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Evening star., 1924-06-03
Coolidge Names MacMurray.

President Coolidge sent to the SEN
ate yesterday the nomination Of John
Van a. MacMurray of this city, who
has been head of the Far East af-
fairs division of the State Depart
ment, to be a secretary of embassy
or legation of class l. Mr.. MacMur-
rays assignment will be made known
later
Evening star., 1924-06-03
Graduation rocks

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of exquisite lace, $3.50; and tailored frock of
white crepe de chine with TERED skirt and girlish
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Others to $3950
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F|GHT|NGGR|FFS
THREE CANES
To GOOD
Face Red sox in Final Com
test TodayPaul zahniser
to Take Mound
By LOUIS A. DOUGHER.

Leading the league by three com
plete games, the fighting Griffs
hook up with the Boston Red Sox
today In single contest, ending
that visit OF the New Englanders
to the Capitol.
Paul Zahniser, who conquered the
Philadelphia Athletics the last time
he assembled the hill, expects to
face Lee Fohl's gang Of swatters
today. With the Griffs hitting on
all eight cylinders, batting, fielding
and baserunning, Zahniser hopes
to make It five out Of six wins
from the. Sox. e
Now that Howard Ehnke and
Jack Quinn have appeared in the
box, Lee F'ohl will have to choose
between Alex Ferguson. usually ~.
fective against the WashinRtonians
and Oscar Fuhr, the tall south.
paw from Mobile.
The fighting Griffs cannot afford
to stumble. The New York Yankees
and Detroit jungle Cats are RIGHT
on their heels. Looming IN close
behind are the Cleveland indians.
who have been running wild IN the
West. The Indians have Ifopped
from seventh place to fourth inside
OF week and hope to get out In
front during their coming swing
along the Atlantic seaboard.
Tomorrow ID an offday for the
Griffmen. Friday, July 4, they viii
play morning and afternoon games
with the New York Yankees. with 4
doubleheader booked for SATURDAY
and single game next SUNDAY.
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Coolidge to Be Notified
In Continental
Hall

The Republican Presidential
notification ceremonies win be
held here on the evening Of
July "a in Continental Memorial
Hall, Chairman Butler, Of the
Republican National Committee,
announced today.
President Coolidge will be
notified formally Of his nominal
tion by Frank W, Mondell,
chairman Of the Cleveland con-
vention. The proceedings will
be broadcast by radio.
Butler also announced that
General Charles G. Dawes
would be notified Of his nom
nation for Vice-President AZ
Evanston, H., on July 20. The
date previously had been fixed
for July 81.
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ARTIST / RAMP
R0BS HARPER
HOME
Hungarian Legation Rescues
Boy Who Entered Bankers
Leesburg Residence
BY JOSEPHINE TTGHE.

4 LEESBURG, Va, July Rep
resentatlves Of the Hungarian le.
CATION in Washington arrived here
this morning and took into charge
Arnold Valentino, knight OF the
road, extraordinaire.
Valentino, eighteen years old,
was arrested outside OF Leesburg
two weeks ago charged with
,vagrancy and held for the grand
Jury. When searched, most
amazing quality OF loot was found
on the person Of the young for
eigner.
There were cans OF expensive
talcum powder, scented imported
soap, expensive perfumes, hair oils
and paste, the use OF which would
have. showed Rudolph Valentino
into unpublished and unoiled In
nocuous desuetude.
II developed that Arnold Valentino
had broken into the house Of Colonel
Robert N. Harper, president Of Dis
trict National Bank, whose home is
just outside OF Leesburg, and helped
himself not only to the ungents,
powders and toilet accessories, vat
also had reveIled In much water
and fine towels to- his hearts and
lody'S content.
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over Mississippi was in process
polls were in progress in the Mis-.
souri, and Michigan DELEGATIONS a
to where they would swing. Mis-
souri,, 1t was said, probably would
swing back to McAdoo and Michi.
gan was apparently inclined toward
Smith, Ralston, and McAdoo.
A near fight occurred in the cen.
ter aisle during the demonstration
When McAdoo marcher tried to
grab Missouri's banner. He was
stopped with q rlghts and in the
melee the standard stayed put.
After the demonstration had gone
about six minutes, Chairman Walsh
ordered the balloting resumed.
Many RumOrs AfIOat.
The leaders came to the Garden
from conferences that were almost
continuous, but apparently not pro
ducttve Of really important develop.
ments.
There was talk in the Missouri
delegation as the convention got un.
der way OF going back to McAdoo.
The Missourians bolted his standard
yesterday and went to Davis. Fac
tional differences In the "shoW me"
State have been a feature Of the
convention.
Oklahoma's delegation also was re.
ported to be in difficulties. The
Oklahomans forsook McAdoo last
night and started q movement for
their favorite son, Senator Robert
L. Owen.
The McAdoo faction was agitatIng
today n raturn Ia McAdoo fl,t fhas.
appeared to be IN a minority and
some OF the delegates frankly
wanted to 60 to Davis.
George =. Brennan, the Illinois
boss ana leader Of the anti.McAdoo
forces, came into the Garden. at
lO:lS. He had his usual expensive
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RaItimore Grain Market

