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Evening star., 1924-06-06
B0RAH WILL NOT ACT
WITH IDAHO DELEGATES
Announcement Surprises Party
Leaders-State Group De
parts Tonight.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The star
BOISE, Idaho, June 6.-ldaho's S
delegates to the national convention
of Republicans at Cleveland will
leave for the Ohio city tonight.
Just before leaving it was an
nounced by National Chairman John
Thomas that Senator w. e. Borah,
one of the seven delegates -at-large,
would not sit and act with the Idaho
delegation. This eleventh hour an
nouncement comes as a surprise and
is causing much comment in party
circles here, as some leading news
papers in the northwest have lately
boosted Borah for the vice presi-
dencyIas Coolidge's running mate. 1t
is believed that this possibility may
have something to do with Borahs
action. Some feel that it is simply
one way to assert independence" of
the state organization which gave
evidence of it's strength in resisting
any proposals of Borah's friends at
the Lewiston state delegate conven-
ton.
The Republican state organization
does not care to open a fight with
Borah, but knows that the cards are
in its hands and means to make
Borah realize it.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
FiUe Per Cent Ta1 Increase Likely
If ID. C.. Fiscal Plan Is Chan oed
Dropping of 6O.4O Ratio OuId Leaue an Addit;onoJ
Sum to Be Raised by Additional
LeUes

Of all Increases brings the amount nm
to about $3.50, 100000
With this total assessment Of nron-
erty out of the way, the statfsticians
turn to the amount needed for the
levy.
Assuming the total approximations
will amount to $27, 100000 and that
$1,060,00 will be raised, as ordinarily.
from licenses, rents and various fees
going into the Treasury to the Dis
trict's credit, and that $4,000 600 as a
fiat sum will be contributed from the
federal Treasury, the gum of ST, 900
600 remains to b9raiSed from District
revenues.
At a tax rate of s1.26 per $1Oo. on
total valuation of $3.50, 600 900
approximately $17,010,000 would be
raised.
Now, say the statistical enthusiasts
suppose there is only $8,000,000 allow
ed by Congress as the federal contri-
button toward the federal govern
ments obligations in the federal city
That would leave just S18,000,0 900 for
the District taxpayers to make up
A tax rate of S1.34 would return $1S,-
100000 to the Treasury, just $4,000
more than needed.
These figures, of course, are subject
to many changes in the figuring OF
property values. But they give q
general idea of the way that District
finances line up under the proposed
arrangement.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
RARE CONCLAvE HALL
AWAITS REPUBLICANS
Located Near Lake Shore-Interior
= Is Gray-Lacks Familiar
!" Bunting and Color.
COST CLEVELAND SIX MILLION
Building Has No Steps-Can Be
Emptied in Four Minutes.

BY Staf Correspondent.
CLEVELAND, June 6.-Never in all
it's history has the Republican party
had such setting for it's national
convention as it will have next Tues
day here in Cleveland. The Public
Hall, pride of Cleveland, where the
convention is TO be held, is declared
TO be the finest in the country.
This massive structure. near the
shores of Lake Erie, erected at a cost
10 the city of S6.500,000. is a gem Of
it's kind. Not only is it beautiful in
proportion and de ecoration, but it af-
fords to every occupant of seat
there are 1864 in the convention hall
"A full view of the speakers plat
form. The loudspeaking apparatus
installment also insures that all will
hear what is said.
The Public Hall is the property of
the city of Cleveland. 1t was built
with city funds, raised through bond
issue, and was opened ABOUT TWO
years ago. Last year it paid all eX-
penses and about $4,000 in addition
The people of Cleveland regard 1t as
a tremendous asset. Had it not been
for the Public Hall the Republican
national convention undoubtedly
would not be meeting in Cleveland
now.
Bunting Is Missed.
When the convention opens. and
Republican hosts assemble, the old
time bunting for decorations will be
pleasingly lacking. The permanent
decorations of the hall. which are
simple but effective, will not be
covered with bunting. The color
scheme of the hall is gray, with a
Il Pnl0
and red and blue.
The only added decoration will be
large portrait of the late president
Harding. which will be hung over
the platform So well proportlonedl; IL; Is
the hall that it is difficult to realize
not a pillar is to be found. The gal
leries rise sharply in two great
tiers. The dimensions of the hall are
ON the floor-120 feet by $40, and
from side wall to side wall of the
galleries the width is $50 feet.
There is not a step in the building
The auditors walk up gentle in
Clines to the galleries. The exits are
so well arranged that the hall has
been emptied of its thousands IN four
minutes.
Sousa VIII Lead Band
The lighting system is feature
obtained from the concealed lights
and the lights have been so arranged
that the whole building shall be a
mass of red and white and blue
when the band plays The Star
Spangled Banner" The band is to
he under the leadership of John
Philip Sousa during the convention.
Arrangements have been made TO
radio all the proceedings OF the CON
vention to the world outside. In
addition to delegates and alternates
seated on the floor of the hall. 5000
spectators will have seats there. and
in the galleries some SIX or seven
thousand.
The national committee and diStin-
guished guests will be seated on the
platform.
Evening star., 1924-06-06

