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©be Atlanta ©rMieeWa Wttrwal ' « . VOL. XXII. NO. 90. SECURITIES MAILED AND REGISTERED BY RESERVE BANK HERE Vigorous Investigation of Holdup Being Conducted by Postoffice Inspectors and City Police It was estimated by postoffice au thorities Wednesday afternoon that between $50,000 and $60,000 worth of bonds were stolen in the robbery Tuesday night of a mail truck in charge of John T. Widener, registry transfer clerk, and J. E. Craig, ne gro driver. Approximately $40,000 worth of these bonds were government bonds which were being mailed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Assistant Postmastr John C. Staton and Inspector Oliver C. Cole esti mated that other bonds missing are valued at between SIO,OOO and $20,- 000. Twenty-six pieces of Federal Re serve Bank mail were stolen, and also thirty-six other pieces of mail, the contents of which have not been divulged. Although no arrests have been made a vigorous investigation is be ing conducted under the direction of Postoffice Inspector Oliver C. Cole. Mr. Widener and Craig were ques tioned at length by Mr. Cole Wednes day morning. He is being assisted by City Detectives Gillespie and Cowan. The registered mail pouch was rifled shortly after 9 o’clock Tues day night. According to Mr. Widener he and his driver were held up en route to the Terminal station and forced to drive the truck to a de serted field, where they were bound and the pouch rifled, the two em ployes reporting the affair soon thereafter, when the greed them salves. Search Beggun As soon as the truck failed to ar rive at the Terminal station on time postoffice officials began a search, and whne the story of the holdup was reported, Superintendent of Mails Frank B. Ellis, Inspector Cole and others immediately motored out to the spot where the truck was rifled. Bloodhounds were obtained in an ef fort to pick up the trail, but this attempt was unsuccessful. According to the postoffice inspec tion department, the robber in slash ing open the pouches had evidently cut his hand, as blood was spattered nearby. This was confirmed by Mr. Widener. Widener’s Story Mr. Widener, who is about 35 years old, has been employed by the postoffice department for about three yars. His story, as told to The i Journal( was substan tialy as fol lows: “I am on duty from 3 until 10:30 o’clock p. m. We left the postoffice at 9:10 o’clock Tuesday night bound for the Terminal station with about 1,510 pounds of mail in the truck. '"There was one pouch of register-! ed mail, one registered jacket (an j envelope) and a quantity of first i class mail, parcel post and miscel laneous mail. "As we turned into West Hunter street from Forsyth street a man jumped on the running board. He said, T’m an officer and here’s my credentials.’ He pointed two guns at us, got in between us, jabbing one gun into my ribs and the other into the ribs of Craig, the negro driver. "He made us turn up Madison avenue. After we had gone about a mile he made me lie on my face under the steering wheel while he tied Craig’s hands. He then tied my hand behind my back, untied Craig and made him drive out past West View on the Adamsville road. He made him turn into a field road, and go for about a hundred yards. He then tied Craig again and gagged him. Instead of gagging me he forced me to tell him about the reg istered mail. “He then went through the regis tered pouch, opening the letters and took what he wanted. He dragged us aboht a hundred yards and said he was going back to the first class mail. “In some way Craig got hold of his knife and we got loose. I hur ried to a nearby house; and a man accompanied me bac kto the truck. The man and I started reloading the truck, while Craig caught a passing automobile back to town. The au thorities went to the scene with bloodhounds.” Describes Highwayman “In tieing us the robber used rope he had in his pocket. It took him about an hour to go through the reg isterel mail. “He was abut five feet, 11 inches tall, weighed abut 150 pounds, had a lights, sandy mustache, wore a dark suit, a round-top black hat and a yellow four-in-hand tie. He was middle-aged. ” Anti-Saloon League Opposed to Cox as Democratic Nominee WASHINGTON, June 16.—The An ti-saloon league today came out un qualifiedly in opposition to Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio, as Demo cratic presidential nominee. Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun sel of tho league, declared in a for mal statement that "Governor Cox is the logical oaudidate for the wets, but now that rhe nation !s under con stitutional prohibition, his candidacy is unthinkable and a menace to law and order.” Aocornpanying Mr. Wheeler’s state ment was an axcerpt from a state ment by W. J. Bryan, also declaring against Mr. Cox Speaking of plans to have a law enforcement plank put into the Dem ocratic platform. Mr. Wheeler said: ’•Th* resolutions committee at Chi cago adopted a law enforcement plank and lost It between the commit tee room and the convention. Mr. Bryan will act as a body guard for it, if It is adopted by the resolu tions committee at San Francisco.” LABOR ASKS 11. 