Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 2

EDGERTON ACCEPTS| DRY NOMINATION Backs Hoover Stand on Pro-E hibition—Party May With- draw From Race. fque notification | political cam- | ht in the frowning s of one of the strong- ivil War, Fort Lyon. Va., on of this and Fort the nomination to the 1 the Prohibition party ad 1 s of the O es A Edge accepted residen~v ders of the prohibition cause from n..paris of the country present, the ceremonv was conducted in the open der a full moon. Mr. e grouped on the rampar fort, which forms a natt f acceptance Mr. Edger- ner Democrat Smith as a betrayer of his praised Herbert Hoover for toward prohibition. He de- and Republica b ttituds clared t cified be- he Prohibi- in faver of ing and not because he forcement of that ecause his whole life has t his heart is in humanitarian To Discuss Withdrawal. er the Prohibition ticket is to will be decided tomorrow of the party’s national committee Chicago. Members of the committee. it is understood. are divided as to whether the party should throw its strength to Hoover or remain in the field in direct opposition to Smith. In his acceptance last night Edgerton said electo: ticket only in the close States, to the end that there should be no ision of the dry forces, who our Edgerton | king from the porch of his home | denounced Gov. | | | | { THE EVUNING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, ATUGUST WRECKET ified prohibition be- | | i \ Plane. designed especially for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, in which M. M. Merrill and Edwin M. Ronne lost their lives, | when machine crashed near Milford, Pa., on a flight from Buffalo to New York City. Insert: M. M. Merril -P. ) PLANE AND O OF | FOWLER DEFENDS . C. HEALTH WORK Answers Efficiency Bureau’s Criticism of His Department. A vigorous defense of the practices {and policies of the District Health De- | partment was made today by Dr. Wil- | liam C. Fowler, heaith officer, in a 50- | page reply to the Bureau of Efficiency’s | criticism of the department made to the | Commissioners last Spring in a 318- | page report bearing the signature of Dr. Paul Preble, surgeon of the United States Public Health Service | Dr. Fowler offered no apologies for |the manner in which (ife Health De- | partment is administered, and ridiculed the bureau for its elaborate report, which, he said, advocated drastic changes i the health service without proposing adequate remedies for con- | dittons which, it charged, existed The | | health officer also pointed out that many | |of the changes were recommended be- | cause investigators were unfamiliar with | the practical side of the questions they | set out to discuss. ! Recommendations Conflict. | cad of 100 per cent ase in | appropriations which the bureau ommended, the health officer said that | all his department needed is a modest | ncrease. In answer to one statement {of the bureau concerning a new plan it proposed for a public health organiza- tion in Washington, Dr. Fowler said “It is not clearly understood what is | . & A. Photos. PLANS GREENLAND HUNT FOR HASSELL should rise to this emergency by de- |Cramer’s Brother Projects | feating the wet candidate w0 cmmraia- | Relief Expedition for Rock- cation of the Constitution ever will bei ol s d Airol made again.” : - : The straits to which Gov. Smith has | or weden Irp ane been driven. Edgerton said, “must be embarrassing, to say the least” be- | By the Associated Press. cause they compel him.to repudiate his platform and force him to “the almost fantastic expedient of throwing the whole question gack to the States on some sort of sliding-scale arrangement as to alcoholic content.” This, he said, meets the fundamerital objections that the States themselves expressly surren- dered this right eighteenth amendment, that it would violate the whole intention of smendment and that it therefore is unconstitutional. “Prohibition can be enforced,” Edger- | ton declared viggrously, “if we put in charge those whY wish to enforce it. When we put prohibition enforcement in the hands of honest men who be- lieve in the cause and believe in God the fight will be won. That is why the Prohibition party re-enters the field.” Touching on farm reifef, Mr. Edger- ton advocated a trial of the proposed equalization fee, which, he said, “has been approved by the representative in approving the | the | {ing monoplane, { Greenland by boat, CHICAGO, August 30.