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lar votes and 1872 electoral votes.
Mr.. Coolidge carried all OF the
country outside the South except
Wisconsin, which went for
Robert M. LaFollette, who was
leading a third party.
Mr.. Davis had earlier served
with distinction as Ambassador
to Great Britain in the second
Wilson administration.
Was Solicitor General
Before that he made brilliant
record as Solicitor General of
the United States. In that post
he maintained before the Su-
preme Court the right of the
Government to impose income
taxes, the conStitutionallty of
the Federal Reserve Act, the
Selective service laws of World
War I, the Adamson Eight-Hour
Day Act and other precedent
breaking acts of the Wilson ad-
ministration.
He also represented the Gov
eminent in suits under the Sher-
man Antitrust Act and the
Clayton Act against the United
States Steel Corp, the Inter-
national Harvester Co., and
other big corporations. In Con-
gress Mr.. Davis had helped
frame the Clayton Act. which
exempted unions from the pro-
visions of the Sherman law.
In 1852 Mr.. Davis was on the
side of the steel industry against
the Government. Then 10, he
appeared before the Supreme
Court to argue successfully
against President Humans &C
ton in Selling the steel plants
which had been closed by a
strike.
In that same year he also APP
peared before the court for the
State of South Carolina in the
school segregation cases. He
argued that the State had the
right under the Constitution to
maintain segregation in it's
schools.
Received Many HOnOrs.
The practice of law-he was
considered pre-eminent both in
corporation law and interna-
tional laW-brought him many
honors. He was president of the
West Virginia Bar Association
and of the New York City Bar
Association. In 1922 he was
elected president of the Amer
lean Bar Association. He was
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Body of John w. Davis, 81,
Lies in State Charleston
Rites for Aspiront
To Presidency in "a
Set in New York
BY the Assoeioied Press