5. TO STOP JAPANESE IMMIGRATION HERE "Secessionist” Strike Is Condemned —Fight Is Im minent on Committee’s Disapproval of Plumb Plan MONTREAL, June 16. —The Amer ican Federation of Labor today called upon the congress of the United States to cancel the “gentle men’s agreement” with Japan and ab solutely exclude Japanese and other Asiatic immigration into the country. The exclusion of "picture brides” also was demanded. Federation departments and inter national unions . were instructed to "co-operate and press” this legisla tion. Declaring that a band of "irrespon sible agitators” are attempting to discredit the "recognized organiza tions in the railway servce” the fed eraton unanimously condemned the “secessionist movement” which re sulted in the recent railroad strike. The convention also instructed its affiliated organizations to “refrain from giving moqpl or financial sup port, or assistance of any kind, to any secessionist movement.” The executive council was in structed to investigate the desira bility of forming an international union of building service employes of America, to include all wmrkers known as janitors, janitresses, scrub women, window workers and watch men. The convention adopted a resolu tion urging the Panama canal com mission to employ only American citizens in the operation and me chanical department in the canal zone. The convention rejected a resolu tion that would have established a legal department to serve as clearing house for the defense of "all labor organizations, against whom the use of the injunction is directed in the course of their legitimate trade un ion activities.” The i .an to have organized labor form with the employers and busi ness men of the country “a voluntary arbitration body” to “settle labor’s grievances in the future” was reject ed. Other legislation along .this line will be brought before the conven tion later, it was announced. Profiteering, the League of Na tions, a non-partisan political pro gram and industrial courts were given the right of way in the conven tion. The executive council’s commit tee on reports was permitted, to make its report as a special order of busi ness. Irish sympathizers opposing the League of Nations, because they claim it does not provide self-deter mination for Ireland, declared they would fight to a finish any recom mendations by the committee, that the covenant be indorsed without res ervations. The Plumb plan for nationalization of the railroads, it was learned today, has been rejected by the resolutions committee by a vote of 6 to 3. This subject probably will be reported to the federation tomorrow. The rail road unions have combined in an ef fort to override the committee’s re port. John L. Lewis, International presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, announced his organization would support the Plumb plan of railroad nationalization. The mine workers have the largest voting pow er in the federation. Their vote, with that of the metal trades and railroad organizations, Plumb supporters said, would make it possible to over ride the non-concurrence report of the resolutions. WOOD DENOUNCES BUTLER’S CARD AS MALICIOUS' LIE CHICAGO, June 16.—Major Gen eral Wood, in a signed statement characterized as a “vicious and ma licious falsehood,” a declaration by Nicholas Murray Butler, that a “motley group of stock gamblers,” oil and mining' promoters, munitions makers and other persons,” backed the general’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomina tion. General Wood said that he regret ted to make the statement but that it was necessary to “brand a fakir and to denounce a lie.” Declaring that the men who managed his campaign were of “extraordinary high charac ter,” the general said that the at tack upon them “is infamous” and that Mr. Butler’s action was "an at tempt to ingratiate himself with cer tain elements which exercised a determining influence at the conven tion.” The statement follows: “I have just read the statement issued in New York by Nicholas Mur ray Butler to the effect that a motley group of stock gamblers and others tried to buy the presidential nomi nation for me, and that the forces who were defeated in their insolent attempt to buy the nomination rep resent all that is worst in American business and political life. “The statement 'is a vicious and malicious falsehood. I would ignore j it if were directed at me alone, but I I cannot remain silent when my loyal friends and supporters are villi fied. “Colonel William Proctor, who was chairman of my campaign com mittee. is a man of extraordinary ' high character. known throughout tiie length and breadth of the land for his absolute integrity and hon esty. His associates were men of like character, most of whom re sponde d to their country’s call dur ing the war. They typify a group of progressive Americans. The attack upon them is infamous. "The forces which brought me be fore the convention with preponder ant force were hundreds of thousands of patriotic men and women in every walk of life, who have indorsed me at nation-wide state conventions, na tion-wide state primaries and in a nation-wide poll of unprecedented size. “This action of Nicholas Murray INTERNATIONALIZED CONSTANTINOPLE IS won Sovereign Commission Gov erning "Zone of Straits” to Be Controlled by England, France and Italy WASHINGTON, June 15.