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his name mentioned. People might
not understand. you know.
Anyway, Celeste, correctly rouged,
sat placidly chewing her gum. She
heard the speeches. listened to the
hack talk and tbs various announce
Inents.
Finally her eyes wandered over
the various delegates, and with q
sudden cry she left her chair and
cried: There's my sweet daddy
An usher stopped her III flight. A
few more steps and she would have
been In the arms OF q certain dele
gate who would have been nightly
embarrassed.
Celeste Cheered Him Up.
Afterwards Celeste parked her
gum and gave reporters the low
down. Ten days ago she said she
met, as she expressed It, THE old
Filbert." He was terribly, terribly
blue In the big. lonesome city.
II skipped q matinee to keep him
from being 30 alone. He told me he
was q big butter and egg man from
somewhere, bought me an orangeade
and told me to pick out q fur coat
and send the bill to him. l have
never seen him since. Amt politics
awful7"
So it seems that delegate here
and there does not confine his fool
ing to candidate.
One OF the greatest shocks OF the
show today was when q runnor went
sweeping through convention hail
Ike Wtldfire that the hot dog supply
in the basement had been complete
~ exhausted. A hurry call by the
concessionaire failed to replenish
the supply and at noon 1t looked
very much as though DELEGATES
would have to worry along until
night without them.
It took that long to bring q few
truckloads from Coney Island.
Shock to Visitors.
Another great shock was when 4
visitor who for ten days has been
testing out prohibition as applied to
4 great city awakened in his hotel
room. He looked out the window.
rubbed his eyes and called for every
doctor in the neighborhoOd.
Doc he pleaded with the first
to arrive, tell me do you see II.
Look out that window" The doctor
looked out and saw In an areawav
back OF a theater four elephants
trunk to tail going through q re.
hearsal with their trainer.
knew i was all. right" said
the visitor. But & fellow can't Be
too sure
The great railroad terminals wera
getting ready this afternoon FOR
the rush hOme.l
Everybody Il getting ready.
Thousands Of shoe horns were sold
today to tit brown derbies to ach.
ing heads:
The Waldorf haberdashery closed
its celluloid collar department and
bootleggers began to sigh for more
conventions to conquer. Before
this reaches print the big show
may be, over. but X not the end Is
not far away. There ara too many
buniops to keep 1t going on this
WAY for days and days. And the
sidewalks are too hard.
Fifth avenue decorations are be-
ing removed. Hotels are changins
sheets. Slowly New York Is getting
back to normal. It has enjoyed
the convention but 1t is my guess
1t will not shout itself hoarse for
another, From a business stand.
point II was q frost. Outside Of
hotels nobody profited. In fact
trade was kept away.
Ordinary buyers figures the big
stores would be swamped by visit.
ors and so remained away.
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GALLERY READY
TO MASSACRE
DELE GATES
Spectators Draw UP New
Declaration and Ring
Another Bell
BY ROLAND KREBS.
InternatiollaI News service.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
I New York, July The Demo
!; cratic national convention dele
X gates were very. much In danger
4 today of ting sQcied just IA
the red coats were sOclxed at Con
cord Trenton and Bunker I1ill.
Thousands Of weary gallery spec
tntors, growing round shouldered
from deadlock exhaustion, were In
q nasty humor and adopted q
declaration Of INDEPENDENCE They
were massed In 26th ana 9th
streets. waiting until they could
see the whites OF the delegates
eyes. Ballot the Sixty-third was
Just as much Of tyrant to them
a. George Bird was to Coloniats.
Prepare for Massacre.
Preparations for the massacre Of
delegates went on all through the
night. When the clock In q steepIe
struck one over Times Square this
morning, q modern Paul Revere
came over the Hudson on the
Twenty-third street ferry and went
gathering up to all the. hotels,
shouting: up, up this is the day
the delegates get, theirs. I"
- AASeAG D1nu u p1IIlOGS kAtuSEGU
in q room in the Waldorf. Astoria
Hotel and rang another liberty bell.
When the order clerk answered it,
they said: Send up couple OF
sheets Of writing paper Then they
drafted this declaration OF indie.
pendence which was signed BY
every one In the galleries except
man who could not read or write:
When in the course OF endless
ballots it becomes necessary for
the chairman to keep ON chirruping
The clerk will cali the roll. it's
high time for. the galleries to take
Things into their own hands.
Threaten to Yawn.
We, serve notice on the dele.
gates # this monkey business does
not cease and no candidate is nomi-
mated soon; we will positively yawn
through all demonstrations, turn
our backs on the convention and
on election day cast our votes for
the third. fourth and fifth parties. =
] The delegates, however, seemed
unafraid and determined to vote in
their tracks. It seemed as il in
years to come the six-day bicyclists
would be compelled to race some
where else because the arena would
be filled with petrified forest of
delegates, with petrified clerk
trying to call q petrified roll.
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SMITH To PLAY
TRD|NP CARD
TODAY
Governors Battle Plans Are
Shifted During Night
Conference
BY RAYMOND /. BORST,
International News Service.

