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LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932
ASTERN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER
NUMBER 250
Army Loath To Quit
SENATE VOTE
SENDS HOME
WEARY VETS
Trucks to Carry Away
1,000 Service Men
During the Day
CAMP HEADS DENY
MEN WILL DISBAND
. .
Care Employed in Break
ing News of the Legisla
tive Refusal to Rain
Soaked Campers.
WASHINGTON, Juno 18 m Dis
couraged war veterans who came to
Washington In hope of receiving cash
lor their war service certificates strag
gled homeward today as their leaders
vainly strove to hold their ranks in
tact The senate's overwhelming defeat
of the bonus payment measure by a
vote of 82 to IS last night took Its
toll of the ranks and soon after day
light the roads leading away from
Washington were dotted with groups
of weary, rain soaked veterans leaving
the nation's capital behind them.
Claim Vets Recruiting
Police and leaders of the bonus
marchers differed as to the cause of
the departures. - The former Bald the
veterans were leaving in large groups
with their cash payment hopes dashed
but the veterans' leaders declared
that only about 160 had gone home
to recruit more men for their army.
The veterans' executive committee
Issued a statement condemning the
senate's action as prompted by "spe
cial Interests" and called for recruits
to the ranks. .
The committee also asked for food
and money donations from veterans
in all parts of the country to assist
In "the determination to remain in
the capital."
' - Size of Army Unknown
Accurate estimates of the numbers
now la the city were not available in
. view of individual and small group
desertions during the past week.-Bad
weather, which has continued for
week, discouraged many who loft In
dividually for their homes. The vet'
crans' headquarters claimed 28,000
were in the city, but this was more
than double the number estimated by
police. .
Police were prepared to furnish
truck transportation for fifty miles
out of the city. They expected to
move out at least 1,000 today.
WASHINGTON, June 18 (ff) It
(Continued on Page Flvef
RECEIVE HALF
MILLION TROUT
' EGGS AT UNION
By Mrs. I,. '.. Terrell
(Observer Correspondent)
UNION (Special) A shipment
of half a million Rainbow trout eggs
was received at the ' hatchery this
week and have been 'placed In the
troughs for Incubation. Tho work
of making new troughs won rushed
in order to receive this shipment and
only the painting Is unfinished. The
next duty at tho hatchery will be
the care of the 200 young pheasants
that will be trucked over from Pen
dleton early In July.
Flora Picnic Held
Inside; Avoid Rain
ENTERPRISE, Ore.. June 18 (Spe
cial) The Flora road picnic was not
so successful, since due to the rain
they were unable to have any pro
gram at the picnic grounds. Mnny of
the people went on out to Flora and
ate their lunch in the community
hail. In spite of tho bad weather
there was a largo crowd at tho dance
In tho evening.
8 $ $
8 3S
WEATIIKR FORECAST
Oregon: Generally cloudy
tonlgM and Sunday; prob- 8
ably occasional rains in the
northwest portion;' cooler In
the Interior Sunday; modcr- 8
ate changeable winds otf-
shore. 8
Outlook for the fnr west-
em states: Generally fair 8
weather and normal tempera- 8
ture but unsettled in the 8
northern district at begin- 3
nlng of week probably with S
showers In Washington and S
Northern Idaho.
WKATIIKK TODAY
7 a. m. 58 above.
Minimum: 43 above.
Condition: Clear;
I
VYBATHKR YKSTKItllAY
Maximum 78, minimum 44
above.
Condition: Clear'.
WEATHER JUNE 18, 1031
Maximum 60, minimum 40
above.
Condition: Cloudy with
rain.
Cars Throng At
Triangle Park to
Hear Concert
Pretentious Program is
Presented By Director
Loney Before Hundreds
of Townspeople.
Automobiles thronged the street
around the Triangle park at the cor
ner of Fqurth and, Spring. Retvtp
furnished by the city were filled to
capacity and porches of many of the
surrounding houses were filled
when the La Crande band presented
the first of a scries of summer con
certs last night at 8 o'clock, at the
park. Andrew Loney Jr., director,
conducted the concert, the excellence
of which equaled that of previous
performances of the organization.
