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Show m$0fcM Aiite y- Ah 1. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson dedicating the convention hall at Houston. 2. Democratic convention In session. 3. Claude G. Bowers, who delivered the keynote speech. NEWS REVIEW OF CyPiREtJTEVENTS Democrats Pick Smith and Robinson as Leaders and Adopt Dry Plank. TT WAS all "Al" Smith at the Demo- cratic national convention. The friends of the New York governor had the situation in hand at all times. Alfred E. Smith of New York and Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas were chosen the standard bearers of the Democratic party in the coming campaign. cam-paign. When the first roll call ended Smith was 8 votes short of the 733y2 necessary nec-essary to nominate. Ohio led the switches that rolled up the governor's total to 840. Jim Reed, Smith's outstanding rival for the nomination, took the platform and summoned all factions of the party par-ty to unite in support of the nominee. The naming of "Al" Smith was merely putting the official stamp on the expressed choice of a vast majority ma-jority of the party. The opposition which marched on Houston with the determination to fight the New Yorlt governor to the last ditch soon discovered discov-ered they did not have a chance. The tide toward Joe Robinson for second place on the ticket started even before the convention was opened. One ballot was enough. Those who were looking for a "wet" plank in the party platform were disappointed. dis-appointed. After a bitter controversy for days in the committee, a plank was agreed upon which declares for enforcement of the Eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. The plank sharply criticizes the Republican administration for what Is described as a failure to enforce en-force the dry laws and also for placing plac-ing "political hirelings" in enforcement enforce-ment positions, thus making of prohibition pro-hibition a political football. The platform pledges the party to establish a farm relief policy modeled upon the federal reserve system. Two outstanding paragraphs read : "Creation of a federal farm board tp assist the farmer and stock raiser in the marketing of their products as the federal reserve board has done for the banker and business man. "Credit aid by loans to co-operatives on at least as favorable a basis as the government aid to the merchant marine." The Democratic plank does not mention McNary-IIaugen nor the equalization fee. However, it does mention the principle prin-ciple of the equalization fee. It pledges the fostering and development of cc-operative marketing associations through appropriate government aid. Then it pledges the party "to an earnest endeavor to solve this problem of the distribution of the cost of dealing deal-ing with crop surpluses over the marketed mar-keted units of the crop whose producers pro-ducers are benefited by such assistance." assis-tance." Other high spots of the platform were : Denunciation of Republican corruption. corrup-tion. Further reduction In taxation by limiting debt retirement to sinking fund requirements. Imposition of tariff duties which will permit effective competition, insurance in-surance against monopoly and at the same time produce a fair revenue for the support of the government. Criticism of foreign policies of the Republican administration. Curbing of the issuance of Injunctions Injunc-tions In labor disputes as sought by organized labor. Condemnation of excessive campaign expenditures. Development of the American merchant mer-chant marine. Strict enforcement of anti-trust laws. The keynote speech sf Claude G. Bowers was an appeal for harmony and a united Democracy. The fiery ,rator from New York stirred the convention con-vention to wild bursts of enthusiasm as he assailed the Republican party on its record of eight years' administration adminis-tration of the country's affairs. The permanent chairman, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, sot off some fireworks fire-works when he declared that there would be no "wet" plank In the pint-form, pint-form, lie made a plea for religious tolerance, saying "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute providing for religious freedom.'.' .. This started one of the most noisy of the many demonstrations demon-strations that marked this' Convention. SECRETARY OF STATE KELLOGG has called upon the governments of 14 nations to sign a revised and final draft of his projected anti-war treaty. The text of the slightly modified mod-ified peace pact, together' with a covering cov-ering note, has been delivered to Great Britain and her .dominions, together with France, Italy, Germany,. Japan and the Locarno powers. Each of the interested governments was urged to sign on the dotted line at once and to accept the treaty as written without qualification or reservation. reser-vation. This government, Mr. Kellogg stated, Is prepared to sign the . treaty as it now stands without reservations. Mr. Kellogg brushes aside most of the objections advanced by France and other powers and states frankly that his examination of their replies to his first note, inviting them to cooperate co-operate in the negotiation of a treaty for the renunciation of w-ar, has revealed re-vealed no reasons why- they should not adhere to . the. final draft of the treaty at once. He described the changes in the treaty asslight. In making public his note placing the matter : of approving the latest treaty draft squarely up to. the interested inter-ested powers, State department officials offi-cials made it known that 12 of the nations have signified, through their ' ambassadors, a readiness to sign the treaty at once. France and Italy are understood to be the only nations whose representatives representa-tives have displayed reluctance toward complete acceptance of the Kellogg proposal. The confidence felt by Mr. Kellogg in the ultimate success of. his peace activities is expressed in, the concluding conclud-ing lines of his invitation. "My government-is confident," he as-: serts, "that the other nations of the world will, as soon as the treaty comes in force, gladly adhere thereto, and that this simple procedure will bring mankind's age-long aspirations for universal peace . nearer to' practical, fulfillment than ever before In the history his-tory of