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Weather Year Ago
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Ustlj Tweoty-thlrd Teat
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MED FORD. OL'KUOX. WKDXKSDAY. .JUNK (i. 1928.
No. 70.
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
SS"
The Weather
KortMniwt I 'a ir, audi nnriuul hu
midity. Maximum yeMPnlay 01
Miuimum lodUi? 50
"SOUTHERN
CRQ
HOPS
OFF AOAIN
Watching 7300 Tickers.
Good Rain, Good Crops.
Another Flying Lady.
Heavy Loss Stabilized.
(Copyright. 1927, by New York
Evening Journal. Inc.)
" Everybody" is a bit; word, j
"bnt it is u fact tlmt iihuost cv-!
c-iylnuly is in the "street," tlmt j
is to stiy, speculating in stocks, j
The business man, grown rieli
at soiuc-ttiing be understands,
may i'eel sorry for biniself later.
The tfirl with a typewriter in
front of her has a few shares,
and wonders when'she will have
:i million.
There is more interest in 7:iMi
stuck exchange tiekers than in
all the books in all the libra-
There was trembling among
.;..l.,. ,,,! ti,.W untehol-K
, ... j
when eall money, used lor spec-i
Illation, Went tO ( pel' cent, 111HI
stocks went down.
"Big people" apparently
want to discourage cxcetVive
gambling by the little people.
Crops in the corn belt have
, taken an upward turn. Rains
in Kansas, Nebraska, Jlissouri
and Oklahoma cbeei' the ftirni-
ers.
Thc Arkansas River val-
lev reports, "Wheat will make 'will leave at 7:30 a. m. tomorrow
33 bushels to the acre." ,1:? ," " Wednesday.
! coast time) for Nazelai. carrying
j MIU gallons of petrol and a supply
All that is cheerful for thei0r lubricating oil.
Republieau candidate, whoever
he may be.
Nothing melts irritation on
the farms like good rains, good
crops, good prices.
LiiFollettc's vote dwindled
(.nwn.v as the price of wheat went
'up. ,:.
Farmers who demand a pres-
idcntial candidate "ill favor of I
farm ciiuulitv." reallv . need I
eiuality in methods of produc-
tion. A blacksmith making an
automobile with his own hands
would vainly demand equality
with production on a big scale
banners, in this age of per
fectod industry and ipiauiity
production, do their own pro
ducing, largely, with the meth
ods of one hundred years ago.
They will remember that it
is easy to make promises.
"Thci'C shall be in Entfland
,
three halfpenny loaves sold for
a penny; the three-hooped pot
shall have ten hoops ; and I will
make it a felony to drink small I
-
heer ' ' 1
ee ' I
- Ill a general way, the public I
feels that voting Indies trving!
. ',, ,. . , '.. ,
to attract attention might find ,
sonic better plan thill! lidding j
their weight to a dangerous
trmis-Atlautic flight. But there
will be sympathy for Miss Knr
hart, now flying with Pilot
Stultz.
AVhcn she isn't flying, Miss
Earhart is looking after poor
children, giving her money and
her time. An excellent flier,
she has never had an accident
and was one of the first to put
capital into the Dcnnison air
port. Tim friilli- w ill lie stabilized. !
-
,rl i "That we came throuch was not
probably at four cents. 1 hotl-1 lu.k. 0et the rlcbt men and eqnlp
sands of French people with in- ''" co-ordinate them, and you
, ; w ill get through."
comes from the trench govern-1 In OI,enni. Ml pP.,.h at the
lllCUt "l'CUtCS Iicrpctnallc" Will
have their fortunes permanent
ly reduced by 80 per cent.
It Is as thouuli millions of Ameri
cans should suddenly find their dol
lars worth twenty cents.
France won the war. but war does
not pay. even when you win. And
that Important fact will do more
than all the peace treaties to dls-
courage future wars.
a a
John J. Raskob, chairman of Gen-j
era! Motors Finance Corporation, is
worried by prohibition. Three hun-ith
Ured thousand workmen are em-
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BIG PLANE iWUbiLo
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flW VW m Yr N
AUSTRALIA
Captain Smith and Three
Companions Flv From!
