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The Washington times., 1924-04-10
VICTORY IS
ASSURED
HIM
Landslide Will Come April ~
When Delaware, New Jer-
sey and Pa. Elect.
By JOHN T. LAMBERT,
Cosmopolitan News Service.

President Coolidge is today with
in thirty-one votes of being NOM
mated.
He has a total of 524 delegates
pledged or instructed to vote for
him on the first ballot. The num-
ber necessary for a choice at the
Cleveland convention will be 555.
He will have that number def
nitely, and great many more to
spare, on April %.
Landslide Coming Soon.
On the fifteenth of April, New
York, which has given him eighty
four delegates, will meet in con
vention and elect seven more,
pledged to him. Illinois, which yes
terday gave him fifty-four dele
gates, will meet on the same day
in convention and elect seven more
delegates-at-large pledged to him.
On the seventeenth of the month,
Florida will elect ten more pledged
to Coolidge.
He will then be seven delegates
shy of victory and he will have to
wait five days more. The landslide
will come on April %, when Della
ware will elect nine, New Jersey
thirty-one, and Pennsylvania will
bang through with seventy-nine
delegates, all of whom will doubt
lessly be for the President.
Those figures were compiled to-
day for Cosmopolitan News Service
by Jim" Gadbury, who is one of
the active directors of the Coolidge
campaign and who knows whereof
he speaks. 1t is in fact his duty
to take charge of that very situa.
ton.
Grand Total Obtained.
The grand total of delegates to
be obtained by the President on
April % will remove not only the
active but inactive opponents from
the Republican field against him
1t will give death to any aspira-
ton Of any Cabinet officer or other
in his own party who may have
hoped that the President would
falter in the canvas for delegates
between himself and Senator John
son. There are many within his
own party who would not reject
a chance to take up the crown.
In the following table, the Pres
ident is credited with only those
delegates who are pledged or in.
structed to vote for him. He is
not given, for example, the, addi-
tional seven to be elected for him
in New York next Tuesday. In
North Dakota he is credited with
the thirteen because, while Sena-
tor La Toilette gained six of the
thirteen delegates, the entire dele
cation is instructed to vote for
the President on the first ballot.
The situation is as follows:
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
DOG URlOUS ABOUT TOP
GULPS IT AND EXPIRES

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Md,
April IA frolicsome little pup at
one of" the local schools became too
intensely interested in the spinning
of top by some of the small boys,
and it cost the animal it's life.
AS the lads were playing, the
dog came running along, and sea-
ing the top in action ran over and
swallowed it with one gulp. Imme-
diately he was in great pain ana
persons who did not know the cir
cumstances believed he had an at
tack of hydrophobia.
The little canine cut up all sorts
Of capers and rolled around on the
school house grounds in an effort
to allay its pains or to get rid of
the top, but neither was possible,
and he died a few minutes after
swallowing the plaything.
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
TETLOW GUILTY.
OF SLIGO RUM
ROBBERY
Former Deputy Sheriff Con-
vioted of Breaking Into
House.

ROCKVILLE, Ma, April TO-
Arthur Tetlow, of Kensington, this
county, a former member Of the
State police force and ex-deputy
sheriff for this county, was found
guilty by Judges Peter and Worth
lngton in the circuit court here yes
terday. of breaking into a home,
near Sligo. this county, in May,
1920, and stealing a number of
cases Of pre-war whiskey. Theo-
dore Addison, colored, of Kengar,
this county, pleaded guilty Of com.
plicity In the robbery. Sentence was
deferred. Charles Alert, coIored, is
under Indictment for the same Of
Tense but has not been apprehended.
When Addison was arrested sew
eral weeks ago on a charge of
chicken stealing, he not only, it is
said, confessed his guilt, but told
States Attorney Garrett and other
officials that he was connected with
the Sligo robbery and implicated
Tetlow, Alert and another former
officer, who was not indicted. The
day Of his arrest Tetlow also made
q confession which was used against
him at the trial.
Found guilty by a jury in the
circuit coprt here Of shooting with
intent to kill his wife, Ella Bright
and his brother, George Bright. at
the home Of his father, near Law
tonville, several weeks ago, Samuel
Bright, jr., colored. was sentenced
by Judges Peter and Worthington
to two years in the Maryland peni-
Tertiary.
The defendant, as the testimony
showed, had been drinking, and
when he and his brother quarreled.
he went upstairs and got a shot.
gun. Upon returning to the first
floor he fired the gun through a
door which his brother and wife
were holding to prevent him from
entering the room. Most Of the
load entered his brothers legs, pain
fully wounding him. His wife was
slightly wounded.
Clarence M. Griffith. well.knovn
resident Of the upper section Of this
county, died Tuesday night in a
washington hospital. aged fifty
eight. The immediate cause Of
death was an internal injury srf-
fered several days ago from a fall.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Grace Griffith, who Is a daughter
OF the late Lysander Etchison of
New Market, Nd. and the following
children: Mrs. Gladys Gauliss, OF
Baltimore and Miss Mary and Cor,
man and Robert Griffith, Of this
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
STREET RESIDENTS
HAVE WATER AGAIN

