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i ?he Omaha Daily Bee VOL. 49 NO. 313. httfri m Samt.Clut Ntmr H, II Oaadl P. 0. Ur Act ( Mirth i. M. ! 117. OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920. By Mill fl mM, luilifl 4th Zom. Billy tni Sunday. St: Dally Only, U: Sunday. It. Outilda 4lh Zona (I y.ir). Dally and Sunday. l; Pally Only. Hi; Sanday Oily. to. TWO CKNTS OIT8IHI Oat AHA AND fWJV C1L BUFFS, mi (IMS. . A E WAGES MEET H. C. L CARMEN ASK Probe of Tramway Dispute Enters New Field When Em ployes Urge Commission to Consider Pay, Then Prices. BOARD WILL ANNOUNCE DEFINITE POLICY TODAY Hearing Bids Fair to Result In Exhaustive Investigation Into Economic Factors Which May Have Weight in Award. The state railway commission, act ing as a tribuual in the wage con troversy between union street car .ntt aurl fhm flmalia anH ('mineil .Bluffs Street Railway company, will may enter the hearing. When counsel for the union at tempted to show the relative cost of living and the salary drawn by Ar thur H. Warren, motorman, the com mission ruled that such evidence should not be introduced. After an impassioned plea by A. H. Higolow, counsel for the union, in which he declared "it was not the duly of the commission to play Shy lock," hut rather to fix a proper standard of wages, and asserted the "commission had no risht to class human labor as a commodity," the commission took the ruling under consideration again. Announces Decision Today. A decision will be announced by the commission this morning. In its first ruling on the jurisdiction of the controversy the commission assert ed its intention of mt entering ex tensively into the economic factors of the dispute. There has been no comprehensive decisions in the past on which the commission may de termine its action in this matter, members said. J. L. Webster, counsel for the company, objected to entering the testimony of Warren regardit his expenses on the ground that "one man may be more extravagant than another?" "If the cost of living is to be con sidered the testimony of merchants familiar with such matters, and gov ernment statistics should be se cured," said Mr. Webster. "Then a general average might be secured. During the morning sesston of the hearing John A. Munroe, vice presi .!... . Um .rtmrianv. said he drew a salary of $4,000 a year and was at his desk in the company offices about five hours a day, part of wmcn ura; he devoted to personal business. Seeks to Show Salaries. He could not estimate the exact time he served the company, but de nied that it was less than an hour a day when questioned by union coun sel and said he was available to the company at all times he was pres- CI1"I am trying to prove that the company is paying salaries to some stockholders who are doing little or no work in lieu of dividends, ex plained Mr. Bigclow when company counsel's objections to his questions were sustained. , Motorman Warren said he had worked 28 davs in January for $149. 26 days in February for $1 Jo, f davs in March for $121, 26 days in April for $122 and 27 days m May t'r $134. He laid off two days m January when he was "gassed by 'car. but the company paid his full time, he said. He reports on his run at 4:21 p. m. and is through work at 1:12 a. m., he said, but has experienced some difficulty in getting off from work. Prohibitionists Name Candidate in Race for Wisconsin Governor Madison, Wis., June 16. Lewis A. Willis. Milwaukee, was nominated for governor Wednesday at the sUte prohibition convention. Other candidates endorsed were: Frank a. Derrick, Brodhead, lieutenant gov ernor: 1. A. Berg, Galesville, treasurer- Mathew Nott, Neenah, attor ney general; O. S. Ballinger. Bara- DOO. secrcnij " Budkner, Narrie. United States scn- aThe platform declares foi strict enforcement of the prohibiten laws, a prohibition administration, suf frage for women, larger income and corporation taxes, government mar keting and price regulation and suppression of commercialized vice. Chicago Gas Company Is Granted Rate Increase Chicago, June 16. The public utilities commission granted the People's Gas Light and Coke com pany an increase of $1.15 per thous and cubic feet for gas, with a min imum charge of 60 cents. The pres ent rate is 85 cents, The order o the commission says it costs the company 6.5 cents to make each thousand feef of gas. and that the loss of 11.5 per thousand tinder the present rate amounts to $10,000 per day. Electrical Storms Delay Telegraph Service in East New York, June 16. Electrical storms in the central states Wednes iu ramrrl a tieurt of the vires of the Western LTnion Telegraph com pany and for several hours prevent ed New York