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* f\ •'"* penSt™ .v. r,.-^r,r I ENIS CAREER OF WM. :#v k^fc".-' i'; r Dies in Sleep APPARENTLY IN GOOD HEALTH ' '.,v 5&'. " if:'• pad Finished Preparation# for Religious National f£ampaign---Country in Mournings Dayton, Tenn:--William Jennings i ,fcjryan died suddenly vrhile he slept in ,;*the afternoon at the residence of "'Jtlchard Rogers here. Apoplexy, prob- •vHbly aggravated by indigestion, Is said %o have been the cause of death. Bryan wag sixty-five years of age. Apparently in perfect health, full of plans to make a nationwide fight for laws protecting the Bible against the 'teaching of evolution, Mr. Bryan went to his room for a nap after a hearty tneal. Mrs. Bryan sent the family chauffeur, who also acted as companion to ^llr. Bryan, to awaken him. -- Found Dead in Bad. The chaufTeur found Mr. Bryan lying in an awkward position on the |>ed, as if he had fallen while trying to rise. There'was no sign of heart 'action. Physicians were then summoned. They found that Mr. Bryan had been dead for some minutes. Mrs. Bryan was in a wheel chair on Ithe porch when she learned that her ' husband was dead. She was overcome 3wlth grief. According to their intiinates, no more devoted couple ever lived. Devoted Couple. Up to the time of her nines* Mrs. ,'Bryan had made her one object In life -ithe comfort and care of her husband, '• . and since she has been an invalid Mr. ^Bryan's tenderness toward her has , :jbeen most striking. * ^ Her consolation in his sudden death ; jWas that it took place at a time when .•ifbe was happiest | 1 am glad that he died without :v ipain," she said. Mr. Bryan was to have left Dayton ii shortly for Knoxvllle, where he was to make two addresses on the Scopes trial and to outline his idea of a najfe"- tlonal campaign to arouse the peoplf ^ to the danger In which he believed th< •0,"' -Christian religion stands today. 2'Sc I ^ Laat Triumphal Tour. Less than twenty-four hours before his death the Commoner spoke to a great crowd at Winchester, Tenn. He was in fine form. He delivered a stir*- ring speech and took delight In the applause and in the evident affection t and admiration in which the crowd •-* ^1. h.e ld hVi. m. Returning from Winchester, Ifr. Bryan'strain was like his famous election special of 1896. From the rear platform he made speech after speech at each stop, and the crowds cheered him wildly and kept the train until its (schedule was thoroughly disjointed. study of law in the Union law coilefls at Chicago and, at the same time, as a student clerk in the office of the eminent jurist and statesman, Lyman Trumbull, of whom Mr. Bryan said in later years: "Any distinction I have gained I owe in great part to him." Reflects Trumbull's Influence. Trumbull had been a leading Democrat; then on the slavery issue he became a Republican and as such had a distinguished career in the United States senate, but he refused to vote for the impeachment of Andrew Jackson, and in consequcnce at the end of his term retired to private life. Thereafter he inclined strongly toward radicalism in politics and especially urged governmental restraint of what he conceived to be the too great power of concentrated wealth. Doubtless Mr. Bryan received from him many of the economic ideas which he afterward advocated; As a lawyer Mr. Bryan was not notably successful. Some of his associates said that he suffered from "the fatal gift of language." He was more given to talking than to studying; his oratory was more eloquent than his law was sound. A year after his admission to the bar he married Miss Mary Elisabeth Balrd. the only daughter of a prosperous merchant of Perry, 111., whom he had known and courted in his college days. Soon after their marriage Mr. Bryan went to the Union Law college, pursued the full course, and then, when they removed to Nebraska, was admitted to practice at the bar of that state. The removal to Lincoln, Neb„ was made in 1887, on the invitation of Mr. Bryan's former chum at college, Adolphus R. Talbot, with whom a law partnership was formed under the style of Talbot and Bryan. The next year, 1888, saw the young man's entry into practical politics. He was sent as a delegate to the Democratic state convention at Omaha. In Congress in 1890. Mr. Bryan was first elected to congress in 1890. In 1892 he was re-elected to congress by the narrow majority of 140. During that congress, the Fifm Three Time* Named for Presidency of the United States When he electrified the Democratic national convention of 1896 and won its nomination for the Presidency