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THE LARGEST M0RNT5G DAILY QRCCLATION IN FlL.iiSYLViNIA OUTSIDE PHILADELPHIA AND PITTSBURGH 1 ttuntm THE WEATHER Fair today; Sunday cloudy, warmer, possibly showers at night Yesterday's temp, Mai, 68; BOOST BUY BVRN ANTHRACITE 58. J1 ESTABLISHED 1867 VOL. 143, NO. 66 MEMBER OF THE 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS SCRANTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928 TWENTY TWO PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Satnue 3 am Business Leaden wtes A 1ES END COIV SELECTED TO HEAD TICKET WITH HOOVER IN FARMER LEADER ON TICKET WITH HERBERT HOOVER AT HOME EARLY The Presidential Nominee Swings Into Plans for Campaign President and Founder of Samter Brothers, Clothiers Had Been Seriously 111 for Over Week at Home, 701 Webster Avenue Active Leader in all Civic Affairs Business Interests Were Many and Varied. Loivden Relieved; But Sorry, Too CHICAGO, June 15 (A.P.) Frank O.

Lowden, former Illinois governor, defeat in bis campaign to win the Republican nomination for president, returned tonight to his farm at Oregon, III. "Personally I feel relieved that the great burden has passed me by," he said. "I'm quite contented and so is Mrs. Lowden. But I regret deeply the defeat of the cause I represented.

"I stood for certain principles, and they were not adopted." SENATOR CHARLES CURTIS ADVICE OF HIS INDIAN GRANDMOTHER MOVED CURTIS ON TO FAME Republican Candidate for Vice President Induced to Leave Campfire and Prepare for Better Things Was Famous Jockey in Youth. HIGHLY PkJD PARTY LEADERS First Official Act at Summer Capitol is Message to Herbert Hoover GETS NEWS ON TRAIN Telegram to Nominee Sent Immediately on Reaching Superior SUPERIOR. Juns 15 (A.P.).' With an endorsement of the nomination of Herbert Hoover as Republican candidate for president as his first official act. President Coolldge installed himself today in his Summer home by the waters of the Brule river. Arriving to an enthusiastic reception in Superior after a 36 hour ride from Washington, Mr.

Coolldge drove immediately through the town across 33 miles of rolling pine and beech land to Cedar Island lodge, a rustic home where, surrounded by virgin forests, he and Mrs. Coolidge will spend the next three months. Notified early this morning on the presidential train by Edward T. Clark, his private secretary, of Mr. Hoover's nomination at the Kansas City convention, Mr.

Coolidge immediately prepared a telegram to the nominee in Washington, to which a messagj of affection from Mrs. Coolidge was added. Wishes Him Success "You have been nominated for the most important position in the world," Mr. Coolidge's telegram said. "Your great ability and your wide experience will enable you to serve our party with marked distinction.

I wish you all the success that your heart could May God continue to bestow upon you the power to do your duty." Mrs. Coolidge's more intimate message read: "The President and I send you and yours our love and best wishes." The messages were dispatched as soon as the train drew into Superior, while Mrs. Coolidge's triumphal progress through the city was under way. The actual news of the nomination reached the presidential train last night after Mr. Coolidge had retired for the night.

Citizens of Duluth joined with the residents of Superior in welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge with an enthusiasm which seemed to affect the chief executive profoundly. Emerging from their special car as soon as the train drew into the sta tion. Mr.

and Mrs. Coolidge stood smiling and waving their hands on the observation platform to tne great flag waving crowd which shouted their welcome. Mrs. Coolidge remained on the train. Col.

James F. Coupal, White House physician, had recommended that on account of the illness from which she is now convalescing, she be spared the effort of the long drive to Cedar Is land lodge. She proceeded therefore, on the same train, to Winnebjou, only four miles from the Summer White House, while Mr. Coolidge motored there by road. Mrs.

Coolidge had not yet reached the lodge, when Mr. Coolidge arrived. He waited for her on the porch of the lodge and when the purring of her automobile was heard at the lodge gates, met her and escorted her to their new home. STORMS PREVENT OCEAN FLIGHTS ST. JOHNS.

