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DURING THE PAST WEEK
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WESTERN
The Yale tennis tenin won the Inter
collegiate championship by defeating
University of California four matches
to two. Both teams hud been unde
feated this season.
Reductions in the wholesale prices
of vnrious styles of shoes of from 25 i
cents to $2 a pair have been an
nounced by offleials of three of the
largest shoe manufacturing c> ■llililisli
meats in St. Louis.
The plant of the Manitowoc Ship
building Company was sold to C. C.
West for s4l U,OUO. The plant original
ly cost about $1,500,000. Mr. West will
reorganize the concern and continue
operations at Manitowoc, Wis.
Dr. C. U. Mayo of Rochester, Minn.,
has Just received the distinguished
service medal. It wus pinned on him
by Mn'jor General Wood. Announce
ment of the award of this medal to Dr.
Muyo was made some time ago.
Senator Robert M. La Follettc of.
Wisconsin was operated upon at Si.
Mary's hospital at Rochester, Minn.,
for removal of the gall sac. The oper
ation was successful, according to an
nouncement made by surgeons, but was
more serious than anticipated.
Approximately 96,300 automobiles
will be produced by the ten motor cur
.ndustrics In Indianapolis this year,
and the total soles value of these ma
chines will be $167,337,500, according
to B. A. Worthington, chairman of the
industries committee of the Indianap
olis Chamber of Commerce. Ills state
ment was made on u survey of the au
tomobile industry.
The United States Is in no danger
of exhausting its coal supplies in the
near future, for about 7,000 years’ sup
ply is available, S. M. Darling of the
Bureau of Mines told the twelfth an
nual convention of the International
Railway Fuel Association. Me est’-
mated the supply of mlnable coal at
3,553,637,100,000 tons. Last year’s con
sumption, he said, wus 530,000,000 tons
Overflowing of a levee along the
Gila river, about five miles from Yuniu,
Arlz., was diverted townyd the Gulf of
California a part of the Gila’s flow
which otherwise would have gone into
the Colorado river, which bus been at
flood stage recently. Av a result, the
Colorado gauge fell rapidly und flood
danger Is believed past. There are nu
merous farms in the district where the
Gila levee gave way, hut no reports of
damage had been received.
WASHINGTON
Federal decrees rendered in San
( Francisco denying Knock .lan Fat ad
mission to this country on his return
from China were set uside by the Su
preme Court. The Supreme Court or
dered that a writ of habeas corpus he
grunted und that there he a retrial ot
the case.
The Supreme Court has refused to
interfere with decisions of the North
Dakota Supreme Court declaring con
stitutional a series of state const ltu
tional amendments und statutes to car
ry into effect an industrial program ii<
North Dakota und permitting state
bond issues to finance the enterprises.
A ‘‘get-together’’ meeting of the head
of the accounting departments of the
United States railway administration,
preparatory to winding up the affairs
of the railways during federal control,
bus been held.
Allocation of. two passenger steam
ers, the American Legion und the Sea
girl, to the Munson steamship line for
operation In the South American serv
ice has been announced at Washington
by*ihe shipping hoard.
President Wilson has made recess
appointments of Henry Jones Ford ot
New. Jersey, Mark W. Potter of New
York und James Duncan of Massa
chusetts to he members of the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Upon completion of Ids investigation
of the national uirpiune fund, Assist
ant District Attorney Kilroc intends to
call Henry Woodhouse, a governor of
the Aero Club of America, before the
grand Jury to expluiu an alleged
churge of wholesale grafting from the
government by aircraft manufacturers
during the war. This contemplated
action follows Mr. Woodhousc's al
leged refusal to answer such ques
tions nt an informal hearing recently.
The State Departmeat was notified
from Antilia, Cuba, that Cuptain Stout
of the American steam yacht Dolphin
shot Claude Moore, n seaman aboard
the vessel, in the port of Caya Amhl
May 25th. Moore died in a hospital
dvo days later. The captain said he
fired In self-defense. He was arrested
and held under S2OO bond.
