Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1928, Page 5

FRENCHPEA National Right to Defen- sive Warfare. Br the Ascociated Press PARIS, April 21.—France today de livered to the United States, Great Britain, Germany. Italy and Japan her idea of what should be the text of Secretary Kellogg's proposed muitilat- eral pact to outlaw Wwar The French draft makes it plain from the start that she will reserve the right to wage legitimate defensive warfare, particularly where present treaties de- fine violations of certain provisions as hostile acts A reservation embracing fuifiliment of obligations under the League of Nations covenant is also included. The proposed covenant would pledge the six powers to renounce War com- pletely “as an mstrument of personal Political action, spontaneous and inde- pendent, in which they take the inita- Uve” Within the meaning of this limitation they pledge themselves not to attach or invade one another. also proposed scribe to the [eaty. USEFUL. SAYS POLISH OFFICIAL. Zaleski Favors Pact and Quotes Mus- solini As Agreeing. WARSAW, Poland, April 21 P.—A muitilaterai agreement to outlaw war would be “usetul.” id August Zaleski, foreign minister of Pnh\nr: that Premier Mussolini t taly, in Rome M. Zaleski said th would be no objection 1o the proposed agreement 0 far as this government is concerned, provided the treaty conformed to the particular requirements of Poland. The foreign minis! about the success of his visit to Pome EPLAN IS GIVEN TO POWERS Multilateral Pact Proposes ___(Continued _from First Pege) tramped and rode over the city. indi- cated quite clearly that it just can't be done. But it served to bring to the mind a vivid picture of want, privation, | melancholia, and even starvation which must face many of the mechanics and | their growing families, all of whom re- | quire food for sustenance, which fails | to come each day s the father repor home, tired and dejected, reporting an- | | other day of failure and the creditors | pressing a little harder. And all be-| { cause the local field is crowded by out- | iders. Caused by Misunderstanding. | “The attraction to the “floaters.” who | | say they came because of their having | Iread of the Government work, does not result from misinformation in the | press, but a misunderstanding on the part of the average workman, who, when he reads that Congress has au- | thorized the construction of certain | | buildings. does not know the workings of the governmental legislative ma- chinery. An authorization of a build- ing. in his mind. means that the work is getting under way. or will follow in | a short time. as most of them are from the industrial areas of the country. where they have learned that when ‘a { big manufacturing company announces | that it has authorized a big building | | project, everything is ready to proceed. |and it is a matter only of days before | | the actual work begins. But in the case of the building pro- gram of the Government here, it is different. First, there is the authoriza- tion. then the appropriation of the | money. then the purchase of the land jor its condemnation, followed oy the drawing of the E"“" and specifications the asking for bids. the letting of the contract and then time for the success- ful bidder to assemble his plant and force. This goes into weeks, months and then vears. a continuous program which does not call for as great a num- ber of men as would be the case if the | whele building program was being put into effect at once | Here Are Experiences. But this is all a general summary ot some of the results of the week'’s efforts. About this matter of getting a job. The | writer selected the carpenter's trade. Not because he had any experience as | & carpenter. but probably because of ! in handling a hammer, saw and a few THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO “FLOATERS." SEEKING U. S. WORK, Operators Offer FLOCK TO CROWDED D. C. FIELD ]in front of the Gospel Mission, 214 |John Marshall place northwest, early today as the mercury hovered at 20 below freezing.” Many Coming Into Town. At the Gospel Mission it was said {that many men are coming into town and that 'ast Sunday between 70 and 80 were fed. Many of them are me- chanics, some of them indicating that ‘ere attracted to the city by pros- pects of finding work on the Arlington Memorial Bridge or the addition to the power plant at Benning. A -couple of families which came in by automobile are now being cared for by this mission, it was stated. one of them consisting of the workman, his wife and two little girls. Of course, at the missions no questions are asked as to why the men are here or where they came from They have only the information that is volunteered when inquiries are made by | the applicant for aid The writer's actual quest for a job started on the second day. after proper preparations as a workman. The day’s work bogan at the junction of Wiscon- sin avenue and the District line, fol- lowed by a long walk from that point to Rosslyn, Va., with no results. The writ- or visited projects on this thoroughfare and went into several side streets where he could see that building was going on. In the vicinity of Van Ness street, east of Wisconsin avenue, the writer sought out the foreman and asked if he was in need