NEW YORK, July 4.-Governor
Al Smith, of New York, may play
his trump card today in an effort to
win the Democratic Presidential
nomination.
The air around the Smith head.
quarters was charged with a tense
feeling that something was going to
happen.
There was a feeling that today
would tell the story whether tho
New York governor would emerge
from the convention victorious or
defeated.
The Fourth of July found the
Smith forces fighting desperately
with their; backs to the wall. but
still as confident as ever that they
would win. They felt that the
break in the long, drawn.out fight
between the Governor and McAdoo
would come this afternoon or to.
night.
Battle Plans Shifted.
The battle plans OF the Smi,h
forces, it was learned today, we.e
definitely shifted at q conference
between the governor, George e.
Brennan, Democratic leader Of Iii.
nois and Norman E. Mack, of B,lf.
talo, national committeeman, at the
Fillmore Hotel last night. The
the conference which lasted for more
than two hours. Later came the
almost definite assurance that the
Smith forces would play their trump
card today.
Reports that a dramatic move
would be made by the Smith forces
continued to increase during the
morning around the goyernO'., Z
headquarters, Keep your eve ON
smith today" was the word which
was being quietly passed among the
governors closest friends.
just what the trump card of the
smith forces would be was a mat.
ter OF much speculation. The Smith
managers have been claiming right
along that the governors real
strength totals well above the 400.
mark. Whether they believed that
they had at last found a way to
draw out the governors under Gov.
er" votes remained to be disclosed
when the convention got under
Il The situation has reached the
point now where Governor Smith
Is personally directing every move.
on the convention floor, it was
said. The governor has not broken
away from Brennan, Mack, Franklin
-. Roosevelt and his other man.
ayers, but, 1t was said, he Feels
that the time has come vixen some.
thing must be done IL he is to be
nominated.
Thinks He Has Majority.
Time and again during the laws
IN which the battle Of ballots has
been raging In Madison Square
Garden, Governor. Smith has de.
clared his belief that IL every dele.
gate were free to vote as his. SON.
science dictated, he would be noroi.
mated. He has repeatedly asserted
that he believed more than 4 ma.
3ority Of the delegates were con-
WINGED that he, above all Other
candidates, was best qualified to
make the fight. WV rs Z.
Ever since the balloting startod
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Ice Cream for Police

Chaplin Sacks Ice Cream Company
today sent a Fourth Of July gift to
police headquarters and each pre-.
cinct IN the form Of a large freezer
or Ice cream. Officers and news
paper men, on duty over the vaca.
ton day enjoyed ice cream 10.
breakfast.
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MISS MClkANE DEFEATS
MISS WILLS AT TENNIS

WIMBLEDON. Eng, July A..
Miss Kathleen McKane, English
tennis star, today won the British
title when she defeated Miss Helen
WINS, Of California, Ameican won.
an champion In. q three.set match
by scores Of $3.50. ga.
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Fear Held GroundIcss.

LONDON, July 4.--Foreign office
officials declared this afternoon
that French anxiety over Great
Britain's reparation program in the
London conference are unfounded,
Officials said Great Britain has
not drawn up any fixed, inflexible
program nor have any steps been
taken except those approved at the
conference Of Premiers Macdonald
and Herriot at Chequers recentlv.
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hound pea,l In Bod

