SectionOne Pages 1 to 18 SO Pages Eight Sections VOL. XXXIX XO. 87 Eniered at Portland (Oregon) Postofflce a Second-Class Matter. POKTLAXD, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS McADOO IS DEPRIVED OF EXALTED POSITION 2B ARE KILLED, 130 STEP TO AVERT PANIC IN HOUSING IS TAKEN SENATE COMMITTEE TO HEAR NEW YORK CASES. 59 VOTES TAKEN BY DEMOCRATS IN 1860 NOMINEE NAMED ON FIRST AT 11 OF 22 CONVENTIONS. ASTORIA AND SALEM GROW; MEDFORD LOSES PORT CITY JUMPS IN POPULA TION TO 14,027. T IN 2 CALL OF PEOPLE" BUBBLE IS BURST IX CONVENTION. 22 BALLOTS FAIL TO FIIID II IFF s dec on DEADLOCK FACT FACED III tllGHT WRECKS v Convention Deadlocked Adjourns to Monday. COX FIRST; M100 NEXT Someone on Whom to Cen ter Vote Needed as Much as at Start. NIGHT SESSION IS HELD Efforts to Be Made Today to Find Person to Whom Vote Can Be Swung. AUDITORIUM, San Francisco, July 3. After 22 fruitless ballots, the democratic national convention just before midnight gave up hopes of selecting a presidential nominee -within the first week of its session and adjourned until 10 o'clock Mon day morning. Repeated attempts to adjourn were defeated throughout the early part of the night, but as midnight approached and it was about to be come Sunday, the tradition that a democratic national convention never works on a Sunday, coupled with the fact that the convention was tired, worn and frazzled, had its effect and the final motion to adjourn was un opposed. Cox Leading With 430. When the convention stopped Cox was leading with 430. McAdoo came rext with 3721s. Palmer was down to 166 Vi. The final ballots of the night were full of McAdoo move ment, but it failed to make much headway. Georgia, his home state, pledged to Palmer, swung over with her 28 votes in a block for one bal lot to see if it would start her native son toward victory, but it failed to do so and she swung back to the attorney-general. No dark horse appeared during the night's balloting to carry off the honors, and the convention ad journed just as much in need of somebody to rally about as it was when it began the balloting. It was a deadlock with nobody in sight to break it. Sunday will be devoted to efforts to finding some body the convention can swing to. The first votes to be cast for Woodrow Wilson came from Mis souri, two of them. Contrary to ex pectations, they did not cause any particular demonstration in the con vention. All through the first 15 ballots to- day Governor Cox made steady gains intil he captured the lead from Mc Adoo. Davis Gains in Strength. On the 16th ballot Cox lost slight ly. On this ballot John W. Davis, American ambassador to Great Brit ain, whose votes from West Virginia had been standing steady all day, (Concluded on Page 2, Column l. CawvicT-CoN HE Root T I I I.STneoR vMERE 6qoq - Gime - til .q I J U'THNOTft-EnL VS OE. TOE-! ? l 'tTE.'PAOCWTlC I I I' Z" GASOLINE: SHQWTftC-E.? " T " CoMtROVCRY QETNE-E.N THE X . ' " Z -r YOVI PACHCftNo! ' Auto PE-ftuAsVo fND On Fifth Ballot Son-In-Law Is Struggling Contender Hanging On by Skin of His Teeth. BT MARK SULLIVAN. Copyright by the New York Bvenin Post. Inc.. Published ty Arrangement. AUDITORIUM. San Francisco, July 3. (Special.) By the time the fifth ballot had been taken early in the forenoon it was clear that McAdoo did not have as spontaneous a strength as his backers had claimed and supposed. The whole theory of the McAdoo candidacy was that there was an overwhelming call for him. He had withdrawn from the race; he had said that the withdrawal was final, and he had meant it to be irrevocable. Thereupon, certain friends and asso ciates of his, together with menus and members of the administration. had represented to him that there was so urgent a call for him among tne public at large and also among tne delegates arriving in San Francisco that he ought not to forbid them to make a fight for him. In truth there was a good deal of demand for him. All the demand for anybody that was spontaneous was for him. But there was not as much among the delegates as his backers here had supposed. Just as soon as It became appar ent that McAdoo was