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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28
MINNESOTA EDITOR DIES
G. w. Dicus, Formerly Headed Illinois
 Press Association

ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 27.-George w. Dicus, 62, editor of the Co-operative Manager and Farmer, Minneapolis, and former vice president of the Illinois Press association, died last night at his home here. A widow and two daugh- ters survive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-28

Alabama: Generally fair Sunday and Monday; cold wave Sunday. Georgia: Fair and colder.
 Tennesse: Fair and colder.
 Mississippi: Fair and -cOlder. (COmpIete weather data is on page IF.
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THE WEATHER
WEATHER

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COOLIDGE.
SCORES
FIRST
New Ashford, Mass, Polls 20
Votes for President to
4 for Davis
By InternatIonal News service.

~
NE WASHFORD, Mass, Nov.
New Ashford was first under
the wire again today with its
complete election returns. The
polls opened at 6 a. m. Fifteen
minutes later the vote was in.
New Ashford gave twenty votes to
Coolidge, four to Davis. Of the
six remaining registered voters,
two were i'll and not voting, four
were out Of town.
Vote Five to One.
Coolidge's ratio of five to one
over Davis bettered the late Presi-
dent Harding's 42-3 to over the
Democratic nominee, James M. Cox,
four years ago. Harding polled
%, Cox 6. Eight years ago Hughes
16 to Wilson's was a Republican
Democratic ratio Of 22-7 to /. with
%, voting. In eight years, there
fore. New Ashford made a clean
gain of one vote.
The voters got to the polls and
had it over with today with aston
fishing alacrity, considering that
there are no trolley cars in this
town. Among other things that it
has not are coal burning stoves or
more than two telephones.
1t has one church-Methodist-
built with funds subscribed by pub
lie spirited citizens in the barroom
Of the towns ancient tavern. 1T
was built in 1880.
The town also claims its bats are
red-headed and its crickets lily
white. That story got circulation
when the tavern still operated its
bar.
Nearly every one in New Ashford
was at the village school house
when the polls opened. The town
had been aroused by the footing
and rafting of the eleven locally
filled in their ballots seated at the
children's desks by the light of oil
lanterns and lamps.
New Ashford doesn't think much
of daylight saving. The vote against
that measure was 1S to l. New
Ashford thinks even less of the child
labor amendment. Seventeen voted
against that measure and none for
it.
The original subscription for the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
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Coolidges Fate Before
Voters Today For
18th Time

Calvin Coolidge is putting his
political fortunes in the hands
Of the voters for the fourteenth
time today.
Only once-and very early in
his career-has he been de-
feated.
The political ladder the Presi-
dent has scaled in competition
at the polls reads as follows:
Councilman, city solicitor, clerk
of courts, chairman of the city
committee, twice elected to the
State legislature, mayor, twice
elected to the State senate,
lieutenant governor, governor,
Vice President. IS
Shortly before his marriage to
Mrs. Coolidge, the President
entered a three-cornered fight
for membership on the school
board Of Northampton, Mass.
When he returned from his
honeymoon it was too late to
withdraw and the Democrat was
elected.
The President and Mrs. Cool
idge viii receive election returns
jointly over a special telegraph
wire and the radio tonight.
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CONGRESS
RULE IN
DOUBT
Republicans and Democrats
Both Hopeful ofA"Work-
ing Majority"
BY A. o. HAYWARD,
Ynfernnflnnal Nnsan Ra.rll

~
NEW YORK. Nov. 4.-POlitieai
control Of the new House Of Rep
resentatives for the Sixty-ninth
Congress was in doubt today, and
the subject Of much speculation as
ballot boxes opened for the BIZ
ennial selection of House MEM
bers.
Each Claims Majority.
Republican and Democrats lead.
ers each claimed a working ma
jority. The La Toilette managers
insisted they would retain the hal.
ance Of power seized in the present
House by their unbreakable <roup
of sixteen.
Congressman VIII r. Wood, In
diana, chairman Of the Republican
congressional committee, places no
estimate on the straight Republican
majority he claims. CONGRESSMAN
Oldfield, Arkansas, who has oi-
rected the fight for his party nonli.
hess for the House, expressed con.
ftdence in strong working ma.
jortty." La Toilette leaders said
they were certain to hold their votes
in Wisconsin and some Northern
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
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IS AMONG
FIRST T0CAST
BALLOT
Ill"
Candidate Votes Straight
Ticket-WiII Spend Day
in Seclusion

LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y, Nov. 4.
With his campaign for the Presi-
dency ended, John w. Davis today
utilized his prerogative as a private
citizen to join the nations army Of
voters.
The nominee obeyed his own in
junction to vote early, by being
among the first arrivals at the poll.
ing place in this villages little
white frame 'neighborhood house. {"
An army of camerameR.. newspaper.
men and curious villagers greeted
him on his arrival and watched
him enter the BOOTH
Davis voted the straight Demo.
cratic ticket, from the Presidency
on down the line to the village con-
stable. He then returned to his
home here to spend the day in Sc.
clusion. A few personal friends
were to spend the afternoon with
him while he planned to get cleo
ton returns tonight at the home
of Frank L. Polk, in New York.
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That the American people today
were passing judgment in the bal
lot boxes on his independent candi.
dacy for the Presidency seemed
farthest. from La Follette's mind.
1t. seemed to matter little to him.
there with his family, away from
the crowds that have besieged him
everywhere for q month, that a few
short hours would tell whether he
was to reach the goal which would
crown forty-four years OF public
service--the White House.
Have you been around the farm
and seen my cows and my Rhode
Island Reds and my corn there in
the field2" he asked newspaper
And then after an interval Of
silence that was but a moment
though 1t seemed much longer
awaiting his further words, La Fol-
lette continued:
"A Great Campaign
Its been a great campaign-ah,
a great canpaign--in many respects
one Of the greatest in history.
There must be a change In the
way that the Government has been
going for the last generation"
It had all the appearance Of an
after-thought when he added:
1.-THE American people must de.
eide, at the polls today whether the
Government for the next four years
shall be their own. They must do
Continued on Page .. Column 81
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What The Candidates
Are Doing While
u. S. Ballots

This is what the candidates
are doing today:
President Coolidge-Cond
ing business as usual and re-
ceiving returns tonight in the
White House, he having voted
by mail earlier in the week.
The ballot went to Northamp-
ton, Mass.
John w. Davis-Resting at
home in Locust Valley, L. /.
He voted this morning in the
court house at Locust Valley.
Robert N. La Toilette Spend
ing the day at his home in
Madison, Wis.,, and voting IN
the court house basement there.
Charles G.. Dawes oking
his pine at Evanston. III, his
home, where he win vote today.
Governor Charles w. Bryan
At his office in Lincoln, Neb.,
planning TO vote across the
street il the State senate cham
Der.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler
Resting in Washington, his bal
lot in the mails for Butte,
Mont, his home.
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By GEORGE e. DURNO,
international News Service.

While millions of his fellow
citizens were determining his po-
litical fate at the polls today,
President Coolidge was uncon-
cernedly going through the me-
chanics of a routine White House
Tuesday.
To the President the result of
today's election is a foregone con-
clusion. He already has stated
publicly that he expects to main
tain the White House as his resi-
dence for an additional four years,
and he has merely an academic
interest in the size of the majority
he expects to poll over John w.
Davis and Robert NJ. La Toilette.
Working on the Budget.
AS Is usual on Tuesdays, imme.
diately after breakfast, the Presi.
dent went into conference with
General Lord, chief OF the Budget
Bureau.
The work Of formulating the
federal budget recommendation &c
Congress is now at its height, and
Mr.. Coolidge spent over half an
hour in consultation with his finan.
cial aid.
The budget conference was fol.
lowed by the regular Tuesday Cab
met meeting-although with fully
half Of the cabinet out of the citv
perfunctory.
Mr.. Coolidge formally ended his
campaign last night, when. over
the radio, he urged every citizen
to go to the polls "in the shirt
that they would approach a sacra.
ment" and vote SOLELY In the Hpht
of their own conscience"
He went further, however,. in
this final speech and dashed out
for the last time at the ''minor.
ties figuring in the campaiTn
ended today.
Critic Of Minorities.
I'VE shall always have with us
an element of discomfort. an Ale.
ment inspired with more zeal than
knowledge" he told his radio au-
dience. They will always be
active and energetic, and they sci.
dom fail to vote. on election day.
But the people at large in this
country are not represented by
them. They are greatly in the min.
GRITTY. But their number is large
enough to be a decisive factor in
many elections. unless 1t is offset
by the sober second thought of the
people who have something at stake,
whether 1t be earnings from invest
ment or from employment, who are
considering not only their own wei.
fare, but the welfare of their child
ZEN and OF coming generations.
"Our institutions never contem.
plated that the conduct Of this coun.
try, the direction Of its affairs, the
adoption Of its policies, the main.
tenance Of its principles, should b.
decided by q minority moved in part
by self'intarest and prejudice.
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100000
OR MORE
TO BE:
CAST
Party Leaders All Predict No
tory as Great Battle Of
Ballots Begins
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES,
International News Service.

