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" YERS SLAIN - INWISCONSIN Ty Mleged Slayer Is Captured. 234,000 Law Suit Blamed for Murder. Br the Associated Press. FPOND LU LAC, Wis, Septembsr Assassination of a prominent Fond du Lac attorney as he sat in his parked sutomobile in the downtown district today and capture of his alleged As- satlant a fow moments later, is believed to have been based on a $34,000 law suit, m which the men have been em- meshed for more than two years. The dead man is E. W. Phelps, 73 stiomey and real estate operator. and the alleged slayer is James Devoy, 65 & farmer living near the town of Oak- ficld Phelps was killed as he saj, talking to Miss Frances Tooley. Green Bay while her aunt, Miss Mary Tooley, who lived at Phelps' home. was shopping The slayer, identified bv Miss Tooley as Devoy, approached the car. she said He made a gesture as if to shake hands with the attorney. “Well, what are you going to do about it the man is said to have asked, at the same time he reachad into his pocket and drew a revolver, Miss Tooley said. You cen’t shoot me. Don't,’ screamed, Miss Tooley said. The man did not answer. but shot at the attorney, who siumped in his seat with a builet below the right eye Physicians said Phelps died instantiy. ‘The man then tossed the revolver into the car with, “Take that. t00,” wheeled arund and walked calmiy away. Devoy offered little resistance when arrested. Police say he denies the shooting. "4, VAN DYKE RAPS RELIGIOUS ISSUE Declares Tolerance Is Vital Cam- Phelps paign Factor—Favors Smith Cause. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. September 1 —Dr Henry Van Dyke. moderator of the Presbyterian Generdl Assembly which met here in 1902, in a statement made public by the Democratic national com- mittee today. declared religious toler- ance to be the principal issue in this year's presidential campaign. His statement was sent from Seal Harbor, Me., to William Church Osborn. director of finance in this State for the Democratic national committee. While it espoused the cause of Gov. Smith, it did not in so many words come out for his election as President. Few of those who will vote this year, | Dr. Van Dyke said, have any compre- | hension of the “fierceness and subtlety | with which American Freedom is now being attacked” by & rad cabal t keep one of the candidates from ' being elected because he is a member | of the Catholic Church.” | MILITARY TRIBUTE | PAID DEAD MIDDY Body of Miles F. Fox;, Heat Victim, Taken From Annapolis to Steel- | ton, Pa., for Burial. | Boecial Dispateh to The Star. ANNAPOLIS. Md.. September 1.— TL. body of Miles F. Fox, Navy foot ball star who died from sunstroke yes- terday, was today cscorted through | Annapolis from the academy chapel, where services were neld, to the Wash- ington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Line, where the homeward trip to Steel- | ton, Pa., was begun. Headed by Siate and city police and 600 plebes clad in full white, the funcral party marched as the 100-piece academy band played. Foljowing the flower-covered marched the Naval Aéedemy foot ball squad of 70. In the rear was Comdr. Jonas H. Ingram. director of athleticx; Comdr. O. O. Kessing, graduate man- ager of athletics: Head Coach Bill In- gram. Comdr. Samuel Payne, gym- nasium officer; the complete coaching | staff and instructors, The services in | the chapel were in charge of Capt.| Sydnev K. Evans, chaplain. Enlisted | men accompanied the body as pall- bearers. Monday, services will be held at Steeiton. i FIND $200,000 SHORTAGE IN BROKERAGE OFFICE Auditors Examine Books of Cali-| fornia Firm—Two Men Are | Sought. B+ the Associated Press. BAN PRANCISCO, September 1.— Ehortage of at 1~ast $200,000, 2 nd pos- xibly 2 much larger amount, in the aceounts of the H. G, Lane Co.. brokers, was announced here today by auditors who had worked for four days over the tangled mass of figures comprising the books of the organization. License of the firm then was sus- pended by Howard C. Ellis, assistant Btate corporation commissioner, who #aid th> commission had becn unable tn iocate any responsible head of the organization. Simultaneously he an- nouneced that branches of the firm in Oaxland. Portland. Los Angeles. Salt 1ake City 2nd Chicago were closed today seareh has been instituted for Lane, president of the organiza- Prank Horal, former partner, and Hendrickson. an employe, were eited on charges of grand theft pre- forred by 2 custemer. who sald banks had refused to honor a check paid him by the brokerage house FINLAND F|G;-|TS LIQUOR SMUGGLING ALONG COAST HELSINGFORS, Pinland () —Liguor smuggling into dry Finland has grown 1o an enormous volume and custums officials have found no effective means 1o meet the crisis. Pitched battles be- tween Piniand’s customs guards and smuggling vessels have occurred in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia According 1o information given by the s offictals moré than 00000 Jters of slcoholic liquor were confiscat- ed during May. Between January and May statistics show confiseations. of 392.000 liters of spirits, 123 bottles of eorn brandy. 