of a carpenter, and in between strokes of the hammer which he was using on an upper story. he called back that he had all the carpen- ters he could use. Other Applications Futile. On_ an adjoining project a carpenter said-he was not the foreman. but that he understood the latter was going to put on some carpenters in a few days But the foreman wasn't there. At an-| other project on the Avenue the writer | was informed there was no work, but| sat around awhile watching one of the | fortunate ones cutting lumber on a| gasoline engine propelled circular saw. | Another project was passed by be- cause it had been going for so long & period that it was almost certain that the staff was permanent and there would be no jobs for an itinerant Other small projects of one or two | | | D. . C, APRIL 22 Mine to Union It By the Associated Pross. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Avril 21, —An offer to “make a present” to the United Mine Workers of Amer- fca “of any mine we have in Ohio or Pennsylvania, providing you run it under the Jacksonville scale and pay us 10 cents per ton for the coal you take out of the ground,” was made yesterday by James A. Pais- ley of Cleveland, head of the Pais- ley coal interests owning mines in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir- ginia The telegram containing the offer was made public at the Paisley of- fices here. It was addressed to Phillip Murray of Pittsburgh, inter- natonal vice president of the United Mine Workers, and to the members of the Senate conmittee now inves- tigating the soft coal industry. “Quick action, please; we are going down for the third time," the tele- gram concluded MERGER PROSPECT GROW DIMMER AS VALUATION IS PROBED | cale Is Paid| |Montana Leader ___(Continued from First Page.) - | added to the Capital Traction valua- | tion, would amount to $56,000,000. | Col. Brand submitted to the commit- tee his personal valuation of the two ccmpanies. which he totaled at $57.000.- 000, after deducting $4.207.500 for 15 per’cent depreciation of the Washing- | ton Railway & Electric Co. The value of that ~ompany. exclusive of land, he gave as £28,650.000 | Deducting depreciation. he said, this would leave a $24,362500 valuation. to which must be added land which was | included by the commission in 1919 at | $830.600. now probably worth consider- | ably more. This gives a total of $25.- | 193.100, to which, he said, must be| houses were passed by without even ap- plying, as they seemed to have enough | carpenters at work, and then another ter was enthusiastic | the fact that he felt more experience |big project which seemed to have a lot of carpenter work in framing going | He pointed out, however, that his object | nails gave him more confidence in pro- on. There the writer did not reach the in gomg to the Italian capital was not. as had been asserted in some sections of the European press. concrete questions. He said he went Rome to discuss foreign policies with | to Mussolini, in general terms, and to ex- plore the possibilities of future co- operation. He had discovered with pleasure that. on the whole, the Italian and Polish foreign policies were proceeding in the same direction and that both govern- ments have been maintaining the will Zor peace. SMITH PARTY QUITS ASHEVILLE TODAY Governor Will Spend Week at Absecon, N. J., Before Re- turning to Albany. Br the Aseociated Press ASHEVILLE. N. C.. April 21.—Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York today prepared to end his first Dixie vacation with a few personal calls and a dinner and tion tonight at the home of Mrs. J. F. A Cecil, the ‘Vanderbilt The governor and his party will leave tomorrow for a week at Absecon. N. J., before returning to Albany. He has reserved quarters at the Sea View Golf Goy. Smith came to Asheville aboard the private car St. Nicholas, accom- penied by Willlam Todd, William F Kenny. James J. Riordan and Sergt ‘William . guard. The party later party tomorrow. his vacation Gov. Smith political matters, thoug) numerous political conferences have been no rp— INDIANA MEN FREED ON CONSPIRACY COUNT Coffin and Marsh Indicted With Gov. Jackson for Alleged Bribe Attempt. By the Amociated Prem. INDIANAPOLIS, April 21.—On a motion by Willilam H. Remy, prosecutor, the State today dismissed the indict- ments in a conspiracy case pending to settle any ) ceeding in this sphere ! To the carpenter’s union assembly room, the reporter hied himself. For ! two reasons One to get first hand im- pressions of actual conditions prevailing here and, secondly. to get a good idea of | how a carpenter must appear. There | she reporter found more than hall a foreman, either, for he.was pretty well | discouraged. A carpenter informed *him | that a_number of carpenters had been laid off the night before. i Some Get “Friendship” Jobs. Several smaller projects then were | visited, with the inevitable result—no And so the day former Cornelia | { of water cress which he had gathered. hundred men, of all ages, either stand- | carpenters wanted. ing on the street outside the hall, of 10| ended. But the reporter was learning ;p&mfic‘.nw%\fdc‘g:;!’::-:cfi !Tl"x:r: { that )o%e nrx;e not obum(;d 1‘n this man- hey - | ner, and those constantly in the trade | they wait for some one to call for a'car- know it. But he did learn that some | penter. -ndm-n;g‘ lgfl‘e is a call '“ IS iof the projects are called in the trade im"j" '::1 Bet rd, 101.; ln!om’d 0“§° “friendship” jobs, which interpreted | ot for ut, o Culls came durihé |even to the uninitiated reporter-work- I :mmfi:g mle\ls 1&':1 ug! | man meant that if you knew the fore- [ uxxlg mp:rmm w!’