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IF BILL BEATS AL ORAL BEATS BILL LOOK OUT McAdoo-Smith Race Grow* ing Hotter—‘Dark Horse* Likely to Win BY CHARLES N. WHEELER, Universal 8ervtee Correspondent. New York, June 22.—At Cleveland we had the blues; at St. Paul, the reds, and here we have the orange jand green. As colorful and highly dramatized as this gathering will be, It is one ■of the simplest propositions that lias confronted the Jeffersonians on the eve of a national convention In this generation of dopesters. After wallowing through the flood «f propaganda and press agenting that Is running chin deep all over the town, and with the New York Stress standng on Its head and print ing reams of weird tales and hav ing the time of Its life, here Is all there is to this show: 1— It Is McAdoo against the field. 2— Governor A1 Smith Is the handy jpeg on which the antl-McAdoo gen erals can hang their hats tempo rarily. 3— If McAdoo can be stopped, then ■Smith will be given a chance to keep vs all up until late In the morning, before he is put out. Davis Has Chance. 4— If Smith Is successfully em ployed to beat McAdoo and McAdoo is employed to defeat Smith, then *he big financial Interests of the ■country will mobilize all their re serves in a desperate effort to put over John W. Davis of West Vir ginia, ambassador to the court of St. -James under the Wilson regime, and subsequently attorney for J. Plerpont "Morgan and company. That is as far as the set program goes. 5— And if Davis falls down, then it •will be thrown wide open and it will be anybody’s show, with the “dark "horses” who have done yeoman serv ice in helping to block the three leaders by dividing their forces, all putting up their lightning rods, with ■everybody for himself and the devil ■take the hindmost. And then keep an •ye on William Jennings Bryan. Field Chasing McAdoo. Of course, there are a thousand and one ramifications to this ma neuvering, but all there is to it to .Start with is Just William G. Mc Adoo out in the lead with the en tire field trying to overhaul him. Until McAdoo is overhauled, if he is. the plan of the opposition is sim ple. And right here comes In th« Xu Klux Klan and old Demon Rum. The anti-McAdoo chiefs have suc ceeded fairly well In pinning the pro hibition ribbon cm McAdoo. He final ly has accepted that challenge, and behind him are Wayne B. Wheeler, ■general counsel, and L. B. Musgrove, ■chairman f the executive emmittee of the Anti-Saloon league. Wheeler has gone so far as to ac cept the general proposition that the people have a right to agitate for the repeal of the Volstead act with out being termed traitors and anar chists. He has accepted the Virginia platform that holds to this Jeffer sonian fundamental that the majority of the people in this republic have a right to do even a wicked thing. But it also bears down heavily and ‘unequivocally for the strict enforce ment of the law whenever the peo ple or any considerable bloc of them like it or not. JSO tne liquor wauo auu pllcit. It is the theory of the anti MeAdoo chiefs that democratic na tional delegates are, as a rule, con genially liberal and opposed to sumptuary legislation of all kinds. But the big chiefs realize that the "'wet’’ and “dry” issue is the thing .sand, as a matter of fact, it is doubt ful if the real leaders of this fac tion, who are now sitting in at the Smith conference. Including George E. Brennan, ablest of all the Mantis Jiere, really want the old days back. While it helps to keep the boys back In the trenches loyal to the leaders In the hope that some day the old brass rail and the sawdust floor might return, the present bootlegging era is by far the least troublesome for the bosses. It centralizes it, nar rows it down to a mere handful, "Whereas in the old days in the large ■cities they had many thousand well •to do dealers in deal with and not Infrequently they busted out of the harness and smashed local tickets. Not that the bosses now are deal ing with the bootleggers but that the present epoch removes a lot of trou ble that was hard to handle at times under the old system. Klan Real Issue. So while the “liberal” leaders, and those who are strong for “presonal liberty” are down here raising the roof for Governor Smith, it doesn’t mean anything more than the prac tical laboratory psychology of “ex pedient” politics. Perhaps Mr. Me Adoo isn’t as “dry” as a first glimpse of him would indicate. VANCOUVER “W T” Vancouver, B. C., June 21.—Frag mentary returns in the British Col umbia beer plebiscite, showed a "wet tendency.” UNUSUAL OPERATION MAY SAVE LIFE MAN STABBED IN HEART Kansas City, June 21.