Davenport Democrat And Leader, The (Newspaper) - June 13, 1924, Davenport, Iowa THE DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT Weather SIXTY-NINTH 211 DAVENPORT IOWA FRIDAY EVENING JUNE 13 1924 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES CENTS ROBBERS GET OVER TWO MILLION Iowa in Limelight in the Closing Hours One ot Its Sons Honored and Another is Hissed by the Convention Delegates Judge Kenyon Voted for As Candidate for Vice ident and Senator Brookhart Hissed by the When LaFollette Men Voted for Him is Felt Over Outlook Delegates Not So Sure of the Result in November as When the Convention First Opened Didn't Want Standpat for Running for Coolidge By RALPH Vr CRAM to Democrat Convention Hall Cleveland O June bad the distinction Thursday night during the closing lours of the Republican national convention ot having one ot its dis- citizens a candidate lor high honors while another citizen won the distinction ot being the only person hissed by tho convention during its entire session of three days The first was Judge W Kenyon the second was Senator Smith W Brookhart A third a native son Herbert C Hoover loomed np for a time as evidently the dent's favorite for his running mate The Brookhart Incident The hissing at Senator hart's name was neither incidental nor perfunctory it during the Ee North for him as president and again when Wisconsin an- that 25 of Its La delegates had cast their votes for him Kenyon First Man Up In the afternoon when tions for vice president were first called for Senator Kenyon's mama was the first to be proposed ford MacNider made the tion in a crisp and snappy speech No great demonstration followed but the record ot the balloting shows that in the opinion of many delegates Judge Kenyon was the candidate needed to make the ticket appeal to the farming con- of the west Judge Kenyon Is too progressive for the east and party ers and they turned their thumbs down on bis nomination and it went by the boards Some Gloom Spreaders Delegates who very chesty about the ot dent re-election the first day or two ot the convention began to qualify their statements before the convention was over If any one thinks that Coolidge can carry a load like Burton they are suffering from yon conld hear many delegates say Even his good friends here in Cleveland his home conceded that while Congressman Burton made a pleasant and was un- doubtedly a nice old man he did not lend the balance to a Coolidge ticket that is necessary it It is to carry the agricultural states of the west There those thought that both the Lowden and Borah declinations were inspired by a this was a bad year to run and that the success of the Coolidge ticket was not at all sured in their eyes All these were Republican com- ments as the contest proceeded with Us unexpected attempt to swing the convention to Burton and the persistent Lowden tions After an attempt was made to force the nomination of Illinois former Governor the Iowa tion which has stood solid for yon felt that the chances of their candidate were improving The Elder Statesmen Confer the first time the veteran senator from Massachusetts ator Henry Cabot Lodge got on to the platform and talked earnestly to Chairman Then John T Adams white as the Massachusetts man but lacking his whiskers we are happy to say ed the group Others of the older statesmen gathered and it was were worried Iowa delegation had word from Washington that Judge yon would be satisfactory to dent Coolidge Probably some of the other candidates were not Some one perhaps heard from Washington to that effect No one has pretended that the dent not in close touch with the proceedings He been GOV SMITH IN NEW YORK FOR CONVENTION Led the Influx of tors tb Select Next President By Thd Preti New York June Smith has led the Influx of Democratic leaders for tho Democratic national convention He arrived last night and will remain until the closo ot the convention Franklin D Roosevelt chairman of the committee for his nomination for the presidency George Brennan Democratic leader of Illinois will arrive day It is expected that William G McAdoo will arrive next day His campaign manager David L Rockwell who has been in Cleveland as an observer of the convention is on tho way here Cordell Hull national cratic chairman arrived yesterday and took charge of the national headquarters SLAYERS FATE MAY DEPEND ON THEIR GLANDS Medical Experts Are to Make Examination of Youths Today Chicago June fate of Nathan E Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb millionaires sons and con- fessed ot Robert Pranks may depend on the opinion ot gland experts it is indicated since prosecution and defense have retained experts to examine the glands of the youths The glands have a direct effect on the mentality behavior and ty medical authorities say Defense attorneys plan to have both boys examined today COOLIDGE GIVES ORDER TO CARRY LAW Washington June for administration of the bonus law despite failure of congress to appropriate funds for the purpose were given today by President Coolidge in orders to tho ment heads affected KENDALL PRAISES THE G O P TICKET By Tito Des Moines la June tho Republicans of Iowa who went to Cleveland as