of the Uniteti States with bis "crown of thorns" and "cross of gold" speech against the single standard of monetary value, William Jennings Bryan was but little known to the bulk of the American nation. He was at that time only thirty-six years old, the youngest man ever nominated for the Presidency. He was born at Salem, Marion county, 111., on March 19, 1860. Young Bryan attended the local public schools and at the age of fifteen entered the Whipple academy at Jacksonville, 111., to prepare for college. Two years later he entered the freshman class of Illinois college, a institution at Jacksonville. Wins Oratorical Honors Early. During his student life he was shy and reserved, mingling little in the sports and social diversions of his fellows. He was a fairly good student, but not brilliant, save, perhaps, in mathematics and oratory. Indeed, he bad won distinction as an orator long before going to college. Entered Politics Early. In the political campaign of 1872, when he was only twelve years old, his father put him forward to address a Democratic convention, and although he was greeted with derisive laughter, he closed his speech amid hearty and appreciative applause. Upon leaving college he began the. AIR. BRYAN'S CAREER WILLIAM JENNING8 BRYAN fy-thlrd, he was a conspicuous lieutenant of Richard P. Bland--of "Bland Dollar" fame--in his campaign for remonetlzation and free coinage of silver at the 16-to-l ratio, distinguishing himself with a three-hours' speech against the repeal of the silver purchase act. He was, of course, in strong opposition to the monetary policy of the Cleveland administration. At the end of that second term. In 1894, he declined renomination and in the fall of that year became editor of the World-Herald of Omaha, purposing to conduct a journalistic campaign against the Cleveland administration in favor of free coinage of silver and in favor of his. own election as United States senator. But his plans went soon a-glimmering. The Republican state committee had some time before secured by contract the use of two columns of the editorial page of that paper to fill with any matter they pleased i and they filled It daily with matter squarely and aggressively opposed to Mr. Bryan's policies. He retired from the editorship in disgust. Then John M. Thurston was elected United States senator and Mr. Bryan was left In private Ufa He re-emergence came in 1896, when he was sent as a delegate to the Democratic national convention. First Nominated for President. David B. Hill, the veteran Democratic leader and United States senator from New York advocated maintenance of the existing gold standard. Bryan replied to him in an impassioned speech against the "money power" and in favor of free silver; closing with the almost hysterical peroration : "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." That utterance stampeded the convention. Mr. Bryan was nominated for the Presidency upon a platform demanding the Immediate remonetlzation of silver and its free coinage at the ration of sixteen to one; and Arthur Sewall of Maine, a believer in the UW lm at Salem. HL, InA 1ft. 1881--WM (n*Mte< (MM KM- •ota eolleve, JicktomTlllc, III (NittM from TTntea College «f Law, CMW»«> and best u practice t* JlMfawytllf. 1K84--Harriet Mary B. Balr •« Perry, 111. 1887--Moved to Liacola, N<k. ISM--Elertri to w»n««. inaa -Attracted atteatloa fcjr kte tariff am eh. 18M--Offoae4 the repeal of the Sfcernuui aliver parehaae aet. lHW-jMitw of the Omaha W orld-Heimld. 1K0O--Noatlaated for Prealdeat. 1H0H--Coloael of Nebraska volaateera. 1*00--Nomlaated for Prealdewt. iaOBt06--Made tour •( the world. 1SOS--Xomlaated for Prealdeat. ISIS--Secretary of atate for Prealdent Wllsoa. 1915--Retired treat Wllioa cabtaet. / 1MB--Lcaccr la piwulmtlM la Seojtea evoMtlm eaee. * 1 ^ ^ single gold standard, was Wmed for Vice-President. ,f \ The Populists also nomlnatedBryan for President with Thomas E. Watson of Georgia for Vice-President. A, considerable faction of "Gold Demo<Wts" bolted and nominated John M. Palmer for President and 8. B. Buckner for Vice-President. The Republicans oil a gold standard platform, nominated William McKlnley and Garretf A. Hohart. t Defeated by McKlnley. The campaign which followed vu one of the most exciting in American history. Mr. Bryan made a whirlwind campaign, speaking in as many places as possible and rousing much enthusiasm by his remarkable oratorical powers. . The election of 1896 resulted in Mr. Bryan's defeat, but it did not destroy his political ambition; rather it stimulated It. In December, 1897, he