N. June 15 (A. Storms that swept across the ocean air lines last night prevented Miss Mabel Boll and Miss Amelia Earhart from taking off today on their projected flights to Europe. Miss Earhart remained at Tre passey during the day with her two man crew and Miss Boll came here from Harbor Grace with her two pilots, for lunch with iSr John Bennett, colonial secretary. The crews of both planes expressed hope that clearing weather would permit them to get away in the morning.

The Junior Olympic Games sponsored by Tbe Scranton Republican are on today. Promptly at 2 o'clock this afternoon at Brooks' Athletic Field, Providence Road, more than 500 boys, alt under sixteen years of age. will compete for the right to represent Scranton at the Junior Olympic national finals at Atlantic City during the week of July 9. Two winners will be picked, one In each of the senior and Junior groups. At the seashore the Scranton champions will vie with boys from all sections of the country and the two winners there will be rewarded with a tour of Europe and a trip to Amsterdam, Holland, to witness the International Olympic Came WITH CHOICE OF JUNIOR MORN Photo by Schrievcr SAMTER MENACED WHEN Residents Flee As Water Pours From Huge Gap in Barrier ENGINEERS ARE BUSY Cut Another Opening in Another Bank in Effort to Reduce Danger NEWPORT, June 15 (A.P.).

The Stephens levee, on the White river, 10 miles south of here, broke early tonight, allowing flood waters from the swollen stream to sweep over a large area. At least 200 families, in the path of the water, were fleeing to higher ground, and it was believed that all would reach safety. Several hundred families moved from the affected area in the last few days. Four towrs were in the path of the water, Tupelo. Auverne, Shoffner and Weldon.

Make New Break. An hour after the levee broke engineers cut another levee a mile from the first to releave "still" water which they hoped would serve to check the sweep of water from Stephens break. The water was rushing toward the Cache river tonight and three of the four villages wore reported in danger of inundation. The water will force the Cache river to back up to near Cotton Plant, engineers said. Three hundred men were on the levee when it broke.

Most of the equipment was abandoned and swept away. The men were brought here and quartered. By RALPH W. WHEATLEY KANSAS CITY, June 15 (A.P.). From blanket Indian to vice president will be the romantic career of Charles Curtis if elected in November.

Plain Charles Curlts, "Charlie" to his friends, took this convention by storm because it recognized his sturdy manhood drawn from the blood of his Kaw Indian forebearers and the fire and daring of his French Canadian American sire, SAMUEL Direct Descendant of Indian Ancestry Unanimously Chosen PRESENTED BY BORAH Considered Admirable Candidate for Both East and West By JAMES L. WILLIAMS KANSAS CITY, June 13 (A.P.). Charles Curtis, of Kansas, born on a Kaw Indian reservation, and successively jockey, hack driver, lawyer and United States Senator, was chosen today by the Republican national convention as the vice presidential candidate to stand beside Her bert Hoover in the election next November. The leader of the majority In the swarthy descendant of Indian ancestery, was swept to victory with the final session of the party gather ing by a vote of 1,052 to 34. A mO' ment later the endorsement was made unanimous by a roaring chorus.

There was only one ballot. Tote Made I'uanlmous Thirteen votes for Charles G. Dawes; nineteen for Herman L. Ekern, of Wisconsin, and two for Hanford MacNider, of Iowa, prevented the registration of a solid vote for the Kansan in the beginning. Not a word was raised In protest when the motion was made to nave the convention go on record en bloc for him.

Curtis, who until yesterday was a candidate for the presidency appeared on the platform after ke had been nominated; thanked the convention for selecting him: told the delegates that he had hoped to have the honors which went to Mr. Hoover; praised President Coolidge and the secretary of commerce, and predicted victory for the ticket in the autumn. He was generously applauded. The landslide to Curtis began outside the convention hall some time in the early morning hours and when the convention met it was a foregone conclusion that he would be nanied. Party leaders had been rushing about from headquarters to headquarters all night, feeling out first one man and then another, in an effort to single on some one, satisfactory to Mr.

