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The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
ARMY TOPROBE
BERGDOLL
!Court-Martial Ordered for
Commander and Guards
AT Castle William.

Orders have been issued by the
War Department authorizing Maj.
Gen. Robert L. Bullard. commander
of the Eastern Department. to con-
vene a court-martial for the pur-
pose of trying the two guards and
Maj. John E. Hunt, commander at
Castle William. for any offense that
they may have committed in con-
nection with the escape Of Grover
Cleveland Bergdoii, convicted draft
evader.
Newton d. Baker, Secretary of
War. in announcing that the court
martial had been authorized. said
that the next step was entirely in
the hands of Gen. Bullard.
Samuel T. Ansell. member of
the Arm of Anseil and Bailey. re-
tained as the Washington attorneys
of Bergdoil. lost some of his suavity
yesterday when he heard that the
Philadelphia grand jury had CEN
sured him for his part in the mat
ter.
Edward 8. Bailey, the other mem
ber of the nrm. declined to take
any part in the discussion. as he
thought the grand jury report had
not implicated him. When the text
Of the grand jury's findings had
been shown to the two men. they
declined to make any statement.
Ruhlsc ksdnar SarvSeai
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
Suburbanites Crowd Contestants
From Cityin Close Race to Win
Herald Salesmanship Club Honors

High on the Honor Roll in the
Salesmanship Club Race, and lead
ing in district seven, according to
today's published standing, is Nell
son T. Proctor of Alexandria, Va.
Second in the lead and high in dis
trict eight is Stephen E. Lane, or
Brightwood. va. William Schulties
is second high in district seven. and
Miss Ruth E. Martin is second high
in district eight.
Other leaders in their respective
districts are Edw. d. Talbert and
Mrs. Mabel C Berger. district one;
Mrs. Walter L. Paul and Joseph
Hoffman. district two. Out in front
In district three and among the high
ones In the campaign 10 Raymond
7. Roach: Granville Christman n
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
Peyser Blocked in First Effort
To Garry Ball Rent Act Decision
To United States Supreme Court

The Court of Appeals yesterday
denied Julius /. Peyser. counsel for
the losing tenant in the Hirsh-Block
case, the right to carry the fight on
the constitutionality of the Ball
rent act to the United States Su-
preme Court.
The petition for the writ of err
ror for which Peyser applied after
the Appellate Court had declared
the act unconstitutional has been
refused. Capt. Peyser will now
have to 60 direct to the highest
court for a writ of certiorari and
there are no indications that he in
tends to do that.
The mandamus proceedings which
were to be started yesterday by
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30

second high in this district n,.-
trict four shows Stephen wasa c.,
iahan and Arthur F. Jones Ieadins
MISS Jessie W. Ryon and ]. Francis
hiiiyard are high in district five.
Claude N. Norton. new starter in
the race, is another leader in the
campaign and high in district six
John R. Jenkins is second high in
this same district.
Determined to Win.
Each one of these live wire can.
didates 10 out to be numbered
among the Grand Prize Winner,
when July II rolls around. ey-
cry one Of them maxim a special
enort to turn in everything thew
possibly can before 10 o'clock next
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
PENROSE HURLS
CAMPAIGN Def
Keystone Senator Would
Make 1t Fight and No
Porch" Affair.

Philadelphia, June Ex-senator
Penrose favors an aggressive cam
paign to elect the Republican candi-
dates for President and Vice Presi-
dent. Senator Warren G, Harding. of
Ohio, and Governor Calvin c. Coo
lidge, of Massachusetts,.
In the first interview he has
granted since the Republican con-
vention. the senior Senator from
Pennsylvania today opposed the So
called front porch campaign" in
which Harding would receive dele
cations at his. home in Marion. Ohio.
and speak to them from the veranda,
la Mckinley.
Senator Penrose. according to his
secretary. Leighton C. Taylor. is i'm
proving daily. He expects. he said.
within at least a week or. ten days
to leave his home and motor about
the city. Later he plans a vacation.
The so-called front porch cam
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FEAR FOR FATE
OF MISSIONARY
Americans Ord d to
LeaveRone Of Renewed
War in Turkey.