Water service was restored to
residents Of / street northwest, be-
tween North Capitol and First
streets this morning after they had
been without it since last Tuesday,
when an Anticipated water main,
laid in 1875, burst.
Indignant citizens complained to
the water department because only
two men had been set to work on
the main.
j. S. Garland, superintendent of
the water, department, explained
that the delay N pu ting the pipe
in to shape WAS due 10 series of
breaks which occurred along the
line
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
PRINCE OF DAREDEVILS Is
WALES, JOCKEY SAYS

NEW YORK. April 1O.-The
Prince of Wales numerous crop.
pers" were explained today by the
fact that he is the prince of dare
devils, utterly fearless, but he takes
on better horses than he knows how
to ride" 1t was F. C. Espin,
reputedly one Of England's great
est steeplechase jockeys, a passen.
ger on the Cameronia, which ar
rived today. who did the explain
inD
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
RULING ON REPATRIATION
OF BERGDOLL IS SOUGHT

Secretary Of Labor Davis today
called upon Commissioner Of
Naturalization Crisp for an opinion
as to whether Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll has lost his American
citizenship through his failure to
comply with the draft law.
Crisp was asked to ascertain IL
Bergdoll committed any act of ex-
patriation while within the United
States; whether his act of refusal to
comply with the draft requirement
imnn ired his citizenship in any man.
NJ" nd whether any act he could
hive performed would expatriate
him.
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
HIRAM JOHNSON
HAS NOT QUIT
CAMPAIGN
Senator FIatIy States He rs
Not OUT Mystery Sur
rounds Conference.

By H. X. REYNOLDS,
international News Service.

Coolidge stock. already the best
buy in the Republican political
market, jumped all the way to
par today coincident with widely
circulated reports that Senator
Hiram Johnson of California had
virtually decided to abandon active
participation in the various State
primaries between now and the
Cleveland convention.
Johnson's friends are telling
him that his defeat in Illinois and
Nebraska has sounded the death
knell of his campaign for the
Republican nomination, and are
urging him to lay low for the next
two months, taking what dele
gates he can get without a fight
and leaving his fate to be deter
mined definitely at Cleveland.
Mystery Surrounds Meet.
Considerable mystery surrounds
the calling Of a conference here
of Johnson's campaign managers in
the Eastern States to discuss the
situation and to decide whether or
not the johnson candidacy should
be pushed further in the face of
consistent Coolidge victories in the
primary States.
Announcement that such a con-
ference was to he held was made
yesterday, but Senator Johnson de-
MED today that he had called II,
declining at the same time to deny
that he planned to withdraw or at
least to halt his active campaign
ing and speech-making.
The following brief conversation
with the Senator took place at the
Capitol today.
Denies Amy Withdrawal.
Have you withdrawn from the
Presidential racer" he was asked.
81 have not"
"Have you summoned your cam
paign managers here to decide
whether you shall withdraw"
mo, l didn't"
"Will you deny that you intend
to withdraw"
81 will not"
Other than that, Senator Johnson
had nothing to say, though 1t was
understood that he would authorize
statement within the next twen-
ty-four hours clearing up the situa-
ton as regards his plans for the
future. The statement may not be
forthcoming, however, until the
conference Of his managers has
been held, either here in Washing
ton or in some other city in the
East.
Coolidge Forces Confident.
The Coolidge managers are not
counting on Johnson's withdrawal
to win the Cleveland nomination for
the President.
They regard the preconvention
campaign as practically completed,
estimating today that only thirty.
one additional votes will be needed
in the convention to nominate Mr..
Coolidge.
Between now and June 10, Presi-
dental primaries will be held in
ten States-New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts,, Ohio, Mary.
land, California, Indiana, Oregon,
Montana, and West Virginia. Cool.
idge managers are claiming all Of
these except California and Ore
gon, but the uncertainty in the
Johnson camp may bring these into
line for the President.
The Washington times., 1924-04-10
WOODRUFF WILL
GIVE TALK At
SMOKER ,
Clarendon Citizens Association
Will Hear Congressman
From Norfolk.

