Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Mostly fair today and Forecast.) tomorrow, not much change in temperature. ‘Temperatures—Highest, yesterday: terday. No. HURRGANE IS DLE TOSTRKEFLORDA COAS TOMORRDN Swerve in Course May Save State and Hit Shipping or Virginia Capes. 1,226 —No. 30,819. FURY OF GALE UNSPENT AFTER 4 DAYS OF HAVOC Death Toll to Run High, Five Killed, 100 Injured in Virgin Islands—10 Die in Ponce. Five lives were lost and approxi- mately 100 iniured in the Virgin Islands. Naval communications were advised here at 2 o'clock this morning in a radio from the naval station at St. Thomas. ‘The message said: “Reports from St. Croix state five deaths, probably 100 hurt and prop- erty damage in the hundred thou- sands. Navy buildings at St. Croix and 8t. Thomas were badly damaged. MIAMI, Fla, September 15 (#). The following cablegram was received here tonight from Father Lansa of Belen Observatory, Havana, Cuba. “Hurricane approaching from southeast. May reach Florida. Cau- tion advised.” By the Assoclated Press. The tropical hurricane that has spread desolation across Porto Rico, the eastern shore of Santo Domingo and the Virgin Islands, leaving the threat of famine disease in its wake, was raking as today and was due, unless it d change its course or blow itself’ out, to strike the Florida Coast tomorrow. The Weather Bureau expected that such a change of course, in either di- rection, might occur today when the storm was due to reach Nassau, A swing to the west would send the hur- ricane hurtling between Cuba and the southern tip of Florida with possible damage to the Gulf States, and a curve eastward would point it upward toward the Virginia Capes or completely out into the Atlantic, where it would menace the crowded maritime traffic to the Panama Canal. Fury Undiminished. This was the fourth day of the hur- ricane and it was p ing with un- diminished fury along its northwest- ward trail of doom, Friday night it g:lmed over the Turks Island in the tish West Indies, destroying ship- ping and causing wholesale damage #shore, and yesterday it was raising havoc throughout the southern fringe of the Bahamas. Tens of thousands of inhabitants of the stricken islands were homeless. Countless houses and business build- ings, hospitals and mission schools and camps were laid waste before the on- slaught of the storm, described in dis- patches from the zone of disaster as one of the most ferocious and destruc- tive hurricanes in the history of the Carribean. Appeals for assistance from the fslands said that relief must be sent at once if famine and disease were to be averted. The stricken population, it was said, could subsist for a few days on available fruit, but when that was gone they would be faced with starva- tion. Red Cross Starts Work. The American Red Oross yesterday appropriated an initial $50,000 for a relief fund and dispatched a trained disaster crew to Porto Rico on a naval ship from Charleston, S. C. On the reports of those relief experts after they reach the Carribean and survey th: scene of disaster will be based plans for systematic relief to the homeless, the hungry and the sick. Communication with the ravaged areas was still scant and it was impos- sible to tell to what totals the lists of property damage and loss of life might eventually rise. But it was known that the deaths would run high. Ten per- sons were killed in Ponce, Porto Rico, alone, and damage to property ashore and to shipping will aggregate many mijlions of dollars. ‘Water Supplies Cease. .y With their rich harvests of coffee an tobacco largely ruined, their banana and citrus plantations leveled, their homes and hospitals _shattered, the islands were further afflicted by com- plete disruption of light and power and 2 cessation of their water supplies. One effect of the power failure was that newspapers could not be published, and without this source of authentic news terrifying rumors ran unchecked amorg the frightened populace. INAGUA CUT OFF Radio Communieation With Island in Path of Storm Ceases. NASSAU, Bahamas, September 15 (#) —The colonial government radio station reported that communications with Inaugua Island was lost shortly be- fore noon today. Inagua is about 400 miles southeast of Nassau and is be- lieved to have been in the path of the West Indian rurricane. Nassau's barometer at 11 a.m. was 20.77 and had registered a decline of | 0.03 since early this morning, although the wind at noon still was only 20 miles out of the northwest. DISASTER ONE OF GREATEST. Reports From Porto Rico Indicate Americans’ Homes Were Hit. HAVANA, September 15 (#).