The District Supreme Court lias
granted several large packing compan
ies an extension of sixty days to sub
mit to the court a plan for divesting
themselves of activities held uot to toe
allied with the meat business.
FOREIGN
A landslide has buried part of the
village of Aehupayas, in the province
of Chimborazo. Fourteen bodies have
been unearthed. Many persons were
Injured.
Albanian insurgents have annihilated
an Italian battalion near Alessio anti
Italian warships huve shelled that city,
according to u Vienna dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Clifton Crawford, internationally
known actor, wus found dead In Lon
don in an aroawny of the hotel at
which lie wus stopping, having fullen
five stories from the window of his
room.
A body, believed to be that of an
American officer, was found in the 111
river, near Feidkireh, Austria, by fish
ermen. It is believed the man wus
drowned while escaping from an Aus
trian prison <ginip toward Switzerland.
The Austrian commission sent to Bel
grade to negotiate for foodstuffs and
other supplies, has reported that the
Serbs are unwilling to accept luxuries
in exchange, which are all Aiistriu has
to offer. Neither will the Serbs accept
Austrian- money.
Cantonese women are planning to
establish a match factory at Canton,
China, and have issued a prospectus in
an effort to olitain $600,000 for the
purpose. The women themselves in
tend that the factory shall he owned
and managed entirely by them.
A severe enrthquake shock oceurrad
throughout Formosa, Jnpnn 4 according
to udvlces received ut Tokio. The cen
ter of the disturbance was near Ywa
len, on the eastern coast. There were
some casualties und damage jo build
ings.
Mrs. Mabel Gnster, wife of the vicar
of St. Paul's, Greenwich, lias beeu
killed by her pet donkey. She was
stopping in the country with her chil
dren and was feeding the nnlmnl In
the stable when It kicked her down,
hit and trampled on her.
Preparations are being made both h.v
the government and tin* municipality
to receive in a few days several hun
dred delegates from the whole world
who will meet at Genoa for the inter
national seamen's labor conferences.
The American delegates will he pres
ent. only us observers.
King George V. of Fnglnnd has won
a verdict for $52,573 in the Supreme
Court in a suit against Finest Ilnrrnh,
a broker. The king sued for $172,000
on a contract for 23,000 tons of scrap
steel for delivery t*o Italy. The con
tract was made through J. p. Morgan
A Co. The defense was a counter
claim. The trouble arose over the
reports of inspectors and alleged de
lays in delivery.
Herr YVustrow, German consul at Ta
briz, Persia, committed suicide, accord
ing to a dispatch from Teheran, while
the consulate was being besieged by a
crowd demanding the surrender of
Persian Bolshevists, who it was al
leged, were being harbored in the build
ing. When the crowd appeared the
consul refused to comply with their re
quest. Sharp fighting ensued, in which
machine guns were used. It was dur
ing the disturbances that Wus trow
committeil suicide. -• »
GENERAL
Five persons were killed and more
than 100 injured In an explosion at the
plant of the Mason Tire anti Rubber
Company at Kent, twelve miles from
Akron, Ohio. J
The torpedo boat destroyer Satterlee
broke uli American records for speed
in her standardization trials off ltoek
land. Me., when she made a mile at the
rate of 38.237 knots. Tile best previous
record of 37.04 knots, was held by the
destroyers Dent and Wickes.
Dr. Edward Herman Sell, the last of
the seven physicians who organized
the American Academy of Medicine in
1876, is dead, lie was known widely
for ids discoveries in connection with
the treatment of the alcoholic nnd drug
habits, lie wus horn in Pennsylvania
eighty years ago.
Arthur E. Newbold, a member of
the firm of Drexel & Co., und of J. p.
Morgan & Co., dropped dead in Ids of
fice at Philadelphia. He had Just fin
ished Ids luncheon. He was 61 years
old.
