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TODAY
SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1924
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SOLUTION FOR
WOUflCED
Postal Officials Uncover a
Complete . Explanation pf
the Two Million Dollar
Hold Up :
ARREST FOUR BANDITS;
TO GET OTHERS SOON
Confessions Reveal Entire
Personnel of Band; Some
Loot Recovered
CHICAGO, June 18. One of
the most daring train robberies
' ever perpetrated,' the holdup of a
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
mail train near Chicago, the night
of June 12 by eight bandits who
obtained $2,075,060 in cash and
securities, has been solved, postal
officials announced tonight.
Four of the alleged train rob
bers are- in custody, postal ' of f U
cials said, one has confessed, part
of the loot was recovered and ia
. nationwide search for the quartet
otill at liberty is in progress, with
prospects of their arrest within a
short time.
The complete story of the rob
bery was related tonight by A. E.
- Rermr. chief Dostal" inspector;
Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins
and Lieutenant William &, Schoe-
maker, who arrested the suspects
Max Greenberg, said to. be a
member of Egan's rats, St. Louis
gangsters, planned the robbery at
East St. Louis,- according to the
officers, and had the assistance of
.... Carlo and Ernest Fontano, Chlca
ro runnen who are believed to be
Implicated in the $80,000 mall
. . vnhovv at Harrev. Ills., in March
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diana harbor slx weets ago.
nr-int TOnntunn was arrested
yesterday. His brother is being
. son eh t. .; '
' Three brothers, besides the two
Fontano brothers, participated in
the robbery, costal -Inspectors said.
They are Willie Newton, Willis
Newton and Joe Newton, anas
lohnhv Newton. All three are in
: tustodr, Willie Newton is the
bandit who was wounded and wno
posed as ,J.' H. Wayne. Willis
Neton gave his name as Paul Wade
md said he was a Tulsa, uma.,
avaiter and Johnny Newton trav
eled under the alias of J. II. Wat
: son. " v j ,
Willis Newton has confessed,
' postal inspectors said. One of two
automobiles used in the robbery
has been recovered, all of the mail
pouches taken are recovered and
' more than $20,000 of the loot is
in federal custody besides val
uables found in the rifled mail
bags found at Jollet yesterday In
one of the cars used by the ban
dits. '' '
The three bandits who escaped
had the loot and rode in the sec
ond automobile, postal inspectors
said. Greenberg. it is thought,
did not participate in the actual
. robbery. . -C ' !''
i Besides the four men finder ar-
i rest who are alleged to bave taken
part in the actual robbery, the
authorities also are holding Walt
er McComb and his wife after a
raid on whose flat resulted in the
arrest of the Newton brothers.
Anna Mead of Milwaukee, said to
be Johnny Newton's ' sweetheart,
who came here with $20,000 to
try to effect his release, and James
Murray, prominent Chicago politi-
clan, for whom a federal warrant
was Issued late today charging
' conspiracy in the robbery.
An official statement placed the
loot obtained by the. robbers at
$2,000,000 in securities and $75,
K 000 in cash. A little more than
$20,000 in cash had been recover
ed, including the $20,000 seized
from the Mead woman. Murray,
it Is alleged was implicated In the
plan to conceal Willie Newton af
ter the latter had been wounded
and was brought to Chicago by his
companions. - .
THE WEATHER
OREGON: Generally ; cloudy
and warmer Thursday; mod
erate westerly . wltids.
LOCAL WEATHER
(Wednesday)
Maximum temperature, 68.
Minimum temperature, 54.
Rainfall, none.
River, 1.3; stationary.
Atmosphere, partfally. cloudy.
Wind, south.
)IMIMMi
NORTH DAKOTA
SUFFERS FROM
BAD TWISTER
Two Persons Are Killed and
Buildings Wrecked at
. Dickinson in Storm
FARGO. N. D.. June 18. - A
heavy storm is sweeping sections
of North Dakota tonight and re
ports reaching here indicate loss
of life and much damage to prop
erty. A jreporU from Dickinson
said two persons were killed, 20
injured and ; property damaged to
half million dollars by a tornado
In that vicinity.
