got the best of them. At Texola, |year. Detall maps indicating these Tex., when the boys were about ready to | routes from Chicago together with fares flop, he proposed to drive them out on | and other information sent free on ap- John | plication to R. O. 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