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* Chicago, Junp 14, — The republicas S R h\ 3 e g v.od.n;"n national commit- rters here. * n—cnuf-un Will H. Hays confer- Captain Victor Heintz, regional ?fl‘*. and other leaders, the committee moved from the Coliscum back to its campaign headquarters in a hotel and cleated desks of convention matters in preperation’ for the coming drive. The_first lot of 5,000,000 lithographs of the candidate will be ready for distribu- tion this week, Chairman Hays announc- ed. The paper was purchased and cut several months ago and pictures and au- tographs of all ine candidates obtained. By a strange coincidence the printer who won_ the contract cnose Senator Hard- ing’s plcture to demonstrate his work. CONNECTICUT'S PART IN THE , ) NOMINATION OF HARDING (By a Staff Correspondent.) Chicago, June 13 (Delayed 'n Trans- missio ). —Conflecticut isn't a _pivotai state and its size is not such as to make § ta big factor in the nationai republican bonvention, but it nevertheless pldyed an impértant part in turning the tide that jed to the nomination or Warren G. Jiarding of Ohio for president fo the United States. Connecticut started out to stand as a unit, and with the exception of ‘the vote of Jobn T. King on the entire ballots and & couple of others on two ballots, its delegation held together both for 'presi- dent and vice president. In view of the majority of the delega- lion favoring Lowden, he rec #ed 13 of 14 for six ballots. On the lasi day Sen- ator Bowers, who had always favored Wood, changed his vote and supported his favorite on the mext two ballots. On the eighth ballot Delegate Alcorn cast hiz vote for Coolidge, but thereafter there ‘election of Senator marked ome bystander joked with the movie The senator seemed from Goverpor Coolidge, Former - President Taft, Major General Wood, Senator Hi- ram Johnson and Senator Pomerene, his democratic colleague from Ohio. = - Among his first responses was a tele- thanking | gram sent to Governor Coolidge him for his message and declaring that by the selection of a “truly great and trusted American” for the viee dential nomination, the ticket had be E ened et Shortly before the senator fice he was invited to at a Flag Day celebration held tonight on -the Plaza in front of the . owing to the rush of work was il to decline. work - due The sudden accumulation of to his nom‘k::m nnh? “Lmn s tor being foi today to obtain -addi- tional office space, part of which will be used as a rooth for the newspaver cor- respondents. Beginning tomorrow he al- g0 plans to have daily. confereaces with the newspaper men as lung 43 he is m ‘Washington. He also will confes tomor- row with Leslie M. Shaw, former secré- tary of the treasury. , In deciding to play golf tiday the sen- ator said he wanted to get some «f the “convention tobacco smoks out of his system.” He was accomianis links by Senator Sutherlard o Virginia ; Former Senitor baurn B. H. Warner Jr. of Washingiwon. COOLIDGE GIVEN RECEPTION AT STATEHOUSE IN BOSTON Boston, June 14—Governor Coolidge, republican nominee for the vice presi- dency, received congratulations from Massachusetts leaders of the party at a reception -held at the statehouse today. The governor was greeted by Lieutenant as the senator| as T 5TH CONGRESS APPROPRIATED APPROXIMATELY $5,000,000,000 the | Man subsidiary of the Standagl Oil Co., | 2nNU: the sena-|. = said congress r duced estimates of government depart. ments for next year by $1,474,422,602, the total appropriations in only two measures exceeding the estimates. Con- gress added $64,120,000 to the pension bill and $70,861,000 to the, postal - bill. The latter increase. was to meet ad-| vances in pay ‘to posfal employes, while the pension increase was absorbsd in part by increased pensions. The total carried’ by ‘the tjirteen great annual supply bills, as given by Mr. Good, was $2 212,126,298, as follows. Postoffice $462,575,190. Sundry civil $437,106,80 Naval $433,279,574. Army $392,558,365. Pension. $279,150,000. Legislative, executive $104,735,726. Agricultural $31,712.784. Fortifications $18,833,442. District of Columbia $18,573 (04.” and judicial Ashurst of Arizona underwent operation at the Georgetown ‘Senator | in Waghington and physicians H he is resting comfortably. n T session ‘at Geneva, accepted an invitation to hold the mext congress in Paris in 1922, Eight ol tankers belonging to a Ger- finally were allotted to the United States for traTisport of petrol and oil to Europe. 