visited Mexico, returning home before the outbreak of the war with Spain. Although a pronounced pacifist, he entered the army and was commissioned as colonel of the Third Nebraska infantry but had no active service at the front Nominated Again In 1900. In December, 1888, he resigned his commission and resumed his campaigning, making not free silver but "antiimperialism" his leading issue. On that Issue, which principally meant American abandonment of the Philippines be secured the Presidential nomination in 1900 from the Democratic, Populist and Silver Republican parties. After another exciting campaign he was again defeated by William McKlnley. He then re-entered journalism, founding at Lincoln, Neb., a weekly political paper called The Commoner. The Democratic convention of 1904 passed him by and nominated for the Presidency, Judge Alton B. Parker. Judge Parker was defeated by Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Bryan's return to party leadership was effected in 1908 after he had made a tour around Jhe world and had done a vast amount of newspaper writing. Defeated for Third Time. He had his third Presidential nomination in 1908 and suffered at the hands of William H. Taft, his third and worst defeat. In 1912 when the convention met at Baltimore, he was its dominant figure. He bitterly opposed Champ Clark, the leading candidate and it was probably because of his course that Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated. Because of the schism in the Republican party, Mr. Wilson was elected and in recognition of his work at the convention and In the campaign and of his undoubted popular following in the Democratic party he made Mr. Bryan his secretary of state. In that office one of Mr. Bryan's accomplishments was the negotiation of treaties with SO countries providing for investigation of disputes before going to war. The World war began in 1914. Mr. Bryan's pacifist views were well known. On numerous occasions his views and those of President Wilson did not coincide. On June 9, 1915, he felt constrained to resign his offlca Active In Later Years. In 1921-23 he became deeply Interested in evolution, the theories of which he discredited. -r-"fie\ delivered many lectures and addresses against "Darwinism" and published a book on the subject, entitled "In His Image," In which he argued for a literal interpretation of the Biblical cosmogony. If man must choose, he said, between being descended from a monkey and being made out of mud, be preferred the mud. He had already published several volumes: "The First Battle," 1897, a review of the campaign of the preceding year; "Under Other Flags," 1904, and "The Old World and Its Ways," 1907, based on his foreign travels, «n«i "Heart-to-Heart Appeals," 1917. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Universities of Nebraska and Arizona. In 1925 he was the leading figure In a world-famous trial In Which he defended the Bible against the theory of evolution of man. President Shocked by Death of Commoner Bwampscott. -- President Coolidge was profoundly shocked at the news Of the death of William Jennings Bryan. While carefully making no comment on the legal controversy which marked the last phase of the picturesque and spectacular life of the Commoner, the President has been following it with profound interest. Mr. Coolidge has always been -keenly Interested In Mr. Bryan. Just two months ago, when Mr. Bryan was passing through Washington, the President had him to lunch. Though different in almost every conceivable respect, the two men seemed to have what seemed sometimes to observers to amount to an attraction for each other. Mr. Coolidge could stand for the high tariff or any other Issue which Bryan thought pernicious, without creating in Bryan's mind any thought of criticism. In the same way Mr. Coolidge was always very soft spoken when It to speaking of Bryan.' Dawes Says He Mourns Bryan's death. It is believed here, will have a profound effect on the course of American politics in n#xt few years. the Robert S. Regar of Washington, D. C., has been named third assistant postmaster general by President Coolidge. Mr. Regar came from the ranks, having entered the postal service In 1901 at a typist He succeeds W. Irving Glover. v U. S. GOVERNMENT MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--For the week ending July 23.--GRAIN--Quoted July 23: No. 1 dark northern wheat: Minneapolis, 11.56V4 @1.76fc. No. 2 red winter wheat: Chicago, «1.65; St. LOuis, $1.61® 1.63; Kansas City, $1.60@1.61. No. 2 hard winter wheat: Chicago, $1.52@1.54; St. Louis, $1.50© 1.52; Kansas City, $1.51 @ t.60. No. 2 mixed corn: Chicago, $1.06; Kansas City, $1.02V4- No. 2 yellow corn: Chicago, $l.08@1.10; St. Louis, $1.10; Kansas City, $1.08. No. 8 yellow corn: Chicago, $1.08. No.