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that came from the conferees was the
news that practically all of the street
paving items had been retained. This
means s561,450 of regular new paving
work and more than 100000 of new
paving to be provided for from the
gasoline tax fund
House to Act First.
It is understood that the report OF
the conferees will first be laid before
the House for ratification. If the
House concurs in the decision of its
conferees, in agreeing to lump sum
of 50 .ooo, 900 plus s1,oOO.O0o in miscel-
laneous revenue, the bill will then be
brought before the Senate for ap-
proval.
Senator Phipps of Colorado, in
charge of the District bill in the Sen
ate, emphatically denied today that
he had made any statement express
ing displeasure at the attitude of any
Of the House conferees on the District
bill He said he regretted that such a
report had been circulated, because
he did not express any such attltude.
Evening star., 1924-06-06

not yet changed his position in this
matter.
Concede LOwden Strength.
After eliminating the President
from the report about Gov. Lo-Tden.
his associates admitted that they
have evidence of an abundance of
Lowden sentiment in Cleveland.
There is no attempt on the part of
the Presidents followers and other
political leaders here to deny Gov.
Lowden'S strength
President Coolidge is giving con-
siderable of his time to the happen
ings at Cleveland. Besides his care
ful reading OF the newspapers, he is
receiving reports and kilograms. and
it is known that there have been fire.
quent long distance telephone calls
between the White House and the
Coolidge campaign managers in the
convention city within the past few
days
Gets Platform Draft.
Also it is known that President
Coolidge has been given a copy OF
the rough draft of what will be
whipped into shape by the resolution
committee as the party platform. He
has had this since yesterday, and be
sides giving it careful study he is
represented as having discussed it
generally or else in part with a num-
ber of his callers
Senator's Pepper and Reed of Penn
sylvania, who conferred with him for
nearly an hour today, said afterward
that the principal toprc of discus
sion was the platform They also
took up a matter Of patronage. The
platform subject is known to have
also been called to the attention of
Senator Willis of Ohio, when he was
closeted with the executive later.
Borah Among Callers.
The Ohio senator said that his
call had to do with a variety of
matters. including the platform and
the appointment of an Ohio man to
the vacancy on the United States
Court of Appeals of the sixth circuit
Senator Borah of Idaho. who has
been prominently mentioned as
possible vice presidential nominee,
was another Senate member with
whom the President conferred today.
White House that the conference
had to do principally with reclama-
tion in the west.
President Coolidge today received
the thanks of the women's world
court committee, which consists of
representatives from ten women's or
ganizations numbering many mil
lions of members for his stand in
approval of the entrance Of the United
point of these organizations was ex-
pressed in a letter left at the White
House by Mrs. Ramona Morgan.
chairman of the world court com
mittee, and Miss Elisabeth Eastman.
secretary.
Evening star., 1924-06-06

: tax rate Of s1.26, an increase of 6
cents, confronts the District taxpayers
under the new proposed fiscal relation
ship plans, according to statistical ex-
perts at the District building today.
This is contingent upon an appropriation
bill being passed which calls for about
s27 100000 appropriations, with a So
100000 contribution from federal funds
and the agreement to credit the District
with about s1.000,000 in miscellaneous
revenues heretofore divided with the fed
erai government under 60-40 percent
age ratio.
This represents an increase in the tax
rate of approximately per cent. Specu-
lation began at the District building as
soon as word came from Capitol Hill
that an agreement had been reached by
conferees of the Senate and House.
Figures Are Given.
Here's the basis and the method
whereby the figures were arrived at:
Total assessed valuation of tangible
personal property is placed at s379,-
600 900; intangible, 135,000,e00: real
estate, s767, 900, 900, giving a total val
uation of assessible property in the
District at a figure about 81 ,2S1 000,-
600 Adding per cent to take care
Evening star., 1924-06-06