from receiving bass .ball, racing and other telegraph re ports, the company announced. Seme. to a" cities in the east was badly delayed. TAMMANY HALL SPECIAL ON WAY TO SAN JFRANCISCO Train Carrying 140 Passengers Leaves New York for Demo cratic Convention. Chiracs Tribone-Omaha nee mm4 Wire. New York, June lo. The Tam many Hall special "train de luxe" left the Grand Central station at noon today on its 9,000-mile journey to the convention in San Francisco and return by way of Canada. The train consisted of seven Pull mans, one an observation car, of luxurious appointments and carried 140 passengers, of whom 53 were women. Thomas F. Smith, secre tary of Tammany Hall, was in charge of the party. Few delegates were on the special, because is it will leave San Francisco, returning on June 30, it is not considered prob able that the convention, which will open on June 28, will be over then. The train is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco on June 26. Thirty stops will be made, includ ing Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Colorado Springs and Los Angeles, on the way to tfce coast. The re turn journey will be made with stops at Portland. Seattle, Vancou ver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec, arriving in New York July 13. Before the train pulled out, Mrs. Smith said: "There is not a man or woman on board who does not believe in a democratic victory next felt. No one knowns what will be done at the convention, but we do know that the results will be more satisfying than those obtained last week at Chicago. That was a splendid op portunity the republicans cave us and we intend to take advantage of it." Nonpartisan League Of Wisconsin to Back La Follette 1 Ticket Madison, Wis., June 16. Wiscon sin Nonpartisan league convention adjourned Wednesday afternoon, after it had endorsed a La Follette slate, headed by 'Attorney General J. F. Blaine, for the state primary in September. The league also adopted a resolu tion endorsing the stand on national questions taken by Senator La Fol lette. The plaitform adopted includes planks for the initiative, referendum and recall, immediate repeal of the espionage and extradition acts, scores the Esch-Cummins railroad bill, leaves the subject of prohibi tion to be handled bv referendum, declares for public ownership of railroads, utilities and packing plants, for compulsory attendance of. school children under 16 years of age and urges the development of co-operative trade and industry. The convention decided to en dorse the congressional candidates in the fourth and fifth districts in Milwaukee selected bv labor. Headless Body of Woman Found in Lake; Police Are Mystified St. Joseph, Mo., June 16. Author ities have no clue to the identity of the young woman whose headless body was found today in a lake here. Th body was nude, bound with wire clothes line and weighted with iron bed rails. It is the theory of the police that murder was com mitted some distance from the lake and that the body was taken there to be disposed of. They also be lieve that the slayers intended to throw the body into the Missouri river, but made a mistake as the river is only 200 yards from the lake at the point where the body was found. , The police were informed that a blood-stained automobile containing stained clothing was found early this week at Arniour Junction, Mo., 27 miles south of St. Joseph. It is believed that this car may have had some connection with the crinre. Lifebelt Saves Man Who Collapses From Heat Sterling, 111., June 16. Overcome by heat and collapsing into uncon sciousness while working at the top of a 75-foot mast, Carl Carlson of Prophetstown owes his life to the precaution of strapping himself se curely to the work. Co-workers were at a loss what to do to get the helpless man from the top of the mast, where he was hanging limp and apparently lifeless. The fore man of the linemen with a head line man. Jack Upton, hurried to the scene with a rope and tackle. Mr. Upton climbed the mast, fastened the rope about the body of the heat victim and the limp form was low ered in safety. Aside from being very weak, Carlson was none the worse for his unusual experience. Investigate Overturning Of United States Eagle Boat Washington, June 16-Appoint-ment of a court of inquiry to in vestigate the overturning of the United States navy Eagle boat No. 25 in the Delaware river near New Castle, Del., was announced by the Navy department. Members of the court are Capt. O. G. Murfin, Capt. C. E. Kempff, Commander A. J. Cantry and Lieut. R. M. Rhuhry, judge advocate. The inquiry will be held at the Philadelphia navy yard. Indications are that as a