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WILD DISORDER MARKS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
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BIENNIAL SESSIONS
URGED BY GOVERNOR
II ANNUAL MESSAGE
Further Economies, Equi
table Tax System, 4-Year
Terms Advocated
Governor Clifford Walker, ad
dressing the joint session of the gen
t enal assembly in the house chamber
‘ Thursday morning, reiterated sever
al of his statements and suggestions
of his last message and stressed the
"Questions of taxation and economy
and state administration. He prais
ed the farmers of Georgia for their
fortitude in the hard times just pass
ing, and predicted the future would
be bright for them.
The governor commended the
present legislature for their stand
on economy, referred to the pledge
of his administration for strict econ
omy, and cited several instances
whereby it had been carried out,
making special references to the
suggestions of the new auditing de
partment.
Governor Walker advocated pas
sage o£ the bill to provide biennial
sessions of the legislature, saying
“it would save the state hundreds of
thousands of dollars.” He scored
“deficiency appropriations” and
"lump sum” bills of appropriation,
and stressed the necessity of all
financial matters incoming and ex
penditures of the state passing
through the state treasury.
The bill to repeal the tax equali
zation law should be placed on the
calendar at once and disposed of.
the governor declared.
He advocated the four-year term
for governor and statehouse officers
as of vital importance to the state,
and called attention to the fact that
this bill should not affect the term
of the present governor.
With reference to the absent
voters bill, reforestation and free
schoolbooks, the governor approved
the legality of the absent voters’
ballot, urged protection of Georgia’s
forests, and favored free textbooks
in all her schools.
The governor urged that the state
capitol be repaired without delay
and that the ground floor of the
building be remodeled for offices. He
advocated the establishment of
budgets in all departments and
urged that all state institutions
make greater efforts to live within
their incomes.
Enforcement of tax collection was
another feature of the message,
which advocated a more uniform col
lection of inheritance taxes through
amendment of the present statutes.
MYSTERIOUS.CHIEF
TOLD OF BY MEANS
BRANDED FICTITIOUS
NEW YORK, June 25.—Gaston B.
Means testified today in the federal
court where he is being tried on
charges of violating the prohibition
law, that he was retained in 1922
for prohibition work at a salary of
$l5O a week and expenses by W. T.
Underwood, described by the witness
as the man who was appointed with
the late Jess Smith to have charge
of a nation-wide liquor investigation
ordered by the late President Har
ding.
( Special Deputy Attorney General
■ Todd contended that “W. T. Un
derwood” was a fictitious character.
Means declared that Underwood
Jived in Washington, but that he
never told his address “because he
lived with a woman.”
Replying to a question from Mr.
Todd as to whether he ever did any
work for Underwood, the witness re
plied that he “had done some very
important work for him.”
Trial of Forbes and
Thompson Postponed
For the Third Time
CHICAGO, June 25.—Trial of
Charles R. Forbes, formerly head of
the veterans’ bureau, and John W.
Thompson, St. Louis and Chicago,
contractor, was postponed for the
third time yesterday at the instance
of Assistant Attorney General John
W. Crim. The case was set for
hearing July 14. but it was reported
at the federal building that it would
not come to trial until fall. Forbes
i-nd Thompson are under indictment
charged with bribery and conspiracy
to corrupt government officials.
Escaped Convict
Is Back in Jail
DALTON, Ga., June 25.—After es
caping from the state farm, to which
he was sent owing to his physical
condition, Fred Teasley, captured
Sunday at Tennga, in Murray coun
ty, is back in jail here, and will be
held pending the decision of the pris
on commission as to whether or not
that body will change his sentence
at the state farm to one on the chain
gang of Whitfield county.
Teasley is tjie man who, several
months ago. shot his wife and then
attempted suicide. When court week
came, it was not known whether his
wife would fully recover or not, and
he was given a year at the state
farm on the pistol charge, the main
charge waiting until the outcome of
his wife's wounds could be known.