““.ihm board posted man and gave him a little something | with notices from unions in various TOU ROUL. Sria Toh ke fencetan bnd | Sities asking the Jocal to tell their men 10 temPting bait. and perhaps some of | | to stay away as there was not work those out of work can't get it even on | these friendship jobs. because they there was no work for some, not told | ‘Prehase’ the job. | for public benefit. for the men there did ot even a tip on where work might | not know that the on: in their midst be found was given. You don't get any ! was a reporter. It was caught in over- information out of these workmen. In | heard conversations. his_guest the reporter found & lunch o room where the workmen ate, a place | | Dinnse of Yynjpr Oresn. | where they serve a half ‘a pie for 10 | There was one man, not so very old. | cents instead of the usual quarter or but very much disheartened, with 1 one-fifth- portion—the full dinner pail family consisting of & wife and three | for the laborer. Taking his seat at the small children. A brother carpenter |crowded tables of the very small room, asked him how much time he had put 'he ate in silence, hoping to catch a in since last January, and he said thal few snatches of shop talk. But there he had made just six days since Sep-|was none, not even a suggestion as to tember 1, last. Last Sunday. he said.|where the work was going on. It might he had to go out in the woods to get | just as well have been a church, judg- a dinner for his family, which consisted | ing ":1’: the silence which rei . {even dist: v the move gned. L 1T ha pathis: i Tor Miner BOGAT | cortr- TS0 iy s Biovement of, e | perhaps he will not have any fire to | cook it. unless he gathers wood at the | same time he gathers the cress, for his | gas bill is two months behind, and un- | der the usual procedure it probably wili | | be_cut off. | Others, of course, had been more fortunate, some of them having made | as much as six months’ actual working | Trail Leads to Virginia. The reporter finished the day in| Rosslyn, passing over the Key Bridge, in a low frame of mind. There he| made his final effort to find work, but | without result, and proceeded home, | with an air of confidence produced by the fact that he did have a job. |KING GEORGE QUOTES time since Christmas, 1926. Why do they wait there for work instead of going out to get it? Well, the re- porter found the answer to this after {a trying during the follow- {ing days when he tramped and rode around the city trying to find one of those elusive jobs. Use Star to Get Facts. On Monday. the writer found, most | |of the men had determined that there | | was nothing doing for them for the | | following week. And they find out in | | this manner: When The Star comes out on Saturday they grab the real estate section. wherein is printed the list of bullding permits, together with the| name of the builder and other informa- |tion. They go over the list and wisit | | some of the builders in an effort to see | |1f there is an opportunity for them to | | get a Job, and if they do not find one, then of course they know that it is useless to go out and visit the “job” {for an interview with the foreman. | {Many of them do find work in this| {manner, and in other cases the fore- | penters were cutting and fitting boards | for some purpose. He accosted « ie of inst George V. Coffin, Republican |popn for the blufider has his lst of | :glrmn of Marion County. and Rob- ert I Marsh, an Indianapolis attorney Both men were indicted with Gov. Ed Jackson on a charge of conspiracy in connection with an alieged attempt 10 bribe former Gov. Warren T. McCray in 1923 in connection with the appoint- offic Gov. Jackson, Blate had failed to prove concealment, nt necessary to offset the statute dons. TEACHER;T’LAN MEET FOR SAVANNAH IN FALL Southern Commercial Association Expects 300 at Thanksgiving Week Convention. By the Associated Pross BAVANNAH, Ga., Aprll 21~The e ecutive commitiee of the Bouthern Com. mercial Teachers’ Association met here tofiay o formulate plans for the annus! onpvention t be held in Bavannah Thanksgiving week. An sttendance of 300 15 expected E L layfield of Ral dent of the Other execy Gray, Bavanuah May Chestham tremsurer. W mnghan Tanta: Mre fam N C nsh W C lowe president and ex-off commitiee Z00LOGIST WILL HEAD 1ZAAK WALTON LEAGUE igh, N. C., presi- ation, presided obers are C vice president Atianta. secretary J. Wheeler. Bir Clare E Harrison. At 1. ledanum J Richards Atlanta lard [ By the Associawed Prese OMAHA. Nevr, Aprtl 21.