1 dge Colby, secretary of state, is man for A “ailent officer” oo’ called, used st by the Supreme court of errors of New Haven. discussed as the possible spokes- m'vfiu-tm! it President Wilson at the demo-|League of Nations. cratic national convention at San Fran-| The veteran labor chief expressed the|had to defeat General cisco. Montreal, June 1 the Us Presi 4—Organized labor & tates was. appealed to by of the-Amer- of Labor here today to rt to the non- po- litical p of the federation and to urge n congress the ratification of ‘Nations. " 2o the failure of the Tnited ! States to ratify the covenant as “pitia-| ble,” Mr. s, before the 1 eonvention of the federation, said “if the question was submitted to the people, without any other e ng problems, I am positive m;’th:-p:ovh W 8a; ~ of our country would say 'K. fear that in the coming political cam- nlllfltbflmgtflnflllbe’mb- merged in the num of questions which Street -intersections for traffic purposes | must attract the attention of the peo-[ American business-aml American political was condemned as a traffic obstruction | ple of the United States.” “It- is table,” he added, “that the question in itself has not had an op- portunity to be presented for the con- OF GAMBLERS AND PROMOTERS Nicholas Murray Butler, Unsuccessful Candidate For the Re- to Save the Republican Party But to Defeat the Men That Were Behind General Wood With Their Bank Accounts and Great Financial Interests—Says It Was a Cause of Genuine Sorrow to Many New York, June 14.—Charges that “a motley group of stock gamblers, oil and mining promoters, munition makers and other like persons seized upon so good a man as General Wood and with reckless audacity started out to buy for him the lential nomination,” were made in tement given out here tonight by Nicholas Murray Rutler, an w candidate for the' republican nomination. “It was the cause of genuine sorrow to me as to many others of General Wood's personal friends,” he said, “to see him put in this unhappy positiom There was nothing to do in nr%r to sav the republican party but tg t the band of men that were bel with their bank accounts and great financial influence. This t that we ‘himself.” ‘The forces that were defeated in their insolent attempt to buy the nomination.” ke added, “represent all that is worse in life. It is really too bad that they hit upon General Wood as their choice. They should have found someone to support for whom the country has less respect and Hearings by the commission appointed | sideration and determination of the Deo-| less regard.” by President Wilson to stttle the anthra- ple of our country.” “The chief.task of the convention,” the cite wage controversy probably will be| Mr. Gompers was brief in hs appeal to| gtatement said, “was to prevent the sale held somewhere in the state of Penn- sylvania. Information reaching Tekio reported the Soviet government at Moscow was overthrown und Leon Trotzky was killed. Lenine escaped. Gen. Brusiloff reported in charge. Gov. Smith of New York, Charles F. Murphy, Tammany Hall leader, and for- mer Senator Thomas Taggart were the vrincipals of a quiet conference at French Lick, Ind. was A decided change and a quick ending of the balloting. It was realized that both Wood and Lowden had ceased to gain, that Harding was going strong and that his nomination was probable. Ken- tucky in asking for a recess indicated that it was ready to flop and it came with a whoop a8 the convention reassembled and Connecticut, the fifth state to be polled, #wung into line for Senator Harding with 72 votes, the King vote still goinz to Johnon. This aroused the convention to a high pitch of enthusiasm and soon after Kansrs, Kentucky and Louisiana follow- ed. Conn t changed hecause it real- Governor Channing H. Cox, Frank Hall, chairman of the republican state committee, and Massachusetts delégates to the Chicago convention. The deleates paraded from the South station to the statehouse, while whistles of harbor craft and factories were blown. In reply to the congratulations Gov- ernor Coolidge said: “The great office to which the national republican convention has nominated me is one for which I hold the greatest of respect. I am mindful of the great honor that has been conferred upon -me, but beside that and apart from it, I appres Rivers and harbors §$12,400,00, Indian’ $10,040,655, . Diplomatic and consular $8,218.037. Military academy $2,142,212. In addition to these bills, ver appropriations—annual expenJitates thorized by congress for stated periods —amounted to $1,363,768,980 of which $980,000,000 is for interest on the pub- lic debt and $260,800,000 for the sinking fund. Miscellaneous appropriations- in- cluded $725,000,000 by _the .transporta- tion act of which $300,000,000 is to be used as loans to the railroads for a pe:r riod of fifteen years. Minor miscellane- i at Lowden could not get the ::;-i?ry number of votes, while Harding would make an excellent compromise and eould be expected to get Lowden support. He crossed the goal line on tHe