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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
Polly Paperdon Gess Days Schooling

Polly Paperdou had aa un. usual adventure On Tuesdayk when she tuok n. easiy ssosn. in9 stroa dova 0 Card dbunsd Corners. She found aa opea Seozrephy lying eAere, and her curiosity becominn too nsneh scr her, she climbed upon t 0 icck as . colored pacture of Africa. A breeze turned the page, and Polly was . prisonerI Shortly afterward Miss Eleanor came into the room, slammed the GOV. CTS of the geography shut, and went to school. Polly says she was never so thrilled in all her life. She only wished she could have had her head out of the book, SO that she might have seen what was going on. But she was completely shut in, and only when the geography class was called and Miss Eleanor was told to turn to the map of Africa was Polly discovered. Then there was troublei Miss Per. 'kins, the teacher, asked Miss Eleanor what she meant by play. ing with dolls during lessons and made her bring Polly up to her desk.
 "ft was lots of fun," said Polly herself. ''I sat up on the desk all morning and listened Go the children. They said fise queer. est thin2sI And every nov and then one of them would % up and write on the wall. It was a black wall and they used white chalk, making all sorts of funny marks. They would write some- thing and then they would stand back and say :c.a-t; cat or d-o-g; dog It was very strange. I'm going again some- time if I can.''
 The News, which is always in favor of more education, has repeatedly recommended to the citizens of this village the estab-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30

Iishment of a school for dolls. Poliy's experience may serve to wake up the town to its real need of such a school.
Evening star., 1924-07-08
DEMOCRATS PAUSE
TO PAY RESPECT
Convention Puts Aside fractional
Quarrels to Express Sorrow for
Presidents Grief.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, July s.-The Demo
cratic national convention paused in
its factional quarrels today to pay re-
spect to President and Mrs. Coolidge
in their hour of sorrow.
When the session began Rabbi
Stephen Wise, New York. offered the
following resolution on behalf of
Franklin d. Roosevelt, chairman of
the New York delegation.
This convention Of the Democratic
party gathers this morning under the
shadow of the grief that has come
to the home of the Chief Magistrate
of our nation, together with all our
fellow Americans. We bow our heads
in sympathy and reverence by the
side~of our President as he and his
family pass through the valley. of
the shadow of death.
1--WE pray that the divine comfort
and healing may be vouchsafed to
the sorrowing parents. May the
father and mother OF the lovable
youth who has been called from life
to life hnd solace and strength In
the thought Of the loving sympathy
of all the American people.
I'm token thereof this convention
silently bows its head with loyal and
affectionate regard for the President
and mother Of Calvin Coolidge, jr.'
The resolution was adopted by Q
rising vote and copy sent to the
Presidents -.s-
Evening star., 1924-07-08
McAdoo Strength Drops to 80:
Smith Holds 355 During First
Real Shake-Up.
CALIFORNIAN URGED TO DROP
OUT BY WARMEST SUPPORTERS
Advise Action to Give Him Voice in
Selection as Forces Rapidly
Break Away.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. July 8.Six futile ballots today-bringng
its total to the Democratic national
ton adJournng for sxhou during which conferences
planned the hope of finding through wh
pool McAdoo lines continued dsntegate during the day
balotng Gov. Smiths forces held fast
and ookedfoT booming for Senator Ralston
actually developed on the floor
The word went flop in the Ralston
todays balong his place had third last with
total of 1864 The McAdoo numbers hammered steadily
down during the days ballotig low record-3O
the lowest point the Mcdoo forces the
convention began.
They did Bit however, last ballot of the
day and stood 3l4 when the Meanwhile
the Smith vote closed 365 within Is of its highest
all the balotng The McAdoo forces
the close of last nights balloting and todays opening
DAVIS STANDS FIRM.
John W. Davis closed we'll toward his high mark standing
at o. Senator Ralston beginning figure surprising his
vous highwater mark in the days balong from
9S to 1864.
Glass in the meantime suffered slump losing in the aggre
gate 40 Much of the loss and the losses of others
due to the accretions to the Ralston boom.
The talk about the convention hall the Rason
going be its full chance develop and
did do the coalition forces would be upon
else.
Evening star., 1924-07-08