—Dr. Henry Baldwin Ward, professor of zoology w! $he University of Tlinols was elected president of the lzask Walton Lesgue of America unanimous vote here ts v Herbert Hoover merce, WaE Te-ciected Lonorary by Secretary of Com presi ox wine usly elected They w#re Theodoe Robinson of Chicago, Dr. G C. Redfield, B00 Fulls, 8. Dak ; Charles Biederwolf, Indisnapolis; “Thomss A E. lally, Bpokene, and Dr, John R Stanfield, Fort Worth Fred A FPreson of Chicego chosen treasurer, snd Fred N Chicagn, secretlary, e s M, bership unemployed and the prospects presidents weve dike- | Peet, | workmen whom he knows and usually {gives them a call when he needs them Of course. on big projects, such as the | | Government building program will be {when it gets under way, any carpenter { {applying, or any other mechanic. for | that matter, will get a vacancy Jf there | |is one open. And that is the way the 1t was disclosed while the writer was |at the unjon quarters of the carpenters ithn only approximately 10 per cent of | the total membership of 2,600 carpen- | | ters in this district pald their dues last | week. They can’t make enough to |feed themselves and their families, s0 |the dues have 1o go by the board. In {addition to this number of union car- penters, it was estimated that there are ahout 1,000 open-shop carpenters in the city Warning Poster Sent Out, In an effort o keep the “floaters {away from the city, the district coun- il several weeks ago sent a large poster | |10 the secretaries of all affiliated local unions and district councils of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and .l,'ommx. of America, which read as fol- | lows p “This district councll ' earnestly re- quests you Lo advise your members 1o |stay away from Washington, D, C., Alexandria, Va., and vicinity, AU this time we half of our mem- have over are none work m o0 good. The Government which your members read so et wbout, will not get underway for lewst two years from now, if in that The money has not been sppro n the first place. if it wis, it ke some considerable tme 10 buy property and search the tles for ame before they could even start Lear- g down the old bulldings. Pay no | attention 1o articles in the newspapers regarding money that Congress i go- | lug o spend on new pulldings in Wash- ing ton, us it is il propaganda, It can- | ot be spent unless they appropriate the mony—ihat is the one thing they have | not done. Below s one of the charitable institutions which has taken care of many of the mechanics who have been forced 1o wsk for wid during the Win- ter. Now. fellow members, for your own good, and ours. we again respect- fully request you Lo stay away from the Washington distriet,” Below thie 1s printed & large pleture {8 number of men sweeping the pave- ment in front of the Gospel Mission with the following caption Beveral of Lhe 648 persor who were driven 0 cheritable insttutions here ! by the cold last night are shown above, Many are skilled Lradesmen who were forced W appeal to charity because of unemployment, ‘They, were given warm bed, food and cl@hing. The pic ture shows them sw the pavement | employment office. | spans, he observed several men stand- | aight shift | were residents of the city, but the man To Benning he hied himself the fol- lowing day. a half-day’s trip if without funds for car fare. There a large ad- dition to the power plant is underway Walking some distance off the road to the project, he walked on to the job and reached the spot on the bank of | the Anacostia whw'e a number of car- the workmen and asked for the fore- man, and when told that he was else- where on the job. sought information as to the opportunity for carpenters | and getting the response that the car- penters didn't know what they were going tq do. While heading out in quest of the foreman a man who was wiping his hands on shavings told the reporter that no one was allowed inside of a cer- tain line whicli was indicated. “1 was just looking for the foreman carpenter,” said the writer, “I would like to get - job.” “I'm not the foreman,” responded the man, “but the foreman told me to tell any one who came that he did not want any more carpent rs.” Uses Man From Baltimore. Then the reporter volunteered that | he was just passing through town and heard of this project and wanted work, which brought forth the following in- | formation “There have been a thousand car- penters alone here looking for work. There are 30 men on the job now and when it gets going full there only will be a place for 40, and these have been promised, most them to men from Baltimore. I understand there are 000 mer out of work. Most of the applicants have been local men.” Searches then were instituted In the Southeast section, but with the usual result, and the reporter finally ended up at the Arlington Memorial Bridge. He applied at the shack which had on it & big sign of the contractor which indicated plainly that it was the ‘There was no one in it, but cn coming out, the reporter met a man clothed in overalls, and stated that he was looking for a job as a carpenter, was given the information that he would have to see the foreman- carpenter, who was on the job. Walking cver to the plant where cur- penters are engaged in erecting the framing for the concrete work in the ing around. One of them, an elderly | gentleman, finally got up nerve enough Lo go on the abutment and accost a car- | penter engaged in cutting and Atting some strips of lumber. He asked for the | foreman, and was told that he was up | on the span. It is a perilous walk over the scaffolding to reach this, and the old man merely walked to the edge ol | the stone abutment, and stood luoking longingly upward in