NEW YORK, Nov. with
fair weather reported in all parts
of the country, American voters
in numbers never before equalled
are making their quadrennial
march to the polls today.
Upon the verdict they render
there depends the character Of the
National Government for four
years, the local governments in
thirty-three States, the complex
ion of Congressman, perhaps, the
course of world history.
At fewest, 100000 voters win
have registered their preference
before the polls close tonight,
according to the estimates Of all
party managers, and they would
not be surprised if the total
reaches So, 100000. Either figure
will establish new high record
in popular suffrage, not only in
the United States, but in the
world.
All Leaders Hopeful.
The leaders Of all parties found
satisfaction in the fair weather
reports from the country.
Larger the vote the more de-
cisive the victory" said William
M. Butler, generalissimo Of the
Coolidge forces.
Fair weather will bring out this
great silent vote, which can be de-
pended upon to elect John W..
Davis" said the Democratic man.
ayers.
And
|. Fair weather will allow the farm
ers and the people in remote rural
sections of the west to get to the
polls. and that spells Progressive
triumph" declared the La Toilette
Independent leaders.
President Coolidge, John w.
Davis and political lesser lights
everywhere Joined In q common
appeal to the American citizen to
vote.
vote any way you please. but
vote"
just Vote, Their Plea.
This was their plea. 1t was
almost, but not quite, non partisan
In his closing message to the
American electorate, conveyed by
radio to millions of unseen listen.
ers, President Coolidge made
yelled thrust at the La Follette-In
dependents by alluding to them as
IAN element of discomfort, an ele.,
ment inspired with more zeal than
knowledge"
Only a few moments before, the
President had listened to his chief
rival, John w. Davis, speaking to
this same invisible audience, appeal
to the moral sense of the Ameri-
can people," to rise up at the bal,
lot boxes today and vote out of
power an Administration ''streaked
with corruption
God defend the right" was the
fervent and final plea that Davis
left with the voters.
There were M last minute or
eleventh-hour revisions Of the fore.
casts which all party manages
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COUPLE IN
CANOE
LOST
Naval Academy Officer and
Girl EmpIoye Missing
Since Sunday

ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 3.-Hope
has been abandoned that Miss
Harriet Green, twenty, and Lieu
tenant William s. B. Claude,
twenty-eight, instructor at the
Academy here, who have been
missing since they went, canoe
ing on Chesapeake Bay Sunday
afternoon, will ever be found alive.
Il was admitted by the authori-
ties today there is not a chance
in thousand they could have
survived and not been heard from
by this time.
Searching parties from the
Naval Acamedy and Annapolis
are busy again today in their
efforts to recover the two bodies.
Seaplanes ScOur Bay.
Two seaplanes, two submarine
chasers and launches from the
academy and number of civilian
crafts are scanning the waters Of
the bay.
Nicholas H. Green, former States
Attorney for Anne Arundel county,
father of the missing girl, leads
one of the searching parties in a
fast launch, which is visiting points
on the Eastern Shore.
Lieutenant Claude and Miss
Green left Annapolis about 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Both
were said to be excellent swim
mers and skilled in handling a
canoe. When they did not return
after dark, several launches were
dispatched to look for them.
Cling to Faint Hopes.
Families of the missing girl and
the naval officer cling to the fact
that neither the canoe nor paddles
had been found These, they con-
tend, would have floated.
Lieutenant Claude, who is the son
Of Dennis Claude, of Annapolis, was
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1917. He returned recently to
Annapolis from Hawaii, where he
had been stationed for the past four
years. He is an instructor of ma
rine engineering at the Academy.
Miss Green is a graduate of the
Annapolis High School and was EN-.
ployed in the office Of the superin.
tendent of buildings and grounds at
the Naval Academy.
The Washington times., 1924-11-04
ESELECT|ON
SERVICE IS IN
READINESS
- = - - :
Crowd Of IS, 900 Expected to
Get Results From Screen.
Amusement Features

