VOL.. jLVIII. NO. 18,415
Entered at Portland Oregon)
Poftofiice an Seeond-CJass Matter.
PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECE3IIJER 3, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HASTENS
NEW ENGLAND MILLS P R TQ I P F MT II R CF
MINERS GET 84 CENTS;
OWN COAL COSTS $2.20
OPERATORS AND MEX HELD IN
"CAHOOTS TO BLEED PUBLIC"
BANK ROBBER PLEADS
FOR QUICK EXECUTION
GORDON F. UAMBY SAYS HE IS
DYING STANDING UP.
coveihent
L
GOVERNMENT TO PUT
OWN FLOUR ON SALE
GRANT HIGHER WAGE ' .'"-""-
SUE CkL
TO
BRITISH
GDNGRESS TO ACT
SPIRITED BUTTLE
300,000 WORKERS GET
PER CEXT INCREASE
SMALL PACKAGES TO BE SOLD
AT NOMINAL COST.
MEX GO
WL
WOOD WNS AFTER
CALM
MINERS
Carranza Directs Rebels
to Release Prisoner:
UNITED STATES IGNORED
Department Awaits Compli
ance with Request.
CABLE DELAY IS BLAMED
Officials Expect Prompt Action on
Demand for Liberation of Con
sular Agent Jenkins.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. With much
impatience, the state department to
day awaited word from Mexico City
of the release of Consular Agent Jen
kins from the penitentiary at Puebla
In response to this government's sec
ond sharp note to Carranza. The de
partment tonight had been advised of
the note's delivery, but officials said
it probably was presented during the
day and that they expected prompt
action by the Carranza administration
in acceding to the "request" of the
United States.
The note was forwarded early Sun
day ' and the delayed dispatch from
tho Mexican capital said the Mexican
foreign office announced late last
night that it had not been received.
Krrors in cable transmission wera
said to have delayed its presenta
tion. British Subject Helraird.
A new sidelight on the general
Mexican kidnaping situation waa
given today In a report of the capture
of Norman Rowe, a British subject,
by rebels at Zacatecas, who held him
for ransom, but who quickly released
him at the instance of the Carranza
administration, without payment of
ransom.
Great Britain never recognized the
Carranza regime in Mexico.
The British vice-consul at Zacatecas
promptly notified the Mexican author-.
Hies and reported the kidnaping to
the British consulate-general at Mex
ico City. Representations were quick
ly made to the Mexican government
and within a few hours the ma
chinery, Including the military, waa
seeking to rescue Rowe.
The kidnaping took place at Fres
nillo, a large mining camp at Zacate
cas. and in reporting the liberation
and return of Rowe to Fresnillo the
vice-consul said:
"The government troops and the
ftato authorities exercised all dili
gence in effecting the liberty of Rowe
and as a mere matter of justice this
should be stated, as everything is due
to the efficacy with which the au
thorities moved in the matter."
Cabrera In Active.
Luis Cabrera, secretary of the
treasury under Carranza, known to
be bitterly anti-American and whose
brother is governor of the state of
Puebla, where the Jenkins . kidnap
ing took place, has taken an active
part in the Mexican government's
prosecution of the case against Jen
kins, according to advices received
today. In a statement prepared for
the press of Mexico City, Cabrera said
that Jenkins might bo liberated on
bond, but that the American govern
ment "now prefers to set him free
by means of threats."
"It is inexplicable," Cabrera was
quoted as saying, "that the American
overnment should have requested
tho immediate release of Jenkins
even before the court decision was
rendered. Tho 1'nited Stats govern
ment is seeking to have Jenkins de
clared innocent even before tho in
vestigations of the case are com
pleted. MEXICO CITY. Dec. 1. Announce
ment was made at the Mexican Tor
eign office late tonight that the last
America! note had not been delivered.
First intimation as to the nature of
the communication sent to Mexico by
Secretary or State Lansing was given
by dispatches to this city by the Asso
ciated Press. It was learned at the I
American embassy that there were
r.umerous errors in the cable trans
niisEi.ii of the note, which probably
explains the delay in its presentation.
