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MUTT AND
JEFF-
SPEAKING OF
INSECTS, HOW
ABOUT THIS
POOR FISH?
BY BUD FISHER
Liquidation and Stop-Loss Selling
Caused Another Big Break in Grain
- Pressure Was Felt More Par
ticularly in the July, and at
One Time the Current
Month Sold at a Discount
jr Under the September
*
* CHICAGO, July 3.—Liquidation
and stop-loss selling still prevailed
< in corn today. This pressure was
” felt more particularly in the July
, K and at one time the current month
<si sold at discount under the September.
« Prices were the lowest level reach
'2 ed in months and the weakness in
July forced much selling out of long
corn and some of it was forced out
on stop-loss selling. The last ten
minutes was featured by selling by
r-, St. Louis interests on the break in
»= cash corn there, and the clise was
£ 2 3-4 @5 3-4 c lower.
* Cash corn broke 6 cents early with
s-- the futures, but recovered a little
" with the futures later. Shipping
’ sales were 6.000 bushels. Weather
and crop news was generally favor
able.
Oats were affected by the action
mos corn. There was some support
« given to the late months because of
* unfavorable crop reports issued by
I two of the leading crop observers.
,- However, longs tired of holding up
v the market in face of the bearish
* showing of corn, and they let go.
* Last prices were 1 1-2@3 l-4c low
« er. Cash oats were 1 1-2 to 3c lower.
Shipping sales were 16,000 bushels.
II Cash wheat was firm. There was
f good buying of wheat by shippers,
s while millers were after choice red
* winter wheat. Exporters were in the
‘ market and bought 10,000 bushels of
I winter wheat at $2.87 track New
* York, shipment by August la. Re-
* ceipts were a little better than ot
' late and country offerings were
& lai'Ror.
Liquidation was still on in pork
■ and that product closed 40c@$l.o0
lower. Lard and ribs advanced 4oc
. under good commission house buying.
«■ Hogs closed dull and 50 @7sc lower.
* CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
» The following were the ruling prices in j
* the exchange todaj:
•» Fret.
Open. High. Low. Cloae. Close.
PORN—
f Jr.lv ... I.GB 1.63% 1.62% 1«3 1-69%
.. . Sep;l.66 1.67% 1.62% 1.63% 1.66%
JrIy ATS 7 99 99 9 « 96 99
Sept 83% 84% 81% 81% 83%
Julv°“ K .7 29.30 29.30 27.75 28.20 29.25 i
Sent. 31.09 31.00 30.00 30.60 31.00
T KR D - *
Julv 18.95 19.00 18|80 19.00 18.55
’ Sept. 19-95 20.02 19.70 20.00 19.5a
16.86 16.95 16.60 16.95 16.50 |
Xsept 17.70 17.85 17.50 17.80 17.40
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO
Today.
‘ Wheat 1° car 9
>
n, t . 68 cars :
Hog S :::: 9,000 head,
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
v CHICAGO, July 3.—Cash: Wheat, No. 5
ted 270; No. 2 hard 280. ■
u. Corn, No. 2 mixed 166@167.
* Oats, No. white 108% @lO9.
Barley 140@147.
Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W. H. White. Jr.. President
of White Provision Company.)
Good to choice steers, 850 to 1,000 pounds.
511.50@11.75.
Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds, sll.oo@
to good steers, 750 to 850 pounds.
$10.50@11.00.
Good to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
pounds, $9.50@10.00.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 700 pounds,
$8.50@9.00.
Good to choice heifers. 800 to 600 pounds,
$8.00@9.00.
The above represents the ruling prices on
good quality fed cattle. Inferior grades
and dairy types quoted below.
Medium to good steers, 700 to 800 pounds,
$9.50@10.50,
Medium to good cows. 600 to 700 pounds,
$7.50@8.50.
Mixed common cattle. 56.00ig7.00. j
Good fat oxen, $8.50@9.50.
• Good butcher bulls, $6.50@8.50.
Choice veal calves, $9.00@10.00.
Yearlings, $6.00@7.50.
Prime hogs. 165 to 225 pounds. $14.00@
14.25.
Light hogs. 135 to 165 pounds, $13.50
Heavy pigs, 100 to 135 pounds. $12.00@
12.25.
Light pigs, 80 to 100 pounds, $10.50@
10.75,
' LIVE STOCK BY WIRE
CHICAGO, July 3.—Cattle: Receipts,
3,000; compared with week ago, beef steers
50c to $1 lower: some warmed-up and greasy
kind off more; choice corn-fed butcher
stock, 50c to 75c lower; others $1 to sl.oO
lower. • .
Hogs—Receipts, 9.000; slow: 25c to 65c
lower than yesterday's average; bulk light
and light butchers. $15.25@15.35; bulk 200
pounds and over, $13.25@15.10.
Sheep—Receipts, 3.000; bulk direct to
packers: few sales, steady.
♦ mtnsviLLE, Ky., July 3.—Cattle, re-
WO, slow; steady.
1 urogs. receipts 1,000; steady.
* wneep, receipts 1,000; lower.
