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THE WEEK'S EVENTS I IMPORTANT NEWS OF 8TAT1, NA, tlON AND TMI WORLD , IKHFLV TOLD ' ROUND ABOUTJHE WORLD A C?nd?n??d Hecord 01 H.pp.nlng. Of Infer** From All Point# TIN W*rl4 , ? Fordgtt ??^t'I'ai!,t'TA terrific tornado, unpre cedented In the history of . Belfast ?truck the city recently, raiting * extensive damage. Many buildings ' are^rec**f-?n<l some persons Iniur ' ^ 1 torn*<10 swept ovqr, the heart of the city with gfeu t Intensity. .lilt/Koow were torn from Rouses, the slate 5 nytn5 to f directions. Hun *3TS STSS ?T?X" '?$ tottl. believed to have *en taurde^ed. declared that Justice would be meted out respective of whether the gnllty Parties were high officials. The United States wUl be Invited to ?end ^representative to the propos ed allied conference lq Lpndon In July In, any capacity the American govern ment thinks fit Japan will be In ? eluded among . the . Rations Invited. It , J ^ ^at Pr*Bn,?r Mussolini of It aly wUl be able to represent his na tion In person. The entire majority of ,tho ,tallan chamber of deputies, about 300 J^aU ?Bt if ;?? "?U of the Consistory at the Palaiso Venesla, listened to; a * ^mler MfcsoUri^knd Unanimously voted a resolution of con ? . fidence in the government. , w.f. [ The journeymen bakers of Paris " -'Immediate strike, ! de mandlng abolition of night work and ? ?f highw *"?<?? The WyTkeriel^ DrePWlagt/5 0pen by8 m?0? ^ m*a ?t Pans I Lydlg Hoyt, actress and so SSr " ' on gr0Qn<1* ?t Incompatl tn'fei?. 1^rno<1 the allies Intend Participate In the London conference on reparations and ./ the experts* report on July 16! h.?en^!^'Cafi<?n<I"tlre:wWd rS Calcutta, according .to the Calcutta correspondent of the Lon Morning P'ost aT^T* 2HZlPt*,V# Mussolini a Vote of confidence, 2?5 to'jL stx senators abstained from vbting Floods in the Lake Ladoga retfon have engulfed ?l vniages. acwrdlne to S??!XL5?'' ?? "? ?* States providing for the evacuatlon of JPretnTer MacDonald has informed #3XiS?esOlS - obtained an agreement of i ^>*t 1,10 1fleatlon of Inter aUgt>fc.iwlll nof be raised. at^IvT* ^ *?* Amer,can legation K,, g ?fn"rm the death of , the '5FY JoMiph Ciywlngham, ..American ??m * 8<ray buU?t dur ing fighting between rival Chinese i fat Kweilln, K wangs province. The advices said the ten other mis 'V beleaguered at Kweilln were V *?!! but that their food supply was / running low. Recognition of the . soviet govern v ?S! , ? France ,1s regarded In ; po ^^clrdes as Imminent Premier Merrjots attitude toward the question U known to be the sajne as former ^ Premier Poln wire's? that recognition must be attended with recognition by ?? soviet government of Russia's , <Mbts. ~ * ~C'~ V" " * ?v.* >r ' -'5r.Y->. <rt7/;v4 '' . - ? Washington^ Cyras E. (Wood*, ambassador to ?Japan, formally presented his resigna tion to President Coolldge and. It was accepted with an expression of appre ciation for his services. Referring to the Japanese excldalon provision In the Immigration law, Mr. Woods de clared Japan) was conducting herself In the situation "with the dignity of ft fTcat nation." Fifty or more of the principal oil companies of the United States were attacked la anti-trust proceedings In stituted by the government In the fed eral court at Chicago. Attorney Gen eral Stone asked an Injunction to re strain the companies from further vio lations ot_the Sherman act, which he charged against them. The complaint charges "a combination and conspir acy In restraint of trade and com merce." The outstanding feature of the key note speech of Senator Harrison. ! "aside trom its slanderous {character," | waa the "attempt to once more bait ' the German vote into the Democratic j ranks." Representative Britten, of 1111- 1 nols, Republican, Bald In a statement | at Washington. Secretary Mellon will salt from New York for Londort July 5 on a va- j cation. Treasury officials said he| would not go "near" the conference i of allied premier on reparation and | would have nothing to do with busl- j ?ess while abroad. '? Continuance of the present wage scale and working conditions, wltb a few changes in favor of the men, has been agreed upon, it was announced at the shipping board by the Masters, Mates and Pilots' association, the Nept tune association and the Marine En gineers' Beneficial association. The agreement Is effective July 1 and runs for a yea*. , i. The American round-the-world' fly ers will hop off from Rangoon at dawn for Akyab, Burma, the air service was advised. The plane which received slight Injuries' when It alighted at Ran goon Is being repaired. The ships are being adjusted to the lighter air conditions of the tropics by removal of ezcesf weight. Republicans will direct an attack on the Democratic sojld south In the ap proaching congressional campaign committee, said after a conference at the whitft house. The campaign in the south will be centered, he said, on' Texas, Alabama, "Tennessee and North Carolina. ? Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer has resigned be personal physician to the president. The action was taken, it was explained, so that he could re turn to Marion, Oh)o, and devote bis attention to the Harding Memorial association. The resignation was ac cepted, bjy President Cooltdge. Jules Jusserand, ambassador from France, called on President Coolidge to say goodbye before , bis return to France tor a summer vacation. He will Ball soon expecting to return In September. A laugh and a shrug of the shoulder greeted queries on ire ports that he might be recalled bysthe new ministry of Francs. "I have been here for 22 years," he said, "and dur ing most of 'that time I have heard these rumors. Some day, of course, it must happen.1' y _ . Domestic Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise has been ap pointed to membership in the New York state Democratic delegation, fill ing the vacancy created by the death of Charles F. Murphy, celebrated Tam many chieftain. The announcement was made from the residence of Farak tin D. Roosevelt, convention floor lead er of the delegation. Senator Jjunea A- Reed of Missouri, 111 hra Kansas city hotel, Is not con sidered to be dangerously sick. He, has suffered several setbacks, but phy sicians say he will recover. 'Two women and three men, arrested in a raid ? on a house .at Tulsa, Okla., are being held for investigation in con nection with the recent ' two million dollar' mall robbery, near Chicago. Two hundred and forty-si* twenty-dol lar bills wrire seized in the raid. ? Joan Bucog; convicted slayer of six' persons, was electro du ted In BUino prison, Manila, P. L, the first time the electric chair had been used In the Far Bast . , < Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was called as a witness for the de fense at the trial of Qaston B. Means, former special agent ot the depart ment of Justice, and Elmer W. 'Jar necke, charged with Violations of the prohibition law. Politics found a substitute In social diversions so far as the outward ap pearance of- activities about the head quarters for Alfred E. Smith for pres ident ^revealed; Governor Smith went swimOilng at a1 beach and Franklin D< Roosevelt, his campaign manager, went to his residence from the .conven tion. meeting to prepare for the re ception there for the up-state dele gates. i Samuel ,Gompera, president ot the American Federation of Labor, will leave the hospital to appear personal ly before the resolutions committee of the national Democratic committee to urge adoption of the same labor plank presented to the Republican conven tion at Cleveland, his secretary an nqunced. ' Senator Underwood'b campaign managers appear to be resting on thelK oars, awaiting convention floor developments before working out fur ther details of their campaign strat egy. Five men were believed to have been burned to death recently In a fire that followed the explosion of naptjia aboard the British freighter Egremont Castle, at her dock in Brook lyn. Seven other men were ??rloua ly burned. Twelve hundred acres of cotton on a tract five miles 'from Dawson, Ga? wers destroyed by a storm. Two houses were blown down. No one was injured. Lieutenant Russel Maughan, U. S. A., who challenged the run to a race from New York to San Francisco, loaf his contest but won fame for himself. Maugban, who left Mitchell field, Min eola. New York, at 2:59 a. m? eastern standard, hoping to fly to San Fran cisco before the same Bun sank Into the Golden Gate, alighted safely at Crissy field. San Francisco, ? 