White House Flag
Alone HaIf-Staffed
For Coolidge's Son

Although President Coolidge per-
sonally expressed a wish that the
death of his son be not officially
recognized, at the insistence of his
advisers the Executive allowed the
White House flag to be lowered to
half-staff this morning after it had
been in the peak position for sew
eral hours.
Members of the cabinet who call
ed at the White House convinced
Mr.. Coolidge that the flag over the
building in which the dead body
Of Calvin. jr., lay should be lower
ed as a mark of respect, and the
President consented only on that
basis. 1t was learned.
Flags on the government depart
ments will remain at full staff.
They are lowered only when heads
of this or other governments die,
or by Executive order.
President Coolidge maintains
that his sons demise has no official
bearing and he wishes as little
publicity given to it as possible.
Strict orders were issued even that
no photographs be made of the
funeral.
Evening star., 1924-07-08
Ralst0n Nomination Tonight
Predicted by Pat Harrison

this morning found itself still in a
testants, with the position reversed
by Smith being in the lead with Nc
Adoo the trailer. The expected drive
for Ralston last night failed to ma.
terialize, although he did get some
votes, but not IN volumes sufficient
to be classed as the starting OF a
landslide.
Outlook DiscouraginE.
The outlook at the opening this
morning was rather discouraging.
Some of the leaders professed to en-
tertain the hope that break may
occur during the day and a nomina-
tion made, but when they analyzed
the situation, with it's attendant bare
faith, they had to admit that it was
more hope than reason which die
tated their feelings.
People have said every day. This
thing cannot go on" but this
thing has gone on through all these
weary and seemingly endless days.
McAdoo will not yield to Smith and
Smith will not give way to McAdoo,
and there it is. Each has demon
strated strength sufficient to stop
the other.
Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick, and everybody around here is
well. nigh sick unto death.
Conferences Futile.
The adjournment Of the convention
last night out of respect to President
and Mrs Coolidge's grief afforded oppor.
tunity for further conferences last
night-that word conference" is getting
to be joke, but as usual they were
fruitless conferences among the units
of the two sides, and no efforts seem
to have been made to confer between
Continued on Page 4. Column u
Evening star., 1924-07-08

dred ballots. An attempt was being
made to swing Oregon and Idaho
from the McAdoo column to Homer
Cummings of Connecticut. and to
throw the strength of Illinois behind
John w. Davis.
Kansas delegates informed the
Ralston managers that the Kansas
vote of twenty would go to the
Indiana senator on the ninety-first
ballot.
Despite the plain evidences of a
shakeup in the entire situation the
changing of large consignments Of
votes was accompanied by little of
the tumult that usually attends such
movements in national conventions
For the most part the delegates took
it very calmly. A week of work
in the hot convention hall and the
constant humdrum of the roll calls
had turned almost to routine what
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column A.
Evening star., 1924-07-08
n. o. MESSENGER.
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK. July S.-The sena-
torial group in the convention, headed
by Senator Pat Harrison of Missis-
sippi, was on the floor of the conven-
tion to put Senator Ralston of In
diana across as the presidential
nominee of the Democratic party
At noon today Senaton Harrison
predicted that Ralston would be
nominated either late today or to-
night.
Senator Robinson's friends, of
for Ralston. They are hoping that
eventually Ralston will be stopped
and the chance will then arrive for
their candidate.
Ralston has been declared to be
the most available" candidate for
the Democratic nomination by the
majority of the Democratic senators.
There are twenty of the Democratic
senator's in the convention as dele
gates, and their influence is being
cast today in favor of the nomination
of Ralston with few exceptions.
Acceptable to Bryan.
They are using the argument among
others, that Ralston is acceptable to
William Jennings Bryan.
The greatest obstacle that Raj
ston has to overcome, however, is the
enemity of many of the Smith dele
gates on the Ku Klux Klan issue.
In the drive for Ralston his total
was shown to be 1891 on the ninetieth
ballot-on the next ballot Kansas de-
serted Gov. Davis for whom the dele
cation has been voting and cast it's
20 votes for Ralston, amid much ap-
plause. The ninety-first ballot gave
Ralston total of 1879.
The convention when it reassembled
Evening star., 1924-07-08
RALSTON IS SILENT
AS new BOOM GROWS
Senator Listens In While Vote
Mounts, But Declines to
Make Comment.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, July s.-United
States Senator Samuel M. Ralston was
listening today on the radio at his
farm home when the eighty-ninth
ballot taken in the Democratic na-
tional convention for nomination for
President was announced, showing the
senator had received 100h votes, his
high mark. Mr.. Ralston declined to
comment.
The Hoosier solon continued to re-
cefve kilograms today declaring that
his nomination will restore harmony
in the Democratic party. Mr.. Ralston
made public one such message, re-
ceived just after the eighty-ninth
ballot from B. F. Yoakum. New York
business man and widely known in
farming circles, as follows:
'-The Democratic national conven-
tion is becoming a joke throughout
the country. Your nomination would
restore its respect and confidence not
only among the delegates. but the
country at large"
Tho senator said he was not reply
ing to messages received since he re-
quested tho withdrawal of his name
from consideration BY the convention
on July 1,
Evening star., 1924-07-08
REAL ESTATE RING
FACES Jury PROBE
Special Body Called to Inves-
tigate Charges Made by
Senate Committee.

