Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 1

v Foening Star, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washingtori with the Associated Press news service. WEATHER. (U. 8 Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and tomorrow; little change in temperature; gentle north- cast and east winds. Temperature-—Highest, at 3:30 pm. yesterday: lowest, 58, at 5:45 am today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14&15 Ye!lerdny’sr C i TWO CENTS. Jy (#) Means Associated Press. DEMOCRATS PRESS SLIGHTG0.P.EDGE * FOR POLIGE ULES oo il 2 | INNEW HANPHRE C WEDNESDAY., SEPTEMBER 5, 1928—FORTY PAGES. Entered as second o 30,808. No. " WASHINGTON, D. ¢ RTEN [HASSELL'S OWN STORY ) L AEADS STUDY | * BRI REPORTED | | - READYTOABANDON O CIREENLAND RESCVE et ppoposLs | PAET WHH FRAN[}E © Gver lee for Days—Companion B Trapped in Quicksand. Move Seen as Bid to Secothe s Announced Antagonism of e United States. s | Republicans Declared Have Close Fight to Carry State. |Caraway Believes Congress! to 3 May Take Hand in Matter. BY BERT R. J. HASSELL, » Plane Greater Rockford, Rescued in Greenland R The Now. Vork Times MOUNT EVANS, Greenland, September left Rockford for Cochrane, Ontario. = % 5.—-On the 16th of August | b with an escort of four| ANOTHER SUSPENSION Stinson monoplanes and one Fairchild. we were accompanied as far s ansabtiie Wi ATTRACTS ATTENTION Everything was PARTY LINES DESTROYED / CHAMBERLAIN LIKELY T0 QUIT AS SECRETARY el y ' BY VARIOUS SENTIMENTS s going along wonderfully well with the load when we set our first check point—Greenlake, Wis. We held our course through Wisconsin and Ontario and ar- rlved at our first stop—Cochrane—after 6 hours and 45 minutes. ! Friday, the 17th, the weather condi-| tions held us up, and Saturday. the 18th,| oo oy at 12:15 o'clock noon we took off. with the | giiers on the Mount Evans base. Greenland, as our nd stop Much credit is to be given to the eiti- Cochrane for the facilities with hey made, it possible for us to take We were constantly on our course to e e Rupert House and circled that place in |SUPerson ‘.,‘fni‘}:f“z‘n“ e order to determine our exact location. | veloped today when belief that Con- | gress would take a hand in straighten- {ing out matters in the department next Wet Issue,Religious Feeling, Racial Antipathies and Industrial Con- ditions Big Factors. Signing of Agreement at Critical | Superintendent Would Make Dis- Time Is Blamed on His 11l Health. missal Mandatory for Some Offenses. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. MANCHESTER, N. H., September 5 Republicans in New Hampshire must watch their step during the next two | State’s four electora! votes are to be cast for Herbert Hoover |in the presidential election. The Re- | publicans have the edge, but the Demo- | crats feel they have a fighting chance | for Al Smith, and any misplaced over- ]confldence on the part of the Republi- ans and a failure to get the full vote BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. in menda superintendent of measures to improve ice, for t the Police Department nt has decided to 2 the District Building French naval accord e Sir Austen Chamberlain in a few words that the two tries had reached an agreement. Two Flyers Swung Around Storm. regarding certain naval matters, the | world has been astir. German and| sian diplomats were considerabl jed. They considered Foreign Min Chamberlain’s statement as an an- nouncement to the world that the old Franco-British “entente” had been re- vived and they believed that its future quences were full of dangers for d peace. The mystery which shrouded the an- + pouncement, together with certain leak- ages from Paris. seemed to confirm the fears of the interested powers that the Franco-British agreement contained | clauses referring to other matters than | naval disarmament. and London diplomatic circles. Fears Are Confirmed. The truth is that while nobody could | state for certain what these secret ar-| rangements consisted of, sufficient in- formation leaked out from Paris London to confirm the worst fears of the interested powers. Belated denials | issued by %e British fnrelk: B&g& and f-heartedly confirmed by Quai | B 1 no other effect than to pvil world’s diplomats that | Prance and England had actually agreed | to stand by each other in case of | trouble. The fact that Berlin and Rome were | alleged was by the British