short of a ma jority of the delegates, the entire ba sis of his candidacy changed. By the fifth ballot he had become a strug gling contender, hanging on by the skin of his teeth to a scant third of the delegates. After that he would not be in a very exalted position before the coun try. A man can hardly be in the role of a reluctant conscript and at the same time be fighting desperately to hold his own. Mr. McAdoo's position of reluctantly obeying a call of duty disappeared between 9:30 A. M. and noon. By noon it was like any old fashioned race, conducted along lines of the eame strategy. McADOO IS COMPOSED Convention Balloting Appears to Be of No Concern. HUNTINGTON, N. Y., July 3. Will iam Gibbs McAdoo tonight apparently was unconcerned with what was going on at the San Francisco con vention. He attended a Shakespearean pageant at the Conkling estate and on his return to his home again de clined to discuss politics for publi cation. During the afternoon and evening friends in New York kept him in formed by telephone of the balloting. Other happenings at the convention were supplied by newspaper men who were invited by Mr. McAdoo to tea. NON-PARTISAN" IN LEAD League Candidate Heads Race for North Dakota Governor. FARGO, N. E.,t July 3. Governor Lynn J. Frazier, non-partisan league candidate for the republican guber natorial nomination, took the lead from William Langer, independent re publican, on overnight returns from Wednesday's primary. In 1870 pre cincts out of 20S4, Frazier had 51.528 and Langer 50,602. In the first district congressional race O. B. Burtness had a lead of 2926 over John H. Baer. incumbent. figures showing Burtness 18,227 and Baer 15.301. AMES ORDERED RELEASED Mexican Commander Takes Action on American Aviator. BROWNSVILLE, Tex., July 3. Or der for the release of Lieutenant S. M. Amen, United States army aviator, was issued by General B. Lopez, coi mander in Matamoros, opposite here last night. Ames alighted on Mexican soil, 35 miles south of Matamoros. last Mon day, when he became lost in storm clouds. Lightning Piles Three Cars in Heap. CROWDS FROM BALL GAME Excursionists Among Those Victims of Disaster. TRAIN DROPS INTO RIVER Eight Killed and 3 0 Injured, 12 Seriously, In Iowa AThen Cars Plunge In Creek. SCRANTON, Pa., July 3.r-In a col lision between three cars on the Lackawanna and Wyoming valley railroad near South Pittston station tonight 18 persons are reported killed and 100 injured. The accident oc curred when lightning struck a tele graph pole along the line of the track and the pole fell over on the tracks in front of a car bound for Scranton. A moment later a limited car crashed into the rear of the car that struck the pole, and a third car tele scoped the second car. All three cart were piled in a heap. Many of those killed and Injured had attended the annual games of the Caldenian clubs of Scranton and Pittston at Valley View park this afternoon. Physicians at the Pittston hospital declared at midnight that 18 amputa tions of arms and legs of the injured had been made at that hour. The surgeons also stated that there were but few slightly injured. All of the dead and injured were believed to be from Pennsylvania. Two more bodies were identified as follows: Miss Ruth Moon, Wilkesbarre: George Griswold, Factory ville. This brought the total identified to 12. A complete list of the dead and in jured will not be available for some time, the remaining: unidentified bodies being badlv mansrled. At the Pittston hospital It was said 15 of the injured will probably die. HUMBOLDT, la.. July 3. Eight persons were killed and 30 Injured 12 seriously, when Minneapolis Sc. St. Louis northbound train No. 1 went into Bloody Creek, a half mile north of Anrold, la., this afternoon. Five of the dead are unidentified The train runs between Des Moines and St. Paul. The known dead were said to be B. F. Reilly of. Livermore, la.; A. Batty, no address known, and Henty Dawson of Fort Dodge. The bodies have been brought to Humboldt. The 80 Injured were treated here and the more seriously hurt taken to a hos pital at Fort Dodge, la. lie accident