When captured near Tennga Sun
day, Teasley had a shotgun in his
automobile, his car being stuck in
the mud. The officers state that he
offered S6OO if he was permitted to
escape. A reward of $25 for his
capture had been offered by the
state farm officials, and $25 had been
offered by the county. Bailiff John
.Moore, of Tennga, effected the cap-
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MELLMSTM
TELLS OF OWNING
DISTILLERY INTEREST
NEW YORK, June 26.—Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon today was
called as a witness for the defense
at the trial of Gaston B. Means,
former special agent of the depart
ment of justice, and Elmer W. Jar
necke,' charged with violations of
the prohibition law.
Hiram C. Todd, special deputy at
torney general, asked Judge Wolver
ton to restrict the secretary’s testi
mony topics pertaining to the sub
ject of the indictment.
The court upheld objections to
questions put by Thomas B. Eelder,
’'.leans’ attorney, as to the alleged
removal from the Overholt distillery
in Pittsburg of 2,950 cases and 42,-
000 gallons of whisky on forged per
mits obtained by a man named
Goodman.
Felder then asked the secretary
whether these permits had- been
found in the Mellon National bank
in Pittsburg as collateral. This
question also was barred.
Secretary Mellon testified that he
had an interest in the Overholt dis
tillery.
Mr. Mellon said he had talked
with J. W. Hubbard, of New Jer
sey, about the liquor transaction
which caused the indictment of
Means. He said Hubbard told him
he had paid money to a friend for
i elease of whisky, but that he had
got neither the whisky nor the
money.
Mr. Mellon described a visit that
he said 11. L. Scaife, a Washington
attorney and former special agent
of the department of justice, paid
to him, representing himself a's coun
sel for the Women’s Clean Govern
ment association and- asking Mr.
Mellon to assign him to investigate
prohibition affairs. Mr. Mellon said
lie told the attorney that he would
refer the question to Mr. Blair, but
that Scaife did not want to discuss
it with Blair.
“I asked him.” said Mr. Mellon,
‘‘to put his proposition in writing
and send it to me. He did write
to me but he never made a defi
nite proposal. There was nothing
that deserved consideration. Mr.
Scaife said he had made a note of
his conversation with me. That
statement was almost wholly false.
He exaggerated, distorted and in
vented the report of the brief ses
sion he had.”
Returning to the question as to
Mr. Mellon's knowledge of the re
lease of the Overholt whisky.
Means' attorney argued that this
question, which the court has ruled
out was important, since Means con
tended that he had been dismissed
for nivestigating the distillery and
the permits in the Mellon bank.
Jarneeke then testified that Means
and Underwood, who was to assist
him. had told him (Jarneeke) that if
they could demonstrate the ineffi
ciency of the prohibition enforce
ment bureau, President Harding
would transfer its duties to the de
partment of justice.
Order to Seize Liquor
On Berengana Denied
NEW YORK, June 26.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Federal Judge
Knox today denied an order sought
by officials of the Neptune Associa
tion of Masters and Mates directing
Feder.;' District Attorney Hayward
to seine all liquors aboard the Cunarj
liner Berengaiga.
WEALTHY FAIRBURN
OFFICIAL IS SOUGHT
i ON KIDIUP CHMIGE
FAIRBURN, Ga.. June 26.
Search was being made with the
aid of western authorities today for
iH. W. Cook, city councilman,
wealthy director of the defunct
I Bank of Campbell here and a mem
i her of one of the most prominent
families in this section, who is
wanted on a charge of kidnaping
Agnes Purnjort, the «-?vente?n-year
old daughter of one of his tenant
farm ers.
A warrant for his arrest was is
sued here yesterday by Judge Wil
son Parker following his disappear
ance on June 17, when he left his
home here ostensibly for his farm
in Fayette county, carrying between
SIO,OOO and $15,000 in cash. The
complaint alleges that he went, in
stead, to a plantation in Cherokee
county, and later joined the girl at
Pyrone, near here.
Unsigned postcards said to have
been received here from him, and
indicating that he was traveling in
that direction, led local officers to
request the help of Denver and Pa
cific coast authorities in the hunt
for the pair.