The most pretentious of the num
bers presented y the band was
"Maxlmlllen Robespierre," by Litolff,
which embodied the passionate ardor,
the enthusiasm and the determina
tion of the bold leader of the French
Revolution, and pictured in music
the intensity of the revolutionary
spirit. Litolff's composition was pre
sented by the band with a fine Inter
pretation of the mood which the com
poser inculcated In "Maxlmlllen Robe
spierre." Tho program was as varied as It
was entertaining, opening with a
march "Niebelungen," by R. Wagner,
and closing with the classical "Ballet
Egyptien," by Luiginl, and "The Star
Spangled Banner. Two favorite pop
ular pieces, "When Day Is Done," by
Haash, and "Singln' In the Rain." by
Edwards met with the approval of
the crowd. In fact, following every
number automobile horns drowned
out the applause of the audience.
Scenes from tho musical comedy
"Rio Rita," by Tierncy, which enjoyed
a long run on Broadway and in the
motion pictures, was followed by
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Librarian Plans
Kiddies' Contest
In Quilt Piecing
A quilt" block contest Is thoHlnique
Idea of Miss Gertrude Wegener,
children's librarian at the La Orande
public library, and the competition
will open Immediately. The young
patrons of the library will bo divided
into two groups, six to 10 years and
11 to 15 years and one prize will
bo given In each of tho two groups,
tho awards hnvlng been donated Dy
Mrs. H. J. Rlttor and the Hcwokete
Camp Firo group.
.Each contestant will no registered
at the' library and numbered to
facilitate Judging and enable the
Judges to glvo a fair decision, since
they will not know who made tne
blocks. The blocks must be of cot
ton materlnls. either pieced or uppll
qued and not smaller than a nine
inch square. Each contestant must
design her own pnttcm or accept
suggestions from the library or else
where, and only one block will be
allotted lor each girl, who will do
tho cutting and sewing herself, Miss
Wagener snys.
All blocks must bo at tho library
not later than July 22 when they will
bo Judged on general appearance.
color blending and harmony, work
manship and adherence to rules.
La Grande Eagles
Hold Stale Posts
C. E. Hnppcrsott was appointed on
the public welfare committee and
George Nelson on the Judiciary group
of the Eagles lodge at the state con
vention held In Cottage Grovi this
week. Mr. Happersett Is state treas'
urcr and has served during the past
year.
A decided stand for sobriety was
taken at tho convention on Thurs
day when a resolution was adopted
which called delegates not to forgot
themselves and become boisterous or
Intoxicated in any public place. The
resolution provided that any delegate
guilty of misconduct Bhould be lm
meulately expelled from the state
aerie and his local aerie should b:
notified of the action taken and rea
son therefor, according to word re
ceived hero from the convention dele
gates. American Derby ,
Field Is Reduced
WASHINGTON PARK RACE
TRACK. Chicago. June 18 Ml The
Held for the $50,000 American derby
was reduced to 11 at 2 p. m. todny
with tho withdrawal of Boatswain,
one of the favorites snd Our Fancy,
and Mlnton, two field horses.
Boatswain was scratched because
ho turned up lame. His Injury was
described as a bowed tendon.
Junior Baseball
Teams Will Play
The American Legion Junior base
ball team will meet the Imbler team
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at
Imbler. and a hard played, close game
Is anticipated, John Oarlty, coach,
believes. The Imbler team is com
posed of several boys who have
played on Imbter's former champion
ship aggregations.
HOOVER WILL
TAKENOPART
IN CAMPAIGN
Few Major Addresses to
Be Only Contribution
Of The President.
BATTLE LEFT TO
EVERETT SANDERS
Farmer-Labor Party
Changes its Presidential
Candidate Huey Long
Is Offered Post. '
WASHINGTON. June 18 wv-President
Hoover today announced form
ally he would "not take part in the
forthcoming campaign" except for a
few major addresses.