United States Attorney Gordon will
submit to a special grand jury which
has been called for July % the evil
dence collected by investigators for
the United States Senate in con-
nection with the alleged existence of
a real estate ring" to boost rents and
values Of property in the Distric. The
work Of the regular grand jury for the
July term is so crowded that Maj. Cor
don decided to call an additional grand
Jury to look into the charges.
Among the allegations contained
in the report of the Investigators
submitted to the United States at
torney by Senator L. Heisler Ball,
chairman of the District committee.
u one relating to alleged pyramiding
of trusts % aDartments and ONCE
buildings,
Evening star., 1924-07-08

After Mr.. McAdoo had been in con-
ference for an hour with his princi-
pal floor managers he sent a messen-
ger to the convention hall to search
for William Jennings Bryan and take
him to the conference room. Bryan
had been a consistent McAdoo sup
porter, but Senator Ralston was on
the list of acceptables he laid before
the convention last week and the
Ralston men had been at work trying
to win him over to the candidacy of
the Indianian.
New Dark Horse Out.
In the belief that an end to the
long deadlock might come before the
end of the day, all sorts of efforts
were being made to bring out a new
string of dark horses and to quicken
the pace of those who have been
going wearily through their pre-
liminary steps through nearly a hum
Evening star., 1924-07-08
S12,9lO,0DD ASKED
FOR 1925 SCHOOLS
Budget, Largest Ever Sub
mitted, Goes to Commits
sioners From Board.
$500,0OO OVER LAST YEAR
New Salary Schedule and Roclas-
sifcation Act Account for In
crease, in Main.
$500, 600 OVER LAST YEAR

Carrying a total OF approximately
s12.500.000, the school estimates for
the next fiscal year will be transmit
ted to the District Commissioners
this afternoon by Robert L. Hay
cock, acting superintendent or
schools. The budget was approved
by the board Of education yesterday
afternoon at an executive confer
ence which followed the final public
session until September 3.
The new budget, the largest ever
submitted. is about 100000 larger
than the one submitted to the Com
missioners last July for the current
fiscal year, which totaled $11,s5s.OS6.
schedule provided for the teachers
in the Keller salary bill and the
higher remuneration granted the Gus
todian and clerical forces under the
reclassification law.
Follows Building Program.
Following closely the five-year
building program to which the board
committed itself three years ago, the
|
equipment call for an appropriation
of about s5.0o0.oOO. of which $1,000
900 will be used for new buildings
and the remaining $3,000,00o for the
purchase of property for playground
purposes and as sites for schools
which it is planned to erect in the
future.
buildings and grounds items will be
| used to begin the construction of the
new Mckinley Manual Training School
at I'd and T streets northeast, and the
two junior high schools, one for
white and the other for colored pupils.
The white junior high school will be
erected in the vicinity of 7th and G
streets northeast, and the colored
| near Rock Creek Park. in the neigh
borhood of goth and o streets.
Business High School.
The estimates, it is understood, also
include an item for the preparation
of plans for the proposed new Busi-
ness High School which it is planned
to erect on the property already
owned by the District government at
18th and Upshuh streets, on which the
Macfarland Junior High School is now
located. The new health school which
will replace the Hamilton School, on
Bladensburg road. also will be placed
| on this site.
Among the other schoolhouse ac-
commodations provided in the budget
| are elementary schools in Manor
! Park. in the vicinity of Sd and Rit-
tenhouse streets, and in North Pet
| worth. These new schools are de-
signed to relieve congestion in the
| schools of Brightwood. Brightwood
/ Rark, Petworth and Takoma Park.
Many of the items in the estimates
| are for the needed extensions Of yards
for playground purposes, which were
stricken out of the budget last year
by the budget bureau when it cut the
boards original estimates from $11,-
s5S.osS to 3s.o1s.47o.
AdAitiOnal Land Sought.
| The item for the new Business High
School, which was eliminated from
| the budget last year, called for an ap-
preparation of 100000. The same
amount, it is understood, is asked for
| in the new budget
4
Evening star., 1924-07-08
WEATHER.