~2 white corn: Chicago, $1.08; St. Louis, $1.08; Kansas City, $1.03. No. 3 white oats: Chicago, 44He; St. Louis, 46c. No. 2 white oats: Kansas Gity, 46c. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Closing prices on 92-score butter: New York, 43Ho; Chicago, 42He. Wholesale prlceB on Wisconsin primary cheese markets July 22: Twins, 21 He; single daisies, 2l\c; longhotns, 22c; square prints, 22 He. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Georgia peaches. Elbertas, mostly $2.00© 2.76 per bushel basket and six-basket carrier in leading- markets, $1.90@2.26 f. o. b. Macon, Ga.; North Carolina Belles, $2.00© 2.50 In New York city. Imperial valley salmon tint cantaloupes ranged $1.00©2.50 In leading cities, as compared with $2.00 ft 3.50 a week ago; Arizona stock sold at $1.76@2.75; Turlock section of California, $1.60@1.60 f. o. b. LIVE STOCK--Chicago hog prices closed at $14.35 for top, $12.90©14.M for bulk. Medium and good beef steers, $8.004j>13.75; butcher cows and heifers, $3.75@13.25; feeder steers, $5.50@8.86. Mght and medium weight veal calves, $».00@ 11.60. HAY--Quoted July 23: No. 1 timothy: Chicago, $25.00; St. Louis, $26.60; Kansas City, $18.50. No. 1 alfalfa: Kansas City, $18.50. No. 1 prairie: Kansas City, $11.50; St. Louis, $16.50; Minneapolis, $16.00; Chicago, $18.00. Shipping Board Wants Law Point Unraveled Washington. -- Doubt has arisen among members of the shipping board as to whether the board may sell for scrapping ships fonnd not to be obsolete or damaged. To remove that doubt, President Coolidge was asked to have the attorney general construe the merchant marine act of 1920, with reference to the sale of ships for scrapping. Pending receipt of this opinion, the board will defer action on the recommendation of President Palmer of the fleet corporation, that the board accept the bid of $1,700,000 for 200 ships submitted by the Ford Motor company. Coal Conference Sure to Be Lengthy On* Atlantic City, N. J.--It has become apparent that conversations between cool miners and operators looking to a new agreement to replace the one expiring August 31 will not end until late in August. Miners and operators say they are hopeful of reaching an agreement, but impartial observers are of the opinion that the negotiations are pursuing a course similar to the conferences two years ago, when digging of coal was suspended for three weeks before a new contract waa arranged. Textile Workers on Strike in England London.--On the heels of an order by the miners' executives calling for a strike of the pit men Jnly 31, a textile strike of wide proportions became effective. One hundred thirty thousand operatives in the woolen industry at Brailford, Huddersfield, Leeds and other Yorkshire towns walked out In protest against wage reductions. A representative of the ministry of labor vainly tried to effect a compromise. "Fuel Famine Not to Be Toi •rated," Hammond < Declares. Man of integrity There is nothing so delightful as the hearing or the speaking of truth, says Plato. For this reason there Is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of Integrity who hears without any Intention to betray and speaks without any intention to deceive. I earnest and In It dl be tried to do Loss of Dear Friendy "Those who knew him best respect- Denver, Colo. -- "V"i ce "Pr esi•d"e n't ed most his motives and his sincerity. Dawes issued the following statement OB the death of William Jennings Bryan: "I have beetl a friend of Mr. Bryan for 88 years, since we started as young lawyers in Lincoln, Neb. Throughout mil these years of work and strenuous public service there shows resplendaat a high personal character. In all h« (Ud, Mr. Bqran was In; He never did unworthy or mean things. He may have be«n mistaken at times as we all are, but he was trying to do the right as he saw It. "Of his great influence on the public thought of his day, his public serlces and his transcendent ability as an orator, I will leave to others to speak, but I want, simply as an old friend and neighbor for many years, to pay my tribute of respect to a good and a great man whose life has been one of high purpose and helpfulness and whose death brings a sense of personal loss." i' Thought Rules the World Think! Nothing can be gained by senseless argument and hasty conclusions. The unthinking class of people Is too large now. It Includes those who do not know, and therefore cannot think; and also those who do know, but do not thlnk.