ton Mass: Guy Ellis. Detroit; n c.
brown. Washington; ]. Shuler, Oma-
ha. and Raymond Connolly, South
Orange, N. j. uo,,ao
Jacksonville, Fla, chairman; +. ).
Brunyate, Norfolk. vice chairman; w.
l.. Greene, Miami, Fla, secretary
treasurer; executive committee,
Thomas L. Ingerson. Los Angeles
John a. Petty. Washington, and
Pierce Jones, Chicago.
Cooperative apartment section
Albert w. Swayne, Chicago, chair
man: f. A. MacDougall, New York
CITY. vice chairman; Arthur E. Curtis
Chicago, secretary.
The following standing committee
chairmen also We're announced
Planning and zoning, j. c.. Nichols,
Kansas City; sales methods, j. H.
White, Chicago; legislative commit
tee, H. d. Evans, Youngstown. ONO,
and convention arrangements, Guy
Ellis Detroit.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
ADMITS KILLING PRIEST.
King Confesses Killing Clergyman
as He Administered Last Rites.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June GA
confession to the killing of the Rev.
Michael c. Gilbride at Dracut yester-
day has been signed by John J. King.
jr.. of Dracut, District Attorney Read
ing announced here today. In the
confession it was said King asserted
that he hated priests"
King, known to his neighbors as an
atheist, shot Father Gilbride as he
was about to administer the last
rites of the church to Kings aged
father
When officers were arresting him
young King shot Capt David Petrie
of the Lowell police in the shoulder.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
KLAN is Defeated
IN INDIANA CLASH
Loses Fight for Democratic Guber-
material Nomination-McCul-
loch Is Named.
By the Associated Press.

py the ASSOCIATED BrpSs.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. June C.
Overwhelming the tenacious opposi-
tion of ku klux Klan bloc WELD
ing approximately one-fourth of the
votes, the Democratic state conven-
tion here yesterday again dedicated
the party to the constitutional guar
antics of freedom of worship and ex-
preston and nominated for governor
DR.. Charles B. McCulloch of Indian
apols, who was opposed by the Klan
in the recent state primary
State Senator Joseph NJ Cravens
of Madison, supported by the khan
forces, held a vote of 800 through
the last of three ballots Later a
motion by Cravens' followers to make
the nomination unanimous carried by
acClamation.
DR.. McCulloch, in a field of five, won
plurality of $4,000 in the primary
but failed to obtain a majority which
threw the nomination to the conven-
ton. Today he survived seven oppon-
entS.
Delegation Favors RaIston.
The Hoosier degelation to the ma
tional convention. headed by Tom
Taggart of French Lick, and avowed-
ly favorable to Senator Samuel Rails
ton, was uninstructed.
II am anxious that the delegates
from my home state shall go to the
convention with open minds and per-
feet freedom to participate in nomi-
mating the best man to lead our party
in the presidential contest" Senator
Ralston said in addressing the con-
vention.
Frederick Van Nuys formerly
United States district attorney here
now law partner of Senator Ralston
in his Keynote address denounced
Oppressive organization and societies
and taunted the Republican party in
Indiana for having 'foresaken the
traditions of Lincoln.
Il approve everything the gentle
man has said Tom Taggart re-
marked stoically when he arose to
introduce Senator Ralston. After the
test Of strength on the gubernatorial
nomination, it was, as of old, Mr.
Taggart's convention.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
THAW RELATIVE SUICIDE.
Prominent Richmond Resident
Ends Life by Shooting.
speeIaI Dispatch % The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, June "a Lee
Thaw. for many years engaged in
business here. for several years
manager of the WestmoreIand Club.
and for a long time the special agent
Of the Federal Reserve Bank, later
connected with the branch of the
Richmond Trust Company Bank at
Hopewell, ended his life yesterday by
shooting.
He was sixty years old and had
been for long time in poor health.
becoming despondent and despaired of
improving He leaves a wife and
several daughters, all of them mar
ried. For a long time he was mem
ber of the firm of Thaw & Grant.
druggists and cigar dealers. He was
N.lated to Harry K. Thaw of Pitts
burgh.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
The Friendly Bear.
From Fyerybo,Iv's Magazine

T IVIII I1FtEF UVIF > -IdE dLIIt.
Cinnamon are not usually very coura-
geous in the wild woods. The following,
though, seems to show the ready wit of
the race.
An old Chinaman. delivering laundry
in a mining camp, heard a noise and
espied a huge brown bear shifting his
tracks in the newly fallen snow.
HUI. he gasped. You likee my
tlackS, ] mallee some more
Evening star., 1924-06-06
UTAH GOES TO McADOO.
State Chairman Quits in Fight
Over Delegation.