Cook has a wife and family here.
His estate, which includes extensive
holdings in this and -neighboring
counties, was placed in the hands of
a receiver shortly after the bank
j was closed by state banking author
i ities recently because of alleged ex-
I cessive receipts of paper.
Trainer Admits Guilt
In Racetrack Slaying
AKRON, Ohio, June 25.—Martin
W. Webb, forty-two, race horse train
er of Clinton, Mo., entered a plea
of guilty generally to the charge of
first degree murder for the slaying
oil. Racing Judge E. W. Gerhardy,
of Detroit, in common pleas court
this afternoon.
The degree of the crime will be
set by Judge Lionel Spardee, who
announced that he will pronounce
sentence upon Webb tomorrow.
Nine jurors had been tentatively
seated when the defense counsel
changed their plea to guilty. This
was Webb’s second trial, the jury
disagreeing after taking fourteen bal
lots in the first trial.
Tennessean Badly Hurt
In Automobile Wreck
COLUMBIA. Tenn., June -5- —R-
iA. Sticklin, head of the Sticklin
; Lumber company, of Florence, Ala.,
was in a critical condition here to
day as a result of an accident late
yesterday when his automobile
plunged off the approach to the Big
by creek bridge near Mt. Pleasant,
turned over twice and pinned Mr.
Sticklin under the steering wheel.
A Mr. Hill, bookkeeper for Mr. Stick
lin. was painfully injured. Phy
sicians said Mr. Sticklin had been
■ injured internally and might not re
t cover.
Woman Named Pathologist
At Macon Hospital
MACON. Ga.. June 26.—Dr. Clara
B. Bifrrett graduate of Tulane uni
versity and assistant pathologist at
the Henry Ford hospital in Detroit,
has been elected pathologist of the
Macon hospital. She will assume
her new duties on August 1. Dr. B *•
•I rett at present is taking a r : 1-
i uate course at Mayo Brothers’ bos
j vital at Rochester, Minn.
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WORLD NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
I W.
‘ SAN FRANCISCO. —Four Califor
nia forest areas are burning out of
control of fire fighters.
■Wilmington, Del.—Two lives are
lost and damage estimated at sl,-
. 000,000 is caused by storm.
OTTAWA.—The principle of the
church union bill was approved in
the house of commons.
BRUSSELS. General John J.
Pershing and' other members of
American battle monuments commis
sion,. are guests of king and queen.
WASHINGTON. Ambassador
Kellogg, at London, is instructed to
attend premiers’ conference to dis
. cuss Dawes' plan.
GENEVA. —German labor serves
notice at international labor con
ference that struggle for eight-hour
day will be carried on by means of
strikes.
NEW YORK.—William H. Butler,
chairman of Republican national
committee, arrives to open eastern
' headquarters of Republican national
committee.
. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Member
ship in Presbyterian church has been
adversely affected by modernist con
troversy .report to general council of
church here says. <
NEW YORK. —Severe thunder
storms and gale sweeping New York
and vicinity, wrecks garden party
Samuel Untermyer planned for
Democratic delegates.
SALT LAKE CITY—The nation
al convention of Disabled Veterans
of the World War within a few
minutes twice fought off motions to
oppose the Ku Klux Klan.
r YOKOHAMA.—The chief of cus
’ toms apologized to the United States
consul for discourteous treatment
• given by members of his staff to
American passengers on the Presi
' dent Madison.
NEW YORK. —Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise is chosen member New York
state delegation to national Demo
cratic convention to succeed late
' Charles F. Murphy, former Tam
many chieftain.
CINCINNATI. —Curtis D. Wilbur,
secretary of navy, advocates “war
against war,” but not type of pacif
ism which would deny necessity of
preparedness, in address to the Ohio
Christian Endeavor Union.
NEW YORK. —Order sought by of
fie'.--.’.- c. Neptune Association of
Masters and Mates, directing Fed
eral District Attorney Hayward at i
: New York to seize liquors aboard
’ j Conard liner Berengaria is denied by
j Federal Judge Knox.