9:47 p. m. The booze business has fallen Into a mla-summer lull, according to re ports with the return of the United States coast guard cutter Tallapoosa from "rum row" in the gulf on Its return u> Mobile, Ala. "Former service" delegates to the Democratic national convention have agreed to work for the incorporation of two planks In the platform ? one criticising the language used by Pres ident Cooltdgt In his bonus veto mfs sage and the other declaring for ade quate care of the disabled and reor ganlzatlon of the veterans' bureau. . y t?<v i-'f "-awr ? ? ? ? . 'y::-crT ;" S'- 1 ?'? .?.'?i -'- ? ? . , Large photograph? Senator put Harrison of Mississippi making the keynote address at ( the opening ' of the Democratic national convientlon ic Madison Square garden. New York city. Inset ? tleorge Brennan of Illinois and Thomas Taggart of Indiana, the two "Big Bosses," discussing McAdoo-Smlth deadlock of the early proceedings. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS ?' *: '*, ' . y Y ? . '? ? { ? . " ? Democratic Convention War ? of Fighting Factions and Mad Tumult. >By JOHN DICKIN80N SHERMAN EN the Democratic national convention, which opened Toes1 day In Madison Square Oarden, New York city, adjourned Thursday eve ning- fo Friday morning . the net re sult? were these; Two vttyno^ speeches; many tumultuous demon strations; a platform committee des perately struggling with seemingly In superable complications, and an ap parent /deadlock between the forces of McAdoo and Smith, with ' favorite sons in plenty and going strong. Of the rival McAdoo and Smith demon strations the New Yorker staged the longer .and noisier. In the f>nly test vote ? that Thursday afternoon on th# question of adjourning to Thursday night or Friday morning? the Smith forces Won by a vote of to 513. The' convention decided to stick to the . two-thirds rule ? which may or may not have been a victory for Smith. There are 1,068 delegates) necessary to nominate, 782. Bach' state is a law unto, Itself as to the unit rule. ' . ' As to the plqtform the situation was i this: The subcommittee was still at 'work on a draft to be submitted to the full committee. This draft con tained alternative planks on several -controversial subjects. Including the League of Nations, the Ku Klux Klan and prohibition. It was hoped to have the platform ready for the convention sometime Friday. There was every prospect of a flght on the floor over the League of Nations and Klan planks. Those who had been placed In nom ination were: Senator Oscar W. Un derwood of Alabama, Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, William Glbbs McAdoo of California, Gov. Al fred E. Smith of New York, Wlllard Saulsbury, former senator from Dela ware ; David F. Houston, cabinet offi cer , in the Wilson administration ; Samuel M. Ralston, former governor of Indiana; Gov. Atbert C. Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas, Senator Woodbridge N. Fer ris of Michigan. THE feature of Tuesday, the open ing day, was the address of Sen ator Pat (Byron Patton) Harrison of Mississippi, temporary chairman and official keynoter. In congressional life he Is "chief bear-baiter" of the Republicans ? a party duty which he cheerfully performs with his tongue In his cheek. But nothing like that here. His tongue was liung In the middle with both ends working. He lambasted. He flayed. He blistered. He charged the Republlcn i with re sponsibility for pretty nearly nil the evils of the diiy, except the World war and the foot-and-mouth disease. Ex hausted by his own eloquence, he brought In an nrtful and eloquent ref erence to Wood row Wilson and snt down "to rest and receive congratula tions for 13 minutes by the watch while the vast assemblage made dem onstration of regard for the dead leader. Then he brought his keynote to a brass-band close. Wednesday Thomas J. Walsh. I'nlted States senator from Montana, tireless wntcher beside the "II well of Teapot Dome and a dark horse with i many admirers, took command of the | convention as permanent chairman | and made the second keynote speech. The committee on plntfonn not being i ready to report ? for many on?l divers 1 reasons ? Chairman Walsh started the nominations. I , Alabama nominated Senator Oscnr j W. Underwood, Its spokesman being i Forney Johnston of Rrlmlngham. Un- ! i derwood Is the original an'tl-Klnn man. ! ! Johnston led artfully up to a climax where he named the Kn Klux Klan ' right out In meeting. A Inr^e part