second ballot thereafetr. The Connecticut delegation feels highly pleased at the result, which is likewise the view of Senator Brandegee, who did mot return with the delegalion as expect- ed, but remained in Chicago for a few days as the guest of Senator McCormick. When it came to the vice presidency, Connecticut was enthusiastic for Coolidge as the running mate for Harding. The delegation was unanimons in its vote with 13 voting. Delegate King, however, did not_remain to vote. The delegation left for home this morning. but without the accommodations that had been promised for a second time by the railroad. Secretary Klett saw the party off but leave here tonight for the Pacific coast to attend the Shriners’ convention. The Connecticut delegation reached Hartford at 12.25 o'clock Monday noon and ‘mmediately left for their respective sections of the state. The return trip was without incident. i MARDING PINDS LIFE OF NOMINEE STRENUOUS Washington, June 14.—Senator Ilard- ing today found the life of the republican presidential nominee strenuous altkouzh he held no important political coufer- tnces. The senator” went to his office at ‘he capitol shortly before noon, posed for motion picture men, greeted senatc em- ployes, received a few personal Iriends who called to congratulate him, went over great piles of congratulalory tele- grams, played a round of golf at a near- by country club and then worked far fato” the night at his home in ah effori to catch up with rapidly increasing cor- respondence. The nominee steadfastly declined to make any statement regarding his posi- tion -on party policies, indicating that he would have nothing to say on those matters until in his speech accepting the nomination. He also said that pending his official notification he would withhold making public his campaign plane. He also declined to say at this time whether he would resign his senate weat. Senator Harding's plans for the im- imediate future are indefinite. He in- tends to remain in Washington until Jate this week whon he will leave for a briet vacation. He does not contemplate reaciing his home in Marion, Ohio, be- fore about July 1. The notification cere- monies- are expected to take place soon after as the vacation will give him an epportunity te prepare his speech of ac- eeptance sounding the campaign keynote. Chatrman Hays of the republican na- tional committee and a number of party leaders are expected to confer with the Ohio senator probably next Monday al- though the date hadnot been definitely Axed. The place of the conference, also, Jt was understood has not been deter- mined. Senator Lodge of Massachu- Betts, who was chairman of the Chicago senvention’ Senator Smoot of Utah and pther republican leaders are in Wash- Mgton but no engagements for a confer- snce have so far been arranged, it was said tonight. Senator Lodge plans to leave for his home tomorrow while the Utah senator will remain for another week. Senator Harding’s return to his office in the capitol was the signal for an in- formal recetion on the part of senate employes who crowded, about to congrat- state him. Short!® before his arrival his private office was decorated with a large American flag and flowers while during the day large numbers of bouquets were received from friends. Despite his strenuous week at the re- publiean convention, the senator seemed tm fine fettle and kept up a running fire comments as the moving men elicked off foot after foot 28, happy, a8, aelark.”. “He'n, 2 -re- »Falk,. ry much more deeply. | k. and women, tired as you are from the long convention and the long journey, to come here this afternoon, the moment that you arrive at your destination, and to assure me of your friendship and of your good wishes. “After all, offices are ended and they fade away. Friendship and the esteem in which men hold each other may Temain forever. And great as I regard the honor that the convention has conferred upon me, I regard with much more satisfaction and much more honor this tribute of you who know me, who have lived with me and worked and wrought with me, and the confidence that your presence here shows that you have' in me.” 7 Governor Coolidge tonight received the following telegram from Senator Harding in reply to his congratulations: “Thank you for your message. Your selection for vice president has strength- ened our ticket by adding a truly, great and trusted American. I am honored by the association.” GOV. COOLIDGE TO ATTEND DINNER OF AMHERST '95 CLASS Springfield, Mass., June 14.