The country home of Enrico Caruso,
tenor, at East Hampton, N. Y., wus
burglarized and Jewels vulnod at SOOO,-
000 were stolen. The stolen Jewels in
cluded a diamond necklace valued ut
$73,000.
William Wilkie of Grey Engle, Minn.,
•vas elected president of the National
Editorial Association at the lust ses
sion of the annual convention at Bos
ton. Other officers elected included
E. E. Brodie of Oregon City, Ore., vice
president, and W. W. Aiklens of
Franklin, lud., treasurer.
Provision Is made for the establish
ment of a home for. "respectable bach
elors and widowers” In the will of
Marcus L. Ward, sou of New Jersey’s
Civil war governor, probated, and dis
posing of an estate valued at more
than $3,000,000. Man applying for u
place In the home “must he white
bachelors or widowers who huve
through misfortune lost the means
they once had for support.’’
Joseph M. Quigly of Rochester, N.
Y„ was re-elected president of the In
ternational Association of Chiefs of Po
lice at the closing session of the or
ganization's convention at Detroit. St.
Louis was chosen for next year’s con
vention, winning from New York by a
vote of 83 to 72.
"Sleeping sickness" caused the death
of Midshipman Clinton Hodges of Tu
lare, Calif., member of the third class,
at Uie naval hospital at Annapolis,
Aid. He had been 111 about a week.
Tills Is the first fatality from the dis
ease that ov*r occurred there, ,
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Nfwafaptr I'nlon News Service
Postmasters reappointed by Presi
dent Wilson included John C. Miller,
Boulder, Colo., and William E. King,
Sterling, Colo.
According to announcement by Floyd
F. Fair hurst, head of the motor vehicle
department of the secretary of state’s
office, 26,121 automobile licenses had
been issued In Denver up to May 31.
This number is within 172 of the total
of licenses issued for the entire year
of 1919*.
Charles Hunt was killed by sewer
gas encountered when he was attempt
ing to clean a cesspool near a drug
store opposite the main gate to United
States Army Hospitul No. 21, at Aur
ra. and two others were so badly over
come by the gas that their condition is
critical.
Fred Lebsack, 20, a returned soldier,
was found dead by Ids brother, Carl,
near a pumping plant on Ids father's
mix'll, which is about four miles east
of Berthoud. The hoy is believed to
have lain down to rest near the ex
haust pipe and inhaled the iwisonous
gas while asleep.
The Colorado Stale Highway Com
mission has submitted plans for five
new roads- to the district engineer of
the federal bureau of roads, for consid
eration under the federal aid allow
ance. The total cost for the five roads
amounts to $302,003. Federal aid Is
asked to the amount of $130,933.
Work lias begun on the opening of
the Gore road to automobile travel,
the state highway commission to ex
pend SIO,OOO on tlie worst part of the
road and the county commissioners to
put it in good repair up to the county
line. The Ynmpu and Oak Creek Com
mercial Clubs have brought about the
opening of tlds historic road, which Is
a matter of importance to all north
western Colorado. It will give a new
and attractive connection with that
part of the state.
The American Library Association,
in its convention nt Colorado Springs,
adopted a resolution embodying an en
larged program which provides for the
equipping of new libraries and the im
provement of equipments In libraries
already established. The program, if
carried out in full, will require an ex
penditure of $2 000,000. The resolu
tion will he presented to the executive
hoard as m basis for guidance In ad
ministering tlie enlarged activities of
the association.
An interesting series of free lectures
has been arranged by Prof. Milo G.
Deriiam for the students of the Uni
versity of Colorado summer school und
citizens of Boulder. Two or more free
lectures will he given each day
throughout the summer quarter, June
14 to August 28. In udditiou, Dr. Der
hnm has arranged for mountain excur
sions for Fridays und Saturdays, and
lias given indorsement to the program
Hint Jins been adopted by the Boulder
branch of tlie Colorado Mountain
Climbers* Club.