and th: caused i -fi‘ £ versations must be 1t does not suit the United States. will be ve- | press for | , but it is | rassing. friends considered its he eve of signature | ‘muitilateral treaty as a ‘Fis’ most devoted fol- ot understand secretary to | P ‘announcing an te¥ms that even if Secret clauses of far . was bound to be f¥iends explain that he what he was doing ‘health, which will nokw ny years prevent him from tak- - rrz" in public life. Al- tnough it was ‘officially denied today that the secretary intends to resign. it was learned from good suthority that Austen’s state of health is so shat- hat he never will be able again to uous wopk His life-long as to become head of the jve party. Il health, tagonism he created against w the party, put an end eams and it is very probable tender his resignation from e the general elections and elevation 10 2 broause % i ter: . © 2m !| 10 the south made 1 Prime Minister Stanley been tempor nendur punced cabinet Willlam C gnsn’s declars i ge-election to Parliament next y will abandon his post as first o ghe adn . {4 Mexicans Silent on Petition 1CO CITY, September 5 (#) Deputies and Senators declined ent today on the petition pre by Catholic laymen urging mendment of the religious laws but cemed doubtful that the pies would suceessful vg" . {Radio Programs —Page 32 plane. the air so From there north through the area of | way, Democrat. of | Quebec and Ungava we saw several sites|return to ‘Washington | BERT R. J. HASSELL. We sent no radio messages after leaving Rupert House because of a storm which we were forced to swing around. Our location, therefore, haq, it been sent, would have been erroneous. We were positive |larly in conne reached us while we were in the area of Ungava. that daybreak would come before we reached Port Burwell or Cape | violations of Chidley. It did and gave us an exact check of our course in starting | members of the for over the Davis Straits. The flight across the straits was very Nightfall clear for the first 50 | Winter was expressed by Senator Cara- | sas upon his I do not intend to demand an in- Senate on my own _initiative,” Senator | Caraway said, “for I am not'a member | of the District committee. But I do imagine that when Congress recon- [ venes something will be done in ref-| {erence to the situation, and particu- | jon with the numerous aw on the part of Raps Drinking Policemen. “I may go so far as to make some minutes. Then we ran into low clouds, which continued for two or | inquiries of my own. There are alto- three hours and prevented us from making any but true-to-drift | gether too many violations of the law calculations. True to helped us materially. Come to Beginning of Arm of Ice. We came to the beginning of the arm of ice of the Sukkertoppen | touch with the situation here. particu- Lake Tasersiak, with its few sand flats, offered some sem- | ted to find at the University of Michigan ex- We circled Lake Tasersiak for some time in district. blance of what we ex| pedition’s landing field. Prof. Hobbs' prediction,we found that the interior of the | drunk, it is ev all kinds of Greenland coast was clear of fog and, outside of bucking a terrific alarming versions were circulated in| wind, Greenland was, indeed, a pleasant sight. We hit the Greenland | | coast at what we afterward learned to be Fiskernaes, where we could i | see a} broad arm k?f! lcetfionéingdto tshe co?s!. gne. n our search for the Sondre Stromfjord we were soon convinced | aj. Hesse for a complete report that we were not in the district that would take us to Prof. Hobbs' | on ety DR Ty ard, | Cross-continental afr race, was first to camp; and as our gasoline supply was getting exceedingly low wefwnh a and | determined that it would be shorter to fly in direct air line. Over this inland ice we encountered a strong east wind which | a search for a field under a mountain wall, such as had been de- scribed to us. In this area, at an elevation of 5,500 feet, where at times the | ‘weouild barely:scrape the tops of -and ice, we found rough that it was a hard job to keep our seats. Realizing now that our gasoline was at its very lowest, we decided to make toward the inland ice again and come down on some flat stretch, which would save the ship. We found such an area, covered with ice, and made our landing. l“shorty" (Parker Cramer) immediately sent out messages that we had landed on the ice and were