Kvrmption Not "Provided.
Hilary Medina, under secretary of
foreign relations, declared today that
treaties existing between Mexico and
the United States make no provision
tor the exemption of consular agents
from jurisdiction of federal tribunals,
"for which reason W. O. Jenkins, the
United States consular agent at
Pisebla. because of whose imprison
ment a delicate situation has arisen
between the two countries, cannot
claim immunity as has been sug
gested by his friends."
Senor Medina stated the treaty of
friei dship and commerce between
United States and Mexico, drawn in
1S31 and renewed in 1848, established
no immunity in favor of consuls.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. Prosecu
tion of the alleged murderers of Lieu
tenants Connelly and Waterhouse,
American aviators, whose bodies were
found buried on the beach of Los An
geles bay. and latcj- brought . to the
United States for burial, has begun at
Ensenada, Lower California. the
American embassy at Mexico City has
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Nearly $1,000,000 Weekly Added
to Payrolls; Rise Since War Be
gan Is 100 to 148 Per Cent.
BOSTON, Dec. 2. Advanced wages
for thousands of operatives in the
textile industry in New England were
announced today. Within a day or
two, it was indicated, 300,000 workers
in cotton and woolen mills in this
section and thousands of operatives
in other eastern states would be re
ceiving higher pay.
The advance, which most generally
was announced as 12 per cent, marks
a new high level for textile wages.
It is estimated that it will add slight
ly less than $1,000,000 weekly to the
payrolls of New England mills.
Increases in textile industry wages
since the beginning ofthe war will
then aggregate from 100 to 148 per
cent.
Following closely upon the settle
ment last night of a one-day strike
at Fall River, with an advance of
12 14 per cent to 38,000 workers and
averting a threatened strike at New
Bedford by the granting of a similar
increase to 35,000 operatives, word
came today from virtually every im
portant textile center that manufac
turers were falling In line. The Amer
ican Woolen company announced that
an increase had been ordered at all of
its mills.
The amount was not made public
This company employs upward of 35,
000 persons at 56 mills, including
plants in New York.
MAD POET TO BE CURBED
Italy Promises to Prevent D'Annnn-
zio's Advance.
BELGRADE, via Copenhagen to
London, Dec. 1. The Italian govern
ment has informed the Jugo-Slav gov
ernment that the instructions of the
peace conference for preventing the
advance of Gabriele d'Annunzio's
forces on Spalato will be carried out.
This announcement was made here
today.
ROME, Dec. 2. The council of min
isters has had under consideration
the question of the status of Admiral
Millo, commander of the Italian forces
in Dalmatia. who accepted at the
hands of Gabriele d'Annunzio an ap
pointment as "governor or Italian
Dalmatia," which he later resigned.
It was stated today that the admiral
would be tried before the high court.
ARCH SITE IS SELECTED
Victory Monument to Span Pacific
Highway at Boundary.
BELLINGHAM, Wash.. Dec. 2. The
site for the proposed victory arch, to
be dedicated September 20, 1920, in
celebration of 100 years of peace and
the completion of the Pacific high
way, was selected by a committee of
good roads men of Washington. Ore
gon and British Columbia at Blaine
today.
The committee suggested that the
arch, which will span the highway
paralleling the waterfront at the
boundary line, be surrounded by a
park of six acres, to be purchased bv
'British Columbia and the state of
Washington or the Pacific Highway
association.
OREGON SOLDIERS RETURN
Transport Orizaba Arrives from
Brest with Western Troops.
NEW TORK, Dec. 2. (Special.)
The transport Orizaba from Brest
docked today with 107 officers and
873 men. The names of Oregon men
follow: Veole A. Smith, Astoria; Os
car A. Johns and Lewis A. Deyo,
Portland; James E. Barolay, Half
way. The Rocky Mountain club will act
upon instructions of relatives in look
ing after the welfare of Oregon men
during their stay in the east.