Reports of county assessors now be
ing made to tlie State Immigration De
partment show a very substantial in
crease in tlie number of farm tractors
in operation in tlie state tills year as
compared with last year, and also a
substantia! increase in tlie number of
silos in tlie state. Tlie reports last
year showed 2,247 farm tractors owned
by farmers, in forty-four counties. Re
ports ttds year show* that there will be
about fifty counties reporting farm
tractors, and that the total number will
he in excess of 3,000. Assessors re
ported 2,738 silos last year in thirty-six
counties. More than forty counties
will report silos tlds year, and appar
ently the total number will lie in ex
cess of 3,300.
l*nt West, a 1-1-year-old boy who re
cently went to Craig with H. It. Me-
Gonugle from lowa, is an export with
u tractor and will he boss of the plow
ing crew at the McGonigle ranch this
season. „
.William Norris was sentenced to life
imprisonment at the state penitentiary
at Cnfion City by Judge L. C. Stephen
son at Akron. Norris pleaded guilty
to a charge of u statutory offense
against his own daughter.
More than $84,000,000 of life insur
ance was written in Colorado during
1919, compared to $49,000,000 during
the preceding year, according to the
annual report of State Commissioner
of Insurance Claude W. Fairchild,
which has been submitted to the gov
ernor. Tlie people of the state pnld
$10,407,000 In life insurance premiums
during the year, nu increase of almost
$2,000,000 over 1018, the report stated..
In 1919, $321,000,000 of fire insurance
wus written as against $403,000,000
during tlie previous year. During the
year, the State Insurance Department
collected $378,331.32. The operating
expenses were $31,512.20.
Alex (Dummy) Miller was found
guilty of first degree murder at Gree
ley for the slaughter of Aduin Shank,
his wife ami four young children at the
Brecken ranch house near Gllcrest,
Colo., on tlie morning of Doc. 20. The
Jury was out on the case only fifteen
minutes nnd established a record by
reaching a verdict after deliberating
only five 7-10 minutes.
Ouray authorities huve ordered the
wrecking of several dilapidated struc
tures and the installing of cement side
walks in place of the old wooden walk
In a number of placing.
THE ORDWAY NEW ERA.
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.
Statistics gathered through count?
assessors and compiled by the State
Immigration Department indicate that
Colorado’s rural population lins in
creased very materially in tlie past ten
years, and in tlie principal agricultural
districts lias increased more rapidly
than tlie urban population. This is
Just the opposite to what has occurred
in the.principal agricultural states fur
ther eust, where census reports now
being inudc public sltow that rural
population Inis uot increased nearly so
rapidly as that of tlie cities, und in
many districts has actually decreased
sfnee 1910. In the nun-irrigated dis
tricts of eastern Colorado the rural
imputation has increased very rapidly
since 1910, and in some cases the num
ber of farms under cultivation at pres
ent, as shown by assessors’ reports,
is more than double that of ten years
ago. Tills is ulso true in many dis
tricts on the western slope, particu
larly in Moffut, Rio Blanco, San Miguel
and Dolores counties. Tlie records of
the immigration department show that
several tliousund people from other
states have come to Colorado in tlie
past two years and huve purchased or
rented farms, while an almost cquuily
large number of persons from other
stales have filed upon homesteads in
tlds state.
A schedule of seventeen trips, six of
them for three days each, lias been
arranged by tlie officeis of the Rocky
Mountain Climbers Club for the 1920
season. Tin* first trip will he laken
lime 19th to Green cufion, near Bou'-
der, and will be followed a week later
by an all-night trip on Flagstaff moun
tain. The first three-day trip will be
conducted July 2-4 to Devil’s Thumb
anti Jasper lake. Tlie club is starting
its activities three weeks earlier than
usual ut tlie request of out-of-state
members, who already are beginning
to arrive in Boulder.