of 1 1 the convention thereupon went plumb ? crarv In a long, rlotoos antl-KUin ' demonstration marked l?y parades and fist fights. Its significance was I that it was ipontaneous tnd not 1 1 staged. I Arknns.ii nominated Senator Joaeph ; i T. . Jioblnson through Gov. Charles T. I Brough. THEN. came California and McAdoo. Former Senator James D. PJielan (1015-21), chosen because he Is a Homun Catholic, mdde the nomina tion while the great crowd got set for the demonstration to follow. It start ed at 3:30 with staged and boosted accessories and spontaneous fist lights ? It was In part a pro-Klan demon stration. * At 4 :35 It wfcs still going strong with the Smith' :forces trying to drown out the McAdoo/ ghouters and the band Inaudible,-' Then Ge6rge Brennnn of Illinois, In command of the antl-McAdoo forces, caught the eye of Chairman Walsh, and moved, to ad journ. Walsh declared It carried Wlthput consulting the milling and shouting crowd. ? . Thursday was Smith day, Connecti cut yielding to New York. Four years ago a vigorous young man seconded the nomination of Smith at San Fran' clsco and won for himself the vic<s presidential nomination. Thursday this same young man. Franklin D. Roosevelt, manager of the Smith cam paign, fighting against the inroads of infantile paralysis, had 1 virtually to be carried to the platform to make the nomination. The convention paid him a fine personal tribute. The Smith demonstration which followed lasted from 12:30 to l:55 and was the wildest and noisiest ever staged la a national convention. The McAdoo forces said Jt at least explained the puzzle of the 1024 convention, "Who got the ticketsT" HARLAN F. STONE, the new attor ney general of the United States, filed milt Wednesday in < the United States District court In Chicago, charg ing the Standard Oil companies of eight states and 44 other oil companies with violation of the anti-trust act. Yes ; , this is the Sherman anti-trust act ond the Standard Oil company of 1011, when Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landls said "Guilty" and imposed a fine of $20,000,000. The petition is aimed primarily at the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, parent organi zation of the series of corporations In to which the old company was split, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana (covering the 15 Central states); the. Texas company, the Gasoline Products company and the Standard Develop ment company. . i The other Interests named in the bill, Including the Standard OH com panies of California, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York and Ohio, are termed , "secondary defendants" and are concerned as holders of contracts with the five "primary, defendants." Specifically, the charges allege that the defendants are "engaged In a com biiyrtton and conspiracy In restraint of y6de and commerce among the several states and with foreign nations In gas oline, kerosene and other hydrocarbon products." UNITED STATES Ambassador Kel logg at London was Instructed Wednesday from Washington to at tend the allied conference of premiers to be held July 10 in London to dis cuss execution of the Dawes plan. The statement given out at the White House was us follows: "It Is the desire of the administra tion that the Dawes plan should be put Into effect as speedily as possible. This Is the first essential step to eco nomic recovery abroad In which tljs country Is vitally Interested. It Is with this In view that In response to the Invitation extended by Prime Minister MncDonald, instructions have been given to Ambassador Kellogg to at tend the conference In London on July 10 for the purpose of dealing with sucli matters as affect the Interests of the United States, and otherwise for purposes of Information. Colonel Lo pnn will go to London to assist the i ambassador." It Is now expected that tn attend ance will be Premier MacDonald of tireat Hrltafn, Premier Hen-lot of France, Premier Theunls of Help! urn. Premier Mussolini of Italy nn.l Karon llayaslil. Japanese ambassador :<> tin Court of St. Jumes. Lieut iussem. mauohan. United State- nr:ny ?v!a;or. flew from New York to Sun Krnnrisco M?