walking to Camp Lloyd, which, at that time, we felt was Equipped with parl robably a day away. (Eskimo fur clothing), our collapsible boat deductions as to the streams, which we traced. | The walk that we had expected would last for only 24 hours the | turned into days, as it was necessary for us to return to the ice on several occasions in order to arrive at the fjord which would lead us | to Camp Lloyd. ;md provisions, we started over the ice to the land border. | countered many hardships when we reached the crevasses within the ice, but with the aid of a very complete map we were able to make | Food Supply Low; Rations Cut. By this time our food supply was getting low and we cut our- selves down to a ration of five ounces of pemmican a day. Cramer | | shot a couple of ptarmigan and, after a night jn a cave and a ptarmi- | gan breakfast, we started out again with a smile on our faces, con- We en- fident that another day would hold something better for us. But after climbing over the mountains and getting closer to the point we sought we would have to back track, due to the steep roci wall. Sometimes it would take us another half day to overcome this barrier. Hemmed in by a river of glacial water, near the freezing point, If a policeman gets| ident that he is in touch | with bootleggers. There is no more rea- | son why he should be protected than {the bootlegger. Both are violating the | {law.” | Senator Caraway last Spring calleq | {by policemen. before the Police, Trial Board, | view at that time of initiating | | remedial legisiation. In this he joined | hands with Representative Blanton. | | Democrat, of Texas, who was defending | | Policeman Staples at that time before | | the Police Trial Board i Senator Caraway is keeping in close larly with respect to the inquiry ordered by Maj. Hesse. Thirteen officers are now under sus- | pension for various reasons. The latest | addition to the list is W. F. Fey of the ninth precinct, who faces a charge of drinking while on duty. Incidentally. _of_the«18 are attached to the ninth précinet, and the loss of their services, temporarily at least, has seriously re- duced the patrol force in the large area it covers. Nearly all of the Northeast section south of New York avenue de- pends on the ninth precinct for police protection. Published reports had indicated that ofly five policemen constituted the night force last night at No. 9, but Maj. Hesse declared these to be erroneous, as the daily official report which came to his office today showed that 10 men were on duty, 5 of them in plain| | clothes. The superintendent, however, gave assurance that the personnel would be brought up to its méaximum strength tonight, even though it be; found necessary to curtail the regular leaves of some of the men. | “There were 77 men on duty in the| | ninth precinct yesterday for all tours of duty,” declared Maj. Hesse. “The pre- cinet's dally report indicates that 27} ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) KNOX ACOUITTED | ROWLAND LEADING which, could be made into bases for cOm- | yestigation of the police force in the | mercial work. | afternoon. | bank on the other side it required several hours to get dried out and | 1 | together | that had to be crossed, we often found the situation a little pmbaz- BF TRAFFIG BHARGE At one point we were crossing the stream with our clothes wrapped up in our parkas on our heads. We went through it, though | the water ran so fast it inguifed S8horty. When we reached the stone | Son of Former Cabinet Of-| ficer Pictured as Hero by Attorney. ! nurse the cuts and bruises on our legs. | All this time we were paralleling the ice, seeking to find the fjord that would lead us to Camp Lloyd. At times big clay banks would stand in our way, and we would see sand flats for miles below us. | On two occasions we took what we thought was an advantage ; | and started across the flat, but soon we found that we were pitfed against quicksand rather than hills, : Cramer Sinks Deep in Quicksand. | At one of these flits Cramer found himself above his hips in | quicksand, and we soon went back Going back to the tundra and rocks, we decided that to continue along the shore line of the fjord was the best bet. Shorty kept con- tinually studying the map, a beautiful piece of land navigation that | ! almost gave us our exact 1o 1. We had kept track of the d: fairly well and we were certain that