—(8y tho Associated Press.) —Limited inter nationalization of the port of Con stantinople and its Inclusion with in the "zone of the straits,” is pro vided for in the provisional terms of the Turkish treaty. This is dis closed by an official summary re ceived here today of the jurisdic tion provided for the inter-allied commission of control. Granted its own flag, budget and separate organization, the commis sion, by the lines of the boundaries fixed for the “zone of the straits” will have authority over a territory considerably greater than some of the smaller nations of Europe. Made almost sovereign in itself, the com mission is to be practically independ ent of the League of Nations as stipulation is expressly made that should it find liberty of passage of the straits interfered with it shall take such measures as may be deem ed necessary to preserve the free dom of the straits. The zone includes not only the Bosyhorus, Sea of Mormora and Dardanelles, but also three nailes off shore from the mouth of the Darda nelles and the Bosphorus and the Aegean Islands of Samothrace, Im bros, Lemnos, Tenedos end Lesbos. A land zone also is provided extend ing from ten to seventeen miles northwest of the Sea of Marmora and 8-28 miles southeast of it. Iti northwestern limit is partly common with the new Greek frontier, 5 2 miles west of the Bosphorus on the Black Sea; its eastern limit is 49 miles east of the mouth of Bosphorus and its southwestern limit is partly common with the district of Smyrna. 55 miles southeast of the entrance to the Dardanelles. The zone also includes an area on the western side of the Gallipoli peninsula which Turkey cedes to England, France and Italy for war memorials and ceme teries. Regulations laid down for en forcement by the inter-allied com mission provide that: No belligerent warships may re main within ports of the zone longer than 24 hours or take on food stores or recruits. The Dardanelles, Sea of Marmora and the Bosphorus are to be open in peace and war to every vessel of commerce and war. The straits are not subject to blockade. No belligerent right to be exercis ed and no act of hostility commit ted within the z° ne except upon spe cial authorization of the League of Nations. All military w-orks and fortifica tions to be demolished and no roads or railroads to be constructed with in the zone for movement or mobile batteries. Greece and Turkey are prohibited from constructing any new wireless stations -within the zone, all present ones to be taken over by the allied powers. These regulations are to be en forced chiefly with naval forces and a force of special police, recruited within the zone and commanded by foreign officers, as well as such mil- j itary and naval air forces and guard | ships of tfleir own as Great Britain, France and Italy may deem neces sary. In addition to the general laws pertaining to the administration of the straits, the commission is fur ther charged with execution of any works considered necessary for the improvement of the channels and the approaches to harbors, the light ing and buoying of channels, control of pilotage, towage, anchorage and al matters relating to wrecks, sal vage and Maintenance of the ports of Con stantinople and Haida Pasha as ports of International concern, where the citizens, goods and flags of all countries belonging to the League of Nations shall enjoy complete free dom is also placed within the control of the commission, which shall pro .vide at the two ports free zones for the erection and use of warehouses. MARSHALL WILL LEAD FIGHT FOR LEAGUE IN FRISCO SA NFRANCISCO. June 16.—Vice President Thomas R. Marshall was expected to arrive here today to as sume leadership in the national ad ministration’s fight to have the Demo cratic national convention indorse the League of Nations, as desired by the administration. Chief opposi tion was expected from William J. Bryan,, inclined to reservations. Mr. Marshall was en route here from Nevada by automobile, and is due tonight. His arrival was ex pected also to revive talk of “Mar shall for president.” Senator Robert Owen, of Okla homa, was the first candidate for the Democratic presidential nomina tion to arrive. He opened fire with a speech last night, declaring the convention “will not be dictated to by bosses.” Others who arrived were Wilbur M. Marsh, treasurer of the Demo cratic national committee and na tional