<n 1ny in 21 hour* and 4S minutes Seven ty. two year* up l'r.ni Mreker rrossed [tie continent In f,\e men:!,* and Is 4 still fillve and telling about Ills record Journey. So the span of a single life covers the transportation development of America from the ox team and covered wagon at two miles an hour to the airplane at 15(1 miles. In between are the stage coach, pony express, rail road and the march of the American people across the continent. 4 Maughan, in accomplishing the seemingly Impossible, won fame for himself and prestige for the air serv ice and for bis Country. His flight Is epochal, from both military and com mercial viewpoints. Incidentally, a transcontinental ull-nlght air-mall serv ice goes into effect next Tuesday. ' ' i i PHEMIEK MUSSOLINI of Italy, whose speedy downfall had* 'been predicted fay his opponents 'as the re sult of the abduction and taurder of Socialist Matteotti, is today more than ever his country's national hero; In~ cldentally he confounded the prophets and set all diplomatic Europe agape by his magnificent gift to the Italian peo ple. In an epochal address before the senate Tuesday, confirmed by an ad dress Wednesday to the Fasclstl ma-; Jorlty in the lower house, he promised to reform the' Fascist government and to return to constitutional parliamen tary government. He promised this: 1 "First, I will cause the Institution of parllamqpt i to function regularly and nobly as an organ of legislative power, restoring to It its capacity and Its prestige. ?; < . "Second, I will regularize under the constitution the situation of the na I tlonal militia. ? "Third, I will repress the superim posed iliegallsms in the organization of the Fascist party. Even the Socialists do pot. doubt Mussolini's sincerity and, good faith. By giving up the dictatorship he is ap parently more powerful than everl " I GEN. JAMES BARRY HERTZOG Tuesday accepted the premier ship of the Union of South Africa, suc ceeding Premier Jan Christian Smuts, resigned. Smuts, soldier-statesman, reckoned In other parts of the British empire as one of the greatest figures of -his time, is the champion of the policy of strict allegiance to the Brit* lsh home government. Hertzog, the KatlonailBt-Labor leader, la champion of the movement of the South African party to establish an Independent Dutch-governed republic. The recent election campaign was fought on this Issue. The result was a substantial majority In parliament for the South African party. Thus the first avowed ly republican government In the Brit ish empire will soon be In existence. It Is apparently a second blow at the principle of Imperial unity. It will be remembered that Premier King of Canada declined to submit, to parlia ment the treaty made by Great Britain with TurUey ? the so-called Lausanne treaty? .on the ground that Canoda had no share In making It. Brig. gen. Charles g. dawes. Republican candidate for vice president, will have ills first conference' with President Coolldge Tuesday. He and Mrs. Dawes will be guests at the While House for several days. Chair man William M. Butler of the Repub- ' llcan national committee and other i lenders will attend the conference. At | an Association of Commerce meeting before leaving Chicago General Dawes said that lie would make no speeches until the campaign opened, when he would do "his best." Presumably , "Hell Maria" Dawes can be relied . upon to enliven the catnpnlgn. Chairman Butler Thursday In New | York begun to arrange for the opening , of eastern headquarters for the Re- ( publican cnmpalen. He said the Cool Idee clubs of the country would be or ganized and centralized In a bureau nt New York, as an adjunct to the campaign. The Democrats are "chortling with glee" over an alleged discovery In con- I neetlon with the appointment of WU- r Hani Hodges, a Denver lawyer, af a treasurer of the Republican national committee. They expec* to link up 3 Republican funds with Wall street through the fact that Hodges was n b classmate at Columbia Iaw school with T P wight Morrow, a partner In J. P. " Morgan A Co.. who was a classmaU ? of President Coolidge at Amherst. BY DEMOCRATS PLANK CONDEMNING KU KLUX KLAN BY NAME REJECTED BY MARGIN OF one" VOTE. .New -York,i? The platform was per fected at , 2 o'clock Sunday rooming, when, amid scenes ?ot confusioiiBel. dorn paralleled.. In party hlstoMna -v, plank condemning the Ku Klus lean by name wag pronounced rejected by tlje narrow margin of a single ;vote. Another serious contest had been