Americans residing in Turkey
within the zone of renewed fighting
have been ordered by the Ameri-
can Commissioner in Turkey to re-
move to a place of safety. Notice
of this action, at the suggestion
of the British Commissioner,
reached the State Department yes
terday. The dispatch said that no.
tice. already had been sent to all
Americans thought to be in dan
ger.
The dispatch made no mention OF
Mrs. Paul Nilsson, American mis-
sionary, who is reported to have
been captured by Turks near Tarsus
in Cilicia. The State Department,
has not received any additional
messages from her relatives who
first notified it of the American
woman's predicament.
An indication that the situation
in Turkey was becoming increas-
ingly difficult for all foreigners was
in the news that the Nationalists
had once more taken up the sword
and attacked British soldiers at
Ismid without provocation. The
British High Commissioner notified
representatives of other allied gov
ernments that IL such tactics were
continued there was the possibility
of retaliatory bombardment by the
British. in which case the lives of
civilians would be endangered.
public Ledger Seryice.)
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SEES NJ 'ADOO
AS.LONG SHOT
Willis J. Abbot Says Great
Prejudice Stands in
Way Of Victory.
b. WILLIS J. ABBOT.
sat Correspoodent.)

Sai Francisco. June 29.-If this
convention we're operating under
the rules that apply to Republican
eonyea tions one could prophesy
with nsers eonndencs the success
% :ho radTuinistration effort TO
nominate McAdoo.
But two.thlrds OF the delegates
arr needed here to nominate and
as set the busy Federal Office
hc.derS who are circulating about
the hea0ouarters cannot muster
more than half that number for
the flrst ballot They insist that
the laoi. viii bs easily made up on
.the ghIrd or fnurth.
Burl,s,r said to me that the
fourth or Efth ballot would witness
the success OF his candidate and
Secretary Colby is talking with
confidence about what they will do
on the third. Indeed. confidence is
the long suit or the McAdoo work
ers. Nearly all are Federal Office
holders, usually Of rather high
standing. In addition to three cabi-
net oficers.-and one ex in the
person of Carter Glass-there are
an interstate commerce commits
siopcr, the director of the mint,
collectors OF customs from half q
dozen towns and a roster of post
masters reminiscent of Frank
Hitchcock's best days in Republican
politics.
Eject On Delegates.
This array of the holders and dis
pensers of patronage, and the calm
confidence with which these great
ones proclaim the certainty of
their maHe success has a great
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Wilson Wei,
Say Reports
To Frisco
Administration May Accep,
Moderation Of Volstead
Act, Is Report.
ny RICHARD LEE.

tstaR Correspondent usiversai serviee.D
Convention Hall. San Francisco.
June ss.-Whiie antagonists on the
Irish and liquor questions were
waging stormy and spectacular bat
ties today before the resolutions
committee of the national Demo-
cratic convention. the real plat
form was being written outside by
Senator Carter Glass and his staff.
The subcommittee Of nine, In the
selection of which Senator Glass.
as chairman of the platform COM
mittee, scorned every committee
man not essentially an administra-
ton man, including William Jen-
nings Bryan, Vice President Mar
shall and Senator Walsh. of Mas
sachusotts, has not taken the uou-
BILE to meet. Yet the platform prob
ably will be ready by morning.
Most startling of the information
trickling from the circles conver-
SAINT with what Joseph p. Tumuity
Is saying these days, by long dis
tance. is the news that the admin
istration Is lending an ear to lib
ersl liquor plank talk. Some see
In that a disposition Of the admin
istration to deliver the final crush
ing blow to Mr.. Bryan.
May Modify volstead Act
Representative A. ]. Satatn, OF
Illinois, the wet" leader on the
floor of the resolutions con nittes,
has been informed by Secre Ey Of
State cambridge Colby, the Dis
trict of Columbia's committe man.
that the administration may yet
agree to a 'Volstead act "modihca-
tion" plank which denounces the
saloon.
On a roll call regarding procedure
which could hardly be termed a fair
test of the wet" and dry" strength
Of the committee, Bryan lost By a
vote of 27 to Is. Regardless o. that.
Congressman SABBATH found 'sneoUy-
agement in the shifting of the ad-
ministration attitude. However, he
is prepared for the floor night II II
Is necessary.
On the resolutions committee there
are ten members of the Senate and
Vice President Marshall, all Of whom
have at one time or another stood
for some sort of Americanizing res
ervations to tie treaty pact Bad
league covenant. They will stSnd
for a modified declaration which
Of p -
They are King of Utah, Beck ham
of kentucky. Walsh of Massachu-
setts. Mcclellan of Tennessee, z. y,
Smith of South Carolina, Nugent vi
Idaho, Harrison of Mississippi. VOL
colt of Delaware and Pomerene of
Ohio.
Women Fight for Ireland.
The Irish question was presented
spectacularly at the public hearing
of the committee this morning when
women strongly in sympathy with
the Irish cause fought to get at the
"traducers" who opposed the Irish
plank on the theory that 1t consti-
tuted an international question and
not a partisan one.
Plucky women sought to con-
trovert statements by physical at
tacks. Police were forced to Sc
move them forcibly.
ARREST me arrest me. please ar
rest me-" pleaded one of them.
''Thi sis the end of the Democratic
party IL their convention is to sit
and listen TO such infamous lies"
She was referring to the charge
that the Irish movement was Sim
Fein propaganda financed by the
s10.00o,o00 mulcted from innocent
American working girls"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30