committeeman from lowa, and E. H. Moore, campaign manager of Governor Cox. Five of the national commitee’s sub committee on Chair man Homer S. Cummings, J. Bruce Kremer, of Montana: E. G. Hoffman, of Indiana; P. H. Quinn, of Rhode Island, and Charles Boeschenstein, of Illinois, were here today. Political observers today predicted the selection of Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, as permanent chairman of the convention, and Car ter Glass for chairman of the reso lutions committee. Butler is an attempt to ingratiate himself with certain elements which exercised a determining influence at the convention and possibly to ex plain his own political weakness. It is a self-seeaing cowardly attack, made under the cloak of an alleged public service, which was never in tended or rendered. “I regret to make a statement of this kind, but it is necessary in this instance to brand a fakir and to de nounce a lie.” ATLANTA, GA., THURSDA-Y, JUNE 17, 1920. HARDING’S HOME, BIRTHPLACE AND NEWSPAPER. The photos below show: Top, the present home in Marion, Ohio, of the Republican nominee for president. Lower left, the birth place, near Blooming Grove, Ohio, of Senator Harding. Lower right, the office of the Marion Star, Senator Harding’s paper. > UK. B ' QbMI All G. 0. P. WEAK IN WEST, DECLARES SENATOR SMITH That the Harding-Cooledge ticket nominated by the Republicans in Chi cago is strong in the east, but weak in the west, and that the south may look for a reign of negr officeholders if the present Republican organiza tion goes into power in the coming election, were opinions expressed j Wednesday by Senator Hoke Smith on his return to Atlanta. Following the adjournment of con gress Senator Smith went to New York to spend a few days with his daughter, Mrs. Pratt, who was Miss Callie Hoke Smith, and who has just returned with her husljand from a business trip which took him to sev eral European countries. The sen ator is at the Piedmont hobel, and will be there continuously for the next two months. He will not go to the Democratic convention in San Francisco. Asked whether he would make race for re-election .to the senate, he jokingly replied to the reporters that he would send for .them when he got ready to make an announce ment on that subject. “My information is,” said Senator Smith, “that Harding and Cooledge are acceptable to the Republicans of the east and are probably as strong a ticket as could be nominated for that section, but everything west of Ohio has been disregarded. We carried the election in 1916 by carry ing Ohio, the south and some west ern states. We ought to be stronger this year in the west than we were four years ago.” With regard to Democratic candi dates the senator said: “The two candidates principally discussed are McAdoo and Cox, with a good deal of quiet sentiment in favor of Marshall. McAdoo has a good following everywhere. Cox, it is claimed, is very strong in Ohio. He has carried the state three times for governor. His friends all say if we nominate him for president we will beat Harding in Ohio. If Cox were nominated for president, and Meredith, the lowa secrtary of agriculture, or Chamberlain, of Ore gon, were put on for vice president, they would make a strong ticket.” With regard to the Republican platform, the senator indicated that he considered it a rather shrewd piece of work notwithstanding the ridicule with which Democrats have greeted it. "We have ridiculed the Republi cans for adopting an indefinite plat form on the League of Nations,” he said. “It would, indeed, be very unfortunate for the Democrats to specifically indorse the League of Nations as the president brought it back from Paris. We might indorse it with essential reservations or without destructive reservations and get along. The people who believe in substantial reservations regard them as essential. They regard them as destructive of all that is dangerous in the league and de structive of nothing that is good in the league.” On the south’s prospect of Repub lican office holders in the event of Republican success in the presiden tial election, Senator Smith thought this prospect ought to be remember ed by Georgia Democrats who have been talking of votin gthe Repub lican ticket. “We might as well understand down here in Georgia,” said he, “that if the present Republican or ganization captures the country, we are going to have trouble here in our local offices. It will take the hardest kind of a fight to the white people of the state. Senator Moses, cf New Hampshire, hr<3 his resolu tion pending to investigate elections in the south. Henry Lincoln John son has been made Republican na tional committeeman from Georgia. We may look for as ugly an effort to force on Georgia objectional Re publican appointees under a Republi can administration as we have ever experienced. What might happen if negro deputy marshals and collec tors of internal revenue enforcing prohibition should swarm the state? Even the white Republicans ought to quit the party in Georgia after the performance in Chicago.” Judge Decrees Women Must Wear More Clothes SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, June 16. Judge Frank W. Geiger of common pleas court today issued a warning that young women who apply for di vorces in his court must be careful of their dress. The judge told attorneys “I don’t care if it is as hot as these wom- en have got to wear more clothes I when they come into court. This tiling of pekaboo waists and see-more | skirts has got to stop.” V—■ • - •. —J DEMOCRATS MAY SELECT DAVIS IN CASE OF DEADLOCK WASHINGTON, June 16.