JAP AGREEMENT IS HIT
Congressional Resolution Will Be
Introduced, Legion Hears.
SACRAMENTO. Dec 2. A resolu
tion will be introduced in the house
of representatives to cancel the
"gentlemen's agreement" under which
Japanese immigration to America is
permitted.
Representative Charles F. Curry of
the tniru camornia district so in
formed the local post of the Ameri
can Legion in a telegram received
today.
ROUMANIA SENDS NOTE
Attitude Outlined to Allies Is Not
Yet Made Public.
PARIS, lpc. 2. Roumania's reply to
the ultimatum of the supreme council
demanding a specific setting- forth of
Roumainia's attitude has not yet been
made public.
It is known that a long telegram
was received by the council today
from Bucharest. It was accompanied
by a report that the Roumanian cabi
net had resigned.
ITALIAN WORKERS STRIKE
Industry tienerally Tied Up
Rome, Milan and Florence.
ROME, Dec. 2. A general strike
was declared today in Rome, Milan
and Florence, where there was a com
plete cessation of work. There was
no disorder, except in Milan, where
two persons were killed and many
were wounded.
There were rival socialist a.. " loyal
ist demonstrations in all three cities.
Large Programme of Leg
islation Outlined.
RAILROAD PROBLEM RESERVED
No
Direct Statement Made
Regarding Treaty.
LABOR'S RIGHTS ESPOUSED
Workers Have Just Cause for Com
plaint, Says Executive, bat
Minority Rale Intolerable.
WASHINGTON, Dec 2. A diversi
fied programme to restore a peace
time business status, revise the tax
system, curb unrest, reduce the cost
of living and rectify labor and farm
ing conditions was recommended by
President Wilson today in his mes
sage to the new session of congress.
The president asked for new tariff
laws based on the nation's changed
relation to the rest of the world,
suggested that the income and excess
profits tax schedule be simplified, ad
vocated steps to improve rural con
ditions and promote production, and
declared for a "genuine democratiza
tion of industry" to protect both
labor and capital.
The railroad problem he reserved
for a future message and he made
no statement of his intentions regard
ing the peace treaty or Mexico.
Treaty Briefly Touched.
Many of his recommendations wera
the same as those submitted to the
special session last spring and sev
eral of them are embraced in legisla
tion already being formulated in the
two houses.
To meet the cost of living, the presi
dent asked extension -of th'j wartime
food control bill, federal regulation
" old storage, readjustment of food
transportation and establishment of
a system of federal licensing for all
corporations engaged in inrcrutats
commerce.
He declared the causes of unrest to
be superficial and temporary, and
made his only reference to the sen
ate's failure to ratify the peace treaty
in saying that restlessness was due
largely to the nation's hesitation in
determining its peace policy. The
federal government, he declared
should be armed with full authority
to deal In tho criminal courts with
those who promote violence.
Labor Rights Championed.
In an extended discussion of labor
conditions, he declared the workers
had just cause for complaint in many
matters, and that there should be
"full recognition of the right of those
who work, in whatever rank, to par
ticinate in some organic way in every
decision that directly affects their
welfare."
He asserted that the right of in
dividuals to strike must be held in
violate, but added that there must be
a firm stand against "the attempt of
any class to usurp a power that only
the government itself has a right to
exercise as a protection to all."
F'"lly, he suggested the estab
lishment of a tribunal for peaceful de
cision of industrial disputes.
He renewed his recommendation for
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Laborer, Interrogated by Judge,
Agrees That Botb Sides Ought
to Reduce Prices.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Dec. 2. Mine
operators and mine workers appear to
be in "cahoots to bleed the public,"
in the opinion of Justice A. B. Ander
son of the United States district fed
eral court. Jutjge Anderson, who or
dered the rescinding of the strike
order, expressed himself today in the
course of examination of Alonzo New-
comb, a miner. Newcomb was before
the court on a charge of illegal sale
of liquor.
Newcomb said in reply to questions
that the mine workers receive only
84 cents a ton for the coal they mine,
while they have to pay tho operators
82.20 a ton for that coal on top of
the mine and besides have to haul it
themselves.
