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Prolong Life of Flowers

Observing few simple rules
will enable one to keep cut flow
ers for a longer time. They
should be cut when cool and kept
cool. Place them in cold water
Immediately. Wilted flowers
may be revived in warm water.
Cut the bottom of the flower
stalk and change the water in the
vase daily. 1t is better to leave
flowers III a basement or cool
room for several hours before us
ing them.
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WANTED-Seeond hand kitche
range in good condition; fol
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bed springs in good condition
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WANTED--Alan to take contrac
for cutting tops on Is acres o.
Strawberries. Clias. Deppman
Yashon. S-24-tf
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right Grand piano, 800. | oil
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80
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80
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ADVERTISING RATES

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OFFERED JOB TO KEEP HIM
OUT OF COMMISSIONER RACE

The political enemies Of Col. W.
B. Brinton, West Seattle man who
is candidate for County Commits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
IS NIGHT RESORTS
RA|DED IN GOTHAM
Dry Agents Take rs in ST.
muItaneous Coup on Most
Popular Clubs.
Ry the Associated Press.

by the ASS0SlNtSQ FEeSS.
NEW YORK, June 29.-The Broad
way theater district was thrown into a
furor early today when more than 100
Federal prohibition agents raided Is of
the most popular night clubs,
More than rs arrests were made
among the owners and employees of
the various establishments and the
agents said they had seized a quantity
OF liquor.
The resorts were we'll filled with
merrynakers as the agents, operating
In squads of six ard more, descended
almost simultaneously upon them. Re-
turns from the Democratic convention
at Houston were being received at many
of the clubs and the raids occurred
almost at the same moment that Gov.
Alfred e. Smith was nominated.
Told to Pay.
Guests were ordered to pay their
checks and leave.
The places raided were Texas
Guinan's Club, Blue Hour Club. Furnace
Club, Don Royal, Jungle Club. Bcaux
Arts Club, European Club. La Frera
Club, The Night Club, Mimic Club.
MerTy-gO-rOunQ CluD, helen morgan
Club, Charm Club, The Silver Slipper
and an unnamed club.
The raiders were admitted to the
clubs by fellow agents, who. attired In
evening clothes, had gone TO the places
earlier In the night In the guise of
guests. These agents said that In lnany
cases purchases OF liquor were made
The raid was made under the per-
sonal direction of Prohibition Director
Maurice Campbell and was marked by
unusual thoroughness. In some cases
the agents spent several hours search
ing for possible caches of liquor.
Taken i'm Taxis.
Search warrants we're used in all
cases and the agents said they had been
obtained on evidence gathered during
the last several weeks by operatives
who had made buys" in the places
raided. No attempt was made TO dis
mantle the clubs, as was done some
months ago In raid on the Helen Nor
gan Club.
Many Of the prisoners were permitted
to hire taxicabs for the trip TO the
police stations. All those arrested were
charged with unlawful possession of
liquor,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
NEW WORLD DASH
IS STARTED TODAY
Plane Used in First Leg of
Attempt to Break
Time Record.


NEW YORK, June 29.--John Henry
MearS and Capt c. o, d. Collyer, who
took of In seaplane from the Battery
at 5 am. today to overtake the steamer
Olympic in an attempt 10 break the
record for the fastest trip round the
world. safely boarded the vessel from
the pilot boat, As minutes later. A wire-
here by the White Star Line. The
Olympic sailed at midnight.
The flyers landed the seapiane beside
the small pilot boat. which transferred
the men from the plane to the side of
the Olympic, which they boarded by
scaling rope ladder.
Mears said he hoped to circle the
earth In % days For part of the trip
he viii use Fairchild folding wing
monoplane which was shipped on the
Olympic and which will be piloted by
Collyer.
The present record Is % days II hours
SO minutes and seconds, made In 1926
by Edward Evans. Detroit sportsman,
and Linton Wells. newspaper man. They
bettered by seven days Mears' former
mark. made IN 1918,
Mears declared the object of his trip
was not as much to establish new rec
ord as II was To demonstrate the speed
and safety of travel when the airplane
Is oo-ordinated with the steamship. BY
taking off IN the seaplane they saved
almost five hours over the Olympic,
which they hoped to overtake 100 miles
at sea,
The schedule called for Mears and
Collyer Co take of in their plane at
Cherbourg for Paris, then 70 Berlin, to
Moscow. then across siberia, stopping
at Kourgan. Krasnoyarsk and Chlta,
then TO Mukden. China, and tn Toxic.
where they will again take 4 steamship
for the trip across the Pacific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
PLATFORM BUILT
BY GIVE AND TAKE
Hardest Fight Over Dry
PIank--D. C. Representation
Is Denied Place.
BY WILL r. KENNEDY.
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.