the hope that the foreman might come down. Then an- other of the group, anxious Lo beat him 0 it, raced up the span framework, and in half an hour came back with the re- port for the others that there was no work. “I was given that old stall that they expected’to put on some in a few days,” he told the group. Still Another Situation, Here the reporter found more carpens tern applying for work than he had seen at any other place, and as he sat on the stone plle with a group of the men, 1t developed that the report had gotten out that they were golng to put on a One of the men sald that he had made 28 days since the first of the yenr Al of them sald that they who went up o see the foreman sald |sald a lot of men were of the same {50 are members of other trades, accord- | moved | Each car has an outside length of 6¢ added the intangible elements of value, | $2.321,000, which were included in the commission’s valuation Adding allowances for working cask at $318.000. one-twelfth of the operat- ing expenses for 1927, and materials and | supplies at $205,000, the actual inven- | tory of December 31. 1927, he declared. | gives a total of $28.037,100. “Based on the annual index figure,” | he explained. “the result would be | higher and would show approximately $30,000,000 for the Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. “But if we place it at the low figure of $28.000.000 and add $26,000,000 for | the Capital Traction Co. $2.500.000 for the Maryland property of the two com- vanies, which is claimed to be worth | $4.000.000, and $500.000 for the Rapid Transit Co., which they claim is worth $800,000. we get a total of $57.000,000 valuation. approximately “I. therefore. decided that if a valua- tien were made today of the propert involved the fair value would be found to be at least $50,000,000." SOLOMON IN ADDRESS sponderce of the Ascoctated Pross LONDON.—Bits of wisdom handed | down by old King Solomon were quoted by King George in opening the new home of Lloyd's, underwriters’ agents completed at g cost of $10.000.000. “It was & very wise man.” said the King at the inaugural exercises. “who. nearly 3.00" years ago. said. “Two are better than one * * * for if they fall the one will 1ift the other: but w that is alone when he falleth!" After referring to the romance of the sea the King continued. “It s the or- ganized system of marine insurance which has transformed overseas trade | from a daring and hazardous to the orderly and smoothlv working exchange of commodities which modern eiv- {lization depends. had any pull it might be possible to get a job; a further indication, according to the jobless, that the work was “guarded.” ‘The fellow who hustled up over the frame work in quest of the foreman said that when the job began he came down every morning early in search of work, and that was sufficient time to convince him that there was nothing doing. although he thought when he heard that a night shift would be put on thers might be some chance of get- tin in on it. At any rate, he did not want to overlook the bet, having had but 28 days’ work this year. The next day, before visiting other building projects, I applied at the Cen- tral Union Mission. The young fellow behind the desk was most courteous to me, sought out the man in charge of employment, and came back with the report that he had not had any appli- cations very recently for carpenters. He did offer me a job at hanging awnings. which I turned down, telling him that 1 was just going through the town and hoped that I might obtain work at my | trade on the Government projects. He opinion, but that there was no work go- ing on there at the time. 3,000 to 4,000 “Floaters." N. A James, financial secretary of the Central Labor Union, said that the unions report in monthly the number of men coming into the city, but their reports are based entirely on the me- chanics who come to various local headquarters to get their cards ap- proved. The last report, that of April 1, Indicated that l;\rrr were beween 3,000 and 4,000 “floaters” in the town during the previous month. Some of these went on when they found there was no work. Just as the carpenters are hit by the presence of “floaters” in Washington ing to their own statements. Likewise, as in the case of the carpenters. these skilled and unskilled workers are at- tracted to Washington by the mythical “pot of gold” they suppose has been created by the announced plans of the Government's great bullding projects. Outside of warning mechanies else- where of conditions here there appar- ently is no remedy for the situation, in the opinion of labor leader: . ‘Twelve low-side gondola cars recently completed for the Carnegle Steel Co are sald to be the lon, cars ever over any Amerlcan rallroad feet 9 inches and an inside length of 65 feet. The extra long type of ca makes it possible to ship long length of steel on_a single car Three Ideal Summer Tours All-Expense Personally Conducted ALASKA Complete Circle Tour Yellowstone National Park . Colorado Rocki: Yellowstone National Park Zion National Park Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim) that the job was pretty well “giarded,” which meant that the jobs were not passed out freely to all applicants, even when there was work, ‘While sitting on the rocks wntnhtn’ the workmen, & man came down alled out to the group 1 was sitt with, that if M%u: lny.m JE: ASK FOR SPECIAL FOLDER OBER'S STEAMSHIP AND TOURIST AGENCY Pvould still be alive and well: St. N.W. "Main 3347 DECLARES T 5 WEST'S CHOGE Governor at Dinner of Democratic Club. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK. April 21.—Two thousand Democrats at the Jefferson dey dinner of the National Democratic Club tonight cheered J. Bruce Kremer of Montana, vice chairman of the Democratic na- tionai committee. when he :aid the solid West “now insists on Gov. Alfred E. m h as the party’s presidential can- dicate. He said the people followed an in- spired leader in Jefferson, a daring crusader in Jackson snd A mas‘er of political science in Wilson, and they will “follow A ehameinn of progress. an in- | comparable executive, a proponent of honest and incorruptible government when they elect Alfred E. Smith as President.” Former McAdno Nupporter. Mr. Kremer, once a McAdoo sup- porter, praised Senator Thomas ¥ Walsh of Montana, who is backed for the nomination by McAdoo, but de- clared that “under the guidance cf the New York governor the Nation's busi- ness affairs would e conducted with much greater assurance cof succe: than un Walsh, "nd “the honesty cf - ++atioa - qually pre ve “The West is constructive A “and its people believe in creating rather than in destroying. At heart the West is Democratic and its people who have watched the career of Gov pionship of lberalism and progress They know that as an executive he had made a record surpassed by none and equaled by few." From Asheville. N. C.. where he is vacationing. Gov. Smith telegraphed his | = | regret at being unable to attend the headquarters conceded nothing to dinner. Governor's Message. “The vitality of Jefferson's principles s the best test of his greatness.” hs ald. “His faith in the average man's ability to govern himself and his warn- ings against too much centralization of government are freedoms of a political creed which answers the need of the hour™ Other speakers were Mayor Walker Senator Millard E. Tydings of Mary- land, and Mrs Mary T. Norton, Con- gresswoman from New Jerse HOOVER FOES USE DEATH OF WILLIS AS OHIO BLUDGEON ___(Continued from First Page) liam F. Brown and Representative Burtop, saying that if they had not in- sisted upon Secretary Hoover being a candidate in Ohio, Senator Willis Fred M Warner chairman of the Republican State committee and a leader in the Willis organization, charged the man. ager of the Hoover campaign in Cleve- land, Cincinnati and Toledo' with planning to practice frauds in the vat- | Ing in those cities, and in the counting of the ballots. It was not hearssay with him. but insisted that he knew what he said to be true. Col Carmi A. Thompson. antl- Hoover organization manager, asked the ¢lec- tion boards in those uhwee cities for permission to place wiincsses and ehal- apgers in the voring places. This is a right that the law ~uarantees. Col | Thad Brown, manag:r of the Hoover movement, charactorized ihe - tatement of Warner and the request of Col Mg as a gesivre n preparation for making *he charge of fraud when the sweeping defeat sure to overcome ndidates in these bplaces act b~ a Hooverites Carry On. The Hoover leaders have proceeded with their fight, holding meetings in all parts of the State, addressed by Mr Burton and Representative Free of California, and local Republicans. Their meetings have been quite well attended and by use of the radio they have reached most of the voters of the State with dignified presentation of the quali- fications of their candidate. Outside of the large citier the Re- publican organization {s anti-Hoover and the Willls organization has the best of it as to working agencies among the individual voters In spite of the violence of the cam- paign. however, it is evident thay large elements ot voters on both sides are not showing much interest in the pri- mary. Secretary of State Clarence Brown estimates the vote that will be cast in Tuesday’s primary at not less than 700,000 Most experienced poli- ticlans here think the secretary has placed his estimate too high, and would regard 500,000 as much nearer the mark. A weakness of the Hoover movement | is the fact that it has drawn into it a great many people who are not famtliar with poiitical methods and trained to carry through to the voting booth. Many of them are likely to let small matters prevent them from going to the polls ~ Organization Republicans and such for the most part the Willis sup- porters are, have been trained that the only thing that counts in an election is the ballot puf into the ballot box | Weather Issue. The season has been rather back- ward in Ohio and farmers are some- what behind with the Spring work. Much will depend upon the weather on election day as to the vote cast in the rural portions of the State. If the day is fine tho Praises 1928-PART T. | | | | | | WORKING TO RELIEVE BIG TIE-UP v Workmen of the Potomac Electric Power Co., who braved the smoke and heat in a conduit tunnel at Connecticut avenue and N streets to relieve a short | cirenit, which tied up street cars and extinguished street lamps for more than an hour last night. | Smith. are in accord with his cham- | ers will spend it in their fields and omit