-H3Wk, Brookhart Cainm in Coani Washington.--Senator Brookhart «f Iowa gained about 300 votes as the net result of Hie recount in the Steck- Brookhart senatorial contest. In the recount of paper ballots 270 pndnctl have been disposed of. Swampscott, Mass.--That President Coolidge stands ready to seize and operate the mines to guarantee the public a continuous supply of coal In event of a strike was Indicated by John Hays Hammond, former chairman of th j United States coal commission, In a statement issued here. Hammond has had two conferences with the President at the summer White House on the dangers of a Strike and his views are understood to echo the President's purpose in the matter. 'Should the time come to act," Mr. Hammond declared, "the President will find all political parties united tehlnd him on the principle that the public's right to a continuous supply of fuel transcends the private rights of either capital or labor." President Coolidge has stated that be believes the wage dispute will be settled without resort to strike^ , Prominent Frenchmen ^ on Debt Commission Paris.---The delegation which will discuss ths settlement of the French debt to the United States, and which Is going to Washington early in September, consists of Henry Berenge., chairman- of the senate finance commission ; Henri Franklin-Bouillon, chairman of the chamber of deputies foreign affairs commission, and Joseph Simon, general secretary of the Soriety Generate, one of the biggest Prejach banks. M. Caiilaux w4M X$Uow lat«p*~ France Sends Financial Experts to Discuss Debt Paris.--The French financial experts left for London to negotiate with British treasury officials on the war debt question. An official note to this effect waa issued by the finance ministry. . • The delegates said they expect to be away about a week, but that other voyages would follow. The question of transfers, they, asserted, was one of the thorniest upon which they had to decide. irs." • September 1 Dale Stt' for Active "Dry" Work Washington.--Defeated in his plan to set a reorganized machine at work August 1, to enforce prohibition, Assistant Secretary Andrews, the Treasury's prohibition field marshal, took a fresh start. September 1 has now been fixed tentatively as the date on which the revamped enforcement organization ean be set in motion. Boundaries of six districts have been changed, it was announced. Meat Packers Ordered to Open Their Books Chicago.--Meat packers must open their books to the United States Department of Agriculture, Federal District Judge Adam Cliffe ordered In granting a writ of mandamus against the Swift, Wilson and Cudaby companies. The packers contended that exam; ination of their books violated their constitutional rights. - California Pays Foot' and Mouth Crisis Bill Sacramento, Cal.--Checks totaling $2,239,106 have been mailed by the state in payment of claims against California for animals and property destroyed during the foot and mouth epidemic. The largest check was for $512,500 to cover the claim of the California Bankers' association for cash advanced to pay the more urgent claims of stock. New portrait of Leopold Schepp of New York, the merchant and philanthropist who, in his eighty-fifth year, is asking the public for suggestions as to the best way to distribute his millions. He says he has given away febout <$4,000,000 in five or six years. SEEKS REFERENDUM ON WORLD COURT Representative Tinkham Pjftty [ ^Forward Proposition^ ^ Washington.--A popular referendum to save the United States from "the peril of the League of Nations, World court and internationalism" was urged by Representative George Holden Tinkham in an open letter to Senator William E Borah, chairman Of the foreign relations committee. The prime movers in the plan to force American participation in the court, he declared, "are open advocates of the entry of the United States into the League of Nations, and are being assisted by those who are furtively In favor of this policy or those who are not familiar with the implications of the proposed entry League court" Compelled to Give Up Effort to Save Miner• Bockwood, Tenn.