Albert Park to Beach at
IMazelai Final Take-Off
Due at 7 o'clock Tonight.
SfVA, FIJI. June C VP The
Southern Cross will hop off at 3 '
' . . !
"' tomorrow "'"" tl,u lH'i"',, 1,1 !
Nast.lHi. , ,,, ,,.,,, iu.,v. pn j
Its l.uO-mlle flight to nrlsoane. j
Australia. Flight Commander
Klngstord-Smilh announced late
tonight.
Thls would he 7 o'clock Wednes
day night, I'uclfle const time.
A slrelch of sand three mlleB
I lone deserlhed ly Klngsford-
Smlth as "equal to the best run
j way In the world." will servo to
j cm the Southern Cross In the air
I In continuation of Its lonx flight
I from Oakland, Calif., to Sydney,
Australia. '
The government yacht I'lnner
The four aviators. Klngsford-
Kinith, Charles Clm, co-pilot: Har
ry l.yun. navigator, and .lames
Warner, radio operator, will hop
off from Albeit Park here, where
they landed after a 3 1 as-mile I
fllKht from Hawaii, at 10:45 a. m. lieved tn have been completed yes
(2:43 p. m. Wednesday. ' Pueltic terriay, they decided to put a little
coast time) for the heueh at Nn- more Rasoline aboard. They at-!
j,,.,,,! tended also to a few other do
lt was announced that the two ; taials ot the final preparation. Miss
Americans. l.von and arner.
would accompany
the Australians
' to Ui'islmne. '
t i ... I,..,,
u ,., i,a ,lt" ,i,e
,.
cirtc hotel, in the nvluiors' honor!
ti.nm'ht, the sovcrm.r presenieo ,
them Bins from the e..lonis,s in
Hie form ot 20(1 sovereigns In
I, in sIm in
KiJI-mndc tortoisesliell casket and
lortoiseshell bailee inlaid with
cold.
j Two younu women, presented
' j floral tributes, desinned as 'ho
stars and siriin-s, to Ijyuu J
i W aini r. and a 'floral piece of the
Australian fla of nil isiona and! jj,. ,cvinn said that only four
sriuih stars lii lilies for KliiKsford imlrH wmid be renuired In fuel
and Clin. the plane with gasolino already al
chui-les Clin made a speech de-, t,0 fi,,d. The lime runways of
seriiiliiK a phase of the flisht j Itoosevelt field, iuljoiniiiK. wero
which was fraught with many fast drylni; in the sun this lifter
thrills. I noon and it seemed that they would
"I am tellliiK you on behalf of t bo in uood condition tomorrow. I.e
1 mvseif and comrades that we : vine expressed the belief that Miss
would have been cold meat but fur
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ine am ui our io !-
friends. Harry l.yon. iiiivluntui', nnd ,
James Warner, radio operator. ;
"ImaKlne the roar of the plane's i
(ioo-liurscpowcr moters. the plane's i
small cabin deafened with the roar :
. .. ... . i '
motors, trying m s-hm ium
receive radio messiiijis 10" le.l
cl.t efficient, 4,000 to 5.000 miles
lvny. '
"Ilm Warner imssessed no mean
skill and was full of eolirasc Ket-
UnK ,,;l(.k , ,hc m ,.ado usuin.
(Warner was a former stea'mshlp
rauio opi'I aior. ;
"XiKht lietore last In the middle
j of Ibe Pacific, tile fates were not
with us.
I It Wu-n'l I.tuk.
i
our
I "We struck bad weather
Job was Intricate. Tile direction
was tak'-n from the hands of the
navlKiitor. The wild flying was
KettinK to the since where one
mlcht just isu mad. Smith was;
' dolnc skillful flyimr. dudcinc storm
clouds. Hi i nl lit: at riant ancles
when flylnu 100 miles an hour.