Prof. Hobbs' expedition was going to leave Greenland close to September 1 It was on this date that we lay on the side of a hill, pondering | | whether we should k back to the ice and come back on the north | side of Sondre Stromfjord. Should we miss Camp Lloyd we would in | é?s‘:lfl:‘:fse still be able to get to the scttlements in the Holstenbot® | pe pinned on the breast of this man, | We theught for a long time of weaving a raft of shrub willows to | S W N T N & - put our clothes on and swimming the fjord with the craft in tow. cereful driving | These two courses seemed to be the only ones open to us, as we were | Arrest Followed Collision. certain that if we continued southwest we would eventually be bottled | Julige Isaac R Hitt granted Wam- | up by the steep cliffs and inland ice that borders Sondre StromfJocd | pier's motion for a dismissal of the | charges, without going through the | | formality of calling on Knox to testify | in his own behalf | Knox was arrested following a col lision between his car and that of Wil- | Jiam J. Patterson, chief machinist mate f at the navy yard. on Bowen road south- ! east August 20, The testimony showed | hat car hit the rear of Pat- terson d next stopped in a An attorney’s 20-mjnute oration pic- turing his client as a_hero who had swerved his automobile into another car to avold hitting a group of children on the street helped to win for Philander C. Knox, jr., son of the former Secre- tary of State, an acquittal in Traffic | Court, today on charges of reckless driv- | ing. | The fervent plea to the court voiced by T. Morris Wampler, who de: clared that on the face of the prose cution’s own testimony “medals should | Believe They See Sail. After a scant sleep Cramer spied what he thought was a sail, but our eyes had played us so many tricks in the past that I was not | enthusiastic. Hos r, we started to watch it for an hour and we | could see that it was ma a steady progress to the northeast, which | was against the flow of the current We risked one shot with our rifle, knowing that we had four lef! for obtaining provisions But apparently, owing to the dis- ; e, that shot must have sounded like a cap pistol - g el o N We then lit a fire 10 serve two purposes—one to rid us of the [ 1% S SEC0 nment withesses | mosquitos and the other to atiract the attention of the boat. | falled disclose any recklessness. Hedq We decided then that Camp Lloyd must be one of the three clear- | particularly od the statements of | ings that we could see on the other side. It was our intention to | Mrs. Mildred Lee, 217 First street north- | walk to the point and build a fire that night and, with the aid of our |east, a passenger in Patterson's car, who Very pistol, attract attention from three directions. deglated Lwo children were crossing the | | Ve, e the south side very slowly, we decided to loaf along | fo8d as the machines approached ench | and build fires ffom time to time. While doing this, both Cramer and | (1, AuC thit Hrox had 1o seone | myself felt certain we heard the hum of a motor Then we decided | cnjjaren, sl that the hum came from mosquitoes that had imbedded themselves in our ears ] ity : S it A But the hum of that motor came closer and closer orty could | 1 .m0, ; orsi e R lagoser thie MODNLAINA, ‘DUt {nstead oL tHAb! sy o ol se DURISE IpR AL Wwe saw an outboard-motor hoat, with our old friends Elmer Etes and | avoid hitting pedestrians, then my auto- | Duncan Stewart, heading our way mobile 15 for sale for $25 right now,” ke —_— Wampler declured | Leng-Awaited Beunion. The delay In the trial was cansed first | n never explain the feeling of happiness and gratitude | by Knox forfeiting collateral and hond | r the bank to the | on two separnte days and then by three and it was| motons filed by his attorneys, all of which were overruled by Judge John P McMahon, mac ide of Delay in Trial. “If At Words that came over us when we cast oursclves almost o water front. It was a reunion that had long been sought (Coutinued on Page 3, Column 3. A | f was | d INAIRPLANE DERBY Wins First Two Legs in Class A Race From Coast to Coast. | | | | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 5.