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SectionOne Pages 1 to 22 94 Pages Eight Sections VOL. XXXIX XO. 35 Entered at Portland (Oregon! Tonoff ice Second-CIa Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS WARDS COST OREGON 37 PER CENT MORE SUSPECT LYNCHED BY TULSA MOB OF 2000 LIQUOR AND DRUG RAID! LODGE CONDEMNS BRITISH LINES TAKE FIRST BLOOD IN FIGHT RACE TO WIN NEW VOTE TO BE CLOSE BREAKS UP GIANT RING '5 LEAGUE PER CAPITA INCREASE SINCE 1914 AXXOUXCED. SHERIFF AXD GUARDS OVER POWERED BV MASKED MEN'. HUGE CONSPIRACY ALLEGED LONGSHOREMEN ARE SCCCESS FlIXY DEFIED IX STRIKE. IX WXOMIXG AXD MOXTAXA. N 5 REVELATIONS ONLY BEGUN, SAYS GDX More Disclosures Com ing, Candidate Asserts. WLSON UN ON 0 F NATIONS v v Utter Failure With Only U. S. Absent Charged. HARDING'S PLAN IS INDORSED Poland and Fiume Cited to Demonstrate Collapse. ARTICLE TEN IS SCORED Europe Is Declared Sick of Pact Full of Menace and Would Bo Glad to Get Rid of It. BOSTON. Aug. 28. The league of nations was condemned by Senator Lodge at a mass meeting of the Re publican league of Massachusetts to day. "The league, which has got all members in it but one," he said, "has been a total failure. It has not accomplished anything. "It may be Impossible to ratify with reservations," he said. "It may be undesirable to do so; it may be nec essary to enlarge and strengthen the reservations, or It may be best to put aside this ill-drawn, ill-conceived league and to take up under the auspices of the United States a new agreement, association or league com posed of all the -nations under the leadership of the United States. That is a solution which commends itself, I believe, to Senator Harding." The foreign policy of the adminis tration was denounced by Governor Coolidge. Future Discredit Foreseen. "The policy of the administration, which their candidate is bound to continue." he said, "can only result In a continuation of the discredit of the nation abroad." Other speakers included Helen V. Bpswell. New Tork. and Colonel Ray mond Robins of Chicago. Senator Lodge charged that the league had "never Interfered with the Invasion of Poland by Russia, had never interfered to hold back Turkey from Armenia, had never done any thing in the matter of FeTsia and had never done anything to reach a solu tion of the Fiume question." "It has done nothing," he said, "and yet It is full of menace. Europe, I think, is pretty well sick of it and would be glad to be rid of it. They don't feel about our president as they did. I doubt whether It will ever be possible to make the battered hulk of Mr. Wilson's league seaworthy." Senator Lodge denied that the hopes of the world's peace were exclusively in the covenant. "It is almost a sacrilege," he said, "to suggest that within the document the hopes of the world's good are tied up in a document prepared by General Smuts and Lord Robert Cecil, with one article put in bV President Wilson which, we have from him, is the heart of the covenant." "The league is nothing but a po litical alliance," he added, "all full of enforcement and very little peace in it." He was severe in his denunciation of article 10, which, he said, differed from every other article in that it constituted "an individual obligation.' Follah Situation Cited. "At this moment," he continued, "one of the most gallant and brave nations in the world is being invaded by Russia in an attempt to bring her back and partition her as she was partitioned in the days of the autocracy. The sympathy of every American 's with the Poles. "But if we were a member of the league under article 10, and Poland summoned us, we would have to go." Senator Lodge said that when he spoke of Mr. Wilson and his attitude toward the league, he was speaking also of Mr. Cox. "When Senator Harding Is presi- (Conciurted on Page 4. Column l. Penitentiary With Rise of 130 Per Cent Is Greatest; Feeble-Minded Home Lowest. SALEM. Or., Aug. 28. (Special.) The. cost of conducting the several state institutions in Oregon has in creased on an average of 37 per cent from 1914 until July 31. of this year, according to figures compiled today by R. G. Goodin. secretary of the state board of control. The most marked increase in per capita cost of operation was at the penitentiary. This was 130 per cent and was due, officiale said, to the de crease in population without corre sponding reductions in overhead ex pense. The per capita increase at the state home for the feeble-minded was only S per, cent, due to the rapidly growing population. The following summary shows a comparison of the costs of conducting the Institutions, together with the population of each, for the biennium ending September 30, 1914. and av erage figures for the first 19 months of the present biennium. Oregon state hospital for Insane, average daily population 1914, 1529; per capita cost, $14.64. Average daily population 1920, 1735; per capita cost, $19.70. Eastern Oregon hospital, average daily population 1914. 