result of the inquiry Eagle boats which were built at the Henry Ford plant will no longer be used in deep water. After Oil Concessions. Mexico City, June 16. Baron Ta rikiari, representing Japanese inter ests, has arrived here, says El Uni versal, to negotiate for petroleum concessions in Lower California and Sinaloa ttate. LABOR CALLS ON CONGRESS FOR ACTION Federation Demands Measures To Check Profiteering Backs Nonpartisan Political Program of Gompers. OPENS WAR ON KANSAS INDUSTRIAL COURT PLAN Recent Railroad Strike Is Con demned as "Secessionist Movement" to Discredit Rec ognized Organizations. Montreal, June 16. The Ameri can Federation of Labor here to day called upon congress to curb profiteering, endorsed President Samuel Gompers' nonpartisan po litical program, approved the Irish republic and requested withdrawal of armed forces from Ireland. The federation declared war on the Kansas court of industrial re lations and antistrike legislation now before the legislatures in Colo rado and Nebraska. The recent railroad strike was condemned by the federation as a "secessionist movement" to dis credit the Vecognized organizations in the railway service. Any union giving moral or financial aid to such walkouts was threatened with rev ocation of charter. Congress was also urged by a vote of the convention to enact leg islation for fhe absolute exclusion of Japanese and other Asiatic emi grants and "picture brides." Deny Race Discrimination. A declaration was adopted to the effect that the federation had never countenanced discrimination be cause of race, creed or color. The federation instructed the ex ecutive council to call a conference of all the "interested international unions" and immediately start a .lew organizing campaign in the steel industry. The work of the national steel workers organizing committee in organizing 300,500 steel workers was approved. The cloth hat and cap makers' in ternational union was ordered to re linquish jurisdiction over the straw hat workers by 1921, or forfeit their charter. The jewelry workers were also ordered to give up juris diction over the metal polishers within 90 days or have their char ter revoked. Mahone Exonerated. W. D. Mahone, president of the street car men's union, who was charged by Detroit labor unions with being "disloyal to labor" be cause his adult children are stock holders in a non-union tinshop, was unanimously exonerated by the federation. The question whether the Ameri can Federation of Labor should en dorse government ownership or government control of the railroads provided spirited debate at the close of the day's session. Final actions will be taken tomorrow. The federation condemned the practice of strike breakers or strike guards, in control of private indi viduals or agencies, wearing the (Continued on Tbk Two, Column Four.) Authorities Seeking Soldier as Slayer of Army Officer's Wife Rockford, 111., June 16. Private I G. C. Peters is being sought by camp authorities, suspected of hav ing some knowledge of the killing of Mrs. L. H. Moss, wife of Capt. Moss, who died early Wednesday morning after having been shot in the back of the head while riding in the rear seat of an automobile with her husband and friends in the vi cinity of Camp Grant Tuesday night. Peters is one of five prisoners who escaped Tuesday afternoon while working on the camp agricultural farm and is said to have threatened to get even with Capt. Moss, his commander. for having made charges against him at three courts martial. Sheriff Harry Baldwin and Camp Intelligence Officer Robert B. Howie recovered a car stolen from Davis Junction Tuesday night at Kirkland late Wednesday afternoon. A wom an told the authorities of having seen three soldiers abandon the car about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning and start single file in the direction of the railroad station. Arkansas Woman to Second Nomination of Palmer Little Rock, Ark.. June 16 It wis announced here that Mrs. T. T. Cot nam of Little Rock, one of the Ar kansas delegates-at-large to the dem ocratic national convention, has been chosen to address the convention seconding the nomination of At torney General A. Mitchell Palmer for "the presidential nomination. Mrs. Cotnam is president of the Ar kansas League of Women Voters and has been in charge of the Pal mer western headquarters for wom en in Chicago. Fire Destroys Court House at Sedalia, Mo. Sedalia, Mo., June 16. Fire caused by the flame from a tinner's torch broke out in the cupola of the Pettis county court house here Wednesday afternoon, destroying that structure and damaging sever;:! nearby buildings before it was placed tinder control. Court records in the vaults were saved. The court house .'