■ BOSTON.-T-Courtenay Crockney.
i Boston attorney, is appointed ad-
. ■ visor in foreign affairs to King
. ■ Rama VI, of Siam, succeeding Dr.
,; Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law of Presi-
1 dent Wilson, who is to do special
work for Siam in America.
NEW YORK.—Second day of na
tional Democratic convention is made .
I memorable by anti-Ku Klux Klar.
' demonstration, which breaks out
. during nomination of Senator Un- ■
i derwood, of Alabama, by Ferney ;
i Johnston, of Birmingham, and by
i prolonged ovation for William G.
I McAdoo as former Sr-r.tor Phelan,
of California, places his name before
■ the delegates.
' NEW YORK. Hr tv G.c’-. I
I world’s middleweight chami.lcn. sue- \
J cessfully defends title ar -b.tst Enr ;
‘I lish challenger, S’-d Moore, and
Gene Ttmr.ev. Amttl-an liab.t 1 eavv
i'weirht • Itermio--. s ■ t-. -hit
' l:vo i< ■..• l-i t-’.naila. Eu
ropean tvyweight < i . Gt j
I milk fund fight program at New
jvoru. j
ROME.—Premier Mussolini re
ceived a vote of confidence from the
senate 225 to 21.
PARIS. —(Former President Mille
rand was elected a member of the
council of the Order of Advocates
of the French Bar association.
LONDON. Washington is as
sured by London government that
conference of premiers at London
will restrict discussion to execution
of Dawes plan.
; CHRISTIANA. Because of dif
ficulties in financing his airnlane
i expedition to north nole. Captain
! Raold Amundsen, at Christiana, de
clares it will be impossible to start
i voyage this year.
SEATTLE. —Mrs. Henrv Landes,
acting mayor of Seattle in absence
: of Mayor Edwin J. Brown, directs
I city’s police department, following
: her removal of W. B. Severyns,
chief of nolice.
I ROME.—Following attemnt of or-
! ganization opposition to discredit
j government in consequence of dis-
I appearance of Deputy Matteotti,
I Italian senate gives Premier Mus
solini vote of confidence. 225 to 21.
HAVERFORD? Pa.—Horace Or
ser, George Washington High
school. New York, becomes national
interseholastic tennis chamnion, by
defeat of Weller Evans, Philips And
over academy, at Merion Cricket
club. Haverford. Pa.
OTTAWA.—Ratification of the
liquor treaty between the United
States and Canada must await the
assembling of the next session of
the United States senate, Premier
MacKenzie-King told the house of
commons.
BERLIN. —The Socialist party’s
delegation in the reichstag has for
mally interpellated the government
on the question of whether it is pre
pared to move Germany’s admission
to the League of Nations before
| September 1.
NEW YORK. —Imogene Wilson,
“Follies” girl, who recently caused
the arrest of Frank Tinney, come
dian, on charges of beating her,
was subpoenaed to appear before
the "’-and jury and testify to the al
i leged assault.
Sixty-Five Candidates
Entered in Muscogee
COLUMBUS, Ga., June 25.—Six
ty-five candidates have qualified for
j entry in the local primary and indi
-1 cations point to a warm campaign
here during the next sixty days or
more.
Congressman W. C. Wright is un
opposed for re-election. Judge
George P. Munro, C. F. McLaugh
lin and R. Terry are candidates foi
the office of superior court judge,
while A. Jones Perryman, G. W.
Fincher, J. B. Hoyle and W. R.
Flournoy are in a four-cornered race -
for solicitor-general of the Chatta
khoochee circuit. Judge Munro and
Solicitor Flournoy are the incum- (
bents.
Warm contests are scheduled for
numerous other offices, the largest
number after one post being six in
the race for tax collector, as fol
lows; H. Baird, J. P. Turner, I. C.
Evans, E. H. Johnson, W. T. Far
!-y and Cleve Ellis. Mr. Baird is
the incumbent.
