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L] UTILITY PAMPHLET CAMPAIGN BARED Witness Tells of Distribution of 13,000 Leaflets in Kansas Schools. ssoctation. the pamphle from the Illinois information had been indorsed by F. L v of the Kansas State Made. | Jones g0 ov Dean Waik: Jones tes' news releases publication_gotu 3 distr | | Describes News Bulletin. He said the news bulletin carried srticles unfavorable to municipal owner- | ship of u s and encouraged Custo- T y securities. He uction of 5 Cany ¥ e Govern- | ment and Government operation of | Muscle Shoals had been opposed in stories carried in the news bulletin. He said that approximately 273 Kansas | newspepers used material disseminated | through the news bulletin and that the last record he recalled on the amount of space consumed by utility publicity was 6,000 column inshes in 1923. | He said prior to the distribution of | the utility pamphlets in the schools | that his organization had voluntarily | undertaken s survey of the Kansas text- | books, but that no actual report had been made. “Sugar Coating” Methods. secure the support Commerce, in public relations work by the Arkansas Public Service Informa- tlon Bureau, was introduced yesterday in the investigation. o The developments on “sugar coating” | methods came during the testimony of Earle W. Hodges of New York, former director of the Arkansas bureau, when | Re was asked 1o identify & copy of the he was alleged meeting h National Electric Light Association in| New York in 1923 | * Hodges now is connected with H. L. Doherty & Co. of New York and was erly Secretary of State of Ar- Hodges testified that he could not femember attending the New York meeting, but said that he might have made the speech, although he doubted # he had used the same expression ©of words. In the transcript Hodges was guoted as saying “if we do have any propa- ganda (and I don't like that word at all for it is one of the Kaiser's favorites) we so conceal or ‘sugar coat’ that pro- paganda with boasiing that it is gen- excusly entered into an got back of by | all of the Chambers of Commerce, | s and women's organi- | State ” gton, general lectric Light | ng Hodg- had ed a memorandum pee: when Jack- ng that Healy was put matter into the| come under the Tesolution. adopted ch authorized the in- on the fon interposed, $ttempting fecor: Jackson was eon- ed the transcript 1 of Hodges. Jack- jection was overruled. Tells of Dinner. quainted and told of a of them in 1924 letter from J. B. Gheridan, secretary of the Missouri committee on public util- ity information, was introduced. Bheri- | dan had written Hodges that “your con- tact with clergymen seems to me to be especially valuable ” Asked by Healy if the contacts he es- tablished through entertainment were not for the benefit of the utility indus- try, Hodges answered that since he had been connected with the utilities he had tried 10 benefit their public relations. He said that if “Mr. Healy will come f you permit, we'll en | “You've aiready en- | expec- Healy retorted ned me beyond my fondest Edgar A. McCulloch hearings and himself ber of the Arkansas Bu- | emarked thet behind the Hospitality the utility men Ty on their public rela- presiding. st 1 formerly a | the m | PRESIDENT A Didn’t Aid Proctor I LEILA JOHNSON. -—Star Staff Photo. EDUCATOR ASSALS UTILITES COURSES Tells Teachers’ Conclave “Power Trust” Has Chal- lenged School Independence. ed P June 27.—The importance d current events in the um, and a verbal attacik wer trust” for its alleged rough schools and colleges e ownership of pub- occupied the attention of an Federation of Teacheis ttack on the “power trust” was by Dr. John A. Lapp, head of par t of social scitnces at uette University, Milwaukee. Dr. Lapp declared the teachers hav been chalienged by the “power trust” as to whether education and the schools hall remain independent. The ‘power trust’ has a right to de- fend private and oppose public owner- ship. if it does not weave itself into public favor by subsidizing college pro- fessors and the writing of text books advocating private ownership, while pretending to be impartial,” Dr. Lapp declared Walter E. Meyer, Washington, D. C.. editor and publisher, urged the scien- tific teaching of current events to as- sure the future of democracy. “We should turn the attention of our students toward the political and eco. nomic activities of their own tim he said. “They should study not only the physical mechanics of government, but the forces which use the machinery and control it.” Mr. Meyer declared American citi- 2ens, either because of ignorance of issues or because they do not under- stand political methods, allow political bosses to pick delegates and nominees SIX OF ITALIA CREW BELIEVED KILLED IN BURNING DIRIGIBLE (Continued from First Page.) Luetzow Holm aboard, was locked in the ice_off North Cape. Gen. Nobile thought that search for 1 the balloon part of thé dirigible should be made within a 30- mile radius of the marooned men. These men today had drifted to about 20 miles east of Foyn Island. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen said that there was an unconfirmed rumor that Amoundsen and his party were adrift on an ice floe southeast of Spitzbergen attempting to repair their plane. ‘The rumor was sent by Peter Freuchen from Murmansk, Northern Russia, to the newspaper Politiken. He said the report was that a fishing boat met a seal hunter who told of sighting Amundsen. Latest advices indicate that Gen. No- bile’s injuries are not very serious. It appears he was able to board the base | ship Citta di Milano by himself Suf- | day after he had been rescued and taken to Virgo Bay by plane. Messages from the party still stranded near Foyne Island say that conditions have not altered with them except for the fact that their position is shifting every day with a continuous movement of the ice floe on which they are camped Since it is regarded as inadvisable to attempt further landings with heavy planes, the arrival of two Swedish moth planes is being awaited for further ef- forts to plek up the marooned men. WAITS WORD ON CAMPAIGN FROM CHAIRMAN WORK __ (Continued from First Page) paign speeches while he is out in this part of the country, and two or three in the West, where the ticket is ex- pected to need bolstering. During a conversation the President recalled having heard that the Demo- crats were to gather in Texas for a serjous purpose, but he sald it nad passed completely out of nis mind un- til he went to his office at Buperior for the first time since arriving up here He looked splendid after bis 10 days of rest and exercise out in .he cpen air. His color was good and his eyes appeared brighter and not so tired. He was in especially good humor, and as talked with membel 2 tually exuberant at “imes Democratic eonvent enjoyed the long rainy spell cold weather, although he believed {one time he would have been perfectly willing to trade his new r'raw bat for a nice warm coonskin I Al WILL DISCUSS TESTIMONY, Missouri Committee to Inguire Into Sheridan’s Acts. (#) ~That the Missouri committee on public utilities | information may repudiate some of tr pctivities of its secretary, J. B. Sheri- dan, as revealed in his testimony last before the Pederal Trade Com was indicated here in a state- by Joseph Hillemeyer of 8t chatrman of the Steering sub- committee Hillemeyer said the 26-member com- mittee would meet in regular monthly gession Friday and discuss Bheridan’ festimony. Sheridan s employed 1o the work of the commitiee” H or said. “Bome of the things he and did were not authorized by eommittee and the committee had n ing o do with them. We ca yesponsible for everything an employe goes. Bome of the letters he wrote yhich were read st the hearing, were pever even mailed.” Among other things, Sheridan’s tes- timony brought o light letter which he characterized Missouri Coun- Ly editors as “God's fools” Anothe riticized husiness methods of the u y, stativg they cap “never n’« ha " in | ne said, he couldn’t und 50 | much attention had bes correspondents to the mosquitoes, that he had not been bothered in the | Teast | portico of the White House. Bezides receiving known to expect the Secretary'’s resig nation from the cabinet. Sheriff Jailed in Shooting 1 "UMBERLAND. Williams, sheriff of v in Jaifl at King hooting Gordon Kamb Va., iife insurance agent Md., June 27--A R Preston County, W w hypocrits and coward: people ied U Wisconsin Man Sum MILWAU director { | Herwig Public erday that b appear bef the June of had been summone: |¥ the Federal Trade | o . Lgtui, of the vress | Johns Hopkins University in 1907-08, re~ his quiet little joke about the | n, he said he had | consin nd the in | He admitted that there were a few, but no more than he would expect {to find if he were sitting on 'he rear | from Becretary | Work when he arrives here some def- inite ideas as to what the party has| mapped out for him, the Presiden* i thought Wisconsin Uttlity Information Buresu, said d Commission utilities inquiry at Wash- THE EVENING D, C, YED PROBE OF PROCTOR CASE TERMINATED 0. C. Chemist Reports Slayer Took Quantity of Sleep- ing Tablets. STAR, WASHINGTON, | The Police Department today closed ts investigation of the attempt of John | Cline Proctor, one of the threc Busch | vers, to cheat the electric chair by smmitting