CHARLESTON, S. c.. Mar.
25.-The body of John w. Davis,
81, veteran constitutional law
yer and Democratic presidential
nominee in 1924. lay In state
today.
Mr.. Davis, who lost in his
bid to unseat Calvin Coolidge
from the presidency in 1924, died
here yesterday. He had been
hospitalized for several days
suffering from pneumonia, the
third attack he had suffered
this winter.
A New Yorker, Mr.. Davis be-
came i'll while at Yeaman's Hall,
a nearby winter colony.
The body lay in state at a
funeral home. 1t will be sent
to Mr.. Davis Locust Valley.
Long Island, N. Y. home to-
night. Funeral services are set
for the Brick Presbyterian
Church in New York, Monday.
at II am. Burial will be in Lo-
Gust Valley Cemetery on Long
Island.
AS a young lawyer John
William Davis repres sent e d
Mother" Mary Jones. a labor or
ganizer called the most danger
GUS woman in the United States
and Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist
leader.
In his later years he repre-
sented j. P. Morgan and some OF
the biggest corporations in the
land.
He was the Democratic nomi-
nee for President in 1924, named
in one of the party's bitterest
conventions. He m pa g n e d
vigorously. but the party went
down to defeat so disastrously
that the question was raised
whether it could rise again.
Mr.. Davis, with 8,386,50 votes,
carried only the II States of the
Solid South. with 1856 electoral
votes. Calvin Coolidge won the
election, polling 15.725,016 popu-
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stitutional and upset some of the
measures in the courts.
Later he represented the As
ISOLATED Press in an attack on
the Wagner Labor Relations Act,
passed as part of the New Deal
program. Mr.. Davis commended
it. was a direct and palpable"
invasion of freedom of the press.
The Supreme Co1rt upheld the
act in one of its celebrated 5-to-4
opinions.
Opposed Roosevelt
In the 1886 campaign Mr..
Davis, joining with other con-
sentative Democrats in the
American Liberty League. OPP
posed President Roosevelt's re-
election. In 1910 he supported
Wendell L. Willkie.
In May. 1941, however, he
Joined with two other former
Democratic standard bearers,
Cox and Smith, in supporting
the Presidents foreign policy.
He was a supporter of Gen.
Eisenhower for the presidency
in 1852.
A supporter of the League of
Nations and later of the United
Nations. Mr.. Davis was elected
vice president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace in 1912.
In that organization he was a
member of a three-man COM
mittee which recommended AL
ger Hiss for the presidency OF
the Carnegie Endowment. Mr..
Davis testified about the circum-
stances before a House commit
tee in December, 1852. on the
same day he appeared before the
Supreme Court to argue on the
school segregation case.
Made Investigations
Mr.. Davis told the committee,
1--WE made such Investigations
as you would naturally make in
seeking to employ man for an
important job"
He said Hiss was first men,
toned to him by John Foster
Dulles and all reports we had
from every quarter were entirely
favorable"
Hiss was indicted and con-
victed of a charge of perjury in
denying he had turned over
Government papers to Whit
taker Chambers as courier for a
Communist spy ring. Mr.. Davis
said that while serving as presi-
dent of the Carnegie organiza-
ton, Hiss never gave the slight
est indication of bias in favor OF
the Soviet government.
Mr.. Davis married on June 20,
1899, Julia Mcdonald. who died
August IT. 1900. They had one
daughter, who later became Mrs.
William Mcmillan Adams. Mrs.
Ellen Basel List, a widow whom
Mr.. Davis married January 2,
1912, died July Is, 1913.
She was one of three Basel
sisters of Clarksburg who were
famous throughout the South
for their beauty and charm. She
was his hostess during his am
bassadorship in Britain, and was
much admired in London society.
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BIISION, JEANET1E z, OIIICtTS anu
- members of Miriam Household OF
~ Ruth. No 599i. Grand United
VA Order of Odd Fellows are hereby
IN requested to attend the funeral
of Inmate JEANETTE E. BOS-
Nv TON on Saturday. March 70. 1883,
III at | pm from the Third Baptist
n Church. 9TH and Que SITS. NV
~ EDNA COOK.
Most Noble Governor.
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then 40. In the nearly six years
he held the Office he argued 81
cases before the Supreme Court.
a greater number than handled
by all but one earlier Solicitor
General.
He was an impressive figure
before the court. Six feet tall,
erect, formally dressed in a cut
away coat, he argued with clear
logic and never with oratorical
effects. He rarely talked more
than half an hour.
The cordiality and attention
with which the court listened to
him was said to have been a
dismaying experience for his OPP
ponents. Chief Justice Douglas
White once remarked facetiously,
The Supreme Court thinks so
much of John Davis that the
other side hardly gets due proc
eSs of law"
Named Envoy to Britain
In 1918. during World War I,
President Wilson sent Mr.. Davis
to Berne. Switzerland, to a con-
ference in that neutral territory
with the Germans on treatment
and exchange of war prisoners.
While he was there Walter Hines
Page resigned as Ambassador to
Great Britain and President Will
son named Mr.. Davis to succeed
him.
He was tremendously popular
with the British. He also attend
ed the Versailles Peace Confer
ence and was credited with
major role in drafting regula-
lions for control of occupied
territory.
When he resigned as ambas-
sador after the Harding cleo
ton, the British gave him
send-off such as few diplomats
are accorded. The continuing re-
gard of the British was demon
strated in April. 1858. when
Queen Elizabeth appointed him
an honorary Knight, Grand
Cross of the Order of the Brit
ish Empire.
When he returned to this
country from Britain he went
into the private practice of law
in New York. He was first a
member of the firm of Stetson,
Jennings. Russell & Davis and
then a partner in Davis. Polk,
Wardwell, Gardiner g. Reed,
which later became Davis, Polk.
Wardwell, Sunderland & Kirk
end.
His name was placed before
the 1920 Democratic National
Convention for the nomination
for the presidency. That con-
vention deadlocked between
William G. McAdoo and Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer.
Mr.. Palmer finally withdrew on
the 18th ballot and Gov. James
M. Cox of Ohio was nominated.
Compromise Candidate
Four years later the Demo-
Gratis ended their bitter conven-
ton at Madison Square in New
York by naming Mr.. Davis as the
compromise candidate for Presi-
dent.
Before that convention it had
been suggested to- him that, as
strategic political move. he
quit his New York law firm and
its clientele of large corporations
and return to law practice in
West Virginia. He Indignantly re-
jected the suggestion, saying. II
must stand by my philosophy"
Mr.. Davis campaigned for AL
Smith in 1923. In 1882 he
favored F'lanklin D. Roosevelt.
But soon after Mr.. Roosevelt's
election Mr.. Davis was attacking
the New Deal. He argued that
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also an honorary bencher Of the
Middle Temple. London.
President Harding is said to
have offered him a seat on the
Supreme Court. but Mr.. Davis
declined.
Mr.. Davis was born April Is.
1873. at Clarksburg, w. Va. His
paternal grandfather had moved
there from the Shenandoah VAL
ley of Virginia to follow his trade
as a saddler. His father. John
J. Davis, became leading lawyer
in Clarksburg. John w. Davis
mother held a B.A. degree from
Baltimore College for Women.
From her he received his early
education in Latin, English COM
position and literature.
AS a boy he was sent to Pan
tops Academy at Charlottesville.
Va. He entered Washington and
Lee University when he was 16.
graduating four years later with
highest honors. He returned to
study law there, receiving his
LIB. in 1895, then returning to
teach. He entered into law part
nership with his father in 1897.
Famous Court Role
1t was in this early period-a
period aflame with bitter resent
mept against what were regard
ed as industrial injustices and
inequalities-that he represented
Mother Jones and Eugene Debs.
If Mother Jones was held to be
the Nations most dangerous
woman" Debs was regarded by
some as the most dangerous man,
the leader of a possible revolu-
ton.
Mother Jones-she died in 1880
at the age of 100 at her Silver
Spring (Md.l home-on one &C.
casion in West Virginia in the
1905 walked up to a machine
gun trained on her and a hand
full of striking miners. She put
her hand over the muzzle of the
gun and dared the guards to
fire
Mr.. Davis defended her and
Debs against charges of melting
to riot growing out of their
leadership of striking coal min
ers. Another of his early court
appearances was in defense of
a group of mine strikers who
had marched near a colliery
while an antipicketing injunc-
ton was in force. He won &C
quittal.
The young lawyer entered pol
itics in 1899 and was elected to
the Nest Virginia House of Dele
gates. He was elected to Congress
in 1910, with the support of both
mine owners and unions. He won
by a big majority in normally
safe Republican district This, in
the middle of President Taft's
administration, was a time of
revolt against Republican stand
patters and the Payne-Aldrich
tariff.
Won Respect in Congress
Even as congressional first
termer, Mr. Davis made a name
for himself in legislation. He was
assigned to the House judiciary
Committee and won respect for
his work in framing the Clayton
Act. Also in this Congress. the
SD, he was one of the managers
for the House in the impeach-
ment trial before the Senate of
Robert w. Archibald OF Pennsyl-
vania, who was found guilty of
corrupt collision and removed as
an associate judge of the then
Commerce Court.
Soon after Mr.. Davis re-
election to the SD Congress-
President Wilson appointed him
Solicitor General Mr. Davis uoc
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BANKETT PHYLLIS. In loving mem
BANKETT, who departed this life
March 20, 1919.
Beyond all pain. all care and sadness,
Beyond all trouble. thou art gone:
But knowing that some day we'll ind
thee.
Gives us COURAGE to go on.
CHARLES, AARON. LEWIS. LEONARD
AND WILLISTON.
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I'm Mrntnriant