3 Wires are down and Dickinson
is cut off from communication.
Railroad tracks are washed out at
several places.
Bismarck reports that a heavy
rain and hailstorm, said to be the
worst in local history, caused se
vere damage to crops. A high
wind and severe electrical disturb
ances "accompanied it.
ME
GHAfJCETO SELL
Something Definite in Way
of Marketing Expected
' Frpm Meeting
At last the small loganberry
growers have a chance to see day
light.; The meeting held in the
chamber of commerce rooms yes
terday at the call of- George F
Rodgers was attended by 69 grow
ers and represented a potential
berry crop of 300 tons.
Bruce Cunningham was chair
man of the meeting and was a
most excellent one. He never let
the meeting get away from him
and did hold the, growers to , the
subject in hand." Several times
efforts were made-to discuss side
issues but 'he held them sternly
down to the business of marketing
the crops now ripening. ' -" .
Marketing More Promising,,
"The spent e-the 'tn-eetlngwaB
one of success and it is believed
that out of this will come some
thing definite in the way of co
operative loganberry marketing.
The plan is to have the growers
bring their 'crops to a canning fac
tory which the committee will
select, have them canned, sold on
the cost plus basis, the growers to
take what they can get. This
proposition is fair and the banks
promise to loan money on the
warehouse receipts. Just - how
much has not been stated and up
on this depends a great deal of
the success of the undertaking,
y . Committee Named
" The committee appointed will
have full charge of the grading,
the canning, the marketing, and
the finances, and to this the five
named, who are capable business
men, will address themselves.
Bruce Cunningham, J. E. Croth-
ers. F. M. IRoyal.-Frank Hrubetz
and -George . Hecker are xamed as
members of the committee to han
dle all of the details of the pool
from first to last and tp work in
cooperation with bankers to put
the proposition over, Besides pres-
'(Continued on page 4)
GIRL CONFESSES
SWIG BLAZE
14 Year Old Tot Claims She
Set School fire Which
Cost 24 Lives
LOS ANGELES, June 18. A
little girl, 14 years old, Josephine
Bartholme. tonight is held by
county officers following the
announcement of her confession
here today! that she set fire to the
Hope . Development school at
Playa del Rey, near here. May 31,
when 24 lives were lost.
To District Attorney Asa Keyes
and Mrs; G. M. F. Garret, assist
ant probation officer, Josephine
told how she touched a match to
some "tinder in the school (base
ment "so as all us girls could go
free and' have a good time like
all other good girls have .good
times." -i
She concluded her recital with
the plea, VI didn't mean to kill
anybody." ?
The . girl is described by Mrs.
Mary- E. Jacobs, wo" conducted the
Hope Development Bchool, as only
slightly mentally retarded. Mrs.
Jacobs 'said that Josephine had
appeared ' to ' be dissatisfied ... for
some time before the fir.'
County officers plan a thorough
investigation of the girl's confes
BE I
sion-tomorrow
GUIil TURRETS
HELD RE
DEATH TRAPS
Armor, Plate Because of
Arrangement to Protect
Men, Also Blocks Avenues
of Escape
MISSISSIPPI TRAGEDY
TO RESULT IN CHANGES
Hatchways to Provide Easy
Openings Recommended
for All Ships
SAN PEDRO. Cal., June 18.
Battleships gun turrets, while
giving the men who serve the
guns valuable protection from an
enemy's fire,, are under other elr
cumstances, by the very nature of
their construction, veritable death
traps to the sailors they were de
signed to protect, according to tes
timony developed today at the in
vestigation of the explosion aboard
the USS Mississippi last Thursday
in which 48 lives were lost.