Grand valley fruit growers have
learned sad but nevertheless true news
about the 1920 fruit crop. It was be
lieved that tlie apples had escaped
damage from the winter cold, and all
varieties hut one did escape, hut the.
popular Wiftesap suffered almost com
plete extinction in that valley, it is
dechired, so far as the 1920 crop is
concerned. The wintef cold dauinged
the buds so that they had no vitality,
and although they bloomed us usual
the blooms fell off und the trees will
he hare of fruit.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pughley of Wich
ita, Khii., who formerly lived on a
ranch near Tohe, in Las Animas coun
ty, positively identified clothing found
in a ravine near Tube as that worn by
their 4-year-old son, Donald, when he
disappeared from their rancli home
/April 19, 1919 w Donald was playing
about the ranch near Tobe lute in the
Afternoon of April 19, 1919, but that
was the last glimpse his purents had
pf him.
The state school fund wus enriched
by $149,480 as the result of the June
sale of state school la»d. The State
Board of Land Commissioners sold 15,-
840 acres for that sum. The average
price per acre, $25.60, is tlie highest
obtained by tlie board for months. Con
siderable rivalry developed In the bid
ding for certain parcels of land. The
highest price was realized for a tract
of irrigated laud in Weld county. For
tlds tlie hourd obtained $l7O an acre.
Carlos M. Cole, superintendent o'
Denver’s public schools since 1915.
died ut St. Luke’s hospital in that city.
His death, which came unexpectedly,
was due to influenza, his attending
physicians declared, contracted white
lie was In a weakened condition fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
The proposed new highway over Ber
thoud Pass, between Empire und Fru
izer, Colo., a distance of twenty-seven
miles, will cost about $200,000, accord
ing to t|ie survey made by crews work
ing under the direction of A. E. Pnlen,
senior highway engineer of the United
States Bureau of Public Roads.
t A ten-pound son wus born to Mayor
and Mrs. F. \V. Stover at their home
in Fort Collins. In addition* to being
horn the sou of tire uiuyor of Fort Col
lins, the new arrival has been named
William Cliurles—William for ids pa-
ternal grandfather, a pioneer und the
first president of tlie Poudre Valley
Bunk of that city, and Churles for his
maternal grandfather, Congressman
Charles B.' Timberlake.
Ranchmen along Muddy creek in
Grand county have bought the tele
phone lines of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company in
that district and have organized the
Muddy Creek Telephone Association.
They will extend the lines from
Kretnmling, twenty-three miles north,
to the Martin postoffice ot Whitley’s
peak. Fifteen phones will lie connect
ed with tlie new lines.
A. Power, a farmer of Youghui, was
(lrovyned in the Yampa river while
wading to tlie stake fastening of the
boat used for u crossing. The river is
higher than usual and the boat moor
ing is u considerable distance from the
shore. It is thought the swift current
in the new channel swept Mr. Power
off ids feet.
/A concerted fight against tlie prairie
dog will be necessary to stumpout that
form of pest in Grand valley,.say those
In touch with the situation. The men
ace lias been growing there because
little or no effort has been made to
stamp out the pests heretofore, but a
campaign against them will be waged
tills summer.
In a petition presented to the city
council the Colorado Springs & Inter
urban It’ul I road Company will renew
the offer made üboat two years ago to
sell the entire system und accept pay
ment in city bonds.
Harding Is Nominated
WARREN G. HARDING
United States Senator , From Ohio,
Who Was the Successful Candi
date for Presidential Nom
ination at Chicago.
Ghicago.—The minis on tin* tenth
ballot, on which Senator Warren G.
Harding was nominated for president
by the Republican iTfnvontlon. follows:
Wockl. 156; Lowden. 11: .lohuson,
.‘M) 4*5: Harding. 0021-4; Coolidge, 5;
Hoover. 0 1-2; Butler. 2; Knox. 1 : .Mis*
celluncous. 28: I .enroot, 1; Hays. 1;
I.uFollotle, 24. This is as far as the
voting got when pandemonium broke
loose and prevented completion of tin*
official roll call.