FOREIGN FINANCE
LONDON. July 3.—Bar silver, 51%d per
ounce; money. 4% per cent. Discount rat* i:
Short bills. 6% per cent; three mor/ns’
bills, 6 11-16 per cent.
Money and Exchange
» NEW YORK, July 3.—Exchange, steady;
’ sterling sixtv day bills, 3.90; commercial
sixty dav bills on banks, 3.90; commercial
sixty day bills, 3.89%; demand. 3.94%;
cables. 3.95%. Francs: Drm'nd, 8.46;
cables, 8.45. Belgian francs: Demand, 8.75;
cables, 8.77. Guilders: Demand, 35.12;
• cables, 35.25. Lire: Demand, 6.08: cables,
6.10. Marks: Demand, 2.64; cables, 2.65.
i New York exchange on Montreal, 12% per
.- cent discount.
Bar silver, domestic, 99%c; foreign,
» 80%c.
* Mexican dollars, 67 %c.
GRAIN MARKET OPINIONS
' Bartlett, Frazier & Co.: Much selling
‘ yesterday was atributed to weaknes in pro
vision market.
«. Clement Curtis: The market should be a
. purchase to carry over the holiday.
ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS
MARKETS
(Corrected by Atlanta Commercial
f, 1 - Exchange.)
‘'Crude oil. basis prime, tank 10t5513.25
St-C. S. meal, 7 per cent ammonia, 100-
ton lots 62.50
’ C. S. meal, Ga. common rate point.
‘ 10-ton lots 61.50
Cottonseed hulls, sacked, carlots 24.50
<>. Cottonseed hulls, loose, carlots 17.50
No. 1 lintsrs, 9; No 2 linters, 4; No. 3
linters, 2.
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MARKETS CLOSED
New York cotton, stocks, pro
duce, coffee, (sugar and cotton
seed oil and New Orleans cotton
ind stocks markets closed Satur
day and Monday on account ot
Fourth of July.
Liverpool cotton market wa
closed for their usual Saturday
holidays.
Chicago Board of Trade will be
closed on Monday.
FINANCIAL
OUTLOOK
BY STUART B. WEST
WALL STREET, New York, July
3.—The stock market this week has
followed very precisely along the
lines anticipated by the best
At the low levels of May prices had
discounted all the unfavorable fea
tures of the outside situation. They
had taken into account the high
rates for money, the severe restric
tions were on credit, the troubles
with labor and the falling off, pres
ent and prospective in industrial
activity and corporation profits.
There ensued a month of inaction
during which stocks were quietly
picked up by the class of people who
buy when the general public are
timid and are holding off. This ac
cumulation has continued more
.openly during the past week and
has been favored by the talk that
there would be 'nothing doing in the
market until after the fourth of
July holiday when the worst of the
midyear money troubles would be
over and the results of the Demo
cratic convention would be known.
As expected those who have listened
to his talk find that they have
missed their best opportunity and if
they wish to buy now will have to
pav considerably higher for their
stocks. In looking ahead to the pos
sibilities of the nexjt month or so
there is certainly no ground for ex
travagant optimism. . 5 .
Money for Wall street uses will be
in freer supply, but it will not be
cheap. There cannot be any return
to low money rates until the fed
eral reserve banks reduce their pres
ent scale of discounts and this can
not be expected until some time
next year at earliest. All that can be
anticipated in the market is an in
crease in the amount of lendable
funds suficient to allow a moderate
expansion in..speculative activity per
mitting those stocks ■ which ’ have
been selling below what they are
really worth to get back to their
value .line and in their advance bring
ing about a modest rally in the gen
eral list. A favorable decision on
railway rates will of course, if it
comes, have a powerful reaction up
on the whole market. But it will
constantly be borne in mind that
therw could be no old time specula
tion with credit conditions as they
are and with the extra demands of
the crop moving in immediate pros
pect.
The fundamental changes for the
better in the as compared
with a month ago, are* first, the suc
cess of the restrictive and coercive
measures adopted by the federal re
serve authorities in putting a stop
to credit expanison and bringing
about a small, yet convincing im
provement jn the general banking po
sition; seednd, the greater stability
given to the foreign exchanges as it
has been shown that the suggestions
of collapsg in financial Europe were
unfounded, and that foreign obliga
tions in this country are to be met
either through the transfer of gold
or through the flotation of European
government bonds in our market;
third, the complete upset of the
theorists who were predicting a
slump in the foreign trade, the May
figures of exports and imports af
fording the strongest evidence yet
given on this point; fourth, the re
markable improvement in the -crop
outlook, the official cotton estimates
now indicating a yield considerably
in excess of last year instead of
the threatened serious shortage of
a month ago, while wheat and crops
have progressed under weather condi
tions that have been exceptionally
favorable.
financial Situation
Along with these developments has
come a clearer conception of the
financial situation at large and a
recognition that the propaganda of
pessimism, which was so widespread
in the early part of the year was as
ill-founded as it was mischievous.
