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Cee eels ¢ ade © ie ION OF ELWELL MYSTERY NEARE Fey say SSOLUT n ' TO-NIGHT’'S WEATHER—Fair. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, : Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer “Circulation Books Open to All.” “Ctroulation Books open to All” | . oMeeholders, VOL. LX. NO. 21,469—DAILY, Copyrig! . 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, — TIMID LEADERS AT FRISCO HAVE ONLY ONE PURPOSE IN MIND, THAT OF HOLDING JOBS Urge the Soft Pedal on All Issues and Seek to Squelch Radicals, FEAR “SOVIET” CRY. Progressive Ideas Have Little Chance With Leaders Who Have Learned Nothing. Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of the Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.—All the Democratic jeaders and prac- tically all the delegates to the Dem- ocratio convention had arrived in Ban Francisco to-day, and it is pos- sible to assay to some extent the probable state of mind of the assem- Dinge when it is called to order Monday, ‘It would appear that the conven- tion will be Inclined to be conserva- tive. The bujk of the delegates from the East afd South are absolutely in the hands of their leaders, the leaders are pretty generally in the puesyfoot class, A heavy per- centage of delegates 1s made up of members of Congress and Federal and they are entering the deliberations of the party with a single purpose in view—to hold thejr Jobs. . The trip across the continent, talks with people living along the way and talks with delegates and visitors to San Francisco convince me that the persistent cry of Bolshevism raised by the reactionaries has had its effect throughout the country, and RADICALS OVERSHADOWED IN WELL-DRESSED CROWD. The farmers, the small business men and small bankers and all classes of manufacturers as well as the white collar class which owns a Uittle real estate and little automobile ere all soviet-shy. Any progressive measures savoring of radicalism can be crippled by calling.jt Bolshevistic, ‘The sentiment of up-State New York, which sus- tajned Speaker Sweet In Ris action against the Socialist Assemblymen from New York City will be found reflected to a greater or less extent in @1l communities except the very large cities frem the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Canadian line to the Gulf. On the other hand there 1s a very pronouneed radical element in the Democratic Party In the West and Northwest, but these Democrats are from normally Republican States, and they are overshadowed in this well dressed and comfortably fixed as- semblage. 1 have been at every Democrati¢ convention since 1896, and at none have | seen delegates so pros- . (Continued on Fourth Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements ANCH OFFICES chose BEFORE 5 0'CLOC eee ely te ua Glee fed Poe ed for T Sunday World “after 8.30°P, M. Advertising copy for The Sund: World should be in The World oMce ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION 308 WOMEN TO HAVE SEATS IN THE CONVENTION There Aré 41 Delegates at Large, 63 District Delegates, 204 Alternates. SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. EVISED figures compiled by the Democratic. National Committee | he@dquarters show the following woman mem- bership in the convention: Delegates-at-Large. District Delegates Alternates-at-Large Distriét Alternates Total ..cceseceseees One half of them are unmaried, the rest being either wives og widows, E ‘The National Committee yester- day adopted a resolution urging the convention tomyrent equa! committee suffrage and member- ship to women of the party. If the committee's plan is rati- fled by the convention, the Na- tional Committée will hereafter be dowbis its present size and come posed a,man and a woman member from each State with voting power, MURPHY FORMS COMBINE TO BEAT DRYS AND M’ADOO With New York’s Ninety Votes, He Lines Up 220 Others From Six Wet States. SAN FRANCISCO, Charles F. June %%6. — Murphy, it ts declared to- day, has, with the 90 votes of New) York a a lever, made "deals" which will enable him to prevent nomina- tion of William 'G. McAdoo or the passage of any dry plank in tha plat. forn. It is sald he has formed a definite alliance on these points with New Jersey, 28 votes; Ohid, 48; Llllnols, 58; Indiana, 30; Michigan, 30, and Ken- tucky, 26. With New York this gives @ total of 310 votes, only 54 less than the number needed to ti@ up the con- vention under the two-thirds rule. California 1s now being urged to join, and there js little doubt the neded 54 votes will be found, So far the “alliance” covers only the two objects and the, support of any candidate has not been discussed, TILDEN WINS AGAIN ON ENGLISH COURTS American Star Defeats Kingscote After Great Match in Fourth Round, WIMBLEDON, England, June 26.