BALTIMORE, WILLIAM A. In memory
= OF oul beloved husband and father.
WILLIAM A. BALTIMORE. who left
us five wears ago today. March %. 1850,
, Though absent, you are always near;
stu loSed stu missed. still very dear.
BALTIMORE: SON. CHARLES H.
BALTIMORE; DAUGHTER. THELMA
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Reds Blocked,
.Vossur Told

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, JUNE
IA P).-Former Gov. Thomas E
Dewey told the Vassar College
graduating class yesterday thai
"a new, high quality of states
manship and skill had blocked
the Soviet timetable of conquest
at every turn.
THE CHASTITY shadow of world
conquest which hangs over all oil
us is, of course, still with u.s." he
said in a commencement ad-
dress.
1T will surely be with us the
rest of our lives. But the good
news is that freedom has won
IA steady succession of victories
and the spread of slavery has
been stopped"
A total of 291 degrees was
awarded at the ceremonies.
Declaring that lin just two
years the most extraordinary
change has come about on the
face of the world" Mr.. Dewey
said:
"The tyrant has been met by
strength and brave action. He
has been forced to change his
tactics. OF course we are not Sc
naive as to believe the plan fol-
conquest has changed"
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Boy Ports to Europe
Freight Line Planned

NORFOLK. Va, June IA (P.-
Establishment of a passenger
freight steamship route between
Chesapeake Bay ports and Eu-
rope was requested Of the United
States Maritime Commission by
the Virginia State Ports Author
ity yesterday.
AS visualized by the VSPA, the
service would provide a sailing
weekly from Hampton Roads anc
Baltimore for vessels with 9
round-trip schedule of % days
The ships would link Balti'
more and Hampton Roads with
Southampton, England; a French
channel port; zeebrugge, Bel
gium; Bremerhaven, Bremen anc
Hamburg, Germany.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
.GroyIs Named
.ToHenseI Job