Unsettled today and tomorrow,
> probably local showers, not much
change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, S5. at
2:30 pm. yesterday; lowest, 20. at AIS
am. today. Full report on page Z.
Evening star., 1924-07-08

The item for the new Business High
School, which was eliminated from
preparation of 100000. The same
amount, 1t is understood, is asked for
in the new budget
Evening star., 1924-07-08

The Stars carrier system covers
every city. block and the regular edi-
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-02
SEES HARD SHEDDING
FOR BUILDING BILL
House Chairman Says He Will
Push Measure if President
Insists.

The $j0,100.000 public building pro-
gram for the National Capital, urged
by President Coolidge in his budget
message to Congress, to adequately
house Government activities in Gov
trnment-owned buildings, will he
vigorously pushed at this session of
congress by Representative Ed "
Elliott of Indiana, acting chairman
OF the House committee OF public
buildings and grounds, if President
coolidge sends word to Congress that
he particularly wants this legisla-
ton passed
Representative Elliott said TODAY
that he believes the $50,oO0,0 900 for
tho Washington building program
has little chance of passing unless
President Coolidge comes out most
cmphatically for 1t, and that even
then he is of the opinion that il
VIII not be passed unless It is Joined
with an omnibus public building pro-
gram, which would run the cost TO
at least $100,000,O00.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-02
EGYPTIAN CRISIS
BEL|EvEDPASSEO
New Government Wins Con-
tidence Of People and Order
Is Restord in Sudan.
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 2.-Reports re-
reived in official quarters in London
are declared to have given the i'm
preston there that the new Egyptian
government has gained the confidence
Of the people, the advices indicating
also that order ard safety have been
restored in Egypt and that the Sudan
IS entirely under the control of the
British authorities.
British officials feel that the crisis
is over and that the time will shortly
come when the entire question of the
relations between Egypt and England
may be settled by conference.
The evacuation of the Egyptian
units from the Sudan Is continuing
quietly, according to the latest adj
vices. while search is being carried
on for the handful of mutineers who
escaped during the fight in the street
with which the recent outbreak be-
gan. The mutineers, it is thought.
arc probably being hidden by sympa-
thetic friends, but it Is not believed
any further disturbances will occur.
Schools Are Reopened.
The advices up to this morning
showed Cairo continuing to be calm,
with half the schools in which strikes
had occurred having reopened, the
disturbing clement among the adult
students having resumed their nor
NAL life.
Tho Egyptian government appears
TO have apprehended most of the
leaders in the plot which resulted In
the assassination of Maj. Sir Lee
stack, the sirdar, although the
actual murderers have yet to be
found. The Egyptian court has re-
fused to release the members OF the
assembly arrested as plotters on the
ground that political immunity could
not be legally applied to their cases.
Neville Henderson, newly appointed
British minister plenipotentiary i'll
Egypt. arrived at Cairo last evening,
according to the Daily Mails cor
respondent. Mr.. Henderson's trans
ter from Copstantinople, where he
was British counselor, is understood
10 have been made to strengthen the
position of Lord Allenby, the high
commissioner in Egypt, by giving
linn an assistant from the diplomatic
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-02
TERMS ROUSE STUDENTS.
500 at College Urge Revolt When
Learning Egypt's Action.