this state's tion preferred Judge William S Kenyon of Fort Dodge as President Coolidge's running mate in the fall election after Congressman L J Dickinson released them the party will cheerfully accept Charles G Dawes as a man pre-eminently equipped for the position ernor N E Kendall declared in statement issued here The governor took occasion to eulogize President us a man of eminent ability promising morally and undaunted FOR VICE PRESIDENT Hell and Maria Gov den Refused Honor TRIED TO BURTON Attempt to Nominate Congressman Is Defeated Cleveland June to elect President to succeed himself and Charles G Dawes of Illinois to be vice dent got formally under way today with organization of the can national committee The Republican national con- vention which Blurted with almost depressing calm worked up ly of its sessions into a pi climas last night and ended amid scenes that soothed the hearts of the old timers Hell and Maria Nominated Frank 0 Lowden ot Illinois had been nominated by an ing vote and had declined That had neier happened before in the history uor was t in cordance with the convention agers plans then after a recess to confirm for the last time Mr den's frequently reiterated decision the Hell and Maria general Irom Chicago was swept into the nation And that too had not been planned by the leaders The con- vention itself as President idRe wished had named his running mate Nomination nnd acclamation ot Calvin Coolidge was accomplished at the morning session with rous enthusiasm only the sin and North Dakota followers ot Senator dissenting Everybody knew what was soing to happen and it did Then came the business of selecting the vice presidential candidate Nobody knew what going to happen tho sonic of them thought they did A recess was taken after tho nomination of President to give the leaders another to get together on a vice presidential candidate When the afternoon session began however was no nearer than it had been during the and nights ot con- ferring nnd maneuvering and the first ballot carried sixteen names only eight of which had been ed formally in nomination As the delegates gathered for the afternoon session from lunch or conferences or both handbills posters bands and other material appeared The floor soon was littered still puzzled leaders put their heads together delegations caucused individuals and groups were urged beseeched argued with Some heard that Judge William S Kenyon ot Iowa was the favored candidate Others heard the same thing about Senator Charles tis of Kansas But while the nations were being placed before the convention the name of for- mer Governor presented despite his protestations aroused the largest demonstration On the first ballot Mr Lowden received 222 iotes Judge Kenyon on Page TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY Noon 7 7 p.m 1'ester- day day dny Dry 79 Wet 72 69 Rel Humidity 56 71 Snuse t today p m Sunrise tomorrow a m Weather Forecasts TIM 7 P M Saturday For Davenport Rock Island line and Partly over- cast tonight and Saturday with possibly showers Somewhat er tonight For Partly overcast night and Saturday possibly ers Somewhat cooler tonight For Partly overcast night and Saturday probably local thundershowers in south portion Not much change in temperature RUNNING MATE FOR COOLIDGE pHAHLKS G DAWES former rector of the budget fur vice president by the Re- publican convention last from his work director of the General gained his fame as chairman of the commission which met in Taris last winter GALESBURG HAD WINDOW Storm in on Thursday Caused Loss of fig The Galesburg 111 June received today from farm districts near here which was in tue path of the tornado and hail storm which struck this city yesterday indicate that the village of and farms surrounding It were the est hit by the storm Almost every building in the village was aged and many of the smaller ings were torn down by the wind while the crops will be a total loss as a result of the hail The storm struck in three townships burg Henderson and Orange It is estimated that 70.000 window panes are out in this city alone Many houses here are unroofed and a number have been damaged by falling trees Loss including that of livestock nnd farm crops is estimated at DES MOINES AUTO CLUB FORM TO GET GASOLINE Des Moines Juno Des Moines automobile club ate will consider next week the organization ot a Fifteen Cent League to work for 15 cent line The suggestion is that the local the plan of a similar league in Omaha where gasoline has been reduced in twelve stations from 20 to 15 cents within a month The league would not make 15 cents an arbitrary price but to limit dealers to a 3 cent profit It was said GAS OPEN OLD VET SUFFOCATED Str Waterloo la June T Higgins a civil war veteran was found dead in bed and Mrs Higgins so seriously affected by caping gas she probably will die at S a m neighbors went to their apartment A gas cock on an oven In the adjoining kitchen was open Circumstances indicate it was accidentally left open Hong Lowell H Smith commander of the world flight aviators was forced down near Hue capital ot French Indo-China and has requested a new motor be sent him from Saigon Now of slightly less than next