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Atlanta ©vMUttfew VOL. XXII. NO. 84. THREE WOMEN AID IN THE CAPTURE OF ESCIIPEDPRISDNER Eight Convicts Saw Out of Federal Prison Hete. Three Are Caught Shortly Afterwards Five convicts from the Atlanta federal prison remained at large Wednesday morning, of the eight who sawed their way to liberty at 3:45 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. AH night thirty prison guards searched the territory within a radius of ten miles of the prison. Wednesday morning they were replaced by fresh men, and the search was continued. “Every peace officer we could reach within a reasonable radius has been notified,” said Fred G. Zerbst, ward en. "Descriptions of the five men have been sent to the papers.” The convicts at liberty are: Rector Sherrill, No. 8402, 26 years old: 5 feet 6 1-2 inches tall: weight, 135: medium build; eyes, chestnut, complexion, medium fair; occupation, sailor. Richard F. Dodge. No. 8456; white; 24 years old; 5 feet 11 inches tall; weight, 154; blond hair; blue eyes, former soldier. Orville Harry Cook, No. 8854; white; 28 years old: 5 feet 6 1-2 inches tall; weight, 145; hair, light chestnut; eyes, blue; formerly drafts man. John Duffy, No. 9068; right name, William Brusco; 28 years old; ap pears older; 5 feet 2 1-2 inches tall, weight. 135; complexion and eyes, dark; formerly stonecutter. Thurman A. Brown,* No. 8956, ne gro, twenty-six years old, appears older; five feet seven and three-quar ter inches tall, weight 143 pounds, color light brown, formerly laborer. Three Women Capture One The terms of these men range from four to twenty years. Cook and Brown were ringleaders in an escape of fifteen prisoners some years ago at Washington, D. C. Duffy and Sherrill escaped from the Atlanta prison not long ago, were at liberty several months and were captured at Louisville. The liberty of three of the eight escaping convicts was of short du ration. They were apprehended Tues day afternoon, and by all odds the most spectacular capture was that of Thomas Bilhauski by three women. The story is the kind you read about and shake your head over— only this time it actually occurred— and the prison authorities are will ing to be recorded as saying that these three women showed more nerve and resourcefulness than they believed was lodged in the sex, even if Bilhauski did get away from them temporarily, ,in a mad break for lib erty. This is the way it was: Spot On* Mrs. W. A. Duke was at her home on Bryant’s Mill road, perhaps three fourths of a mile beyond the prison, when the long-drawn wail of the si ren announced to all the countryside that a convict or several convicts had got away from the prison. Mrs. Duke was not particularly ex cited. In about an hour, there came driving in her motor car Mrs. Duke’s daughter, Mrs. J. M. Phelps, of 233 Highland avenue, and Mrs. Phelps was excited enough for both. •’A guard got me to carry him along the road, right up this way,” she announced. “Eight prisoners are out. They think one or two came this way.” This flurry had subsided when an aunt of Mrs. Duke, Mrs. Samuel Mar tin, of Lakewood ■ terrace, came to call. The ladies got to talking about other things than jail deliveries and presently walked out into Mrs. Duke’s garden. And there, sitting inconspicuously in the midst of a honeysuckle vine, under a peach tree, was a man clad in a gray sweater, blue overalls, and a checked cap. Mrs. Duke walked up to him. “Who are you?” she asked. Bring Tip “Artillery” “Well, if you must know, I’m a tramp,” rejoined the man, with a great appearance of frankness. "I came here from Birmingham, and I’m tired, and I just came over into this garden to sit down and rest in the shade.” And he assumed a more recumbent posture, looking decidedly at home. The trio of ladies continued their stroll about the garden, but as soon as they were out of earshot Mrs. Duke said: “I don’t like his looks. I think tie’s one of the escaped prisoners. I’ll go back and talk to him and you go and get the revolvers.” Two revolvers, it seems, hung by Mrs. Duke’s bed in their holsters She walked back to the man, who ex hibited no uneasiness, and seemed to b« under the impression that it was a spend-the-day party. Quite promptly Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Martin rejoined her, the revolv ers carefully held back of their skirts. “Now,” Mrs. Duke addressed the man, “I think you did not come from Birmingham. I think you came from the prison.’’ The man put on an air of surprise mixed with injury. “Is there a prison around here?” he said. Warns Prisoner to Be Good “Oh, yes—a big one; right over there,” said Mrs. Duke, pointing. » “Thanking you for telling me,” was the cool reply. “I might have stumbled over it.” “I think you’re going to, anyway,” Mrs. Duke told him. “If you want to know what I think about it, 1 think you’re one of the escaped pris oners, and you’re going to stop here until you are investigated.” And at the same time Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Martin produced the re volvers and presented them in the general direction of the “tramp.’ The “tramp” remonstrated bitterly. Was this the famed hospitality of the. southland? Was this any way (Continued on Page 6, Column 7) Leader of $1,200,000 Safe Robber Band Spurns Pose As a “Jimmy Valentine” RICHARD ARMSTRONG Richard Armstrong, the Brooklyn youth who was the organizer of a band of youthful thieves which early this year looted safes in New York’s financial district and obtained $1,200- 000 in cash, securities and jewels, jeers at detectives for calling him a “Jimmy Valentine.” "I used my head, not my hands,” he told them after having pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary. "Look at my mitts (he held out —is hand). They’re a longshoreman’s hands, not a Jimmy Valentine’s.” When it was suggested that he had opened a cer tain safe by ear, he said he had found combination in the draw er of a desk. - A detective who in vestigated Armstrong’s statement learned that when an expert from a safe company had been called to open the safe in the absence from the office of everybody who was car rying the combination in his head, the expert noted the combination and slipped the numbers, into the draw er where Armstrong found the memorandum. PENROSE TO TAKE HAND IN CHOOSING LEADER OF PARTY CHICAGO, June 2.—Pennsylvania, with two potential presidential can didates of its own and a directing force in the person of Senator Boies Penrose, is expected to point the way this week to soma solution of the present tangle over the party nomi nees. Seijator Penrose may or may not come to Chicago finally, but in all events he will be in direct touch by wire with his lieutenants here and is expected to speak out soon with his recommendation for the national ticket. His spokesmen in Chicago meantime are working to effect an understanding whereby Senator John son will get behind Senator Knox for the nomination if Senator John son himself cannot win. Senator Penrose has at least two cards up his sleeve—Senator Knox and Governor Sproul. He has de clared that if the convention were to nominate a man of the Lowden type, "it might as well Sproul.” He has added, however, that Senator Knox would be “the man best fitted for the office.” It appears likely, therefore, that Senator Penrose, when, and if Sen ator Johnson and General Wood are eliminated from possible nomination, will enter Senator Knox or Governor Sproul, or possibly both before he gives his support to Governor Low den. He feels, if the attitude of his lieutenants here is any indication, that Senator Johnson must be fig ured with in determining finally the nominee. Senators Johnson and Knox are great friends and Senator John son has recently held a long confer ence with Governor Sproul. Sena tor Johnson will be in Chicago Thursday and immediately open / sip a tremendous last-minute campaign for the nomination. He will make at least one very important speech. His arrival, coupled with either the arrival or the direct wire action of Senator Penrose through his lieu tenants here, will mark the opening of u®ftotiations that should in large measure determine the party’s final choice. One thing is certain and that is that Senator Johnson will be as sured a fair fight for his objective. Then, if he fails to land the nomi nation, he will be expected to fall in line and help put over some one else. The gossip along presidential row still favors the chances of Governor And while the various deals and counter-deals are under way between the supporters of the respective candidates, there appears to be less and less talk among the political leaders that General Wood will win, “Lowden or Knox” has be come a slogan with something of an air of finality about it that has had a psychological effect on the poli ticians here assembled. House Committee Unanimously Votes Repeal of War Laws WASHINGTON, June 2.