Wheat, firmer; No. red, winter
export, $1.2O: No. 2 red winter gar
hcky domestic, $1.1S11; receipts, 76
bushels; shipments, SS,77S bushels.
Corn, firmer; Mo. yellow do
nestle, $1.16 bushel; receipts, 4,3S3
bushels; shipments, 4,94S bushels.
Oats, firmer; No. white domes.
tic, So cents buShel receipts, none;
shipments, 1896 bushels.
Rye, easier No. spot export, SO
cents bushel; receipts, 1,453 bushels:
$3.50 bushels.
Hay, slow; sale supply ample.
Flour, firm.
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WAR on OLD
PARTIES
NEARS
Ia Toilette Backers Ready to
Launch Attack at
Cleveland
BY KENNETH CLARK,
international Newa service.

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July a.
a savage Pronunciation Of both the
Republican and Democratic part
ies, ecuplsd rallying cal
for progressives the nation over
n unite soifdly behind the inde-
pendent Presidential candidacy Of
Senator Robert M. La Toilette
(R.), of Wisconsin, will be the
keynote of the conference for
progressive political action OPEN
ing here Friday.
This was definitely determined
today as the national committee
o. the conference put the finish.
ing touches on the arrangements
FOR the convention.
La Toilette to be Absent.
Senator La Toilette himself will
not be present. He viii be repre-
scented by his son. Robert jr., who
acted as unofficial observer for
his father at the riepublicap ami
Democratic conventions Young La
Toilette is comforting with his father
IN Washington today, and Is expect
ed here tomorrow with a draft OF
the platform which the militant
Wisconsin Senator wants this con-
vention to adopt.
That platform will assail both old
line parties for failure ITO enunciate
progressive doctrines and will call
for sweeping reforms in govern.
mental operation. Having had full
opportunity to study both platforms
adopted in Cleveland and New York,
La Toilette will go each one better
in announcing q progressive doctrin.
al creed, appealing particularly to
farmers and laborers.
Chief planks in the La Follette
platform, 1t was learned today, Ire:
u. s. Rail Ownership.
1. Government ownership Of rail-
roads.
q. Farm relief through Immediate
establishment of a Federal corpor-
alton to buy and sell agricultural
products.
8. Sweeping reduction Of tariff
rates.
4. Constitutional amendment Civ
ing Congress power by a two-thirds
vote to override decisions OF the
Supreme Court.
5, Direct primary for election OF
President and Vice President.
Lower Taxes.
6. Lowering of taxes on the small
or incomes and imposing higher
rates in the upper brackets, pos
sibly including an excess profits
tax.
Z. Further disarmament on land
and sea.
8. Tightening UP OF the anti
trust laws.
8. Government development of
water power resources, such as
Muscle Shoals.
1O-A drastic corrupt practices.
Sure LIN Toilette VIII Run.
AS far as those already on the
ground are concerned the question
OF La Toilette heading an indepen.
dent third ticket is settled. So con-
fident are they that he will run,
after receiving the Endorsement OF
this convention, that they are turn.
ing most OF their attention to the
platform and the selection OF Vice
Presidential nominee.
For second choice, Warren s.
stone. OF the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Engineers; Senator Burton X.
Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana. and
Congressman Huddleston, Democrat,
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grin and hazarded the prediction
tnat 1t would be continuance 81
the endurance test"
kThomas Taggart, the Indiana
leader, holding Ralston under wraps.
IN this tense race, was d late aY-
rival He had been holding numer.
Gus conferences with various State
leaders at the Waldorf and he told
his friends the Hoosier Senator
stock would look up nIateriaIIy's
during the day.
This was taken as confirmation
fhat Ralston was to be put into bia
stride within the next dozen ballotr.
n was ii o'clock when Chairman
Walsh began rapping for order.
The invocation was pronounced Nv
York. {,
Few Changes In Votes.
The thiry-first ballot showed com.
paratively little change from the
thirtteth of last night.
There was the shifting Of 4 vote
here and there among the three
leaders, McAdoo, Smith and Davis.
and the swapping Of a few among
the ten other candidates, but the
totals were little affected.
Reports were current ON the
noor during the taking OF the
thirty second ballot that on the.
thirty-fourth ballot the Mississippi
delegation would switch to McAdoo.
These reports. emanated from
McAdoo lieutenants. whose strategy
apparently was to lead Off with &
punch that might draw back into
the McAdoo fold the States that
forsook him yesterday.
Low Level for McAdoO.
McAdoo dropped to a new low
level on the thirty.third ballot. que
IN the fart that MiOhiwams~ enI~2,,
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EDII(;A TON
BLOC IS
URGED
Or. Baglsy, Columbia Teach
ers' College, DiscIoses Need
Of Political Action