—Governor Coolidge arrived here tonight to attend the dinner of the Amherst class of 1895. He was met at the station by.Lucius R. Eastman of New York, class president, and Frank B. Stearns, president of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, and escorted to the. Colony club, where the class had assembled. The governor will leave here tomorrow mornnig to attend commencement week exercises at Amherst. He will arrive in Northampton, his home city, late tomor- Tow afternoon, where a reception for him has been planned by the townspeople. He will go to Worcester tomorrow night, where he will present diplomas to the graduating class of Holy Cross on Wednesday. JOHNSON DECLINES TO COMMENT ON CONVENTION ‘Washington, June 14.—Senator Johnson of California arrived here late today and went directly tohis home at. Riverdale, Maryland. The denator declined to make any com- ment on the convention or his future plans. He is expected at his office at the capitol tomorrow to wind up pending matters. MARION’S CELEBRATION OF NOMINATION OF HARDING - e Marion, O., June 14.—Marion’s celebra- tion of Senator Warren G. Harding's nomination for president by the republi- can party will take the form of an old- fashioned celebration July 4, it was ten- tatively decided tonight by a citizens' committee. This decision was made when it became known the senator would not return to Marion before July 1. GOVERNMENT AID TO END NEW YORK HARBOR STRIKE ‘Washington, June 14.—Aid of the de- partment of justice in bringing to an end the New York harbor strike and in clearing up generally the nation-wide freight congestion will be offered to the interstate commerce commission tomor- row by Attorney General Palmer. Officials of the Erie railroad. Mr. Palmer announced tonight, have agreed t oaccept the department’s ruling on the application of the Adamson eight hour law to tugs and barges transporting the road's rolling stock. He added the ac ceptance had removed the chief “bone of contention” of the New York harbor ‘workers. £ Representatives of the marine workers and the striking trainmen and yardmen of the New York district conferred with the attorney general again today with reference to reinstdtement of the strikers to their seniority rights by the r upon their' return to work. Joseph ‘marine-werkers,. counsel for.the- Said~ trOVeraYa, ous priations; with the deficiencies hmg% the total appropriations to $4,- 859,890,327, | Mr. Good charged off §2,558,968,400 of the appropriations as a direct war “hang over,” the sum including the funds pro- vided for the railroads, for the interest on the public debt, the payment to the sinking fund and $293,168,400 appropri- ated for re-education. hospital traat- ment, and insurance payments for veter- ans of the world war. The army and navy together got $855,956,962 for the next fiscal year, leavine a total of §979.- 319,916 as the funds~Nr all the other civil functions of the government during the year. CLOTHING SUITABLE FOR SAN FRANCISCO WEATHER San Francisco, June 14—Folks who as- sociate national conventions with torrid temperatures, lightweight suits and lattice work underwear had better disillusion themselves if they are coming to the na- tiorial convention of the democrats hery bureau. All sartorial effects should in-, clude fairly warm inner and outer cloth- ing and a light overcoat. If the weather “runs to form,” smart | westerly winds, carrying a_penetrating | ehill, will blow in off the Pacific ocean and cool afternoons and cooler evenings will-be the order. This last phase ‘will be_assisted by fogs in the late afternoon. | “The bureau believes it will be goon “convention weather,” with plenty of op- portunity for the average orator to warm up without looking like a bundle of wet wash. If the usual hectic parades for the convention are staged toward the end of the afternoon, there need be no shedding of coats, collars or galluses. “But,” the weather bureau said, “un- less a man seeks to keep warm by his enthusiasm alone, he had better come prepared.” CLAIMANT FOR MOTOR BOAT PICKED UP AT SEA New Bedford, Mass., June 14—E. B. Taber, of Montauk, Long Island, arrived here today to. claim .the .cabin cruiser motor boat Del Rey which was picked up as a derelict 45 miles southeast of No Man’s Land. He is an'agent of the Con- servation . Commission .of the state of New York, maintaining hatcheries at Montauk. On Friday he was engaged in setting lobster pots where he was knocked overboard by a heave of the sea. The boat which was under head- way disappeared ‘to the castward. After Taber had been in the water 45 minutes and was almost on the point of collapse owing to his cumbersome - oilskins and rubber boots, he was picked up by an- other fisherman. The motor boat was towed here by Captain William B. Mac- Donald, master of the Steamer Joppint of Gloucester. | AMERICAN CAPITAL TO COMPLETE NICARAGUAN CANAL San Francisco, June 14.