Cnieugo, 111. —Warren G. Harding,
I’nited States senator from Ohio,*was
nominated for the presidency by the
Republican national convention after a
deadlock which lasted for nine ballots
and which finally forced out of run
ning all the original favorites. As Ids
running mate, the convention named
Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts,
upsetting a plan of a combination ni
the Harding hackers m nominate for
the place Senator Irvine 1.. I .enroot of
Wisconsin. The collapse of the forces
of Gov. Frank O. Imwden and their
transfer in large part to Senator Har
ding put the Ohio candidate over. Gen
eral Wood lost heavily, however, when
the Harding drift begun, and Senator
Johnson, tin* third of the trio of load-
Looking In On the Chicago Convention
ers on the early balloting, also went
steadily down bill.
Entering the convention as a can
didate distinctly of the “dark horse*'
elans. Senator Harding got only 64
votes on the first ballot, und on the
second he dropped to 50.
When the convention adjourned at
the end of the fourth ballot he hod 61.
In ull-night conferences among the
party chiefs, however, lie was men*
Honed many times as the most likely
to breuk the nomination deadlock
should neither Wood. Lowden nor
Johnson take a commanding lend.
They all failed to do so. Wood and
Lowden running u neek-and-neck race
for the leadership on four ballots,
while the strength of the California
candidate dwindled steadily.
Meantime Hording pushed his total
to 133, individual delegates from many
states swinging to him from the col
umns of the leaders und of their fa
vorite sons. Johnson managers, fear
ing a landslide was impending, then
mude a last play to suve the fortunes
of their candidate. They moved to re
cess for u couple of hours in order to
take an inventory and seek a new
combination.
The Wood and Lowden forces, both
virtually at the peak of their strength
und disheartened at the long string of
ballots without material gulns. fell in
with the recess plan and the. conven
tion adopted it.
In the dramatic succession of con
ferences that followed, the fate of the
candidates virtually was sealed. Some
»f the Wood and Lowden managers
tried ineffectually for an agreement
which would hold their delegates lu
line und kill off the Harding boom.
Some tried to get a Wood-Lowden-
Johnsoo agreement to adjourn till Mon
. duy without making a nomination.
There olso was a conference be
tween Johnson and Harding support
ers in which the Ohioan's supporters
tried without success to have the re
maining Johnson strength swung to
Harding.
It was the parley between the Har
ding and Lowden men. however, which
apparently bore the most fruit when
the balloting began again.
Lowden at the end of the ninth had
only 121 votes left out of the .‘lO7 with
which lie ended the eighth, and Gen
eral Wood's strength had fallen from
209 on the eighth to 249 tin the ninth.
Johnson dropped from 87 to 82.
As the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit Lowden. Wood and Johnson
right and left, and tin* big hall was in
almost continuous applause as state
after state announced accession t«» the,
llarding standard.
It was reserved for Pennsylvania to
{ add tin* crowning touch of enthusiasm.
, When the Keystone state was reached
( the Ohio senator needed thirty-two
, votes tj» nominate him ami IVnnsyl-
I vnnla gave him sixty.
; It was Governor Sproul. himself, tiie
i candidate of his state on every pre
| ceding ballot and mentioned many
| times as a possible dark horse to break
the deadlock, who announced the big
Pennsylvania vote for Harding.
Entering the Coliseum floor for the
first time since the balloting begun,
lu* made Ids way to the Pennsylvania
standard, and. amid cheers, released
the delegates from longer supiuirtiug
him. Then lie look a poll, got the
floor and threw in the winning liar
ding votes.
A demonstration of several minutes
followed, most of the delegates and
spectators standing and cheering while
a procession carrying large pictures of
tin* candidate and standards of some
of the states that supported him took
up its march around the hall.
But it was too tired a convention
after the gruelling excitement of two
sweltering days of balloting to long
keep up such a demonstration.
Harding Was Printer.