CLARENDON, Va, April TO-
Congressman Clifton A. Woodrum
Of Norfolk will be the principal
speaker at the smoker to be given
by the Clarendon Citizens Associa-
ton at Citizens Hall tomorrow at
p. m. Other speakers will be
Harry K. Green. commissioner Of
revenue. Of Arlington county, and
William J. Ingram. supervisor from
Arlington district. J. Thomas Man.
ming, president, said today the pur-
pose of the smoker il to have a
general good fellowship meeting
that greater interest in the affairs
Of the association may be created
among the members.
Chief e. ]. Plarr, of the Ballston
volunteer fire department, said to-
day that a special meeting of the
department would be held tonight
at 8 o'clock in the engine house,
when plans would be formulated to
raise $4,000 to complete the new
truck to be added to the present
equipnent Plarr further stated
that the selection of the general
committee to make arrangements
for the annual carnival to be held
In June will be made tonight.
The organization of the Ballston
Athletic Club was perfected at a
meeting of citizens held at the home
- T1G ovs1
last night. The officers elected are:
Charles Lyons, president; William
Rothy, vice president; Elmer Chaun-
Gerry, treasurer; d. d. Prigmore,
secretary. The club will hold its
next meeting in the Junior Hall at
Ballston on Saturday night, when
the board Of directors win be
elected.
1t is the purpose of the club to
organize a baseball team and to
arrange for an athletic field meet
during the summer. The club will
be open to youths over sixteen
years Of age.
An organization to be known as the
Arlington Fire Insurance Agents
Association was formed in Claren-
don last night. the following Off
GERS being elected: Garland Ken
drick, of Ballston, president; ]. r.
Luttrell, of Falls Church, vice pres
ident, and Lyman NJ. Kelly, Of
Clarendon, secretary-treasurer.
The Ballston Council. Junior
Order American Mechanics, No. 221,
held their regular meeting last
night In their hall at Ballston,
when the degree team conferred the
degrees of the order on a large
class of candidates. Refreshments
were served.
1t was announced in Clarendon
today that Rev. c. 1. Flory, who
has been for the past two years
the pastor of the Clarendon Metho.
dist Church, has been again re-
turned to Clarendon by the Metho-
dist conference for another year.
The regular meeting Of the Clar.
endon Boy Scouts, Troop No. 104,
will be tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
in the Sunday School room of the
Clarendon Methodist Church.
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GOVERNMENT
 ASKED RETURN
 WRANGELL MEN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Requests that the government provide transpor- tation for the one white man and 12 Eskimos, all American citizens, taken from Wrangell Island to Vladivostok in October by Soviet ship, have been met with the explanation that the government has no funds which can be expended legally for this pur- pose.
 The request reached the State de- partment through Delegate Dan A. Sutherland, and Carl Lomen, mem Der of the business concern which sent the party to work on the island, on the gasboat Donaldson, at the time Ada Blackjack was rescued. The party is composed of a man named White, and two Eskimo families, who were to trap and collect ivory on the island
 The government feels that the par ty should be cared for by the com mercial company which employed them to promote private enterprise.
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PRESIDENT SENDS
 GREETINGS TO ] DISABLED VETS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Among toe. first Christmas greetings to go out from official Washington today were those sent by President Cool idge to the men whose disabilities tell eloquently of their sacrifices while among the armed forces of the na- ton.
 The President sent his message through the Disabled American Vet erans and it was broadcasted to the Army and Navy by Secretary Weeks and Wilber
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LIVES OF FIFTY SIX CHILDREN SNUFFED
 OUT WHEN CHRISTMAS TREE HOBART, OKLAHOMA, IGNITES FROM CANDLES
Tiny Candle Tree gnites Ball of Cotton and Holocaust Is Started-Wid Stampede to Reach Doorway
 Whole Town Plunged in Mourning

HOBART, Oklahoma, Dec. 26.-Fire stalking in the tracks of Santa Claus turned whole countryside into mourning, and country school house into inferno at Barbs Switch seven miles from here, Christmas Eve, and snufed out the lives of fifty six persons, mostly small children who had gathered for the celebration
 The Christmas tree was decorated with candles and balls of cotton and during the swayng of the branches the cotton ignted In the mad rush for the doorway which became blocked with the bodies of the dead and dying and numbers of children became separated from their parents and were trampled under foot.
 The hospital here is filled with injured many of whom are believed to be fatally burned
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Commander Drain Sends
 Message Legionnaires