—Dis- patches reaching Havana from the stricken zone of Porto Rico indicate one of the greatest disasters in the history of Carribean hurricanes. It is estimated that 70 per cent of the homes in San Juan and 30 per cent of the business buildings were destroyed. The homes of thousands of working people along the water front were completely wiped out and approxi- mately one-third of the city’s total pop- ulation were believed to be without shelter. ‘The main offices of all cable lines in Porto Rico were hastily closed and temporary transmission huts were erected along the beach at points where cable landings had been shifted by gorce of the wind Americans’ Homes Hit. ‘The residential district of San Juan. where hundreds of Americans reside, | wag in the path of the storm and suf- | severe damage. The southern :hfi on Page £'Oolumn 2) [ | 80, at 4 p.m. lowest, 63, at 4 am. yes- Full report on page 4. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. Grand Opera Film In Natural Colors Planned by Firm By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 15— Grand opera in sound pictures with celebrated artists and musicians will be produced by a corporation formed to handle such productions on a lavish scale, it was announced today. Oratorios also will be filmed. The | operas will be produced with cos- | tumes and scenic embellishment and | “probably will be made in natural colors, the announcement said. s JONES WINS TITLE FOR FOURTH TIME Smashing 10-and-9 Victory Over Perkins Sets Record in Amateur Golf. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. Staff Correspondent of The Star. BRAE BURN COUNTRY CLUB, West Newton, Mass., September 15—The finest golfer who ever whistled a smash- ing tee shot down a bunker-lined fair- way won his fourth national amateur championship over this course today. Robert Tyre Jones, jr., reigning king of amateur golf in America, reasserted his right to the throne along toward the midde of the afternoon, crushing T. Phillip Perkins, the British amateur champion, by 10 and 9 to record his fourth victory in the Simon-pure classic, tie Jerome D. Traver's record of four wins in the national amateur and eclipse the major championship record of every man but one who ever played the ancient Scottish game. Jones has now won eight major championships. Only one man has won more—John Ball, the lanky Britisher who had his heyday three decades ago and is no longer a figure in a major title chase. Ball won eight British amateur events and annexed the British open title once. Jones has now won the American amateur title four times and has held the open champion- ships of the United States and Great Britain twice ecah. . No other amateur is near him in the business of winning championships, for Jerome Travers, the Jones of two dec- ades ago, won but five major titles, an- nexing the open in 1915. Even Harry Vardon, the old master, cannot equal the mark Jones set today, for Vardon won the British open six times and the American open once. Brilliant Championship Finish. Coming on his game Wednesday afternoon to nose out Ray Gorfon of Boston, . fter indifferent play in the qualifying round and poor scoring in his first match play round and the first half of the Gorton match, Jones played the last 85 holes of the cham- plonship in 10 shots better than level fours, a record that left his competi- tion in a total of 37 holes in the rear. Only once in the recent history of the amateur championship has the winning margin n by more than nine holes. he WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1928—114 PAGES. WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Sy St OPEDO0RPOLEY FEN FOR FOREH CAPTALIN RUSS Concessions in Future to Be for Longer Term of Years. SOVIET LOOKS TO U. S. FOR BIG INVESTMENTS Delegations Abroad Strengthened. Bars Will Be Let Down on Technical Experts. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, - September 15.—An ur- gent need of capital from abroad has compelled Soviet Russia to take one more step back toward the economic system. of other lands, abandoned here by the revolution of 1917. Such is the interpretation many ob- servers have placed on the announce- ment last night that the policy of granting concessions to foreigners in in- dustry, agriculture and commerce is to be breadened in order to encourage the greatest possible investment of external capital. Some even predict that the Soviet will take further steps to encourage foreign capital. Some of these, mostly friends of the new government, say that last night's “welcome” to capitalists was mnot in their view so much a sign that the Soviet rulers have failed in their eco- nomic endeavors as that they