—By unan imous vote the house judiciary com mittee today ordered out a resolution repealing all war-time emergency legislation excepting the Lever food control act, the trading with the en emy law and the District of Columbia rent profiteering measure. Chairman Volstead told the com mittee that he would attempt to have the house adopt the resolution before adjournment Saturday. House action, he said, would be attempted under suspension of the rules, which ■ would permit only forty minutes of , debate. OFFICIAL OF UNION ASSERTSSTRIKEOF CLERKS IS ILLEGIL Declines to Authorize Gen eral Walkout and Orders Men to Return to Their Posts While the strike of freight clerks on leading Atlanta railroads and other southeastern lines was official ly’ declared illegal Tuesday evening by the head of the national brother hood, according to telegrams and press dispatches, no general order in structing the clerks to return to work had been issued up to 1 o’clock Wednesday by Vice Grand President J. V. Nelson, of Atlanta, who is in charge of the situation for the clerks. Mr. Nelson takes the position that the telegram from E. H. Fitzgerald, grand president of the brotherhood, which were sent through his chief clerk at Cincinnati, may not be au thentic. He will take no action un til he receives advices direct from Mr. Fitzgerald, he said. The freight congestion at the At lanta Joint Terminals was greatly relieved Wednesday by the return of fifty or sixty clerks Tuesday and a formal decision as to the question of coming back in a body was expect ed at a meeting of the clerks with officials of the Joint Terminals dur ing the afternoon. Additional clerks applied for reinstatement at the Central of Georgia road Wednesday, Superintendent M. B. Smith stated. He intended taking care of as many old clerks as possible, he said, al though the Central has plenty of workers. The messags from the national head of the brotherhood not only declared the present strike illegal, but flatly declined to authorize a gen eral strike in the southeast. Ac cording to the telegrams, all general chairmen of the brotherhoods, other labor organizations and the govern ment have been notified by wire as to the situation. An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago Tuesday’ night quoted Grand President Fitz gerald as saying the strike was un authorized. This dispatch stated that a grand lodge officer had been sent to Atlanta to order the men back to work. The Telegrams follow: An appeal to. Atlanta business houses, asking that they call for freight on hand at the Central of Georgia warehouse, was issued by Division Superintendent M. B. Smith Wednesday. According to Mr. Smitl\ a large volume of freight is on hand uncalled for and has served to bring about a serious congestion. Following are the telegrams which declare the strike illegal: “Mr. L. L. McDonald. Assistant Superintendent Transportation, At lanta Joint Terminals, Atlanta. Ga.: I have following wire from Mr. E. H. Fitzgerald, grand president, Brotherhod Railway clerks, dated Chicago, May 31, 1920: “Wire general chairmen United States and Canada there are no legal strikes of this brotherhood, and that I have not authorized a legal strike since assuming the duty of the office of the grand presi dent. Th© laws of your organiza tion must be obeyed, and the pro vision of the transportation act com plied with, and then confirm this wire by letter, sending copy to chief executives of the sixteen standard recognized labor organizations. Al so the secretary of the railway em ploye department. “J. E. M’QUADE. “Chief Clerk to Grand President, Brotherhood Railway Clerks, Sec ond National Bank Building, Cin cinnati, Ohio. “CINCINNATI, June 1, 1920.—Mr. L. L. McDonald, Assistant Superin tendent Transportation, Atlanta Joint Terminals, Atlanta, Ga.: I have the following wire from Mr. E. H. Fitz gerald, grand president, Brotherhood Railway Clerks, dated Chicago, 111., May 31. 1920: “ ‘Following wire to Nelson to night: “Refer to your wire 5:35 p. m., which refers to action of Southeast ern Federation. The grand president is the only officer authorized to sanc tion a strike, and he has not, and will not do so, in present controver sy. The last wire of yours is the first request that you have made for the authority to call a strike, and this authority is declined. I am taking the entire controversy before the la bor board Tuesday morning. Advise the members of the Southeastern Federation accordingly. Confirmation to you by mail. Repeat this to all general chairmen southeastern dis trict, instructing them to keep all members at work in compliance with th© law. Post copy of this message on all bulletin boards.’ “J. E. M’QUADE. “Chief Clerk to the Grand President Brotherhood Railway Clerks, Sec ond National Bank Building, Cin cinnati, Ohio.” UNION OFFICER SENT HERE TO END STRIKE CHICAGO, June 2.—A grand lodge officer has been sent to Atlanta, Ga., to put striking members of the union back to work, E. H. Fitzgerald, president of the Brotherhood of Railway clerks, freight handlers, ex press and station employes, said yes terday. “No strikes are now on with the authorization of this union.” said Mr. Fitzgerald, who was attending a ses sion of the United States railroad labor board. “We have our case be fore this board and we are abiding by the law.” . President Fitzgerald mentioned in particular a walkout which bad oc curred without sanction on the Cen tral of Georgia railway. Six Men Killed by Explosion in Shaft Os Ontario Coal Co. PITTSBURG, June 2.