"The navlcator's skill, resource
and Initiative were shown when,
lifter all these oiilck movements
j tbrouchout the nicht. that he
: eould ilot out our position, and
when we came out of the mess, to
' say. 'Here, boys, here's where you
are.'
banquet. Vim said the "difference
between an aviator and a parrot
was that a parrot could talk but
not fly. and an aviator can fly
lint not talk."
I.yon then uddressed the Cather
ine. "I had to navicate." he said.
"If I hadn't found Suva, where
w-ould I hava been? I hnve hiid
such a good time in this world
j that I w-ant to carry on."
1 1
KV Vli A Vl'lSI '1 1 .Iiin it 1&
The i:xaminer has received from
. f'aptnln KIiiK-fonl-SmIth at Suva
following caWe:
"I particularly rvqucttt that yuu
(Continued on Pare Six)
SEA FLIGHT
i
Miss Boll Declares She Will,
Hop Off Tomorrow From;
New York, While Miss
Earhart Will Start As
Soon As Weather Looks
Favorable.
I
TllKl'ASSK. .M.. June O.-()-1
Reports of bad weather conditions i
)n llll(1.AtlBntlc callHC(1 the crew ()t :
t)e irans-Allim'tic plane Friendship
tu announce late this afternoon that
their hop-oft tor Kurope would bo ,
postponed aaln. No definlto timo i
for the start was assigned. i
TKEPASSHY, xf., June 0. OP) .
I-ast minute preparations for the at-'
tempt of the monoplane Friendship ;
to cross the Atlnntic were made to- I
day. Only a strong wind from the
northwest delayed the flight. i
Tho three fliers Miss Amelia !
Earhart. Wilmor Stultz, pilot, and
Louis Ciordon, mechanic had a j
good sleep lust night and uwoke j
with reneweiLiletermiiiation to get
away as soon as a moderation or j
shift of the wind should make it
safe to try to lift the plane with j
its heavy load of gasoline from the
harbor and head It out over the ;
ocean. !
Early in the forenoon Statu and
Gordon went out to the plane.
Although the refueling was be-
I'jarnatl (liu not to 10 wiu Vmuu
with them at that timo.
The sky was clear and tho fliers
were hopeful that the start could
ibe made some time today.
cnvriss kihld.
New York.
.,.. B.,p1il ss.m nbel Hull with
;a crew of (wo npn w,n aUell)t
, . , . Kmoiie toinor-
-.' ... .
rQW ,n (,10 ,,..llla.Atlantrc plane Col-
i umbla of Charles A. Irvine, the
latter announced this afternoon, i
T,)e ,,iot8 w ue Oliver l.ellout-
tillier. formerly of the llrillsh
army. and Captain Arthur Argolls
( Minnesota.
Doll stood nn excellent chance of
r..l t'llll.w, 1.,. l,.nir.u(niwl lntr ilnuh'n
i uu hhhh ..... .,.........
to be the first woman to fly across
the Atlantic.
The Columbia's destination in
hurnpe nas not ueen nxeii iiiiu win
depend entirely on conditions en-
i ii ii t mnit In (be fllllht.
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Baseball Scores
National.
It. II. K.
Chlcaiio 5 9 0
Philadelphia 6 6 1
Mnlone. litlsh. Junes and llart-
nett; Miller, Walsh and Sehultc.
It. H. K.
Cincinnati 6 7 1
ooklyn 8 12 2
Kolp. Mays. Kdwnrds and Plel-
nleh. Hnrni'iivc; McWeeney, Khr-
hardt und Jlenllne.
St. r.ouis
1!. H. E.
11 17 0
New
Vork ti
t! 10 2
Mitchell and Wll-l-'aulkner.
Chaplin
Aleexander,
son: Aldrldce,
and o'Knrrell.
Pltisburch at lioston poslponed:
rain
Anierli'aii.