Hoover, and who could be named without a cat and dog fight on the convention floor. The agriculture question bulked largely In the decision, although it was patent that a man from the middle west would be chosen. Curtis voted for the McNary Haugen bill which President Coolidge vetoed but had refused to vote to override veto of that measure. He had considered himself an admirable compromise candidate for the presidential nomination, but the stampede to Hoover before the convention opened dissipated ar.y need for compromise. Admirable Choice The vice presidential nominee, a veteran campaigner, was described by those who proposed him for second place on the ticket as a man close to agriculture, on which there has developed sharp differences of opinion within the Republican party.

Many of the delegates believed he might bring closer together the party leadership and the McNary Haugen bloc which was overriden at every turn during the convention. As In the case of Hoover's nomination, the slide to Curtis began in the Pennsylvania delegation which early today decided to cast its seventy nine votes for him. New York followed soon afterwards with its 90, and from that time until the opening of the convention one state after another fel Unto line, and It was apparent long before the balloting began that the Kansan would be named (Continued on Page Seven) Diego, won the senior championship, at the 1927 finals staged in Washington, D. C. But Tony and Harold cannot Win again because national champions are Ineligible.

So two title holders' crowns will change hands. And boys from Scranton have Just as good an opportunity to wear them as have boys from any other city. The games are based on sound, athletic principles. They develop the entire body, make every muscle work, and the boy who earns the top score this afternoon can call himself a real, nonest Two o'clock ia the hour and Brooks' Athletic Field the place for the games this afternoon, to goodneu "man." TO RESIGN POST SOON Stresses Debt to Country in His First Public Pro nounccment Bv CLINTON COFFIN WASHINGTON, June 15 (A.P.). His usual schedule of reaching his office at an early hour undisturbed by his nomination by the Republican convention, Secretary Hoover swung immediately today into the preliminaries of his presidential campaign.

As a shower of congratulations upon bis attainment of the highest honor of his party poured down upon him, Mr. Hoover grasped time in which to write bis first campaign pronouncement, a message to the delegates at Kansas City. The message was not limited merely to the expression of his thanks and appreciation for the nomination, but sought to set clearly a note for his campaign. Coolidge Sends Message He dealth in it with the farm relief issues that have been paramount in all recent political agitation and expressed his attachment to the party principles laid down in the convention platform. He emphasized the necessity for spiritual and moral leadreship in government and dealing with himself in all humility declared that his career proved him a man in debt greatly to his country.

Among the many hundreds of messages which reached him from all parti of the United States and from many points In other parts of the world were those bearing signatures from men and women notable in all walks of life. President Coolidge sent one of the mes sages and an intimate note of friendship was contained in nis congratulations and the immediate response which it drew from the secretary. Only one other message was answered during the way when the secretary sent to Senator Curtis of Kansas, during the vice presidential nomination balloting a message of welcome and appreciation. Plans for the actual conduct of the campaign, though under consideration, were temporarily kept in the background while the new candidate read his messages and talked with his cloest aides. To Remain at Post for Time "For the present, Mr.

Hoover will remain secretary of commerce," George E. Akerson, his private secretary, declared in an authorized statement. "He will continue his duties in the denart ment Just as he has always done." Luncheon was sent into his office during the noon hour, and few interruptions were permitted. Late in the day he acceded to the request of the cameramen for pictures, and on the roof of the Commerce building, surrounded by bureau chiefs, he was given an ovation and went through his first real handshaking test. The cameras clicked off the scene and he hurried back to his office stopping only a moment to look at a private exhibition of motion pictures of the convention set up in an office room.