Presidential election night comes
only once in four years and The
Washington Times could have
spent this amount of time and still
not have had plans more perfectly
arranged for tonight's huge party,
when $4,000 Westinghouse win
be the guests of this paper for
eight hours in front of the Hearst
Building,
Every detail which could possibly
enhance the enlightenment of Dis
trict residents, while they seek
latest election bulletins, has been
arranged by a corps of experts Of
this paper.
Begins at Dusk.
Beginning promptly at dusk both
of the big screens erected in front
of the building will begin duty.
One will carry the continuous mo.
ton picture program. The other
will flash the all-important election
news, interpreted by timely car
toons from the inimitable pens of Jim
Ring and Hugh Hennessy, Times
staff cartoonists.
In one way the celebration to-
night will set record. For eight
hours motion pictures-fifty reels
In all-will be flashed continuously
on one of the two screens.
Ordinarily seven reels make up
show in a legitimate motion pic
ture house, but The Washington
Times tonight will show nearly
eight times this many.
A few of the comedies which will
be shown are: when Martin Gets
Here" ''Treat EN- Kind" when
knights Were Cold" lone wild
Day." Showed Under" "The Two
Twins" 1.-The Haunted House." Con.
vict 49," 1.-THE Scarecrow," 1.-THE
Girl Halter" and others. There will
also be shown sport reels, dramas
and appropriate historical films.
Protection of the thousands who
will attend The Washington Times
party is assured by the police.
Major Daniel Sullivan announces
that no westbound traffic will be
permitted in New York avenue
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets after o'clock. Automo.
biles and other vehicles also will
be prohibited in H street from
Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets
beginning at the same hour.
Two bands, The Times Newsboys
Band and a jazz band of estab.
lished reputation in the city, will
guarantee there will not be a dull
moment. A male quartet Of min
strel singers will furnish additional
entertainment.
Miss Shirley Holmes, demure mo-
ton picture actress, who came from
New York for the occasion as the
personal representative of Miss
Marion Davies, will distribute passes
for the local. appearance of Miss
Davies in Janice Meredith"
COlOred Flares To Light Scene.
Shortly before dusk, colored
flares will be ignited atop the
Hearst Building to notify the pub.
lie that The Washington Times
election service-party has started.
The films to be shown were
brought to Washington by a spe.
cial representatives of the Cosmo,
politRn and Metro Corporations for
this purpose only and some Of them.
It is confided, have never before been
shown in this city,
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PRESIDENT
At USUAL
TASKS
Works on Budget, Confident
That He viii Be Reflect
ed, With General Lord

President Coolidge told white
HOuee callers this afternoon that
he believed he was assured Of be
least 1858 votes I'm the electoral
college as result Of the days
baIlOting.
This information, IL was stated,
was given to the President by the
Republican national committee,
which figured an additional 20
electoral votes as doubtful, but
thought that Mr.. Coolidge had an
even chance to get at least half
Of these. On the basis Of this
calculation, the Presidents total
electoral vote would be 398, 1S2
more than q bare majority.
The Washington times., 1924-11-04

Here are few Of the new wants an
oeaTing in today's classified section
DOG lest. on Saturday; liberal re-
NO. s UNDERWOOD Typewriter for
sale. $50.
HIGH SCHOOL Cadet Suit for sale.
CLIFTON ST. N. w.--For rent.
rooms and board.
1893 FORD TOURING car. saso.
M ST. N. w.-Modern three room
kitchenette and bath apartment,
for rent.
7TH AND KENNEDY sTs.--Unfur-
nished, Z rooms, kitchen and bath
apartment SOS per month.
LARGE SToRE--suitable for work
shop. for rent reasonable.
CoLoRED BARBER wanted.
MASSACHUSETTS AVE. N. w.
Modern large rooms, near bath;
$500 week.
WOR FURTHER DETAILS TURN M
THB CLASSIFIED SECTION.
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MRS. HARDING IS
SOMEWHAT
BETTER

MARION, Ohio, Nov. 4.-The con.
dition Of Mrs. Warren G. Harding.
widow of President Harding, was
somewhat better today.
"She had fairly good night, =
DR.. Carl w. Sawyer, her physician,
said.
'She was restless up until about
/ a. m. then went to sleep and had
anywhere from three to five hours
Sleep"
The Washington times., 1924-11-04
HOW TO GET ELECTION
RETURNS TONIGHT

The Washington Times stereoptican screens Hearst
Building 1921 street northwest. Movies, music and
other entertainment
?. The radio service Of Station WRC, transmitting
from the studio Of The Washington Times D. M
8. An extra edition Of The Washington Times will
be issued if anything definite is known at reason
able hour.
In view of this extensive election night service The
Washington Times WILL NOT give out election news
by telephone.
The Washington times., 1924-11-04
FOUR KILLED IN PLANE
CRASH NEAR DANTzIC

BERLIN, Nov. -Four persons
were killed when an airplane
crashed in a storm near Dantzig
today.
One Of the victims was Franz
Weyers aged twenty-five. a Dantzig
journalist and brother Of 8. D.
Weyer, head Of the International
News Service bureau in Berlin.