Washington at Cliicnco post-
poned: wet crounds.
Iloston at Detroit poslponed; ,
ruin. j
11. II. E.
Xew- Vork Hi 1
Cleveland I 7 1
Pennock and C.ratiowskl: riile, 1
Uu'"c. Ixvsen and Sewell
It. H.
E.
Philadelphia S
St. Louis 5
0
1 i
lialterles. Khmke. FCommell
and Cochrane; flray and Manlon.
IhilltT In timlimt4il
INDIANA t'OMX. June 6. (Pt
Prank I)Hilfy of Inriiunapollfl,
an attorney waft nominated ax the
lniur-ralic candidate for governor
cf Indiana nt (he rttatc convention
; ner.e ,rK,y.
Victory came on the fiift ballot.
OihT conti'Ktantfl were John Ii.
FrederU k. Kokumo: f leoi ge OhIc,
fwncle, and Karl Crawford. Mil
ion.
DARING TRANSPACIFIC FLIGHT IN "SOUTHERN CROSS"
- fa&fx th pa arte ' OAKLAND W,)u7: Lt
CHARLES T QUI JA. 0- '
NEW GUINEA A" IrTTl A rTl
Successfully completing the first leg of their transpacific flight attempt, two Australian airmen, Cap
tain Charles Kingsford-Smith and his relief pilot, Charles T. P. Ulm, accompanied by Lieutenant Harry
Lyons, Jr., navigjitor, and Jaines Wamcr.',J-atio .operator, both Americans, arc confident of accomplish
ip? the remainder of their 7,778-milc fligtit'to' Australia. Above is a view of tho Southern Cross, their
fokker plane, in (light; center, a map of the routo across tho Pacific, with inset of the flyers; and, bo
low, scenes at Hawaii, the Fiji islands, and Sydney, Australia, stopping points on the way across.
NEWSPAPER
HELD UP BY 6
ARMED BANDITS
Payroll of $65,000 Grabbed
' at Detroit News By Band
of Yeggs in Broad Day-
light Escape Made in
Shower of Bullets.
DKTKOIT, Midi , June 0. P
Six men armed w ith sawed off shot
Kuns held up more than 150 per
sons in the Detroit News building
shortly after 11 a. ni. today anil
escaped in an automobile with the
greater part of the newspapcr'a
weekly payroll, the total of which
waa Stio.OOU.
Some of the money was dropped
In a dash from the hulldliiE and
during a gun fi':lit on the street in
which a patrollnian was probably
fatally wounded.
living their car parked in front
of tho newapoper plant the rob
bers dashed up a stairway to the
second floor. Some of them cov
ered the 1j0 or more employes in
the business ofifice with shotguns
while others leaped over the lop of
tho cashier's cage and hurriedly
scooped up all the money la sight.
Warning the employes to "Stand
back." the r6bbera then rushed from
the hul1dir.it Into the heavy traflic
of LaKayette boulevard, where they
were engaged in an exchance of
shots with two officers. More than
a dozen shots were llred. None of
tho bandits was believed wounded.
I
E
rollTEHVIM,rc, (al,. June 6.
At !i. Keymfiur UavlcM, 4S. ili-n-tlut
onil prominent oranirc (froivir.
Wn blown to fnttfriH-ntrt lute yes-tt-rday
wh-n u Miiantlly ut dyna
mlto which he wan carrying In the
rear i ltd of hln uutoinoblhr ex
plridr'd. The death cut Mhort n romance
which wan jwdud tiled to have cul
minated In hl marrlaK to a for-,
tervtlle young woman In less than
a week.
. FIJI ISLANDS .
: 17";-'-
OF GOV. SIVIITH
Steiwer Committee Inquires
Into Methods of Awarding1
Large Contracts in New
York State Witness
Deals in Large Figures.