HOUSTON, June 2s.--The Demo-
cratic party platform on which Gov,
Alfred e. Smith OF New York will stand
In making his campaign for the presi-
deney was built during two full days of
sweat and swapping. give and take, by
the resolutions committee dominated
by group Of 10 Senators and APP
proved with acclaim by the conven-
ton last night.
The plank declaring in favor Of ma
tional representation for the District II
Columbia was not included In the party
platform. although stubborn fight was
made In the resolutions committee by
Breckenridge Long. the District dele
gate on the committee, with sympa~
thetic support from about 10 other
members.
This plank failed Of consideration be-
cause OF the number OF other measures
proposed, the members OF the commit
tee being impatient 10 dispose OF the
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
REED. TRIUMPHANT IN DEFEAT,
CRIES UR NTTIE RASCALSOUT'
Delegates StiIIed as Militant
MisSourian Waves Bat
tie Plume Aoft.
Hangs and Nails Republicans
to Cross With ThruSts of
Bitter Satire.

Sac correspondent q The star


HOUSTON, June 2e.-"Turn the
rascals out'-the Democrats nominated
presidential candidate late last night
and the early hours this morning they
marked it in a surging. singing, shout
ing. screaming march of triumph
around the aisles of Sam Houston Hall.
But when they sought their beds they
carried with them as final picture
not the mob scene Of their conventions
triumph, but the dramatic spectacle of
a dramatic man, standing before the
battery Of microphones on the speakers
platform. his face crimson and creased
with the force of his effort, his eyes
flashing fire, his right hand raised aloft
and trembling-Jim Reed of Missouri,
sounding his battle cry.
Not so many years ago this man was
repudiated by his party. summed and
cursed almost like a traitor--a traitor,
not to his country, but 10 his party,s
cause. He came back, and week ago
tonight he landed In Houston as one
Of the contenders for the laurels Of
party standard bearer. Two days later
he issued statement which marked
him as the last hope of those who.
espousing rigid prohibition as opposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
SMITH MAY SPURN
FRAUD AS WARCRY
Campaign Not Likely to Play
Up G. O. P. Corruption
Charge, Friends Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY. N. Y. June 2s.---The
charges Of privilege and pillage" di-
rected at the Republican party In the
Democratic keynote speech viii be
played down" in the actual campaign,
according to indications in circles close
10 Coy. Smith.
The governor has declined TO forecast
the sort of campaign he win conduct,
but persons who have been closely as
sociated with him In his political career
believe that he will talk more about
what he viii do himself II he is elected
than about the past record OF "the
other fellow"
you can judge by past performances
Just about what the governor viii do
this time" they say. "He never has
made bid for election on the strength
Of his opponents weaknesses and there
is no reason TO believe he viii do so
now"
II is the governors belief, these
friends say, that campaigning for once
Is much the same as selling naerchaTi-
disc. And he feels tl1at the best sales
talk is that which deals with the virtues
of the goods IN question and not with
the defects % 2 rival line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
MRS. GLOTHFACES
TERM OF ONE YEAR
Arlington Woman Guilty of
Assault on Mate-NeW
Argument July 9.
Wide World Photo.