' This point was brought forward
by Lieut. Commander Edward J.
Foy, gunnery officer of the battle
ship New Mexico, and it was indi
cated that the court of inquiry
would recommend to the navy de
partment that ? means of escape
from gun turrets on all battleships
be provided.
Lieutenant Commander Foy, de
tailing the work of rescue follow
ing the flareback in No. 2 turret
of the Mississippi, said ' that he
was "forcibly impressed with the
necessity for some method of es'
cape from the gun turrets, either
by hatches in the tops of the tur
retsv or by openings in the rear.'
) "The possibility of one of the in
dex tags of one of the silk TNT
containers having found its way
JjpiIskJnlothe Jo. a turret
guns xo uom xor me next, cnarge
a spark that would ignite it prem
atnrely, was touched on in the
testimony of R. E. Goodwin, sea
man of the New Mexico, who was
post'ed as an observer on the up
per handling room of the No. 1
turret on the Mississippi the day
the explosion occurred.
Goodwin said he had ; removed
two of the tags from bags in tran
sit to the guns and added that he
had not seen any of the Missis
sippi's gun crews do so.
F. J. Rynes, captain of No. 2
turret, who was so seriously
burned by the flare-back that it
was: believed he might die. today
is 'reported improving aboard the
hospital ship Relief. His test!
mony is expected to throw valu
able light on the causes of the dis
aster. -
BILLINGS HAILED OUT
GALLUP, N. M., June 18. 1
W. Billings of Myrtle Point, Ore.,
who was arrested and placed i in
jail here 30 minutes after he was
married to Inez Beatrice ftichards
of San Jose, Cal., Saturday, was
arraigned before United States
Commissioner I. II. Ford today
and bound over to the United
States grand jury in bail of $2.-
500. Billings is being held t in
connection with alleged ' oil land
frauds. '
TOXG WAR BREAKS OUT
LOS ANGELES. June 18.,
Five Chinese were shot ; to
dath in a tong war that broke out
in Mexlcali Mexico, today, says
a dispatch to - the Los ' Angeles.
Times. : ; -
!H ROSE CITY
Celebration of Anniversary
r r t- a
ot uregon i erniory 10
be Held Thursday
PORTLAND. June 18. In cele
bration of the - anniversary of
United States sovereignty of the
Oregon" country," i between 00
and 700 pioneers will gather in
Portland Thursday for ther 52nd
annual reunion.
.' Today many of them 'attended
the meeting of Indian war veter
ans of the northwest and' stories
galore ' were told and re-told ot
skirmishes and battles with the
Klickitats, Caynses. Okanogans,
Spokanes and Wascos. ; i .
G. W. Riddle, veteran of the In
dian and Civil wars, and head of
the soldiers home at.Roseburg,
was re-elected commander- of the
Indian War reterans. ; v
IIIEIIS MEET
POSTAL UNION
OF CANADA IS
OUT ON STRIKE
Employees Refuse Wage Ad
justment; All Strikers
Ordered to Return
TORONTO, June 18. Postal
employes will , not Consider : the
Dominion government's new offer
to readjust the pay schedules it
was announced late tonight by
Frank Shea, executive member of
the postal mail clerks, and Albert
Hull, president of the letter car
riers who had been deputized to
act as mouthpieces for the strik
ers. They said that there would be
a general postal strike throughout
Canada tomorrow.
VANCOUVER. B. C, June 18.
Canadian postal workers in Mont
real and Monckton, N. B., went on
a strike tonight.
i OTTAWA., Qnt., June 18.
Postmasters have been notified at
all post offices where postal em
ployes have walked out that the
men will be given until 11 a. m.,
Thursday, to return to work or
other men will replace them, ac
cording to prders issued by
Charles Stewart, acting postmas
ter general.