271 bottles of cognac 1308 bottles of whisky and rum, 206 botiles of liqueurs, 9 bottles of punch 159 bottles of champagne and 1 437 bol- s of wine of various kinds ‘The customs ships are iined up around the Oland Islands on the look- emt for bootlegging ships endeavoring 1n enter the Gulf of Bothnia. A Turk- joh vessel, the Hassan Birr, has already been apprehended and exchanged shots with the government vessel The smuggling 18 also carried out slong the coasts snd among the islands by means of small_motor hoats and it 15 tyis form of trafic that the officials £i0 it Aiffieult 1o combat chiefs have written 16 the eabinet in en effort to obtain further assistance, practicing law for 10 years. | | ;Vice Presidential Candidate ? Boasts Strong Body f and Voice. | i 'Tasted His First Victory as ‘ “Just a Country _Boy." Written_exclusively for The Star ar Newspaner Alliance Sep.cmber 1. and don't North Robinson of Ak you smile—for it is to lay the Arkansas foke books aside when vou come to Joe Robinson in a campaign H» has dimples. it is true, and an un- mistakable Celtic spark in his blue eyes In Washington he is known as an un- ccelled raconteur. But right now he the Democratic candidate for the vice presidency. and when Joe Robinson is candidate for anything. baware. He is a grim fighter. And the more vou smile, the more formidable he gets 1r Samucl Tavlor Rice were living he sould tell you as much. Rice announced himself a candidate for Congress in 1902: he was running in a newly or- ganized Arkansas distriet: he was popular and had proved his politic worth in various county offices. ~But he made the fatal mistake of laughing— quite good naturedly—at Jos Robinson a young lewyer of Lonoke, a town of no fame except that of producing the present_minority leader of the United States Senate. Just a Country Boy. “Who's running ag'in ye?" the farmers asked Rice Nobod: country Lonoke.” The object of this misstatement is not entirely apparent. It appears. however xcept 8 on from chuckled Rice. * boy named Robir ! that some of the folks up Lonoke way ; had boasted of the politic potential- ities of their boy, Joe. and Rice had heard of it. Now. Joe Robinson did intend to run for anything. He re- membered the advice of his old law professor at the University of Virginia which he attended two terms: “Don't run for anything until you have been You need the experience " But when Joe Robinson heard Rice was making game of him. he called, as Southern gentlemen do, and an- nounced: “Sir. if this keeps up, I will run against you and beat you.” At which Mr. Rice chuckled the louder. He didn't chuckle. however, when Joe Robinson was elected to Con- gress from the district a few months later. And Mr. Rice did not become Representative Rice until Representa- | tive Robinson was elected Governor of | Arkansas in 1913, a position which he resigned immediately to become Senator Robinson. ° Senator Robinson and Mr. Rice, how- cver, were life-long friends. Most of Senator Robinson's political opponents are his personal friends. He fights, but | he fights like a gentleman. i Fights Without Bitterness. As & matter of fact, a telegram from | Senator Curtis of Kansas lies on Sen- ator Robinson’s desk now—a telegram | of congratulations, containing this sen- | tence “I hope nothing will lessen the warm friendship that now exists between us and which T hope will last always.” He fights, but he leaves no bitterness behind him, only the remembrance of his mighty voice and the granite of his | convictions, | There is also a book on the Senator's desk—a copy of Emil Ludwig's “Bis- marck,” the chancellor of blood and | iron—a book which Senator Robinson scans beiween confersnces and dicta- tions. He would read that kind of book. and just before a campaign, too. Bis- marck is not 8o stout a tonic for him. JOE ROBINSON IS A FIGHTER WHO KNOWS NO BITTERNESS UNDERWODD NATOR ROBINSON. boyhood hero of fiction was Jean an of Victor Hugo's “Les Miser- another man of terrible strength and will Senator Robinson is a strong man in- tellectually and physically. It may be romembered that Woodrow Wilson ailed him the “intellectual and moral leader of the Senate.” That was after Robinson's vigorous fight for the League of Nations. And now, as he prepares the ground- work for a campaign through his be- loved but not too certain South, Sen- ator Robinson looks the fighter more than the raconteur. The freckles of his vouth cloud his ruddiness. line nose is a Ilittle flerce. His biue eves have a way of striking out from under his graying brows. His mouth, normally humorous, turns down a little at the corners. He bites his cigar as he talks and is restless Volice Is Stentorian. | | | | | | His aqui- | Senator Robinson trained his ortho- | phonic voice in his 'teens by reading every word of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens aloud to his brother in a farmhouse near Lonoke. That voice has stopped Heflin and many a Senator as voluble. And he has a strong body. His father, ‘before he became & fighting Baptist preacher. was a physician who held the human body sacred. He urged his son to care for his body properly. Senator