—At least six men were killed by an explosion in the coal shaft of the Ontario Qas Coal company, near Cokesburg, Pa., today. Then men were buried under tons of earth, and the foreman in charge of the work said he would not be able to tell the exact number of dead until the bodies had been re covered. The men were employed in seeking a shaft for coal, and reached the top of the coal late yesterday. Soon after they 'went down the shaft to day to resume work there the ex plosion occurred. Leland H. Williams Named Postmaster For College Park WASHINGTON. June 2. —President Wilson today sent to the senate the nomination of Leland H. Williams as postmaster at College Park. Ga. He also sent the names of Andreita M. Vigil, Trinidad. Col., and Joseph W. Davis Harrisburg. 111. for re appointment to postmasters. ATLANTA, GA., THUSDAY, JUNE 3, 1920. BONNIWELL CALLS PENNSYLVANIA RACE A“GHASTLY; AFFAIR Leader of Plumb Rail Or ganization Says No Funds Have Been Contributed to Any of Candidates WASHINGTON. June 2.—Charges that the campaign for the nomina tion of Attorney General Palmer as Democratic candidate for the presi dency had been conducted in Penn sylvania with an open appeal to the distillery and brewery interests In the state were made today before the senate investigating committee by Eugene C. Bonni-well, of Philadel phia. Mr. Bonniwell, who distributed stickers during the primary cam paign, seeking the nomination of W. G. McAdoo, said that saloons and bonded warehouses in some parts of the state were now running “wide open” and that this was proceeding under the eyes of department of jus tice and prohibition enforcement of ficers of the federal government ap pointed “with Palmer’s vise.” The witness charged that the Pal mer campaign in Pennsylvania had been a “ghastly and debasing degra dation” of law. He added that the campaign he conducted for Mr. Mc- Adoo had been entirely the work of himself and his colleagues and against the specific personal re fusal of Mr.. McAdoo to allow his name to be used. Mr. Bonniwell said “it had been estimated,” Palmer backers spent $200,000 to $300,000 in Pennsylvania. Flumb Flan Organization Before going into the campaign contests the committee examined Ed ward Keating, former member of congress from Colorado, and now manager of the Plumb plan league. He said the league had not contrib uted “a dollar” to the campaigns of any of the candidates for the Repub Mean and Democratic presidential nominations. “It is taking no part in the cam paign,” he testified, “excepE as it is distributing information through its weekly, Labor.” “I’ve rather gathered the impres sion that your paper is supporting McAdoo for the Democratic nomina tion. and Senator Johnson for the Republican,” said Senator Kenyan. Mr. Keating replied that the paper had probably been more “critical of the other candidates than these.” He added that the sixteen railroad labor unions supporting the league had a campaign committee of which he is a member, co-operating with the campaign committee of the American Federation of Labor and that this committee had taken no part in the presidential campaign. “Its duty will be to convey infor mation to members of the organiza tion, principally about senators and congressmen,” he said. Plumb Plan Activities Mr. Keating said this committee might have sent out “information as to the attitude of presidential can didates, but that was all up to date.” “You’ve got a plan as to the fu ture, then?” asked Senatoi- Reed, Democrat, Missouri. “Why, yes,” Mr. Keating said. “We have reported to our organisations that to do future work in this cam paign we will require SIO,OOO, and they have undertaken to ask for a contribution of one cent from each of their members. “Wee have suggested that central committees be formed in each dis trict, get in touch with liberal peo ’ with farmers and agricu’turai labor, fi) anced and formed in local communities, asking the boys to chip in eough for headquarters. All w can give them is advice as to the best way to organize politics.” Asked to explain the Plumb plan league and its methods, Mr. Keating said there were 4,000 railroad unions each paying $lO a year, and getting ten copies of "Labor,” and "some thing more than 200,000 individuals,” each giving a 'ar and receiving the paper. The surplus over the cost of getting out the weekly went to propaganda, he said, supporting six field men. Glen E. Plumb, he said, was on a salary, but he objected to giving the amount, declaring that the ques tion was outside the scope of the investigation. Senator Reed insisted and Mr. Keating said Plumb received SI,OOO a month, “about one-half of his usual income,” as a lawyer in private practice now abandoned. “You intend to make the Plumb plan a national issue in this elec tion?” Senator Reed asked, referring to the plan for tri-partite control of the railroads. , Mr. Keating agreed that the league’s activities “would be direct ed indefinitely” to getting the plan in actual operation and that this had to be done by effort in political fields. Anthracite Miners and Operators Accept Offer For Wage Commission WASHINGTON. June 2.