The chief executive also said he
had abandoned hope of Journeying
to the West coast to open tho Olym
pic Games, an invitation he had
accepted previously.
Tho entire campaign, Mr. Hoover,
said, will be conducted and managed
by Everett Sanders, newly elected
chairman of the Republican national
committee.
Makes Statement
The president's statement follows
In full:
"I have informed Ropublican lead
ers that except for a few major ad
dresses expounding of the adminis
tration I will not take part In the
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Identify Woman
Who Failed With
Suicide Attempt
OAKLAND, Cal., June 18 ( The
"Mrs. P. Ray" who tried to commit
suicide here yesterday was Identified
by the Tribune today as Mrs. Her
bert -VJai'nee, wife. of. tho one-time
Chicago capitalist7 and a daughter1 of
Walter Wellman, noted Arctic ex
plorer. Both Mrs. Warner and nor hus
band, who appeared at the emer
gency hospitnl last night when he
read of his wife's suicide attempt by
poison and slashing her wrists, re
fused to discuss their Identities, but
the Tribune said Identification had
been made by friends.
Mrs. Warner will recover. She was
moved today to the home of a friend.
"We have lost our conventionality,"
said Warner In explanation of his
refusal to answer to his own name.
"We do not. feel this condition Is
any crime. But many of our friends
have not lost their conventionality
and we do not wish to humiliate
them."
The Warners had been down on
their luck, it was explained to the
Tribune, which quoted Mrs. Warner
as saying:
"We are white collar people, and
there doesn't seem to be any place
In the world for white collar people
when they get down and out.'
Warner said his wife had been pes
simistic over their prospects and had
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Inter City Tennis
Games Scheduled
Six of La Grande's stellar tcnnlB
players will meet an aggregation
from Imbler tomorrow in an intercity
match to be played at Imbler. Sev
eral of the local players are out of
town now but a strong team will
be picked. The lineup will not be
known definitely until this evening.
An interesting tennis season Is
planned for the summer, the Imbler
tournament being one of the opening
events.
Butler Will Fight Plank
Hocus Pocus Recipe
Billy Goat Is Still
By Walter Brocfttnann
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WERNIG ERODE, Saxony. Germany.
Juno 18 W) A .scrawny billygoat,
smeared with blood and honey and
the scrapings of church bells, but
still a billygoat. bore mute evidence
here today that modern psychic re
search had won round one against
the witches on "The Brocken," Ger
many's moglc mountain.
At an eerie ceremony In the cold
and clammy fogs on top of the moun
tain last night, the billygoat failed to
change Into a man, although modern
British and German psychic research
ers faithfully carried out the old
witches' formula supposed to achieve
that result.
Round two will take place tonight,
however, In the Eame setting, made
famous In Goethe's "Faust" and In
Oerman witchcraft lore.
What happened last night was this:
The experimenters, headed by Harry
Price. London psychic expert, trooped
up the ekles of "The Brocken" lead
ing the billygoat and carrying an
FARM LOAN
EXTENSIONS
PASS HOUSE
Finance Corporation Can
Now Aid Sheep Men
With Farm Fund.
DISAGREE ON BILL
FOR WAR FINANCES
Congress Speeds Relief
Work Through in Effort
to Close Session ' Next
Week.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$4$$
WASHINGTON, June 18-(ff)
$ President Hoover late today
4 called upon some members of
- the house banking committee
to meet with him at the $
$ White House tonight In an ef- 8
$ fort to speed action upon the $
$ measure to lend (300,000,000 3
$ to states for relief purposes. $
WASHINGTON, June IB (P Legis
lation extending the farm loan pro
visions of the reconstruction finance
corporation to crops harvetf.ed In
1933 and to Uvestockalsing, includ
ing poultry and dairy farming, was
passed today by the house and re
turned to the senate with minor
amendments.
The reconstruction finance cor
poration act allotted a maximum, of
$200,000,000 of Its (2,000,000,000 funds
to financing agricultural activities.