Robinson today is shouldered, deep-chested man with good muscles Mrs. Robinson laughed at the estion that the Senator's campaign swing through the South might impair his healih. “He is a powerful man,” she said. “It would take more than a campaign | 'BOTH SIDES CLAIM to hurt him. Of course, I shall go along to take care of him, but he is strong and young. Just 56 years old Sunday.” Senator Robinson in his earlier days used his physical strength in his bat- tling when his voice failed to get re- sults. Some of his former students of a_ country school in Mount Carmel, which he taught in his late 'teens, will recall that strength. Joe Robinson took the school over when the students g0t too husky for his predecessor. Joe started the term by lining up the big boys of the school and inviting them, one or more at a time, wrestle, They accepted the challenge. But :g:ywl:evar acceped another. He took ‘estlers to a kn‘flnub ali, the boxers to a “They're seattered over the Nation, those students,” the Senator remarked, Chewing his cigar reminiscently, “and | |1 know every one of them and every one of their children will bear me good will in my present undertaking.” (Copyrizht, 1928. by North Ameri __Saper Alliance, ) i INDIANA TO HEAR SMITH. Probably Only Date in That State Will Be After October 20. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. September 1 P —Goy. Al Smith, Democratic can- didate for President, will speak in In- | dianapolis some time after October 20, | it was learned by the Associated Press | today. The exact date was not given, | but it was said this city had been zhosen for probably the only Indiana ad- | dress the New York governor will make. | It also was learned that Claude G.| Bowers, former Fort Wayne newspaper | man and keynote speaker at the Demo- | cratic national convention at Houston, | will spend a week in Indiana in behalf | >{ Gov. Smith's candidacy. Terra Haute and Fort Wayne are on his tentative program, but the date he will come into Indiana was not learned. Bowers now lives in New York. HEADS FUNERAL BODY. | William R. Pumphrey, Jr.. of Rock- ville Elected at Ocean City. @0ecial Dispateh 1o The Siar ROCKVILLE. Md.. September 1 { the annual meeting at Ocean City, Md.. this week of the Maryland State Funeral Directors’ Association William R. Pumphrey. jr.. of Rockville, was chosen president for the ensuing yea He had been first vice presi | the preceding annual meeting | nt since | LEWIS NIXON TO SPEAK. One-Time Tammany Leader to Be Heard in Virginia LEESBURG. Va.. September 1 () Lewis Nixon, New York shipbuflder and | one time a leader in Tammany Hall, viil {return to his home town here Septem- ber 17 to deliver a speech | mith A number of New York State officials and friends of Mr. Nixon will accom- pany him. Practically all of the Vir- | ginia State officials have been invited to attend | for Go: Pupils to Register. Special Dispatch 1o The Blas CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. Septem- ber 1.--Capitol Heights Elementary | 8chool will be opened next Thursday from 10 am. to 1 p.m. for registration {of new pupils and the transfer of sixth | grade pupils promoted to the seventh | grade, who are going to Maryland Park High Behool. School will reopen Sep. tember 10 and the principal asks that | the registration and transferring be at- tended 1o before ihat time. All new puplls must be vaccinated Capital Girls Partic More Than Ever, Girls of Washington are participating in sports in larger numbers than ever before, Mrs. Busie Rool Rhodes, super- visor of municipal playgrounds, points out in her annual report to the Dis- | et Commissioners. | Statistics of the playground depart- | ment, Mrs. Rhodes sald, show that more than 11,000 grils took pi in the organized activities on the playgrounds during the last fiseal year, ended June 30 The department. according 1o the re- port, endeavors tn work ou! & sene ind heneficial program that will develop The customs | the girls hoth phyeically and morally | Iarger ones me good time iand give them » whal 1 s the firs “Health of the indivia 2| Reading of Novels Weakening Mind, E.S.Bond Declares By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., September 1. —Urging better understanding be- tween parents and children, E. 8. Bond of Washington, D. C., general secretary of the Seventh-day Ad- ventist Young People’s Society, yes- terday denounced bobbed hair and short skirts. Novel reading, he said was weakening to the mind. Card playing he characterized as on a par with liquor drinking, while moving plctures, he sald, 2re “more destruc- tive than whisky.” “Auto riding in which there are petting parties causes the downfall of youth." he declared, He addressed the annual State en- campment of Adventists ALEXANDR[A COUNCIL j Special Committee as Result of UNDER NEW REGIME Mayor Smoot, at Inductance Cere- ! monies, Urges Efforts to Ob- tain New Industries. Special Dispateh to The Star ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 1 Mayor Willlam A. Smoot and Thomas ‘A Fannon, recently re-elected to the ety councll, were given the oath at noon today for a new four-year term, and the councll was reorganized by the re-¢lection of Smoot to be mayor: Rob- ert 8 Jones, viee mayor. and Purvis Taylor, clerk The couneil was enjoined by the mayor to make special efforts to obtain new industries, the public was thanked for its co-operation, and City Manager Paul Morton was commended for his work. Employes of W, A. 8moot & Co. the meyor's business firm, presented him with a basket of flowers, The ceremonies of inductance were conducted by Judge William P. Woolls of the Corporation Jourt Dies of Broken Back. Bpecinl Dispateh 10 The Blar HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 18.