Found guilty of shooting her husband,
William C. Cloth. Arlington County
commonwealth attorney. March Z. Mrs.
Marjorie S, Cloth faces a new fight to
escape the one-year iaI sentence i'm
posed upon her last night by a Jury
in the Arlington County Circuit Court,
Judge Howard W. Smith of the Alex
andria Corporation Court, who presided
at the trial, has set July for argu-
ment on the motion of Mrs. Cloths
counsel to set aside the verdict of the
jury on the ground that Ii was con-
trary to law and the evidence. If Mrs.
Cloth loses her fight for freedom, she
viii have to serve her sentence in the
Arlington County jail In the neighbor-
hood OF her home where she has re-
sided for more than Is years.
The convicted woman was at liberty
today. since the $1,000 bond which has
guaranteed her freedom since her as
sault upon her husband stands without
renewal until final disposition Is made
OF her case.
Out Over Three Hours.
The ahruptness OF the one-day trial
and the sole reliance of the defendant
upon the testimony OF her mother, Mrs.
Della Schneider, to support the claim
of Self-defenSe for the shooting. oc-
casioned considerable surprise to spec
tatorS and opposing counsel alike, The
jury was out three hours and eight
minutes last night. returning at l0:5S
o'clock. The least disturbed in the
courtroom by the verdict was MIS-
Cloth. who had sat throughout the
trial without the slightest indication of
emotion and displaying amusement fire.
quentiy during the course OF the testi-
nony.
Final arguments were completed at
6;AS o'clock. The jury was then ex-
cused for supper. The testimony In
the case, which was expected 10 con-
sumo several days. had been completed
at AIS o'clock, after Cloth took the
stand TO deny Mrs. Schneider's charge
of threats against his wife.
No Surprise.
The verdict OF guilty caused no sur
prise In view Of the unsupported story
given ON the stand by the defendants
mother. Failure of Louis C. wenden-
berg of Richmond. chief of counsel for
he defense, 10 put Mrs. Cloth ola the
stand 10 suhStantiate her mothers teSti-
mony went unexplained,
Perhaps the strongest point scored
Dy the state on behalf Of Cloth was
when his mother-in-law admitted she
had called him back 10 the house after
he had left to return To his waiting
TAXI, II was then that the shooting
she had testified that she
wasn't afraid of billy"
The two versions of the shooting and
The events that led ND to II we've 50
iifferent that apparently the only choice
left to the Jury was 10 decide upon
nFal witnesses, Cloth successfully tore
down the fabric OF the defense claim
Continued ON Page ,, Column e1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29

to the more liberal tendencies of Alfred
E. Smith, picked him as their cham
pion. Jim Reed of Missouri as leader
of the drys.
He issued no more statements. He
did not sulk In his tent, but Reed Of
Missouri, 1t seemed, had been bargain
ing. Time would tell whether it was
good bargain
A Sorry Spectacle.
Yesterday afternoon Charles M
Howell Of Missouri, Reeds law partner,
stood on the platform nominating his
old friend The audience was restless.
It would not listen Robinson had TO
threaten to use force to make 1t listen
II was sorry spectacle. a depressing
sight. Jim Reed, 1t seemed, had bar
gained and had lost.
Last night the convention nominated
Continued on Page S, Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
PLANES BEAT BOAT TRAIN.
Five Americans Use First Regular
Service 10 Paris.

CHERBOuRG, France, June 30 LAD. .--e
Tae first regular airpiane service con-
ers with Paris was iinugurated today
by the White Star Line,
A l0-passenger aifship carried five
Americans, who dlsenlEarked from the
linel Majestic. 10 Paris and beat the
regular boat trains hy several hours
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
500 Fine Imposed
For Banning Marker
On Veterans Grave
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 29.--Because 1t
refused to permit the placing of
marble markers over the graves of
soldiers and sailors by the United
States Government, the Rosehill
Cemetery Corporation was fined
$l0o and costs by Municipal Judge
Howard M. Hayes today. Brig. Gen.
J, Clarity had filed the complaint.
charging that permission had been
denied him to erect the Government
marker over the grave of James l.
Fleetwood, war veteran He con-
tended this was a violation of State
laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
SMITH WINS ON FIRST VOTE.
Governor Scores Overwhelming Victory
In Nomination Fight.

HOUSTON June 40 CAp.--A Demo-
cratic ticket reading Smith and Robin
son was shaping up today as the
party's national convention came to-
gether for the final session.
The party standard was placed In
Gov. Smiths hands by the convention
late last night, solitary ballot sweep
ing him far beyond the two~thirds ma
jority needed 10 nominate,
After a succession OF early morning
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column H.
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WEATHER.