The house banking committee re
ported that Secretary Hyde's Inter
pretation of the law "precluded from
the benefits of the aid that very
large class of farmers who are en
gaged wholly or partially in livestock
raising and dairy production."
Ho also contended it "ignored all
of those farmers who do not market
their growing crops but who feed
their growing crops to livestock and
either market the livestock or live
stock products."
1 WASHINGTON, Juno 18 (fV) Speed
ing Its work so as to adjourn next
week, the house today disagreed to
senate amendments on the (380,678,-
, (Continued on Page Flve ' ,
Battle Warms
As School Board
Election Near 8
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock the
polls In the Greenwood and Central
schools precincts will open and a
Inrgo vote Is anticipated to. choose
tho successors to Dr. J. L, Ingle and
W. O. Perkins, retiring from the
board. Six candidates have filed,
and two will be chosen, the polls re
maining open until 7 o'clock In the
evening.
Candidates aro W. D. Hanks, P. J.
Lilly, Mrs. Ploy Wetzel, Charles B.
Miller, Ed Moon and Gene Wtalker.
The race has been especially warm
this year with a large field of candi
dates to assist C. B. Eberhard, Ray
Buell and E. R. Rlngo in settling the
educational affairs in La Grande dur
ing the year.
Rioting Follows
Ban on Uniforms
BERLIN, June 18 OT) Street
fights In various parts of tho country
last night followed the raising of the
han on uniforms for political groups.
At Hamburg two men were killed
and five were injured during a com
munist demonstration. At Altona
fights between communists and na
tional socialists kept the police busy
all night, and at Ludwlgshoven there
were Bevcral minor Injuries In
series of riots.
At Grlcshclm national socialists
armed with scythes and pickaxes at
tacked a group of rclchsbannermen
Four were hurt. There were 20 or
moro Injured in clashes at Kottbus.
and towns In the Rhineland reported
numerous fights.
Won't Work And
Goat - Albeit Cold
ancient witches' formula, in manu
script, brought from the archival of
tho national laboratory of physical
research, London,
With them wan Mian Gloria Gor
don of England for the formula call
ed for a maiden "pure of heart" and
Miss Gordon said she guessed she wa
"as well qualified as any girl nowa
days" for tho part.
Atop tho mountain they anointed
tho goat with the blood, the honey
and tho scrapings of church bells.
They used the proper pine to light a
fire, described a circle of the proper
size and uttered every ono of the
Latin Incantations stipulated.
The goat was then led Into the
circle by a silver cord. A white sheet
was thrown over him, More prescrib
ed abracadabra was lntrftied. Then,
In a weird monotone, Expert Price
boomed "one!" He continued boom
Ing until he reached "tent" with
proper pauses.
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Second :Qudir::Flg0m
PARIS-BOUND TO
lore's the smiling greeting Nebraska is sending to Franco In Die
person of Miss Mary Virginia Louis of Oniuliu. Hho will represent
tlio Cornluiskcr Male at the dedication of the memorial liullillng
to General John ,1. Pershing In Paris, June 20. General Pershing,
it native of N'clmisko, on Henry L. Stevens, national comniumler of
'the American Legion, will acoomiuuiy Miss Louis on tile voyage.
She was received by President Hoover nt tlic While House on her
arrival In Ihn cast and will carry his greetings to Kuroimm rulers
and statesmen following the Paris ceremony. .
Grange Suggests
Bank of Oregon'
' And Coinage
SILVERTON, June 18 m A pro
posed initiative measuro providing
for creation of a "Bank of Oregon,1'
to be operated by the state and do
general banking business was voted
by tho state grango during Its clos
ing session hero late yestorday. Ar
rangements' will be made at onco to
place petitions for the Initiative in
the field.
- Further recommendations of the
banking commission and approved by
the convention during the active
business session yesterday would give
congress the right to re-assume coin
ing of money and that necessary cur
rency be Issued to transact the busi
ness of the nation so "that com
merce may flow free and unrestricted
between producer and consumer."
Pendleton was voted tho conven
tion city for tho grange next year.
The city received the majority vote,
whllo Eugene receive the next high
est and Hlllsboro third.