— William , Tilden of Philadelphit won his match in the fourth round of the British lawn tennis singles champlon- to-day, defeating A, R. F, in five sets. rat set in his match 3, The sceond set waa captured hy Kinscote, 7—5, In the third set Kingscote continued playing strongly, taking the lead four kamea to. two, Four games to two, but stopping there, Tilden tking four games In auccession winnt fg th rd 5 he mateh wa: which Kingscot Rard battle, 7 HOVEY LEADS ON LINKS, “pripaHPort, Conn, June 26.— Roger Hovey of Hartford was far in the leaf in the title found of the Connecticut State Galf Championship being played gt the Brooklawn Coun- tty Club here this afternoon when he had Regelé Lewia 5 up at the end of the first 18 holes. The final round is for 36 holes and the title. (Racing Entries on fouth set Aptured after another jo 2.) LONG FIGHT SURE AT SAN FRANCISCO: CHANCE FORM’ ADOO Many Ballots in Convention Forecast Before Ticket Is Completed. LIKE CONTEST OF 1912 Outwardly Wilson Forces Ate in Control, but There Is an Influential Minority. By David Lawrence. * (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sune 26 (Copyright, 1920%,—Plenty of ballots will be taken before the Democrdfic National Convention choosee Its pan- didates for President and Vice Presi- dent. It looks like a prolonged fight, not perhaps as long as the tedious struggle at Baltimore in 1912, but teristics and alignments, Outwardly the Wilson meaning thereby @ coalition of the Palmer and McAdoo delegates and a goodly proportion of the Cox delegates—gre in contro! of this con-! vention, “Phere is a more or less influential, ‘but | hardly powerful enough mindérity, which differs with the Wilson Mean eaice This minority fluctuates between interest in the candidacies of Vice-President | Marshall, former Speaker Champ Clark, Senator Robert L. Owen and A pronounced sentiment for wetness candidate may be. HIMSELF, In a class by himself ls William Jen- nings Bryan, who can control a big tate the nomination either for himself or anybody else, He can veto any can- didate whose record on the wet and |dry issue is inconsistent with such platform planks as may be adopted. | That ts as far as he can go, and, as- |suming that the platform will have been adopted when the balloting for candidates begins, Mr. Bryan's capac- ity for mischief really ends there, Now the big delegations from New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois are far more interested In a wet plank than {n candidates, chiefly because they belleve their State tickets can thus be led to victory. There {s, moreover, considerable anti- Wilson sentiment in some of these delegations, Ther Cox managers have very shrewdly made a bid for this sup- port on the ground that by naming Cox, whose reputation is that of a wet, it would be unnecessary to refer to the Prohibition question at all, thus avolding any quarrel with Bryan, They have insisted, too, that Cox wasn't a member of the Wilson Cabl- net and would not be held responsible for the errors of the Administration. CONVENTION STRATEGY" SEEN IN RIVAL CAMPS, Speaking of strategy, however, each camp has it own ‘dea of how the (Continued on Fourth Page.) ae Merchant Ran Down, Legs Broken, Peter Kernish, merchant, of No. 862 Dawson Street, Bronx, Was run down by a motor truck to-day at Dawson Street ‘and Longwood Avenue, Both his legs were broken. He was taken to Lincoln Hos- pital in @ critical condition. ‘The truck, owned by Wilson & Co, driven by Stephen Kripin, Forest Avenue, Bronx. pac Yo. 814 Kripinger was from 1900 to 190%, and was member gress from 1897 to 189. He wan of the Cornish Company, manu- fesvurere of pianos, ht pee organs and talk- ing mac! le leaves one son, MORSE JR. WINS ACCOUNTING SUIT AGAINST FATHER <= Jury Decides He Is Entitled to Two Per cent. of Net Profits SON WANTS $427, 000, “May Ask Receiver to Determine Exact Earnings for 16, 47 | and Part of 18, | In a sealed verdict returned this” |1917 and part of 1918, with many of the very same charac- | forces—)| in the platform, no matter who the recelve $6,000 a year salary an BRYAN I$ IN A CLASS ALL BY) vote on platform planks on the Pro-| hibition questian, but who cunnot dic-| which asked whether this version was AS} arrested on @ charge of felohious as- sault. Johnston Corninh Dend, N, Js. June 26.