—Arthur Har gis, I. W. W., stabbed in a fight with negroes here Thursday, has a chance for recovery due to an unusual oper ation performed at a local hospital. A knife had penetrated the peri cardium ef Harris' heart, inflicting a wound three-fourths of an inch long. The outer heart sack filled with blood, making action Impossible. Three rib| Wgrg omoved by the 444444444444444444^ ♦ DISTILLERY TO PAY ONE 4 4 PINT OF RUM AS 4 4 A DIVIDEND 4 4 Hamburg, Germany, June 21 4 4 Hard hit by the stabilization 4 4 of the Remten mark and the 4 4 subsequent high prices cans- 4 4 ing many persona to take to 4 4 beer Instead of whisky, a dis- 4 4 tilling company announces 4 4 that Its dividend for the last 4 4 fiscal year will consist of a 4 4 pint of its product for each 4 4 shareholder. 4 4 4444444444444444444 AUJESTOPASS ON DAWES PLAN Four Powers to Hold Con ference in London Next Month BY ROBERT J. PREW, Universal Service Correspondent London, June 22.—Britain, France, Belgium and Italy will hold a confer ence in London about middle of July to decide how the Dawes report shall be put In operation. This announce ment was made following Premier Herrtot’s “fireside talk” with Premier Ramsay MacDonald at Chequers court. The two premiers spent many hours debating alternative proposals re garding the procedure to be adopted. Premier Herrlot declared his full ac ceptance of the Dawes report and for the first time in more than two years the heads of the British and French government saw "eye to eye,” the German problem. A communique after the conversa tion said: “The conversations showed a com plete agreement in the points of view of the two premiers.” It was stated that if the Italians and Belgians agree, the London con ference will open July 16. It was also announced that Premiers MacDonald and Herriot will pay a short visit to Geneva for the opening of the League of Nations assembly in Sep tember. 15 Per Cent, of Barns Wrecked By Tornado County Agent Checking Up On Damage in Hughes County Pierre, S. t>., June 23. (Special)— County Agent N. F. Nelson, after a trip over a portion of Hughes county, estimates 15 per cent, of the barns of the county were wrecked by the storm of June 14. So far there has been no estimates of the property damaged but it will run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, including live stock and crops. Walter Wesselius, field representa tive of the Red Cross, is In the city from Chicago and surveying the ne cessity for relief of the victims. He came here from Mitchell where he investigated the situation but is mak ing no survey of losses, only finding out what the organization can do to bring retlef to the needy. He Is of the belief that the damage over the state will run well above $1,000,000, judging from what he has seen in th« sections visited. . ^ I Herriot Conferring With MacDonald Now French and English Premier? Discuss Dawes Plan And France London, June 21.—The conference between the new French premier, M. Herriot and Premier MacDonald at Chequers court today, will tie private, it is announced, and nothing will bo issued for publication. TALK DAWES PLAN Paris. June 21.—The subjects of the pretmiers conversation at Chequers court will be, first, how to put the Dawes plan into execution so as to assure payment of reparations by Oermany and second, the problem of France’s security. The premiers are expected to con sider how military occupation of the Ruhr can be reduced, made invisible and ultimately suppressed, as Oer many makes good her obligations. Forest Fires in Alaska Causing Heavy Damage Anchorage, Alaska, June 22.—The tntlre Susitma delta, 12 miles east of here, containing one of the finest birch forests in Alaska, is ablaze and It Is feared that several prospectors living in the delta have been cut off from escape and may be in danger of losing their lives. Diplomats Snub Cummins As He Leaves Mexico Mexico City, June 21.—H. Ounard Cummins. British charge des ar chives, storm center of a controversy between the British an® Mexican gov. ernments, left Friday night for the United States on his way home. With the exception of the Chilean minister, all Latin-American diplo mat; stationed here refrained from bidding Mr. Cummku) farewelL THE BUSINESS BAROMETER ~| This Week’s Outlook in Commerce, Finance, Agriculture and Industry Based On Current Developments BY THEODORE H. PRICE, EDITOR, COMMERCE AND FINANCE. Copyrightsd by Thsodors H. Pries Publishing Corp., Nsw York City. The irreducible minimum of Amer ican business averages at least a billion dollars a day. This sum rep resents ths cost of the services and goods Imperatively required by the 113 million people WHO IN HABIT the United States. Their normal wants must be supplied and the business generated Is fairly con stant In volume. But with the exception of the wheat market, where prices have ad vanced sharply, business that Is not Imperative has adjourned while It waits on the result of the democratic convention. This Is natural, for everyone loves a fight and the poli tical struggle that will be