voting. This will be a blow at the anti- Hoover movement for admittedly the strength of Senator Willis lay in the country and the dry sections of the | state generally. The last estimate made at the Hmv}:r the |anti-Hoover side. Of course, the | presidential preference election ‘will be carried by Mr. Hoover. Everybody has | expected that result since the death of | Senator Willis Col. Thad Brown | claims that the entire list of delegate candidates, both distri lon the Hoover ticket will be elected | overwhelmingly. Col. Thompsen does not claim as | mueh. . Evidently he does not have any hope of electing Willis delegates either Cincinnati or Cleveland, and | probably not much hope of carrying the Toledo district | specifically concede them. Outside of !the big city districts he claims a gen- eral Willis victory. and he feels sure that the biz votes rolled up in Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties for the Hoover | delegates will be wiped out by the vote in the smaller towns and the rural por- tions of the State. | Predictions Are Few. | Outside the two headquarters and the \ranks of enthusiastic adherents of the | two camps of Republicans, politicians are inclined to be cautious in making predictions as to Tuesday’s result. There are too many factions in the problem, | many of them difficult to evaluate, to {make a confident prediction. Among other things, they say no man can teil what the real effect of the death of Senator Willis has had on the sentiment of large elements of the Re- publican votess. What will the colored voters do? How will those who were in the World War line up? How strong is the Ku Klux hlan organization in the State. and what effect on it will the fact { that Mr. Hoover was married by a priest have? It is an organization that is swayed by what most people would re- gard -as trivial matters. How has the un-Americanism charge registered with | this organization? ! " How efficiently will the regular Re- publican organization (everywhere out- side of the big cities, pro-Willis) make | I*s machine click Tuesday, and haw many more Republicans than are com.- prised in the party organization ranks { can be got out to the polls? Organization Slipping. Before the death of Senator Willis it i and at large.| in | However. he does not | HOOVER AND SMITH CONTINUE IN LEAD; | (Continued from First Page.) | this Coolidge adherent insisted that the President could still accept the nom- | ination with good grace if it came tc him from the convention following 2 hopeless deadlock. The President’s message to the Mass- achusetts voters was so timed that it is likely to be of aid to Mr. Hoover in | three States which are to hold pri maries on_ Tuesday — Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania. These three States have a total of 169 votes in the Republican national convention Both Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are planning to send “uninstructed” dele- gations to the convention, although it is believed Mr. Hoover will win the preference vote by a lfrge majority in Massachusetts, and that some 30 of the 39 delegates from that State will favor { his nomination. In Pennsylvania no candidate has entered for the preference | vote. Ohio Situation. 2 The victory of Mr. Hoover in the President’s own State, it is likely, will {go still further toward cementing the idea that the Secretary of Commerce | | is, after all, the administration can- didate, at least to the extent that he represents more than any other candi- ) date the policies of the present adminis- | { tration. { In Ohio Mr. Hoover is running osten- | sibly against the late Senator Willis of | that State. but in reality against the {“field.” * The Lowden. Dawes, Curtis | and Watson supporters have united forces against Hoover. After the death {of Senator Willis the Willis slate of delegates, at a mepting in Columbus. | seriously considered putting forward Presiaent Coolidge as their first choice. | But they were warned that if any such step were taken, the President would quickly repudiate it, and demand that/ his name be not considered. The con- sequence was that the Willis delegates feli back on their second choice candi- |dates. Mr. Lowden was the second | choice of 34 of them. ! Reports from Olvo suggest a light N vote in the coming primary. A light | vole usually means a bigger turnout in | the cities than in the rural sections, be- ‘ FORMER FACES TEST| o= % “SHORT HALISEAR * SERVCEFOR HOU ;Severed Cable Throws Brit | ish Embassy in Darkness Until Power Is Restored. Blue flames and dense smoke shooting from a manhole in the sidewalk I front of the British embassy about 6:30 o'clock last night threw the whoit neighborhood into confusion for more than an hour, tied up street car traf- fic on Connecticut avenue and brough No. 1 Fire Engine Company to the scens in response to a hurry call from the embassy. All lights went out in the emba:sy and candies had to be lighted. Housel and stores on Connecticut avenue be. tween N street and Dupont Circle wery in darkness. A large crowd gathere( | in the street around the manhole. . When the firemen arrived, they wert unable to do anything. and had to away arrival of the trouble truck of the Po- | tomac Electric Power Co. When the re. pairmen came, the fire was too hot % | permit them to enter the manhole, an¢ it was necessary to cut off the curren! | completely over a wide area. Investigation showed that a big elec: tric cable had burned out from a shor! circuit. The insulation was worn of or had been cut by rats. the workmer believed ~ After an hour or more, the lights in the nearby build: were turned on again by switching the elec- | tric current to another cable. Bv o'clock the street cars, which had beer | stalled for several blocks in both di- rections, were running again. | sisted that 750 out of the 960 delegate: elected to the Washington State con- vention have been instructed fo | Hoover. The State convention meet: | May 5. Gov. Al Smith of New York has az |even greater number ' of delegatal pledged and instructed and favoring | his nomination than has Mr. Hoovel on the Republican side. Purthermore his nearest opponent has far less dele. gate: than has the nearest opponent of Hoover, Mr. Lowden. The Lowden sup- porters claim approximately 200 dele- gates. including the entire 61 from Dli- | nois, instrueted for Lowden by the | State convention Friday. Within the. | last day or two Illinois Democrats in” | State convention have instructed the whole delegation. 58 in number, to vot | for Smith. The lowa State conventior has instructed the 26 Iowa delegates tc support him. nothwithstanding threats, made by E T. Meredith. who was the favorite son opponent of Smith in Towa, The claim was made here last night however. by Charles M. Howell, West- | ern manager of the Reed for President. campaign, that the “effort to stampeds the Democrats and nominate Smith", had been launched too early. Mr. Howell insisted that the opposition te e e ot claim. The, goea despite the claims. - in the cominy campaign, he politics and public office. This issue. he said. had been developed and car- ried to the country by Senator-Reed of | Missouri. and he was the logical choice of the Democrats at Houston. Meanwhile the dry Democrats are not satisfied with either Smith or Reed They are hoping that these wet candi-, dates may effectually check each other. A two-thirds vote is necessary to mom- inate in the Democratic national con- vention, and a m ‘u!::y oceut, more readily ‘there Repub- lican convention, which nominates by majority vote. Middle West Claims. As was predicted. the Hoover opposi- tion has concentrated its efforts in the last few days on the that Mr. Hoover could not carry the wheat and corn States o(ot!;e' m,zflrl:: | has been asserted several times in the Senate and elsewhere by supporters of s | Mr. Lowden and Vice President Dawes. cause of the accessibility of polling | But these assertions have brought strong" places. And a bigger vote in the cities. | denials from many Middle West Re-- it is said, may help Mr. Hoover. publicans. For example. 40 Nebraska- Failure of Mr. Hoover to run well in | Republican newspapers e Ohlo and Massachusetts on Tuesday | Hoover h here resenting the: | would be a decided blow to his candi- | statement that Smith could carry that | real cause of his prostration. Has dacy, although it might not be fatal | State against Hoover next November. { death changed the situation? It has |Mr. Hoover's strength with the rank ! But the anti-Hooverites continue to | certainly put fight into the leaders of |and file of the voters has been his chief | msist that he would lose in the Middles the Willls movement in this clos'nt | claim to leadership. | West. Here and there is heard the sug«: week of the campaign: if they have | Hoover headquarters in Washington | gestion that if the Republicans put | been able to pass the spirit on to’ the |last night. issued a statement asserting | Hoover in the field and the Democrats ranks. a good showing may be mad- | that 282 of the delegates already chosen | nominate Al Smith. a third party may aftr all {to the Republican national convention |yet be found in Western territory. on Evidently they have had the aid of |are either instructed, pledged or favor | the theory that neither Hoover nor | some able political managers in the | the nomination of Mr. Hoover. The | Smith is acceptable | protection of campaign literature and | statement further claimed that 94 dele- | of funds to meet the expenses of dis- | gates, the total delegations rej ting | » seminating it. Many of Hoover Re- | California, Maryland, Oregon and New | The first definite sector on the battie publicans think with Mr_ Burton that | Jersey, would be for Hoover. The en- | line in Prance assigned to American a campaign of such virulence as that |tries in the presidential primaries in | aviators to defend in the World War the anti-Hoover forces nave | those States have closed. that in Mary- | was the area between the Meuse and week, will have a reaction | land vesterday. and Mr. Hoover is the [the Moselle Rivers. according to Gen. ] be driven from the ranks | onlv entrant on the Republican side. | William Mitchell in the Liberty Maga- of leaders who are responsible for it. | The Hoover headquarters further in- zine On the democratic side there 15 no | reason to expect that any of the State | orRantzation picked delegates to Hous- | scemed that the ground was slippinz | out from under the fect of his organ- | | tzation. 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