Carl d, Fox. thirty.one years old.
was found dead In his bed at oil
First street northwest early this
morning. He was pronounced dead
py Doctor Dtgges, and the coroner is
sued certificate Of death floin
natural causes.
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HAD some s0lle nominated him on
the spot the convention would have
been history IN 9 fifty. After al
why shouldn't the United States
have q well dressed PRESIDENT
IA fact there were moments today
when any one might have been
nominated. The quits OF solemnity
that characterised the earlier days
OF this pow-woW disappeared today.
There was the pleasant triclxle Of
the comic. For the whole thing
has given the national intelligence
9 mighty twealx.
Nominating q candidate has been
about as graceful a. q man trying
to close sliding doors with one
hand holding. q teacup and the
other sQuirty chocolate eclaire.
Reaches Hysteria Stage.
The convention reached the stage
of hysteria. Today In q hall room
found b decidhous and mildly
Illuminated plainsman from Wy0m,
Ing weeping because the prong
horned antler was disappearing.
Slough old world, no sobbed.
The. naughty manner Of the
Intelligentsia Ia the press box
vanished. They bit their nails,
shuffled their feet and drew hero
glyphics on copy paper. They want
fresh assignments. Even the read
Ing OF gooey letters Of q merchant
prince to q chorus girl to twelve
perfect strangers would be q relief.
For several days now all the
dark horses have been caracoling
about the Garden stables and ready
to take the hurdles. But they have
waited 90 long some have turned
gray and q few blond.
There seems to be no place for
thems The HippOdror1e has closed
and animal acts are not in demand
elsewhere.
Some Faint Echoes.
About the best thing they can
do, Is trot on home. The quaint
notion that one Of them was going
to get away to q flying start any
moment Is N. G. The boys in the
back room are going to have what
| they want.
A few faint echoes drifted down
the wind today One was that as
Coolidge was 30 easy to nominate
In Cleveland II might be g good
thing to try him here.
What this convention needs is q
touch Of meiodTama. One can
imagine Coolidge receiving the
nomination and wiring back: "I'lI
have no nomination. Of your max.
ting. You Amt done right by POOR
old Bill.F
Last night I saw three Of the
prospective candidates. They were
as jumpy as Mexican beans. They
appeared haunted by the cruelty
/ of life. Their unnumbeFed hopes
have gone to the ash can.
1 One was on q side street neal
the hotel where he IL Quartered
His head was bowed and he puffed
| furiously at black cigar lone
from the secret drawer and not one
of those on top Of the desk fol
delegates. He walked slow with
dragging steps.
Candidates Thoughts Puzzle.
I wonder what a defeated candi
date really thinks about. All Of the
hurrah and glitter that was his
becomes hollow emptiness.
were after all just kidding. Even
the politicians must have their
little Joke.
Once to every person comes the
big moment, and the hig moment
came to Celeste Belloque, the little
one on the right end In Broadway
musical Comedy.
| She was a visitor to the conven'
ton as the guest Of q man from
! her home town. He doesn't want
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Senator and Mrs. Lippitt will rail
Tor their shooting box In Scotland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason Reed, OF
Buffalo, are visiting his mother,
Mrs. Reed. and his aunts, the
Misses Barksdale, at their home in
Georgetown.
Major David S. Barry, IT., and
his bride, who was formerly Miss
Neville johnson, are spending their
honeymoon fishing in the Maine
woods.
Mr9. Luther e. Gregory, wife
Of Admiral Gregory, IL visiting In
Bremerton, Washington, where she
Gregory expects to assist the MEM
Pen Women in Washington in or
I.ganizing a branch Of the league
In that State. Mrs. Gregory Is a
composer, musician and singer and
as Miss Turner before her marriage
was well known as a concert So
loist.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Harry Slo-
cum are at Eaglesmere, Pa, on
their honeymoon. Mrs Slocum
was formerly Miss Elizabeth Tay.
lor Jones and is the daughter Of
MRS. James Kimbrough Jones, jr.
WASHINGTON WOMEN
FETED IN MARYLAND.
Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews ana
Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes were
the guests Of honor at a luncheon
given yesterday by Mrs. Williarn
Hyde Talbot, at her home in Rock
vile, Nd.
Following the luncheon business
meeting was held at the Montgomery
Country Club, at which speeches
were made by former Senator Blair
Lee, Mrs. Andrews, and Mrs, Hoes
Robert G. Hilton was elected county
chairman of the Maryland drive for
the Monticello fund. The committees
will be selected later.
Mrs, Andrews and Mrs. Hoes are
organizing the Thomas Jefferson
memorial in Maryland and the
luncheon and addresses are In be-
half of the memorial.
Later in the day Mrs. Andrews
motOred to York, Pa, where today
she will be guest of the chamber Of
commerce. She win see her pag-
cant, .',rhe Master Builders" pro-
duced there as a special feature Of
Independence Day celebration.
y
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. McCarl win
entertain ten guests at dinner to-
night at the Congressional Country
Club.
T. W.. McKnew viii also have a
small company of guests at dinner.
-.--.--s4 u \ X
'The League for the Larger LifeH
and its friends will hold three-day
outing beginning today at Sans
Souci Beach, Va. Bathing, boat
ing, dancing and Aquatic sports
will be the main features OF amuse-
ment. Special cars leave for New
Alexandria at and 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
Miss Jennie M. Fleming, of De
troit, is making an extended stay
at the Hamilton hotel.
Il
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Rag Picking One Day
Supports Him The
Other Six.
Is a rag picker q vagrant /?