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 25-"Whether the most colossal war in the history of the world shall be benefit or a detriment to the world depends for the most part upon how we who were left in the world normal and little affected shall use our opportunities" :" declared Commander Drain of the American Legion in a Christmas mes- sage to the Legion members, deliv- cred to local broadcasting radio station.
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Albanian Insurgents
 Invade Capital Today

BELGRADE, Dec. 24.- Belgrade newspapers today print advices stat ing that column of Albanian insur- gents entered Tirana capital last eve- ing. They also state that Scutari has fallen. The occupation of Tirana, ac- cording to advices, followed the bat tie at Chaffamour, in which troops of Premier Fannoli were beaten by the rebels under command of ex-premier, Abound Bey Souga.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
XMAS PACKAGE TURNSOUT TOBE
 DEADLY BOMB

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-Secret service men and postal inspectors as we'll as the police of California cities are engaged today in a nationwide search for the cowardly assassin who sent a bomb disguised as Christmas present that exploded yesterday in the home of M. Torchia, promi- nent attorney, inflicting injuries from which he cannot recover. Emily, the 1S-year-old daughter of Torchia, who was standing beside her father when the explosion occurred, miraculously escaped death, but was seriously in- jured.
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JAPAN IN MESSAGE OF
 GOOD WILL TO WORLD
 SAYS HOPES FOR PEACE

TOKYO, Dec. 25.-In a New Years message to the Japanese people, For eign Minister Kijuro Shidehara in part said: We are at peace with the world, and until threatened by anyone there is not the slightest prospect of disharmony with any na- tion. On the contrary, there are many evidences of cordial relation ship existing with our sister nations, and especially with the United States"
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Doctor Refused the Right
 Practice In State of Wash.

OLYMPIA, Wn., Dec. 26.-The Su- preme Court refused to reinstate Drannie K Russell, of Seattle, as a medical practitioner. The decision was handed down recently, reversing the decision of the King County Su- perior court. Dr. Russel's license was revoked by the state medical board, after he had been convicted here of performing an illegal opera tion
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
POSTHUMOUS AWARDS
 SPANISH WAR HEROES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-The dead heroes of the Spanish American war were honored in an announcement by the War department today of list of posthumous awards for gallantry in action. Major James Watson, who was with the famous negro Tenth in fantry, June and July IS and 19, 1898, was awarded two silver stars, which went to his sister, Mrs. M. w. Bris- COG.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
Spirit of Christmas
 Manifest In Capitai

WASHINGTON, Dec 26.-The spir- it of Christmas lies over the capital today as it does over the humblest homes in the land. No observance of the day was simpler or quieter than that in the White House. The day when family ties are most closely drawn brought freshly to the mind of President Coolidge and his wife the loss of their younger son, Calvin, and because of this they sought to make their celebration the simplest kind.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
CALIFORNIA ''i~ t WINS
 OVER MISSOURI "U"

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26.-After be- ing outplayed the first half, when in a scoreless tie, the University of Southern California eleven came back in the second half, in their Christmas Day game with the Missouri univer- sity in the coliseum and won 20 to 2 victory. A tremendous crowd at tended the game.
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ALASKA S.S. COMPANY
 PLANS WINTER CARGOES

SEATTLE, Dec. 26-In accord ance with the plans of the Alaska Steamship company to put it's yes sels in other trades in the winter when traffic in Alaska falls off, the freighter Tanana, which has been laid up, will go on berth for New York. The ship will load a cargo of 2,50O,000 feet of lumber at Ia coma and Everett
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
Political Rowdies Get
 Nothing for Rioting At { Big Fashionable Hotel

TOXIC, Japan, Dec 26.-Two lead CTS of a gang of political rowdies, who were arrested after they stop ped an American Colony dance at the Hotel Imperial, on June ', as a protest against the passage of the Japanese exclusion clause in the Am erican immigration law, were dis charged by the criminal court today because of lack of evidence.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
Burbank Has New Corn;
 VIII Grow Cold Chimes