346; per capita cost, $17.65. Average daily popula tion 1920, 502; per capita cost, $19.39. State prison, average daily popula tion 1914, 371; per capita cost. $16.11. Average daily population 1920, 278; per capita cost. $37.83. State school for feeble-minded, av erage daily population 1914. 235; per capita cost. $18.34 Average daily population 1920. 435; per capita cost, $19.04. . State training school for boys, aver age dally population 1914, 99; per capita cost. $23.28. Average daily population 1920, 142; per capita cost $32.10. -Oregon state tuberculosis hospital, average daily population 1914, 51; per capita cost. $32.36. Average daily population 1920, 80; per capita cost, $49.36. State school for bund, total enroll ment 1914. 47; per capita cost, $35.62. Average daily population 1920, 41; per capita cost, $40:64. State school for deaf, average daily population 1914, 88; per capita cost, $24.97. Average daily population 1920, 99; per capita cost, $32.67. State industrial school for girls, av erage daily population 1914, 20; per capita cost, $29.80. ..Average daily at tendance 1920, 42; per capita cost, $34.87. Soldiers' home,, average daily pop ulation 1914. 175; per capita cost, $16.73. Average daily population 1920, 129; per capita cost, $29.42. - HARBOR ACCIDENTS FATAL Four Men Killed, One Injured, on San Francisco Waterfront. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 28. Two accidents on the waterfront here today .killed four men, three of them residents of Oakland, and Beriously injured a fifth. While being unloaded from the steamer Hawarden a crated boiler broke from its sling and dropped back into the hold, crushing and kill ing Charles Riley and Herman Stark of Oakland and injuring Ernest Schnipple of the same city. They were stevedores. The destroyer Kennedy, backing from her berth for a trial trip, ran down a launch containing J. E. Por ter of Oakland and D. A. Newman of San Francisco, killing them both. PROFITEERING IS CHARGED Complaint Filed Against Utah-Ida ho Sugar Company by U. S. SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 28. Com plaint brought by the United States district attorney of South Dakota charging the Utah-Idaho Sugar com pany of Salt Lake and eight of its directors with profiteering in sales of sugar made at Sioux Falls, was filed today before United States Commis sioner H. Van Pelt. Assistant District Attorney Moyle of Salt Lake filed the complaint.' OVER ftlT. THE 5HOWTING- World Court of Justice as Basis Is Favored. NOMINEE PLEDGED TO TASK Wilson Proposal Branded as Flat Failure. ARTICLE 10 ASSAILED Clause Declared Certain to Have Involved U. S. in Polish Sit uation if Accepted. MARION, Ohio, Aug. 28. Senator Harding, turning away from the league of nations as a failure and a wreck "beyond reconstruction," broke ground today for a new international peace structure he hopes to erect about the principle of a world court of justice. As a foundation, he proposed to use the better features of the present Hague tribunal and of the covenant of the "failed league" and he prom ised that from the day of his election he would give to the tik his best ef fort in counsel with the ablest states men. The senator's deliverance was made in a front porch speech voicing his conception of a foreign policy. Moral Leadership Re-Sought. The cornerstone' of his programme, he said, was to regain for America the moral leadership it had lost "vhen 'ambition' sought to superim pose a reactionary theory of dis credited autocracy on the progressive principle of glowing democracy." To Mexico and other western re publics he declared himself ready to extend a helping hand, but he pro nounced' a solemn admonition to the world that all resources of the United States would guarantee protection to American life and property.' Professing also his desire to aid the stricken peoples of the old world, he recounted how this sentiment had led him to vote '!wllH gravis rhlsgiv-J ings" for ratification of the league with reservations. Conditions Declared Changed. He affirmed that he would do so now under similar circumstances, but added that , conditions had changed and that the Polish crisis had shown the league so impotent that its agen cies were not even called into use. Had the United States assumed the obligations of article 10. he asserted, it would have been called upon to stem the Russian invasion and could not have refused without "appearing as a welcher." He quoted a declara tion of Premier Lloyd George that it was impossible to send an interna tional army to Poland because the European nations "could not furnish the troops and the United States had withdrawn from co-operation." To support his assertion that this country could not have resisted a call for help. Senator Harding quoted the statement of President Wilson that the moral obligation of the article was stronger than any legal obliga tion. The nominee added that if the president really wanted to help pro tect Poland, he easily might call on congress to declare war. Peace Resolution Urged. The nominee- said he had "no ex pectation whatever" that negotiation of a separate treaty would be re quired to put the nation on a peace basis. Adoption of a resolution .de claring peace, he said, was all that was necessary to end the present "preposterous condition." Senator Harding described the new peace association as "an International association for conference and a world court whose verdicts on ques tions of justice .this country, in com mon with all the nations, would be (Concluded on Page 6. Column J.) RECENT 1NCE. UE.AtHN YHftT THE. 3ovr agents wiul OAO DHCVO.O TO H 0 Prisoner Rushed- Away in Autos and Body Is Riddled With Bullets.. TULSA. Okl'a., Aug. 28. A mob estimated at 2000 persons tonight par ticipated here in the lynching of Tom M. Owens, white, accused of the shoot ing several days ago of Homer Nida. a taxicab driver, who died at a hos pital early Friday morning. At 11 o'clock tonight the mob went to the Tulsa county courthouse with the avowed intention of "getting" Owen. Twelve masked and armed men separated themselves from the crowd and went to the main entrance where Sheriff Woolley was covered with sawed-off shotguns and pistols and disarmed. The men took the sher iff's keys, mounted to the Jail in the top story and forced the jailer to turn over Owen. His arms wers bound and he was hurried to waiting automobiles. The mob had increased from about a tousand to as many more and a hundred automobiles were at .hand. Into these the crowd scrambled and Owen was taken to the outskirts of the city. There he was hanged to the limb of a tree and his body riddled with bullets. Thereupon the mob dis persed. JOHN W. DAVIS TO RESIGN U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Announces Intention. WHEELING. W. Va., Aug. 28. Two former law associates of John W, Davi, United States ambassador to Great Britain, announced here tonight that in recent letters to them Mr. Davis had said he would resign his post. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. TESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 65.0 degrees: minimum, 54 degrees. TODAY'S Probably showers; southwester ly winds.. 1 Departments. Editorial. Section 3, page 8. Dramatic. Section 4, page '-. Moving picture news. Section 4, pasre 4. Real estate and building news. Section 4, page 10. Music. Section 3. page 10. Churches. Section 'u, page 2. Books. Section 3, page 3. . News of the resorts. . Section 4, page 6. Garden chats. Section 5, page 3. Automobile news. " Section 6. Women's Feature. Society. Section 3, page ". Women's activities. Section 3. page 6. Fashions. Section 5, page 4. Misa Tingle's column. Section 5. page 4. Auction bridge. Section 5, page 6. Special Features. Imported fish thrive in Oregon waters. Magazine section, page j. Portland represented at world swimming i meet. Magazine section, page 2. Wife of senator Is notable writer. Maga zine section, page 3. World' news by camera. Magazine sec tion, page 4. a Speed and novelty keynote of modern travel. Magazine section, page 5. Beautiful English duchess would adopt stage career. Magazine section, page 6. Insanity sho'wn curse of Hohenzollern fam ily. Magazine section, page T. Hill's cartoons, "Among Us Mortals." Mag azine section, page S. Choir at Vatican is great human organ. Section 4, page 8. Noiseless machine gun isalatest war in vention. Section 4. page 8. Woman named officer of civil service com mission. Section 4.' page 9. Sermon by Dr. W. B. Hlnson. Section 5, t page 2. Bee swarming . governed by unknown causes. Section 5, page 3. Spirit of the day pictured In cartoons by Darling. section o, page o. . Foreign. Reds try to fight out of Poles' trap. Sec tion 1. page 4. Openly revoluslonary party In France Is organizing for direct action. Section 1, Page 2. Domestic. British lines victors in first round of fight with longshoremen. Section 1. page 1. Drug and liquor raid made in Wyoming and Montana. Section 1, page 1. Conference between U. S. and Canada rep resentatives to settle pulp controversy strongly uregd. Section 1, page 6. Tulsa mob lynches young white and bul- lets riddle body. Section 1, page 1. Pacific Northwctt. Rain of great benefit to range section of Oregon and Idaho. Section 1, page 14. Wards cost state 37 per cent more .than In 1014. Section 1. page 1. Auto camping grounds in great demand. Section 6. page 9. Road - around Puget sound is completed. Section 6. page It. NEWS EVENTS AS DEPICTED BY CARTOONIST PERRY. THe. VrAFeV SAYS TV XfS nov interfere. NNAe f UTTCE rA V3R-W t 7 5 Arrests Made and Whisky and Narcotics Valued at $60,000 Are Confiscated. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 28. Whisky and drug raids last week in which 7a arrests were made, liquor and nar cotics valued at $60,000 confiscated and scores of stills seized in Colorado. Wyoming and Montana, were reported tonight by federal prohibition agents here. The men In custody include mer chants, prominent ranchmen, a justice of the peace and hotel owners, the of flclals said. They declared their investigations revealed that the whisky was smug gled from Canada and distributed throughout western states by mail. The alleged "rings" were well or ganized, but operated Independently, the officials declared. The drug ring, they said, had its headquarters in Billings, Mont. Headquarters of the whisky ring was in and near Kemmerer and Evanston, Wyo. M. C. Wachtel and A. S. Roach, agents of the federal prohibition of fice, made most of the whisky raids. The largest haul, they said, was at Rock Springs, Wyo., Thursday, when rive stills, 100 gallons of whisky,. 500 pounds of sugar and 200ft pounds of frult,alleged to be used in the man ufacture of illicit liquor was seized. H. V. Williamson, head of the nar cotic division of the federal prohibi tion bureau, directed the drug raids. Forty-eight arrests, he announced, were made in Billings. His investi gation began August 12. Mr. Wil liamson said containers for shipping drugs through the mails were found In Billings raids. One hundred and eight quarts of (Concluded on Page 20, Column 1.) . Pol It Irs. Harding pledges self to work for league substitute. Section 1, page 1. Close race to win new vote Indicated by poll of "New York women. Section 1, page 1. Lodge condemns Wilson's league as dis mal failure, but Indorses Harding's substitute plan, section 1, page 1. Revelations only begun, declares Governor Cox in New l ork speech. Section I, page 1. Democratic leaders decide to make western states great battle-ground. Section 1 page 8. Women under no .party obligation for suffrage, saya Mark Sullivan. Section 1 page 3. Pro-Irish women pickets renew hostilities. Section 1, page 1. Suffragists in Portland celebrate national victory. Section 1, page -0. Harding's stand on league approved by local leaders. Section 1. page b. Stanfield declares tariff necessary. Sec tion 1, page Non-partisan supreme court fight in Wash ington simplified. Section 1. page 10. National. Sweeping electric railway reforms are rec ommended. Section 1. page 6. Sport. First fight in Milwaukle arena staged for September lo. section 2, page 20. Stiff test faced by Shy Huntington this year. Section 2, page 2. Trio of Intercity teams bunched for league nonors. section page JO. Aggie to start football practice Septem ber IS. Section 2, page 20. Coast league results. Portland 2-0, Ver non 8-0 (second game called at end of tenth): Seattle 3. Oakland S; I,os An geles 6, Salt L.ake 5; San Francisco 10-1, Sacramento o-4. Section 2, page 2. American and Britlsii oarsmen to compete for Olympic finals. Section 2. page 1. Ercel Kay defeats Russel Smith for Gear hart title. Section 2. page 1. Ralph De Palma hangs up new record in winning Elgin road race. Section 2, page 2. Playground tennis tourney to start to morrow. Section 2, page 3. Commercial and Marine. No export wheat or flour trade In north western markets. Section 1, page 21. Wheat options average higher at Chicago. Section 1, page 21. Bears attempt raid on Wall street mar wets. Section 1, page 21. German steamship chartered to carry wheat from Portland. Section 1. page 18. Appeal from channel recommendation of U. S. district engineers Is taken by Arthur. Section 2, page 20. Naming of shipping board Is desired. Sec tion 1. page 10. World tonnage cut 3 million by war. Sec tion 1, page IS. , Portland and Vlruiilj. Mbrarlana of Pacific northwest to con vene here Thursday. Section 1, page 1G. Three narrowly escape when seaplane falls Into river. Section 1, page 12. Wife too cold-hearted, declares husband. Section 1. page 15. Sale of nine-months round-trip railroad tickets reported active. Section 1. page 11. """ DAY IN GOTHAM STRENUOUS Speeches, Parades, Recep tions, Programme Features. ENEMY AGAIN ASSAILED Fire of Governor