. erected in 1884 at a cost of $100,000. DRY FORCES WILL ASK ADOPTION OF PLANK AT FRISCO Will Present Solid Front Against Cox, Wayne Wheeler Says. Chicago Tribune-Omaha Brr, Leased Wire. Washington, June lo. The dem ocratic convention at San Francisco will be asked to adopt the same pro hibition law enforcement plank which was presented in Chicago, Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun sel of the Anti-Saloon League of America, announced today. This plank declared "for the effective en forcement of the eighteenth amend ment and laws enacted pursuant thereto as. construed bv the supreme court of the United States." This plank was approved by the resolu tions committee at the republican convention but was lost from the platform before it was presented to the convention. Mr. Wheeler declared that the friends of law enforcement would present a solid front against the nomination of Governor Cox of Ohio by the democratic convention. "Governor Cox is the last hope of the wets in their program for nulli fication." said Mr. Wheeler. "Gov ernor Cox's record makes him an impossibility if national prohibition is to be effectively sustained and en forced. He has served the wets long and faithfully. He championed the license law of Ohio, tinder which he had the appointing power of li cense boards to build a strong polit ical wet machine." Interest in Elwell Murder Centers on theC oman in ase New York, June 16. Investiga tion of the murder of Joseph B. El well, sportsman and whist player, who was shot in his heme Friday, centered Wednesday night upon "the woman in the case." In an effort to learn her identity, Mrs. Marie Larsen, housekeeper for Elwell, was taken to the district at torney's office and questioned close ly. Assistant District Attorney J. T. Dooling said Mrs. Larsen told him she had removed n negligee, slippers and a boudoir cap from Elwell's room after she found him with a bullet wound through his head and that she had hidden these in a wash tub in the cellar. According to Mr. Dooling, the housekeeper said she did this "to protect the woman." He said Mrs. Larsen declared she knew nothing about the woman ex cept that she was about 25 years old. The police theory is that if the woman who owned the negligee, slippers and boudoir" cap passed the night in the house and succeeded in leaving before the murder was dis covered, she may have knowledge of the crime which is expected to solve the mystery. May Abrogate Number Of Commercial Pacts With Other Countries Washington, June 16. Twenty four commercial treaties with other nations which are affected by a pro vision in the new merchant marine act are being closely examined by the state department. Secretary of State Colby said that many problems of a serious nature are involved in the matter. He indicated that it might be necessary to abrogate some of the treaties in their entirety. Abrogation of these commercial treaties will make it possible for congress to impose discriminating duties such as were provided in the Underwood tariff law. The Under wood tariff law provided that cus toms on goods imported in Ameri can ships should be 5 per cent low er than the charges exacted on goods brought in foreign vessels. This section of the law was invalidated by the supreme court which held that the existence of treaties made the granting of preferential duties impossible. Milwaukee Drenched Under Heaviest Rain in History Milwaukee. June 16. Milwaukee suffered the heaviest rainfall in the history of the weather bureau Wednesday when 2.19 inches of rain fell in a space of one hour and five minutes. The western portion of the city was under 10 feet of water Wednesday night and efforts were being made by the sheriff's force to rescue residents from second story windows. The east side of the city was flooded in many por tions and street car service was sus pended for a time. Trains were delayed for several hours due to washouts. The Bee's Fund for Free Milk and Ice Today The Bee opens its annual hot weather fund for supplying milk and ice free to poor families where there are babies and small children. ' The fight of many poor babies for life during the sweltering days that are coming will be a real fight witn tragic end for some if help is not given. Many have given to this fund in past summers. They are waiting to continue their good work this year. There is room for many others. The Visiting Nurses draw upon the fund wherever they find families who need it. So every penny con tributed actually goes to buy pure milk and ice ta save little lives. Can you imagine anything more praiseworthy or sensible? The need is