'Ought not all of you come down
all around?" Judge Anderson asked.
and Newcomb said:
"I guess you are right-"
Newcomb said he averaged about 86
a day as a coal digger and had made
as much as 810 a day. He said his
last pay check called for 8S2.27 for
14 days' work, but that about 818
had to be taken out of it for powder
and other expenses owed the mine
operator.
When asked why he did not return
to work, inasmuch as the mines were
open and the government would af
ford protection, Newcomb said:
"Tour honor, it would be all my
life would be worth to start back to
work. I wouldn't last long, I don't
expect-"
NEWBERRY DENIES CHARGE
Election Fraud Charges Blamed on
Political Enemies.
WASHINGTON. Dee. 2. Denial of
the charges of election frauds con
tained in an indictment returned
against him in Michigan, was made
today by Senator Newberry, republi
can, Michigan.
The senator declared that the
charges were inspired by partisan
politics and he proposed to show the
"malignity" behind the charges, "as
well a? the use of unlimited money
in an attempt to cast a cloud upon
my good name and that of my sup
porters."
TiTTONI HEADS SENATE
Former Premier Orlando President
of Italian Chamber.
ROME, Dec. 2. The work of organ
izing the parliament for the new ses
sion, begun yesterday, was continued
today. For the organization of the
senate the president of the body is
named by the king, and his majesty
today designated Tomasso Tittoni,
former minister of foreign affairs,
for the office.
In the chamber of deputies former
Premier Orlando, who was the gov
ernment's candidate, was elected
president.
REPATRIATION IS URGED
Swiss Council Asks All Nations to
Free Prisoners.
BERNE, Sunday, Nov. 30. An ap
peal for the repatriation of all war
prisoners still held by the belliger
ents has been addressed to all nations
which participated In the war by the
Swiss federal council.
Special reference is made to pri
oners still in Siberia and in. France
and also Russian prisoners remaining
in Germany.
Communication Directed to District
Attorney in Brooklyn Says Law
May be Cheated.
NEW TORK. Dec. 2. A plea to ex
pedite his execution, which he termed
his suicide, was sent to District At
torney Lewis in Brooklyn today by
Gordon Fawcett Hamby, whose ex
ploits as bank robber and train ban
dit covered the United States and
Canada.
Hamby was convicted last June of
murdering the paying teller of a
Brooklyn savings bank. At his trial
he boasted of his exploits and ex
pressed a desire to be executed as
quickly as possible.
"I deem it. ' he wrote in a letter, "as
much to your advantage as mine for
you to expedite this 'suicide.' I hope
that you will see fit to expedite
the matter as I am dying standing up,
so to speak. Whether it is the menu,
environment or the incarceration, I
do not know, nor care, but I do know
that you would feel bad if the law
were cheated of such a willing of
fering. Do not let it be cheated, Mr.
Lewis."
ALIEN EMPLOYES OUSTED
Seattle Foreman Among Workers
Let Out or City Service.
SEATTLE, Wash. Dec 2. (Spe
cial.) In line with Mayor Fitzger
ald's suggestion to heads of city de
partments some time ago, Superin
tendent of Public Utilities Thomas F.
Murphine announced that scores of
aliens who have neglected to perfect
their citizenship have been discharged.
Among the discharged employes
was a foreman in the street railway
department who had been on the mu
nicipal payroll for more than 20
years. Although the foreman was a
competent workman and had voted in
numerous elections, investigation by
the intelligence department of the
utilities office disclosed that
foreman was not a citizen of
the
the
j United States.
MRS. MOONEYES TRIAL SET
Two Charges of Murder Scheduled
for Hearing December 8.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2. Two
cases involving charges of murder
against Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of
Thomas J. Mooney, were formally set
for trial on December S by Superior
Judge Louis Ward here today.
The district attorney's office indi
cated that it would not be ready to
proceed on that date, but would be
able to state when the cases could
be tried. The defense, on October 18,
invoked the law stipulating that the
cases must be brought to trial within
60 days. This time will expire on
December 17, by which time, it was
indicated today, the cases must go to
trial or the charges may be dismissed.