staged In New York promises to be an excit ing one. But this Is not to say that it has or will impair confidence In the future, for no one really believes that the president of the United States has the power to create or destroy pros perity. The idea that presidential years have been unprosperous Is utterly without foundation. It Is abundant ly disproved by history and even If the candidate nominated by the dem ocrats should be elected there Is no reason to fear that the economic sta tus of the country would be much affected one way or the other. When the labor Party came into power In Great Britain tHe conser vatives prophesied disaster, but most of them now admit that Ramsay Mc Donald’s government is one of the best that England ever had and with Its fostering care business' is reviv ing amazingly throughout the British Empire. No Reason for Doubt So it may be if the democrats come Into power. It is the fashion to affect a fear of democratic radi calism, but the history of popular government is bhat when they win the radicals are generally sobered by responsibility and even granting the radicalism of the democrats at pres ent, there is no reason to doiibt that history will repeat'itself. Therefore It seems unwise to take counsel ot fear in the present situa tion, for even in the doubtful event of Pa Follette’s nomination on a third party ticket with the result that our next President will be chosen by the House or the Senate it is unlikely that the government of the United States will cease to function or be disorganized even temporarily. These observations are ventuerd because here in New York there is noticeable some recurrence of the hysterical fear of "politics and poli ticians" to which Americt.n business men occasionally surrender. As a matter of fact, there is noth ing alarming in sight or discoverable to the most critical observer. Money continues easy. Soma call loans were made as low as 1V4 per cent, last week and it is a borrowers market in so far as commercial paper is concerned. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank has followed the lead of th« New York bank In reducing Its re discount rate to 3\4 Per cent, and the report of the Federal Reserve board Is construed by many to mean that the money market Is being prepared for the flotation of a large German loan In the autumn. If such a loan is Issued Its effect can hardly fall to be stimulating, for the credit so mobilized will at once pass into the channels of trade and quicken the movement of merchan dise from producer to consumer. The noticeable resurgence of pub lic opinion in favor of a World Court or some similar device for the pre ventlon of war Is another considera tion that should not be ignored. Even those who are opposed to entangling alliances with Europe admit that trade will be Immensely benefited <gnd Increased by any agreement that ef fectively unites the great powers In preserving the world’s peace. In detail the markets call for but little comment. Except the advance In wheat already mentioned, none of them shows any change of lmiyort ance. The jobbing trade reflects a little Improvement In some lines, but the democratic convention gives buy ers an excuse for waiting and they are taking advantage of It. There Is some talk of a reduction of wages In a few Industries, but most employers agree with the president of the American Woolen company, who has declared himself opposed to a wage cut because It would reduce the purchasing power of the wage earners. Conditions Confusing Political conditions abroad aro normally confusing to an American and have been made more so by an assassination in Italy which threatens to unseat Mussolini, but the effect In this country and upon Americart business has been Inappreciable. The economic renascence of Russia under the Soviet government is surprising many. The chervontlz currency Is above its gold parity. Wheat, lum ber and oil are being exported free ly. The peasants have money to spend for the first time in years and since the first of January the Rus sian Textile syndicate has bought more than 200,000 bales of cotton In the United States. The weekly statement of the Fed eral Reserve system shows a further reduction of $9,000,000 in earning assets and an Increase of $3,000,000 In the gold held. The reserve ratio stands at 82.1 per cent. The stock market, though steady, has relapsed into dullness, and com parative quietude there and on the other exchanges seems indicated un til the democrats have nominated theli candidate and the people come to i*allze as they will that the elec tion means but little to business whichever party may triumph. Mine fields have been discovered In the Eastern Baltic off Finland. They are of Russian origin, dating .Yom the World war. Bill Brennan Died in Sister’s Arms ./SHr&VExr skjei When Bill Brennan, famous heavyweight pugilist, was shot dowa j la his New York City cabaret, his sister, Shirley Sherman, a cabaret singer, pursued her brother’s assailants, who fired at her. Brennan died In her arms, declaring he did not know who killed him. Kansas Governor Only Interested in Farmers Kansas City, June tl.