Reversing Its previous Btand on
the old age pension matter, the con
ventlon adopted a resolution which
urged a federal old -ago insurance
plan with funds to bo contributed
equally by every able-bodied man at
work, his employer and the federal
government.
Proof of financial ability to meet
automobile accident damage awards
will bo required of all automobile
drivers In a bill which the legislative
committee of the grange was In
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FKO.M PKMILKTON
Charles Thornton, of Pendleton,
who Is connected with tho eta to
highway department, Is a visitor In
La Grande where ho la transacting
business.
Bewails Dearth
Of Party Talent
In G.O.P. Ranks
NEW YORK, June Jfl W) The New
York World-Telegram today states
that Nicholas Murray Butler, who
led the fight for a repeal plank In
the Republican national platform,
will lead a movement to bring about
repudiation by New England and tho
middle Atlantic Republican stuto
conventions of the plank finally
adopted in Chicago.
If he succeeds. Dr. Butler said.
President Hoover may have "a sport
ing chance" of reelection. If he fails,
he predicted, the Republican party
will "go over the dam,"
Adoption of the present plank by
the Republican national convention
In Chicago was described by Dr. But
ler as "the most shocking exhibition
of patronage control of a conven
tion since 1872, when Ulysses S.
Grant won his second nomination."
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HONOR PERSHING
DAWES SAYS TURN
IN SLUMP IS HERE
Smaller Firms Improving,
Larger Ones Bound to
Follow Soon.
CHICAGO, Juno IB Charles O.
Dawes came back to Chicago and his
banking business today with tho be
lief that "wo have reached the turn
ing point in the depression,"
Tho former vice president, budget
director, and ambassador was return
ing from his latest big task that of
chairman of tho reconstruction fl-j
nanco corporation. Ho based his 1
belief that the depression had reached
bottom on hlB work in Washington
where ho Bold "ono gets a fair per
spective on tho general business
situation In tho country."
"It is tho snip 1 Iff business enter
prises with low ovcrhoad expenses
which scorn to bo showing Improve
ment," Gen. Dawes said, "but In tlmo
tho larger ones must necessarily fol
low. Tho recovery In tho depres
sion will start from tho bottom up,
not from the top down. That is what
oxperlenco shows.'
"With ;tho forced economics and
reduced Inventories In both our large
and small enterprises which havo
boen effected tho last year, we need
for profitable business In mnny lines
no return to tho prices of a fow
years ago, but only a modorate In
crease. "Tho oil Industry, for Instance, Is
now demonstrating this. In tho
general Interest, thero must now bo
In government, state and municipal
administration tho same liquidation
in expenditures which Individuals
and private business enterprises have
already effected.
Taxes must come down and this
must result primarily from reduced
governmental expenditures, national,
stnto and munlcipiti. that is essen
tial to tho full recovery or busi
ness. "Tho president pointed out the
other day that In the ton years end
ing with. 1030 tho reueral govern
ment decreased Its Indebtedness by
nearly 31 per cent, whero as tho
municipalities increased their ln-
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Signals Received
From Leviathan
LONDON, Juno 18 fP) Tho United
States liner Leviathan was aground
fer less than three quarters of an
hour today off the IhIc of Wight,
a messago received by Lloyds Agency
hero said, but sho got awoy again
without difficulty or known damage.
Tho liner was reported hoisting
tho signal "not under control" at 7;40
a, m. on tho Dean Banc approaches
to Splthcad. It was due In nearby
Cowcs Roads from Bremen this morn
ing to take on passengers for Now
York, brought out by tender froi
Southampton. ,
Within less than throe quortcrs of
an hour, howover, another message
said, tho ship had hauled down Its
distress signal and proceeded to the
Roads where, by mid-forenoon, It was
discharging and receiving passengers.
Europe Will Not
Ask Cancellation
For War Debts
May Cancel Annuities of
. Germany Called -For in
Young Plan Providing
France Submits.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 18
-In quarters close to the big pow
ers associated In the conference on
reparations and war debls, it was
said today the European statesmen
aro preparing a final reparations set
tlement without an American guar
antee of cancellation or revision of
the war debts payments due the
United States.