An appeal to disregard exist
ing party lines and throw their
support 70 the political party
which would do enough for edu-
cation was directed To the 1000
delegates who represent more
than 10000 teachers Of the ma
ton assembled &c the general
session Of the National Education
Association convention today at
Central high school.
Voicing complete dissatisfaction
with the stand on education taken
IN both the Republican and Demo-
cratic platforms, Doctor William
c. Bagley, professor in Teachers
College, Columbia University,
though not specifically saying
so, implicitly appealed to the
teachers Of the country to sup
port, If needs Be, . third party
should it offer more for education
than the two major parties.
Points to Other Blocs.
II other groups disregard party
lines to serve their own interests
Why should not the educators Of the
country today throw their support
behind that political group which
would do most for education, was the
question Doctor Bagiey put up
aquarely to the teachers.
1.-THE scant consideration which
both Of the political parties have
given to education in their platforms
should be the signal on our part I lr
q positive and aggressive stand" he
said.
His remarks in so far AZ they
touched on furfhering educational
welfare through politics were re-
ceived with hearty applause.
Hits Both Parties
The speaker launched into q
singing attack on the manner IN
which both party conventions dealt
with : education, but reserved his
praise for party representatives. In
Congress-.
''Contrasted sharply with the
courteous treatment that our rep
resenIatives have met with In
Congress Is the treatment Of quite
the other sort that our representa-
tives were accorded In the cOnven-
lions at Cleveland and New York, =
he declared. AT those two con-
ventions, the great questions have
been not what 10 right and just and
best for the broadest and most
enduring interests Of our country,
but how we can placate the minosi-
ties that hold the balance Of power.
o Organizations that could be counted
on to deliver the vote OF those
strategic and powerful nominees
had no trouble IN reading their
planls into the platforms or In
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
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COTTON CROP REPORT
SHOWS CONDITION FAIR

The Department OF Agriculture
today announced the condition Of
the growing cotton crop on June
Is was 71,2 per cent Of normal, as
compared with 65.6 per cent on
May IS. 1924; 500 on June rs, 1928,
and 74.S, the average condition for
the past te nyears on June 20.
From past experience, the June
rs condition Of 71.2 per cent indt.
Gates yield per acre of about 14.S
pounds, and total production Of
about 1914, 900 bales of 50O.pounds.
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means IS GWEN
TWO-Y[AR
TERM
Former Justice Department.
Agent Also Fined $4,000. 1
Jarnecke Sentenced
BY. international News service