Is g rag picker . vagrant
Judge John P. Mcmahon win
decide that question when Law
renee E. White, twenty-four, is
re-arraigned in Police Court
tomorrow.
Policeman r. J. Cox, Of the
Sixth precinct arrested White
for yagrancy. He: told the court,
yesterday that he had never
seen the man work and con-
cluded that he had no legal
means Of support. The defend
ant retorted that he picked rags
one day each week and made
enough money to live the re-
n1aining six days.
Governor Smith has been spending
the greater part Of the day at Man
haitian Club, Just across the street
from the convention hall. He hal
been In constant touch with hi
managers and has been kept almost
every minute shaking hands with
delegates from other States.
1t was the governor who prevent
ed a poll Of the New York deIega
ton when two OF the members in
sisted they wanted to break ava,
and vote for McAdoo. when worI
of their decision reached. the gov
ernor he Immediately sent wor,
back to; Roosevelt, his floor mana
ger, not to poll the delegation bu
to announce the vote.
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AMBASSADOR CROWDER
AT ARMY AND NAVY CLUB.

Brigadier General Enoch Crowder,
American ambassador to Cuba, who
recently returned from Havana for
a brief vacation and has been stay
Ing at the Army and Navy Club,
win leave Washington tomorrow
morning for Denver. Colo, to visit
members Of his family. He con.
ferred yesterday with Secretary Of
State Hughes, to whom he reported
on the political situation in Cuba.
+
The Minister of Rumania and
Princess Bfbesco, who are at present
IN New York, will take motor trip
through New York State before
Princess Bibesco sails on July &c
Tor Europe to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Asquith, In England. Little
Princess Priscilla Bibesco is sailfns
tomorrow under the care of her
nurse and will be with her grani.
parents all summer Prince Bibesco
VIII join his family in Europe in
the early autumn.
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PRESIDENT BURTON IN
MASSACHUSETTS EnR EOIrRTEI

DR.. Marion Leroy Burton, presi.
dent Of the University OF Michigan,
who placed President Coolidge in
nomination at Cleveland, Mrs. Bur.
ton and their son, Paul, are at the
Maplewood Hotel, Pittsfield, Mass,
for holiday visit.
A&N
Ray w. Baker, vice consul at
Barcelona, and Mrs. Baker have ar
rived in New York from Spain and
are ct the Schuyler Hotel for q few
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Mrs Thomas Armat is leaving
Washington this week with her chill.
dren, and after brief visit in
Stottsburg, N. Y, will go to Lake
Geneva, New York, to join Brigadier
General and Mrs William C. Lang
fit. On August / Mr.. Armat Will
motor to New York to meet Mrs.
Armat and they will go to Cape Coo
to remain several weeks.
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CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY AT
CONGRESSIONAL CLUB.