It is now seen that the three main
characteristics of the industrial
j crisis of the past-over-production,
I low prices, unemployment—are in the
present conditions absolutely revers
| ed. With some exceptions, which are
well known the demand for the out
put of the mills and factories is still
far ahead of the ability to supply.
This, of course, being emphasized by
the transportation difficulties.
Maximum l"roduction
Instead of prices so low as to in
duce a curtailment of industrial ef
fort there is every incentive to keep
production at the maximum. Instead
of a labor ■ surplus, with great num
bers of people out of work, there is
an extraordinary scarcity of labor.
Instead of bping heavily in debt,
where we would have to export like
Japan, our net credit balance dur
ing and since the war has amounted
to $17,000,000,000. Finally, if Eng
land is not seriously worried when
Its bank reserve ratio falls below
9 per cent, what possible right have
we to worry with our reserve ratio
to liabilities of 44 per cent?
Inebriate Swine Tip
Dry Agents to Still
WHITESBURG,- Ky.—A drove of
intoxicated hogs gave prohibition of
ficers the clew that led to seizure
of a giant still and arrest of two
men in Letcher county.
Returning from an expedition
through the Cumberland river head
waters, Officers James Toliver, Felix
G. Fields and John G. W, Collins re
ported destruction of six stills.
The largest was found in a dark
ravine neai- the mountain top. Offi
cers ran across a bunch of hogs cut
ting weird capers. A search reveal
ed a modern outfit near l>y. Joseph
Riggs was arrested at the still.
Henry Sturgill also was taken into
custody. ;
The hogs had been drinking beer
and refuse from the still.
Georgia Crop Report
Co-operative crop reporting service for
Georgia, U. 8. bureau of crop estimates and
Georgia department of agriculture, says:
A reduction of acreage lias apparently
taken place in every crop reporting district
except tlic third, which is the northeastern
section of the state, where some entirely
new territory has gone Into cotton, which
accounts 'for the Increase in that district.
In districts one and two, comprising the
north central and northeast section, the de
crease is thought to be about 5 per cent. In
district four of the western section, which
. is heavily Infested by the boll weevil, the
loss of acreage amounts to 13 per cent. In
district five or the central section of the
state, only 90 per cent of last year’s acre
age has been planted. In the eastern dis
trict a loss of 17 per cent is shown, while
in district nine, which comprises the south
western section, the loss is 20 per cent.
These two districts comprise most of the
former sea island areage, which has almost
entirely disappeared. In districts seven and
eight, the southern and southwestern sec
tion, the reduction amounts to about 4 per
cent in each. A straight average of all the
reports makes the acreage this year 92 per
cent of that yast year. A revision of the
figures properly weighted indicates an av
erage of 8 per cent in the state. This
makes the total acreage this year and go
ing on June 25, 4,972.000. Doubtless more
cotton tlum this was intended to be planted
but the shortage of labor combined with
the extremely unfavorable weather condi
tions at planting time prevented the plant
ing of any more than this until it was too
late to plant in view of the heavy infesta
tion of boll weevil.
Condition of Cotton
The condition on June 25 for the state is
63 per cent, an improvement over a month
ago which' showed a condition of 55. The
fields are universally clean and chopping
practically completed over the entire state.
The plant is healthy and growing with full
vigor at the present time. The only com
plaint noted generally is that the plant is
small as the result of the lateness of the
crop and the repetition of the statement
of a month ago that the weevil is present
in larger numbers than has ever been known
at this period. The most marked develop
ment is shown In the northern part of the
state where the improvement ranges from 9
to 22 points. In the central some improve
ment is shown, while in the three southern
districts the condition is vefy little better
tahn a month ago. The latter is undoubt
edly due to the large number of weevils
present.
Weekly Review of
Dry Goods Market
NEW YORK, July 3.—Cotton goods are
doing very little on new business. The de
mand is light and there are many uncer
tainties confronting the trade. Prices are
softening, in gray goods markets and yarns
are now showing signs of declining gen
erally. The underwear and hosiery trades
are particularly dull. Goods are not accu
mulating in first hands end both under
wear and yarn manufacturers incline to
ward curtailing production as soon as or
ders are filled. After the holiday the trade
looks for an increase in buying of retail
ers and jobbers and the general attitude of
sellers is one of waiting to see how re
tailers will regard the fall orders they now
have on the books and which will be de
livered steadily from July forward. Sell
ing agents say the trade is siibjeet t"
effect of financial pressure that is affect
ing all lines of industry and to the re
flex effect of a sharp liquidation that has
been going on in silks and woolens, where
raw material markets have broken.
Export markets are manifesting much the
same uncertainties that are seen in the
dcmestic trade. The ready-to-wear manufac
turers are carefully restricting production
to orders in hand and it. is felt that when
the present situation is over with there
Will be another sharp resumption of bny
iiig that will disclose light stocks again.
Prices quoted are ns follows: Print cloths.
28-inch 64x64’5. 16c.; 64x60’s, 15%c; 38%-
inch 64x64’5, 23c; brown sheetings, south
ern standards, 27c; denims, 2.20’5, Indigo,
44c; tickings, 8-our.ce. 55c; prints, 23c;
staple ginghams, 27%c; dress ginghams.