—Anthra cite miners and operators formally announced today acceptance of Presi dent Wilson’s offer for the appoint ment of a commission to decide their wage controversy. Bandit Villa Is Up to Old Tricks LAREDO. Tex.. June 2. —Francisco Villa has destroyed the entire rail way line between Parral and Jiminez, Chihuahua, in an effort to retard pur suit by government troops, according to a Mexico City dispatch printed in yesterday’s issue of the newspaper El Porvenir, of Monterey, which also quotes General P. Elias Calles as saying that a “circle of troops” is being placed around Villa “from which he cannot escape.” Atlantic City Boy Is Kidnaped During Parade WILMINGTON, Del.. June ward Laßelle, 5-year-old son of Ed ward Laßelle, an Atlantic City printer, while watching a Memorial day parade, Monday, was kidnaped from his home in Smyrna. Del., and efforts of the police of the eastern states have been engaged in finding him. American cotton ASSOCIATION P® TO IM 5200,000 Definite Start Will Be Made in Atlanta Thursday—Sus taining Membership Is Suggested A campaign to raise $200,000 to sustain the American Cotton associa tion during the formative period of organization while members are be ing enrolled was launched Wednes day morning by the executive and finance committees in joint session in this city. It is proposed to raise the fund by the sale of sustaining member ships to large business concerns. This was the plan used by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States tn its formative period. After its mem bership had been built up it no longer needed a sustaining fund, but with out such a fund it likely would have failed. B. F. McLeod, of Charleston, a former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and chairman of the finance committee of the American Cotton association, presented in detail the plan of rais ing a sustaining fund by this meth od. It was received wit.h strong favor and a number of excellent speeches. Meeting Thursday A definite start will be made in Atlanta Thursday morning when the executive and finance committees of the cotton association go before a meeting of 200 representative At lanta business men who will be asked to come to the chamber of commerce at 11 o’clock for the purpose of hear ing the plan outlined. Preliminary to this meeting, there was an informal conference Wednes day morning between the cotton as sociation people and Colonel Wil liam L. Peel, P. B. ate-s and James J. Ragan, all of Atlanta, who sug gested the above-stated way of go ing about the presentation of the matter to the business concerns of this city. J. S. Wannamaker, of St. Mat thews, S. C., president of the cotton association and chairman of the ex ecutive committee, presided over the joint meeting of the executive and finance committees, which has been in session two days. North Carolina Speaks Among those who spoke in regard to the necessity for a large sustain ing found was J. A. Brown, a prom inent business man of Chadbourne. N. C., and a rilembe-r of the finance committee. “Cotton," said he, “is the life of the south. Our whole prosperity rests upon the prosperity of the cot ton producer. Without organization the producer cannot meet the many new problems that confront him. If the south last year could afford to invest one billion dollars in automo biles, it certainly can afford, to in vest $150,000 to save the prosperity of the cotton producers.” This figure of $159,000 is the amount proposed to be rai3»d in the cotton belt by sustaining member ships. The remaining $50,000 of the $200,000 fund will be raised in other sections of the country.! House Resolution to Adjourn on June 5 Now Is Before Senate WASHINGTON, June 2.