L
BE ICE1
State Confronted With Prob
lem Due to Big Enroll
ment at Monmouth
The state is confronted with a
big problem as to future state
normal school policy, it developed
at a meeting of 'the board of re
gents of the normal school here
yesterday. This is due to the rap
idly increasing , enrollment at the
Monmouth school, which for the
summer session will exceed 1,000,
which is more than' school room
training .can .be provided . 1 or,. .
At the next meeting of the
board In October a decision is ex
pected to be reached whether the
policy will be expansion by the es
tablishment, of an additional nor
mal school at Pendleton or by tak
ing over the public school system
at Dallas as a means of teacher
training. Dallas and Monmouth
are connected by a paved highway
and there would be no great dif
ficulty in utilizing J the public
schools there. The Dallas board
would be relieved of about 50 per
cent of the financial burden of
teacher hire and the normal school
through its training principal
would serve as the Dallas super
intendent of schools.
: Should it be held necessary to
ask the next legislature for an ap
propriation for an additional nor
mal school in the state it is said
that Pendleton would be the logi
cal place. -Whether or not such
an appropriation is asked, it will
be necessary to ' appropriate for
additional faculty members at
Monmouth so that smaller classes
may be necessary.
HOT WEATHER REPORTED.
TOPEKA, Kansas, June 18.
Hottest weather of the season was
recorded in Kansas today.
Destinies are developed, and In
some cases terminated in the club
room conversation at the Elks'
temple each evening. In the case
of the gophers, for example, that
were claiming too great a percent
age of the crops on Fred Kurtz
farm north of town their careers
were cut. short.
Fred joined "the group! about the
fireplace, settled down ; in, one of
the big stuffed chairs, pulled hard
on his cigar and fell to lamenting
the activities of those gophers. It
seems they had estblished a lot
of colonies on the Kurtz frm, with
more underground runways than
Chinatown In Frisco.
"Why don't you gas 'em?" ask
ed Fred Erixon easily.
' "Gas 'em? Whaddye mean gas
em?" Fred wanted to know.
"Why, with the fumes ' from
your tractor." Erixon elucidted.
He explained how to do It; just
tap a gopher's runway, connect
it up with the exhaust pipe of the
engine going.
"I'm gonna try It," declared
Fred, ' " j
He tried it, and a few days later
r
TRACTOR E
DEATH FO
KIWANIANS TO
ERECT STATUE
AS MEMORIAL
Harding to be Remembered
by Granite Monument
at Vancouver, B. C. .
DENVER, Colo.. June 18. A
large granite' and bronze memor
ial to .the late, President Harding
is to be erected at Stanley Park,
Vancouver. Canada, it was an
nounced tonight at the eighth an
nual convention ot the Kiwanis
club international. The late Pres
ident was a charter member of the
Kiwanis club of - Marion, Ohio.
when be was United States sen
ator.
The site was chosen, because it
was the site where the late presi
dent made one of his' last public
addresses and because ot his ex
presskm in that address concern
ing' the peace that exists between
the United States and Canada and
in view of the further fact that he
was a member of the Kiwanis club
with 1250 clubs in cities of the
United States and Canada.
The memorial will take . the
form of a semi-circular granite
seaj, with the back higher in the
center upon which a bronze bas
reljet of the former president's
profile will be placed, together
with an Inscription. '
PDOO FORECASTS
BOURBOiJ VICTORY
Demand Throughout Country
Is for Constructive Pro-
gressive' Policies
NEW YORK, June 18. Wil
Ham G. McAdoo, in a formal state
ment Issued tonight, forecast vic
tory for the democratic party
through the progressive forces
within the party. ';" He said that
throughout the country there was
a ? demand that . the democrats
nhould commit .themselves 'un
equivocally to constructive re
forms.
'"There are certain things," Mr
McAdoo said in part, j"whlchi the
democratic party must fight for
uncompromisingly: international
cooperation for the purpose of
abolishing war and thus maintain.
ing peace; cutting down or elim
ination of excessive military and
naval armaments and the restor
ation of world wide economic im
provement; broadening the base
of prosperity among our own peo
ple so that as far as possible par
ity shall be restored between cost
to the farmer of things he con
sumes and the price he obtains for
the things he Bells.