— Earl Rowland, Wichita, Kans., piloting his Cessna A monoplane in the class A reach Columbus from McKeesport, where he led the entrants in landing from Roosevelt Field. Rowland landed here at 11:10 o'clock this morning. He left McKeesport at 9:55 o'clock. The planes and their pilots will remain here tonight, continuing their flight toward Los Angeles al dawn tomorrow. Rowland landed at McKeesport at 9:257a.m., Eastern time, winning the! Bettis Field prize of $500 for the first | arrival there. Robert Dake Second. Robert Dake, Pittsburgh, flying his American Moth, was the second to land at Norton Field here and W. N. Emery, Bradford, Pa., was third. The local prizes for class A are: First, $200; second, $150; third, $50. Dispatches said that H. A. Speer, tional plane, was forced out of the race there by engine trouble, and D. H. Davis, in a Travelair plane, was report- ed down near Lebanon, Pa., by a leaky oil line. Speer and Davis were definitely out of the race, officials in Middletown an- nounced. Wilford B. Gorbracht, flying a Travelair, was also down, but officials said they expected him to take off this 37 PLANES START RACE. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., Septem- ber 5 (#).—Thirty-seven airplanes took off today in a 3,000-mile race to Los Angeles. Thirty-seven minutes after the first craft left the ground the last plane took the air and followed the procession to- | ward Harrisburg, Pa., the first of 16 stops on a five-day journey across the country. Another stop today was Mc- Keesport, Pa, and an overnight halt will be made at Columbus, Ohio. Albert R. Jacobs of Philadelphia, ac- companied by Sam Lowden, also of Phil- | adelphia, as a passenger, took off first at 5:42:42 am., Eastern standard time, and the remaining planes departed at | exactly onesminute intervals. The first plane was started by Miss Viola Gentry of New York, who waved a handkerchief from the window of a building near the fleld when a pistol fired by Mayor George E. Cryer at Los Angeles was heard through a transcon- | tinental telephone connection. Other Races Start Tomorrow. The race is the first of four sponsored by the California air race committee and staged in conjunction with the na- tional air races at Los Angeles. The contest starting today was for planes with motor displacement of less than 510 cublc inches. Two other classes will start tomorrow and a non-stop ght contest will take place Wednes. September 12, Cash prizes of 00 will be distributed among the four divisions. The observers grew overnight from a | handful of spectators to a crowd that moved about the fleld displaying in- tense curiosity as scores of pilots and | mechanics groomed their planes, A five-mile north wind preval fore the start of the race. A tempera- ture of less than 60 degrees made the morning the coolest in several months. Daniel R. Robertson, piloting a Curtiss Robin, started second in today’s mie and was followed by Leslie C. Miller Tn a Curtiss Page Take-off s Rapid. Barely had the first planes in the ifes than other left the ground with clocklike regular- ity. Other contestants, their planes and vanished m | testants | the order in which they took off were: | W Hunt, Lone Eagle biplane: A Kreider, Challenger biplane; Eugene I Detmer. Travelair biplane. Joseph Scharles. Eagle Rock biplane; George W Brill, Travelair biplane; 8. H. Turner, liner monoplane; Theodore ‘Taney, American Moth; H. A. Speer, Interna- tional; Don S. Phillips, Challenger, Earl Rowland, Cessna A; Theodore W Kenyon, Chalienger; Douglas H. Davis, Travelair; Sebastian L. Pond, Chal- lenger; Stuart Chadwick, Waco 10; A. K. Owen, Plteairn; Stancel P. Gilley, Curtlss Rebin, Warren 8. Smith, Swal- low; Harry Smedley, Eagle Rock: S. s a pronouncement of this [J Wittman, Pheasant; Wilford B. Ger- | bracht, Travelgir; Alfred H. Stanley, Waco 10, George W. Hopkins, Stinson. Jr.. W. N. Emery, Jr.. Travelair; George Zinn, jr., Challenger; M. E. Grevenberg, Lincoln Page; L. H_Connell, Swallow; John E. Carberry, DH-Moth; Paul D. Charles, Berliner; D.'G. Jackson, Swal- low; Tex Rankin, Waco 10; Arthur W Killips, Waco 10; 8. A. Riley, Travelair; W. F. Nichol, Mohawk Pinto, and Louls i E. Derryberry, Travelair. | Bluege, 3b. | T G. O. P. Plans More Extensive Use. of Radio for Speeches By the Assoclated Press. More extensive use of the radio than had been contemplated when the campaign opened has been ar- ranged for by the Republican na- tional committee. Besides Nation- wide hook-ups for Hoover's ad- dresses, radio chains will be used during the last 45 days of the cam- paign, with 30 minutes allotted to’ Republican speakers each week night. Men of national prominence will be assigned to the microphone by the speakers’ bureau and it is hoped that their messages will reach mil- lions of voters. Accurate figures as to the cost have not been made public, but it is estimated roughly that the total will be around $135.