pressing. Already a number of calls have come to the Visiting Nurse. A large fund is not sought nor are large contributions asked. Send or bring any sum from 10 cents to $5 to The Bee office, ft will be acknowledged in this column. PLAN TO BRING HARDING CLOSER TO PROGRESSIVES Prominent Members of Party I Be Asked to Meet Re publican Nominee in Near Future. Washington, June 16. Plans for bringing Senator Harding, the re publican presidential nominee, into closer touch with party leaders, par ticularly those of the progressive wing, were discussed today at a conference which the senator had with Walter I". Brown of Toledo, his floor manager at the Chicago convention. The conferences is understood to have resulted in a decision to send invitations at once to a number of prominent progressives asking them to meet with the republican nomi nee to discuss the present situation and the coming campaign. The list of those to be invited will not be made public at present. Friends of Senator Harding said tonight that the proposed confer ences would be held before the nom inee's formal notification which will be some time after July 1$. The senator, it was said, hopes to util ize the views expressed by the party leaders in the preparation of his speech of acceptance. While some of the meetings may be held before Mr. Harding leaves Washington Monday, the greater portion are ex pected to take, place while he is on his planned vacation. The visit of Mr. Brown today was regarded by political observers here as significant. In 1912 he was chairman of the Ohio state pro gressive committee and was active in the campaign for Theodore Roosevelt. He was a delegate to the recent Chicago convention, and after the defeat in the state primary of Harry M. Daugherty of Colum bus, the senator's campaign-manager, as a delegate-at.large, was se lected as Mr. Harding's floor man ager. Think Revenge Motive for Kidnaping Coughlin Baby Xorristown. Pa., June 16. Re venge, not ransom, probably was the motive for the kidnaping of Blakeley Coughlin, the 13-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Coughlin, who was stolen from his crib two weeks ago. according to a statement by Maj. C. T. Larzelere, attorney for "the family. Developments Wednesday, Major Larzelere said, have led the parents of the missing child to abandon their efforts to buy their baby's freedom and turn again to the police for aid. He was not at liberty to dis close the nature of the develop ments, the attorney declared. Request Probe of Campaign Expenditures in Missouri St. Louis, June 16. W. L. Col", chairman of the republican state committee, announced that he ex pected to call the committee to gether in a few days with the re quest that it take up the subject of presidential campaign expenditures in Missouri. The committee at the same meet ing, he said, should also investigate the campaign expenditures of the candidates for United States senator, governor and other state candidates to discover whether any of them have expended money or made any promises in violation of the state corrupt practice act. Pullman Employes Return. St. Louis, June 16. The 800 strik ers of the Pullman shops here re turned to work Wednesday on in structions from labor union officials. The strike began a week ago when the company refused to increase the wiges of seven lad welders from 72 to 77 cents an hour. Speaking of Vacations Begin Arguments for Appeals in Cases of Alleged "Wobblies" Chicago, June 16. Arguments for appeals in the cases of William D. Haywood and 93 other alleged mem bers of the I. W. W., who were sentenced to from 1 to 20 years each in federal prison after being con victed of violating the espionage act. were begun Wednesday before Judges Baker, Alschuler and Page of the federal circuit court of ap peals. George Vanderveer, counsel for the defense, declared the indictments were not specific and said charges of overt acts were without founda tion. He said that the indictments charged the offenses were com mitted between the passage of the conscription law . of May 18, 1917, and the time of registration on Jane 5, of the same year, but that it would have been impossible to interfere with the draft between thoses dates because, until registration, no one knew the identity of the men in the draft. Predict Hot Fight on Bryan Bone Dry Plank At Frisco Convention French Lick, Ind., June 16. Dem ocratic party leaders in conference here on candidates and platform planks to be presented to the na tional convention In San Francisco predicted that a hot skirmish would result if William J. Bryan attempted to insert a "bone dry" declaration in the resolutions. As a retaliatory move it