--C Bernice Spigler, Wililamsport, Md died today al the Washington County Hospital of a broken back recelved when he fell from a 50-foot cliff near | his home Sunday while walking with | hiz hunting dogs ipate in Sports Mrs. Rhodes chorts thing considered,” she ssid, “and at no time is she allowed to sacrifice that for the benefit of the team she might | be playing on. The perfect girl in every way s the aim of the plly{;mundn and | thus help prepare her for future times, |10 meet the defeats of life as well an the victories. In no way is this trait | of character developed among finer and | stronger lines than in everyday play- | ground games.” Mrs. Rhodes advocated the opening of hranch libraries on the major play- grounds, & wading pool for every play- ground and a swimming pool for the 8he also recommended the lm blishment of recreational factlities in every perk. : a_ broad- | to box or| | | | | | | | | | | Hoover campaign committee, In & state- | | SHITH WL REST OVERLABOR DAY Governor, Seeking Surcease‘ | of Madding Crowds, to Stay Home. By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., September 1.--Con- | vinced that after all there's no placs | like home, Gov. Smith settied down | today to enjoy a quiet week end at the | executive mansion He placed & ban on politics and work | for a few days, and figured he could get | more comfort and rest here than by joining the Labor day exodus to the sea, and mountains, Before he became a Democratic presi- | dential nominee, Mr. Smith was able, | even though governor, to slip away for a vacation with some degree of seclu- | sion. But his last week end in New | Jersey, where he continuously was the | center of crowds, convinced him that these days are over, Seeks Rest. More than anything right now. as he steels himself for the hardships of campaigning, the Democratic standard- | bearer is looking for rest and slcep. At the executive mansion he feels that he | can get both, and at the same time enjoy close contact with his family. | The mansion fs a rambling red brick structure nestled among trees about six | blocks from the Capitol. It is sur- rounded by & high iron fence. On three | sides of the big house are porches. The rooms have high ceilings and are cool, and to the rear is the z00, housing the monkeys, deer and other animals that have been presented to the governor. In these surroundings the Demo- cratic leader will take it easy for a few | days. There he will be able to romp with his three small grandchildren, the eldest just old enough to sing "The‘ Sidewalks of New York" and propose “Three chers for the next President of the United States.” 01d Friend is Guest. For the week end the family circle has been expanded to include the gov- ernor's crony, William F. Kenney, New York millionaire, on whose special car | the nominee will travel during the cam- paign. Gov. Smith put his schedule Into effect today | his usual daily press conference. He | sent word to newspaper men that he had | o news, and particularly that he had | ho comment to make ai this time on | the cable from FEurope of William R.| Hearst predicting his defeat and ftak- | ing & fling at Tammany and John J. ! Raskob, chairman of the Democratic national committee. holiday rest | by calling off | STRENGTH IN GEORGIA 6. 0. P. Chairman “Warns" Against Alleged Attempt to Pledge Voters in Primary. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., September 1.--While | Georgla Democratic forces proceeded | with plans for extensive campaign or- ganization work for the presidential election in November, a “warning” was issued today by State Republican cam- paign headquarters against what they | charged was a move to “pledge” vot- ers in the September 12 Democratic pri- mary (o support the national ticket. H. G. Hastings, chalrman of the ment issued by him said that the Hoover forces In Georgia now number “& com- | fortable majority of the white men and | women,” while from Democratic held—‘ quarters came the statement that the “Democratic majorities in the November | elections will be approximately normal.” | and that “much of the opposition to Smith and Robinson which was ap-| parent several weeks ago has disap- peared entirely.” “It his been reported,” the Hastings statement read, “that the tickets for the | September 12 primary are to contain an agreement or statement that any voter participating in this September 12 primary agrees to support not only | conduct & lone campaign for election. | This decision was reached after Di. D. | Leigh Colvin, chalrman of the national |20 TENNESSEE LAYMEN the nominees for State and county of- fices, but the national ticket as well. “Any such attempt * * * is illegal and, if attempted, is llable to invalidate the entire outcome of the 1928 primary as to State, county and congressional nominees.” VARNEY T0 CONDUCT LONE DRY CAMPAIGN Prohibitionist Nominee to Have| Chairman's Stand. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 1.—Willlam F Varney. presidentia? nominee of the Prohibitionist party, decided today to committee of the party, who holds four- ffths of the party members favor Hoover, announced he would solicit campaign funds of $100,000 for the sole purpose of an “anti-Smith" campalgn By a vete of 4 to 3 the executive committee of the party decided yester- day to keep Varney and James Edger- | ton, vice presidentinl nominee, In the field. Dr. Colvin did not vote, Today Varney conferred with Dr | Colvin ‘and then announced tenfative | arrangements for a special campaign committee which will raise its funds and conduct its ccmpaign entire- ly separate from the campaign of the national committee. | Dr. B. E. P. Prugh of Harrisburg. Pa permanent chairman_of the national convention of the Prohibition party, held here in July, was named as chair- man of the special Varney campaign committee, according to the tentative plans, Will D. Martin of Hasbrouck Heights, N. J, and George 1. Pennock of Lansdowne, were named secre- tary and treasurer. RAP POLITICAL PARSONS “No Methodist Pulpit Should Be a Campaign Stump,” Their Statement Says, By the Assoclatad Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 1.-The political activity of certain bishops and minsters of the Methodisi Eplscopal Chureh South was “deplored” in a state- ment ssued here tonight by 20 promi- nent laymen who declared that “no Southern Methodist pulpit should be & political stump.” “We belleve such activity tends to litical domination by an ecclesinstical y." the statement sald. "It inevit- ably does so. This we hold to be un- American and not in accordance with the policy and traditions of our church, and contrary to the spirit of Democracy Neither chureh, bishop nor pastor has any right to preseribe the qualifications for the office of President, The Conati- tution of the United States does that.” | most. drastic action taken by the radi |in_ broadcasting | each, spaced generally 1,500 miles apart. | missioner Robinson, the chairman, b N. C. SEPTEMBER “G00D RADIO" SEEN Reallocation Order Is Most Drastic in 18-Month Ex- istence of Board. BY FRANK CODEL. An initial upheaval in the broadcast- ing reaim-—and then “good radio.” That is the probable effect of the Federal | Radio Commission's newly _accepted basis for a sclentific reallocation of all broadeasting stations. ~ General order No. 40, announced Friday with the final technical detalls, is without doubt the o board since it established 18 months ago. The industry's reaction to the plan, was which will change the operating condi- | tions of nearly every broadcasting sta- tion in the United States, cannot be gauged this early. Among members of the commission the general attitude is that the terms of the Davis equaliza tion amendment have been met with an equitable plan approaching the ideal from the listeners point of view The reallocatio October 1, when station licenses must be renewed. The status of particular stations has not yet been determined. the commissioners from each zone still having before them the task of filling their groups of stations Into the pattern. Clears Channels. Until the assignments are announced and the numerous changes will require the use of an entirely new log of sta- tions by radio fans—the: fate of the re~ spective stations will not be known Then only will it be known, also whether the project will be enjoined by any dissatisfied station or group of stations by means of court action. is conceded by counsel for the com- missionr that a legal test of the validity of the order might delay it further. The reallocation plan equalizes broad- casting facilities among the several 7ones on the basis of the use of ‘wave | Its outstanding merit is the | lengths. virtual clearing of 74 channels for in- terference-free broadcasting. Forty of these channels are to be used by high- power stations of 5,000 watts and above capable of delivering strong signals for radio of several hundred miles. expected that about 100 transmitter can be accommodated on these 40 chan- | nels, but on each channel only one sta- tion will be permitted to operate at any one time during its whole service range. ‘The 34 channels will have two to three stations of 250 to 1,000 watts on from 1200 to This should furnish 2 vast improvement over the present geographical spacings, which are as low ! as 500 miles. Promises Good Radio. Each of the five zones gets eight full- time assignments for stations of 5000 watts and above, 24 positions for the 250 t& 1,000 watt stations and 30 posi- tions for the 10 to 100 watt stations. other words, each zone gets th> use of 62 wave lengths. Stations must be ar- commodated on these on the basis of the population of the States within the 2ones. All