35c and 37%c; in second hand trading some
of these prices may be shaded.
Punched Girl’s Nose;
Had to Pay Fine for
Disorderly Conduct
“,Oh, I wouldn’t want you to send
him to jail!” exclaimed Elizabeth
Corbett, a chorus girl in a Brooklyn
cabaret, who had William Daly, a
waiter, arraigned in Harlem police
court, charged with disorderly con
duct.
‘‘Not jail, judge,” she pleaded still
more earnestly. ‘‘Still an’ all, he
needs a good lesson, for no gentle
man ought to treat a lady like he
treated me last night. If he’ll pay
the doctor, the dentist and the dress
maker what I had to pay them to re
pair the damage he did to my eye,
my teeth and my clothes, why I’m
willing to let bygones be bygones.”
Magistrate Sweetser told Miss Cor
bett that he agreed with her, and pa
rolled Daly, when Miss Corbett is to
report as to whether the doctor, the
dressmaker and the dentist have been
paid.
Miss Corbett went to North Beach
one night recently with another
young woman. They returned in an
automobile with Daly and two other
men. Daly’s companion said they
would take Miss Corbett’s friend to
her home and would call at Daly’s
home, 428 East Eighty-second street,
New York, on their return for Miss
Corbett. Miss Corbett asserted that
as soon as she entered Daly’s home
he began plucking garments from
her arid punching her in the eyes
and mouth.
Patrolman Munsaer, who had come
upon Miss Corbett as she ran shriek
ing through the streets at dawn,
testified to the thoroughness, if not
to the gentility, of Daly.
‘‘Not a stitch, yer honor,” said the
patrolman, whispering decorously,
but hoarsely, in the shelter of his
hand; ‘‘as I’m standin’ here, I had to
take off my uniform coat an’ put it
on her —not one stitch’.”
Miss Corbett differed emphatically
with the witness on this point.
Daly had listened with interest to
the* account of the proceedings, say
ing thAt he didn’t remember anything
of it at all, as he had a drink or two
and liquor always went to his head.
He might have done it and forgotten
it. he said.
‘‘lt wasn't gentlemanly, that’s all
I’ve got to say,” remarked Miss Cor
bett with dignity, as she departed.
This Has the Movies Beat
COLUMBUS. Ind. —The rescue of
Mrs. John Sprague from death in a
runaway would have done credit to
a movie thriller. When her horse
ran away Charles Hiatt cranked up
his flivver, and with David Marr on
the running board, gave chase. As
the auto passed the horse. Marr made
[ a flying leap, grabbed the reins and
I brought the animal to a standstill on
the brink of a high embankment.
NO NOMINATION IN
SIGHT AS VOTING IS
RESUMED AT FRISCO
(Continued from Page 1)
o’clock, If they hppe for a slide their
way. The Cox people, confident
they have McAdoo stopped, despite
his last ballot rally Saturday night,
planned to continue tbeir campaign
to wear him out. The McAdoo peo
ple, declaring that the whole week’s
effort had been to wear out, argued
that it had been a failure.
Scattered seventeen ways from
the three leaders to Champ Clark
and Woodrow Wilson, there was no
doubt whatever that the voters of
the convention were ready for any
lucky rnar. who could turn one of
those lucky tricks of convention
legerdemain which pull a presiden
tial nomination out of a hat.
With the three leaders knocking
their heads together, friends of can
didates of lesser strength showed
renewed determination to keep their
favorites in the running.
The attitude of the dark-horse
backers, who, on the last ballot of
Saturday night, held a combined vot
ing strength of one-tenth of the con
vention, helped to lock the situa
tion tighter. For the present the
task of putting over any one of the
big three without breaking into that
block of votes seemed to be a re
mote one.
List of Bark Horses
The list of dark horses for whom
movements seem to be on foot still
included John W. Davis, oJ West
Virginia; Senator Glass, of Virginia;
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma; Homer
S. Cummings, of Connecticut, and
Bainbridge Colby. Champ Clark was
talked of by some, and so was Vice
President Marshall. There was an
indication that Indiana, which sup
ported hirn solidly at the outset,
might seen return to him if the
deadlock continues.
The two votes for President Wil
son on the twenty, second ballot the
first to bf cast f-.-r him throughout
the long grind of roll calls, were
not regarded as pipphetic of a swing
in his direction. The idea of his
nomination ter a third term seemed
to be farthest from the thoughts of
even his most devoted followers
among the big men of tne convention.
Os the four heading the lesser
gr< up, Ambassador Davis had the
greatest strength. His vote on the
final call Saturday had been 52. But
all efforts to start a serious break
in his direct ton had been unavail
ing, and after contercm < s his friends
tonight were ciaimirg mure strength
fur him, but nothir g like a stampede
at the start tomorrow.
Ranking next to Davis cn the twen
ty-second ballot was Senator Owen,
with 35, which includeo Nebraska
votes controlled ly W. J. Bryan. It
was recognized that Bryan had been
deprived by l:is defeat on the prohibi
tion issue, of meet of the power he
might have held over the destinies
vs the presidential contest.