UNIVERSITY HEAD NAMED
Dr. D. P. Barrows Chosen by
' California Regents.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2.
Dr.
David P. Barrows was named presi
dent of the University of California
here today by a, unanimous vote of
the board of regents.
Dr. Barrows is head of the Ameri
can Legion of California.
He came to the university to fill
the chair of education in 1910. after
having graduated from the institu
tion 15 years before. He has degrees
from Pomona, Columbia and Chicago.
When the war broke out Dean Bar
rows was commissioned a colonel and
served in Siberia.
Injunction Against Strike
Held Violated.
EARLY ARRESTS EXPECTED
Efforts to Settle Trouble by
Wage Rise Counted Failure.
MAYORS TO RATION FUEL
Industries to Close and Business Is
Restricted Volunteers Mine
Coal in Kansas.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Dec 2. Con
vinced that efforts) to bring; about a
resumption of operation of coal mines
through offers of 14 per cent irage
advance to miners have failed and
that the Injunction issued by United
States Judge Anderson against the
strike has been violated, the govern
ment has concluded to Institute - eon
tempt proceedings at once, tt was in
dicated tonight.
Federal agents would mske no
statements as to when court action
might be expected, but In well-informed
circles, it was said, srrests
mlarht be made within 48 hours.
PITTSBURG. Kan., Dec. 2. Kansas
got a toehold in the coal mining
business today.
Toward storm - swept southwest
Kansas, where the mercury is hover
ing a few degrees above zero, is
speeding tonight the first car of coal
mined by volunteer workers in the
strip pits of the Pittsburg field. It
was billed out of Pittsburg this after
noon to the mayor of Coldwater, Kan.,
and was expected to be followed to
night by other cars destined for sec
tions where the coal famine is most
acute.
The dirt walls of the pits were
frozen solid and at the bottom were
treacherous reaches of ice and ice
covered pools of water.
The first contingent of volunteer
miners, which arrived yesterday, was
augmented today by tho arrival of
600 additional men. O. S. Hubert,
general manager of operations, said
he expected to have a majority of the
steam shovels In the district work
ing full time tomorrow or Thursday.
Distribution of the coal rained in
the strip pits will be made through
the mayors of the Kansas towns and
cities where the coal is sent. Gover
nor Henry J. Allen announced 'today.
Among the volunteers whe reached
Pittsburg today are business men.
clerks and college students.
In the face of a blizzard that or
dinarily would have brought a halt
to work In the strip pit mines of the
Pittsburg . coal f ield, ' the volunteer
coal diggers of Kansas went Into the
pits when the whistles blew for work
this morning and began turning out
fuel to relieve tho Kansas coal fam
ine. Volunteers Sleep In Tents.
The volunteer workers, most of
them accustomed to outdoor life dur
Ing service overseas, slept in tents
last night, with frigid winds whls
tling around the corners and sifting
eleet and snow through rifts in the
canvas or through cracks about the
doorways.
This morning the men washed In
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Julius Barnes Announces Step
Meet Increased Consumption.
Use to Be Readjusted.
NEW VORK. Dec 2. Julius H.
Barnes, United States wheat director.
j tonight in an open letter to the house
wives of America, asked that they co
operate in the adjustment of the pres
ent flour situation. He encouraged
the sale of the lower-priced wheat
flours and urged the purchase of
"United States grain corporation
standard pure wheat flour."
Mr. Barnes said that within the
next two weeks the government will
place on the market "straight flour in
small packages at a nominal cost."
This flour, he asserted, was being
sold in order to get "the individual
consumer and our bakers to readapt
their consumption to the product
which is in ample supply this year."
The readaption of the habits of "our
flour consumers" is necessary, Mr.
Barnes explained, because of the in
crease In flour and bread consump
tion, and "a shrinkage In the crop
yield of spring-sown hard wheats by
150,000,000 bushels and a correspond
ing increase in the yield of winter
wheats." He said this made it neces
sary "for a balanced consumption, a
shifting of part of the demand from
one kind to the other."