W. Cecil Neill, speaker of the
house, is out for renomination with
out opposition. Other Muscogee
car. didates for representative are J. '
M. Muirrih and Paul -Miller. R. O. ■
Perkins is a candidate for the sen-!
ate from this district ,and unop- j
posed. . ,
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, June 28, 1924
KELLOGG ORDERED
TO ALLIED PARLEY
ONWIMTM
WASHINGTON, June 26. —Ambas
sador Kellogg at London was in
- structed Wednesday to attend the
forthcoming premiers’ conference to
1 discuss execution of the Dawes plan.
1 His appointment was announced
in a White House statement which
• said that Mr. Kellogg would attend
■ the conference “for the purpose of
i dealing with such matters as affect
• the interests of the United Statesand
: otherwise for purposes of informa
« Japanese Movie Men
Withdraw Boycott on
American-Made Film
TOKIO, June 25.—(8y the Asso
1 ciated Press.) —With yet a week to
' run before the proposed boycott ot
American motion picture films would
have become effective, the Shochiku
, and the Nikkatsu, two of the leading
I firms of Japanese film producers and
, distributors, today announced with
drawal of the notice of boycott.
The boycott ostensibly was plan
ned as a protest against enactment
by the United States of a law ex
cluding Japanese from that country.
1 Business interests here stated, how
ever, that the movement really was
intended to benefit Japanese busi
’ ness with which American firms
were associated.
Firm Is Fined $40,000
And Officer Sentenced
For False Income Tax
ST. PAUL. Minn., June 25. —Fines
totaling $40,000 and a check for
$148,000 representing taxes due,
were paid to the federal govern
ment yesterday by three officials of
Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul spe
cialty manufacturers, who pleaded
guilty in federal court to charges
of defrauding the government of
income taxes.
H. H. Bigelow, head of the firm,
paid a SIO,OOO fine. In addition he
was sentenced to serve two years at
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
with a stay of sentence granted un
til November 1. William F. Priester,
comptroller; Robert Galloway, sec
retary and treasurer, and the cor
pora ti o n -were fined SIO,OOO eat:h.
“Pussyfoot"’ Johnson
Home From Africa
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., June
27. — William E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson,
widely-known temperance worker, is
; at home here today after a year’s
I tour in Africa. He will spend a
week resting. He has purchased
j property here and expects to retire
' after he finishes his work. He pre
dicted today the world would be dry
in fifteen years.
Associated Ad Clubs
Hold Farewell Dinner
NEW YORK, June 27 —Members
of the Advertising club, who will
/ sail next week for England, among
the 2,'J'O delegates of the Associated
■ Advertising Clubs of America held
j their farewell dinner last night.
■ They will attend t’.-e. advertising
j convent; >n in London the week of
I July 13.
KUH H LEAGUE
MS PASSED TO
FULL COMMITTEE
Subcommittee Unable to
Agree on Two Paramount
Questions of Policy
NEY r YORK, June 27—After
more than twenty hours of delibera
' tion the eleven men commissioned
to draft a platform for the Demo
cratic national convention found
themselves so far apart Thursday
night on the Ku Klux Klan and the
League of Nations questions that
majority and minority reports were
made to the entire platform commit
tee when it assembled to whip the
party declaration into shape.
Reports coming from the room
where the eleven committeemen la
bored were that there was a division
of eight to three against denouncing
the klan by name. Those holding
out mentioning the invisible empire
as such were Senator David I.
Walsh, of Massachusetts; former
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
and Joseph A. Kellogg, of New York.
Aside from the klan and league
issues, the subcommittee was in
agreement on the emaining 32 or
33 planks in the platform. Neither
the agricultural aid nor the railroad
problems proved difficult of solu
tion. ■*•
NEW YORK, June 26.—A tenta
tive draft ofthe Democratic plat
form containing alternative pro
posals on the Ku Klux Klan and
the League of Nations was sub
mitted today to the platform sub
committee of eleven.