"As essential steps in this direc
tion the tariff must be reconstruc
ted downwards and the railroads
must be reformed so as to provide
adequate and efficient service at
lower rates. Foreign ' trade must
be reestablished and widened; the
natural resources of the nation
must be protected, particularly
water power, wpichv muct be de
veloped' in the Interest of the peo
ple and not exploited for private
advantage. Child labor had been
protected- and equality of rights,
civil, economic and 'social should
be accorded to women."
WESARE
R GOPHERS
reported that not a gopher was
left alive on the Kurtz farm. No
more fresh mounds appeared
above ground, and no more vege
tation showed evidence of having
its ? roots gnawed by the rodents.
Mr. Kurtz' said '. that in , only a
few seconds after starting the en
gine be could see the smoke from
the exhaust .' coming out or the
ground, as far as 100 yards away.
The fumes , penetrate the whole
runway system, trunks and later
als, or however the gophers make
them, and it is declared that no
underground thing with lungs can
survive the gas attack. Mr. Kurtz
shot the gas into the ground at
different points on his farm. He
reported at the club .again last
night, and declared there has been
no sign of gophers since.
It is said that for a small patch
of ground like a garden an auto
mobile would do the work as ef
fectively as a tractor. "
Fred Erixon, who put Kurtz
hep to the gas method, says the
idea' did not originate with htm.
It has been done7 successfully be
fore, he says, but not many farm
er have tried It. --',..-..'
POLTCAL POT
SET SEETHING
BY DEI
Arrival of McAdoo and Bren
' nan Creates New Specu
lation at New York Con
vention Seat
MAJORITY VOTING RULE
MEETS LITTLE FAVOR
Abrogation of State -Unit
Rule Threatened in Re
turn; Smith Gains -
NEW YORK, June 18. The ar
rival of William G. McAdoo from
California and George . Brennan
from Chicago combined with swel
tering weather today to set the
boiling of the political cauldron,
which is brewing for the opening
of the democratic national conven
tion next Tuesday. The events to
day were:
' The development ot an increas
ing aversion on the part of newly
arriving McAdoo men to join his
fight for abrogation of the two
thirds rule.
A declaration by Governor
Smith's backers that if imposition
of the majority rule were at
tempted, a counter attack would
be launched against the state-unit
rule by which 'many ot the Mc
Adoo delegates are bound.
Indications that Brennan, lead
er of democrats in Illinois, whom
McAdoo men credit with having
started the movement to put the
convention under majority rule,
also favored abrogating the cus
tom -of voting certain state dele
"gations as units. "
Establishment of headquarters
for Oscar : Underwood and John
Wr-Davis Candida tea-tor the presi
dency, and of George L. Berry,
vice presidential aspirant.
Allocation ot the delegations'
positions on the floor of Madison
Square Garden and detailed com
Dletion - of arrangements within
the great auditorium.
Announcement of United States
Senator Copeland, who, hereto
fore, has been looked upon as
potential "dark horse" candidate
for the presidential nomination
that after a tour of New England,
where he received a "grand recep
tion" he was "all for Smith."
General agreement among the
members of the national commit
tee nearly all of whom are on the
scene, that Senator Walsh of Hon
tana would be awarded the per
manent convention chairmanship
"because of the great service he
has just done the country and the
party through his activities at
Washington."
KEXO HAS F1HB
RENO, Nev., June 1&. Half
of the business sction of Cal
iente. In the southweastern por
ion of Nevada and' a division
point on the Union Pacific rail
road was wiped out by a fire this
afternoon, 1 according to a ' word
afternoon, according to - a word
recieved in lleno tonight. The
loss is estimated at $80,000.
A general store, two hotels,
three dwelling - housts were des
troyed.