occurred on a trestle about 30 feet high over a small creek. Reports here are that the underwork of the trestle allowed the track to spread and the coaches fell into water about four feet deep. The en gine .turned over on the bank. MERCURY DROPS DEGREE Maximum for Day Is 8 4 as Com pared With 85 Day Before. Portland Is getting cooler by degrees, Yesterday's maximum temperature was 84 degrees at 3 P. M., according to the official weather bureau ther mometer, as compared with the maxi mum temperature of 85 degrees at 4 P. M. Friday. After the maximum reached at 3 yesterday, the thermometer hovered at 83 degrees for the next two hours. The mercury's rise of the day started at 6 A. M. at 57 degrees. PICTORIAL SIDELIGHTS BY CARTOONIST PERRY ON SOME TOPICS Investigators Declared Alive to Fact That Relicr Must Come by Construction Work. NEW YORK. July 3. Hearings will be heard here this month to be fol lowed by others throughout the coun try by the United States senate spe cial committee on reconstruction and production investigating the nation's housing shortage. In a statement issued here tonight Franklin T. Miller, assistant to the committee, declared that co-ordination of all available statistics and in formation is being sought by the committee and the principal cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific are to be visited. "In an effort to avert a possible housing panic in the fall by imme diate though informal action. Senator Caider of New York, chairman of the committee, has had several confer ences during the past week with prominent railroad executives and transportation experts and has re ceived assurances of co-operation," said Mr. Miller's statement in Dart. The committee is alive to the fact that relief of the present housing conditions must come about through construction work started during July, August and September and that if the freight embargo against build ing materials persists, relief for the congested districts will not be achieved during the present year." SHOE PLANTS SHUT DOWN Market Conditions Cause i Weeks' Suspension of Business. LYNN, Mass., July 3. Shoe facto ries employing upwards of 4000 per sons shut down today for two weeks because of market conditions. The principal plants affected were those of A. M. Clayton Sc. Co. and the A. E. Little company. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 4 degrees; minimum. &7 decrees. TODAY'S Fair: westerly winds. Department. Editorial. Section 3, pan 6. Dramatic. Section 4, pace 2. Moving- picture news. Section 4. page 3. Real estate and buildine news. Section 4, pass 5. Music. Section 4, Page 7. ChurcheJi. Section 5, page 2. Books. Section 6, Page 8. Garden chats. Section 4. page 6. News of the resorts. Section 3, page 4. Automobile news. Section 6. Women's Features. Society. Soction 3, page 1. Women's activities. Section 4, page 8. Fashions. Section 9, page 4. Miss Tingle's column. Section 6, page 5. Special Featuren. Women watchmen guard Oregon timber. Magazine section, page 1. Paris, America's new divorce capital. Magazine section, page 2. Shy school girl is new tennis wlzardess. Magazine section, page 3. Admiral Sims' own story. Magazine sec tion, page 4. World news by camera. Magazine sec tion, page 4. American school in Palestine marked by heroism. Magazine section, pago 5. Salvation army brides. Magazine section, page 6. John B. Payne, new secretary of interior. Magazine section, page 7. Hill's cartoons. "Among Us Mortals." Magazine section, page 8. Edison Marshall, novelist of the Oregon trail. Section 3, page 5. Oregon rivers series, by Addison Bennett. Section 4, page 4. Small Portland antique shop amazes con noisseurs. Section 4. page 6. Artificial light aid in agriculture. Section 5, page 1. Former Oregonian writer makes great rec ord. Section 5. page 1. Farewell address by Rev. Robert Murray rrait. bcction o, page z. The skunk as an aid to the farmer. Sec tion 5. page 3. Burns, one of newest and busiest of Ore gon's towns. Section S, page 5. Topics of the day in cartoons by Darling. section 6, page' e. Foreign. William C. Gorgas. ex-major general and noted