suicide, following an offi- cial report from the District chemist, Aubrey V. Fuller, that Proctor had | swallowed a quantity of a drug ordi-| narily used to produce sleep. i The Detective Bureau homicide | squad, which investigated the case, has | abandoned the theory that the drug was smuggled to Proctor by an out- sider. It now is believed that Proctor obtained the drug, a tablet at a time, from the jail physician, and that he hoarded it until the night before the execution. The jail doctor from whom Proctor | is thought to have obtained the drug. Dr. J. Frank Adcock, left the jail last Thursday, the day before the triple ex- | ecution, to go to Arizona for his health. | 1t 1s understood that Proctor complain- |ed to Dr. Adcock repeatedly that he { was unable to sleep, and that the physi- | cian gave him the drug to aid him in | | obtaining his rest. ! | May Urge Precautions. | It was indicated today that the case finally will be closed by the Commis: sioners with an order to jail authori- | ties to exercise more rigid precautions | to prevent such incidents. It is thought likely that physicians at the jall will be instructed to make certain that pris- oners actually swallow medicines given them which might be concealed and used in quantity later for suicidal pur- poses. It also is regarded as likely that the Commissioners will ask that pris- oners be carefully watched when re- ceiving visitors to prevent the smug- gling of drugs or poisons. Curtailment of some of the liberties granted pris- oners, especially those occupying cells in “death row,” is regarded as certain. The report of the District chemist, submitted by him last night to Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, disclosed | that Proctor’s stomach contained a quantity of the sleeping powders. The precise quantity could not be deter- mined. as some of the drug had passed {rom the stomach and as the chemical analysis was greatly complicated by the presence of embalming fluid. It is not believed, however, that Proctor took enough of the drug to cause more than a temporary unconsciousness. Consider Case Closed. ‘Though it has not been definitely de- termined whether Proctor obtained all or part of the tablets he swallowed ‘Thursday night from Dr. Adcock or from a woman visitor, as was at first suspected, the police will not attempt | to clear up this point. Even had the drug been smuggled to Proctor, no law was violated, so far as has been learned, since the drug he took is not one of | {he poisons covered by the pharmacy | aw. So far as the law is concerned, the | Proctor case now is a thing of the past, it was stated at police headquar- ters. The anticipated order from the | District Commissioners, expected to be | issued as a result of the case, probably | will not be reached by the board before the close of this week or next week. Mrs. Leila Johnson, the girl who stood by Proctor to the last, left a sick bed today to explain that she knows noth- ing whatever about the source from whlcg the youthful slayer obtained the § T nEiGhron EW ENGLAND | Mentally and physically ill from the severe ordeal through which she has | passed, Mrs. Johnson has been confined | since the burial of Proctor last Sunday | to her residence at 2008 F street, where | she has been making her home with | her mother. 8 She frankly admits that she has no ea from whom he obtained the drugs. Certainly not from myself or any one L SDAY, JUNE connected with his family,” she added. Only once was Mrs. Johnson per- | mitted to talk with Proctor outside the heavily screened cage in the jail which separated him from his family when they came to see him during the days | after it was known that hope of clem- j ency had been denied. That was when 1she was permitted to say good-by to | him for the last time in the presence | of his mother and sister. Upper: Parade of delegates from New England carrying Smith banners th :awer: Scene outside Convention Hall just before the opening session. nse REED REITERATES INTENTION TOFIGHT Spurns Talk of Vice Presi- dency—Allies Turn to Dry Plank. WOMAN INIURED IN AUTO SHASH-LP Mrs. Lottie Schubert Crashes | Into Motor Truck—11 Other Traffic Mishaps. {N. A. OLSEN NAMED | AGRICULTURE CHIEF | Will Head Economics Bureau After| | July 16, Succeeding | L. S. Tenny. | The appointment of Nils A. Olsen, | 14403 Seventh street, as chief of the | Bureau of Agricultural Ecoomics, to be- come effective July 16, was announced | today by Secretary Mrs. Lottle Schubert, 43, 113 First street northeast, was seriously injured this morning when the car she was | driving crashed into a motor truck driven by Foster F. Russ of 1611 Massa- chusetts avenue southeast, at the cor- | ner of Massachusetts avenue and ‘Tenth street. Mrs. Schubert was taken to Emergency Hospital in a pas#ing au- tomobile. Physicians sadd her skull may Thn“‘ been fractured. Russ was making a left-hand turn BY FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON. Associated Press Staft Writer. HOUSTON, June 27.