the world." ROBERT W. STEWART, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, under Indictment for perjury in connection with his testimony before be-fore the senate committee investigating investigat-ing the Teapot Dome scandal, will be tried in Washington October 8. Stewart Stew-art pleaded not guilty and demanded immediate trial, but the district attorney at-torney declared that the government was net ready to proceed. . . - The Indictment charges that Stewart Stew-art lied when he told the senate Teapot Tea-pot Dome scandal' committee he did not participate in the .profits of the Continental Trading company, Ltd. Subsequently Stewart, recalled by the committee, admitted he had handled han-dled $750,000 of the profits of the Continental Con-tinental company and had held them intact for either the ' Standard company com-pany or the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Pur-chasing company. The bonds were delivered de-livered to the Sinclair company, according, ac-cording, to Stewart HERBERT HOOVER, the Republican Repub-lican candidate for President', will resign ns secretary of commerce within with-in a few dnys, to devote all his time to the national campaign. It Is expected that he will visit President Coolidge at the summer White House at Brule, Wis.,, to turn in his resignation. - He will then proceed to his home In California Cali-fornia to. prepare his speech of acceptance ac-ceptance which is to be delivered the first week In August. Dr. Hubert. Work, secretary of .the interior, who has !een named chairman chair-man of the Republican national committee, com-mittee, is also expecled to resign soon to give his entire attention to directing the campaign. Chairman Work - announced that President Coolidge will not- be asked to make any speeches fur the ticket and that it Is not expected that he will take any active part In the campaign. cam-paign. . . Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas and publisher of the Wichita -Beacon, lias been named as campaign publicity director. CHICAGO'S gang killings go merrily on. The latest victim is "Big Jim" Murphy, former state representative, labor leader and mail robber. Murphy Mur-phy was shot down on the lawn of his home late at night by gangsters In a passing automobile. Police say the killing was the result of an internal fight for control of the Master Cleaners Clean-ers and Dyers' association. PREMIER POINCARE'S bill to stabilize sta-bilize the franc at 3.03 cents and wipe out billions of wealth in French bonds of war and prewar issues was passed by the chamber of deputies by a vote of 450 to 22. Many of the bonds, which will be reduced 80 per cent in value, were sold In America. The senate later voted In favor of the stabilization bill by 256 -to 3, and the law Is now in effect. Thus the French parliament buried the venerable vener-able old franc the franc that before the war held up its head among the other currencies of the world at 20 cents. It was 125 years of age, having hav-ing been born in the days of the first consul, later to become Napoleon I, the emperor of the French. For more than a century it flourished as one of the powerful coinages of the world. That was before the day when the nouveau riches, the dollar and pound sterling, became the aristocrats of the financial world. Its downfall dates In reality to 1914 and the war, when the French, although al-though wanton with the blood that poured from the open wound in the country's side, never felt inclined to tax .themselves, as other warring countries coun-tries did. They paid for the war with loans. Afterward they hid behind the illusion that "Germany will pay." THE sensational mailbag robbery, involving an estimated loss of ?500,-000, ?500,-000, which was discovered on the arrival ar-rival in London of the mail landed at Southampton from the steamer Leviathan, Levia-than, is still shrouded in mystery. The mailbags arrived in London with seals intact and the robbery was not discovered until the post ofHce officials prepared to sort the letters. The mail was under supervision of the United States sea postal staff throughout the voyage and was landed at Southampton under strict armed supervision. It is believed certain the bags were not tampered with after they left the ship. When the bags were opened at London Lon-don it was found that the registered letters had been split open and all negotiable papers taken. CHARGING that the Aluminum Company Com-pany of America, Its officers and . others entered into a conspiracy to create an aluminum monopoly in Oils country to the detriment of others engaged en-gaged in the industry, the Basch Mc-chine Mc-chine Tool company of Springfield, Mass., has filed suit in the Federal court at Boston against the company. The plaintiff company names Andrew An-drew W. Mellon, James B. Duke and others as having participated In the alleged conspiracy, but does not make them defendants. The bill alleges that, although Mel-Ion Mel-Ion resigned as a director of the Aluminum Company of America in 1020, he continued to participate In the policies and management of Its affairs af-fairs and has been a "dominating factor fac-tor therein." BECAUSE he Issued orders to his " subordinates to fire on all cars not stopping for liquor Inspection, a grand jury at Buffalo, N. Y., has held Boatswain Frank Beck, commander of the coast guard station at Fort Niagara, Niag-ara, N. Y., partially responsible for the shooting of Jacob D. Hanson of Niagara Falls. Hanson was shot early on the morning of May G while he was driving back to the Falls from a visit to Lewiston. Jennings and Drew, coast guardsmen, were patrolling the rond on the lookout for liquor smugglers. smug-glers. They claim they ordered Hanson Han-son to stop and he refused. JOHNNY FARRELL won the open golf championship by defeating Hobby Jones in the play-off of a tie by one stroke at Olympin fields, Chicago. Jones and Farrell were tied for first place at 204. The play-off was one of the most thrilling and dramatic 3i-hcile 3i-hcile matches ever played anywhere. Birdies on the last two holes by both players Is an Indication of how stubbornly stub-bornly the battle was waged. Farrell, Quaker lildge professional, after seven years of si l iving and disappointment won Hie honor which, to a prnfes-slonnl. prnfes-slonnl. Is worth from $."ii.iih to. tXK). |