—Organization of a relief expedition to locate the miss- Great Rockford was the hope today of Willlam Cramer of Clarion, Pa., brother of Parker Cramer. who with Bert Hassell, disappeared August 19, en route to Mount Evans, Greenland. Cramer arrived here to promote plans of the flight committee of Rockford, 11, which has asked the United States Navy to co-operate in a search of Arctic territory should the venture be under- taken. If an expedition is begun, Cramer explained, a plane would be taken to and then would explore the Southwest Coast where the fiyers are believed to have been forced down. COPENHAGEN, August 30 (@).— Every hunter in Greenland. obeying orders of the “Great White Chief,” the Danish governor, has joined in the farm bodies” and passed twice by large | search for the missing Rockfordsto- ]tm)wm in the United States Con- Tess. i He denounced the growth eountry of “an invisible government of | big business and interrelated interests” hand has been revealed in the oil power trust and the de- el in! te it. In the injection of false issues if the past two Democratic campaigns and in the present dilemma of that party, in the deflation measures following the war, in the repeated veto of the Government operation of Muscle Shoals and “in a multitude of other ways all in the in- terests of some special group and op- Ppos=d to the public good.” The need of a strong, aggressive third rty is apparent, Mr. Edgerton said, in thi.sf Stockholm fiyers. Reindeer hunters and wildfowl trap- pers are searching the coastline and every likely landing place. They will not venture too far into the mighty in- land platcau of ice, however, for it from there, accord! 1o, ingo 1ol and modern sefentific that c resident Lowell amed Investor in Firm Under Probe | Other Prominent Bos-| tonians Hold Stock of Farm Loans Concegns. By Associated Press. BOSTON, August 30.—Presiden' A Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Universit} and D. Brewer Eddy, among the investors in Western Farm Co. securities, the sales of which by Middle Western financiers under investigation by the Federal |grand jury here, the Federal authorities |have disclosed President Lowell in- vested $70,000 and Mr. Eddy $5,000. A number of prominent Massachusetts residents invested in securities of the Missouri-Kansas Farm Co., the Farm Co. of Massachusetts and the Farmers’ Fund of Illinols, the concerns named by United States Attorney Frederick H. Tarr as .eing under investigation. A similar inquiry in the West led to the arrest and conviction of Guy Huston. a Middle Western financier, in Ohio. Mr. Tarr explained that the advertised purpose of the companies was to provide funds to be used in loans to farmers in the Middle West. to banks in that sec- tion for the benefit of the farmers and to take second mortgages on farms al- ready mortgaged to the Federal Joint Stock Land Bank. He said the securl- ties taken over by the men in charge of the companies under ipvestigation were worthless securitie” of/their own which they turned into the company at full northern winds with such force that & human being cannot remain upright before them. If Hassell and his companion are alive and in Greenland, the Danish in- habitants believe, the natives will find them. Sl e e 150 BRITISH CHEMISTS crying the present system of biparti- { $an control, and declaring that “of late | VISIT WASHINGTON §ears the two major parties have grnvm‘ SRS O e ke e e oo * ™8| party Will Call at Scientific Bu-| Universal peace can be realized,| reaus Here Before Leaving face value, farms which had been fore- clpsed upon and which were transferred td the company at three or four times all possible value and worthless notes of firresponsible individuals. The Boston brokerage firm of Jackson & Curtis invested $149,700 in the farm securities, it was said, and Cabot & Moors, another brokerage firm. $44,000. Others on the list were said to be Frank 3. Paine, Boston, $29,000; Ernest Lyon of Brookline, $10.000; Irving H. Niles, Bos- ton, $3,600; Roger Ernst, Boston bank- {er, $5,000. HERRICK CO.MING HOME. Bdgerton declared, only through the | b for New York. g of “z new individual and | ual psychology in which the war it has no part.” | hO!;! t::mdrv'd‘ sr;ld ?fl:{ Er;x‘e;mera o; arad - | the Institute of Chemical neers o a3t B thcar s e | Sy Bl sod e Bosiety of CUER. . " , ir Alexander asded. the motifcation ceremony, & |G g B E. president spirt Epiri 4| Gibb, G. B. E., president of the former of automobiles led by the BOys' | organization, and Francis Howard Carr, ‘Band of the Sons of Jonadab, a temper- | C"B. E., F. 1. C., president of the lat- ance organization, moving from Seven- | ter, arrived in Washington today for a teenth and K streets at 6 o'clock yes-|three-day stay before proceding to terday evening to Fort Lyon by way of | New York