There was still talk of Senator
Glass, entrusted bv tile president to
conduct the fight for an administra
tion platform.
In all dark horse camps the atti
tude was the same; they were hop
ing for a break fonioviow, but were
eonvmced that they would have to
abide their time while the managers
of the leading three Hied out any
new alignments they m’ght have ar
ranged ever Sunday.
Governor Alfred E. Smith, New
York, today received a t>n?gram from
Al Iclson, the comedian, which said:
•‘lVire me name of probable nomi
not?.’
‘‘.l wish he would teA me who it is
going to be.” said tne governor.
“1 can’t ronlv' an;,ti'ing out of the
situation- it’s all a hopeless tangle.”
The closing hours of Saturday s
tumultuous session were prophetic
of the scenes which might be ex
pected when the battle is resumed
Monday.
Demonstrations began with the
switch of a handful of votes. The
band and pipe organ joined in re
peatedly and wrought mightily to
stimulate the efforts of partisians.
Scrimmages occurred around state
standards where support for the
candidates was decided. Rival parti
sans fought to get them into the
parades that lurched through the,
aisles or to keep them out. ■ Fre
quently the big placards, that marked
the place of state delegations, were
destroyed in the struggle.
Georgia’s Change
When an announcement from the
platform showed Cox’s strength to
be approaching 500, there came a
tumult of z Cox enthusiasm rivalling
their earlier outburst, when New
York broke and planted 73 votes
behind the Ohio governor. The red
coated Cox band, the red-headed yell
leader and the leather-lunged root
ers jumped Into the uproar.
McAdoo supporters scented dan
ger. As by magic, they organized
on the floor in opposition and, with
the Texas standard leading, began a
parade of their own. The big one
star flag of Texas came out of re
tirement and a flock of southern
and western state banners were
thrust into line. The Cox band be
gan a march around the gallery
aisle. Ahead of them capered an
elderly but agile Ohionian exhorting
spectators to join in the uproar.
Ohio delegates on the floor joined in.
Followed by a group of middle west
dern and eastern standards and led
by a big Cox banner, they swung
through the aisles in one direction,
while the McAdoo parade surged
slowly and jerkingly ahead through
the crowd in the other.
The Ohio band and the regular
convention musical forces got at
odds. They hurled musical bombard
ments at each other over the heads,
of the -delegates. A terrific din
and blare of sound was the result.
Nobody but the musclans knew
what they were playing, and ap
parently nobody cared.
When the storm and noise and av«
tion reached its height. Palmer hosts
in the Pennsylvania delegation again
got into action. The maroon pen
nants associated with the demon
strations for the attorney general
appeared again. At the gallery rail
somebody let loose a picture of Sen
ator Owen .of Oklahoma.
When Georgia’s 28 went over to
McAdoo as a compliment from the
state of his natavity, a new uproar i
came. McAdoo followers leaped ;
their feet all over the hall, prepared:
to begin all over again, even while;
still drawing breath from their last I
effort. There were some looks of 1
agitation among the Cox groups as i
they watched the poll vote by vote I
when order was restored.
Each change of one vote caused I
a roar.
The ballot showed a distinct gain ,
for McAdoo and some loss for Cox. ■
The whole convention began talk-;
ing it over. Convention grew in- I
to a roar from a rumble. It drown-'
ed out the score sheet on favorite I
GEORGIA DELEGATION
AT FRISCO WATCHES
FOR “BAND WAGON”
(Continued from Page 1)
the side of a winner. In other words,
as they express it privately, they will
lose no time in mounting the band
wagon as-soon as they feel sure that
a candidate marked “band is
not In reality headed for the barn-
Having held out for one losing can
didate against the heaviest kind of
pressure, they do not wish to switch
to another losing candidate.
Sunday, July 4, was the birthday
of Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, the wife
of the candidate of the Georgia dele
gation, and they complimented her
with a very large bouquet of Amer
ican Beauty roses and crystallized
fruit, which is quite the most fash
ionable of all confections in this fruit
paradise. /
In common with the rest of the
great gathering of delegates and vis
itors attending the convention, the
Georgians spent a most pleasant day
in a city bathed in sunshine and
splashed with fog which rolled up
at intervals from the surging Pacific,
but drifted off to the mountains as
quickly as it came. Were it not for
the tremendous mileage separating
San Francisco from the country, the
Democrats would be ready to make
it the permanent meeting place of
their convention. Everyone here is
ardently in love with California, and
California is not receiving the affec
tion of the visitors with any degree
of coldness. The Georgians here are
getting an object lesson in state sol
idarity and state pride which could
make their state the garden spot of
the universe if sectional controver
sies concerning capital removal and
all such other minor squabbles were
thrown in the discard.