OGDEN, Utah, June 6.-After bit
ter fight hinging upon the instruc-
tions of delegates, which eliminated
in the resignation of James H Wa
ters, Democratic state chairman, a
delegation instructed to vote for Will
liam G. McAdoo at the national Dem
ocratic convention in New York City,
June "a, was selected by acclamation
at the state convention here yester-
day.
Eight delegates s-at-large. with one
half vote each, and two from each
congressional district, with one vote
each, were named.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
All Full!

From Everybody's Magazine
1t is told of Charles Lamb that one
afternoon, after he had taken his seat
in a crowded omnibus, a stout gentle
man looked in and politely asked. ''Ah
full inside?'
81 don't know how it may be with the
other passengers answered Lamb but
that last piece of oyster pie did the
business for me!'
Evening star., 1924-06-06
WOMEN TO ENFORCE LAW.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The star.
BALTIMORE, Md, June 6-One
hundred and twenty-five women have
organized the Maryland women's COM
mittee for law enforcement as a
branch of the national body, and
have taken steps to form local COM
mittees in each county composed of
clubs.
The objects of the organization and
the need for its work were explained
by Miss Elizabeth Balm Of New York,
field worker and former secretary of
the national committee, and Mrs.
Victor du Pont, Wilmington, Del. (;
Judge Kathryn Sellers, Washington,
D. c., Mrs. A. c. Dixon and Mrs Vir-
ginia Threadgill also spoke.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
"Uncle Joe" to Miss Convention

DANvILLE, Ill, June ct was
stated last night by relatives of "Un-
Gle Joe" Cannon that he did not feel
equal to the task of attending the
Republican convention at Cleveland
and had decided not to go.
Evening star., 1924-06-06
LOWDEN CONCEDED
VICE PRESIDENCY
UPON COOLIDGE 0. K.

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-06-06
EXTEND D. C. PARKS
SOON, REALTORS ASK

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Evening star., 1924-06-06
6O-4O PLAN KILLED
IN FAVOR OF LUMP
SUM BY CONFEREES

Continued from First Page.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-17
CORN SHOW
T0BE EARLIER
Will Be Held in November
Committee Decides

The second annual North Dakota
Corn Show will be held in Bismarck
on November ~, 13, IA and Is, in
stead Of in December, as at first
planned, it was announced today by
George F. Will, chairman of the
corn show committee. The dates
were advanced to permit prize win
ming exhibits to be sent to the In
ternational Hay, Grain and Corn
Show in Chicago.
Chairman Will informed the Corn
Show committee that there is oppor-
tunity for very fine displays this
year. With fair weather in the next
week or two, many localities will
have better corn than last year, he
said. A large part of the corn in
this section may yet mature, even
should the temperature fall to 25
above, he said. At the present time,
Burleigh and Emmons counties have
the best corn in the state, he de-
clared.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-17
ANOTHER n. D.
ROBBERY SAID
TO BE SOLVED
Information Shows Gang Ar
rested in South Dakota
Was Responsible
OFFICERS RETURN HERE
Chief of Police MartinesOn
and States Attorney of
EmmOns Co. Investigate