was suggested that a "wet"' plank might be offered for the con vention's consideration. The conference here will probably end Friday and the leaders will move on to Chicago, where they expect to hold further sessions before leaving for San Francisco. The New York leaders have not yet reached a decision on a candi date to be favored by their support. Governor Smith, it is said, will re ceive the complimentary vote of the New York delegates on the first bal lot. G. 0. P. Committee Called To Meet in Lincoln June 21 Lincoln, June 16. (Special.) The republican state committee has been called to meet in Lincoln June 21 at 1:30 p. m. to elect a chairman and other officers. The new committee consists of 66 members, double the number of former years, women having been given equal representation with the men. Several persons have been men tioned for the chairmanship, among them Charles A. McCloud of York, N. P. McDonald of Kearney. A. J. Weaver of Falls City, Frank P. Cor nick of Lincoln, O. A. Speelman of Pierce, II. E. Sackett of Beatrice and George Williams of Albion. Pensacola Starts Drive On Rats to Stamp Out Plague Pensacola. Fla., June 16. Pensa cola started a rat killing drive today with a view of stopping the spread of what local physicians have pro nounced bubonic plague. Two deaths have occurred from the disease since last Friday. The Weather Forecast. Nebraska Unsettled weather Thursday and Friday; probably showers. .Not much change in tem perature. Iowa Fair Thursday; Friday un settled, followed by showers; some what warmer. Hourly Temperatures. 5 . m.. a. m. . 1 a. m. . a. m.. a . fln. 1 p. m., M M A M III a; rii i 1 a. m, , It a. m. . IS nouo , .M 'S CLUBS PLAN TO SIMPLIFY ORGANIZATION Mrs. M. D. Cameron of Omaha Takes Leading Part in Pre liminary Work Governor Welcomes Delegates. By MYRTLE MASON. The Bre'i Staff Correspondent. Des Moines, la., June 16. (Spe cial Telegram.) Even the auspicious formal opening of the fifteenth bien nial general Federation of Women's clubs Wednesday evening at the state capitol at Des Moines with ad dresses from Governor W. L, Hard ing of the state., and Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles federation president, did not command more interest than the real business of the dav. "Business of the day means," a council meeting at which reorgan ization of the general federation with a view to simplification of the machinery, was the topic of discus sion led by Mrs. Robert Burdette of California, president. Mrs. M. D. Cameron of Omaha was one of the speakers; Mrs. John Slaker of Hastings, state president, another. Mrs. Cameron made the point that state and national club dues must be released. The Nebraska delegates have not yet committed themselves on the re organization report though the ma jority seemed to favor it. Election of general federation of ficers is a topic of great interest. Miss Georgie Bacon of Massachu setts and Mrs. Thomas Winter of Minnesota are the two candidates. The majority of Nebraska delegates seem to favor the Minnesota candi date. Informal conferences have be?n going on all day and club women have separated into the specialized groups. Echoes of the Nebraska league of women voters' convention in Omaha are heard on every hand. Mrs. Margaret Cams of New York City, who attended, stays Nebraska is further advanced in the league work than any other state , with which she is familiar. Mrs. H. H. Wheeler savs it was the best state convention of any kind she has ever attended. Mississippi Delegates Directed to Vote as Unit Jackson, Miss., June 16. The democratic state convention Wednesday selected four delegates-at-large to the democratic national crnvention at San Francisco, adopt ed a rule requiring the delegation to vote as a unit, but gave no instruc tions as to candidates. The dele gates, however, were instructed to work for planks in the platform en dorsing the administration of President Wilson, his work in the war, peace treaty and the league of nations. The delegates-at-large are Sena tors John Sharp Williams and Pat Harrison, Representative B. G. Humphreys and J. A. Tully. Oscar G. Johnson was chosen national committeeman. Inmate of Insane Asylum Sole Heir to Big Fortune Topcka, Kan., June 16. Pearl Lash, an inmate of the state hospital for the insane at Parsons, is sole heir to a fortune estimated at from $259,000 to $.VX),000. it was an nounced by Malcolm Gray, secre tary of the state board of adminis tration, on his return from Illinois. Iowa and Missouri, where he es tablished the property rights of the woman. Kansas Wants Harvest Hands. Topeka, Kan., June 16. With the Kansas wheat crop started, the need of Kansas for 50.000 