—John- ston Corniah, one of the Democrat leaders of Warren County, died av his home at Washington this morning ®ot acute indigestion, He had been ili| only two days, He was sixty-two years | old and served in the State Senate morning a jury in the Brooklyn Su- preme Court declared that Edward P. Morse jr, was entitled to 2 per cent. ‘of the net profits of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company for 1916, Edward P. Morse sr. 1s Pr.sident of the com- pany, His son claimed that the profits during this period were $23,- 000,000. He admitted he had been paid $33,000, and he sought to obtain; $427,000 more, It was aaid that the attorney for the younger Morse would move on Monday for the appointment of a re- celver to determine exactly the net} profits of th cern during period in order Pviy computation sty be made of the amount due to the younger Morse. The jury rendered its verdict by an- swering two questions propounded for them by Justice Faber, They held that the younger Morse had an oral |agreement with the company, made in May, 1916, by which he was to 2 per | cent, of the net profits for each ar | that he was in the employ of sie) company They replied in the negative to the question which contained the elder | Morse's version of the agreement, | correct, But he claimed that, im addition, thi son was to recelve 10 per cent. of the wet distributable profits credited to and accepted by himself (Morse sr.) | under a contract between Morse sr., | and the company. The elder Morse claimed his son examined the con tract between his father and the com pany. RAILWAY MEN TALK OF STRIKE TO-NIGHT Decided at Meeting in Washington it Is Said—Report Dis- credited There, WASHINGTON, June tallroad workers met searetly here to-day and dectded to quit work at 10 o'clock to- night unless ordered to call off thelr walk-out by higher officials of railroad unions, according to men who said they attended the meeting Reports were again ulated at the| meeting that there would be a general nation-wide walkout at 1 o'clock “to- night unless the rallrond labor board gaye more awards, Jovernment offic! declared knew nothing of @ strike said thelr information wa men Would atay at the promise of the to hand down its award by July atherhood officlala who were also silent as to strike reports, FOUR BATTLESHIPS HERE definite promise as to wage they to-night and that the work a8 a result of| hera Atlantic Fleet Vesnetn Arrive From Di Gan Practice, { ‘The battleships Pennsylvania, Arizona, | North Dakota and Oklahoma of the! Atlantic Fleet arrived here to-day, hay- ing completed big gun practic Virginin Ci With th the Oklahoma, which anc North River, the warships docked at| te Navy | After being pald off, It Is understood that the members of the crews of the Piva ‘aed table ise. World’ Sutiding are of Dry Dry Dogk Co. IR Morse sr., admitted that his son's salary was to be $6,000 a year, 'Hack, the acrobat who was shot ac- allroad tubor board Htvoad Tabor board | , AS Ips have avoided the aceidea\ No ar- rest was mado, ACTRESS WHO SHOT MAN ACCIDENTALLY ON CHICAGO STAGE ' KITTY GORDON. VAUDEVILLE ACTOR KITTY GORDON SHOT LIKELY 10 RECOVER Ls | Revolver Used in Act in Chi- cago Theatre Had Bullet Which Struck Acrobat, OHICAGO, June 26.—Joseph A. eidentally at the Palace Theatre yes- terday afternoon by Kitty Gor actress on the on, an me vaudeville pro- gramme With him, announced to-day that he will ane Jack Wilson, Miss Gordon's partner, whose duty was to load ghe revolver with blanks, Hack intends to charge crithinal negligence. His physictans sald to-day that he would recover from the wound Miss Gordon fired the shot trom mid-stage, pointing the revolver to the wings, where Hack was standing, The shot |s fired as a part of the act in which she and Wilson appear. Wil-| son told the police that he took all the blame for the accident and he was released when he had finished hia statement. Detectives, who questioned every- body concerned clusion that the accident to the fact that