City for a convention of the Highway Bridge and Alexandria, where | Society of Chemical Industry. more cars joined the procession. | The delegates have just attended a Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York,|joint session of the British and Amer- chairman of the national committee of |ican Institutes of Chemical Engineers, the party, notified Edgerton of his| held August 24 and 25 at Niagara Falls, ination and briefly outlined the his- | Ontario. of the prokibition movement. |~ The party has established headquar- jiam P. v of Rockville Cen- | ters at the Mayflower Hotel and their N. Y., presidential candidate of the program while here includes visits to Envoy, on Leave, Happy Over Re- ception to Kellogg. PARIS, August 30 (#)— Herrick, American Ambassador Prance, started for the United States today for his annual leave Before leaving on the Ile de France he said that he was rather tired but was very happy, having been moved deeply by the solicitude and charming hospitality which the French had ex- tended to Secretary of State Kellogg. e Reservoir Bursts; 30 Drowned. TOKIO, August 30 () —Thirty per- sons are believed to have been drowned in the bursting of a reservoir at the Komoro electric power station in Cen- tral Japan -chibition party, who was notified of |most of the scientific bureaus and de- szust 9, followed Mr. |partments as well as the principal ing appeal to all | places of interest in the city. ¢ of the prohibition law to awake | i confronting them in this | campaig: 1 Rev. Thomas E. Boorde of the Temple Baptist Church of this city was master | of ceremonies. An invocation was made by Dr. B. E. P. Prugh of Harrisburg, | Pa. and the benediction“was delivered by Canon William 8. Chase of Brooklyn, | N Y the notification ceremonies n Mr. Edgerton, Mr. Varney, | ves and friends of | candidate returned | and the notification cere- peated for radio listeners | 1dio of Station WRC in the ! Press Club Bullding. | BAND CONCERTS Un Navy Band at Wdstand at 6 o'clock of India Elgar The Crown Festival | Teschalkowsky | cornet T Rimplanto ‘Were My Bong With Provided ces Blavonic Dance Exotica™ Excerpts from Buite Roscelll | Wings | Hahn | Dvorak | Mascagni | “The Singing Girl,” Herbert. St. Agnes Eve,” Coleridge. Star Spangled Banner.” By the L the Capits Ma aylor | ates Army Band at 30 o'clock tonight Ramoniz ¥ 211, Gomez ber of Commerce,” Orsell Arr. by (Colombia) by My "Angel vandercook Escamilla Theo, Bingert Mufer” Alvarado (Uruguay) Gubitos) (United States) Hosmer | (United | Kyl | mphonic poem, rone! Gonzales “Northern Rhapsody” shoni solo, “Josephine ates) Venezolanos im Detective John Fowler of headguarf (Venezuela) nded trafic officer, Arr. by Schmohl 2srch. “Matadore” (Mexico) “die Star Bpangled Bann reen, manager of & gasoline station, a year ago today. T\ oniz' New York and brought back to Washington by Detective The flood waters washed away nine houses. BROUGHT BACK ON ASSAULT CHARGE ters, with Edward M. Taylor (right), » ow charged with assault with Intent to kill Willlam M(; lor was ’urukd n Fowler, ~Star Stafl Photo, meant by the language used, but it |seemed to be an acknowledgment on the part of the investigator that local conditions are such that he finds it dif- fcult to formulate a constructive plan for public health administration and vet later he attempts to set up an or- kanization for the District based on standards adopted for other citie Dr. Fowler pointed out that on tion of the hw.au's report directed criticism at the statistical methods of his department while in another sec- tion this work was held “to function TAVLORS JALED OK BOND DEFAULT Officer Returned From New missionary, were | York in Shooting—Hearing September 13. Edward M. Taylor, suspended police- in a manner which is above the average for a city the size of Washington.” The health officer said it was difficult for him to reconcile these conflicting views. Says Milk Is Good. Although the bureau’s report took the | Health Department to task for failure |to make arrests for prostitution, Dr have been | | man of the Traffic Bureau, who Was|powier said it is not clothed with that brought back from New York by Detec- | guthority. He declared that it is the tive Sergt. Fowler on a commissioner’s | duty of the Police Department to en- , force the vice laws of the District warrant for an alleged assault with a | ©9%) i R h 5 equs criticism of dangerous weapon and an assault to|the method of handling the milk supply kill William S. McBreen, manager of [in Washingtbn, Dr. Fowler said that | : : a filling station near Twenty-sixth | the milk M‘Md here C‘;rm}-”\“i w‘h [ Street. and_Benning road northeast Au- | the best in the country. Particular at- gust 30, 1927, was held in $3,000 bond tention was called by Dr. Fowler to the by United States Commissioner Need- | bureau's recommendation g unable to make ball and will be et {0 | o1 guties are identical and that there Kie bond was fixed pending a hear- |15 10 need for race discrimination. !imz set by the commissioner for Sep- | Dr. Fowler purposely failed to make | tember 13 at the request of Assistant|an¥ recommendations or comment with 3 . | reipect to the several plans of reor- ‘fi:fif“,’ States Attorney Willlam A. Gal- | gnjzation suggested by the bureau : This is & subject, he said, which the Attorney Joseph Salomon, represent- 478 e b Ing the peliceman, was at the office of | Cojumissioners should consider and de- the United States commissioner early \ °' ‘it is believed, however,” he added, this morning, where he was prepared to seek Taylor's release on the grounds he had been unlawfully arrested in New satisfactory if necessary appropriation can be obtained to permit it to func- “th:t the present organization is quite | York and should have been returned there in the custody of a United States marshal instead of Detective Fowler. To correct this procedure, United | States Attorney Leo A. Rover had | furtiage issue another warrant this morning, and when the prisoner ar- rived at the courthouse he was taken nto custody at the front door by Deputy United States Marshal John J. Clark- son, who accompanied him to the com- missioner's office Silent on Charge. ‘Taylor declared that the police were striving to obtain a statement from him when the order came to send him to the marshal's office. He declined to discuss the charge, which Is said to tion in the manner that it should.” RENT PLACE TO MOVE HOUSE OF DETENTION District Commissioners Lease Four- Story Building at 908 B Street Southwest. After two unsuccessful attempts to have grown out of an examination of Taylor's pistol, which he surrendered when indicted last April on a charge | of hi-jacking a truckload of whisky. He was on bond of $1,500 when the alleged assault is sald to have taken place, Police_experts claim the bullet taken from McBreen at the hospital bore the barrel marks of Taylor's service pistol. McBreen was sitting at the filling sta- tion reading when a bullet crashed through a window and struck him in the back. Earlier the same day Taylor had had a disagreement with another assistant at the station named Finke. Closely following” the announcement of Taylor's arrest in New York two policemen were arrested here yesterday, one as the result of a raid said to have been caused by his estranged wife and the other on a charge of driving while intoxicated. Both have been sus- pended, Policeman Frederick A. Schenck of the sixth precinct was taken into cus- tody when sixth precinct police raided an apartment at 1736 Eighteenth street, They also arrested Catherine Joyce, 25, and Helen Parris, 22, both of that ad- dress, who are said to have been in the apartment with him. Demand Jury Trials. Schenck was charged with a statu- tory offense. Miss Joyce was charged with disorderly conduct and illegal sale and pogsession of liquor and Miss Parris with possession. Schenck and the two women demanded jury trials when ar- raigned in Police Court today. Schenck's bond was fixed at $300, that of Miss Joyce at $1,500 and that of Miss Parris at $500. Shortly after Schenck's arrest Police- man James H. Wood of the ninth pre- cinet was arrested on a charge of driv- {ing while drunk as the result of a col- lision at Sixth street d Massachu- setts avenue with an automobile oper- ated by Mrs. Gladys W. Chewing of | Mount Rainier, Md. Upon hearing of { Wood's arrest, Capt, James E. Wilson of the ninth preeinct went to the sixth | precinet statlon and suspended him | The .\n»’;‘linhm will sutomatically re- | quire bofh pollcemen to appear before | the police trial board after thelr cases have been disposed of by the cour | In Police Court today Wood demanded Arrests Two Wom Impersonating a thirsty actor, an undercover agent of Sergt. Letterman's liquor squad yesterday afternoon ef- fected the delivery of two pints of thirst-quencher labeled “Old Grandad,” the arrest of two yoyng women on liquor charges and the confiseation of A snappy gray roadster in which the women are sald to have responded to the actor-detective’s call for refresh- | ments Acting on information contained in |an mnonymous letter, members of the squad staged n neatly planned coup de the stage entrance of a downtown theater and as a result, they declare, have cul off from visiting