harvest hands was announced by J. C. MnhW. secretary of the state board of agriculture. COX CHOICE OF ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS Leaders Think Record of Ohio Governor qn Labor and Other Issues Gives Him Advantage Over Rest of Candidates. DIVISION OF WILSON FORCES LOOKED FOR Part of Administration Men Expected to Endorse McAdoo, While Others Will Probably Be for Attorney General. By ARTHUR M. EVANS. I'hlraKO Trlhnnf-Omaha Bw Vemd ITIra. Chicago, June 16. Gov. James M. Con. of Ohio is developing as tl teal choice of Illinois democrats wlv will sit in the convention at i-a. Francisco. As they view it, the elec tion will hinge on industrial and economic problems and the voters r.ext summer and fall will be mote concerned in high cost of living and cognate questions than in the league of nations. Cox, according to the local talent, not only has the advantage of stra tegic geography, by living in the same "pivotal" state as Senator Harding, the G. O. P. nominee, but his record on measures concerning labor, the business of government and social questions, gives him a long edge on some of the other democratic candidates. Word today was that a similar view is taken by some of the eastern party leaders, who for the last few days have, been communing with Pluto at French Lick. The Illinois delegation, on the sur face, at least, is for Attorney Gen eral Palmer. Shrewd observers say, however, that this is with a view of keeping Palmer in the race. It will be nobody's romp at San Francisco. The two-thirds rule will attend to that. In republican conventions, the nominees are picked by plain, un varnished majority vote, but to make democracy safe for the democratic party, the winner needs to get two thirds of the delegates' votes to land on the ticket. Split Looked For. Although the administration is ex pected to control the bulk of the delegates, a split 1 looked for. part of the administration men going to William G. McAdoo, who will sup posedly be the president's" choice, and part following Palmer, who was trotted out some months ago after a dish of tea at the White house with Mrs. Wilson and Secretary Tumulty. So with a view of putting a padlock on a possible deadlock, the Illinois crowd will be with Palmer. But Palmer is not strong with labor, although labor is one clement the party will make a stronger bid for than ever, particu larly since the American Federa tion of Labor at Montreal has al ready made an attack upon the re publican platform. The Illinois contingent in general for weeks has taken the view that Palmer will not be able to make the-two-thirds hill. But if Palmer should block the nomination of Mc Adoo until after several ballots have been taken without results, the insiders figure the time will be ripe for a drive to shove Cox over. One problematical phase is how far this (Continued nn Pare Two. Column Tn-o.) Conditions Quiet Following Lynching Of Negroes at Duluth . Du,"'h: .June 16.-With the depar ture Wednesday night of the two companies of national guardsmen sent here for not duty, home guards and naval militia took over patrol of the district where Tuesday night mob of 5,000 persons lynched three negroes suspected of complic ity in an attack on a white girl Investigation of the rioting was imfry to the convening here Thurs- c ? s!.c,al rand jury- 11 a,s was stated that Governor BurnquM would institute a state inquiry. there were no untoward demon strations W ednesday and 13 negroes, all roustabouts with a circus, that appeared here Monday, were under guard m the county jail, held in con nection with the attack on the girl. J he authorities do not expect fur ther trouble. Americans at Marash Are Reported to Be Safe Washington, June 16. Americans at Marash, in Asiatic Turkey, are safe and in no need of aid, accord ing to news direct from Marash re ceived at Constantinople bv mail and transmitted to the State "depart ment by cable. Funds necessary for the American ' colony can he obtained from the banks in Marash. the advices said. Foreigners at Baku are reported to be still under detention by the bolsheviki, but Americans there are said to be unmolested. All efforts to obtain the release of the for eigners have been fruitless. Gary Bank Votes Dividend Of 14 Per Cent to Employes Gary. Ind., Itme 16. Emnlove of the First National bank of Gary wranesaay were voted dividends of 14 per cent on their sajary. the same rate as paid stockholders on earn ings of their holdings. The local bank is said to be the first in the country to adopt this plan and di rectors state that this will be the policy in the future, with another Hividerd for employes to be d dared at the end of the year. ,1