—1 f the San Francisco convention deadlocks, John W. Davis, ambassador to Great Britain, will be one of the .first men considered as a compfbffi'lSe candi date, prominent Democrats agreed here today. This prediction, it was explained, was based onthe belief that Mr. Da vis would be acceptable to all wings of the party except the violent anti- British group, which is said to feel that Mr. Davis should have made a more vigorous protest on the occa sion of the recent demonstration at a London theater where Laurette Taylor, an American actress, was playing. President Wilson, it is known, re garded Davis as an able and tactflul public official, who sympathizes with the president’s own aims tn questions of foreign relations. Mr. Davis’ name will be placed before the Democratic convention by the West Virginia delegation, but he is not expected to get many votes on the first few ballots. If it should be found, however, that William G. McAdoo cannot muster enough votes to win and if W. J. Bryan develops enough strength to successfully veto the candidacy of Governor James M. Cox. of Ohio, the convention may turn to Mr. Davis, Democrats say. DAVIS IS WILLING TO ACCEPT NOMINATION LONDON, June 16. —American Am bassador John W. Davis today an nounced that while he was not seek ing the Democratic nomination for president, he woulud not refuse if nominated. Mr. Davis said he made this an nouncement as a reply to friends THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL rn from now rn «JV c TO NOV. 10th <Jv C The national conventions of both the Democratic and Republican parties will soon be staged — And then will come the campaign with all of its excitement and enthusiasm— And that will be only a part of the interesting news which readers will find in their paper every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday from now to November 10th. More Than 5 Months 50c This will pay your subscription till after the national elec tions in November, giving you all the campaign news as weU as the results of the election. We are making a special offer to send The Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal to you from now until November 10th for only 50c. / SEND YOUR 50c TODAY If you wish to secure your subscription without cost to you send us four new subscribers at fifty cents each for this offer and we will send you The Tri-Weekly Journal till November 10th for your trouble. THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Here is 50c enclosed, for which send me THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL from now until November 10, 1920. Name R. F. D..................... P. 0................................ 5tate...:.......' MARION, 0., IS SWOLLEN WITH PRIDE IN HARDING MARION, Ohio, June 16.—Marion is simply swollen up with pride— an ounce more ?.nd it will break the galluses it wears. From Clarence Sipes, the little Quaker, who runs the little "any where-for-a-quarter” jitney car, to Lou Miller, who is close to eighty and one of the first printers Warren G. Harding hired to work in the dingy pressroom of the Marion Star, they “know there never was a man like Harding.” But that doesn’t mean that all Marion thinks Harding will be the next president by any means. At least half of the Marion folks never dreamed he’d get the nomina tion and there are still a lot of them who think “he won’t cut the mus tard.’’ But that doesn’t prevent them from celebrating the “home town” victory in the G. O. P. nomination. Twin Calves Named McAdoo and Cox GREENVILLE, S. C„ June 16. John M. Phillips, formerly mayol of West Greenville, today learned that one of his Hereford cows gave birth to twin calves nine days ago and that the pair, which he named McAddoo and Cox, are doing nicely. who had been urging him to make a declaration. He also declared that the story current in London that Colonel E. M. House was en route to London to offer him the Democratic nomination was “moonshine.” He said he had no knowledge of the pur pose of Colonel House’s European trip. • MINNESOTA NOW IS PLACED 111 COLUMN DFOOUBTFULSTATES Republican Party There Vir tually Is Dominated by Non-Partisan League. Hiram Johnson Popular BY DAVID &AWBENCE (Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) ST. PAUL, Minn., June 16. —First impressions are not always conclu sive, but the reaction of this part of Minnesota to