actors a | regular source of illielt liquor supply The squad arrested Miss Lella Mor- rison, 23 years old, of 2108 N street and Miss Bessle Barghausen, 20 years old, of 325 N street southwest, Miss Morrison was charged with sale, possession and transportation of liquor, while Miss Barghausen was charged with posses- #lon and transportation. Detective, in Role of Thirsty Actor, find a new home for the House oi De- tention the District Commissioners to- day finally leased from the Wardman Construction Co. a four-story apart- ment bullding at 908 B street south- west, near the Smithsonian Institution. The apartment is occupied, but the tenants, it was sald, will be served with notice to vacate before October 15, the date fixed for occupancy by the House of Detention. ‘The building was leased for one year at a rental of $15,000, but the Commis- sloners have an option on it for five years thereafter. Alterations, it was said, will be made by the Wardman company at the expense of the District. The Treasury Department some time ago notified the Commissioners they wanted possession of the present De- tention Home at Fifteenth street and Ohlo avenue, on the site of the new Department of Commerce Building, by October 1. A 15-day extension is ex- pected to be granted, however. ‘The first building selected as a home for the House of Detention, on B street near the Capitol, met congressional ob- Jjection, and the Commissioners later contracted for a bullding that was to have been erected at Eighth and C streets southwest. The bullder, how- ever, subsequently advised the Commis- stoners he would not be able to com- plete the structure this Fall, and steps were taken to find another bullding. | Cave-In Injures Workman. Buried under several feet of dirt in & cave-in on Fifteenth street between I and G streets this morning, Charles Hunter, colored, 321 Missouri avenue, was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated for a crushed right side and shoulder. His condition has not. been determi a jury trial and was released on $500 bond to appear for trial September 4, | Schenck was one of the policemen | who ussisted in the investigation that resulted In the dismissal some months | ago of Policeman Orville Staples of the third precinct. The former was at the | time _attached to the same precinct | Wood was only recently returned to | duty after he was fined by the trial board for intoxication en on Liquor Charges Detective W. J. Burke, following the procedure outlined in the letter, tele- phoned Miss Morrison from the stage entrance and represented himself to be an wetor asking for two pints of whisky, it 1s sta‘ed “I'll come In a gray roadster,” prom- Ised a cherry feminine voice al the other end of the wire, Burke gave her a description of the undercover agent, | who was to carry out the final phases {of the transaction. A few minutes later a gray roadster with two attractively dressed girls pulled up at the ourb opposite the stage en- trance, and the undercover man walked over to the car and, it 1s alleged, ten- dered Mlss Morrison & marked $10 bill in payment of two pint bottles of “Old Grandad.” He received $3 in change, it is charged, and the arrests followed. Both defendants pleaded not guilty. demanded jury trials and were released %u.m bond eac Court to- BOBBY QUIGLEY. _ —Star_Staff Photo. TRIAL BOARD DROPS J. E. Carroll Found Guilty of In- toxication—D. E. Hilton Charged With Neglect of Duty. slizemen J. E. Carroll of the fifth precinct and D. E. Hilton of the ninth precinct were recommended for dismis- sal by the trial board this morning at its weekly session at the sixth precinct. Carroll was found guilty of being in- toxicated on Sunday night and of ar- resting two civilians without justifica- tion. Hilton was charged with conduct un- becoming an officer an with neglect of duty. Capt. J. E. Wilson of the ninth pre- cinct presented a signed statement to the trial beard in which Hilton admitted certain charges and also declared he telephoned his home and told them not to answer the telephone if it rang hereafter, so that his captain might not discover an alleged deception The charges against Carroll grew out of his arrest Sunday night of An- thony Sweeney. an employe at Colum- bia Hospit:l, and of Everette L. Owens, a fireme who lives at 4226 Southern avenue southeast U. S. GOLF TEAMS OFF TO POOR START IN WALKER MATCHES _(Continued from First Page) T. P. Perkins and Dr. Willlam Twedell, captain of the British team, went into the lead at the third hole and gradually increased the margin to 7 up at the eighteenth. Von Elm and Sweetser increased their lead to 7 up at the end