NEW YORK. July 2.-Gaston b.
Means, former Department of Jus.
tice agent, convicted yesterday with
Elmer W.. Jarnecke, his secretary,
Of conspiracy to violate the Vol,
stead Act, today was sentenced to
two years Imprisonment and fined
$4,000. Jarnecke was also sen.
fenced to two years Imprisonment
and fined $1,000. Both men were
freed on $4,000 bail pending an
appeal.
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McAdoo dropped to a new low
level on the thirty.third ballot, Que
to the fact that Michigan's thirty
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b. GEoRQE 3. HoT.MEs.
International News SeryIce.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK July g..
William McAdoo checked his decline TODAY ii the race for
the Democratic Presidential nomination and began to recover
some Of the ground lost the previous assaults on his dele
cations.
AFTER sinking to low figure Of 4O45 on the thirty
,nird ballot the McAdoo managers successfully staged "a
break on the thirtyfourth and took Mississippi twenty
votes away from John w Davis
Ihs McAdoo States seized this hope with fervOr
immediately launched on demonstration that ended III
me inevitable parade through the aisles
Wlham Jennings Bryan got credit for the Mississippi
swcn de has abored consistently within delegation ever
SINCE they st started voting for John W. Davis and the
fourth ballot. ts. ~ 80 s5
managers declared that the Mississippi accreton
was the first step in movement to rebuild the McAoc
strength to what before the crumbg process began
yesterday. go
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INAD00 TAXES Squirt
AHEAD But soon
SLOWS Up AGAIN

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NEW YORK, July -
The deadlock in the Democratic national convention con-
tnued unbroken today through the thirtyfif ballot.
William q McAdoO succeeded in checking his decline
ne even staged smart squirt on the thirty ballot
he could not bold the gains made On that ballot and h1
total dropped on the thirty fifth again
Ihe McAdoo spurtand Involved only three Statss
mississippi Oklahoma and Missouri and the lat mentioned
State was only indirectly involved 49, e-
isnsSippi started the squirt the thrfomth By brsa
ing away from Davis and going to McAdoo Both Missouri
ana who had left McAdOo yesterday poed their
delegations and Oklahoma back to his standard send
ing his total 70 5 the thirty ballot and his fol
lowers into frcnzied demonstration.
Missouri stuck TO Davis and the next ballot Oklahoma
Went back TO her favcre Senator Robert I. Owen
Ine McAdoc spUrt appeared to have been short lived a.
though Mississippi stuck to hthanls to william Bryan
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CHINESE CABINET OUT
SAYS LONDON DISPATCH

LONDON. July 9.--The Chinese
Cabinet has resigned, said dis-
patch from Picking this afternoon.
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SHERIFFS TO
HOLDSESSION

Elmer l. Gibson. OF Montesano.
president OF tho Washington State
sheriffs and Peace Officers aasoci.
alton. has called the goth annual
convention OF the organization 10
meet In Bremerton. January is to
IL, according TO Information from
Warden G. II. Long. OF tho state
penitentiary at walla Walla. As
sheriff OF Spokane county. Long
was last year elected secretary OF
;ho association.
Tbs FIRST days program viii con
sist OF committee reports ard gen.
cral business. In tho afternoon.
however. Gov. l.. 4. Hart win ad-
dress tho peace officers. and technl-
cal addresses viii be made by yari.
GUS sheriffs. A trip 10 Port Gam.
bic will end the first days scasion.
ON Wednesday Roy c. Lyle. state
federal prohibition officer, and
Thomas y. Reyelic. United States
prosecuting attorney. head tho llHt
OF speakers. with Lillian NJ. Vim.
cont president OF the state w. c.
i. u. ana The Rev Canon Bliss. Of
Seattle. Judge Max G5ss chair.
nan OF the r,ate parole board. also
viii speak
Official representatives OF Idaho.
Montana and Oregon also arc
scheduled to attend and speak A
banquet win end the meeting Thurs
day evening.
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to bc fed, lemonade stands were be.
Ing set up. and Eidcahows with pic.
lures that would take your breath
away almost. wero getting fixed up.
Tho sword swnllowcr and snake.
chnrmer and knife ,hrower and tho
fat lady and living skeleton and tat
'oocd man were TO 10 in them.
And above all was the delightful
terrifying roar OF tho lions, and all
sorts OF sounds you could hear, but
not see-I mean SEQ what they wero
coming from. But the elephants
we're right out In plain view. No.
body could hide them. or the cnmela,
or tho last yard and half OF the
giraffes. which stuck up and out OF
their cages Ike church steeples.
ReallyAit was almost as good ms be.
ing inside tho big tent, and there
was 40 much TO sec u was no
wonder that the three children for.
got about the lost Twcedles. DUN
and Dee, for minute or two.
Indeed II was quito by accident
that they remembered II was this
way A balloon.mnn took Nick and
Tom by the shoulders. Say. there.
you two. Where did you put my two
punches Of balloons7 Have you lost
them or sold out7"
'LostF' Their errnnd popped into
their heads nj the word. and tho
thought Of poor Missez Tweedle at
homo worrying.
why. you're not the two little
boys ! gave my ballons to. 20 hold
for me- exclaimed the balloon.man
in surprise. ~ beg your pardon.
wonder whore those two little fol.
lows went7 one had on n rcd stock
lng-leg cnp and tho other had on a
blue stocking.lcg cnp. Did you Geo
them7"
why, we arc hunting for them
toor' cried Nancy. They're wanted
ut home"
Wei, well, wcllF' said tho bal.
loonbnan. II gave each Of them
big bunch Of balloons and I'll have
TO have them back pretty soon.
what do you say II we all go and
hunt7 Come alongl They can't be
far nwayr'
Go BE Continued
Copyright. 1924. by Seattle STAR
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a battered gold locket without initial
or inscription; an empty cartridge
OF "a eaiiber. and small snapshot.
alike faded and diseolorcd and half
torn across as tho someone had
started TO destroy it and then thought
better OF Il.
Taking up the faded snapshot he
examined Il closely. It's faint llnea
showed tho figure Of a tall. slender
girl clad In a lightcolored gown
which appeared TO be mass Of
ahrubbcry In full leaf. At her side
and reaching TO above her knee was
blurred objec; resembling huge
dog. bu, tho outlines were so indis.
tinct that It's breed could no, DO
determined.
CONTINUED In Our Next ISSUE
Copyright. 1924. N. Il. A. scrvlce)
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ADVENTURES
OFTHE TWINS
THE MISSING BALLOONS
IOlive Roberts Barto