in- terest installment on the British debt falling due June 15 will be mado almost entirely in cash J P Morgan Co fiscal agents for tho British government said OVER TWO SCORE DIE IN BLAST Gun on the Battleship Mississippi Explodes SHAM END Disaster Worst in History of the Fleet in Time of Peace BT rwi San Pedro Gal June day the 13th and navy mourns its dead Forty-eight ot them three officers and 45 enlisted men their lives snuffed out aboard the naught Mississippi yesterday in the fleet's greatest peace time disaster a disaster that brought to a tragic climax a week of sham battles and target practice Aboard the hospital ship Relief lay the dead killed by a premature explosion in the Mississippi's No turret and the injured Aboard the United States Mexico flagship of division four ot the battle fleet members of a naval of inquiry prepared to their investigation of the disaster Aboard the Mississippi anchored outside the breakwater officers and men watched tlie turret where a gun with an as yet charge jammed in its breech meant that the danger of still another sion had not yet passed by It was a from one of these guns that shot death in flames and poisonous gas back into the turret thru its open breech A second the breech locked let loose in the harbor here as the sippi steamed home with its dead and injured from the drill grounds and burled a steel projectile near to an outbound senger liner Should the third gun's charge explode before it can be removed however it fe believed that precautions will render the firing harmless Meanwhile this harbor today was overrun with senger hoys their stuffed with ing the anxious queries ot mothers wives sweethearts fnom all parts ot the United States Thru the gloom of the parly morning hours they hurried back forth in the darkened and deserted streets Relatives of Arrive Then came automobiles from nearby cities and towns carrying relatives or friends lot the dead and Injured Ot these injured there were strangely few With -a death list close to the halt hundred mark only eight men were numbered among the hurt and the injuries of on Page IOWAN KILLED BY THE BLAST ON WARSHIP Floyd Gets Message Son Was Victim of Disaster By Pmi Floyd Iowa June radio message received by townspeople here last nicht had prepared Milo W Raymond school house janitor for the news of Hio death of his son Floyd when he notified this morning by an Press representative that the youth's name was on the list of dead The radio message had stated that the Mississippi was the ill-fated ship and the father knew this was his son's vessel Tho local hoy enlisted two years ago and was stationed at Mare Is- land for most of his training This spring he mario a cruise to New York Mr Raymond had not been of- notified of the hoy's death and funeral arrangements have not been made LIST OF THE DEAD BY Bl UPON San jj list of dead residence of- aboard the U S S N ij late last night by N Morgan com- g t acting for Ad- miral ft if -y t J u n 1 or grade ZELLARS Long Beach ENSIGN M ERWIN Jr ville N C A RAYMOND seaman first class Floyd Iowa ALBERT DARAZIO Egg bor M J FREDERICK G EVER ham BRADFORD W SMITH W Va HOWARD A WALKUP ley TV Va AUDE N SULLIVAN geant Nebraska KERR Terre Haute ALBERT L LAWSON phia JOHN D SHARKLEY phia JAMES D HOLLIDAY Mena STEPHEN BETO Bridgeport Conn FLOYD B Greeley Colo ANDREW R KINNEY Argonia Kansas PETER A FLYNN Worcester Mass EDWARD H HUFFMAN Aurora Ind VERNON BRUMFIELD field Miss G BERG Mount Vernon ington GEORGE A BYERS San Jose Calif LESLIE MALONE ence Mo WALLACE W KEYS Madera Calif PAUL H C H R I S T E X SE N Guernsey Wyoming DOYLE N Clayton Texas CARL C CALDWELL Dover Ark JAMES THOMAS WOOD chinson Kansas GEORGE EUGENE MAGILL Waco Texas PAUL GREEN Little Rock Ark WILLIAM W LUBO Cahuilla Cal STANLEY J SKRYNAS brook Maine BARTHLOMEW D KELLEY D SLOAN Fort Ind WILLIAM H WARD Wichita Kansas FRANK B KING Clinton Mass CLARENCE T BOURGEOIS Waveland Miss LAWRENCE H WILLIS Os good Ind FRANK L KLONOWSKI Blue Island III RODNEY L Los PHILLIP C CLARKE Los An- geles A land Ohio WILLIAM 0 COOK St Louis M FREDERICK W ZACHARIAS Pittsburgh Pa The following named men were attached to the TJ S S New BIGGEST AND BOLDEST HOLDUP IN RAILROAD HISTORYJN ST PAUL Mail and Express Looted of Forty-five Sacks of tered Mail Seventy Armed Clerks Were on Board the Train at the Time Forced To Open Doors and Let Robbers in Cars by Chlorine Gas One Robber Shot By Bandit Mistaking Him for Trainman WILLIAM GEORGE McCREA Ensign Renovo Pa NORMAN LEE San Francisco HOMER SYLVESTER BRIDGES Miss FARRIS HOPKINS Adairsville OR TBD CARLYLE RAGAN Joplin Mo HOOGES CHOSEN AS TREASURER OF COMMITTEE Denver Man Selected as Fat Fryer for the Re- publicans Br TTw Cleveland 0 June V of Denver Colo was today elected treasurer of the Re- publican national committee President selection ot William Butler of Massachusetts to be national chairman was ratified and selections for other offices were as forecast Sy The Chicago June of several counties were watching all roads today for trace of four automobile loads of train robbers who robbed a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul express and mail train last night away a fortune mail Postal and bank however said the amount