members of the commission agreed that the plan promises radio” at least on the six other chan- vere | nels set aside for local low-power sta- tions. They were generally agreed, too, that the public will welcome a plan which takes broadcasting out of the muddle of the last two years. There was varying opinion, however. concerning the effect on particular zones, Commissioner Caldwell foresaw the need of many time divisions in the first zone of New England and the North Atlantic States. Commissioner Lafount sald that time sharing will be required to some extent in his zone of Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States, but that very little hardship will { be worked on his zone as a whole. Commissioner Sykes does not expect that stations in his zone of Southern States will be affected adversely to any appreciable extent. He signed the gen- eral order as acting chairman, Com- o- ing the only member who voted against it. Judge Sykes said he favored the plan because it insured “good radio.” While fulfilling the legal requirements ot the, Davis amendment. Protests Fourth Zone. A lugubrious note was sounded by the commissioners from the fourth zone of Middlewestern States, Mr. Pickard. His zone under any concelvable plan of equa!ization must necessarily suffer most on aecount of its excessive number of stations, largely clustering around Chi- cago. He voted for the plan, but pro- tested that an abrupt effort to approach the ideal ‘in reception limits the fa- cilitfes in his zone to a margin where some stations eannot possibly exist. Time divisions will be so drastic in {he fourth zope that many of the lead- ing stations will have their activities curtafled. Commissioner Pickard ac- cepted the plan as an improvement and as & fulfillment of the equalization law, but asked “that any allocation of sta- tons based upon this plan be not made effective until the public and members of Congress have had a reasonable op- portunity to study the commission’s Interpretation of the radio act and their reactions be made known to the commission." On this scorg, he was overridden by members of the commission, who argued that Congress gave them a task it ex- pected completed before 15, when terms of the present commis- sioners expire and the body becomes an appellate board. e enL S0k by North American News- oaper Alliance.) Lightning Victim’s Heart Stops, But He /\ppm'(‘llll)’ Lives By the Associated Press WARSAW, Poland. September 1 Medical cireles are greatly intercsted in reports from the village of Blenia- konte, in the Vilna distriet, of a man whose heart action apparently has ceased, but who still retains normal body Lemperature. The man, Adam Woynisz, was struck by lightning and was con- sdered dead. Shortly before his fu- Teral his cofin was opened on his mother's wish and the man was found in what appeared a deep coms. WARDMAN MANAGEMENT Investment Building 15th & K A limited amount of office rooms, single and en suite, for a rent much lower per square foot than build ings of this type are being rented. Apply Manager, Mr. Graham Lobby Office, Main 2388 The Texas cottgn crop it almost enough to supply eniire continent. n is ordered effective | 1 is | nocturnal hours in ! i order to insure clear reception along | = next March | 1928—-PART 1. ‘WO | 2 By fhe Assoeiated Press NEW YORK, September 1—In 1896 «when Willlam Jennings Bryan made his | “cross of gold” speech In Chicago, there | attended the Republican national con- vention n St. Louls a diminutive yount | woman-—she weighed only 104—with thining brown eyes and. close-croppec curley auburn har She was not a delegate, of course. and she was consclous of many inter- ested masculine stares as she fook her | seat day after day in a secluded corner | of the gallery, Always she was ac- companied by a_chaperone. | ““Today at Republican headquarters in New York that woman—gray haired | now and no longer young—was estab- | Hishing the Eastern speakers' bureau for | women In the Hoover-Curtis campaign. She is Helen Varick Boswell--who, the | men say, “has seen more politics than any other woman in the Republican party.” She started in the Summer | of 1896 getting her political experience, | and she has been getting it ever since Recalls 1900 Campaign. “That first Summer they wouldn't let [me do very much' she sald today “Probably they would never have let me inside headquarters except for the fact that my foster-mother—my own mother had died when 1 was a little girl—was J. Ellen Foster of lowa. She was head of the Republican national committee’s first woman's division in 1888, and was considered a remarkable | speaker. That Summer of 1900, when | | Theodore Roosevelt, as candidate for | Vice President. toured the Middle West, | Irked by Company, 350-Pound Snake Drowns Self in Val By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 1.—George F. Getz, who has a private menagerie on his Michigan estate, today report~ cd what he described as the suicide of a 350-pound python The 30-foot snake, he declared, suffered from too much company and crawled into a vat of water and stayed until it died. The snake was brought from Sing- apore and a brother was sent to the Bronx Zoo in New York, but died within a month. Mr. Getz' python lived for nearly three years, however. BIG-GAMIE HUNTERS | | | KNOW TAXIDERMIST - INorth Carolina Mountaineer | Famed for Art in Preserv- | ing Wild Animals. BLACK MOUNTAIN, N. C. (®.