It was prepared by Chairman
Homer S. Cummipgs and Senator
Key of Nevada, on the
basis of discussions which continued
before the subcommittee until early
this morning. Immediately after the
subcommittee assembled, it sum
moned Owen D. Young, of New
York, for a brief discussion of his
plank proposing American co-opera
tion with other nations through the
League of Nations or other associa
tions; criticizing the present admin
istration for its foreign policy and
denouncing the use of unofficial ob
servers abroad.
William Jennings Rryan presided
in the absence of Chairman Cum
mings, who, with Senator Rittman,
had remained up all night whipping
the platform draft into shape. Mr.
Bryan was summoned from the com
mittee room by a spokesman for Mr.
McAdoo, with whom he conferred
briefly.
Long Tax Discussion
The tax and tariff planks pro
voked long discussion. The tax
plank would claim credit for the
Democratic party so rthe recent tax
revision law, which, it would be
stated, lowered the burden on the
more moderate incomes and de
creased in less proportion that on
the higher incomes.
As drawn, the platform denounces
the Fordney-McCumber tariff act
and pledges the Democratic party,
if returned to power, to bring about
the enactment of a more equitable
law and one that would remove the
burden which it is asserted is now
placed on the consumer.
Mr. Cummings and Senator Pitt
man toiled through the early hours
today over the draft.
Mr. Cummings, whq is chairman
of the platform committee of the
Democratic national convention, and
Senator Pittman were given the
task of drawing up the first draft
early this morning after the sub
committee of eleven appointed to
formulate a declaration of principles
had decided to submit to the whole
committee alternative proposals on
both the klan and league.
The drafting committee had man
aged, however, after working eleven
hours, to agree on the major issues
involving farm relief and prohibi
tion declarations, and was called at
11 o’clock this morning to pass upon
the Cummings-Pittman draft prior
to making a report to the whole
committee.
With reference to prohibition, the
sub-committee decided upon a
declaration for law enforcement with
out naming the eighteenth amend
ment or the Volsteau act, and on
farm relief it agreed upon indorse
ment of the Curtis-AswelJ bill and
demands for tariff reform and re
vision of rail and water transporta
tion rate structures. The Republican
administration is vigorously criti
cized in the w enforcement plank.
One of the principal party declara
tions —the plank on corruption in
public office—was almost overlooked
during, the lengthy discussion of the
more difficult problems, but was
easily disposed of when reached.
Other planks which presented few
stumbling blocks and were more or
less definitely agreed upon during
the eleven-hour session included dec
larations for federal regulation and
control of corporations and combina
tions controlling necessities with
specific mention of the anthracite in
dustry; immediate independence for
the Philippines under conditions set
forth in the Jones act; legislation to
prohibit the “watering” of stock, and
improvement of waterways and high
ways with measures to safeguard
them for the public welfare.
There was some discussion in the
drafting committee of recommending
to the full platform committee that
it put the klan issue up to the con
vention, but the plan of submitting
two drafts on the subject was de
cided upon in the hope that an agree
ment could be reached which might
avoid the bitterness that a floor
fight would involve.
Numerous threats have been made,
however, to bring the issue before
the convention regardless of the plat
form committee’s final decision, and
E. H. Moore, of Ohio, manager of
the group supporting former Gover
nor James M. Cox for the presiden
tial nomination, said last night that
he intended to fight on the floor for
specific denunciation of the klan un-1
less the plank submitted should meet j
Jiis yiews. _
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Demonstration for Al Smith
Is Longest, Loudest and
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Lustiest of Week f
The following names had been
laid before the Democratic conven
tion for the presidency up to Fri
day morning:
j WILLLW G. M’ADOO...California
[ ALFRED 5M1TH........New York
OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD. Alabama
, DAVID F. HOUSTON....New York
I SAMUEL RALSTON Indiana
I WILLARD SAULSBURY. .Delaware
CHARLES M. ROBINSON Arkansas
ALBERT RITCHIE Maryland
JONATHAN DAVIS Kansas
WOODBRIDGEJ^-FERRIS.. Mich.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
New York, June 26.—Overruling the
plans of floor leaders for a night ses
sion to expedite business, the Demo
cratic national convention voted late
Thursday to adjourn until Friday
morning at 10:30 o’clock, after a
long and hectic session. The offi
cial vote was 555 1-2 to 513.