—The ques tion of adjournment of congress next Saturday was put up to the senate to day when the house resolution adopt ed yesterday was received. Under this measure congress would adjourn sine die next Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Leaders were speculating on the probable attitude of President Wilson towards adjournment. Some sug gested that he probably might call a special session about July 19 should the adjournment resolution be adopt ed by the senate. America’s Greatest Writers VW....! I David Lawrence _ Irvin S. Cobb Dorothy Dix jp Ring W. Lardner M tfli E x ~P res ident S/k HSi William H. Taft Ring W. Lardner Irvin S. Cobb Will cover the political conventions at Chicago and San Francisco for The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal The ASSOCIATED PRESS and the UNITED PRESS, the two largest news gathering agencies of the world, will flash to us over leased wires the momentous events as they occur in the national gatherings of both the Democratic and Republican parties. In addition to this galaxy of Stars, news of GEORGIA and GEORGIANS will be completely covered by THE JOURNAL’S OWN STAFF REPORTER. You will see every angle of both Conventions by reading THE JOURNAL. Virginian Who Is Head of Congressional Campaign Committee for Democrats 111 ■ ' ; SSI? '..52. HENRY D. FLOOD . s photograph of Representative H,.ry D. Flood, of Virginia, was taken in Washington since his elec tion as chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. He has represented the Tenth dis trict. in which is jocated Staunton, President Wilson’s birthplace, for twenty years without a break. Dur ino' the war Representative Flood was chairman of the house commit tee on foreign affairs. He is re garded as a likely possibility for the nomination for governor of Virginia. INDIANA’S PLANK ON LEAGUE FACES BOTH WAYS—TAFT BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (Copyright. 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) The Indiana’resolution on the sub ject of the league is a plank dear to the heart of Mr. Facing Both Ways. It puts the party in opposi tion to the treaty as presented by the president to the senate, and it Commends the Republican senators for opposing .that treaty. It does not commend the majority of Repub licans tn the senate for voting for the league with the Lodge reser vations, and it does not commend the bitter-enders. It leaves unde cided the issue between them. It accords them both freedom to act in the same way in which they act ed before; it does not restrict the nominee in the course he may take. It is a weak and timid consumma tion made possible by the fact that the opponents of an administration do not need to be agreed on their basis of opposition, and may post pone the settlement of differences between them until they must as sume the responsibility for action. Such an attitude should embarass Mr. Lodge in his opening speech to the convention, because by his course for months he has approved, to such an extent that the reserva tions bear his name, the policy of entering the league with those res ervations. It will embarass the nominee of the convention, because lie will constantly during the cam paign be presented with the query whether he favors the league with reservations or opposes it altogether. It is a shifting of the responsibil ity of the party representatives in the convention to other shoulders, with the hope that with a platform Facing Both Ways, the party may retain the support not only of its sincere and loyal members who ap prove the action of Mr. Lodge and his associates but may secure the support of the Sinn Feiners, the pro-Germans and others who sup port the bitter-enders. It is neither a courageous nor a wise thing to do, but the trend toward Republican victory is so strong that the result may seem to be for a time a vindication of the method adopted. The question must be met after the fourth of March when President Wilson will lose his power to hold up ratification until he can have his favorite Article X unimpaired. His successor will then face the necessity for a comprehen sive and satisfactory peace. The Versailles treaty will still be avail able. and we may reasonably count on enough Republicans and Demo crats to do what ought to have been done in November last,' and would have been done then, had Mr. Wil son not prevented it. Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. DECISION DELAYED IN GEORGIA FIGHT FOR CHICAGO SEATS Florida Contests Also Passed Over by Republican Na tional Committee After Tuesday Hearing CHICAGO. June 2.—By unanimous vote the Republican national com mittee today seated the regular twelve delegates from Louisiana. This is apparently a victory for Gov ernor Frank O. Lowden, as it was un derstood the regular delegates were pro-Lowden, while the contesting delegates were understood to be sup porting Major General Leonard Wood. The claim of the contesting Lou isiana delegation was rejected on the ground that it was improperly brought and that the delegation had no official standing. This brings Lowden’s total of con tests decided in his favor up to 18. 