--Following a conference between officials of the company, state and federal mine Inspectors and the heroic leaders of the rescue parties who bad risked their Uvea repeatedly In the effort to save their mates, it was decided to close Rodgers entry and leave the eight entombed miners to their fata The flra was spreading rapidly. - wm Nicaraguans Oppose American Missionaries Washington. -- The lives of three American missionaries, representatives •of the Central American mission at jGranada, Nicaragua, have been threatened, their residence has been stoned and the mission bombed. The mission, a Protestant institution, only recently opened headquarters In Granad%_ . Millions Raised for Colored Institutions New York.--Gifts and pledges aggregating $4,500,000 have been received toward the $5,000,000 extension fund being raised for Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes. Every state in the Union and most foreign countries are represented. Former students and graduates have pledged $152,000. Nears Arctic Circle Washington.--The Bowdoln of the MacMlllan Arctic expedition was within an hour's run of the Arctic circle on July 22, a delayed dispatch reaching here stated. Parade Spectators Killed Melbourne.--Fifteen persons were killed and hundreds were reported Injured when the packed veranda of a moving-picture theater collapsed. The spectators were watching a parade on Uourke street. American Doctor Honored Wuraburg, Bavaria. -- Dr. Joseph Schneider of Milwaukee, an eye specialist, was a guest of the University st Wurzburg, which conferred on btan an honorary degree ii'f WrfcdU 'tlkJcfoi i' &• Spanish Dictator to Confer With French Gibraltar.--Director Prirao de Rivera arrived at Algeciras from Madrid and inspected a guard of honor. He said he Intends on his arrival In Morocco to confer on the Riff problem with Generals Lorautey. Petaln and Naulln. Dress-Goods Wages Cut Lawrence, Mass. -- A 10 per cent <rage reduction, effective Monday, was announced by Walworth Bros., Inc., manufacturers of dress goods. The reduction will affect 300 operatives la the company's mills. Mexico Will Pay Debts Mexico City.--Mexico has no intension of repudiating the De La Huerta- Lainont agreement for the settlement of its foreign debts. Finance Minister itenl aaserted. American Cigarettes Barred London--By invoking, an old law forbidding the use of sugar In the preparation of tobacco, Great Britain hhs effectually barred the use of popular brands of imported American cigarettes. . Pershing Goes to Aries Panama, Canal Zone.--General Pershing sailed for Arica from here. All the members of the Tacna-Arica plebiscite commission, eleven, sailed with the generaL Farmers No Longer in ; Shadow of Bankruptcy Waalhlngt on.--Secretary Jardlne announced that bis eight weeks' western 'tour had convinced him that farmers are getting out of the "shadow of bankruptcy," and there la a return of confidence. - Secretary Jardlne went en to say that it was his belief that there would not be any great demand for farm legislation, as many farmers had told him that things were well enough right now and that It was best to leave well enough alone. . French Have Moroccan - Situation Well in Hand Fe*, Morocco.--Information reaching the general- staff here states that, having abandoned the rebel tribes to their fate, Abd-el Krim's regulars are In fait flight toward the north. It is asserted that the French concentration of troops, evidently in preparation for a powerful offensive, appears to have alarmed the Rlfltan shock troops, and that the tribesmen who, under duress, Joined the "Red" sultan's colors are prepared to make their submission to the Frand# v- ' 6 Higher Wage Not EquM to Present Living Cost Atlantic City, N. J.--That wages granted them during the past years, particularly since 1023, have been substantially exceeded by the cost of living, was a point made here by representatives of the anthracite miners attending the Joint wage scale conference with the operators. Claim World's Record F sank fort, Germany.--The 400-meter relay race for women in the international proletarian Olympiad was won by a Finnish team in 51.3 seconds, which la claimed to be a new west's record. Jail for Bank Official Newhampton, Iowa.--J. Kolthoff, president of the Darrow Trust and Savings bank, pleaded guilty to embezzling $27,000 and was sentence)! to twenty years at hard labor. Kentuckians Die in Dmel Henderson, Ky.--John W. Bratcher, thirty-nine, of Henderson, and John Shuck, twenty-five, of Geneva, Ky., shot each other to death at a country clubhouse near here. They had been drinking. Rockefeller Gift to Spam Madrid.--The undersecretary of instruction has announced the donation by the Rockefeller Institute of $420,000 toward the erection of a physics-chemical Institute. u*.At**.- . . ,.1£ Issues Edict That He*d Dry Forces Must Not Be Molested. Bwampecott, Mass.