SANTA ROSA, Dec. 26.-An an nouncement was made Christmas Eve that Luther Burbank had devel- oped and is ready to give to the world as Christmas present new table corn, which is sweeter and hardier, and more productive
 It was also stated that this corn will grow father north than any va riety heretofore known
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
Seattle Man Runs Down
 Crippled Newsy with Car

. SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.-Alberton E. Scott, local manager of the Kerr Clifford and company, was arrested for running down and dangerously injuring with his auto, Fletcher A. Green, a crippled newsboy. The po- lice allege Green was drunk
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AD MAN SLIPS UP AGAIN

Overlooked in the Christmas rush, the greetings from the Carsten Pack ing Company's advertisement was in- advertantly omitted from our last is- sue. Mir. Kurtz wishes to thank one and all for valued patronage.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
COOLIDGE ASKS LEGISLATION FOR REWARD FOR THE LATE
 ROUND THE WORLD PLIERS

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec 24.- President Coolidge has asked the general staff of the Army to rec ommend suitable reward and recog- milton for the Army's round the world airmen.
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Alaska Castineau
 Mine Sold, Juneau

JUNEAU, Dec. 26.-The property of the Alaska Gastineau Gold Mining Company, including 66 lode mining claims, was sold for $2O0,OO0 Wednes- day to the Alaska Gold Mines com pany by the master in chancery un- der foreclosure proceedings.
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VALUED JEWELS STOl

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 26.-Jewelry, valued at $1OO,00O, belonging to Mrs. Harry Hart, the wife of one of the officials of Hart, Schaffner and Marx company, secured by two bandits, who held up two employees and two guests of the Parkway hotel.
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ANDERSON PAR0LLED
 IS ARRESTED AGAIN

OSSINING, N. r., Dec. 26.-Wm. H. former superintendent of the anti-saloon league, was paroled from Sing Sing prison today and was taken into custody on two warrants charging grand larceny and eXtOrtiOn.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
Former Seattle 'Dick"
 Alleged Accomplice In
 Canada Bank Hold-up

SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.-Two of the eight witnesses and victims of the robbery of the Nanaimo Branch of ths Royal Bank of Canada, who are inV Seattle today, positively identified Ross c. Watson, former city detective as one of the bandits in the bank.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-26
NEW SCHEDULE OF WAGES
 FOR NAVY YARD EMPLOYES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-The new schedule of wages for employees of the Puget Sound Navy Yard during the year 1925 was made public today. Increases were granted for 61 classes of labor, and decreases affected four classes. In POS classes no change was made from the 1924 schedule.
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OLD ALASKA MINER
 CROSSES DIVIDE

SEATTLE, Wn., Dec. 26.-George c. Mahla, 59 years of age, who was a miner and prospector in Nome and the Klondike nearly thirty years ago, died here last night The oldtimer had been ill for the last three years and came for medical trea tment three months ago.
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CHINESE GOVERNMENT WILL
 RESPECT EXISTING TREATIES

PEKING, Dec. 26.-The Chinese government today declared it's inten- tion respecting all existing treaties while expressing hope that the exc: cutions of the resolutions agreed to at the Washington conference will not be long delayed.
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Nationally Known Airman and Companion Feared
 Lost on Coastwise Run

SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., Dec. 26.- Seach is being made today for Aviator Oakley D. Kelly and Lieut. H. Collier, who left Vancouver Bar racks, in Washington, for San Fran cisco at one o'clock yesterday after noon.
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Juneau Murderer Is
 Given Life Sentence

JUNEAU, Dec. 26.-M. Suzuki, a Japanese, was sentenced here today to life imprisonment at McNiels isl and for the murder of Margaret An- dreanoff, a young white girl, at Pe- tersburg. The Japanese was infatu- ated with the girl, who was cannery worker and when she repulsed his favors shot and killed her.
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Worshippers Pass Thru
 Door Opened by Pope

ROME, Italy, Dec. 26.-speams of "the Faithful" are still pouring to- day through the Holy doors in St. Peters, which were opened by Pope Plus on Christmas Eve, in inaugur- ating the year with jubilee.
 Each one passing thru kissed the side posts from which the door had been removed
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Twenty-three Dead
 In Virginia Floods

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 26.-Twenty- three are dead and fourteen in hospi- tals at Saltville, Virginia, as a result of the breaking of muck dam across the Eiolston river
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'jooze Cargo Caught
 Worth Five Millions

NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Coast guard CTS, British schooner and three mo- torboats, with a liquor cargo valued at $5,000,000 The British schooner Petara with seven prisoners and six thousand cases of champagne was also captured.