WASHINGTON, June C (Pi
Oetuiltf of contructH inudo hy vu-1
rloiiM (IcpaiitiM'ntH of . tho New'
Vork city government Willi cor
liorutlooff con trolled respectively I
by William (. Todd and William'
K. Kenny, ardent supporter of ;
the- candidacy of Governor Hmith '
of New York for th democratic
presidential nomination, were ln
iiulred lnt(j today hy the Hcnatc
campiilKil fundn committee.
Albert Ooldinun. city coinmlH-'
loner of plantH and struct tires,
which con I ro Ik operation of tho
municipal ferry n.VHtrm and main- ,
tennnco of the boats, told the
lommlttee that a total of $12,
522,10 1 hud been expended by '
IiIh department on boat repairs
since July 1, !HS. of that amount
he udlcd, the Todd company had j
been a wu rd ed 2.2!O,02G.
(foldman also suve fig u res on '
traffic control fdfcnnl contracts let
lnce tho muimj date, putting tho;
fiKUie at $;,0fl,714. Of that work;
tho Kenny coinpnny was awarded '
$10.;. 1 1 in routradts .and the'
Ilxkey compuny. ullled with tho ,
Kenny IntereHts. $20. ,
Fire 'ommlff loner John .1. or-i
man placed tho total of contracts:
and "open market orders." Klven
by hlH depart men t since Junuary
1. 1 8 1 s. and Including Juite Tt,
IH2S. at $7,126..1.,6 nf that sum
the Todd Dt ydoi k corporation had
received $23l,CS7 and the Mickey
company $4i.H4.
Dorman explained that open
market orders Involved amounts
less than $1000. hut added that
even these small orders, though
not reiiulrcd by law. were never,
placed except under competitive'
bidding. i
('hali man Ktelwer of the com-;
mlttop (luentlnned borinun as to
whether hlu department purchased
(fwline tank wnsons made by!
only one company. j
; SENATE STARTS WILL ROGERS IN
i ON CASH TRAIL ! PLANE CRASH
SYDNEY HARBOR
AT LAS VEGAS
Famous Humorist Lights
On His Head, But Is Not
Seriously Injured Puts
All Blame On the G. 0. P.
Convention.
lAS VKdAS, N. M.f June 6. (JP)
Will KoKeiH. the liumurUt, and
Or. h. D. Cheney, puHHengurn, and
IMIot Fred Kelly narrowly escaped
death near here today when the
now monoplane air mall currier of
tho Western Air KxpreHR, flying
from I.os An Holes to Bait Lake,
turned over nose first and lauded
squarely on Its back. Thn three
men were practically unhurt. The
rlKht when broke and caused the
accident when landing
Rogers, after hefn$ released from
the upside-down plane, was a little
dazed, but quickly recovered and
Bald:
"I Just started for the republican
convention al Kansas City but land
ed on my head at Las Vegas. Serves
me rlKht for not going to tho dem
ocratic convention instead. I want
to make It clear that Pilot Kelly Is
not to blame for this little acci
dent." Pilot Kelly said:
"The rlul'l wheel broke and the
ship KTOund looped. The time from
Iaih Angeles to Ms Venas was one
hour and forty minutes."
Ir, Cheney received a slight cut
over (ho rlKht eye from flying
Klaus.
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IIAIMKIt, Ore.. June 6.
Tim Htate Uiiiiik" tmluy ratified
tho tollowtnif offliera elected at
the referendum vote:
(;,orue A. I'ulmitcr, Hood Ulver,
masier: Mat C. Oloi'er, t'lackaiuaa.
county overseer: l-lerla J. Ueck,
seeretary; Minnie K. Itond. lectur
er: C I'. Ilalley, llay W. dill and
W. I. Cockier, executive com
mlttee.
' Southern Bishop
! to Turn Republican
i !