That Georgia Jump-Shift
On the twenty-first ballot the
Georgia delegates vote "'T McAdoo
in pursuance of a motion at. in
caucus by a vote 22 to 17. The cau
cus was had during a convention roll
call on a motion to adjourn. It was
brought about by an insistent de
mand on the part of many members
of the delegation to drop Attorney
General Palmer. These demands
were resisted by Hollins • Randolph,
Aldine Chambers, Clement A. Dunbar
and others through the twentitieth
ballot, when they couia hold the
delegation in line no longer.
Some favored McAdoo some favor
ed Cox and some favored Davis.
A telegram was received Sunday
night by Chairman Stovall from
Judge N. A. Covington, of Moultrie,
informing him that Cox could not
carry Georgia as the nominee, pre
sumably on account of his reputed
wet leanings. This and other propa
ganda militated strongly against Cox
in the Georgia delegation.
sons,'Owen, Davis, Glass and. oth
ers, still clinging gallantly to the
race, but far in the rear.
When on the call for the twenty
second ballot Georgia’s twenty-eight
went back to the Palmer fold, and
the announcement was greeted with
laughter from floor and-galleries and
probably paved the way to the ad
journment which immediately fol
lowed with little objection. Whether
Georgia was prepared to “stick” with
McAdoo if a general drift to his
standard had resulted was not
known.
Managers Optimistic
When adjournment came and the
convention broke up, managers for
the leading candidates were as posi
tive as ever in their claims of ap
proaching victory, but state leaders
not directly aligned with any camp
admitted that they did not know
what their delegation would do in
any circumstance. For that reason,
they declared they saw little pros
pect of successful efforts to fix up
a ticket over Sunday. Some of these
leaders, wise, old campaigners, de
clared that it was next to impossible
to deliver blocks of votes.
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
convention chairman, also said he
saw no sign of a decision between
the leaders.
“But if one of them is not nomi
nated Monday," said Mr. Robinson,
“a dark horse will be chosen on
Tuesday. If neither develops the
necessary majority, and I have no in
formation tonight that indicates any
change in the deadlock, something
will have to be done, and I look for
a nomination not later than Tues
day.”
In the present situation Senator
Robinson said he was taking pains
to have no part, because of his of
ficial position.
Sunday night Thomas B. Love, of
Texas, one of the McAdoo managers,
issued this statement:
“We propose to press with renewed
force the movement to nominate
Adoo.
“We believe the Republicans at
Chicago presented us with a mag
nificent opportunity for victory this
fall. A hotel-made nomination here
will cast that opportunity to the
winds and rob the Democratic party
of the privilege of continuing as the
party of progress.
“There is more at stake here than
the personality of the candidate.”
E. H. Moore, of Youngstown, Ohio,
the Cox manager, said Sunday night
he cared to make no statement on
the situation, but related an inci
dent which he said reflected his con
fidence that Cox would be nominated.
Moore bet SSOO to SI,OOO that Cox
would be nominated within an hour
and a half after, the convention be
gins ba'loting Monday morning, and
offered to make it even money that
Cox would be nominated within two
and a half hours.
It was agreed that the winner
would contribute the money to
the Democratic national campaign
fund.
Vance McCormick, of the Penn
sylvania delegation, said: “We are
holding fast and expect to ' make
gains tomorrow.”
He said there were numerous con
ferences held during the day and
that the Palmer outlook was hopeful.
Delegates Are “Broke”
Protraction of the convention has
caused many embarrassments to dele
gates and visitors, incluring swoll
en hotel bills and disrupted railroad
and traveling plans.
The extension, however, disar
ranged plans of San Francisco for
a civic celebration of the Fourth of
July Monday. The convention audi
torium had been engaged by a clti- ;
zens’ committee for a public dance,
with afternoon fire works and other
entertainment in the park outside.
With more fireworks promised in
side than outside the auditorium to
morrow, the citizens’ committee was
arranging to hold their dance on the
asphalt.
“BONE-DRY” LAW
DISCUSSED AND
RESULTS CITED
BY GEORGE B. WATERS
WASHINGTON. —America has had
a year of prohibition. Has it been a
success?
John F. Kramer, head of the pro
hibition enforcement division here,
says it has been a marked success..
But when I called on hixn he didn’t
try to make me believe that he had
all the saloons closed and all the
bootleggers in jail.
“We have figures to show that
there are only about 800 saloons run
ning in New York,” said Kramer.
“Beer seems to have almost disap
peared, except in Pennsylvania. In
toxicants are more plentiful in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey than
in any other states.
“As to the greatest benefit brought
by a year’s prohibition, I would
say that it has teen getting strong
drink out of reach of the boys and
girls who have developed no appe
tites for it.
“A toper with an insane appetite
for liquor will drink up his wife’s
perfume, but one never heard of a
normal boy contracting the habit of
drink by attacking a perfume bot
tle. Nor is codliver oil and razo,
containing alcohol, a substitute for
a roadhouse debauch by young men
and women, whereas many of the
old drinkers are consuming all these
preparations they can get.