Any notion of a resolution propos
ing to ask the government at Wash
ington to cancel the war debts ap
parently has been given up as likely
to interfere with! the presidentiai
election in the United States.
The method under discussion, it
was said, is to cancel Germany's un
conditional and conditional annuities
under the Young plan, to bond the
German railways lor an undeter
mined amount and then, without a
direct appeal to tho United States,
to publish balance sheets showing
Germany unable to pay her debts In
the
nope mat American opinion
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Southwest Grain
Crop Is Smaller;
Dakota Suffers
KANSAS CITY, Juno 18 P) Tho
southwest today was harvesting a
wheat crop, considerably smaller than
mat year duo largely to weather dam
ago, i
Carloads of tho now crop began to
arrive at the markets, bringing from
25 to 30 cents a bushel at the rural
centers. In Kansas City, tho first
arrivals found futures prices around
the lowest level of the , season, IS
cents under the late May quotations.
The first car from the south plains
seatlon of Texas reached Amnrlllo
yesterday. Harvesting In that section
Is well under way. A crop of approxi
mately 30-mlllion bushels Is Indicated
In TexaB where June 1 It was reported
officially at' 89 per cent of normal
compared with 77 per cent at the
same time last year.
Oklahoma's prospective yield . has
been Bet at 32,704,000 bushels, loss
than half of last year's 70-mllllon
bushel crop and In Kansas tho yield
Is expected to bo ices than one-third
of the 1031 bumper crop of moro
than 230,000,000 bushels.
A return of the horse In harvesting
operations has been reported from
Kansas, farmers forsaking tho tractor
to. effect economies.
Tivo Convicted On
Narcotic Charges
Mrs. Alexander Rlvard, who recent
ly moved from La Grande to Baker
and opened a rooming house, and
Roland Bhaw, were convicted Thurs
day In Portland of forging a narcotic
prescription, according to word re
ceived here from Baker. Alexander
Rlvard, husband of the convictod
woman, was Jointly charged and
found not guilty.
The federal grand Jury Indicted the
Rlvards and Shaw on two counts,
raising a prescription and forging a
government document, a narcotic
prescription, and Mrs. Rlvard and
Shaw wero found guilty on the sec
ond Indictment. The prescription
was passed at a Milton drug storo on
April 23. Shaw was arrested In Pen
dleton on April 27, and Mr. and
lvrs. Rlvard wero apprehended In
Walla Walla on April 24 and 25. They
lived in Pendleton at the time of
their arrest.
Quake Is Felt
In Mexico City
MEXICO CITY, June 18 WV-Three
persons wero killed ami many public
buildings were damuged today by an
earthquake whirl, shouk Collma. It
was the scroiul he niiake of the
month.
MEXICO City, Juno 18 m At
4:15 a. m. today a sharp earthquake
struck Mexico City, terrifying the
people. Most of them fled to tho
parks and fields of the suburbs whore
they spent the rest of tho morning.
Thero wore vivid sheets of lightn
ing before and after the quake. It
was not thought tho dnmage here
was vory great, but it seemed prob
able that In nearby states tho blow
may have been heavier.
Tho epicenter was estimated
about 600 miles southwest of Mexico
City, probably in the Pacific. .
Telephone lines were down between
Guadalajara and Collma, giving rise
to fears the Collma, badly damaged
by an carthquako earlier thin month
had been struck again. Guadalajara
roportcd that tho shocks wero very
heavy there.
BAN TRANCIHCO, Juno IB Ml Tho
Mackny radio million horo roporlod
receipt of a meKHBKR from tho boat
Ohlckcn-of-the-Bca saying buildings
wore knocked over at Man.anlllo,
Moxlco, by a sharp cartliquoko early
today. Tho city was In confusion.
tho radio said.
Tho ship was forced by port re
strictions to cIobo down Its wireless
before giving deinlls of tho reported
disaster.