army surgeon dies. section 1, page 3. Basis for division of reparations virtually settled by allies. Section 1, page 6. Tragedy of German children Is described. Section 1, page 4. National. President denies having expressed opinion for any candidate. Section 1, page 2. Astoria and Salem grow while Medford loses. Section 1, page 1. Roll Call for 4 6 Times Required to CIioosc Wilson at Famous Session Held in 1912. The following table gives the his tory of the national conventions held by the democratic party since 1832. showing the number of ballots taken at each convention before a nominee was named and the final choice of the party in each case. At 11 out of the 22 conventions, including the session In 1916, when President Wilson was named for a second term, the candi date was named on the first ballot. The famous convention In 1912, when Wilson was nominated for the first time, ranks third high in the number of ballots taken, 46 rollcalls being necessary, while the convention of 1860. when the party was split over the secession issue and Stephen A. Douglas, famous opponent of Lin coln, was named by the northern democrats on the 59th ballot, ranks highest in this respect. Year. No. Bal. Nominee. 1S32 1 ... Jarkson 1S3B 1 Van Buren 1S40 1 Van Buren 1S44 9 Polk 1848 4 Cass 1S.VJ 40 Pierce lSSft 17 Buchanan IrtllO 59 DouKtas 1X4 I McClellan 1S8 S'J Seymour 1R7: 1 Greeley 1S7 2 Tllden 18S0 2 Hancock 1884 2 Cleveland 18S8 1 '. Cleveland 1WJ 1 Cleveland 180ft 5 Bryan l'lno 1 Bryan 1004 1 Parker 1008 t Bryan 1012 4 Wilson 1018 1 Wilson 1820 ? 1 Mount Lassen in Eruption. REDDING, Cal., July 3 Great col umns of smoke, shooting thousands of feet into the air from Lassen peak at 7 o'clock, marked the longest erup tion that the volcano has undergone in several months. Domestic. Twenty-six killed and 130 hurt In two railroad wrecks. Section 1, page 1. Twenty-two ballots fall to find democratic nominee. Section 1, page 1. McAdoo Is deprived of his exalted po sition. Section 1, page 1. Hoover's rejection of democrats called great mistake. Section 1, page 1. Tax figures show fault of non-Dartisan league. Section 1, page 8. Steps taken to avert housing panic. Sec tion 1, page 1. Democratic deadlock fact develops during night. Section 1, page 7. Pacific North went. Washington counties are reclassified. Sec tion 1, page 7. Idaho's restricted. primary law proves un satisfactory. Section 1, page 8. Anti-radical policy of labor federation of ficials sustained. Section 1, page 10. Sports. . . Coast league results: Portland 5, Oak land 4; Seattle 12-T. Vernon 7-4; San Francisco 3, Salt Lake 6; Los Angeles u, oacramento 4. Section 2, page 1. Portland well represented at northwest golf tourney. Section 2, page 1. Konowaloff ' not to be given record for oo-yard swim. Section 2, page 2. Portland Hunt club to stage race card to morrow. Section 2, pago 3. Battling Ortega has chance to win middle weight championship. Section 1, page 3. Billy Sunday to umpire Guard-Hood River game tomorrow. Section 2, page 4. Measuring of cup yachts Is complicated xeat. bcctlon 2, page 4. U. S. tennis, by British triumph, now leads world. Section 2, page 6. Commercial and Marine. Demand for wool may turn from fine to lower grades. Section 1, page 17. Chicago corn weakened by selling of long tines, section l, page 17. Oregon & Ocean Steamship corporation is organized. Section 1, page 16. Section of marine act is declared to be injurious. Section 1, page 16. Portland and Vicinity. Thousands leave Portland to pass Fourth of July In mountains or at beach re sorts. - Section 1, page 14. Planes carry Invitations for buyers' week. section 1, pago 18. Address on I. W. W.ism here on Fourth by Haywood to be prevented. Section 1 page 9. War on rats will be waged In Portland. Section 1, page 18. Gasoline regulation proposed by auto re pair men. Section 1, page 0. Louts E. Bean leading aspirant for speaker ot lower house ot legislature. - Section 1. page 13. Acting Mayor Bigelow orders investiga tion or milk, price rise. Section 1 page 12. C9 ballots required by democrats in 1800 to nominate Douglas. Section 1. page 1. 