--President C«l* Idge has given Lincoln C. Andrewi, assistant secrets*? at the trefptty, s free hand to oi-iuiM his prohibition- - enforcement forces without polltlcSl fatterference and to enforce the Volstead act to the limit of federal jurisdiction. The President has Instructed him to proceed In his own way with the coo» structlon of the new enforcement machinery and has informed him that the executive will entertain no appeal! from his decisions. Mr. Gooiidge gave the impression that he desires senators, represents* lives and other politicians to take notice of his attitude. For several weeks be has been pestered with calls, letters, telegrams and telephone messages from Republican leaders, big and little, whose purpose was intof* ference with General Andrews. Some of these politicians are nr nh lng to save from displacement stats prohibition directors and other OH forcement officers. Including a number whom the Department of Justice has branded as grafters. Others are urglng the appointment of certain candidates to the newly created offices ot regional administrator ahd are objectlng to the selections for these places which General Andrews Is reported to have mad& The President has refused to ttstKn to any of these appeals and has made it clear that he holds General Andrews responsible for enforcement of the prohibition law and there(gre will tolerate no Interference with his measures. Still Hope to Avert Coal Strike in Britain London.--Although the Miners' federation had announced a strike of eel> lierles on July 31, the situation appeared more hopeful for a bridging Of the chasm of dissension between the miners and the coal mine owners. Mediation in the situation by W. CL Brldgeman, first lord of the admiralty, has been so effective that he persuaded the disputants to meet in conference in an endeavor to smooth out their troubles. In addition Prime Minister Baldwin has agreed to meet a special committee of the Trade Union congress, which has been given full command of the miner* case in the IpT pending struggle. ^ m a£"-y $&£ * Mellon Still Fights ^ Tax List Publimtiefi Washington.--repeal of publicity provisions of the revenue lew will be urged by Secretary Mellon. It Is announced. Notwithstanding compliance with the requirement of the Supreme court authorising newspaper publication of tax lists, Secretary Mellon, it was stated, has not changed his-original opposition to publicity snd will de what be can to cause congress to l&> peal the objectionable provislea. Condemned Man Given Stay of Execution Chicago.--Judge Joseph B. David of che Superior bench granted an indefinite stay of execution for Russell Scott, condemned to hang for the murder of Joseph Maurer, drug clerk. The Jurist granted the stay on the ground that the doomed man had become Is* sane since he was sentenced. Debt Negotiations to Be Begun on August 3 Washington. -- Secretary Mellon, chairman of the debt funding coinudbslon, will return to Washington August 3 to open negotiations with Bet glum. Conferences will be held during August and September with representatives of France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and other nations. "Dry Director Owe/i Suspended From Duty Chicago.--Prohibition Director Percy B. Owen, "dry" chief here since November, 1923, was suspended on orders from Washington following the return of two indictments before Federal Judge Adam C, Cliffe, charglnlf him with extortion and violation the Volstead act. ^ Harry Greb Easily Wins Decision Over BritttMt Columbus, Kun.--Harry Greb, middleweight champion, won the decision over Bflly Brit ton of Columbus In their ten-round main bout on a boxing card held here. Greb won by a good margin, outspeedlng Britton and scoribff the cleaner punches. " Welcome American Ships Dublin.--The American flag Hetf over the public buildings and all shipping was decorated in honor of the visit of the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, flagship of the American fleet in ITuiomss waters, to Kingstown. v > i •m Famous Surgeon Dead Chicago.--Dr. Albert John Octasnei^- surgeon-ln-chlef of the Augustana and St. Mary's hospitals, and pationally known surgeon, died at his home after a short illness. -4 V ' -i Forest Fire Looses HsmSy : Washington.--According to reports made public here, forest fires in the United States last year swept over 29,000,000 acres of land and caused a monetary damage estimated at *38,- 000,000. : • 1 ; r- ^ '4 Gives Million to Charity - Denver.--Mrs. Verner Z. Reed si Denver has given $1,000,000 to charity In the name of her daughter, Margery Reed Mayo, who died recently. Reed's lawyers announced.