and Others Con centrated on Alleged Big Repub lican Campaign Fund. NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Speeches, parades, receptions, luncheons at a hotel, a view of police field day games at Gravesend race track, where a huge crowd was addressed, and a dinner with party leaders tonight gave Governor Cox the busiest day of his campaign. The governor's principal address was at the demo cratic luncheon, attended by party notables. A ' brief address - was de livered at the public library. In his luncheon address -Governor Cox reiterated his charges that con tributions were befng collected by republican leaders toward a $15,000,- 000 "corruptfon fund" and - promised further revelations. He also touched on- world peace problems by Amer ica's entrance into the league of na tions and industrial .problems, and made pleas for Americanization of foreign-born citizens. Enemy Again Excoriated. The governor was accompanied by scores of prominent democrats, and tonight he was the guest of honor at a dinner given by former Representa tive Fitzgerald in Brooklyn. He spent the night at Mr. Fitzgerald's home and will remain over Sunday, leaving for Columbus tomorrow evening. Fire of Governor Cox and other speeches of democratic leaders was concentrated on the republican cam paign fund. The governor was cheered loudly , as he reiterated that the contributions involved an at tempt to "purchase the presidency." "The enemy has sought to deny my charges," he said, "but none makes the same denial. Hays says the fund is $3,000,000. Upham said it was about $8,000,000. Other Revelations Coming. "We have not yet started the reve lations." Governor Smith of New York and William G. McAdoo, who introduced Governor Cox at the democratic luncheon, also assailed the repub lican financing. The latter referred to Chairman Hays and Treasurer Up ham of the republican nat'ional com mittee as "the gold dust twins." Many conditions caused Governor Cox to curtail his address at Grave send. Arriving nearly an hour late, he was forced to compete with at tractions of the police games. Air planes roared over his head, forcing Mm to stop frequently, and a sound amplifying device apparently failed tocarry his voice to the crowd. League Issue Emphasized. The governor remained an hour. watching and applauding the contests of the policemen, whom he praised for their public service. The league issue was emphasized as paramount in " the campaign, to be waged, he said, between champions of progress and reaction. "This is a great fight," he said, "for a great principle, and a fight which we know will be a victorious fight." Pleas for industrial peace also were made by the governor in his ad dresses at the democratic luncheon and at Gravesend. "We cannot have national tranquil lity," he said at Gravesend, "unless we have community tranquility. Public opinion has always settled in- (Concluded on Page , Column 1.) ITS A All Lines Scheduled Out of New York Get Away "With In ception of One. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. British steamship' lines apparently won a vic tory today over the 2000 or more longshoremen who yesterday sought to tie up all vessels flying the Brit ish flag by a strike which they de clared would continue until Arch bishop Mannix Is allowed on Irish soil and Terence MacSweeney, lord mayor of Cork, is released from prison. All but one of the big Brit ish liners scheduled to sail today de parted and the exception, the Cunard liner Pannonia, will leave tomorrow, officials announced. Most of the firemen on the Pan nonia walked out in sympathy with the strikers. The crews of other ves sels remained virtually intact. Hundreds of longshoremen who quit yesterday returned today. Work went ahead well at th Cunard line and the American and French ship piers which longshore men deserted yesterday, but at the White Star line docks, where the strike had its inception, no long shoremen reported. Most of the ships were late in get ting away, the loading of baggage in some cases being done by the of ficers' force of the steamship line with passengers occasionally lending a hand. ' The White Star liner Celtic de parted at 2 P. M., two hours after the departure of two American steam chips, the St. Paul and Finland.' The Gothland, Belgian vessel, which long shoremen .had quit loading Friday, also pulled out. The Cunard liner Aquitania. with Prince Carol of Ru mania aboard, left at 4:45 o'clock and 20 minutes later the White Star liner Olympic followed. These two vessels are expected to be near one another going to South ampton and a possible trans-Atlantic speed record is looked for. SUGAR PRICES UNDECIDED Beet Growers and Reriners Fai' to