“Leave the Volstead law on the
books two more years and drinking
will be a ‘lost art.’ ”
The year preceding prohibition,
Americans spent $2,000,000,000 for
booze. The Anti-Saloon league claims
to have figures showing that the
past year the drinkers have placed
$1,000,000,000 of this in banks, spent
$100,000,000 of it for candy, and that
the other $900,000,000 went for soft
drinks, moving pictures, theaters,
tobacco, bootleg booze, automobiles,
clothes, shoes, groceries, furniture,
etc. But the bulk of this second
billion went for soft drinks and
movies.
Kramer says most of his troubles
have come from former saloons
that kept hanging on to see what
the supreme court was going to do.
Only 5,000 Saloons Deft
Before prohibition there ware 100,-
000 saloons in America, and perhaps
not 5,000 now—speakeasies where
persons who are known can drink.
The 100,000 persons employed at
making beer and whisky a year
ago have gone into other trades,
and there is still a labor shortage. ,
Probably th? greatest economic
saving has been the sobering up
and rehabilitation of 1,500,000 men,
who in the wet days were either
incapacitated the “day after”- or in
jail or in hospitals. Many of these
were common drunkards.
The drys say that scattered fig
ures show workmen’s efficiency has
been increased 15 per cent, crime
reduced 50 per cent, drinking re
duced 65 per cent/ that 50,000 per
sons have been saved- death from
alcoholism and that 60,000,000
bushels of foodstuffs were diverted
from strong drink to other channels.
At Baltimore a movie show was
installed this year at Central ~0-lice
lice station to amuse idle policemen.
Prohibition cut down their work.
At 11 of the principal cities In
New Hampshire arrests for drunk
enness numbered 1,660 for the last
six months of 1919, as against
9,260 in similar period of 1917.
No Prisoners, No Services.
The sheriff in Carbon county,
Pa., quit holding Sunday religious
services at the jail because there
were no prisoners to attend.
In Philadelphia arrests for drun
kenness were: wet July, 1918—
7,580; dry July, 1919—5,088.
In Erie, Pa., the cost of feeding
prisoners in July, 1918, was $3,151
and in July, 1919, reduced to $1,185!
despite rising prices.
Thomas W. White, Massachusetts
state supervisor of administration,,
says prohibition out down court
maintenance by one-half.
The government fiscal analysis at
Worcester, Mass., shows savings
banks accounts show an increase of
50 per cent since July 1, 1919.
Enforcer Kramer says Keeley in
stitutes all over the country have
had to quit, the last one to throw up
the sponge being at Columbus, O.
The commissioners ol ten Pennsyl
vania counties had planned to build
a ten-county workhouse for prison
ers. Plans of financing it were
about ready before prohibition came.-
A meeting was held by the commis
sioners Nov. 29, 1919. and all agreed
that there were no prisoners to be
sent to it, and the joint organiza
tion of commissioners was disband
ed and the plans dropped.
Warden Lewis, Philadelphia jail,
says arrests for drunkenness have
decreased 80 cent in his c\ty.
Warden Lee, Ba,.'*more jail, says ar
rests for all causes has been reduced
50 per cent.
In Connecticut the state farm for
drunkards has been abandoned.
In Boston the arrests from July
to December. 1918, were 28,860 and
the same period in 1919 only 8.920,
reduction of 19,940.
Sheriffs Can’t Make Diving.
Sheriffs all over the country are
resigning because they can no long
er make a living feeding prisoners.
This used to be the principal source
of revenue to a sheriff.
In Houston, Tex., the city farm
that formerly had from fifty to one i
hundred prisoners all the time be-1
came absolutely deqopulated when i
prohibition hit. It was finally rent- ;
ed to a Japanese.
Many jails over the country are :
being converted into hotels and!
apartments to solve the housing I
shortage. ‘
No, prohibition hasn’t complete- ;
ly prohibited. But it has ruined
John Barleycorn’s business.
The enforcement bureau here holds
to the theory that the' higher the
price goes, the more successful the
law is. At the Chicago convention
booze was selling at $7.50 to sls a
pint, demand strong. Buying it by
the drink one pays about $75 a quart
in New Y’ork.
Woman Divorced 13 Times
Mrs. Alice Yocum, recently of
Boone, lowa, and previously a resD
dent in various other cities of the
middle west, thinks her record of
thirteen marriages and thirteen di-'
vorces is without a parellel—and the
judge who severed her latest matri
monial bonds agreed with her.
TUESDAY', JULY 0, 1920.
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New Questions
1. Q. —Why was the capital of the
United States located at Wash
ington?
2. Q. —Are there glassblowers in
England who earn S6O to $l4O a
week?
3. Q. —How fast does sound travel?
4. Q. —Who was known as the
winter king?
5. Q.- —What is a sun stone?
6. Q. —Is there a chess player In
Germany who recently defeated
twenty apponents?
7. Q. —What power over treaties
have the president and senate re
pectively?
8. Q. —Is iodide of soda a good
remedj’ for a goiter? How should
it be taken; in what amounts and
when? •
9. Q. —Tell me how much water I
should drink each day. It it harm
ful to drink water while eating?
10. Q.—What is the budget sys
tem, either national or state?