PROHI LAW
ALSOWORRIES
DEMOCRATS
Shouse Says Party Will
Favor Popular Vote . '
on Question.
MURRAY, GARNER
CAMPS PREPARED
Elaborate Plans For Cam
paigns Made By Promos
ters of Six Candidates';
Great Fight Anticipated
By W, B. Ragsdale ' ;
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
CHICAGO, June 18 OP) Prohibi
tion, the word that spelled roaring
dispute for the Republicans now
straggling homeward, was first on
the tongues today of convention
bent Democrats.
Candidates, economic issues, even
organization, took second, place in,
the discussion of newly arrived Demo
cratic leaders to the question: What '
will tho Democrats do about prohi
bition? . , ;'
Jouett Shouse, chairman of th
Democratic national committee, puff
ing at a black briar between answers
to the two score newspaper men at
his first press conference, believed
the party would adopt a plank favor
ing submission of prohibition to the
people . to determine whether they
want the 18th amendment repealed.
(1. O. I. Plunk Panned
He called the Republican plank im
possible of Interpretation and said
that of the Democrats would be spe-.
ciflo and brief. He expected that It
would denounce., conditions under
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BODIES SOUGHT
ON BLAST-TORN
CANADIAN SHIP,
iJONrritRM,,' Que.. ' June 18 S"H'
Throe moro;1bodlefl,,..one...Qf th)em'tIi'.,
llovod to. be that of Tiro chief RaoiuX
Oauthler,- worow recovered .today, by "
divers working benenth the wreck of
tho bloat torn, tenkor, Cymbellne.
The nowcat recoveries brought . th :
total to H and left U', bodies BtlU
UUBBIUg. '
Montreal; Juno ia .wo The
blast-torn tanker . Cymbellne was
searched today for, bodleB of 14 per
sona believed dead. Eleven already
have been recovered.. Of the mpre
that thrco score mon injured when
explosions shattered, tho British, ves
sel yesterday, 37 were sttir In hos
pitals. 1 1
Several million dollars' damage was
done, officials estimated, In the blasts
and fire that Inflicted ono of Mon
treal's major disasters.. A $6,000,000
Canadian Vlckers drydock, In which
tho British vessel was undergoing re- .
pairs whon it blow up, was partly
wrecked.
Officials believe a hot rivet may
have come in contact with gas ac
cumulating over oil Inside the ves
sel. : , '
The bodies recovered were those
of three firomen and eight Vlckers
repair men. Tho fourteen missing
and presumed dead were Vlckers em
ployes. . 1
Tho huge drydock, which was towed
hero from England, settled into the
water. An attempt will be made to
raise It by air pressure.
Man Wanted For
Murder Suicides
SHANGHAI, June 18 OF) John
M. Hansen, formerly of Brooklyn,
N. Y., who was sought by polios fol
lowing the slaying yesterday of an
other American, Rodney K. Helm, of
Portland, Me., was found dead today
In a rooming house In the French
concession.
French police said Hansen had
committed suicide, first taking pol
sen, then slashing his wrists and
finally firing a bullet through his
brain.
Hansen's mother was reported to be
living in Pasadena, Cal.
Authorities said they were In
formed Hansen and Helm had quar
reled and the former lured the lat
ter to the suburb area and shot him.
Both were employed by the Amerl
cnii Vaven Trust company hero.
Wheat Toiday
CHICAGO. Juno 18 m Wheat
prices established now all-time bot
tom records today, showing a fall of
14 cents a bushel Inside of a month,
moro than 20 per cent, loss.
Low Icvols reached wero In tho face
of ono of tho shorttat crops of do.
mestlc wlntor wheat tho United States
lion over had. Opponents of tho farm
board said wheat would bo soiling at
1 a bushel wero It not that tho farm
board surplus had discouraged for.
olgn buying. ''
Wheat closed nervous, lWo be
low yesterday's finish, corn V4 9 o
up, oats H'o advanced, and pro
visions unchanged to a rlso of 10
cents. , , ; . ; t ,.!,.