President Eisenhower toda.
nominated Gordon Gray, a for
mer Secretary of the Army dur
ing the Truman administration
to succeed H. Struve Hensel a!
Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security At
fairs.
Mr.. Gray, a Democrat, now i!
president of the University o1
North Carolina and will be or
leave of absence from that po.
Sition in his new assignment.
White House Press Secretary
James c Hagerty was asked to-
day whether the selection of {
Democrat for the Defense De
Ipartment post signifled a de.
liberate effort to promote bi
partisanship. He replied onl.
that he thinks Mr.. Gray is "s
very GOOD man
The Presidents intention t,
nominate Mr.. Gray was an
Inounced last week.
In another nomination sen
to the Senate today, the Presi,
dent named Maj. Gen. Rober
N. Young for promotion to th'
temporary rank of lieutenant
general.
Mr.. Hagerty said Gen. Younl
is to be appointed by the Arm,
as commanding general of th'
9Th Army, effective July /. t,
succeed 1t. Gen. Willard G. wy
man, who will be transferre,
to be deputy commanding gen
eral of the Continental Arm,
| Command,
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Icy MoIik Melting, Too,
To Surprise of japanese

LONDON, June IA (R.-Jacob
Malik, RusSia'S Ambassador to
Britain, is trying hard to prove
that Russian diplomats really
are the friendly type.
The hulking, square-faced
Kremlin rouble-shooter, friend
and confidant of Foreign Min
lister v. M Molotov, has told his
embassy staff to wipe of their
cold war look. Mr.. Malik him
self is setting an example.
British and American diplo-
mats are being invited to lunch
parties at the once forbidding
Russian Embassy on Kensing-
tons swank "millionaires' row. I"
They find few chinks in the
Iron Curtain on information.
But the vodka flows freely. the
Ihelpings of caviar are generous,
and their Russian hosts spill
over with good fellowship.
Mr.. Malik has beer setting
some kind of a record for in
Iformality in carrying on London
negotiations with the japanese
for a World War II peace settle
|ment.
He initiated the negotiations
by splitting a bottle of Dubonnet
at the Soviet Embassy with the
surprised Japanese envoy, Shu-
Inichi MatSumoto.
Next day he strolled leisurely
down ''millionaires' row"-with-
out the usual bevy of secret Sc
curity police lowering in the
oackground-to the neighbor-
ing Japanese Embassy for more
talk with Mr.. Matsumoto-
Once the embassy buildings
Evening star., 1955-06-14
|sroeI Refuses to Join
Egypt in Marking Border

! The Egyptians show increased
irritation at the Israeli settle
ment of Gefaat Rachel inside
the triangle. They declare the
settlement is a heavily gunneo
redoubt capable of spearhead-
ing a lightning Israeli drive into
Egyptian territory.
Informed nom -Egyptian n
sources said earlier a United Ma
tions inspection of the settle.
ment showed no armament.
The armistice commission cen
sured Egypt last night for the
17th time since the February 2S
clash with Israel in the GAIA
strip in which 38 Egyptians and
Is IsraeliS were killed. In the
same period the commission has
found Israel guilty of IL VIOLA
tions of the armistice which
ended the 1948 Palestine war.
Last nights decision, reached
after a nine-hour session, up
held Israel's contention that the
Egyptians had attacked ar
Israeli truck with mortars neal
AL Auga, about 60 miles south
east of GAIA, on May Is.
The commission also found
that Egyptian troops opened fire
on a team of United Nations
observers which investigated the
incident. The Egyptians claimed
the United Nations men had moi
identified themselves properly.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Bandits Hold Up
House Member

Representative Haywort h.
Democrat, Of Michigan, told
police he was attacked by three
masked bandits last night short
ly after he left his Capitol Hill
Office.
The East Lansing representa-
tive told police he was searched
after being forced to lie on the
grass of small park. The hold
up men got nothing because his
pockets were empty, he added
Mr.. Hayworth said he was ac-
costed as he walked through a
park at Constitution avenue
New Jersey avenue and First
street NV.
The leader of the trio, he de.
clared, showed a gun into his
back and ordered him to "get
down on the graS or I'll blow
your brains out"
AS the gunman searched him
he continued, his handkerchief
mask slipped. Mr.. Hayworth
said the man appeared to be
about Is years old, was colored
and about five feet, seven inches
tall.
The other two, also colored
appeared to be about the same
height. Representative Hayworth
reported. He said he did not see
the faces of the two who stood
guard over him as the gunman
went through his pockets.
Representative Hayworth lives
at $50 Twenty-fourth avenue
Hillcrest Heights, Md.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Copper Union
Strike Vote SET