1 Pnllrpman Khnnts bnntleff ruhrm1! H.cf In. 1, Page Id. 102.0v CULLED MISTAKE Montague Analyzes Trou ble at Convention. COURSE IS CONSIDERED SAD Chance to Have All Own Way Is Declared Spurned. PARTY'S PLANS UPSET Democrats at San Francisco Are Blaming All Their Trouble on ex-Food Administrator. BT JAMES J. MONTAGUE. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3. (Spe cial.) When Herbert Hoover of Iowa, San Francisco, Belgium and Wash ington, t. C, decided that it would be a nice bright thing to put his fingers to his nose and wriggle them derisively at the democratic party, he made the biggest mistake that has been made since Charles Evans Hughes believed the man who told him that Hi Johnson didn't have any friends in California. Herbert could have had the nomi nation. He could have had it the day before yesterday. He could have picked his vice-president and his na tional chairman and written his plat form with his own fair hand. Hoover Causes Trouble. The democrats thought that Her bert was a dear gazelle to gladden them with his soft brown eyes. But when the dear gazelle turned and bit the hand that was about to feed him a nomination, it was all over. Hoover i3 the lad who made all the real trouble that has been convulsing this convention. The party had all been organized ou a Hoover basis. It thought that It had In Herbert a man who not only had publicity but popularity, a man who would leap lightly astraddle of the donkey and lash him to vic tory in November. And then Hoover took a lot of bad advice and said that as far'as he was concerned he couln't see where the Democrats got off and he would not accept a nomination at their hands even if they sent it with flowers. Mistake Called Sad One. It was a mistake a sad one. For Herbert Hoover was led up on the wrong mountain by the republican Hooverites and to him were shown kingdoms of the earth which were not for him to rule. In other words he was gyped out of the nomination before he even had a chance for it. And when having missed the G. O. P. express he looked longingly at the time table, he saw that the democratic extra had gone by. The democrats will leave this town between the twin spirits of gloom and despair. They have or will have a nominee, but there has been so much back- capping and mud-slinging and back biting that the seeds of rancor and discord are spread abroad. Everywhere you hear the word Hoover, spoken not in praise but in blame, and usually coupled with ad jectives that are not pretty in print. Republicans Oppose Hoover. It is too late now, of course; the harm Is done. Hoover Is back in the private street kind of private life, and it looks as If he would not emerge until some fresh Invader be gins to take the candy of sustenance away from the Belgian children. But what a walkover he'd have had here. How he would have romped in. leav ing all the other contenders gasping their baffled rage. The democrats wanted him, and wanted him bad The republicans didn't want him at CoT.clu.ded on Page Column 8. IN THE WEEK'S NEWS. State Capital Census Shows Gain to 17,679; Loss of Southern Oregon City Is 3081. WASHINGTON, July 3. Census fig ures given out today are as follows: Salem, Or.. 17,679; increase 3583, or 25.4 per cent. Astoria, Or., 14.027; increase 4428. or 46.1 per cent. Medford. Or., 6756; decrease 3084, or 34.9 per cent. Houston, Tex., 138,076; increase 59, 176, or 75.2 per cent. Little Rock, Ark.. 64,997; increase 19,056, or 41.5 per cent. Greensboro. N. C. 19,746; increase 3851, or 14,2 per cent. North Little Rock, Ark., H.04S; In crease 2910, or 26.1 per cent. Revised figures of St. Louis' popula tion announced tonight reduced the previously announced total by 103, making that city's population 772, MEDFORD, Or., July 3. (Special.) Medford business men and citizens generally are indignant over the of ficial figures on this city's population as given out by the census bureau. The chamber of commerce and Mayor Gates have wired a strong protest to Washington demanding that a "'square census deal" be given Med ford. The Medford Mail-Tribune,- Med. ford's only daily newspaper, says: "Anyone familiar with Medford knows that the census figures on the popu lation are a farce. Conservative esti mates place the population at 10,000 to 12,000." The postoffice estimate, based on mail receipts. Is 6554. AIR ELOPERS WIN RACE Stepfather In Auto Left Behind by Pilot and Brldc-F,lect. YAKIMA, Wash., July 3. (Special.) When Lawrence Brown, pilot for an aviation company here, and Miss Cor delia Dale Richards, stepdaughter of Andy Bunnell, Goidendale, swooped down out of ' the sky yesterday. hastened to the Yakima county court house, obtained a marriage license and soon afterward were married by local minister, they completed what is said to be the first northwest air elopement. Mr. Brown said that the stepfather of Miss Richards pursued them by automobile to The Dalles, where they had intended to wed, and they foiled him by taking to the air again and making a cross-country flight to Yakima. FAIR WEATHER PREDICTED Normal Temperatures on Coast Ex pected to Prevail. WASHINGTON, July 3. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday are: Pacific stitcs Fair, nearly normal mountain and plateau regions Generally fair except local thunder showers In mountain regions. Tem peratures nearly normal. SALMON SHIP IS BURNED Charles K. .Moody Afire in BriMol Bay, Says Message. SAN FRANC I-5CO, Cal.. July 3. The three-masted salmon ship Charles K. Moody was burned to the water's edge In Bristol Bay yesterday, according to a message received by the chamber of commerce here today. She left Seattle April 20. No further particulars were given in the message. GENERAL MARSHALL DEAD Discoverer of Marshall Pans and Channel Builder Dies. WASHINGTON, July 3. Brigadier General William L. Marshall, retired, discoverer of the Marshall pa? across the Rocky mountains and constructor of Ambrose . channel in New York harbor, died at an army hospital here last night. He had ben ill n short time. McAdoo, Palmer, Cox Vote Proves Hard Knot, FEDERAL BRIGADE FIRM Ballot Follows Ballot With Few Signs of Change in Strength. SEARCH FOR NOMINEE HARD White House Suggestion May Unite Warring Forces on Acceptable Candidate. BY EDGAR B. PIPER. SAN FRANCISCO, July 3. (Ed itorial Correspondence.) I have at tempted no running account of to day's events, for I have thought it would not be worth while, in view of the likelihood of a result, but here now the convention is strug gling along ballot after "ballot late into the night. It is a deadlock which will not be broken until the forces of McAdoo, Falmer or Cox, give way, and there is at present no sign that either of them is ready to give it up. It is quite evident that McAdoo has been stopped. It is also equally plain that Cox, after slowly pressing ahead of McAdoo, reached his peak in the loth ballot. Federal Brigade .Stands Firm. The early prophecies as to Palmer have been realized, for it has not been apparent that any time the con vention would consider either seri ously. Yet the formidable brigade of federal office holders, which has been brought here in his behalf, has stubbornly held out in face of a steady and persistent whittling down of his strength. McAdoo had more on the first bal lot than he was thought to have and less reserve strength on succeeding ballots than he was credited with. It was early evident that the great delegations of New York, New Jer sey and Indiana, which had not been able to agree on a candidate against McAdoo, were brought together in a common design to head him off. and Cox was the club they used to do it, just as Lowden was used at Chicago to beat Wood. Wets Use Cox to Stalk. The fight in its early phases had the clean outlines of a wet and dry fight. The wet forces got -behind Cox despite the fact that they were not pleased with his quibbling and evasive attitude toward the liquor question, but the steady drift to Cox at the same time served as a warning to the dry forces that there was be ing waged a battle for control. Un derstanding the broad issue, they combined and held the Cox forces on the 15th ballot. On the 16th there were signs of the long-adver- M'rtnrludfl nn Pa? 2. Column 5.) -4