George p. Hart. attorney for the
Tenants Protective League. failed
to materialize.
Whatever else is done now to
protect the Rent Commission must
be indicated by Capt. Peyser, as he
is the sole person under the law
who can carry the fight any fur
ther. Unless he goes direct to the
Supreme Court the Ball rent act
will remain dead. carrying to the
grave with 1t the Rent Commits
sion. No one else, not even the
Tenants Protective League. has
standing in any court with regard
to the case on which the rent law
was found void.
As things now stand. the tenant
coSTISuEP oN PAGE ELEVEN.
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.BERGDOLL JURY
INDICTS NINE
Mother and Brother of
Stacker Arrested and Re-
leased Under Bail.

Philadelphia, Pa, June 29.-Nine
indictments, charging eight per-
sons with conspiracy in connection
with the flights and law breaking OF
Grover Cleveland and Erwin r.
Bergdoll, were returned today by
the special Federal grand jury
called to investigate the entire
draft lodging record. of the Berg
doll family. Four of the defen-
dants are now under $4,000 bail
each for appearance before the Sep
tember term of the United States
District Court. The four Others, in
GLIDING the Stacker brothers, are
fugitives from Justice
Those indicted are: Mrs. Emma C.
Bergdoll, mother of the slackers;
Charles A. Braun, brother of the
slackers who changed his name dur
ing the war; James E. Romig, close
personal friend of the Bergdolls;
Albert S. Mitchell, an automobile
accessory dealer; Eugene Ike"
Stecher, employe of the Bergdolls,
who fed with Grover when he es-
capped from the Bergdoll castle" on
May 2l; Harry Schulz, charged with
being Erwin's companion in fight,
and the two slackers themselves
The first four are those who were
admitted to bail tonight
ID. Clarence Gibboney, counsel for
the Bergdolls, who obtained Grow
er's release from Fort Jay for the
pot of gold" pilgrimage, was not
indicted But he was censured for
his connection with the case, as was
Samuel T. Anseu and Edward S.
Bailey, Washington counsel for the
Bergdolls, and Maj. John Z. Hunt,
-commandant of the disciplinary bar
racks at Fort Jay. from which
Grover Bergdoll was released to go
to the Maryland hills to retrieve his
pot of gold"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
: Nomination Speeches.