Warren G. llarding lias always been
n resident of Ohio, which state lie lias
represented as I’nited States senator
since 1914. In private business life
lie Ik publisher of the Marion. Ohio,
Star.
He was born on a farm near the
village of Blooming Grove. Morrow
County. Ohio. November 2, 1805, the
eldest of eight children. His father,
George T. Harding, was u country doc
tor whose* forebears came from Scot
land. Before going, to Ohio the Har
dings were residents or Pennsylvania,
where some or them were massacred
h.v Indians. Others fought in the Rev
olutionary war. The mother of War
ren. Mrs. Phoehe Dickerson, was de
scended from uti old-time Holland
Dutch family, the Van Kirks.
In Ills youth Warren Harding lived
the life of a farmer boy, attending the
vllluge school until 14 years of age.
when.he entered Ohio Central College
of Iberia, from which he was gradu
ated. As editor of the college paper
he first displayed n talent for Journal
ism. He was obliged to stop school
now and then and earn the money
with which to pursue Ills college
course. At one time he cut corn. «l
another painted barns, and at still tin
other drove u team und helped to grade
the roadbed of a new railway. At 17
be taught a district school and pluyed
u horn in the village brass band.
At odd times he worked in the vil
lage printing office. In time becoming
an expert typesetter und later u lino
type operator. He Is a practical preas
inun and a job printer, and as a "make
up man" is said to Irnve few equals.
The luck piece he has carried ns a
senutor Is the old printer's rule he
used when he was sticking type.
In 1884 Dr. Harding moved his fam
ily to Marion. A short time afterward
the fattier purchased for Warren Har
ding “The Star." then u small paper.
On the paper Warrfen Harding per
formed every function from devil to
managing editor. All the years the
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Governor of Massachusetts, Who Was
Nominated on the Republican
Ticket at Chicago for
Vies President.
senator bus owned it there has never
been a strike or a threatened one.
Senator Harding is closely identified
with many other large business enter
prises in Murion and other parts of
(lie state. He is director of a bunk
and several large manufacturing pluntM
and Is a trustee of the Trinity Bap
tist church.
Mr. Harding has twice represented
Hie Thirteenth Senatorial District of
Ohio in tlu* state legislature und served
one term as lieutenant governor. At
the 1914 election llarding was elected
United States senator by a majority
of more Ilian 100,000. running 73,000
ahead of the next highest on the
ticket. In the Senate he is a member
of tlie committee on foreign relations.
Senator Harding married Miss Flor
ence Kitug in 1891.
Coolidge fo’r Vice Presidency.
The plan to nominate Senutor I.euroot
for the vice presidency had the back
ing of many of the men who had helped
Harding over, but the name of Gover
nor Coolidge stirred the delegates and
galleries to repeated cheering and he
was swept into second place on the
ticket before the first roll call hud
gone two-thirds of its length. Again it
was Pennsylvania which furnished the
winning votes.
Governor Coolidge got 674 votes t<*
140 for Senator l.enroot and 08 for
Governor Allen of Kansas. Several
others got scattering support without
being'placed formally in nomination.
The result was greeted with another
demonstration and there was renewed
cheering a few minutes later when the
tired delegates were told their work
was done. It was early evening by the
time adjournment was reached but be
fore midnight hundreds hud checked
out and were on their way.
Lowden Released Delegate*,
Chicago.—Fear of h dealock, which
he heliqyed would prove detrimental
to his party, caused Governor Frank O,
Lowden to release his delegates on the
convention floor. According to a state
ment made l*y hi in Governor Lewder*
said :
“After the eighth ballot, upon which
I received a plurality of hII votes cast,
it was represented to me that the dele
gates were becoming restive under the
delay. Fearing a protracted deadlock,
which i believe* would have been detri
mental to the Interests of the country
I decided to release all delegates and*
advised them to use their best Judg
meul as to whom they should support.
“For the friendships formed during
Ibis campaign and for the loyal sup
port of so many fine patriotic men and
women, I shall never cease to be grate-