—The primary purpose of Governor Jonathan M. , Davis, of Kansas, in going to the democratic national convention is to "get something done for the farmer," he declared here Friday night en route to New York. The governor** candidacy for the democratic presi dential nomination is only .incidental he aaid. Stabilization of markets la one of ti& plank* of bis platform. Dooley, Comedian, Weds Again; Last Time, He Says New York, June 21.—Johnny Doo ley, comedian, was married to Con stance Madison, musical comedy act ress In Newark, N. J., yesterday. It was Dooley’s third marriage. Mayor Dreidenbach performed the cere mony. “This la my last marriage,” said the groom. “She Is the girl of my dreams.” 4444444444444444444 ♦ 4 4 DOZEN FIRE8 STARTED 4 4 4 4 Buffalo. N. Y, June 21.— 4 4 Lightning bolts caused a dos- 4 4 en fires, two houses were 4 4 blown down, trees were dam- 4 4 aged and uprooted and 1,167 4 4 telephone lines were put out of 4 4 service by terrific electrical 4 4 and wind storms which swept 4 4 Buffalo early today. 4 4 4 4444444444444444444 THREE DEAD IN CHICAGO STORM 50,000 Baseball Fans at Cub's Park Drenched By Cloudburst Universal Servlcs Chicago, June 22. A severe storm swept over Chicago late Sunday, The wind reached a velocity estimated at 60 miles an hour. Rainfall resembled a cloudburst. Fifty thousand ball fans at Cubs park were drenched. The sun was darkened by a great cloud that swept down from ths northwest. The city became pitch dark. Street lights were turned on and buildings were lighted as at nightfall. Three deaths attributed to the storm were reported. A fireman was either struck by lightning or touched a live wire while fighting a blaze that broke out during the storm. A watchman was killed by falling from the eleventh floor of a building when he attempted to close a window. Andrew Barylow, a caddie at ths Olympic fields country club, was kill ed and four other persons standing under a tree with him were rendered unconscious by a lightning bolt. Pleasure boats on lake Michigan ^fought the storm for an hour but It was believed that all had weathered the gale and made port safety. The National League game between the Cubs and the St Louis team had Just started when the stoim broke. .tusmjskr henstohreartwedt hro II Fifty thousand fans crowded the grandstand and bleachers. Roaring 60 miles an hcftiir, t.he wind swept sheets of water through the open shed. The roof was no protection. Umbrel las bobbed up, only to be swept away by the wind. Girls in their light summer gowns resembled bathing beauties. The storm delayed transportation lines and it was two hours after the ball game had been stopped in the first Inning before many of the fani succeeded in reaching their homes. Irving Fisher’s Weekly Index New Haven, Conn., June 23.—Last week's wholesale prices of 200 rep resentative commodities averaged 148.4 per cent, of the prewar level, according to Prof. Irving Fisher’s weekly index number. The purchas ing price of the dollar is 69.8 pre war cents, this week’s index number shows. Both the commodity prices and the purchasing power of the dollar are relative to the prewar period of 1913. Thus the "low" prices in Jan uary, 1922, for instance, exceeded prewar prices on the average by 88 per cent., that Is the dollar was worth 72.5 prewar cents. A summary of conditions follows: Index Purchasing Number. Power 1913 (Prewar) .100 100.00 1920 (Peak) .247. 40.5 1922 (Low) .138. 72.5 1923 average .157.7 68.4 March average .148.7 67.3 Last week .143.4 69.8 First quarter, 1924... .150.5 68.2 (Mr. Fisher is a noted professor at Yale university. His weekly index is appearing exclusively in Sioux City in The Tribune every Monday, It Is the only weekly index of gen eral prices in the world.—(Editor’s Note.) _ Fliers Escape Death When Plane Plunges Into I-ake Chicago. June 22.—Henry C. Clark and Ben Timm, Chicago aviators, had a miraculous escape from death here Saturday when their airplane plunged 75 feet and carried both to the bottom of Lake Michigan. By desperate ef forts Clark and Timm managed to fight their way through the tangle of wires and canvas to the surface. Clark’s trousers became caught in the rudder control, threw the plana on its side Into a wlngsllp, and sent It crashing to the lake. The machine struck a shallow spot, sinking 25 feet to the bottom. BANDIT3 GET $20,000 Oakland, Cal., June 21. (I. N. 8.)— Three bandits today held up a pay master for the Pacific Gas and Elec tric company In front of the con cern’s downtown office and escaped with between $20,000 and $30,000. Auto Leaps 100 Yards After Leaving Viaduct Tacoma, Wash., June 21.