Though smiling cheerfully the secretary gave evidence of the strain which has been placed upon him during the convention days. After listening last night to the radio reports of the prolonged convention session when he was nominated, It was a very late hour that the Hoover household was able to settle back for a shoj; snatch at sleep, but the requirements of the day brought him out today at his usual early rising hour. Despite the announcement of his intent to retain his cabinet office for pre sent, it was nevertheless the general understanding that Secretary Hoover's resignation from the post would be presented in the near future. Begins Shaping Plans During the day he saw all of his most Important subordinates, discussing his campaign preliminary plans as well as (Continued on Page Seven) HALF MILLION LOST IN GASOLINE BLAZE String of New York Central Tanks Are Destroyed GREENVILLE, Pa, June IS (AP) A smoldering mass of tangled wreck age was all that remained tonight of a string of tank and box cars loaded with gasoline and oil, which took fire today after being derailed on the New York Central railroad near here. The loss was not definitely established, but it was estimated at more than $500,000.

Samuel Samter, president and founder of Samter Brothers, one of Scranton's foremost merchants, a leader in the city's civic life and philanthropist, died at'l o'clock this morning in his seventy seventh year. Death came at his residence at 701 Webster avenue after an illness of but a Keck. WE BASE PLEA FOR SUPPORT ON 11 Leaders of the Republican Party to Stress Actual Accomplishments DRAFT PROGRAM SOON Battle Plans Will Be Decided After Conference With Nominees By PAUL F. HAUPERT KANSAS CITY, June 15 (A.P.). With its campaign destinies overwhelmingly entrusted to nominees for president and vice president who have solid records of accomplishments be hind them, the Republican party will enter the battle of 1928 planning largely to rest on deeds not words, In laying its case before the American voters.

Such is the interpretation placed on the selection today of Curtis of Kansas as the running mate of Herbert Hoover. So far as Mr. Hoover is concerned it is likely to be pretty much of a "front porch" campaign. He doesn't care much for stumptng and the brunt of platform campaigning undoubtedly will fall on Curtis. Both, and particularly Hoover, are expected to make extensive use of the radio.

Walt For Conference The lines of which the Republicans will conduct their fight this year will not be determined until after Hoover and Curtis have had opportunities to map out strategy with party leaders, a campaign director has been chosen, and the Democrats at Houston have named their ticket. It is certain however, that the Republican presidential nominee, after a series of conferences In Washington with party leaders, will Journey across the continent early next month to his Palo Alto, home, there formally to be notified by a committee headed by Senator Moses of New Hampshire, and this occasion will afford him an opportunity to discuss the issues of the campaign as he sees them. The notification of Curtis will take place at Topeka, his home town, with Senator Pess, of Ohio, at the head of the official committee, It is Mr. Hoover's present intention to spend a month or more in the west campaigning but little, and then to return to tne east or return to some point in the middle west to establish his base for the remainder of the campagn. If main headquarters of the Republicans are established in Chicago, as some leaders are urging, it is not improbable that he might operate from some country estate near that city, delivering only a limited number of campaign speeches at strategic points.

Vigorous Campaigner As for Curtis, although he rarely makes an extended speech In the Senate, he is known as a vigorous campaigner on the stump tn his home state of Kansas. He makes an old (Contlnued on Page Seven) PLACE CORNERSTONE OF WILSON MEMORIAL PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June IS (A. The cornerstone of Prague's great memorial to Woodrow Wilson was laid today In the presence of Lewis Einstein, United States minister and several high government officials. The memorial will be formally unveiled on July 4, DEEDS INSTEAD OF MERE WORDS TWELVE MILLION PENSION FUND SAN FRANCISCO, June 15 (A. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen today set aside a reserve fund of $12,000,000 to cover payments to members of the Brotherhood who have reached the age of 70 years.

The sum was taken from the general benefit fund of the organization which is holding Its triennial convention here. Interest on the money would pay all claims of this type, John F. McNamVe, editor of the Brotherhood publication, asserted. Since 1917 nearly 800 of these old age claims have been paid, totalling $1.113.750 THREE FOUND GUILTY MEDIA, June 15 (A. William R.