- S BEAT YANAS INOPENER, 310 Big Seventh Inning Spells Victory—Ilones Baffles New York. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, September 5.—Washing- ton defeated the Yankees in the first game of today's double-header. The score was 3 to 1. Sam Jone¢ and George Pipgras were mound rivals. About 10,000 were in the stands as the contest got under way. Manager Harris shi his line- up. Joe Cronin was sent to shortstop in place of Bob Reeves and placed eighth in the batting order. Muddy Ruel was placed sixth. FIRST INNING. ‘WASHINGTON—Koenig jumped for West's liner. Pipgras tossed out Rice. Goslin walked. Judge singled to center, Goslin stopping at second. Bluege fan- ned. No runs. NEW YORK—Harris threw out Combs. Koenig singled to left. Gehrig drove into a double play, Harris to Cronin to Judge. No runs. SECOND INNING. ‘WASHINGTON — Robertson made a singled to center. Cronin " (Continued on Page 2. Column 7) OHLER BEATS BECK N WISCONSN VOTE ;Au Other Progressives, How- | | ever, WininG. 0. P. Primary. By the Associated Press. | MILWAUKEE, September 5—A busi- | | ness man was chosen as the Republican | nominee for Governor of Wisconsin when Walter J. Kohler a Conservative, seeking office for the first time, de- feated three other candidates, including | | Gov. Fred R Zimmerman and Repre- | | sentative Beck. Progressive, backed by | Senator La Follette. The vote in 2,285 precincts out of | | Kohler, 188,897; Zimmerman, 69,909. | The nomination of Senator La Fol- | lette, who has been in the Senate since | his father’s death three years ago, was| conceded. He easily defeated Mayor George W, Mead of Wisconsin Rapids, Conservative Republican, by a 2-to-1 vote. ‘The Democratic candidates, who will seek election in the Fall for governor and United States Senator, were nomi- nated without opposition. For Senator the Democrats named former Represen- tative Reilly of Fond du Lac. Mayor A. G. Schmedeman of Madison, former Minister to Norway, was named for the | gubernatorial race. Both were named at a u?uu conference held in Milwaukee in July. Returns showed that the complete ssive ticket, with the exception of Representative Beck, was nominated in the Republican primary. These in-} cluded Lieut. Gov. Henry A. Huber, | Attorney General John W. Reynolds, | Secretary of State Theodore Dammann, | and State Treasurer Solomon Levitan. They were the running mates of Sen- ator La Follette and Beck on the Pro- | gresive ticket. and opposed those placed in the field by a Conservative Republi- can conference which indorsed Kohler. The Conservative candidates for other State offices ran far behind Kohler and there was no doubt of the outcome of | the contest for the minor State offices | from the start. The vote in the Republican govern- | precincts was: Beck, 153,647; Kohler, 171,900; Zim- merman, 65,669. For Senator on the Republican ticket the vote in 2,230 precincts was: La Follette, 250,064; Mead. 129,430. I BOX SCORE—FIRST GAME ’ WASHINGTON AB. West, cf.... Rice, rf Goslin, if Judge, 1 Ruel, c.... .. Harris, 2b.. Cronin, ss Jones, p..... Totals. .. Blusrnsrsan A o 0 0 i 0 a 2 [ L “+ NEW YORK iled be- ; Combs, cf Koenig, ss Gehrig, 1b.. Ruth, rf. Meusel, If.. . Robertson, 3b Durocher, 2b.. Bengough, c..... Coflins. c. Pipgras, p.. Moore, p .. Thomas, p. Lazzeri ... Paschal .. Dickey Lasseri batted for Bengough in the R. | o 0 | 0 | seventh inning. Paschal batted for Moore in the seventh inning. Dickey batted for Collins in the ninth inning. SCORE BY ;S Washington 0 New York . [ 0o 0 0 INNINGS ¥ o o o L] 0 1 . 