of the morning round, taking the last two holes In par and coming home in par 35 for a 73, while Perkins and Twedell took 40 for an 81, Francis Ouimet and Jimmie John- ston had less success than Jones and Evans, for they lost three of the first four holes and after squaring the | 13-Year-0id Nicotine Addict’ Dislikes Beer and Eschews Chewing Tobacco. The practice does not “conform to the theories” of the Board of Public Wel- fare, but it is not likely, according to| P. L. Kirby, assistant director, that the organization will take any action in the |case of 3-year-old Bobby Quigley, 1335 | | Childress street northeast, who smokes | cigars before, after and between meals |and continues to thrive, despite the | doleful prognostications of certain el- derly ladies in the neighborhood. Bobby apparently feels he cannot be expected to give up the habits of a lifetime. He acquired his taste for strong tobacco from his father's pipe when a mere youngster of 11 months and has smoked continuously since. “Hello,” was his greeting to a re- porter this morning. “Got a cigar?” Seems Experienced. The cigar was supplied and Bobby | removed the wrapping and bit off the | end with the casualness of long ex- perience. | He placed the cigar—one of the 5-1 cent variety—in his mouth and looked | inquiringly at the visitor. “Got a) match?” [ This, too, was supplied, and Bobby | began to puff, blowing forth clouds of smoke half the size of his body. | A photographer produced a camera | and Bobby took new interest in life.| He examined the device from all sides | and then attempted to climb up the | legs of the tripod. The photographer, | after some difficulty, dissuaded him | from these efforts. Bobby, his parents say, has never | been sick in his life and thrives on to- bacco. Once when his smokes were taken away for two days he lost his appetite and did not regain it | cigar. Cigars Sicken Brother. brother’s prowess, casions has attempted to duplicate his performance. The sole result, however, has been invariably a very sick boy. Bobby has tasted beer, but does not care for it, and has never chewed to- baceo. match by winning three straight. reached the turn one down and ended the first round in the same position. although they evened affairs twice on the second nine before they lost the seventeenth The Americans scored 38 on the homeward trip for an 81, while their op- ponents took 39 for an 80. The worst American golf was the | start of the fourth match, Watts Gunn {and Roland MacKenzie losing the first | four holes in a row and getting back only one on the first nine. But this pair turned on Dr. A. R. MacCullum and | John Beck and squared the match at [the thirteenth hole by scoring par on ‘:) of the first four holes of the second nine | Gunn and MacKenzie, by winning six of the last nine holes, finished the morning round two up on Beck and MacCallum. ‘W HOME OF WOMAN’'S BUREAU | grand jur {a notorious character. until | s his father weakened and gave him a | States of the country. AL CAPONE NAMED N GANG NQURY Philadelphia Rum Ring Hired Chicago Gunmen, Says Prosecutor. od Press By the Associ PHILADELPHIA, August s investigation of bootleggi; gangster slayings and quick fortune: Philadelphia today involved Scarface Al Capone of Chicago Capone was named by the prosecufor as an ally Max “Boo Boo" Hoff, wealthy sportsman and fight manager, who is charged by the prosecutor with being the leader of an alcohol ring and with directing attempts to intimidate witnesses remaining under subpo Louis R. Elfman, former chauf for Hoff, before the grand jury yester- day linked Hoff with the rum ring and asserted that he had been beaten by Saflor Freedman, former Chicago prize fighter, and threatened with death if he testified against his former employer. 20 of | A warrant has been issued for Freed- man’s arrest. “Tempted by Mone: FElfman’s disclosures, District Attorney John Monaghan said. show that Hoft has a close alliance with the notorious carface” Al Capone of Chicago, and | had been instrumental in bringing to Philadelphia gunmen from Chicago o intimidate witnesses in the investiga- tion. After a long session with the grand jury Elfman sat in the district at- torney’s office while the prosecutor said to newspaper men. “We are now going to ope these murders and bootleggers.” “This man has had the courage to tell the truth about the rotten condi- tions, and at the risk of his life. He was a respectable electrician with a nice wife and two children. Seven years ago he met Max Hoff. He did some electrical work for him. “Then this bootlegger and employer of gunmen tempted him with big wages. He employed him