—Brushing aside talk of the vice presidency, Senator of Asriculture Jar-| Reed of Missourl was rallylng his Mr. Olsen has|forces about him for a fight to the been assistant chief | finish on the presidency today as his of the buréau, in|allles from the South against Gov. charge of research, | Smith turned their attention to the since May, 1925. He | impending battle for a dry plank in| ::I!(‘Jge!ds té) the po- | the platform. | into Tenth street from Massachusetts lhy :’;‘rm;;‘w‘;‘fl.m:’ The militant Missourian gave mrmal‘“V:'nuc,‘m[‘;\fll.](‘t;l reported, when the col- of Lioyd S “Tenny, |notice again last night that he meant | 5101 occurrec. who has accepted a | business when he issued & statement | position with the | denying a story published in an early | Assoclated Califor- | edition of a Houston paper Indicating nia Fruit tries, Inc. ! Mr. Olsen joined the Department of Agriculture in 1919 s an assistant economist. As assistant chief of the | Bureau of Agricultural Economics he | has been responsible for the develop- | ment and co-ordination of research work in the bureau. | Family Is Injured. { was to William Montague, colored, 61, 1914 Capito enue northeast, Indus- | that Reed and his friends were now | kaocked Ay ek looking longingly at the vice presidency. | his left shoulder by an_automobile “We will carry on the fight in g0od | driven by Mary Mills of 3906 Eighth | faith to the very end and hope to win," | street at the corner of Twellth and | he said. “We have not made any|R streets today. He was taken to Emer- | trades for or considered any other posi- | gency Hospita {tion than the presidency. 1 have re-| " Ten other persons, including a fam- fused at least 100 times to permit dis- | jly of four, were injured in traffic acei- cussion or consideration of that|dents since yesterday afternoon "n:fllwirl” b Gt R MR e Mr. and Mrs. Danlel M. Weistling > = arlier in the night, Reed had issued | and their children, Daniel M. Welstlin, g A Son ld“‘:;;":dg;’::!u new blast agatnst Herbert Hoover and | ir- 6. and_ Raymond, 3, of 611 Newton ent 'in history and. econcmics a |18 War record ms food adminisirator, | street, received cuts and brulses when s | charging that the Republican nominee | their automobile collided with the mu- ‘"fldl n::‘dd prices on American farm | chine of Bruce N. Herbert, 720 Ingra- 5 - 4 0 9| products during the war for the pur-|ham street, at 7:30 o'clock last night Con: m‘;“ ;;u;“'u“g“;fim*M :I'“d“':’;:’ pose of benefiting the British and the | The Welstling family was treated® at student in history and economics at|lies. The statement was part of his | Walter Reed Hospital by Dr. J. E Harvard University from 1910-1 @ drtve for the presidency and included | Brackbill. -~ Their — injurics were re- . ¢ | plea for farm rellef along any lines | ported ot serfous co |DB. HYMAN NAMED | i e rom e Savciinge PHYSICIAN AT JAIL | presidency today as the mounting tide of Smith strength seemed (o assure his 3 nomination on an early ballot, and th G. W. U. Medical Bchool to Succeed Dr. J. F. Adcock. Mr. Olsen, | ceived a master’s degree in history and Couple in Crash, Miss Thelma Peden, 19, 3414 Brown street, and John Goetz, 31, 101 G stre southeast, were slightly hurt when the automobile In which they were riding struck o tree at the Fourteenth street ertrance to Potomac Park early this morning. They were treated at Emer- gency Hospital Miss Mollle Wiseman, 25, 317 T street northeast, suffered shock when she was struck by an automobile owned by Miss Emily Bauskett, 1201 Girard street, at Tenth and G streets, yesterday afteg- noon Joseph Ofano, 13, 4012 Fourteenth street, lost three teeth when the auto- mobile he was driving crashed into a trolley pole at Farragut street and Georgia avenue last night Magnolia Re colored, road and ‘Twentleth street northeast | received cuts about the head and shoul ders, and Edward B. Willlams, colored, 14, were others infured by automobiles were busily engaged in the desperate contest o obtain at least & dry plank in_the platform. In fact, Cone Johnson, a Texas dele- gate who addressed a dry rally last night, mentioned that it looked like The vacancy in the position of physi- | Smith would get the nomination “by clan at the District Jall will be filled | default.” He did not give up, nor did | July 1 by the appointment of Dr. Morris | the speakers at the rally, but