! Al's Nominated
UMl.MlXtillAM, Ala.. Juno
C (Pi A petition I'ontnln
: I iik' r.OO.UOD KiKimlurvH no
; toHtln uKitliiKt tho nuniinu
9 tion uf Al Knitlh 1h behm
I prepared for prone million to
I tho dcmuci'uth: nuttonnl t-on-
ventlou. nceordltiK tn Ulnhop
H. M. iHihoH.v of tho Mutho
iUt KplHeupul elutreh, Honth,
4 who in nn tuldreHH hero lust
nlRht Hiihl ho would "turn
republican" If tho Now York
J govoriuir wero nomluatod.
STILL HOPE 10
In Spite of Radio Errors,
Russian Rescuers Believe
Nobile and Missing Crew
Are On Franz Joseph
Island Planes Fly North
MOSCOW, Juno 6. (A1) Klation
In Moscow caused by a Browing
belief that the missing dirigible
Italia had come, down on Frunss
Josef land east of Hpitzbcrgen gave
way to vugue doubts today when
at least one of tho HOS messages
thought to have been picked up
In Kltterla turned out to bo a futse
ulurm. ' :
It appeared loday that the Mur
mansk stutlon which yesterduy re
ported hearing tho, Xtullu, mistook
radio Instructions sent out ' from
Moscow concerning rcscuo plans
for tho missing dirigible's cull.
The failure of tho big .Siberian
radio stutlon which has been call
ing Nobile regularly at Intervals
of 10 minutes, to secure a response,
has caused further misgivings.
Still, tho most noted Russian
Arctic explorers, such as Vtze und
Zuiriuylowlch, cling to the Idea
that the Italia came down on
Franz Josef land nnd that the
first message reported to huve
been picked up regarding this In
north Dvlusk was genuine.
Guided by expert opinion, tho
soviet rescuo commission bus do-
elded to continue Its preliminary
preparations to search Franz Jo
sef land and Nova Kcmlyu, to muko
sure that Nobllo und hit crew are
not strunded In those regions.
The powerful Ice cutter Ma
lign, hcurlng the piano UL-S, will
proceed to tho wnstern shores of
Nova Hum I. vu nnd tu Admiralty
peninsula. Fuel will be sent to the
Itusslun harbor located at the
northern end of Nova Zemlya.
where tho rcseuora will build a
base for a powerful plane which
will fly from Leningrad by way of
Arehungcl,
This plane will be piloted by
Aviator Chuchnovsky, soviet Itus
sla's greatest Arctic flier, who will
search tho western nnd southwest
ern shore of Frur.r. Josef land. He
will make a particularly careful
search around Cape Flora .which
Noblle knew and probably would
have tried hnrd to reuch.
I From Cape Flora, Chuchnovsky
l will fly over Franz Josef Innd and
j will either land or drop provisions
I and medlcul supplies for the miss
i Ing ship.
The soviet rescue commission
hus appointed three lemurs for
; Uh expedition. These being Pro
j fosHor Viae, Ar4j Ic explorer;
' Chuchnovsky und Captain Anu
i frlcv.
Find No Truce,
OSLO, Norway, June 6. fP)
Advise from Hpitzbcrgen today i
said that Lieutenant Luctxow i
Holm. Norweglun flyler, had made j
one fliftht in search of tho miss-j
ing dlrlftihle Italia nnd found noth
Ing. Holm, the first filer to try
to mm mo nana irom me air,
operated from the sealing t;hlp
I Hobby, now off the northern coast
i of west Hpitzbcrgen.
iKI.Vfl'H n,V. Hpltzbergon. June 6.
; OP) The scaler Hobby, which bus
: arrived al IJefde boy In search of
; the dlrisible Italia, reported that
i. nun t-jipiureo me uisiriei oeiween
Amsterdam Island and Wljde fjord
without finding any trace of the
airship.
Amsterdam Island la ono of the
northernmost points of 'HulUbcr-
j gen.
The Italian Alpinists, who wore
I landed on Amsterdam Island to
I 'k Noblle. have reached Mosel
I bay. having been unsuccessful In
their quest.
K. W. Parson la apondlnc the
I week at Klamath Falls where he
' la transacting business.