DENVER. June II R.--June
1922 has been set for a Nation
wide strike vote among workers
in the non-ferrous metals indus
try by the International Union
of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
QndO.
Announcement of the vote was
made at the unions headquarters
here last night.
The union said six weeks Of
negotiations with the industry's
Big Four-Anaconda, Kennecott,
PhelpS-Dodge and American
Smelling 81 Reflning-has pro-
duced nothing more than "pid-
ding offers"
Wages in the western mining
industry range upward from the
$l4.87 paid in Butte, Mont, per
shift for the underground miner
with the $15.77 a day paid in
Idaho's Occur d'Alene area about
average. Common labor get from
$l3.64 to $14.40.
Mine-Mill's national demands
this year include: 20 cents an
hour wage increase; loSt-time
pay to protect the worker who
is forced off the job by accident,
illness or layoff so that his in
come continues at no less than
$50 a week; improvements in
health and welfare or pension
programs: improved holiday and
vacation clauses. and fair en-
ployment practices clause in all
contracts.
Evening star., 1955-06-14

GAIA, CEgyptian-held Pales'
tine). June IA (P).-Israel re-
fused today to join Egypt in
marking the boundaries of the
Al Auja triangle, one Of the raw
est patches on the inflamed
Israeli-Egyptian borders.
Al Auja is southeast of the
GAIA strip, where Israeli and
Egyptian guns are lined up on
opposite sides of the frontier fo1
IS tense miles.
The Israelis' rejection of an
Egyptian boundary marking pro-
poSal came in an official memor-
andum to Francois Giocomaggi
French chairman Of the Egyp-
tian-Israeli Mixed Armistice
Commission based in GAIA.
Informed sources said Israeli
agreed to consider joining a line
marking party for one leg OF the
triangle-the existing Israeli
Egyptian international frontier
but baked at Egyptian participa-
ton in any group surveying the
two legs which jut into Israeli
territory.
The Egyptians complain the
present boundary around the Al
Auja demilitarized zone merely
exists on maps, increasing the
probability of hair-trigger gun
firing which could flare into
major hostilities In that sector.
Evening star., 1955-06-14
Peron's Bockers Call
Big Argentine Strike

market slipped and nervous
storekeepers slammed down their
steel shutters after Peronista
gangs stoned two fashionable
cafes, smashing windows and
furniture.
Police Guard Cathedral
Blue uniformed police armed
with revolvers stood guard under
the tall columns of the Metro
politan Cathedral, scene of most
of the fighting since the initial
disorders Saturday.
The nation has been governed
under a state of internal war
for the last four years. Under
this decree, issued when a small
band of military men staged a
short-lived attempt to seize
power, constitutional guarantees
are suspended and political pris-
oners may be jailed without
charge.
The church state conflict came
out in the open last November
when Gen. Peron accused some
of the clergy of seeking to
undermine his regime. Since
then the government has put
through laws authorizing divorce
dropping tax exemptions for
church property and eliminating
financial support for Catholic
schools.
The Peronista- ID o m in a e d
Congress also has ordered a con-
Stitutional convention elected to
deprive Catholicism of its status
as the state church which the
Peron government conferred on
it in the 1948 constitution.
The government already has
eliminated most religious holi-
days from the official calendar
and cut off traditional treasury
payments to bishops and other
clergy.
A total of 78 priests and nu-
merous laymen have been ar
rested during the antichurch
drive but most of them have been
held only briefly.
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CONFER RENCE
Continued FROM First Pag

NOutlHucu FROM rlrSC rag
conditions for the conference 81
as to handicap it's aims.
Although the formal note &C.
cepting the date and time of the
conference was not so specific a.
the press statement, there seemed
little doubt the USSR woult
refuse to discuss either its posi-.
tion with regard to world com.
munism, or the Communist re.
gimes of Poland, Albania, Ro.
mania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
and Bulgaria. The press state.
ment said no problem concern
ing these states existed.
The Soviet foreign Office pres.
chief, Leonid Ilyichev, also reae
to correspondents dispatch ot
the official news agency, Tass.
This statement quoted Mr.
Dulles as saying he intended tt
bring up the Eastern European
and world Communist questions
and as remarking that the sum.
NIT conferences success woulc
depend on whether the Soviet
Union was ready to show a "nev
constructive spirit"
1T should be clear to ALL" tn,
Tass statement said, that NJ
problem of the countries O
Eastern Europe exists, since tn,
people of these countries, hav
ing overthrown the rule of tn,
exploiterS and established
peoples democracies, will not al
low anyone to interfere in thei
internal affairs.
"As for the activity of inter
national communism, would i
be permitted to ask Mr.. Dulle
how he would regard the intro
duction at the conference of thl
problem of international capital
iSm?"
The statement said Sovie
circles felt Mr.. Dulles was treat
ing the forthcoming conferenc,
of the heads of government from
the notorious policy of a position
of strength, and as if its success
depended on the actions of tn
Soviet government"