5 - The Louisiana contests centered - chiefly on the application of Frank 1 C. Labit, who sought to have a re- 2 hearing on his claim for recogni , tion as national committeeman. L " The suspended Florida and Georgia J cases were passed temporarily. Further time to check evidence in • the Georgia case was given to the 3 subcommittee headed by Charles B. Warren, of Michigan, who said a comparison of duplicate convention rolls would take much more time. H. L. Remmel, of Arkansas, x pro posed that both Georgia delegations be seated, with a half vote each, but , was voted down. In taking up the Tenth Minnesota district contest, between two Wood and two unpledged delegates, Secre tary Miller announced that both , claimed to be the regular delegates. Representative Schall, the blind con gressman, was one of the unpledged delegates. In its first decision affecting the Johnson forces in the convention, the committee, by 36 to 12, voted to seat the Tenth Minnesota district, who are counted as favorable to the • candidacy of the California senator. They were Representative Schall and L. M. Mithun. The first order of business today was a supplemental hearing for the regularly reported delegation from l Florida, headed by National Commit teeman Bean, and the delegation headed by H. L. Anderson, of Jack ; sonville. 1 With that disposed of, the com mittee planned to pass on to the . Georgia cask involving the seating • of delegates pledged to General i Wood or counted in support of Gov . ernor Lowden. The claim of the lat -1 ter delegation, headed by Henry Lin coln Johnson, an Atlanta negro, that I it is the regularly reported delega ' tion, is disputed by the former dele gation, known as the Pickett faction, • which contends that it should be con sidered the regularly accredited dele gation, as Roscoe Pickett is the ac- > credited state chairman. Leaders Arriving j Nevertheless, the official commit tee list gives the Johnson delegation as the regularly reported one and the Pickett delegation was heard as i the contestants. The fight brought ( before the committee the first clear cut case in which a gain of delegates for the Wood or Lowden forces was ' involved and it took first place in the interest of the pre-convention pe riod. Political forces are gathering slow i ly here, and while the pre-conven -1 tion circle has its usual line of gos ' sip and prediction, no political lead er of recognized importance has up ; to this been willing to attach his name to a definite prediction of whom the conventiqn will name as its candidate or when it is likely to do it. The end of the week, with the probable adjournment of .congress, however, will bring all the national leaders to Chicago and by Saturday or Sunday convention plans are ex pected to begin taking definite form. Representatives of the militant branch of the Woman Suffrage party are on the ground preparing to picket the convention hall to enforce their demand for a platform declaration calling on the states which have not ratified the woman suffrage amend ment to do so at once. The national committee yesterday, by unanimous vote, called upon all Republican states to act promptly on the ratifica tion. The Johnson forces are counting on a burst of speed with the arrival o£ Senator Johnson here tomorrow. A street parade and demonstration have been arranged. Senator Harding is coming also on Thursday. General 'Wood is here and at his headquarters at Fort Sheridan, and Governor Low den already is here. Permanent Chairman In the coming convention the un instructed delegates are holding the balance of power and already plans for sounding out their preferences are being discussed. A caucus of the uninstructed some time after Sunday is one of the plans being canvassed. Such discussion of the platform planks as .is going on among the national committeemen seems to indi cate a majority feel that the prohibi tion question may be regarded as one not necessarily to be included, be cause the issue has been written into the constitution and has becon»« the law of the land. The selection of a permanent chair man seems to have made no progress in the last three or four days. There is now less talk among committee i men of the selection of former Sen . ator Beveridge, of Indiana, and more I talk of an agreement on Senator Mc | Cornlick, of Illinois. i Political leaders here who are sup ' porting Senator McCormick clafrn to I have the approval of Senator Penrose for their choice.' PHILIPPINES FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE PLANK CHICAGO, June 2.—The fight for a platform declaration by the Re publican party for full independence ■ for the Philippines was taken up to day by a d< from the islands neaded by J..mie de Veyra. "By the Jones law of August 29, 1916,” declared Mr. de Veyra, “the Philippines were promised their in dependence. -- n as stable govern • ent could be established on the is lands. The Philippines have that stable government today. America’s official representatives in the Philip piies testy tc its existence.”