— | Big-game hunters from every State in| | the Union and from many foreign coun- ! tries know George Joyner and his shop. {In 30 years Joyner made a reputation | as one of the leading tax‘dermists of | | the world. Stuffing. dressing, waxing and polish- | | ing. day in and day out, it matters not | to Joyner whether the material sent him is the carcass of a buffalo or a | chipmunk, the body of an eagle pr a | sparrow. The bird or animal is re- | created and_mounted in a character- istic_pose. The wild cat. outlaw of the | waods, s poised ready to attack. Deer | | raise their heads in timid apprehension | The great black bear stares blankly | | into the distance, his burly body bal- anced like a boxer Joyner, the son of a mountain preacher, began his nature study when, | |in blue jeans, he walked miles over ! dusty roads and fields to a little moun- tain school. He learend to mock the | birds and could lure the bob-white from | its nesting place. He knew the differ- | ent colors of the birds and their modes | of habitation. He learned the ways of | antmals. | A Northern taxidermist came fnto | western North Carolina and _enlisted | the services and knowledge of the youth. i | The Northerner, representing a mu- ! seum, spent several years in the Bive Ridge Mountains, and Joyner learned from him the principles of taxidermy. Soon Joyner became so expert that the collector returned North, leaving his work in the care of his young assistant Joyner's fame has gradually spread | until today he Is busy from morning untfl night in his little shop. mounting and finishing specimens sent him from | all parts of the world Crechoslovakia s producing 15,000 pounds of rayon every day. about | | | M ning of t MAN. VETERAN IN POLITICS. | AIDING CAMPAIGN OF G. O. P.| INNEW LINE-UPS Heten Varick Boswell Made Partisan Debut in 1896, and Now s Aiding East- ern Speakers Bureau Formation. | among | while Willlam McKinley conducted his | front-vorch campaign in Ohio, Roose- | velt asked for only two speakers to go with him, and one of them was my foster-mother. With Mr. Roosevelt and | Jonathan P. Dolliver, she went barn- storming for six weeks ‘I think it caused a good deal of consternation when I appeared at head- | quarters here in New York and asked for a job—volunteer work, of course. They looked askance at my short hair. But, after I'd explained that I'd had pnei:monia in the Winter, that was all right “Then Thomas C. Platt-—later Sena- | tor Platt—sent for me career looked like. He gave me a lot of advice, the most important bit of which; as I remember it, was: ‘Don’t talk too much.’ Wrote for Paper. “They let me help edit a little paper ihey,had for the wives of the voters It was called Home and the Flag. I think my first contribution was called Lady and Tammany Tiger, or some- thing like that.” Miss Boswell made no speeches that year, she says paign and in every campaign since she has been one of the party’s mainstay “In a way." she said yesterday, “this campaign teminds me a lot of that first one I ever took part in—back in 1896. That was the ‘gold standard’ campaign, and as prohibition is cross- ing party lines in 1928, so the gol standard crossed party lines in 1896 GOOD SCOFFS AT FUND RASKOB USES IN WEST “Hoy Increase Farmer's Return and Reduce Cost of Living?” Is Query of G. 0. P. Official. By the Astociated Pross CHI AGO, September 1.—James W. iood, Western Republican campaign manager, 7atting propensitics of tne million dol- lars which Joh~ J. Raskob, Democratic ~ampaign manager, says his party ex- sacts to spend in the Middle West. Mr, Good r=‘urned from Washinaton. after a week of conferences with florbert Hoover, Republican presidential ~anidate, with comment. “You can- not fool the farmer and cannot buy him. He knows what has been done.” Concerning the Democratic party’ rampalgn expenditures in the Middle Vest, Mr. Good said: indeed, be the expenditure of $500.000 the farmers, in an effort to make them believe that Democracy is now in favor of the high cost of living. and the among the producers in the same ritory in an effort to convince them that the Democrats are in favor of re- ducing the high cost of living. “Mr. Raskob's plan likens itself to the campaigns of 1910 and 1912. Ad- vocating free trade on farm produce, they promised the consumer the return { the bankrupt prices of 1895, condemned the Republican party be- “It watch will, expenditure of a like sum | He wanted to | | see what a girl who desired a political | Monaghan sald. but in the next cam- | | upon who | vestigation made today scoffed at the vote- | and | cause of the high prices farmers were | recelving for their produce “The corn belt is Republican. and the Republicans in these States have not forgotten the assault made upon their industry by the Democratic party: nor will they turn to that party now in their effort to increase the price of the very commodities which the Democratic party sought to reduce.” ¥ |USE OF MELLON'S NAME AN ERROR. SMITH SAYS Rezrets to Forb: Linking of Secreta Regime in G. 0. P Administration. (he Associated Press ALBANY, N. Y., September 1.