FN A A
FRANZ JOSEPH
HOOVER I
VICTORIOUS
IN JTEXAS
Four More Delegates Added
to G. 0. P. Nominee's
Total, Giving Him 37
Victories for Contested
Seats Ralph Williams of
Oregon Aids Hoover
Feeling Grows Strained.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Juno 0.- p
The four Creagor delegates ut
largo from Texas, instructed for
Herbert Hoover for president, to
day were granted seats in next
weok's republican convention over
the protest of a rival faction head
ed by Representative Wurzbuch of
San Antonio.
No roll call vote was taken.
Knlph K. Williams, committee
man from Oregon, who has been
directing the fiKUt In the commit
tee for the Hoover forces, proposed
after a hearing that the slate spon
sored by R. 1. Crcagcr, national
committeeman from Texas, bu
seated.
C. C." Littleton of Fort Worth,
ono of the delegates at large on
the Wurzbaeh slate, wus In tho ex
ecutive committee session holdit-;
a proxy from South Dakota. 11a
proposed a substitute that the "br
four" delegation, of which he wa:i
a member, be recognized hut Iris
motion was repjected by an over
whelming oral vote. The commit
tee then made a quick job of It In
voting to placa the Creager dele
gates on tho temporary convention
roll..--- -v- 'i - . :..S- -f
In addition to Cron-,'er, thorfa
sentod were ICugene Nolte of Sc
guin, Orvlllo Uullliigton of WU-hitit
Falls and'R. P. Lee of Houston.
Lowden Gets Four
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June l!.-(n
Four dolegates at large to the re
publican convention pledged us sup
porters for F. O. lowden, worn
seated today when the nation;-1
committee ratified the withdraw :il
of a contest against them.
The delegation whose credent hl;t
wero recognized is headed by -loa.
W. Tolbert, national committeeman
from South Carolina. The other
three dele union are Samuel J. Leap
hart of Lexington, Wesley S. Diton
of Hnrnwel and John It. Goodwin
of Columbia.
KANSAS CITV, Jlo., June 6.M'l
The drive to clinch the republi
can presidential nomination lor
Herbert Hoover la on but whether
It succeeds depends upon the abil
ity of hla munngers to overcome tin
many obstacles opponents are plac
ing in his way.
33 Delegates for Hoover
Encouraged hy natlonnl commit
tee decisions which In the last two
days have brought ,13 delegates def
initely under tite Hoover banner,
hia backers1 are expressing Increas
ed confidence that he can go over
on an early ballot.
The convention will be In full
blast a week hence, but many of
the men who will play a big hand
In the selection of the nominee are
not yet on the scene.
I.owden Is still to come, curtli
of Kansas Is an absentee. Mellon,
the man who has not yet shown his
hand, won't be here until Siindav.
leaders of the so-called farm revolt
are Just beginning to ahow up.
Until the whole picture Is com
plete, and some of the unin
structed delegations reach the con
vention city, hold their caucuses
and chart their course, the final
word cannot be written. Even then,
many party leaders point out that
no natlonnl convention Is bomb
proof against the numerous uncer
tainties Which crop up at any time
In political maneuvering.
One nf these Is considered tn
some quarters as apt lo come t i
a head as a result ot the disap
pointment expressed In the corn
belt over President C'oolldge's vito
of the McNary-Hatigen furni bill.
Tho farm leaders have served
notice that they will be on hand
to press their claims, but so far
there) has been little concrete bv.
deuce of their program getting un
der way.
Hoover Ueader Confident
No one In thn Hoover enmu,
whore there has been activity for
flays, professes to be worried over
tho outlook. James W. Good, the
Hoover campaign generalissimo. In
a statement made public today, sal'l
that national committee declslois.
seating Hoover delegates Vroni
Florida. Louisiana and Mississippi,
"will, of course, disappoint tnanv
who had hoped that Mr. Hoover
could be robbed of a block of south
ern delegates."
"The ruling of the national com
mittee," (loot! declared, "not only
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