0 o 1 3 0 8 o o0 »oR o-8 0~ SUMMARY od in—Rengough, Rice, its—Meusel, Rice, Duroc) vo—Gol e e Al O et e 1 N R as 2 ey tnane out aing on -~ Of Jones, 1. off Py B owtnny Jowes 3 55 Piosran 1. Hits—0 & in & Innings in 3th)i off Maore, monc in 1 i Paseed ball—Ruel. v Mewsrs. Owens. McGowan ant | surely than it has been in 760 was:- Beck, 164,483; Ferris, 3,337; il orship race in 2,149 of the State's 2,760 | 5¥ out on November 6 might be disastrous to the Republican national ticket here. New Hampshire was the last New England State to cast its electoral votes for a Democratic presidential candidate—and, as it turned out, for the last Democratic President, Woodrow Wilson. . In 1916 President Wilson carried the State by 53 votes over Charles E. Hughes. All five other New ! England States that year voted for the Republican earlier New candidate. Four years Hampshire and all the |other New England States voted for Wilson, except Vermont, which re- mained faithful to its Republican tra- ditions and gave its votes to Taft. New Hampshire elected a Democratic gover- nor as late as 1922. It is true that to- day New Hampshire has a Republican govarnor, two Republican Senators and a Republican delegation in the House, and an overwhelmingly Republican State Legislature, but there are currents at work in New Hampshire today that make the State a battleground more a national election since 1916. Party Lines Being Destroyed. These currents are difficult to meas- ure accurately. They are the same currents, however, which are destroying party lines in other New England States s year, and are due to wet sentiment, religious feeling, racial antipathies and industrial conditions and to the fact that the Democrats this year have nominated a man who makes a strong appeal to the people of the cities and e so-called normal Republican ma- jority in New Hampshire in national elections is about 25,000 to 30,000. This is a sizable majority in a State which casts a compératively small total vote. But it is not a majority which cannot be overcome, as evidenced in the 1916 election. It is true that conditions were not normal in that year, due to the World War and the plea for Wilson that “he kept us out of war.” But neither are the conditions normal today. In the industrial centers, like Man- chester and Nashua. the wet sentiment is strong. In these same industrial centers the conditions for the mill and shop workers are by no means condi- tions to boast about. Many of the mills are not operating at anything like their capacity, and thousands of the workers are working two, three or four days a week, instead of full time. Here in Manchester, for example, is one of the largest textile mills in the country. It is capable of employing per] 18,000 men and women. Yet the maximum' employed is between 8,000 and 10,000 and they are not employec full time in many cases. French-American Vote Shrinks. Here in Manchester, as in parts ot | Rhode Island, there is a very large group of French-American voters. This 2 of | sone back to Canads, and indeed, the population of Manchester has shrunk by 8000 or 10,000. Many of these | French-American voters are cans, though they have been ly divided between the two cal parties than in Rhode the Republican strength has er among the French. But the*French: Americans are inclining today wet cause, sponsored by Gov. Smith, | the Democratic nominee for President. rue that here as in Rhode Island ch have not worked in harmony ith the Irish-Americans in things po- I, and this racial antipathy is iving the Republicans hope here as it does in Rhode Island. No one seems able to estimate with much accuracy how the French-Americans in this te are going to vote in the national lection. But it seems pretty clear that many of them wili vote Democratic for unt"r‘x‘v.mxn or another. ‘here are er foreign ups-— foreign as distinguished the gr\?m" stock—inciuding ~ German, Bel . Greek and Irish. and many of them are workers in the mills and shops. The wet issue and the comparatively hard Continued on Page 4. Column 3.) i . TRAINMEN RESUME PEACE PLAN STUDY Vote Amon; 76,(;60—Unim Mem- bers Said to Be Heavily in Favor of Strike. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, September 5.—The con- ference between officials of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors, who are seeking to evolve a peace plan for set- tling theilr wage dispute with 55 West- ern rallroads, was resumed today. No announcement of what the con- ference has accomplished was made, but leaders sal. they might have a statement to make tonight. A strige vote taken among the 70,000 members of the two rail unions is un- derstood to have overwhe! ly fa- vored the strike, although definite an- nouncement of the result of the vote has not been made public, After the conference of union of- flcials & mee! will be held with rep- resentatives of the railroads, and lead- ers of both sides expressed he they would be able to settle thelr differences by amcdia i E]