they talk- Hyman, & graduate of the George Wash- | €d of Smith as the probable candidate, | ington University Medical School, who | and the effect of his candidacy coupled aturday will complete a year of | With a “modification plank or even an 5 an interne at Qalinger Mu- | equivocal plank.” Johnson sald Smith Hospital, it was anriounced today | could not carry Texas except on & y A ard nup«rmu»nnnu" ‘bone dr platform of District penal institutions. | The &k newspaper story car- The former jall physicisn, Dr rled the suggestion that Reed’s men Frank Adeock, left Washington last | Were angered at the action of Arkansas Thursdey o W Arizons for his | I turning to Smith, and that the Mis- heaith I being flled at | sourfan might go into n fight to pre- 8, Nixon vent the nomiation of Robinson for wedicine Vice President om Oaliinger Hospital. Dr Whatever may be the Senator's views B been on duty At the jail since laat | o the enrollment of Arkansas in the | | Pebruary 8mith camp, he kept his sjlence on Pure Air From Ocean In o specimen of air taken from over the Atlantic Ocean there was found but one bacterium; i the same volume of air taken from a Parig hospital Lsre were 79,000 bacleris, Graduate of J 8o Chicago Gangster Killed CHICAGO, June 27 () —Nick Manos 35, described by the police us an as- soclale of gansters, was shot and killed on a Bouth Side street today by a com- panion after a quarrel. The slayer was followed by a night watchman until he warned the watchman to turn back, Manos' pookets were stuffed with cur- rency, more than 8500 being found on the ‘cdy. wlong with' &dong kalfe, that, but the were some whb regard- ed as significant his declaration that “we have nol made any trades for or considered any other position than the presidency . Tots of men manage to sneak out the bagk way when duty caps, rough streets of Houston. Simon Hollenthol, an Alaska delegate, finds the temperature somewhat different from that at home. Henning | Associated Press Photo. ssociaied Press Photo. NISS EARMART SEES J. A. MARCONNIER DIES; WAS VETERAN OF UNION . Had Served 40 Years as Engineer for Printing Firm—With Navy Yard in War. John A. Marconnier, 86, Union Army an, and for many years a re of this city, died in the Na Hospital yesterday after a long iliness Mr. Marconnier vas for 40 years em- | ployed as en, by the firm of Judd | | & Detweller, Inc rters, and during | e World War employed in the | | Washington Nav d. He was a| member of Phil Sheridan Post, G. A. R. | He is survived by his widow, Mrs e Louise Marconnier; a daughter, Mrs, | BY the Associated Press Marian P. Tolan, ‘and a sister Miss| WIMBLEDON England, June 27.— Louise Marconnier. r. Marconnier | e A resided at 1816 Thirty-fourth street. 3::::: t’lf‘l“’“.:"‘l > ;g‘u‘;‘_f‘:“";‘;'n:‘: | Funeral service i1l be conduct in | | e oarar Ereatat et wien | 1and, Miss Helen Wills of the United Co., 2900 M street, tomorrow afternoon L R Ry s | "A"gallefy of ‘15,000 spectators that crowded the big stadium was impressed - FOLLOWS THEFTS had recently won the English hardcourt championship at Bournemouth and had | Confessed Robber of Grocery Stores Also Admitted Guilt in Joy-riding. ¢ Californian Defeats Leading English Player in Wim- bledon Match. r pr Wi proved players in the country. sentative, Capt at the stadium soon started and were seates box among the titled tending the matches. Talks With Margot Asquith. As soon as Margot Asquith arrived, she became more interested in the American fiyer ¢han in the tennis and carried on a running fire of conversa- tion with the Boston girl Miss Earhart came particularly to see Miss Wills play, but the first match on he tennis court developed into & hard- fought struggle between E. D. Andrews, voung New Zealand champion, who col quered Francis T. Hunter in the first round Monday, and young Christian H. H. Railey, arrived after play had d in the royal ennis fans at- Milton C. Bowling, 20 vears old, was | ntenced today by Justice Siddons in Criminal Division 2 to serve a total of | 14 years and 2 days in the penitentiary, | Boussus of France, delaying Miss Wills following a plea of guilty to two robber- | debut. Boussus won, 6-—4. 6—1, 6—1 j following a pled 08 BUL Y O e arocery |, Miss Goldsack did’ not appear in the |1es ut stores of the Sanitary Grocery |) =5 Lo e e put |Co., and to two cases of joy-riding. | game as she has shown this season, in Bowling, who was on probation on | the opinfon of critics, but had neither ther joy-riding case at the time of | the stroking power nor tactics to mateh the commission of the four crimes. was | thase of the California girl. Spectators | shot by Detective Alligood when fleeing | {in one of the stolen cars, the wound [of Miss Wills belng even better than leading to his apprehension in a PItts- | last year were not exaggerated burgh hospital | Miss Ear left the stands after Remarking that the Sanitary Wills mateh pany's stores seem to be a mark for k robbers, Justice Siddons revoked the Mrs. Mallory Eliminated. Mrs. Molla Mallory was eliminated two-year sentence under which Bowling had been on probation and for each )y ML YR ckerton. 