the revolver had been used for a double purpose, part- ly on the stage and partly off. Wil- son sald it was his pract came to the con- was due ce to load it with blanks just before the act and to reload afterward with ball, He said he carried it for the protection of Miss Gordon's jewela, Just before the matinee he said he loaded the pistol with blanks as usual, as he knew. The theory 1s that when he fhought he had emptied the cylinder of loaded cartridges one was overlooked and that he louded only other chargbers with blanks The police found In Wilson's dress. Jing room a bgx of blank cartrid and some that were nuded. Vasold, the stage mar 1 watched W hy on} merly was the wife om Walter Horsley Heresford, brother of Lord Decies, who married Vivian Gould. Motor Trek Kills Chita, Three-year-old Salvatore Stude, No. 107 Harrison Street, Brooklyn wan killed by a motor truck thie me while playing in 4 home. aid 101 Kast 734 Street, An could huel, No. “1920, Rea ne Beeond-Clans M: Post Office, New York, N. 4 PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW | THRER vou! rl SOLDIER HUSBAND REPORTED KILLED, SHE WED NAVY MAN Student-Officer Humes Seeks Anulment of. Marriage to Girl of Twenty. WORE WIDOW’S WEEDS. Doughboy gohn Reed Came Home After Regiment Had Arrived Without Him. Another tangied war romance came light Elmer K Humes, officer, Ru- before Su- Richard PD. Lydon to press suit for annulment against Catherine M. Humes of No. 2529 Greenwich Street, to to-day when a student naval through his guardian ad litem, dolph Stand, Court appeared preme Justice of marriage Philadelphia. Testimony developed that the pretty and petite defendant had married a soldier boy prior to her meeting and marriage to the embryo naval-officer and that the soldier hus- alive, Just turned sev- she married doughboy John Reed, April 18, 1917. And after the briefest honeymoon Reed went with his regiment overseas. In the anxious months that fol- lowed, a rumor came back home that John had been killed in action in one of the most hotly contested sectors and, Mrs, Humes told the Court, she woré mourning in his memory, for many months, Then, she sald, John's regiment came home, a Philadelphia enteen, regiment, without him, and this con- vinced her of the accuracy of the rumor. Catherine was still mourning the soldier-husband when the young atu- dent-officer came into her life. She capitulated to the Navy in the speing of 1919 and was married to Humes ut Wilmington, Del, June 22, 1919. She told the Court she had lived very happily with her seafaring husband, a young man not yet twentyyears old However, John Reed came home and there remained nothing for the happily married nayal man to do but to seek an anndiment of his mar- riage, Juntice Lydon reserved decision. THREE GIRLS SAVED FROM DROWNING Rescuing Policeman Plunges Into Surf at Long Beach in New Uniform. Patrolman Patrick Curtts Branch, L. I form on the of Long «Was aporting a new unt- doardwalk there to-day When calls for help came from the surf and he saw three litte girls fighting the waves, Without removing his coat he went in after them. At the same me two other men, Edward Linden- baum, No. 209 West Tlat Street, Man- hattan, ahd G, Inwood, a coast guard also @turted. ‘The three men rescued the three girls without difficulty, ‘They were Rena Montague, othy Smith, 14, of Forest Hills, Aye eistet at HARDING LEAVES CAPITAL. Goen to an Un-named Destin for Short Kent, Juno 26.—Benator loft, Washingtun for an unannounced destina- He plans to be away until Tues day, and it waa sald at hia office that hia destination would not be disclosed as the Senator wanted to get a reat Serptor Harding sald it was his winh quietly and devote part of It to his speech: of aocrptance. Only a few callers were recelved by | the nominee ore hia departure, | Among them were Senator and otra, Medill McCormick of Illinois, who dis- cussed with him the part to be taken by the women in the coming cam- pal Dor- and Doris Sharp, 13, all WASHID ¥ to- tion. arren ay Harding ARREST EXPECTED SOON BY ELWELL INVESTIGATORS; AUTO DEATH Wheel Came Off Speeding Car W Before Death and Turfman Accident to Enemy —Swan Knows Man Murder Victim at 2.30 A. M. - PLOT CHARGED Who Talked. The District Attorney’s office expects before many hours to be fir: position to solve the mysterious murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell in home, No. 244 West 70th Street, on the morning of June 11, teen: days the District Attorney and the Police Department have working on the case, following all sorts of clues, interviewing persons Wi ‘ast saw the murdered gambler, his friends of years’ standing and wo who were close to him. In the last few hours the clues have narrowed down to a few, al it is now asserted that 4n arrest may be expected soon. From the racetrack there came a story which-may have an bearing upon the crime. This was tempt was made upon his life in a manner he described as ® It occurred something more ELDERLY DOCTOR REFUSED RIGHT 10 ADOPT WOMAN, 27 Surrogate Cohalan Cites Dr. Muttart’s Divorce in Re- fusing Application, Dr, man living at Street, for permission to adopt legally Leo- Alder C. Muttart, an elderly No. 114 West Tist applied to Surrogate Cohalan nora Rasmussen, 2 Norwegian orphan, twenty-seven years old, who is em- ployed by him, and to-day the Surro- wate denied the application, express- ing the bellef that this would be best for the “moral and temporal inter- ests” of the young woman. Dr. Muttart explained that he re- garded Miss Rasmussen as a daugh- ter and waa eager to have the right to provide for her legal welfare, Tes- timony before the Surrogate devel- oped that Dr, Muttart’s wife obtained atdivorce from him in New Jersey in 1903 on the ground of Infldelity. In his opinion on the petition Sur- rogate Cohalan cited the divorce and stated that after examining several witnesses he was not satisfied that Misa Rasmussen should be adopted by the physician. Miss Rasmussen has been in his employment for five years, “WOMEN’S HATS, UNDER LEVER ACT, ARE NECESSITIES Dealers Can Be Prosecuted for Profiteering Department of Justices Rules, WASHINGTON, June 25, OMEN'S hata, plain or jorned, are necessities of life under the meaning of that term as used in the Lever act, Howard Figg, Special As- sistant to the Attorney General, ruled to-day, Mr. Figt’s ruling was in reply fo an inquiry from the National Retall Milliners’ Association as to whether women's hats come within the range of the act under whioh the Department of Justice i# authorized to prosecute for Drofiteering in necessities, e For that Elwell recently an co week before he was shot in his house. With Rhodes, his Elwell was returning from the They were going at a fast ¢lip ® wheel came éff the roadster was driving, The escape from was close, Elwell declared the ctreun was suspicious and, instead of to a garage in Flushing for 2 mechae niclan, be sent the chauffeur, wae that he would stay with the ne to be sure there was no further pering with {t, Rhodes returned a wrecking car, upon which returned to the garage, with his machine in tow. ‘ “This ie a mighty strange 4 he is quoted as saying to fri the track, “I had just taken ‘oe: roadster out of the shop after tt had been thoroughly repaired and overs hauled, and that wheel did not come off by accident, omy | HAD @MACHINE THORO! EXAMINED SECOND TIM Elwell told the men in the that he wanted the roadster ent! overhauled again and agked i particularly to find out if any eH of the machine parts had been pered with. ”He left the car im. i shop for six daye and went bimeett, | with Rhodes to take it out The trall which ts expected to to an early arrest, according to mor, leads to a man who hag questioned and who was a fri \ oe Elwell. He has been under lance Jf not under suspicion, for eral days, while other persons theories were kept in the spoti by the authorities, The suspect, It was sald, drow the attention of the authorities earty im | the Investigation because of his es § nials of immaterial statements, appeared to want to repudiate and everything, however trivial, might connect him with the tu in recent months, The Inv: thought this peculiar and checking up. What they have will not be disclosed unless he arrested, Assistant District Attorney Dooling: sald to:day that the movements of Elwell Had been traced to the sntine faction of the District Attorney's He said: “We know that Mr. ‘Elwell, af leaving the Midnight Frolle, went ward Seventh Avenue and tooke ‘bucking’ taxicab and went home, Swann has talked with a nian talked with Elwell at 2.30 o'clock the morning of the murder,” When asked whether he had to Elwell in person or over the | phone, Mr, Dooling replied: “You will have to see Mr, about that.”* ‘ Mr, Swann is out of