The vote was taken after disorder
had grown to such proportions that
Chairman Walsh threatened to en
tertain a motion to move the con
vention to another city unless order L
could be maintained.
Ten candidates had been placed in
nomination when the session ad
journed.
After an upset of the day’s plans at
the outset had started the proceed
ings with a renewed demonstration
for William G. McAdoo, the Smith. (
people got squared around with the i
nomination of the governor by J
Franklin D. Roosevelt. They staged
the longest, loudest and lustiest
demonstration of the convention to
date.
It was not wholly a delegate dem
onstration, to be sure, but as was
the case with the McAdoo demon
stration of yesterday, it was an af
fair built up by the use of large
numbers of banner-bearers, shout
ers, noisemakers, horn-blowers and
specialists in the art of arousing
enthusiasm.
Nevertheless, it served the . pur
poses of the Smith managers, and
held the floor longer than any which
had preceded it. . After the Smith . -
demonstration subsided, the conven
tion went ahead with the roll of
states for presidential nominations,
taking seconding speeches as they I
came along.
While a demonstration for Gover
nor Ritchie, of Maryland, was going
on the floor managers agreed on a
recess after Michigan had been call
ed. Under the plan the convention
would have reconvened at 7 o’clock
to continue the nominating speeches
with the hope of clearing them all
out of the way.
The platform-builders worked stead
.ly today while the convention was in J
session.
The convention convening at 10:30
in the morning, eastern daylight time,
worked on through the afternoon
without stopping for rest or food in
an effort to complete the long string
of presidential nominating speeches.
New York Al Smith followers
were sharply rebuked by Chairman
Walsh as a result of prolonged and
disorderly demonstrations. The chair- J.
man said that “if we can’t transact
our business in this city the chair
will entertain a motion -to go else
where.”
No sooner had Franklin D. Roose
velt finished his speech placing ths
New York govenror in nomination
than the racket broke loose. Bands,
rooters armed with megaphones,
cheer leaders, singers and tjthers
with all the equipment of profes
sional demonstrators burst out in f u
th jammed aisles and began a pro
cession about the hall. From points
of observation on the speakers stand
it appeared that probably half the
delegate space was taking part in
th demonstration either by contri
buting to the marching parties which
bore various state standards or by
standing on chairs and waving flags
and joining in the cheering.
The other section of the delegate
space, apparently interested in look
ing over the show, stood up too but
gave no evidence of joining the Smith
movement. In the machinery of the
demonstration about every device
seen heretofore and many new ones
appeared. Children as young as
three and four years were used.
Some of them were dressed as raga
muffins, others as newsies, all of
them had automobile license plates
hung around their necks bearing
the words “Al Smith.”
The fathers who presumably had
rented the children out for the occa-
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The Weather
Louisiana: Saturday, generally
fair except scattered thunder show
ers in southeast portion; continued
warm.
Arkansas, Oklahoma, east and
west Texas: Saturday generally 1
fair, continued warm.
Virginia: Saturday, slierhtlv warm
er in east portion.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, extreme northwest Florida
and Alabama; Local thundershow- |
ers Saturday.
Florida: Partly cloudv with scat
tered thundershowers Saturday.
Mississippi- Generallv fair Satur
day except local thundershowers in
southeast portion.
Tennessee: Partly cloudy Satur-
'.lay; probable local thundershowers SB'I
in east and north portion. *
IQ-mucky: Local thundershowers lM|
Satiii'iay; little change in tempera-
Alabamian Killed
BIRMINGHAM, June 26.—George ■
Reed was shot and killed Tuesday
night at New Georgia, about six , j
miles from here, it was reported to
police. Manley F. Baker was arrested 9
in connection with the shooting and j
if being held up a charge ol mur- 19