63, 48, 64 The match was held up by rain yes- | of the robberies added a sentence of five years, to run consecutively. At the | (orgqay after Miss Bickerton had taken the first set end of the \tences he ordered that or the joy-riding offenses Bowling serve oo e o e yenr. and ane day | N & duel between two of England's t Tab conaesUM Y woman_stars, Miss Evelyn Calyer de- On March 23 Bowling held up 1!\«-}"";\""" Miss "l““fl\' Saunders. 73, & manager of a Sanitary store and ie- s Penelope Anderson of Rich- T iy of 803 on April 5 e took | mond. Va, seventh ranking American a car from the street; on April 7, with | Player, defeated Miss Christabel Hardle i |of England, 6--4, 64, Miss Hardie was the opportent of Miss Wills in the | two others, he held up another | tary manager and obtaiued $47, and on . { finals of the Prench hard court cham- | | plonships recently I April 10 he took another automoblle. James W. Dudley, eolo: who broke | PI | into u Sanitary store February 14 and | “-\"\' .m(u“'\“' A‘\[l ., stole B ol e ries s glvel plo one o Miss tole a quantity of groceries, was given | BOG ®0E QW €0 MBS lain of England, 62, 6 four years in the penitentiary. A sim r tence was imposed on Alfred - Mg | John Hennessey. youthful American | star, continued his winning campaign | Skrine, a white youth, for entering the s of James F. Holllngsworth Feb- home of Jumes . SRCHEERC "= | i the men's singles, defeating Norman | Latehford, 63, 6=-4, 63, com- | {ne Ce w leading V. Chamber- 4 ruary 16 and robbing him. Sentences of three years each In the penitentiary for joy-riding were given Hubert L. King, white: Rudolph © Briscoe, Arthur Jordan, Herbert Slaugh- 1ter and Frederick Green, all colored, — - Movie fans of England ylewed last yoar 13,000, feel of motion pictures made in Am e - HELENWILLS WIN defeated Miss Goldsack of Eng- | 1 been regarded as one of the most im- | Miss Earhart and her British repre- | | tion sine up as good a left_the stands convinced that reports | 4.| | been cast in the COSTELLO-COLPOYS DELEGATES SEATED D. C. “Regular” Faction Re- ceives Unanimous Backing of Credentials Committee. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON, Tex., June 27.—By unan- imous vote after a hearing. the creden= tials committee, consisting of one dele= gate from each State and extraterri- |torial areas, at 8:30 am. today voted {to seat the Costello-Colpoys official or |“regular” delegation from the District |of Columbia in the conyention. T | confirms the action of the contest com- mittee, vhich twiece-once, on examina- tion of records filed and again after a | hearing placed this “regular” delegation jon the temporary roll of the conven- | tion, which was unanimously confirmed iby the national committee. | James F. Duhamal, a member of the | contesting 'delegation, served notice on the credentials committee that the fight | would be carried to the floor of the con- | vention. ‘There is no possibility, how- ever, that the action of the contest committee, the national commitee and the credentials committee will be re- versed. | Preside at Hearings. M. Carter Hall. delegate from the District, who represents the District on the credentials committee, and Breck- inridge Long. former Third Assistant Secretary of State, also a seated dele- |gate, conducted the case for the Cos- | tello-Colpoys or “regular” delegation. | Manton M. Wyvell, one of the con- |testing delegations from the Al Smith for President Club, elected in the rump primary conducted by the Democratic | campaign committee, was in charge of \ the fight to unseat the “regular” dele- | Aation. | ®\John F. Costello. national committee- | | man, and Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, na- | tio\1l committewoman, attended the I'hear\ . Both delegations were there in |full farce. The motion on which the unanim\us vote was taken, giving the | “regulary ” the third round., was made | by Col. @211 L. Ristine of Missouri. J Bruce Kramer. national committeeman |and delegas,> from Montana, was cha | man of the \credentials committee. He |had also bean chairman of the pre- | liminary contast committee. Minor C | Moore of Cali\ornia was secretary of the credentials ycommittee. ‘There are 12 smembers in the dele- gation