FATE OF ITALIAN
E
Political Consequences of
Socialist's Disappearance -Growing
Grave
ROME, June 18. (By the AP.)
The political consequences grow
ing out of the disappearance of
Deputy Matteoti, the socialist.
have been overshadowed in publie
importance by the investigation
into the alleged crime' Itself. Al
though the excited public still is
goading the nation's guardians of
justice to solve the mystery sur
rounding the dropping out of sight
of Matteotti, the officials thus far
have been unable. to find any real
evidence that the deputy actually
has been murdered.
A large amount of circumstan
tial evidence, however, has led
both. the. public and the officials
to assume that Mattsotti has been
put out of the way by political ad-
varsarjea,-.
ICRT
MCE1
SOUP. KITCHENS
PREDICTED BY
SEN. COPELAND
Success of LaFplIette in at
Least Six States Also
Held Probable
BOSTON, Mass., June 18. Soup
kitchens and victory for Senator
LaFollette as presidential candi
date in surely six states were pre
dicted last night by Senator Royal
S. Copeland, who advocated the
nomination of Governor Smith of
New York, before the national
democratic club of Massachusetts.
Senator Copeland devoted most
of his speech to "the plight of the
American farmer and the indiffer
ence of the republican admlnlstra
tion toward him." "The farmers.'
he said, "are either bankrupt or
on the Verge of bankruptcy. More
than 500 banks in-the northwest
have 4een closed."
E
Snake River Farmers End
Testimony Before ICC;
Retaliation Is Threat
WALLA WALLA, WasM., June
18. Testimony of grain growers
south of the Snake river, who are
fighting . for restoration of the
parity, in' freight rates on ship
ments from their district to Port
land and Puget Sound points in a
hearing before F. M. Weaver, ex
aminer of the interstate commerce
commission, was completed today.
the third day of the hearing. In
tervenors ' will begin introducing
testimony at' tomorrow morning's
session.
A hint was made at today's bear
ing that if the contest to cut out
the differential which (Portland
now enjoys fails, a counter move
may be expected in the form of
an effort to have a differential
favoring the Puget Sound district
sstablished to the section northot
the 1 Dnaice rivev. It was O. t
Fisher, president of the Fisher
Flour Mills of Seattle who made
this threat. The endeavor to have
a differential established would
be made, Mr.' Fisher declared, de
spite the fact that shipments to
Portland and Astoria must go
more than 100 'miles farther than
to Seattle.
An indirect charge that Port
land interests go into the field
north of the Snake river and force
prices up so that Puget Sound in
terests, forced to buy there, have
to pay higher prices for wheat and
thereby have a more difficult task
in competing with Portland, was
included in Mr. Fisher's testimony.
He did not make this charge di
rectly, but stated that it was quite
possible for Portland interests to
do so since they were able to get
the bulk of their supply from the
Walla Walla district.;
GREER REFUSES
. TOTIESTID
Normand's Chaufi
:eur Halts
Trial by Refusal
fleet on Emp
"To Re-
i
oyer
LOS ANGELES. Jufte 18. Hor
ace A. Greer, chauffeur, who was
to have been his own star witness
in the superior court trial at which
he Is charged with the attempted
murder of Courtland! S. Dines,
Denver oil operator, sprung the
surprise of the case I late today
when he refuses to testify, declar
ing that he would rather take the
chance of going to the penitenti
ary than say anything that might
reflect upon his former employer.
Mabel Normand, screen comed
ienne.! I
The chauffeur's action let down
with a thud court spectators and
those connected with the case who
bad been elevated to a high de
gree ot expectancy by the state
ments of S. S. Hahn, chief defense
counsel, that Greet would be
placed upon the witness stand to
tell "everything" that happened In
Dines apartment last New Year's
night, when the Denver man was
shot.