~ 9 Weather Bureau ForecastN
Showers tonight and possibly tomor-
row morning. slightly cooler tomorrow
Temperature Highest 85, at l:45
pm. yesterday; lowest. 10, at IL am.
today. Full report on page 9,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
Leader Should
Point Way,
He Wires.
PROHIBITION
is CRITICIZED
Holds Lawlessness
Prevalent i'm
Nation.

HOUSTON, June 29 (R.-The
twenty-fifth Democratic national
convention adjourned sine die at
1:47 pm. today, after a session last
ing four days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29
Selection Made
on First
Ballot.
RRATTON PUTS
NAME ON FLOOR
Alabama Refuses to
Yield Its Place
i'm Roll Call.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Stsf Correspondent OF The star
HOUSTON. June Ex-senator
Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas was
nominated on the first ballot today
by the Democratic national conven-
tion for the vice presidency, to run
with Gov Smith.
Robinson's vote totaled 1882 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-29

CONTINUED on Page 2. Column
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22

The champion tunes up
for the fray. Gene Tunney
boxing with a sparring
partner, Harold Mays Cat
right, as he tapers OFF his
training at Spectator, N.
Y, for his title bout Thurs
day with Tom Heeney.
9 p. * A Photos
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
For Weekend
PicnicS

You'll have a much more satisfy
ing luncheon if you take Welch's
Grape Juice along.
Cool and refreshing, il has real
food and health value, too. Because
il is pure juice Of fresh Concord
grapes, Welch's is rich i'm fruit
nourishment and energy value.
And il tastes richly of the ripe
grapes, whether you drink il
straight, blended or diluted. Some
delicious recipes are On the label
Of each bottle.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR
RELIGIOUS TRAINING
First School Of Kind In State VIII
Be Held At Dover

A Summer School of Religious
Education will be held in Dover,
in the Wesley Collegiate Institute
buildings this year, July % to Au-
gust 8. This is the first year for
the school. The plans made to date
give promise of it's being a most
excellent school.
All who are interested in becom-
ing better trained for their task in
the church will find here a fine op-
portunity. Although the school is
being set up and managed by the
Board of Church Schools of the
Wilmington Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, people
of all denominations are welcome
to attend The subjects offered are
taken from the International Lead
ership Training Curriculum. This
curriculum is built by an Interde-
nominational Committee of the In
ternational Council of Religious
Education, in which are forty CO.
operating denominations.
The faculty secured for the Dover
school this summer is of very high
order. The following courses are
offered:
Required subjects-"Principles of
Teaching" by DR.. Frank Otis Erb,
Professor Religious Education, Ro-
chester Seminary, Rochester, N. Y;
"Child Study" by DR.. Charles A.
Coburn, Professor of Applied Psy-
chology and Director of Vocational
[CoHtiHHed on page 81
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
BRIDGEVILLE BOY, ID
STATE MARBLE CHAMP
Robert Calhoun Wins Cup For His
School; Many Spectators

Robert Calhoun, IA years old, of
the Bridgeville school won the mar
BILE championship of Delaware Sat
urday morning.
The Delaware State Marble
tournament play-off was held on a
clay and sand packed marble court
built in front of the Public Building
in Wilmington. c. Walter Kadel,
director of physical education in
the public schools of Wilmington,
was official referee of the play-off.
Each of the four entries played
each one of the other contestants
making six games a piece. Calhoun
won five games and lost one to Earl
Blackwell, IA years old, who won
his eligibility to play in the state
finals by winning the Wilmington
championship.
Lloyd Coverdale, IA years old, of
Frederick, was the first runnerup
winning four out of the six games
he played. This was Coverdale's
second try at the state nib crown
as the Kent county champion.
Hyland Price, the fourth entry,
failed to win a game.
This is the third consecutive year
that the sterling silver cup trophy
offered by the Evening Journal,
sponsor of the tournament, for the
winners school has been won by
Bridgeville. The cup now becomes
the permanent property of CAL
houn's school.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
CITIZENS ASSOCIATION
COMMITTEE AT DOVER
Appoint Nominating Group To Name
Officers At Annual Meeting