Nancy and Nick and Tom Tinker
hurried down Broom 81. past wheel.
barrow lane on down past Jacks
now house and tho Pieman's shop.
and pretty soon they came 20 the
place where the street melted away.
you might say. into a sort OF big
field.
And honestly. Il did seem aa tho
tho whole world was thore 20 SEQ
tho circus come In. Certainly near.
~ everybody in Daddy Gander
Land. except the mothers who were
trying TO get the homework done
up so everybody could 20 TO the
performances In the afternoon. And.
oh. yes. tho daddles who were bus.
lily working 10 make enough money
to send their families 10 tho per.
Torrance In the afternoon.
Great golden wagons with marvel.
Gus pictures painted on the sides
went rumpity. rump. thumplty,
thumpi over the bumpy places,
teams Of black and white horses
were being unhitched and led away
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hard. surface brIllIancy and devilish.
iy clever. bitter humor OF tho dead
woman there had iurked humanity
sentimental regard for episodes in
her life that had vanished from the
sophisticated present. for there be.
meath his hands were clearly me.
mcutos OF the past. the foolish. faded
objects. meaningless 20 anyone else.
which every woman treasures until
memory ceases TO have value.
A faded blue satin ribbon. stiff and
yellOwed at tho edges. held knot Of
erumbling brown sprigs which must
once have been flowers. torn scrap
Of real lace, diseoiored now. and too
rich In quality for a graduation
dress but Il might have been a bit
Of n bridal veil or christening robe
once upon time: lock OF short,
curling hair. matted and rcd.brown:
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WANT TO WRITE
TONORTH POLE?.

How would you like TO send post.
card to the North Pole?
Sounds far,fetchee, but it's posi-.
bic for the Norwegian postal admin.
lstrntion has decided to issue cards
which viii be carried over the top"
OF the world on the proposed polar
flight of Capt. Road Amundsen,
great explorer.
According to information received
Monday by Postmaster c. NJ. Per.
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u. S.-Ireland Money
Orders Now 0. K.

Direct exchange OF international
money orders between tho United
Stntes and Ireland has been ostab.
lished. Postmaster c. NJ. Perkins
announced Monday. The standard
will be the English pound sterling.
In the past, such transactions have
been handled thru England.
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Careful Mail Thief
Is Given 6 Months

Despite his plea Of extreme care.
fulness, Ray Smith. confessed mail
thief was sentenced to serve six
months In Jail by Federal Judge n.
u. Cushman Monday. Smith, n
former mail clerk. told the court
that he took the letters from the
mails In order to prevent their loss
thru theft, with the idea of repost.
ing them.
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kins, the cards win bear the printed
address: THE transpolar flight ex-
petition, christiania, Norway" on
one side, with space on the reverse
face for the address OF the person to
States. will return to Norway via
receive the card. Bearing both Nor
wegian and American stamps. the
cards, after distribution in the United
New York and return to America