Greer's refusal to testify came
near the close of the day's session
during which the defense charged
that portions of the chauffeur's
statement to police had been with
held to "protec. certain people in
the moving picture Industry. " .
f CHRISTrAXSOJf IS vicron
ST. PAUL. Minn..! June 18.
Theodore Chrlstianson of Dawson
won the republican' gubernatorial
nomination iq . Monday's primary
1 GROWERS
COMPLET
whom m
IS CONSIDERED
BfCfllEOTi!
Farmer-Labor Group Detcr-
mined to Effect Smooth
Organization of "Mass
Political Party"
THREATENED BREAK IS
AVERTED BY LEADERS
Two Schools of Politic::!
Thought Iron Out Issue
Over "Red" Control
ST. PAUL, .Minn., June 18.
(By The Associated Press) The
national farmer-labor progressive
convention went Into a night ses
sion this evening with a harmony
organization plan .1 prospect 1 and
the delegates primed to vote for
immediate organization of a "cla i
conscious, mass-political party."
Committee negotiation between
the two schools of political
thought represented in the hear
ing were responsible for th e end
ing of the struggle. They follow
ed; public statements by William
Z. -Foster, chairman ot the work
ers' party and communist leader
and William Mahoney, chief farmer-labor,
figure in, arranging tfci
convention in which they declare 1
no bolt or other division of the
convention was contemplated.
Foster told the delegates hla
party had no intention of captur
ing the convention. Mahoney sail
his faction would stick to the fin
ish unless outright communist con
trol developedv
Further evidence of the ironing
out of the difficulties which for
a time threatened the life ot tin
gathering was frunlsbed by a:i
overnight agreement to dissolve
the delegations from the worker s
party and "the federated fartu.
labor party of which C. E. Ruthti
berg'was leader.
The members of these delega
tions were distributed to their
respective home states, Ituthen
berg to Ohio, Foster to Illinoii
and the latter's son-in-law, Jos
eph Manley, to New York.
With this ending of the repre
sentation of political organization
as such went the delegates frc: ;
the 1 world war veterans, amalga
mated clothing workers and Jan.
lor -workers' league. The roll cal!;
at today's session ere therefor;
confined to a call ot states.
' Committees on platforms and
resolutions and on nomination j
were also named and while wait
ing for these bodies to get through
their work, the convention listen
ed to oratory.
Immediate launching pf a new
craft to sail the political seas waa
the burden of all speeches and
cheers of approval greeted each
reference to this. i
Attacks on the capitalists preps
and more or less thinly veiled
criticism of Senator La Follette
and the Cleveland conference ct
July 4, also found favor with the
delegates.
The comparison between "red"
and "yellow" which Duncan Mac
Donald introduced yesterday la
his discussion of La Follette was
taken up by several of today's
speakers and greeted cheeringly.
"I am not afraid of reds but I
am afraid of a man with a broad
streak of yellow up his back,"
said Rev. J. L. Beebe of Omaha.
"It our forefathers had design
ed the American flag under pres
ent economic conditions, the red
streaks would be yellow," said
Charles E. Taylor, chairman of
the convention.
"If La Follette is endorsed by
ihe Cleveland conference and rur.3
as an independent candidate and
the attempt to form a third party
is left until after the November
eleclon, you will find that his fol
lowers will organize from the top
down and the rank and file will
not be a direct voice in its man
agement," said R. D. Cramer.
Minneapolis, editor ot a union la
bor journal.
"This convention is an attempt
to organize a class, mass party
from bottom up."
RAIN IS BENEFIT
EUGENE. Or.. June 18. Rain
fall amounting to .30 of an Inch
fell here during the 24 hours end
ing this morning and farmers de
clare that all grain crops are
greatly benefited. Spring gra!r
PDeared.to be almost a fail r
but the growers say that the ii'.i
will rejuvenate it. Fall grala i i
be nearly a -full crop, they x ;.
No damage to cherries, which t.: i
now being gathered U rr::r
a