would be much less than early estimates which had ranged from to Altho the holdup was one of in railroad history ahd was accomplished by a large ber ot bandits the exact number has not been determined Federal Reserve bank officials said all shipments of currency and securities from the Federal Re- serve bank of Chicago aggregated DOUMERGUE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE Elected by the National Assembly to Succeed Millerand RIGHT BALANCE Forced the Election of the Candidate They Favored I By Tit Versailles June Doumergue was today elected ident of France by the national sembly here Paris June French ate and chamber of deputies ered today in national assembly at Versailles to elect a new president ot the republic In succession to Millerand The term of is seven years but the of chief executives since foundation of the third republic have like M Millerand resigned The left bine which worked as a unit in ousting M Millerand Is ready divided over the identity of the man to succeed him and when the national assembly met today the right parties altho defeated in the parliamentary elections hold the balance of power Efforts to induce Gaston gue president of the senate anil Paul president of the chamber of deputies to retire in favor of a third person were un- availing M Doumergue received 515 votes and Paul president of the chamber of deputies 309 votes with 2D votes for various other and S blank ballots These figures officially announced in open session of the assembly ARMED BANDITS ROB JEWELRY STORE OF IN GEMS Bj The New Tork June ed bandits today bound a jeweler and his salesman and then ransacked the store escaping with merchandise and cash valued at STRIKE CLOSES TWO THOUSAND BEER SALOONS By 0 D Universal Service Correspondent Berlin June thousand small saloons in Berlin have been forced to close their doors because of the scarcity of beer as a result of the strike of brewery workers Beer imported from other cities is available to all the larger places which are also doing a big business in other liquors but imported beer is too expensive for the customers of the corner saloons in the ing class sections Dissatisfaction among the thirsty j of Berlin Is so great that extreme j efforts have been mado to get the strike settled and an agreement is believed to be In sight Chicago June one of tha biggest and most daring holdups in railroad history four automobile loads of bandits last night held pp a Chicago Milwaukee it St Paul railway mail and express train and escaped with loot valued at close to The train en route from Chicago to St Paul was slopped 111 32 miles north of Chicago The train carrying eight mail coaches and two express cars left Chicago at 9 o'clock central standard time Fifty minutes later the bandits possession pf the train In 55 utes more gathered between 42 aad 45 pouches of registered mail and sped away into the ness Loss May Exceed Two Million The loss early today was mated at about but eral service and bank officials said that a careful may show the loss to exceed that figure Only one man was shot He was a member of the robber gang taken by one of his fellows for a member of the train crew Seventy Armed Mail Clerks Aboard Altho the train carried more 0 mail clerks and guards all armed in three coaches were compelled to face the the robbers These coaches ried the registered and first class mail The robbers forced their way in- to cars by breaking the coach dows and throwing bombs filled with chlorine gas The clerks and guards nearly overcome by the deadly fumes were forced to open the doors and allow the robbers to enter Familiar with Railroading Officials are certain that the up had been arranged by a group of men familiar with road and railroad mail clerks work At least two of the robbers con- themselves aboard the mail special before it left Chicago The train had just gone thru and was traveling about BO miles an hour Two men dishing revolvers came from their hiding place between tho tender antl the first coach into the engina cab The muzzle of one weapon pushed against the neck of neer S R Waite of Milwaukee The other bandit covered the man E J Biddle also of kee A half mile down the track you'll see a red light flashed on the bide of the tracks the man back of the engineer said When you lipht you'll stop tha train If you don't you're done Just where the Buckley road be- tween Chicago and Libertyville cuts the track a red light flared close to the west rail Engineer Stops Train Now jerk it the bandit yelled into tho engineer's ear The T neer did Before the train came to a full stop a third bandit cut the air line pipe Of the eight cars on the train only those in the center contained registered mail The bandits were of this for the one covering the engineer directed that the train be slowly backed so that the middle car he stopped across the road The clerks in the middle car looking out of the car window saw two automobiles parked on the east side of the train and two on the west Sensing something was wrons the clerks extinguished all lights Bombs Hurled Thru Windows The bandits ordered them to opon tho doors and when they re- the bandits hurled several bombs of gas thru tho windows on Page