as a traller for | aleohol trucks from one place to ane other. On the first trip Hoff accom= panied him. They both had guns, sup=~ plied by Hoff. They went to the Con= | solidated Ethyl Alcohol Co. A load of alcohol was obtained and he and Hoff | trailed it to a freight station where | Hoft superintended loading it into a |car. Elfman was used to trail trucks of alcohol and did this 400 or 500 simes. Started to Go Straight. “Eighteen months ago Elfman _de- cided to go straight and quit. Soon after we served him with a subpoena to appear before the grand jury he was met on the street by Sailor Freedman, He was beaten up and his life threatened. “Elfman also disciosed that the notorious Al Capone was in this city and lavishly entertained by Hoff. Elfman was present and met him. I want all Philadelphia to know this. I want every one to know that Hoff and his gang have brought on Chicago gun- up on i men to threaten and intimidate wit- nesses who may be called. “Elfman is going to get day and night protection from now on; there is going to be no bumping off so far as he is concerned.” In his efforts to trace the ownership of $10,000,000, said to have been de- posited here under fictitious names by wealthy racket men, the district at- torney has seized the books and records of Marks, Weinberg & Co., publie accountants. CURTIS RAPS SMITH FOR TARIFF PLANS IN HARRISBURG SPEECH (Continued from First Page.) enacted the tariff began to spell dis- aster. Tens of thousands of wage earners were thrown out of employ< ment as factories closed down in Penn~ ania and other great industrial An official can- | vass in Philadelphia showed 200,000 un« employed. New York City labor organi- | zations etsimated 427,000 men and wom- Although cigars seem to have no il - » | et on Bobby, the. same s nof true | R ¢ither out of work or working part of his 6-year-old brother Edward. The older boy is extremely jealous of his and on several oc- | | time there. In Chicago 190,000 were | thrown_out of work. _Appropriations had to be made in Cincinnati, Philadel- | phia, Boston, Providence and other | cities to care for the unemployed. “If one reads the Houston tariff | plank carefully, it is easy to see that | Instead of being something new, some- thing evolutionary, something a step | forward in the direction of a protec- ! tive tariff policy, it is practically word !for word the 1924 plank in that it | pledges the party again to the enact- | ment of a tariff that will contain duties that will permit effective com- petition, insure against monopoly. and {at the same time produce a fair rev- | enue for the support of the Govern- | ment." | “In other words, the Houston plat- form declares for a tariff similar to | the Underwood tariff. Their own con- clusions may be drawn,by American | business, American agriculture, Ameri- {can industry and American labor as | to whether or not such a tariff would | square with the rest of the Demo- cratic tariff plank, which assures them | that any Democratic tariff legislation | would maintain legitimate business and a high standard of wages for Ameri- can labor." Before going to Williams' Grove, on the outskirts of the city, to speak, the Senator econferred with party leaders at the executive mansion, where he stopped overnight as the guest of Gov. Fisher The governor arranged a luncheon and reception, to which members of his cabinet and Republican leaders of the e were called in | The Vice Presidential nominee exme {to Pennsylvania from New York. He reached Harvisburg after a long m | trip from Watkins Glen, N. Y Iroute he stopped at Willlamsport, Pa ito e dinner with some party workers there. A veteran at campaigning, th Senator seemed none the worse toda | for his strenuous ride and his busy da {on Tuesday at Syracuse. | COMMUNITIES LEAD ANTI-FOREIGN MOVE By the Associated Pross. PEKING, August 30.—An anti-for- }el‘n military movement led by Com- | munists was reported today from Tai- nanfu, seat of the Shantung Province provisional government since the Japa nese_have occupled Tsinan. | Official dispatches said troops occu- | pled the American and English mission | buildings A letter received by the Methoc Episcopal Mission here sald the Tain fu missions were oceupted Iast weok Nationalist troops, but the three An ican misglon workers there were b disturbed. Bl . Flying Instructor Killed. MONTREAL, Quebec, August 30 (4 | -Capt. Harold F. Nase of St John, New Brunswick, flylng atructor of the Granby, Quebee, Aero Club, died last night i & hospital of injuries sustatned ‘- few hours earller, when he crashed ' at the aerodrome while fiying one of the club's Moth planes