S@NNSAO@-ASASA0ANAAA@
The Minister Of Ecuador and
Mime. Elizalde viii be honor guests
at the dinner for sixteen which
Mrs. George d: Hope is giving to-
night at the Congressional Country
Club in celebration of her birthday.
The patriotic note. will be sounded
In the decorations OF flags and
flowers, with flags on the place
cards. and the centerpiece will be
liberty bell Of flowers, a miniature
replica OF the some sent to President
Coolidge. The hostess has com.
posed a toast to President Coolidge.
whose birthday falls on the Fourth
Of July. -
Mrs, Hope is further celebrating
her birthday by sending to LADY
Lee, of Fareham, check covering
contributions made by her friends
Tor the purpose of purchasing his.
toric bits Of pottery, pewter. etc.
to place in the Eleanor Hone Gun.
board" presented by Mrs. Hone
two years ago to Sulgrave Manor.
the English home of the Washing.
ton family.
a beautiful birthday cake, candle.
decked, was presented by the man.
ayers of the Congressional Country
Club to Mrs. Hope. who Is one OF
the few women founders of this
organization.
n
Mrs. Thomas Blagden, who is re,
turning to this country after spend
ing several months in Paris, is ex
pected to land and will go to Maine
70 join her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Brett Noyes, at their sum
ner home.
PRESIDENT BURTON IN
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Allen w. Dulles, chief of the
division of Near Eastern Affairs OF
the State Department. has gone to
Newport to spend the Fourth. OF
July holiday with Mrs. Dulles, who
is the guest Of her parents, Pro
lessor and Mrs. Todd. He will re.
turn to town OH Monday.
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Miss Eloise Sargent is the guest
Of Mrs. Edward Derose and her
daughter, Miss Derose, at Westover.
Long Island, whence she will go
to Gloucester to spend the summer.
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who has been employed as a stenog-
rapher there. Before her return she
will visit another daughter, Mrs. E. r.
Brown, and family, with whom she
plans to return home by auto in June.
viii johnson and family, and hig
son, Dean, and family, from Paonia,
were Sunday guests at the home OF
Mrs. w. A. Beltz.
Sheriff Davis, wife and daughter,
Helen, left Sunday for a week or ten
days visit with relatives at Phoenix,
Arizona.
Mrs. L. Maldono, who has been
visiting her son for the past several
days, returned to her home in Trini.
dad, the last of the week
After pleasant visit with his
son at the Junction, and also with a
brother at Palisade, w j. Rogers was
homecoming passenger Friday.
After a winter spent at Salt Lake
the w. r. Cowger family are agar
domiciled in Delta, and state they
are glad to get back home again.
Mrs. Dan Luttrell was an arriva
from Pueblo Friday, taking the brancl
for Paonia for an indefinite stay will
her husband, who is employed there.
Mrs. viii Shreeves came in from
Escalante Canon, Saturday, for
weekend visit with her brothers
Frank and Walter, and family.
w S. Reynolds left Friday for Gun
nison and other eastern points, includ
ing Kansas City in the transaction
of business.
F. A. Cole was an outgoing passe1
ger for Pueblo Friday, where he wa
called as a witness before the Gran,
Jury in session there.
Buttercup-a real coffee. johnson
& Brentons.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Perkins and son
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ing Monday at thc NJ. h. church. AT
ter the meeting, a delicious basket din
ner was spread in the annex.
The movie, "Trifling with Honor"
given Saturday for the benefit of the
gymnasium netted about s2S for the
fund.
Miss Nancy Lynch rendered her a
shower Saturday afternoon at the
home OF Mrs. ]. C. Reed. Miss Nancy
is to be one of Crawford's early sum
mer brides. She received many use
full and beautiful gifts.
surprise party was given Sunday
afternoon on Louise Patterson at the
home of her grandfather, Jim Patter-
son, and aunt, Mrs. Hattie Dixon
whom she has stayed with while at
tending the Crawford school this
winter. About 20 little friends and
schoolmates were present. Outdoor
games were enjoyed, and at the close
of the afternoon dainty Refreshments
were served. Needless to say the kid
dies had a jolly time.
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LOCAL NEWS
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You can afford to eat the best IL
you buy from Johnson & Brenton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rask are enjoy
ing the delights of new Buick car
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Higer have
gone to Hill City, Kansas, for the
summer.
Begin to save for that vacation by
buying you Groceries from Johnson
& Brenton.
Howard Peterson of Eckert left on
Monday for Grand Junction for a visit
with his sister, Mrs. A. w Boardman.
A. j. Johnson Of Cedaredge left for
Pueblo Saturday, where he will visit
with his sons, Rollie and James.
G. L. Hice was a between passenger
from Trinidad on his way to Paonia
for a visit with friends, Friday.
Ask for your cleaniphones at John
son & Brenton's.
Mrs, l.. j. Silvy of Cedaredge left
Friday for Oklahoma City to attend
the wedding of her daughter, Sadie