the nomination of Sena tor Harding is on tlfb whole rather favorable. And yet reasons entirely apart from the personality of the Ohio senator make it possible even at this early date to write Minnesota down as a doubtful state. For the truth is the Non-Partisan League has practically taken posses sion of the Republican party in Min nesota and the league’s candidate for governor in next week’s primaries is regarded even by opponents of the league as certain of nomination. Now the Non Partisan League was very friendly to Hiram Johnson, and this state was for Johnson. Mr. Harding is not acceptable to the Non-Partisan League because of his conservatism and with the elimination of Johnson, the league’s vote probably will go toward Senator La Follette or who ever happens to be t the nominee of the party soon to be started at Chi cago by the famous committee of forty-eight. Indeed, if the Non-Partisan League captures the Republican primaries in the gubernatorial race, Democrats and Republicans alke will be urged to fuse their strength in support of the Democratic candidate. With a Republican state ticket favored by the Non-Partisan League and a Dem ocratic state ticket supported by all parties, the vote on president may be divided into three parts, which means that the normally large Re publican vote could easily be split so that no section of it would be as big as the normal Democratic vote and the Democrats might win the Electoral vote in Minnesota. Boosevelt Territory Much will depend upon the out come of next week’s primaries, but it will not be forgotten that this is Roosevelt territory and Johnson was a prime favorite and that in 1916, Woodrow Wilson fell just 397 votes short of overturning an overwhelm ing Roosevelt majority and taking the whole state from Hughes. The conservatives In the state, on the other hand, are rather glad that Johnson was beaten, and they are confident Senator Harding need not worry about the outcome in No vember. Many Irish Democrats are deeply grieved over Johnson’s de feat. They are among the most bit ter critics of the Wilson adminis tration and were all prepared to en ter the Republican party. Just where’ they now will go is hard to say but it Is doubtful if they will vote the Democratic ticket unless something concrete is pledged toward the cause of Irish freedom. And if they do not vote th4 Democratic ticket, they probably will be found supporting Mr. La Follette or the Hearst ticket if there is one. They received a rune shock by the omission of an Irish plank from the Republican platform and now are waiting to see what the Democrats shall promise at San Francisco. The wet. and dry issue also wilt enter into St. Paul’s decision. This Is a town of decidedly moist proclivi ties. In all probability a Democrat will be sent to congress for one of the Democratic aspirants has an nounced ' himself on a platform which he himself calls ringing wet.” Danger of Split Any such statement or hint of the same thing by the head of the Dem ocratic ticket would win votes here though it would lose vote else where in the state. Johnson would have" been an ideal Republican can didate for Minnesota. He was damp enough and radical enough and anti- Wilson enough and antl-League of Nations enough to catch most every body. This state started out very favorably inclined toward the Leagu? of Nations. Reservations were, of course, advocated by Republican newspapers, few of whom saw anv terrible menace in the idea of a league. But Hiram Johnson came up here and started things In the op position direction. Business men and conservative Democrats and Republicans see great opportunities in the elction of Harding. Radicals, and they are numerous here, see only confirma tion of the methods of the “capital istic” regime which they palaver about so often hereabouts. They call the Republican “old guard” who choose Harding, the real minority trying to rule the majority. Conservative Democrats and Re publicans fully expect a Harding victory throughout the country. The reaction against the Wilson admin istration is even greater than it was a year ago. The request for a man date over Armenia, judged by the public sentiment here at least, was an ill-advised move. It was looked upon as proof of the argument that the League of Nations meant the sending of American troops abroad. The Democratic presidential nominee will have to give convincing evi dence of an intention to steer clear of internationalism to hold the Democratic vote —and, as said be fore, holding the Democratic vote of 1916 might mean a Democratic vic tory here, if as seems likely, the Re publican party is split by the ma chinations of the non-partisan American Missionary Killed in Attack by Chinese on Mission HANKOW, China, June 14. —(De- layed)—W. A. Reimert, American missionary of the Reformed Church at x Chow, Hunan province, was shot and killed forces under General Chang Chin Yao, governor of Hunan province, attacked the mis sion, according to information reach ing the American consulate here. ► -CENTS A COPI. □>sl-50 A YEAtt. HARDIBG TO LAUNCH VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN IN MIDDLEOF MI Republican Candidate Con fers With Party Leaders Denies He Was Born in Log Cabin CHICAGO, June 16.