Phillips, Jess G. Parker and George T. Weir were found guilty murder In the first degree in connection with the slaying of Norman B. Gibson by a Jury in the Delaware county court today. The jury fixed the penalty for Phillips and Parker at death and for Weir at life His keen knowledge of horses, learned on the plans, attracted the attention of a race horse man, who employed him as jockey.

Curtis took to this job with glee and during his several years campaigning with horses up and down the western circuits, he shot more winners across than any other jockey. When school time came around, his aunt had trouble getting him off of the track and into the school room. Even in the school room, the boy's mind would wander to the stable and track, until finally, his aunt told him that he could race no more. And thus another phase of Curtis' Hfo was closed forever. He raced horses no more.

He then became seriously Interested in his studies and finished among the first of his class. He was chosen to make the high school commencement oration and did it so well, that Mrs. A. H. Case, who heard him, persuaded her husband, then the most prominent lawyer in the section, to let the boy study law in his office.

So Charlie became the office boy and janitor law student of the firm of A. H. Case. He swept the floor and ran errands, but soon found that he needed funds or else must depend on relatives and friends for support. He contracted with a livery man to drive a hack on the streets of Topeka at night and split the profits.

He was so popular that he made more money than did the regular drivers. He finished his law course and was (Continued on Page Seven) F. Burton Derby, bead' of the physical educational department of the Scranton Public Schools, and his corps of assistants will be at Brooks' Field at 1 o'clock. All contestants are asked to report at the field not later than 1:30 o'clock In order that they may receive their coefficient and scoring card. Each boy must keep the scoring card In his possession while the games are going on.

The public is invited by The Republican to witness the games. No admission will be charged and the only request The Republican make sis that all spectators take seats In the bleachers or grandstand and remain there while the various events are In progress. Announcements of the first, sec Taken 111 Last Week. Mr. Samter suffered a stroke early Friday morning.

He continued to get worse, and thought it was not generally known his condition became critical. Ke waged a strong but uphill fight and Thursday he sank into unconsciousness when the attending physicians, Dr. Charles Falkowsky, of this city, and Dr. Potsdamer, of Philadelphia, gave up hope for his recovers'. He leaves to mourn him a widow, Mrs.

Julia Klauber Samter; three daughters, Mrs. Minnie Levy, wife of A. J. Levy, Scranton; Mrs. Jeanne Heinz, wife of Bernard Heinz, Scranton, end Mrs.

Evelyn Horwitz, wife of Jesse Horwltz, of Rochester, N. his brother, Benjamin Samter, associated with him in business; two sisters, Mrs. J. Potsdamer, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Maurice Levy, of New York, as well as several grandchildren, nieces and rephews.

Mr. and Mrs. Levy, and Mr. and Mrs. Heinz are in Europe at present.

Of all the men of Scranton in positions of trust, honor and responsibility who owe their success and exalted station to their own conscientious effort and capability, few of them have life stories more interesting or more full of teaching and inspiration than that of Samuel Samter. Throughout his life Ms assiduous attention and study to his obligations, his quick and clear Intelligence had placed him in a commanding position at the head of one of Scranton's most distinguished business houses. His energy and ability, however, was not entirely devoted to business life, for he was one of Scranton's lights in enterprise and for years had been regarded as one of the city's represent etive citizens In that respect. For the past six years he was officially connected with the city government. was named in 1922 as a member of the planning commission, and for the past few years he served as its vice president.

In his capacity as a member of the commission he gave freely of his time and thought to the betterment of the city. At the time of the Samter company's Jubilee In 1922. the firm made a sub tContinued on Page Thrcej OLYMPICS AT BROOKS FIELD TODAY ond and third place winners in each group will be made. The three boys placing in their respective groups will receive medals, while every boy taking part will receive a certificate. There are five events to be contested for as follows: Seventy five yard dash, chinning the bar, basketball throw, baseball throw and standing broad Jump.

The object of the games is to find the two most perfectly developed boys In Scranton for their age, height and weight. And, at Atlantic City, to find the two most perfectly boys among all contestants. This is the second year the Junior Olympic Games have been Operated. Ton Oialasso, of San.