Although flour production has in
creased in this country in five
months over 10,000,000 barrels above
last year, all of which has been either
eaten or stored away, Mr. Barnes de
clared, "our large crop of wheat will
care" for the increased consumption.
The new standard flour to be placed
on the market by the government. Mr.
Barnes explained, will be sold at
about 75 cents for 1-16 barrel (12V4
pounds). The bureau of labor retail
price reports indicated, he said, that
for 20 months the average price of
flour in this country for the same
quantity had been 81 and 89 cents.
ENGLISH HONOR WILSON
Carlisle, Home of President's
Mother, Unveils Tablet.
CARLISLE, England, Dec 2. Citi
zens of Carlisle, the girlhood home of
the mother of President Wilson, yes
terday unveiled a tablet near the en
trance of the Lowther Street Congre
gational church to commemorate the
visit to the town of President Wilson
In December. 1918.
On that occasion the president
went to the spot on which had stood
the chapel of his grandfather, the
late Rev. Thomas Woodrow.
SHOW CIRCUITS COMBINE
Merger of AH Vaudeville Houses in
West Announced.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 2. A the
atrical merger was announced here
today by Morris Meyerfield, president
of a vaudeville circuit.
All high-class vaudeville circuits
west of Chicago are to be consol
idated under a single management,
he said. '
DRY REFERENDUM SOUGHT
New York Representative Intro
duces Amendment.
WASHINGTON, Dec 2. A constitu
tional amendment providing for a ref
erendum on national prohibition was
proposed in a resolution introduced
today. It was brought in by Repre
sentative O Connell, democrat. New
York.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature,
36 degrees; minimum. 29 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and continued cold; mod
erate northeasterly winds.
Dome. tic.
Mrs. Philip Kamm divorced in south
Page 4.
Kansas volunteers are mining coal. Page 2.
Gordon F. Hamby. back robber, pleads tor
prompt execution. Page 1.
Major-General Wood indorsed for president
by South Dakota republicans. Page 1.
William Carlisle, Wyoming train robber,
shot by poiwtes. Page -.
800,000 New England workers get wage in
crease. Page 1.
Coal miners and operators held "in cahootl
to bleed public" Page 1.
Klamath Falls Legion's protest on private
reclamation of public lands answered by
Secretary Lane. Page 3.
Henry C. Frick, industrial magnate, dies.
Page 4.
Dead oirl at Lawten. Mich., Identified as
Maude Tabor. Page 6.
National.
Immedtate revival of treaty controversy Jn
senate is considered unlikely. Page 2.
Large legislative programme presented by
president to congress. Page 1.
Authorship of Wilson message In doubt
Pago 9. '
Mexico is prompt to release British subject
held by rebels. Page 1.
Government will sue coal strikers. Page 1.
Pacific Northwest.
Suit ftied to test Olcott's status as gov
ernor. Page T.
Centralla I. W. W. murder case transferred
to Grays Harbor county. Page 7.
Sports.
Harvard's acceptance of Pasadena game
surprises alumni. Page 14.
Court to untangle American league mix-up
Page 14.
Jefferson high school asks football game
with Toledo. Ohio, team. Page 14.
Commercial and Marine.
Increase in demand will favorably affect
mohair prices. Page 22.
Steamer Braeburn. stranded on Bermuda
rocks, may be floated. Page 22.
Slatterys report disapproves 35-foot chan
nel. Page 22.
Portland and Vicinity.
Conttnued cold in store for today. Page 12.
Lifting of state indebtedness limit to 4 per
cent proposed in amendment. Page o.
Morrow rails for Jury in Golden West ease.
Page 13.
City council favors committee of business
-men to pass on applications for drives.
Page 17.
Letters are sensation in white rlavery case.
Page 11.
F. N. Flnrh nrnni'd coal administrator,
with offices in Portianti. Page 2.
yoflal workers
Baker. Past
are
J,
Criticised by Mayor .