—Drafts of platforms of liberal parties which will hold their national conventions here beginning July 10 and 11, are being worked out so they will fit to gether in case it is decided to amal gamate in support of one presidential ticket, it was learned/here today. Both the labor party and the Com mittee of Forty-eight have practi cally decided on the presentation of duplicate labor planks to their con ventions. These planks, according to offi cials of both parties, will differ only in their wording and will approve public ownership of transportation, natural resources, stock yards, grain elevators, telephone, telegraph, flour mills and all the basic industries and participation of workers in the man agement. The league of nations issue has so far been left untouched by the platform builders. Opinion on the subject is divided. Liberal leaders do not expect it to cause a smash-up. The committee of forty-eight has opened a campaign to popularize it self through the circulation of pam phlets containing declarations of principles adopted at its conference in St. Louis last December. "Bust the trusts,” was expected to be one of the popular slogans if both parties unite on one candidate. In the pamphlets, the committee at tacks the “steel, oil, beef, milling and coal trusts.” Leaders advocating formation of a third party today believed their cause strengthened as a result of Dr. Nich olas Murray Butler’s statement thatt “a motley group of gamblers” tried to buy the pyesidency for Major Gen eral Leonard Wood. The name of Frank P. Walsh, who served as chairman of the federal industrial relations commission and head of a delegation from the peace conference to study the situation in Ireland, received attention among liberal party leaders here today as a presidential candidate. Though the Non-Partisan League is not now expected to amalgamate with the other parties, it was sail it would support any presidential candidate adopted by the major par ties. Labor party leaders expect to con fer with other liberal leaders here the first week in July, it was an nounced at Labor p<rty ehadquarters here today. HARDING DENIBS HE WAS BORN IN A LOG CABIN WASHINGTON, June 16.—Eight een holes of golf will probably break the monotony today for Senator Warren G. Harding, Republican can didate for president. Aside from relaxation on the golt links Senator Harding finds himself in a continuous routine of answering telegrams and reciving visitors bent on paying their respects. Senator Harding expects to play today on President Wilson’s favorite course at the Washington golf and country club across the Potomac river in Virginia. He is planning the leave Wash ington about Sunday, but has no’, yet chosen the place where he will spend a few days before going to Marion, Ohio, where he will launch into the active campaign. The senator today squelched tho ’log cabin” story just as the cam paign orators were dusting it off and remodeling it for use this sum mer. “I am sorry to to say it but the truth is I was not born in a log cabin,” Senator Harding said today. “I was born in a frame house in Morrow county. It was a modest place but not a long cabin.” Senator Harding’s statement about his birth place was in reply to cir culated reports that his Ohio friends had organized to buy and restore the place in which he was born. Senator Harding’s campaign plans are now rapidly rounding into shape. It was decided yesterday that he would make his formal spech of ac ceptance about mid-July and that his campaign would b e a "front porch” affair conducted from Marion. Walter F. Brown, of Toledo, who was Senator Harding’s floor man ager at Chicago, called on the sena tor today. Other visitors included Senator Stanley, Democrat, Ken tucky, and former Sena’tor Suther land, of Utah. Among messages of congratula tions received today by the nominee were letters from Mayor Moore, ot Philadelphia; former Governor Brum baugh, of Pennsylvania; Miss Mabel Boardman, head of the American Red Cross; Mrs. John A. Logan, widow oi the civil war veteran, and John Bar , ton Payne, secretary of the in terior. Senator Harding today formally withdrew from the Ohio senatorial race. He wrote Harvey Smith, sec retary of state of Ohioo, asking with drawal- of his petition filing for the primaries. Senator Harding today sent the fol lowing letter to Major General Leon ard Wood in reply to the latter’s telegram of congratulations. “I do not know quite how to ex press my feelings in dictating an acknowledgment to one who was a contender for the distinction which came to me. Perhaps I shall ex press myself sufficiently if I say that had the distinction come to you instead of me, I should have found (Continued on Page 6, Column 5)