have suc- ceded at least to the point wjere in- dustry needs expansion. It cannot ex- pand without capital and the announce- ment of last night is admission by Soviet Russia that she needs that from abroad. Need Technical Advice. Russian industries need for their ex- ploitation technical advice and help, as well as money. Consequently the bring- ing of foreign engineers into the coun- trg is also '!g be made easier. Conces- sions in the future are to open more flelds than in the past and probably will be granted for a longer term of years than has been customary since the adoption of the new economic policy and abandonment of militant unism in 1921. The United States, which is second to German in the number of its for- eign concessions, is the country to which Soviet rnment looks for a las ;’:1 of u\em tal which is oxpemxg e into Ruq‘l w into Russia. floA Soviet delegation already is study- ing the automobile industry in the United States with power to negol establishment of plants in Russia with American capital. Another delegation left last week to study various indus- tries, particularly building construction. Other such commissions are like to Jeave this Fall and Winter for the That came in 1924, when Jones beat George von Elm at Philadelphia by the same 10 and 9 margin he beat Perkins today. Safely through the Gorton match in the second round of this championship, in which the Boston amateur carried Jones to the nineteenth hole, the cham- pion beat John B. Beck of England, 14 and 13; put Phillips Finlay away 13 and 12, and downed the British champion 10 and 9 in the final. If there ever has been any doubt as to his ability to play winning golf, this championship has dispelled the idea. Jones now has won four of the last five amateur championships. Starting in 1924 he has lost but one match in an amateur event in this country, his single defeat coming at Baltusrol in 1924, when von Elm beat him on the thirty-fifth hole in the final. That is a record fof the rest of entries to shoot at and one that may never be equaled. If Bobby continues at his present gait, they might as well give him the cham- pionship and let the rest play for the runner-up place. Plays Better Than Fours. Although he didn't quite maintain the sccring pace against Perkins that he had shown against Beck aind Finlay, the final round found Jones playing the 27 holes of the final match in one shot better than even fours. He was around in 72 in the morning, even with a bad six on par 4 first hole, where he was trapped and accidentally moved his ball on the putting green. At the half-way point he was 6 up on the fighting Britisher, who was no- where near the same brilliant per- former he was against George J, Voigt in the semi-final. ) ‘The afternoon round was just a ques- tion of time and halves for the chunky 26-year-old Atlanta lawyer, for Perkins continued his indifferent play, while Jones kept along the even tenor of his way, adding the second, fourth, seventh and eighth holes to go to the twenty- seventh dormie 10 up on the British titleholder. At that Perkins-made a better showing than he made against Jones in the Walker Cup matches in Chicago two weeks ago, for on that oc- casion he was smothered under a bar- rage of supergolf to succomb by 13 and 12. No matter how good the others may be against different opposition none of them seems to play his best against Jones. Even if Perkins had played the same type of golf against Jones that he showed against Voigt the issue doubtless would have been the same, although the margin might have been less. But Perkins was a little bit off the | keen edge of Friday, and the result was inevitable. Jones never deviated from the impeccability of the game he started Wednesday afternoon, and as United States. _ Bolster Delegations. In the same connection there have been moves by the Soviet recently to strengthen such delegations as they have in various countries. * Thus today it was reported that A. Scheinman, chairman of the Soviet State Bank (“Gosbank”), has been named to head the “Amtorg,” Russia’s trade office in New York. At the moment there are 97 foreign concessions in Russia, 5 fewer than in 1926. From now on the number is ex- pected to grow. The Soviet first offered concessions to foreigners in 1921, after three years of unaided state commun- istic management had failed to achieve satisfactory results. The first concessionaires complained of a multiplicity of taxes and handi- caps placed in their way when they endeavored to export their profits. This has been gradually changed and for- eigners are now permitted to send their earnings backh home. Future conces- sionaires are