General Choice of South
Dakota Republicans.
DEMOCRATS INDORSE WILSON
Coolidge Is Party Preference
for Vice-President.
PLATFORMS ARE ADOPTED
Americanism Paramount Issue of
Republicans, and Peace Under
League Democratic War Cry.
PIERRE, S. D., Dec 2. Major-Gen-eral
Leonard Wood was indorsed for
president of the United States early
tonight by the republican state con
vention, after a spirited fight in which
Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illi
nois, came out second best. While
the republicans were meeting in one
legislative chamber of the state capi
tol, the democratic state convention
in the opposite chamber indorsed
President Wilson for a third term by
unanimous vote.
Under the Richards' state primary
law, the county delegations cast their
vote on the basis of their voting
strength at the last state election and
a majority was necessary to indorse
or nominate. Wood received 28,599
votes from the republican majority
and Lowden got 15,442. The neces
sary majority was 25.558.
For Vice-Chief. Coolidge.
The republicans indorsed Governor
Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for
the vice-presidential nomination. Cool
idge received a heavy majority. A
few scattering votes were cast for
Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Hiram
Johnson and Henry Allen of Kansas.
The democrats indorsed Vice-President
Marshall for vice-president.
Governor Peter Norbeck was nomi
nated for the United States senate
by the republicans to oppose Senator
Ed S. Johnson, renominated by the
democrats.
The only other presidential pos
sibility mentioned at the democratic
convention was William G. McAdoo.
After President Wilson was indorsed
a delegate moved that the conven
tion indorse McAdoo in the event that
President Wilson decides not to be a
candidate.
The motion was ruled out of order.
Peace Democratic Issue.
The democrats spent most of the
afternoon discussing their platform
and particularly the labor planks.
The republicans adopted their plat
form In the forenoon. The keynote
of the democratic platform was per
manent peace under the league of
nations. Tho paramount issue of the
republican resolutions was Ameri
canism. Both parties indorsed the league of
nations. The democrats unreservedly
indorsed President Wilson and his ad
ministration and the league of na
tions covenant without amendments
or reservations. The republicans con
demned the administration, but in
dorsed the covenant without amend
ments, but with reservations, which
"will tend to safeguard the integrity
of the nation and preserve the Mon
roe doctrine."
Wnmti Delegate Scores.
At the afternoon session of the re
publican convention an address was
delivered by Mrs. Ruth B. Whipple of
Pierre, who was the first woman
voter and delegate in the state to win
over a convention majority. In tho
forenopn, the convention rejected a
contention plank which provided that
male and female inmates of the state
industrial school of Plankinton be
segregated, but following a plea In
behalf of the plank In the afternoon
by Mrs. Whiple, the convention
adopted it.
The opening nominating speech for
General Wood was made by Peter
Dougherty of Webster; J. R. Cash of
Bonesteel, nominated Lowden. Sev
eral of the Lowden supporters de
clared they were returned soldiers
and asserted that the sentiment in the
army, particularly in the ranks, indi
cated that a majority of ex-scrvice
men opposed a military man for pres
ident. Wood's) Record Reviewed.
Wood supporters reviewed his rec
ord in the army and dwelt particu
larly upon his activities since the
armistice, in directing movements to
protect sections of the country from'
consequences arising from Industrial
unrest. The Lowden delegates dwelt
chiefly upon declarations that Low
den was an executive of broader
capabilities than was Wood.
Although United States Senator
Miles Poindexter of Washington, an
avowed candidate for president, was
In tne city, his name was not men
tioned on the floor of the convention.
Polndoxter's lieutenants declared that
he will be an independent candidate
for party indorsement at the state
primaries in March. The candidacy of
Hiram Johnson was indirectly referred
to by a delegate, but Johnson's name
was not placed before the convention.
Governor Lynn J. Frazler of North
Dakota was indorsed by the Non
partisan league convention tonight as
candidate for president. Senator Rob
ert M. LaKollctte was suggested as a
candidate -for vice-president, but the
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