—American capital is expected to complete the Nica- raguan Canal, according to Dr. Verano Montalvan, secretary of state of Nicara- armived here today on the an Juan. Dr. Montalvan said Nicaraguans hoped work might begin on ths project in the rext three years and h2 estimated four years' work would complete 1t. after the eonference the gemeral accept- ance of the princivle of the eight hour law would mean an end to the longshore- men strike in the various harbors of the Atlantic and of Gulf coasts as well as in New York. The part the department of justice can play in breaking up the freight jam on the railroads remains to be worked out according to the United Btates weathcr| with the interstate commerce commis- sion, the attorney general said, but it is understood that co-operation can be ef- fected if it is found that the strike is be- in gprolonged- by. the - infringement of laws by either of the parties to the con- the federation to ufl!::lle to lflll':m . his non-partisan politi progral a asserting that this subject “may 2e %3 concrete form before - the convention, ‘within the next few days. “Forty years of experience, of success and triumph,” said Mr. Gompers, shown us the way. The demands which labor makes not only of employers but of society are for services which labox performs and gives to society and with- out which such "progress would be -im- possible and civilization would come to} a standstill. demands for June week exercises at the military with an athletic victory fo rthe gradu- ating class which will receive diplomas on Tuesday. Additional warrants against Dmydro Rwankiw, a Russian, who was ordered deported were issued by Assistant Secre- tary of Labor Post, charging the alien with “meral turpitude.” William A. Taylor, well know in Chi- cago - and New ' York newspaperdom, died at his home in Chicago. He was a charter member and former president of Annual session for the New Jersey State Bar Association concluded at At- lantic City, and retiring President Bacon, of Bridgeport, made a stirring plea for more' effective organization. W. D. Dorsey, a federal prohibition agent, was killed while engaged in de- stroying a moonshine still he had dis- covered in a housg occupied by John Farmer, near Cleveland, Ga. General education board of the Rocke- which Grinnell Coliege is raising among tion of $500,000 to complete the $1,500,000 feller Foundation announced an contribu- | its friends at Grinnell Towa. Public Service Commissioner Lewls Nixon ordered the King's County Light- ing Co., to spend $2,500,000 for new equipment to increase capacity 70 per cent to serve 1,400 new residents. A jury in the Supreme court awrad- ed $122,566.22 to Ffance in her case against the Lehigh Valley Railroad for damages suffered by that country in 1916 in the Black Tom explosion. The bodies of James G. Blaine and his wife, Harriet Stanwood Blaine, brought here from Washington under the aus- pices of the state of Maine, were buried in Forest Grove cemetery at Augusta, Me. Several members of the chorus and a number of persons in the audience were injured, one of them seriously Wwhen a bomb was exploded during a per- formance at the National Theater at Havana. Police Inspector Dominick Henry of New York, convicted of perjury in the criminal branch of the Supreme Court spent the day in the Tombs and will re- main there until Tuesday when he will be sentenced by Justice Weeks. Pennsylvania railrond detectives were notified today, upon the arrival at Pitts- burgh from Chicago of a special traif bearing delegates from the republican national ‘convention, of the theft on the train of jewels valued at $50.000. Secretary Daniels commended three seamen for heroic conduct in rescuing companions from death by drowning. They are: J. T. Flanagan, gunner's mate; Willilam Butzon, coxswain; and James D. Shea, a former ship’s cook. ‘While attempting to extinguish fire in the $1,500,000 cargo of sugar, on the Cardigan o fthe French Lick, Captain Williams was overcome by smoke and ‘was rescued by William Davis, mate of the vessel. Damage is estimatel at $100,- 000. The simultaneous resignation of four European cabinets—the Italian, Polish, Hungarian and Austrian—is viewed In official circles here to be significant chiefly as demonstrating the difficulty of adapting politics and economic condi- tions to the peace terms. Property of the late Victoriano Huerta former President of Mexico, Gen Diaz, Francisco. Villa, J. M. Maytorena and Eugenio Parades, revolutionary chleftains wkere excepted from the order relative to the restriction of confiscated property issued by the Mexican government. Terme for the farmer German pas- senger liner Leviathan, bids on which will be opened June 30, by the Shipping Board must be acompanied by a certified check for $100,000 and the purchaser must pay 20 per cent of his bid in cash with 10 years to pay the remainder. | a better and higher lif¢ The “One Big Union, he said, could laws of human nature.” Mr. Gompers' address, which was greeted with great applause, came at the he convention,Session today and | the statement explains, there were very ::::ehl:lr:p?ycm those. given by Fraternal! few sources from which Delegates J. W. Ogden of the British Trade Union Congress, and J. A. McClel- land of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress. POLICY OF:GOVERNMENT AND JONTROL OF STATE PARKS Conn.,.June 14.