At a meeting of the executive
committee of the Delaware Citizens
Association, held in Dover last Fri
day, Josiah Marvel, Bishop Philip
Cook and Harry E. Speakman, OF
Wilmington, were named a nOmi-
mating committee to recommend Of
ficers to the annual meeting of the
association, which will be held in
the du Pont Biltmore Hotel today.
Mrs. A. D. Warner, chairman of
the luncheon committee, reported
prospects for large attendance at
the luncheon to be held in the club
room of the hotel preceding the
business meeting.
The report of the committee on
arrangement of the program for the
day, Henry Ridgley, chairman, was
read and approved, and a special
committee appointed to consider the
future location of the office, which
has been at. the state capital for the
last year.
Those attending the meeting were
William H. Boyce, president; Bishop
Philip Cook, H. T. Graham, Harry
E. Speakman, Mrs. A. D. Warner, of
Wilmington; Miss Laura Richards,
of Georgetown; J. E. Goslee, of
Stockiey; John B. Hutton, of Dover;
Miss Eta ]. Wilson and Miss Eliza
beth H. Mensch, of the state Office.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
DELAWARE BOYS
PLAN FOR CAMP
Large Group Has Been Detailed For
Trains At PlattsbUrg

Thirty-seven Delaware youths
have been detailed to attend the
first Of this summers Citizens
Military Training Camps at Platts-
burg, N. Y, which begins July End.
There will be about 1000 students
from New York, New Jersey and
Delaware at the first camp.
Each student is ordered to pro-
ceed from his home "by the short
est usually travelled route to Platts-
burg barracks" The finance de-
pa1'tment of the U. S. Army pays
the students for their travelling ex-
penses.
The Delaware students to attend
the first camp are:
New Castle county - Clifford
Bauer, Lelio Charmella, Francis A.
Cook, Thomas Bowling, Sd, Harold
Edgcomb, Cecil P. Ewing, Jr., Geo.
E. Grotz, Joseph P. Kenny, Andrew
Level, Nelson H. mckinley, Robert
H. Massey, Robert A. Moore, James
P. Mulrooney, Perfecto Procalle, 3.
H. Schechinger, George B. Schmutz,
william S. Stanley, William T.
Sweeney, Robert T. Vennum and
Frank Vitiell.
Kent county-William R. Finch,
Joseph S. Mcdaniel, william L.
Masten, Marnard c. Muir and Jas.
A. Wise.
Sussex county-Howard W. At
well, Elmer A. Barrall, Charles F.
Kelley, William W. Kelly, Ashner
Lee Long, John d. Lynch, Thomas
P. Lunch, Randolph N. Outten,
Charles L. Phillips, Victor G. Stimp-
Ter, Emery e. Stevens and Wilson
w. Sturgis.
Milford chronicle., 1928-06-15
KENT HOSPITAL
ELECTS OFFICERS
II. II. Hanson Succeeds J. B. Hutton
As Head Of Dover Institution

At the annual meeting of the Kent
General Hospital, Incorporated, of
Dover, which was held at the office
of the secretary, Arley B. Magee, on
June 2, the following directors were
reelected for term of three years:
Mrs. Wilbert Rawley, Leipsic; Miss
Annie L. Cooper, Dover; Harry May
er, Henry D. Dorzback, Herman H.
Hanson, John B. Hutton, Mrs. Neva
P. Richardson, James W. Wise, E. ].
ScanIon.
A meeting of the directors was
held on June for the purpose of
organizing and electing officers for
the coming year. John B. Hutton,
who had been president of the board
for two years, rendered his resigna-
ton and declined reelection because
of the press of business. Mr.. Hutton
nominated Herman H. Hanson for
president, and he was unanimously
elected. ]. r. Clements of Clayton
was reelected vice-president; Arley
B. Magee was elected treasurer;
Miss Julia Jones, assistant treasur-
er, and Arley B. Magee, Jr., was re-
elected secretary. Mr.. Hanson, the
president, appointed the following
executive committee: John B. Hut
ton, Arley B. Magee, DR.. Arthur T.
Davis, Harry Mayer, James w. Wise,
Henry D. Dorzback, S. Maxwell Har-
rington, Harry V. Holloway, Wilmer
T. Derrickson was re-appointed pub
licity chairman.