Reach Agreement. DENVER. Colo.. Aug. 2S- No de cision as to prices for the 1921 sugar beet crop was reached at a conference yesterday between representatives of the Mountain States Beet Growers' association and the Great Western Sugar company, it was announced here today. ' The company rejected the sliding scale of prices proposed by the as sociation's committee and will submit a substitute proposition to a future conference. HIGH FINANCE TRY FAILS Receivers Appointed for $8,000, 000 Iowa Corporation. SIOUX CITY. la., Aug. 2S. Promo tion of the Midland Packing company of Sioux City, an $8,000,000 corpora tion, is revealed as a venture in high finance by the receivers filed in the United States court last night. Gross irregularity in. the manipula tion and selling of stock 'and In the management of the plant after its completion are alleged. WEATHER GENERALLY FAIR Occasional Showers In Oregon and Washington Probable. WASHINGTON. Aug. 2S. Weekly weather' predictions for the week be ginning Monday are: Pacific states generally fair, but with probability of occasional show ers in Washington and Oregon; nor mal temperature. TENNESSEE HAS 2,337,459 Population Increase'of 7 Per Cent for State Announced. WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. The cen sus of the state of Tennessee today was announced as 2,337.459, an in crease of 152,670, or 7 per cent. The population of Helena. Mont., will be announced Monday at 10:30 A. M. Kl RfVCCSNsl II UTTLE. CAttLV Poll of Women in New York Shows Trend. PROHIBITION INTEREST LOW Harding and Cox About Even in Representative Test. LEAGUE LINES SHARPEST Most Announce Intention to Vote Convictions Ldvins Costs Win Debs Ballots. (Copyright by the New York Herald com pany and the New York Evening Tele gram. Published by arrangement.) NEW YORK. Aug. 28. (Special.) The New York Evening Te'-gram's presidential poll in the metropolitan district taken exclusively among wo men today Indicates a close race be tween Cox and Harding for the fa vor of the newly-enfranchised voter of the nation. The poll showed the opinion of 158 representative women. They voted as follows: Cox. 72; Harding, 59; Debs, 7. No effort was made to obtain a poll that wouJd be unusual because of the number of voters, but an effort was made to obtain a representative vote, inasmuch es experience haa shown that polls are important as in- cicating political trends only to the degree that they are representative of the voting elements in the country. Prohibition Interest Lacking. A surpo-ising feature of the poll among th women was the apparent lack of interest which most of them showed in the prohibition issue. Each woman was asked to state her rea sons, yet out of 158 women who voted only five Indicated that they were In fluenced by the prohibition Issue. Of these five, one was strongly for pro hibition' wOtile the other four were against it. The one who was for it expects to vote against Governor Cox. while the other four will vote for him. On the league of nations issue, the opinion is more decided. Forty-six otrs expressed the intention of vot ing for the candidate of their choice because of his stand either for or against the) league. Of this number. 3 were for the league and 17 acalnst it. Practically all of those who favor the league were going to vote for Governor Cox. regardless of former political associations. Living Coat Issue Important. Those Who are opposed to the league are with Senator Harding re gardless oT former political associa tions. In this respect, the women take the same attitude as the men. The high cost of living is an im portant issue with a considerable body of women. Many of those in the poll who wete undecided in their choice said they intended to vote for the man whom they think will be able to lower the cost of living. Dissatisfaction with the futile ef forts of the old parties to accom plish this end was responsible largely for the Intention of three democrats, two independents and one republican to vote for Debs In the coming elec tion. The living issue appeared to be one in which housewives are great ly interested. In general, the women who are en gaged in business or whose husbands are connected with business interests in executive capacities were inclined to vote for Harding. They expressed the opinion that a change in adminis tration would be good for the business of the country. Many Are I ndeclded. A large bodv- of independent voters declared they were undecided at this time as to how they will vote be cause they don't know enough about the issues. They wanted the cam- (Coocluded on Page 4. Column 1.) 0T tAVtH TftftVEUKQ VMCE THE. 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