—A. policy of gove! nt and control of stale parks has mma Dy the state park com- mission, approved by Govemnor Holcomb and issued for information of the people. 1t is set forth that the parks mnng to le. In them it is permitted: m:—p?rog fish in accordance with the pub- lic statutes. g 2—To gather nuts, berries or wild flow- ers except for-the market. 3—To use any dead wood for the fire- place. > 4—To camp for two days or less with- out permit; camping for longer periods to be by_special permit. 1¢is desired that the parks be used for picnic parties, camping and outdoor life by the people of Connecticut, and this is possible provided the park is used in a wholesome and reasonable way, that trees, shrubs and plants be not' injured and all rubbish placed in receptacles for it, or buried or burned. E The parks of the system are: Sherwood Island, Westport; Hurd, at East Hamp- ton; Mt Tom, at Litchfield; Mt. Bush- nell, at Washington; Selden Neck, at Lyme; Haystack, at Norfolk; Ivy Moun- tain, at Goshen: Mohawk Mountain, at Cornwall; Great Hill, at Portland; West Peak, at Meriden; Mashamoquet Brook, at Pomfret; Sap Tree Run, at Pomfret; Bolton Notch, at Bolton ; Dart Island, at Middletown ; Wharton Brook, at Walling- ford ; Buttinball Brook; at Chaplin ; Kent Falls, at Kent; Hammonassett Beach, at Madison; Black Pond, at Middlefieldy Devil's Hop Yard, at East Haddam. The! total acreage is 5,029, PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT AGENT YOR NEW ENGLANDI| tor a national office.” Hartford, Conn., June 14.—Notification h2s been received by Unitéd States Inter- as supervising prohibition enforcement agent for New England, with headquar- ters in Boston. The appointment marks the latest step inaugurated by the reve- nue department in a plan for redistricting the entire country. The states over which Supervisor MeCarthy will have complete charge are Maine, New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachu- setts and Rhode Island. James Shevlin, who was chief super- visor for Connecticut and a part of New York state, will now_ have charge of su- pervising the work in all New York state. Prohibition Enforcement Agent Thomas J. McAuliffe of this city will continue to operate his force in this state under the direction of Mr. McCarthy. He will main- tain his headquafters in New Haven. | MEETING OF THE BOARD OF PARDONS OF STATE PRISON June 14—Governor Holcomb presided at the meeting of the board of pardons at the state prison in ‘Wethersfield today. Among the 49 peti- tioners was Frederick Chatfield, Civil war veteran, 77 years old, charged with as- sault to murder his daughter Catharine. He was sentenced at Winsted in 1915 for from 10 to 15 vears. It is claimed he was intoxicated When the erime was com- mitted.~ \ John T. Hayes, a life prisoner, who killed Winifred J. Cook of Winsted in 1901, made his fourth application. for pardon, and Pasquale Talabrese, sen- tenced in December, 1901, for murder in the second degree, committeed at Green- wich, made his tenth application. Charles Bassétt, a native of Canada, who was convicted in Waterbury Dec. 22, 1905, for murder in the second degree in causing the death of Thomas Lockwood at Water- bury, made a plea in his own behalf. CELEBRATED FLAG DAY AT FOOT OF STATUE OF LIBERTY Hartford, Conn., A pick and shovel brigade of privast detectives tomorrow will begin a sys- tematic search of the 100 acre estate of Enrico Caruso at Easthamnton, N. in a final effort to discover the hiding place ‘of half a million dollars worth of jewels that were stolen from the tenor's home - several-days ago. New York, June 14. — Twenty-four > 4 Senator’s statement, “have mentioned my nal Revenue Collector James J. Walsh of] yon (% 8 S¥ R0 n For the vice presi- the appointment of William J. McCarthy | gency running on the democratic cket| ison or some other candidate. ivised to sdo se by the X of the presidential nomination at auction to the highest bidder. Had this not been done, ‘the party faced not only ecertain defeat but crushing dishomor. The 68 New York delegates who voted for me on the ‘first ballot were the chief factor in stopping the Hindenberg drive. to over- whelm -the convention by the power of unlimited money and by strong arm methods in preferential primaries.” The story of New York's 68 votes for Rutler shows, the statement , how General Wood was defeated. It points out that the first ballot gave General vote of his nearest rival, Governor Low- den, at least up to Wood's vote.” Owing to local and state complications, new Lowden strength could be arawn so early in the balloting. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan and Ohio . could not help, it added, because the release of delegates in those states probably would give Wood DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS £2 San Francisco, June . 14.—Headquar- | ters for two of the aspirants to the dem-, ocratic nomination ‘for president at the| national convention, which begins June 28, were opened here today. Those for whom offices were opened were United States Senator Robert L. Owen of Ok- lahoma and Attorney General A. Mit- chell Palmer." The headquarters of Govrenor James M. Cox of Ohio will be opened here tomorrow with the expected arrival of E. H. Moore, national com- mitteeman of Ohio, who has charge of the governor’s pre-convention campaign. Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, recently chosen a delegate from the Dis- trict of Columbia, is being mentioned by | leaders here for the permanent chair-; manship of the convention. United States| Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is be-| ing discussed in connection with the| chairmanship of the committee ¥ reso- lutions. Tentative plans call for the opening of the convention by J. Bruce Kremer vice chairman of the national committee, who will introduce Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the committee, as tempor- ary chairman of the convention, who will make the keynote speech. E. G. Hoffman, secretary of tional committee, ‘arrived tolay ber W. Marsh, treasurer of the committee, is scheduled to arr:ve fonmight. WALSH NOT A CANDIDATE FOE NATIONAL OFFICE Washington, June 14.—Senator Walsh, | democrat, Massachusetts, in a Icrmm; statement tonight announced that he did | not “‘purpose to accept auy nomination | “Several various parts ot tne country, newspaper reports today in sdid the| with McAdoo or Cox and on an inde-| pendent ticket with a Follette or John-| *I wish to state that L have not even { considered the possibility of such can- didacies and that I have not been offerea cpl any nomua- ation for a national office. RAILWAY STEIKES IN IRELAND Dublin, June 14.—The railwaymen re- fuse to abandon their strike, although ad- tional Union of Railwaymen. 'The sirike was an out- come of the men’s refusale to handle mu- nition trains. Meantime Sinn Fein and labor organ. zations are planning meetings for next; Sunday throughout Ireland to aid the| strikers. Colections will be made oui- side parish churches. A levy of 10 per cent. on farmers and shopkeepers is un- derstood to have been suggested to fi- nance the moverment. LEVEE ACT TO BE STRICTLY ENFORCED IN CONNECTICUT Hartford, Conn., June 14—William F. Whitmore, federal fair price commission- er, said today that in spite of a United States district court ruling in Pennsyl- vania, “It is well to make it quite clear | to all that the Lever act is in full effect until repealed or until the United States supreme court at Washington may de- clare it unconstitutional.” *in’ this state and will be strictly enforced Mr. Whitmore pointed out that the su- preme court had taken a recess until Oc- tober and therefore the Lever act would govern here at least until the court re- convened. AFFIEM PRINCIPLE OF 48 HOUR WEEK FOR SEAMEN London, June 14—The international shipping conference at Genoa. accord- hundred school children of Manhattan celebrated Flag Day at the foot of the Statue of Liberty today. Excursion ‘boats carried the pupils out to the statue, which they decorated with long stream- ers and_American flags. ing to a Reuter despatch from that city, has decided to affirm the principle of a 48 hour week for seamen. Delegates are in attendance at this conference from' eleven nations, including the United States. | ization, were vet able to exert so com Wood a substantial lead and that “the)mandi ecadgmy at West Point, N. Y., began|not endure because it ran “counter to|first task, therefore, was to bring the —_— -~ OPENED IN SAN FRANCISCO!