NoinlduOu SpccCncS.
Nominating speeches will begin
at 1 o'clock tomorrow a o'clock
Washington time). This announce
ment, following a report of the
committee on rules, was greeted
with prolonged cheering.
The second days session, be-
cause of the nature of the busi-
ness it had to do, was perfume
tory and almost lifeless. There
was little enthusiasm and not a
single demonstration to compare
with those which started off the
gathering yesterday with such a
blare and bang.
A battle royal between the "wets'
and "drys" was still IN progress In
one corner of the great auditorium
when the main body OF delegates.
refreshed by a sight seeing sail
about San Francisco Bay as guests
II the city. began drifting into the
hal' for the announced opening at
o'clock this af'ernoon. The conyea-.
TONS seeend stssfon did rot con-
xNne artii :5s. when the giant task
OF disposing of the muItitudinous
details necessary as [ preliminary
TO proceeding with nominations was
attacked with viyor.
toliical platform carpenters who
were industriously striving to bring
to a friendly understanding and
agreement such warning fact!nnaI
forces as the Wilsonites and Tam
manyites, the Bryans and Gases,
Kept busily at their task despite the
interruption occasioneI by arriving
delegates ZIP to the time the chair
r1an's gavel pounded its announce
mert OF the second sessions open-
ing.
The delegates, full of pep and
seeing no ther safety valve for
their excess spirits, relieved their
feelings by parading ard milling
about the auditorium floor. yelling
as If to determine whether they
could make their voices carry from
San Francisco to New York.
Senator Jo' eph T. Robinson. of
Arkansas. permanent chairman. de-
livered a second keynote speech in
which n was no less fierce in at
lacking Republican policies and the
Republican platform than was
Homer 5. Cummings. chairman of
the National Democratic Committee,
III his address vest L,rday.
Conditions Blamed on q. O.P,
Frequently interrupted by cheer
ing from teh throng which filled
the vast auditorium, Senator Robin
son scathingly arraigned the Re-
publican party and it's managers,
placing upon Republican shoulders
the blame for the fact that Amer
lea still is technically at war, for
the fact that profiteering is ram
pant and unchecked. for the par
tvs failure to enact progressive
and constructive laws, and for the
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FIGHT RACES
TO FOIL COUP
BY M'ADOOFTES
Rushing Tactics Like Foot
ball Struggle in Frisco,
Says Frederic Vile.
FEAR DISINTECRATION
Managers Intent on Putting
Candidate Over with
Greatest Dispatch.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
Copyright. 1870. By Public Ledger Col
San Francisco, June %. While
the Democratic convention was col
lecting time with dull and dreary
routine today. its real business
selection of Presidential nominee
was intensively carried on far be-
yond the Civic Auditorium wall.
Politics was nev@ played more
subtly or more astutely than the
great game now in progress at San
Francisco. The game RACES around
the disconcerting figure Of william
Gibbs McAdoo.
Its objective is to prevent his
snatching the ball and racing down
the field for a Romination touch
down, before play had been in pro-
gress a quarter of an hour. The
McAdoo team has decided on rushing
tactics.
They are said to see their only
salvation in pounding to the goal
line with all possible speed after the
whistle has blown the rival eleven
that Just about represents the COM
bined opposition at the present mo-
ment, is massed on the ffteen-yard
line, holding for a do-or-die de-
fensive struggle.
Their team work is not yet fully
perfected. 1t is weakened by the
inability of their strongest memb bers,
Gov. Cox, OF Ohio, and Attorney Cen
eral Mitchell Palmer to bury their
differences and pool their strength
against the common foe. But bar
ring the antagonism of these two
star players, the opposition to Nc
Adoo is solid, determined and wide
sI.read.
McAdoo Paramount Issue.
Every aspirant in the field knows
that the overthrow Of the PRESIDENT s
son-in-iaw Is the paramount thinK.
They are bent upon accomplishing
II at all costs. In the cases of Cox
and Palmer. II will be accomplished
az the cost of complete self sacrifice.
They KNOWN other words. that they
can only take the ball away from
McAdoos by handing II over to some
body other than themselves.
At one time and only a day or two
ago there was a chance of Cox
inheriting Palmer's strength and
vice versa. Today such con,
tingency has become an iridescent
dream. In the lexicons Of the Ohio
and Pennsylyania fayorite sops
there is no longer such a word as
brothcrly love. II they do any fuss
ing henceforward, il will be for the
benefit of neither except insofar as
it eliminates McAdoo.
Up to a late hour today the Cox
and Palmer camps had not come to-
gether for that altrusitic purpose.
They continue respectively to paddle
their own canoes and to keep up a
brave appearance of making believe
that they are padding to victory.
Their beliefs on that score. genuine
or simulated, are. cherished in few
other quarters. Cox and Palmer, in
convention slang, are considered to
be through"
1 gather McAdoo folks are not
quite 100 per cent Cox-sure as
they were forty-eight hours ago. At
that time they talked glibly of
letting things slide" until the ninth
or tenth ballot, when on the press
ing of a button they would end the
agony and walk of with the prize.
Today they reveal significant
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GAS BLAST KILLS 3,
HURTS II, BURIES II

Buffalo. N. Y. June 2s.-Tare.
persons are dead. IL injured and
l2 missing as the result of the coll
lapse OF q lodging house here today.
An explosion Of gas on the second
floor Of the four-story structure is
believed to have caused the accident.
All but one wall and a small part
of the roof fell. Nearby buildings
were badly damaged. Little hope
IL held out for those still buried in
the ruins.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
MEXICANS HOLD ARMY
FLIER AT MATAMORAS