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO. December 2.-On hearing
Of the Egyptian governments accept
:nce OF the remaining terms in the
British ultimatum, 500 students of the
Tewtka Training College rushed in
TO the quadrangle today shouting:
Up" and "Revolution."
Some of the students began polit-
teal speeches and harangued their
corn AIDES for two hours. after which
the crowd dispersed into groups
which heatedly discussed the situa-
ton.
Regiment Sails for sudan
NALETTA, Malta, December =
An aircraft carrier with the first
Gordon Highlanders on board left
here this morning for the Sudan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-02
THROWS BABES TO DEATH.
Dependent Mother Then Leaps
Three Stories, Fractures Skull.

NEW YORK, December 2.-Throw-
iHg her 3-week old twin babies
from the third floor of an upper Mad
lSon avenue apartment house TODAY.
Mrs. Bessie Katz, % years old, then
Jumped after them. One Of the babies
died and the other and the mother
suffered fractured skulls, from which
hospitai physicians did moth think they
would recover.
Dependency which followed a
nervous breakdown was responsible
for the womans act.
The other twin died short time
after reaching the hospital. Mrs.
katz, whose condition is critical, is
under arrest charged with homicide.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-09
ANERICUS HIGH GIRLS
5 TO PLAY PLAINS
Game W;lI Be Staged Friday On
Aggie Indoor Court, Begin
ming at 3 O'Clock

Americas High school basket ball
girls and the girls five of PIainc
school will play q game here Friday
afternoon, according to an m
nouncement authorized today by
Miss Harriet RyIander, business
manager Of the team. The game will
be played on the indoor court at the
Aggie school here, and the girls say
they will give Plains a hard fight
for mastery, with every prospect Of
winning.
The team to meet the Plains girls,
which is coached by Miss Dorothy
Cass. of the High school faculty, is
composed Of the following girls {:
Chloe Davenport, Capt; and Massie
Lane, forwards, with Alice Harold
sub; Frances SILVER and Martha
Johnson, guards, with Elizabeth
Joiner and Josephoine Buchanan,
subs; Harriet Rylander, center, with
Annie D. Hall, sub; and Marjorie
Cargill, side center, with Katherine
Harris, sub; There will be an adml5-
sion of 25c and 35c charged, the
money to be used in promotingath-
letic activities at the high school.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-09
towards KILLS PIG
WEIGHING $50 LBS.
Fine Hog Slaughtered Monday
Yields Unusual Quantity High
Class Meat

Along with other progressive
Sumter county farmers, N. NJ. Ed
wards, of Americus, was busy Mop-
day killing hogs and packing away
meat for farm and home use during
the spring and summer months.
Among other hogs slaughtered by
MIR. Edwards was one excellent spec
imcn 2 years old which yielded a to-
tai of ESQ pounds, being one Of the
finest killed in this community, Sd
far as reports reaching Americas
indicate. III
The hog was a purebred Dumc
of the stock owned by c. c. HaW-
zins d Son, and according TO Mr..
Edwards the meat yielded exempii-
fled most Interestingly the advan-
taee to DE secured through raising
purebred stock exclusively. Other
hogs slaughtered at the same time
and which had been fed on the same
rations, viz home raised corn and
roughaege, yielded proportionately
large quantities of meat.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-09
BAGWELL AND OTHER
SEAB0A9D MEN MERE
Superintendent of Division Wis
its Americus and Makes In
spection of Property

e. c, Bagwell, superintendent Of
the Alabama division of the Sea
board Air Line, with headquarters
at Savannah, was in Americas Tues
day, coming on an inspection trip
and while here going over the local
properties of the Seaboard here. lie
was accompanied by his secretary
and other company officials.
Mr.. BagwelI, who came up from
Savannah to spend a day in Ameri-
Gus, was the guest of Seaboard Of
ficials while here, and after com
pleting his work here returned last
night to his home in Savannah. All
Of the terminals and other Sea
board property here was found to
be j. excellent shape, it is an
nounced
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-01-09
DAT CROP NEAR PAINS
BELIEVED TO BE LOST

d. P Allen, 3 well known farmer
living in Plains community, was a
visitor in Americas today, and while
here discussed the effects Of receny
weather on small grain crops in that
vicinity Oats he states, have been
seriously damaged on his place, with
the crop there practically a complete
loss, although rye, which is a harder
grain, has not been seriously affect
cd.
While some farmers may replaut
their oats, it is believed that the sea-
son is now so far advanced IS to
make uncertain that replanting is to
he general over any large area