Capture Of part Of gang of yeggs
which escaped officers in South Da-
kota who did capture three and sent
them to prison, would solve many
North Dakota burglaries, in the opin-
ion of States Attorney Charles Co.
ventry Of Emmons County and Chief
of Police Chris Martineson, who re-
turned from Aberdeen, S. d. today,
where they sought information from
officers to connect men under arrest
with holdups in North Dakota.
In addition to the report of the
previous confession Of James Ryan,
alias st. Louis Billy, that the gang
had robbed banks at Kremer, Sell
fridge and TT. Yates, North Dakota,
and information from another as to
who killed Devils Lake policeman,
the officers returning here said it
was established that the same gang
robbed the Temvik. North Dakota,
LAnk and the Pioneer Store at Pol
lock, South Dakota. The latter rob-
berry was on April Ia, and $1,000
worth of goods was stolen.
The three South Dakota convicts,
who had confessed to robbery Of the
Greenway, South Dakota bank, were
sentenced to seven years each in the
penitentiary on Monday, before they
could divulge information North Da-
kota officers hoped to get.
The gang originally contained
eight men, but part Of the time oper-
ated in two gangs, one of three and
one Of five. James Ryan, 40, Will
liam Berg, SO, former Minot bootleg
ger and Ben Mahowicz, %, alias
George Duane, who received the sem
tences, were part of a gang of five.
According to the Aberdeen Morning
American, one of the gang of five is
serving term in the North Dakota
penitentiary for burglary and the
other four have separated.
Tells of Murder
A story of the confession which
may solve the murder Of Charles
Sneesby, night patrolman at Devils
Lake, when bandits entered the post
office last June 26, is given in the
Aberdeen Morning American as fol-
lows:
Playing square, and keeping his
word, two of the three men who were
sentenced yesterday by Judge Bottum
at Faulkton to serve seven years in
the South Dakota Penitentiary at
Sioux Falls for the robbery Of the
Greenway Bank, late yesterday af-
ternoon told w. S. Gordon, special
officer for the South Dakota Bank
ers Association, who he believed had
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-17
FIRED FORESTS
LAD, C0NFESSES
Desire to Win Admiration for
Discovering Them, Cause,

Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 17.-Fired
with a desire to win admiration for
his daring in discovering and fight
ing forest fires, Alva Smith, -16,
grandson of veteran forest ranger
in the Boulder park area here, set
almost all of the series of fires
which have destroyed acres of tim
Der in the region in the last fort
night, according to confession
which federal and state officials
announced they obtained from the
lad.
Smith rode to his grandfather's
cabin yesterday morning with a
bullet wound in his left thigh and
declared that he had discovered a
fire on his way to schools He jump
ed from his horse, he said, and was
engaged in putting it out when a
mysterious stranger rode up and
shot him without warning.
Robert Duthie, forest supervisor,
and States Attorney Parker ques-
toned the lad after doctors had ex-
amined the wound and declared that
it was obviously self inflicted. The
boy admitted, officials said, that he
set all but two Of the series of dis
astrous fires which have done heavy
damage to the valuable timberland
of the region since September l, and
which became so serious. week ago
that soldiers from Fort Meade and
townspeople from Deadwood and
other Black Hills cities were sum-
moned to the aid of the hundred or
more fire fighters. Mr.. Duthie is at
tempting to establish the boys con-
nection with two fires in the region
whose origin still is unexplained.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-17
CHINESE CIVIL
WAR NOW RACES
IN MANCHURlA
Renewed Evidence of Spread
of Conflict Contained in
Reports of Day
FRONT 100 MILES LONG
Kiangsu and Chekiang Armies
Continue in Deadlock
Near Shanghai

Shanghai, China, Sept. l7-Rcnew-
ed evidences of the spread of China's
civil war to the Manchurian- Chihlian
front were contained in Peking re-
ports received here yesterday tell
ing Of a battle at Chaoyang where
the forces Of Gen. Chang Tso-lin,
Manchurian war lord, were said to
have clashed with those Of General
WI Pei-fu, military head Of the Pc
king government.
AS the contestants in the Man
churian hostilities are taking sides
in the fighting between rival mill
tary governors for possession Of
Shanghai, military observers expect
ed the opening Of hostilities would
have a direct effect on the battling
near here.
For the past sc hours, the rival
Kiangsu and Chekiang armies have
been deadlocked in fierce battles
waged along front approximately
100 miles long, west of Shanghai.
Fighting continued throughout the
night and the Shanghai volunteer
corps was called out when it was
believed the firing line might be
drawn closer to the city.
Tientsin reports from Urga, seat
of the Mongolian government, said
that Premier Danzan Of Mongolia had
been shot by orders of the Mogol
Soviet which is said to be plotting
for the return Of Mongolia to China.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-17
THRESHING
IS RESUMED
Many Jobs Are Open in This
Section of State

Threshing generally was resumed
in Burleigh county yesterday after
noon and there are many opportun-
tiles for work in the entire south
western part of the state, according
to word at the state free employment
office here.
Threshing has not been checked
greatly west of the Missouri River by
rain, but crews were held up consid-
erably through central North Dako-
ia. Farther east, in the Red River
Valley, it is reported the rain was
so steady that some wheat in the
shock was being affected.
Many threshing outfits" are incom-
pletely manned, several in the vicin-
ity of Moffit running with half
crews, the local office reported. Ele-
ven men reported at the office here
yesterday and all were promptly
sent out to jobs paying $4.00 per day.