San Antonio, Tex, June 2S.-Lt
Stanley H. Amcs. commanding the
95th aero pursuit group at Kelly
Field. is held by Mexican authorities
at Ma.afirtR As. just across the Rio
Grande from Brownsville, Tex, ac-
cording to reports here today.
Ames was forced to land after
running out of gasoline. The land
ing was made safely.
Mass.
Friendly negotiations for release
of Ames were being conducted py
Brownsville army officials.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
Indict 2,281 SIaekers in New York.

against 2,2s1 alleged slackers were
filed today in the Brooklyn Federal
Court. A roundup was Immediately
instituted by the United States Mar
sbals office. aided by police. Less
than SO per cent of the men indicted
were actually slackers. officials be-
lieve.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
WET--DRYW1AR RIGGS
ASROLLER IRONS OUT
LESSER PARTY ISSUES
Routine Marked by Few Demonstrations
Platform Tinkering Keeps Time to Ora
tory Lambasting Republican Wayward-
ness-Chairman Robinson Is Speaker

Convention Hall, San Francisco, June 2o-The administration
roller with swift precision today getting
permanently organized
business preliminary the nomination the candidates
and the naming of the ticket
Everything through planned, including
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
convention which he elected by the Fifth district
State The majority against seating Reed overwhelming
of the necessary Cummings
The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
FRISCO HEARS
'VOTEPLEA
Convention City Placarded
With Appeals Against
Tax Without Voice.
(By q Stan Correspondeat.)

San Francisco, Cal, June 2s.-
District of Columbia delegates are
actively pressing the issue of Dis
trict suffrage. All the hotels are
placarded with posters bearing this
set in poster style:
Stop taxation without repre-
sentntion, grant the 47S,0Oo
citizens Of the District of Co
lunbia whs have No voice I'm the
alfnirn of the ,eesernraent. repre-~
sentation I'm Congress nor i'm the
Electoral College. A greater
population than In ten States
which have the rights.
The subcommittee on resolutions
is now considering a plank sub
mitted by John c. Colpoys. of Wash
ington. giving the District repre-
in Congress.
Another plank. with Washington
was presented by Edward
]. Gaynor demanding for postal en-
ployes the right to deal through
with the officials OF
government.
The subcommittee on resolutions
now wrestling with suggestions OF
nearly every political topic under
the sun. is composed of nine mem
bers. Senator Glass, who appointed
it, would have limited it to five had
he dared. AS it is there is pro-
digious outcry because he did not
put Bryan on it. IF l had put
Bryan on it there would have been
a fight on his special issue in the
said Glass. and an
other in the full committee, and
final one on the floor Of the conven-
ton. So I reduced the fight by one
by leaving him off"
w J. A.
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MARSHALL NOW
IN THIRDPLACE
Vice President Talked as
Power to Break Grip
Of M'Adoo Crowd.
BY JAMES r.. NOURsE.

Universal Service stan Correspondent.)
San Francisco, June 2s.-The
anti-McAdoo movement gained some
strength today among delegates
who believe the chances of Demo-
cratic SUCCESS would lit better with
some other candidate. s-
More talk was heard of Vice
President Marshall as the compro-
mise candidate to break the hold
which the administration men have
on the delegations which they ave
succeeded in tying up to McAdoo.
Marshall was showed into third
place. leaving the candidates in
this order: McAdoo, Cox and Mar
coSrrSrrn ox pAct ruo
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THE WEATHER

r.esi thundsr shswsrs and esslsr today;
pro1shav fair tsmersv. Bghsst tempera.
IN yesterday. -, lowest 81. Detailed
SssfAsF report On Pass 4
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increase in the cost of operation.
The Southern's prosperity lies in the
fact that it does an enormous inter-
state freight business.
EUROPE IS MORE
DEPENDANT lHAN
EVER ON AMERICA

Berlin, Sept. 18.-"The coming
winter will determine whether CEN
trail Europe is to be thrown back fifty
Years civilization end progress or
will be left lin a condition to start re-
construction" declared Major Philip
H. Carroll, head of the American re-
lief administration and children's
fund for Germany and Austria, in
discussing the food and economic con-
ditions as reported by twenty repre-
sentatives of the American relief ad-
ministration. The men are from all
countries where Hover's relief and
ouaEers are working.
A prominent New York banker who
discussed conditions with me Tor Two
hours but who declined to be suotea
said: Europe is more dependent
upon America this winter than at an:
time since the war" ->s!