that have been seated. cac { having half a vota . The District c Columbia’s six vote; will be cast Gav. Smith. Other Contests, Decided. There were four otlwT contests de- cided by the credentials ywommittee thi; morning—for the Canal Zoe the delega- tion headed by Mrs. L. O. K\en national committeewoman, was seated in prefer- ence to the delegation headed by Frank T. Hamlin, national committeqnan; the two delegates from Virgin Islayds were scated over a Florida delegate who threatened that Florida would bojt un- less the Virgin Islanders were rejacted. Four Philadeiphia “regular delegan®s” were seated after bitter oppoesition whi'h questioned their party loyalty. The Louisiana delegation was seated after & protracted and bitter fight on “prin- ciples,” directed by Mrs. James Thomp- son, daughter df the late Champ Clark, who is a national committeewoma: The Canal Zone contest was extreme! interesting and when the vote was taken it was on the motion “we’re for the little woman.” In opening his case for the contest- ing District of Columbia delegation, Mr. Wyvell emphasized that the balf mil- lion residents of the National Capital have no vote in the electoral college, but argued that on account of the dele- gation to the convention coming from the National Capital, “the political at- mosphere is most important.” He told the credentials committee that there is no law or rule governing the conduct |of primaries in the District, and that | | ties to have a free opportunity to ex- |press their preference at the polls. With 22 political precincts, he said there have been only 17 members of the central committee since 1924. He declared that the Democrats of the District are seeking two things: Firs conditions under which there can ja fair election of national committee members and of delegates to the co: vention. Second and most important. that ballots cast shall be counted at | the place where they are cast, under careful supervision. Reviews Previous Testimony. Mr. Wyvell reviewed the testimo: | previously given before the conte | committee and the arguments made by James J. Slattery and George W att. He charged that in the call i of May 19 for the primaries, signed | John B. Colpoys, chairman of the ¢ tral committee, and Harry J. Wi secretary, no address was given which candidates would register an } pay the fee demanded. He callad the fees excessive. He said it was impos , ble to get a fair and honest count. He | clpimed that no more than 600 votes were cast in the “regular” primary and that some 11.000 were cast in the rump | primaries. He charged that some of the delegates now seated did not pay the required fee, and that the name of one delegate had been used without his knowledge. R. Wilmer Bollin brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, que: tioned as to why the Al Smith f President Club had refused to partic pate in the “regular” primary called [ by Chairman Colpoys of the centr: | committee. Mr. Wyvell said they fe | that they could not get a fair election | —merely “take your money and coun you out. Mr. Hall's Peosition. Mr. Hall said he represented the ¢ | ganized democracy of the District { more than 40 years He explained the primary 1912 and explained that prima had been held under t thority of the Demoecratic committee. He assured the credet committee that the call for the priny had been “regular” in every way that every effort had been made to the contestants to come .dnto the re lar official pr y. and there expres | theit preferes Mr. Hall answered one of the siate | ments of Mr. Wyvell by putting the record a telegram received from M | Bolling, as follows liiness in my family prevents my being with you. Ap point alternate. Papers here report ov | delegation has won partial victory | which, 1 am sure. will be ratified M jday. Best of luck ™" In reply to questions, Mr. Hall said the amount of the fee, which had been deseribed as excessive, had been the | same for many years, based on expe ence of the amount needed (o def: | expenses of the primary and subseq | campaign Breckenridge Long, answering a ques [tion, refuted the statement of Mr | Wyvell that only about 800 votes had “regular” primary by placing the number at 7433, He re- viewed the same line of argument as last Sunday before the contest commit- tee, and answered many question asked by mempers of the cmedentials committee. . G Haijlstorm Blooks Highw Special Dispateh ta The Stay BERKELEY SPRINOS. W. Va. June 27—The State highway east of here was opened this morn after belug blocked all night by hall which du an hour's storm lale last night. Vugetation \;;‘ mile wide swath, four wmlw.mm

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