Questions Answered
I—Q. In case of an alccident, an
air plane usually seems to catch on
firh. Is any effort fieing made to
render “airplaning” fire-proof? H. E.
D.
1— A. The newest effort seems to
be the invention of a suit for flyers
which is said to be proof against
fire. Ann Pennington, the actress, is
shown on this page, wearing such a
suit.
2 Q. Has Dewey’s home, purchas
ed with the pennies of school chil
dren, been sold? A. L. M.
2 A. As a tribute to Admiral
Dewey the house at j. 707 Rhode Isl
and avenue, Washington, D. C., was
bought in 1899 with pennies given
by school children and with other
patriotic contributions, and on Octo
ber 25 of that year the deed was de
livered to the hero of Manila. This
was about two weeks before his wed
ding. Three weeks later there was
a wave of protest because he trans
ferred the property to his bride.
Later the house came into the pos
session of his son, and no wit has
been sold out of the family and is
being converted into a store.
3 Q. You say that Jumbo was
killed by a locomotive in 1885. Can
you give the details of the accident?
F. K.
3 A. Barnum’s famous elephant,
Jumbo, was killed by a locomotive
at St. Thomas, Canada, September
15, 1885, while saving the baby ele
phant which was brought over from
England with him. He charged the
locomotive bearing down upon them
as they were walking on the track
of the circus train.
"4—Q. Is there such a thing as
monkey bread? T. A. C.
4 -A. This comes’from a native
tree of tropical Africa and th© East
Indies. Its more common name in
adansonia. The fruit of this tree is
about the size of a citron, and the
bruised leaves are often mixed with
the food of inhabitants of tropical
Africa for their medicinal value.
5 Q. How much business is ac
tually done with cash? H. U.
5—A. In large cities it is' esti
mated that more than 90 per cent of
the commercial business is done by
checks and drafts, less than 10 per
cent being done with cash.
6 Q,— What is the inscription on
the monument that marks the spot
Wher? Major John Andre, the Brit
ish spy, was shot? H. G. A.
6 A.—On the west side, the monu
ment bears the following inscription
by Dean tanley, of Westminster.
England: “Here died, October 2,
1780, Major John Andre, of the Brit
ish army, who, entering the Ameri
can lines on a secret mission to Bene
dict Arnold, for the surrender of
West Point, was taken prisoner, tried
and condemned an a spy • His death,
though according to the stern rule
of war, moved even his enemies to
pity; and both armies mourned the
fate of one so young and brave. In
1821 his remains were removed to
Westminster Abbey. A hundred years
after the execution this stone was
placed above the spot where he lay,
by a citizen of the United tate.«
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against whom he fought, not to per
petuate the record of strife, but in
token of those better feelings which
have since united two nations, one
in race, in language and religion
with the hope that this friendly
union will never be broken.” On the
north face of the statue: “He was
more unfortunate than . criminal.”
“An, accomplished man and gallant
officer.”—George Washington. Also:
“Sunt lacrymae return et mentem
mortalia tangunt.”
7 Q. —Is the Red Sea at present the
same width as at the time of the
Israelites’ crossing? N. M. A.
7 A.r —The Red Sea at the present
time is approximately the same
Width as it was at the time of the
Israelites' crossing. The breadth oi
the sea ranges from 100 to 200 miles.
8 Q. —How many people are em
ployed by the prohibtion enforcement
bureau? E. A. D.
8 A. —There are 453 on the roll of
the Washington bureau and 1,571
employed in the field.
9 Q. —What is the Past of London!
J. O. K.
9 A. —This is an agreement con
cluded in London and signed on Sep
tember 15. 1914, by members of the
Triple Entente, w’hich bound ths
governments of France. Great Bri
tain, and Russia not to make peat's
with Germany anj Austria except ny
consent of all parties "to the agree
ment.
U Q. —-What Is the differnce be
tween a guardian and a trustee? A,
M. P.
10 A.—A guardian is always "-n
actual person, while a trustee may he
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“Paris Strangle”
Said to Cause Death
Os Man in Saloon
That Preston Rockrock, of 311
Eighteenth avenue, Newark, who died
on the floor of a saloon at 519 South
Orange avenue, that place, recently.
Was murdered by the use of the
.“Paris strangle,” was the opinion of
Coflhty Physician George L. Warren,
after an autopsy.
According to the stories of several
men in the saloon at the time of
Rockrock’s death, he entered and
reeled, giving them the impression
that he was drunk. Suddenly he
fell to the floor and became uncon
scious. The police sent him to the
city hospital.
Dr. Warren found that Rockrock
had died from strangulation. There
were no marks about his throat. *nd
this led the physicians to conclude
that the “Paris strangle” had been
employed.
That method, he said, was to tie a
silk handkerchief tightly around the
peck of the victim, causing the large
arteries of the brain to tighten and
close. The handkerchief leaves no
telltale mark on the throat, Dr. War
ren said. The method has been used
by thugs in Paris and India.
Rockrock, according to acquaint
ances, usually carried S7OO or SBOO
with him and wore a large diamond
pin. He had neither when he died.
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