—Quinton Raffanelll and L. R. Cummings drove their automobile off a viaduct 50 feet high here Friday night. Before It struck the ground it had traveled more than 100 yards from the point where It tore through the railing. Raffanelll was killed and Cummings seriously Injured. . ’ ■ .. ■ The first animal to swfcumb to a very com temperajufa .la tfta hrfrse. WIND WRECKS f OMAHA AERIAL MAIL HANGAR Planes Crushed By Debris-* May Hamper Night Flying Service (Universal Service') Omaha. June 22.—Air mall service between Omaha and Chicago, and Omaha and Cheyenne, may bo badly crippled as a result of the heavy ralj and wind storm which swept over Omaha Sunday evening, shortly af ter 8 o'clock. The wind, with an unobstructed sweep of more than a mile, tore the roof from the air mall hangar and caved in the walls of the structure, totally wrecking six of the eight planea stationed there. One of the new planes, designed for night flying, was crushed Into the ground by a great steel girder. Joseph Jlr&sck. night watchman at the hangar, was sitting In the office when the wind struck. He was unin jured. Roof Torn Away The roof of the hangar was torn off and carried by the wind nearly tOO yards before It was dropped in a cornfield. The walls, unsupported by the roof, caved In. The big steel girders that had supported the roof, came down. One plane, directly un der a girder, was crushed Into tha ground. The engine was completely wrecked and the fusllage was splin tered. The plane was equipped with the new I.oening wings and was to have made the rtrst night flight west from Omaha. The other planes were not so com pletely wrecked. Wings were torn off and crushed ana one other ftuuiagi was brushed. . X'«y£ planHS ftn the south side of the hangar escaped and It la on ttoesa two that tnH hope of continuing the service depends. Trees Blown Down Besides wrecking the hangar the wind tore down trees, signboards and fences, swept farmers hay and straw stacks over acres of ground and scat tered herds of cattle. cjicuinu power was snut on nna portions of the city were left In total darkness. At the Ak-Sar-Ren race track two unidentified men took shelter In a small blacksmith shop on the banka of Little Pappio creek. They were dry then. But the wind blew shack, men and all Into the creek and It waa only by the promptness of horsemen that the two unfortunates wero saved. Many of the tents In which soma of the stable hands are living at tha race track were levelled. Women and children were taken to barns and quartered for the night. HEAVY DAMAGE AT BLUFFS Council Bluffs, la., June 23. (Spe cial)—The most damaging storm of the season occurred here late Sunday afternoon. Streets everywhere are littered with broken trees, the loea from this source being heavy. Sev eral houses were damaged by llmba from trees being blown upon them. In various sections of the city trees were blown across electric wires, causing considerable danger until tha power was turned off. There are no street lights and every home Is In darkness save In a few places whera gas Is used for Illuminating. So far reported there were no ca sualties. A large section of tin roof on the clock tower to the postofflce waa ripped off by the wind and left hang ing over the side of the building. Be cause of the inability of the sewers to carry off the water, many cellars were flooded. Rhode Island Senate War Is Quiet Tc \y Civic Organizations Meet to Restore Harmony to Political Feud Providence. R I„ June 21.—With the purpose of ending what was des cribed as the '‘deplorable situation" created by the deadlocking of the state senate 30 civic and business or-' ganl7utions of the state were rep resented at a meeting called today byl the Providence Chamber of Com merce. A committee was named to confer with both parties in an at tempt to restore harmony. All was quiet at the state house today, the democratic minority hav ing Friday declared & recess until next Tuesday. Republican senators, reported to have left the state, were still absent. The deadlock reached a climax thia week with physical clashes on the senate floor and the placing of a ga» bomb near the senate rostrum. JEWEL8 STOLEN Los Angeles. June 22.—A handbag containing 14 diamonds, 6 rings and a Pair of earrings valued at Jl,50f was stolen from Mrs. Audray Sharks/, a resident of New York city, whlli she was in a telegraph office accord ing to the Police. GROOM HANDCUFFS BRIDE TO PREVENT KIDNAPING ‘PLOT Aurora, 111., June 21.—Learning that friends had planned to kidnap his bride as she was leaving the church and to hold her a prisoner for 24 hours, Ralph S. Hitt, son of an Aurora merchant, borrowed a pair of handcuffs and man'acled himself to Miss Bernice Wagner just as Father Linden was pronouncing them man and wife in Our Lefy of Qoo4 Counsel Church.