- of General Wood’s Personal * more votes than Lewden.” “It Was clearly neccssary. therefore,” the statement continues, “for New York to become the Belgium of the war and 1 cheerfully gave nfy approval for the plan to turn New York's vote to Lowden in increasing volume on the second. third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ballots. I sent word to the New York delegation by James R. Sheffield that with me party success and party honor came first. I also said that no personal interest of gine should be considered until party Buccess and party honor had been pro- tected. It was this New York vote for Low- den taken from the 68 votes that had been cast for me that gave Lowden his lead on the fifth Lallot and that enabled him substantially to equal the Wood vote on the ballot immediately following. When after the eeventh ballot It was clear that Lowden couid not be nominat- ed, we helped the drift toward Harding and on the ninth ballot béGame “the de- cisive psychological factor by giving Harding 66 votes. “The few New York votes that con- tinued to support me to the end were cast in pursuance of earnest requests from delegates in Connecticut, New Jerser. Michigan, Minnesota, Tllinois, Towa, Mis- souri, North Dakota, California, Wash- ington. Texas -and enwcky, in order that if the cffort to nominate Senator Harding should fail, my name might still remain upon the list of candidates before the convention “The New Yorkers who care for the republican party and for the success of its principles and who are jealous of the honor should rejoice and take satisfaction that their representatives in the republi- can national convention, although hy no means unified in sentiment or in organ- an influence in a great emer- gency A “Harding and Coolidge,” the statement closes, “are first of all patriotic Ameri- cans, next resublicans to the core. Wa are to have the satisfaction of supporting and electing a real republican ticket. We may now look forward with complete con- fidence to the restoration of the national governmentto its old foundations, which are love and reveren tion of the United States. BE-LAU CHING OF SHAMEOCK IV. THIS AFTERNOON City Island, N. Y., June 14.—Plan: were completed here tonight for the re. launching at high water late tomorrow afternoon of Shamrock 1V., Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger for the America’s cup. The green racer has been on the ways since having under underbody polis and groomed aratory to her trial races with meter Shamrock. The “trial horse” has been in the wae ter since Friday and is rigged, with the exception of Marconi topmast, but she has not been tried out under sail who is in command he sp said there was a possibility that the yacht might be giv- en a short spin tomorrow afternoon mnm- der her lower canvas. Present plans call for the entire “Lip- ton navy” to leave here at 7 o'clock on ‘Wednes: morning for Sandy Hook. Sir Thomas will lead the fleet in recently chartered steam yacht Vietori: If the present schedule is carried out the two Shamrocks will have their first tuning up match, over the America’s Cup course off Sandy Hook, on Thursday. yet Colonel Neill, jof the Lipton forces UE 1T¢ Y FREIGHT BUSINESS Boston, June 1 trolley freight busines: —Discontinuance of fts effective on Wed- the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company tonight. The company for some years has operated an extensive freight service be- tween Boston and Providence, New Bed- ford, Fall River and other cities in the eastern part of Massachusetts and of Rhode Island. Increased terminal ref cost of coal were given reasens for, discontinuing which officials said had been cosducted at a loss recently. It was announced that the forty heavy freight cars woula be converted into snow plows and that the maney received from sale of heal estate and other pro used in con- nection with the freig ss would be devoted to improvement of the passenger service. s and the high the principal the service, erty PUBLIC MEETING oF OF LEAGUE NATIONS WEDNESDAY London, June 14.—No informati forthcoming in the official com issued on the prel; council of the League of beyond the annourece meeting of ons today ment that a publie the courcil will be hed on Wednesday to discuss Fersia and the repatriation of war prisone rrom 8i- beria. The Persian foreign minister will attend the Persoan discussion as a tem- porary member of the coun SLOOP RESOLUTE EEADY TOR FINAL TEST RACE 10DAY Bristol, R. L, June 14.—The sloop Rez olute, after overhauling and refitting at the Herreshoff yards, left tonight in tow of her tender fo Wwpori, o resume the America's cuy e elimination series of ruces 1 Vaniti¢ tomor- row. A new hollow wodden topmast, wirebound against the, main- ich it is t's show- ARMISTICE WITH FINLAND London, June 14.—The Russian Sovi government has asked Finland to agree to an immediate armjstice, according to information received here today. OBITUARY, Mrs. Leopold Rothchild. Milford, Conm., June 14.—>Mrs. pold Rothchiid. of New York. died heart failure late today in According to reports reee:: summer home at Fort Trumbull il here, death followed a vi e a den- tist's office in Bridgepori, where zas was administered in treating & too*h.