de cided previously by adpptlon of a piSrtk reaffirming In general terms only the , party's f pith In the league, of nations; Including the controversial Ku Klu* '' Klan and League of Nations Ibsubb, the platform adopted by ttye Demo cratic National convention by Its reso lutions committee contains half a ' hundred planks. Most of them commit the party as to policy In the' event of victory in November, w^ile others ;$re devote'd chiefly to criticism pi the Republican Administration. The pledges wihch would be taken5 1. ' by the parly Include: Further tax reduction and revUIon of the tariff. / Enactment of legislation designed "to restore the farmer again- > to < economic equality with other - Indus- ' trialists." . . \ ' j'SiS Would , Revise Freight., Readjustment of freight rates and > revision of the transportation , act . : with a view of eliminating the rate- ?' making section, abolishing the Rail road Labor Board and restoring to ? States control over Intrastate rated. -5? Operation of Muscle Shoals tor maximum production of fertilizers. Strict public control and consei'vaj-. tlon of the Nation's resources, recov- ' ' ery of oil reserves "fraudulently." lpas- / ed, and vigorous prosecution ot any < guilty of wrong doing in leafing *>; transactions. Governmental control of the anthra-. cite industry and "all other corpora- j tlons controlling the necessities of lifo .. where public welfare has been sub ordained to private Interests." > , ..r/ Favor Operating /Ships. . Operation of a Government-owned ' merchant marine "so long as it may * / be necessary without obstructing J' the development of a privately owned ' American flag /shipping." Faithful complance with ^he spirit ot civil service and its extension to l['v internal revenue qfflcers. "Adequate" salaries for postal em: * ployes. Adoption of so-called "lame-duck** Constitutional amendment which would prevent members of Congress ( from participation tn a session after ' their defeat <or a re-election. Revision of the ' Corrupt Practices ' Act to prevent excessive' campaign \'.Y contributions and expenditures. Urges Law Enforcements ? Enforcement of the ConstltutijJ^and all laws, with' an assertion that . j Republican Administration has tailed ' to enforce the Prohibition, laws." Maintenance of Asiatic immigration exclusion by legislation. Immediate lndependepc for the Phil- '? ippines. , . ' ' Establishment of a full territorial ?; form of government for Alaska. Protection of American rights in Turkey -and the "fulfillment of Presi dent Wilson's arbitral award respect-/ ing Armenia." ' Drafting of all resources in time of war. - ? ? ? if-/ Sweeping reduction of sea and. land " \ armaments. Promotion of deep ? waterways ^rom the Great Lakes to the Gulf and Atlatt- ' tic Ocean and improvement ot inland waterways generally. , ' Enactment of legislation dealing with fraudulent stock sales. '* ' Vigorius enforcement of laws against monopolies and illegal combinations and enactment of additional measures ?' if necessary. . >: v's&iyfj The platform denounces the Mellon tax plan, declares that under the. Re publican Administration the economic condition of the American farmers "has changed from comfort to bank ruptcy," charges that "never before in our history has the Government been so tainted by corruption," and pledges the Democratic party to drive an wrongdoers from public office and* mete out proper punshment Tribute to Wilson. ' ;i: At the outset there is a trlbnte to VVoodrow Wilson whose ideals, it is de clared. "will serve as an example and inspiration for this and future genera tlons." t 1 Tourists Engage In Duel. Greenville, S. C. ? Participants in , he shooting affray on the Greenville Hendersonvllle highway, in which t^o Atlanta business men were wounded n an encounter wijh prohibition ottl- . . :ers, were held in $1,000 bonds, pend ng a hearing Into the circumstances. Finds Where Birds Pass Winter Sofia, Bulgaria. ? VWhere do the lrds go In Winter?" This question worried a Bulgarian choolmnster and so he tied to the oot of a swallow a parchment tag. ,1th the following message written ' ?, n it : The swallow left Bulgaria for Win- 'i pr quarters and has Just returned. < 'he hlrd still carried the message of r.nhappy Bulgaria" and another, rhlc.h read
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