—Gov. Smith today issusd the following | formal statement ! “My attention has been called to a | | stenographic error in a statement made | by Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon- tana and released from the executive mansion. “The Senator. speaking of the Inqui- | ties of the Republican administration in Washington, made specific reference | to ‘Forbes and Miller’ Through a stenographic err > it was writien ‘Forbes and Mellon.’ Senator Walsh made no mention of Secretary Mellon in this conneetion and I join with the Senator in expressing regret because of the error.” The statement referred to by Gov. Smith was issued by Senator Walsh at the time of his call on the Democratic presidential nominee here two weeks his sale, and it Gre PALAIS ROYAL Watch Monday’s Papers for Details of Our Annual September Sale of Housewares st unusual effort has gone into ihe plan- 1 be well worth while to attend. Values greater than ever! Monday —Labor Day—Store Closed DISTILLERY BOOKS LIST POLICE NAMES Real Estate Holdings Also In- volved in Philadelohia Graft Inquiry. PHILADELPHIA, September 1.——Rec- ords ordered seized by the grand jury | investigating the activities of Philadel- phia gangsters and bootleggers from the offices of Marks, Weinberg & Co. public accountants, contain the ac- counts of a syndicate, which, District Attorney John Monaghan said today, controlled all the alcohol distilleries in the city. from which huge quantities of alcohol had been drawn by bootleggers. Each distillery had its payroll, Mr which covered the corruption of police and police offictals in the district in which it operated, and through which its cargoes of alcohol were run.” In one ledger alone, he declared. no- tations were found showing that more than $20,000 had been paid to two men. In many instances the books werr said to contain only the initials of the alleged recipients of bribes, but the pro- secutor stated that he would be able to establish the identity of the police offi- cials for whom the initials stood. Some of them, he said, were men m the city had placed reliance for the solution of the 22 gang murders here since 1926. The district attorney said tonight that in the process of unearthing the alleged bond hetween the bootleggers and the police he was having an in- regarding reported land holdings by police. “When we find that policemen are landowners outside their own cities it is worthwhile, under any condition. to look into the matter,” he said. CORN BELT BACKERS OF SMITH ASSAILEP Former Head of Farm Bureau Fedi- eration Asserts Four or Five Men Cannot Dictate. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 1.—A dsclara- tion for Gov. Al Smith for President today inspired an attack on the cormn belt committee by James R. Howard. former president ¢i the American Farm Bureau Federation. in a statement is- |sued by the Republican national com- | mittee. The action of the corn belt commit- tee “will not, in my opinion, have much | weight with the Republican farmers.” interesting 10 | jiq Mr. Howard. For “the time has not yet -ome w'-n the Americdn farm- er, the most independent individual in the world, is going to allow any four or five men to dictate to him as to how he is either going to think or vote.” Indorsement of Gov. Smith was made at a recent Des Moines. Iowa, meeting. the resolution reading, “Farmers should support their friends and oppose their enemies, regardless of party.” “Leading spirits in the committec's meeting.” said Mr. Howard, “so I am informed, were A. W. Ricker, St. Paul, long a radical leader of the non-partisan league under Townley, and now con- nected with the Farmers' Union of North Dakota: Milo Rena. an lowa Democrat, who is president of the Iowa Parmers’ Union, and Frank W. Murphy, its logislative representative. “I am supporting the candidacy of Herbert Hoover and his constructive plan for the advancement of the farm ers’ interests as against Al Smith. who has no knowledge of the farmers problems.” SECOND FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION IS CALLED Committeeman Charges Seers* Failed to Notify Norris and Vereen of Nomination. By the Associated Press. DENVER. September 1.--Call for = second Farmer-Labor party convention to be held in Kansas City. Mo., Sep- tember 5 has been issued, a statement by William Penn Collins. national ex- ecutive committeeman of the party, said here today. “The Farmer-Labor party in July nominated Norris and Vereen, both of whom declined.”, his statement said “It is understood now that Bert Martin of Denver, national secretary, failed to notify the candidates. The statement added that in addi- ion to nominating candidates for President and Vice President at the convention Martin would be tried on charges of “attempting to coerce th~ party to support Hoover.” American-made clothing for men erowing in popularity in England. is

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