promised in last night's announcement that tax paying will be simplified. Restrictions to Go. ‘This is indication enough, observers say, that the policy of restricting most concessions to two and three years will be abandoned and that capital will be encouraged to come into Russia at least on a semi-permanent. basis. It is un= derstood that every effort will be made brmthe government to eliminate the difficuities the early concessionaires ex- perienced with labor which was hired by contract with the trade unions. Of 97 concessions in Russia now 24 are for manufacturing, 28 for techni- cal assistance, 16 for mining, 8 for trading and 4 for timber. Germany leads with 31 concessions; next is the United States with 14; England, 10; gx:;n, 7; France, 6, and others scat- ‘The net profits of the 97 concessions in the fiscal year of 1926-27 totaled $3,000,000 on invested capital of $3,500,~ 000, according to the chief of the con« cessions commission, who declared that the profits of that one year were 85.5 per cent of the total investment. FLYER DIES IN CRASH. Another Badly Hurt When Craft Falls on Golf Links. SANTA ANA, Calif, September 15 (#).—One civilian flyer was killed and, one seriously injured in an airplane crash at the Orange County public golf links near here today. Guy Fanscher, 36, Pasadena, died on the pressure kept getting heavier and " (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.)/ By the Associated Press. UMACO, Porto Rico.—Thirty the Island Columbus discovere: TURKS ISLAND, British reported lost with all hands. d. West ashore. Widespread Damage by Hurricane As Outlined in Meager Reports SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.—Seventy per cent of the beautiful capital's homes and 40 per cent of its business buildings believed destroyed. PONCE, Porto Rico.—Ten dead, 700 homeless. Extensive damage, although Ponce apparently not so hard hit as San Juan. H! NASSAU.—Shipping ordered to hurricane anchorages in expectation that falling barometer forecasts arrival of the big wind. ST. CROIX, Virgin Islands—Five dead, hundreds homeless. SAN SALVADOR.—Stiff northeast gale blowing this afternoon over PUERTA PLATA, San Domingo.—Bull Line freighter Lillian driven the way to the hospital. Calvin Han- sted, Long Beach, was badly hurt. dead; widespread damage. Indies.—Two schooners damaged, one SPEAKING OF SCHOOL DEATH FARM TALE AROUSES DOUBTS Boys Reported Slain After Torture Believed Alive; Bones May Be Chickens’. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 15.—Of- ficials tonight began to express doubt as to the veracity of the story of the Northcott murder ranch crimes, as told to them by 15-year-old’ Sanford Clark. The boy, who was brought to Juvenile Court, from the Pomona chicken ranch of George Cyrus Northcott, accused Mrs. Northcott and her 21-year-old son Stuart of kidnaping, torturing and killing with an ax four boys. Young Clark declared the murdered boys were Louis and Nelson Winslow, who disappeared from their Pomona homes; Walter Collins, who disappeared from Glendale last Spring, and an un- identified Mexican youth. Clark said te | he was forced o help kill one of the Winslow boys, and also ald in burying the bodies in shallow graves filled with lime to dispose of them. Says Boys Are in Texas. Tonight N. H Winslow of Pomona, father of two of the alleged victims of Young Northcott, stated to investigators he believed postively that reports made to him of his two sons having been apprehended in Texas were true. Another doubt on Young Clark's tale was cast by juvenile authorities and the police who ‘asserted their belief that Walter Collins, whom Clark sald was also a victim of Northcott, was the boy who now is at his mother’s home in Glendale. Young Collins was located in the Midwest several weeks ago and returned to his mother, who declared: “That is not my son.” Mother in Hospital. The mother, Mrs. Christine Collins, who yesterday was missing from her home, tonight was located in the psychopathic ward of the County Hos- pital, where she is under observation for mental troubles. Bones which investigators today dug up on the Northcott Ranch, and many of which had been burned, were de- clared by Sheriff's Chief Deputy Ben De Crevecoeur and other officials as likely to be bones of chickens and other butchered animals as of humans. One bone, they said, might have been part of a human skull, but they were not positive. Meanwhile Northcott and his mother, Mrs. Louisa Northcott, were being sought along the Pacific Coast and in Canada. The father, Cyrus George Northcott, 57, was held herq on a charge of suspicion of murder. Boy Tells of Torture. ‘Young Northcott and his mother, who fled the ranch several weeks ago, were believer by authorities to have es- caped toward Canada. The elder Northcott was rarested in Los Angeles, where he came when the family aban- doned the farm. ‘The first killing, Clark told detectives, was that of a Mexican youth. He was not & witness, but said he knew that it had been done after the younger North- cott had subjected the Mexican boy to a week's torture. The Collins boy was brought to the “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) . BOY SLAYS FATHER IN SISTER’S DEFENSE Farm Near Woodstock, Va., Scene of Tragedy Following Girl's Late Arrival Home From Fair. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., September 15.— Morgan Copp, a farmer, 65 years old, of Shenandoah County, was shot and killed today at his home, 4 miles east of Wood- stock, by & 12-year-old son, Milton, after the father and his nine motherless chil- dren had become involved in a family quarrel over the failure of one of the 1s to return until early morn- oung Copp shot his father three times with two shotguns. He emptied the loads of a double-barrel in his father’s right arm and back of the head and then seized another and shot him, in the stomach as he writhed on the floor. The lad was in tears when Sheriff Sheets reached the hoyse, but said he acted in defense of his sister, whom the father had upbraided for remaining at the Woodstock County Fair until early this morning. Copp’s wife died about & year ago. Young Copp was committed to jail without bail pending a hearing, to be Deld after the hlh:ri funeral, Gypsy Blessing Melts Woman’s Savings Account Housewife Draws $700 to “Sleep On,” but Loses Money and Repose. There's nothing like sleeping on your money for bringing lucky invest- ments two real nice gypsy lady for- tune tellers told Mrs. Ida R. Duff, 1102 Ninth street, Thursday night, and to prove it to Mrs. Duff, they slept that night on $40 of her money and brought it back to her Friday morning. It did look like better money when she got it back, so Mrs. Duff be- thought herself of her bank account, some $800 for the gypsies to sleep on Friday night. Their advice was that she not draw all the money out of the bank. Just $700 would do, they said, and the luck she would get from following their di- rections would spread to the other $100 in the bank. Adds Pin Money. But Mrs. Duft wanted more than $700 charmed, so she added the $40 the gypsies already had slept on the $16 she had upstairs in the black purse on the dresser. So Friday the gypsies caught a mg on the $756. Then they gave Mrs. Du! the packages they had slept on, all done up nicely in cloth and well sewed together. Then, to make everything certain about the luck, they suggested that they could help Mrs. Duff take out of the house any stray bad luck devils that might be lurking about. So hand- in-hand with the young gypsy woman and the old gypsy woman, she whlked out of the house and up to Seventh and K streets, first leaving the money packages under her pillow, safely tucked from sight. Curiosity Wins. Later she told some of the members of her household how kind the gypsies had been. From their remarks Mrs. Duff began wondering if she shouldn’t get just a peek at the money before she slept on it. So she went upstairs and looked under her pillow. Sure enough, there were the packages still nicely sewed togther. » She pried open a corner of one of the packages. Then she began ripping. Then she got mad Inside the pack- ages was a whole lot of paper, bui it wouldn't spend. It was cut jyst the size of money but didn’t look even like nfederate money. Coso Mrs.' Duff took her complaint to the police and Sergt. C. J. P. Weber of the dew::tlves is leading a search for two gypsies. The police have & good description of the two. wayfarers. . TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Forelgn. Schools and Colleges—Pages 12 and 13. Political Survey of the United States— pages 20, 21, 22 and 25. PART TWO—14 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. § Review of Autumn Books—Page 4. Radio News—Pages 6 and 7. Financial News—Pages 10 and 1L PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 9. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10. News of the Clubs—Page 11. Clubwomen of the Natlon—Page 12. PART FOUR—14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. News of the Motor World—Pages 5, 6 Screen and 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. Serial Story, “Blue Murder"—Page 11. District National Guard—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. Marine Corps News—Page 12. District Naval Reserve—Page 12. Fraternal News—Page 13. Veterans of Great War—Page 14. Civilian Army News—Page 14. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified Advertising. ¢ Cross-word Puzzle—Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 9. Around the City—Page 9. ’ PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt -lnd Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr, and ' w Ars.; High Lights of History, D. C. SCHOOLS OPEN DOORS TOMORROW Peak Enroliment Is Expect- ed—Many New Buildings for This Term. ‘Washington’s public schools will re- open tomorrow morning with prepara- tions completed for an estimated peak enrollment of nearly 75,000 children in the school system’s senior high, junior high and elementary grade buildings. Some of the youngsters will enter bright, new quarters and others will go into the tiny frame portables which school officials have strategically thrown across the gap between utter lack of facilities and a state of adequate ac- commodations which the five-year building program is designed to give to the Capital. Most of them, however, will return to the buildings they quit for vacation last June, while all of Washington’s public school boys and girls will return to the jurisdiction of & teaching personnel en- hanced by Summer conferences and studiés and periods of relaxation at home and abroad. Back to Same Rooms. In accordance with the announce- ments of school officials, elementary school pupils throughout the city, with the exception of those promoted to the high schools, will report at 9 o'clock to the same rooms they occupied last last year. From these rooms, the pro- moted pupils will be sent to higher classes. Puplls scheduled to enter high school through promotion from the elementary buildings will report at their new school buildings—at 10 o'clock for those in the white schools, and at 9 o'clock for those in the col- ored schools. The junior high schools will open at 9 o'clock and pupils en- tering these buildings should present themselves at their respective schools at that hour. Returning senior high school students will enter their classes at the regular time tomorrow. Congestion in certain sections of the school system will be relieved, if not on the opening date of school, soon after the first semester gets underway, by the opening of two new_ senior high schools, two new junior high schools, one new elementary school and two new additions to elementary buildings. Including the new junior high schools and the new elementary school struc- tures, a total of at least 36 additional elementary classrooms, providing ac- comodations for 1,440 pupils, will be- come available during the term about to open. The two new high schools will offer facilities for approximately 1,200 more senior high school students than were provided for last year. The total senior high and elementary school additional facilities for 2,640 pupils rep- resent this year's progress under the five-year building program. New McKinley Highs The new McKinley High School at Second and T streets northeast has ac- commodations for 2,000 students, rep- resent facility increases for 900 pupils over the old “Tech” Building at Seventh street and Rhode Island ave- nue, which accommodated only 1,100 bovs and girls. The newly established Cardozo (busi- ness) High.School for colored pupils, housed in the old M Street High School building between First street and New Jersey avenue, will relieve Dunbar High School of its overcrowding by removing entirely that school's department of business practice with its 250 students. ‘The new Gordon Junior High School at Thirty-fifth and T streets will re- lieve both senior high schools and ele- mentary scheols of the Georgetown dis- trict when it opens about October 1. Its accommodations for a total enroll- ment of 600 students will include, it is es (®) Means Associated Press. Main 5000 to SMITH'S DRY LAW RECORD REVEALED INPARTY HANDBOOK Cpposition to Saloon Cited. G. 0. P. Enforcement Failure Stressed. HOOVER AND MELLON ARE MADE TARGETS Summary to Be Issued Next Week. Statistics Quoted to Show Gain in Rum Traffic. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Sum- mary of Gov. Smith's deelarations on prohibition, beginning with his mes- sage to the State Legislature in 1920, is presented in the Democratic cam- paign handbook, Democratic national headquarters announced today. ‘Twenty-six pages of the book are de- voted to the prohibition issue, and the chapter includes extracts from Gov. Smith's correspondence on the subject and from the nominee’s speeches. The book is to be issued next week. “So far as the party's presidential FIVE CENTS WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star Is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington The Sta:’s exclusive carrier service. Phone homes by start immediate delivery. TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE HOOVER T0 INVADE EAST THIS WEEK AS SIITH HEADS WEST G. 0. P. Nominee to DeIiVer Address at Newark Tomor- row Night. GOVERNOR TO APPEAR IN OMAHA TUESDAY Farmers Await New Yorker's Mes- sage—Jerseyites to Hear Views on Labor. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The big drive is on. Herbert Hoover, Republican candidate for President, in- vades the East, which has been held to be favorable Smith fighting ground. Gov. Smith, the hope of the Democrats, goes West to make his bid for the big agricultural States. Much hangs in the balance. Mr. Hoover, who, although a national figure, 1s known personally to comparatively few voters of New York, New Jersey and great industrial States of the .Atlantic seaboard, is to make his appeal to the workers and the business men in an ad- candidate is concerned personally,” the announcement said, “the three main facts that stand out in the record are that he is absolutely opposed to the re- turn of the saloon as the most pro- nounced dry could be; that he pledges himself to enforce the existing pro- hibition law to the limit of his capacity, and that if elected he will suggest to Congress and the country at large a different method which, in his opinion, will be more conducive to true temper- ance in the United States than the present syatem.” Cites G. 0. P. Failure. The book does not attack prohibition, but thefe is a long chapter devoted to the alleged failure of the Harding- Coolidge administratien to enforce the law. There are statistics purporting to show that arrests for drunkenness have virtually doubled in the seven years of Republican methods of enforcement; that prisons are more crowded than ever; that various indices show great increase of intemperance, crime and illicit liquor traffic. 'The indices, the announcement said, were taken from such sources as the United States cen- sus, State prison reports and official records of charity organizations. Concerning the Republican candi- date’s stand on prohibition, the hand- book says: “But the most amazing thing about Candidate Hoover’s public reference to prohibition is his admission now that there have been grave abuses and that now, seven years and a half after those abuses began, under his own nose and eyes in the President’s cabinet chamber, there should be a study of the matter to find out what the abuses really are and to end them. Gen. Andrews, Maj. Mills and Emory R. Buckner, all good Republicans, told what those abuses ‘were a long time ago and nothing came of it. If Mr. Hoover, as an engineer, had shown the same delay, the same assenting to wrong in his professional affairs that have characterized his con- duct as a Cabinet Minister in the mat- ter of prohibition, he never would have been heard of outside of West Branch, Towa, and Palo Alto, Calif. Mellon Is Attacked. “When Mr. Harding became Presi- dent he made Mr. Mellon his Secretary of the Treasury with full executive au- thority in the matter of prohibition en- forcement,” the handbook says. “When Mr. Mellon moved from his home in Pittsburgh to Washington he sent his stock of wines and liquors along with his oil paintings in a moving van. It was prewar stuff, some of it made in Mr. Mellon’s own distillery. and he had 2 complete legal right to keep and use it in his Pittsburgh home. That moving van might well be taken as a symbol of the Republican attitude toward pro- ‘hibition.” ‘The handbook recalls that President Coolidge called the governors of all the States to Washington for a conference on liquor law enforcement and adds: “Two of the governors kept that prom- ise. One of the two was Gov. Alfred dress to be delivered tomorrow night at Newark, N. J.* The Republican nominee, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Hoo- ver, will spend the greater part of two days in northern New Jersey, visiting Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Princeton, Elizabeth and Trenton. Gov. Smith leaves New York tonight on a tour which will take him as far West as Denver and as far North as Butte, Mont., and St. Paul, Minn. His first speech to the farmers of the West will be delivered at Omaha, Nebr., Tues- day. There is the keenest interest in the message which the New York Gov- ernor will carry to the agriculturists. He is going into territory which has been strongly Republican for years. Bryan Is Recalled. Thirty-two years ago, another Dem- ocratic_leader, the late Willlam Jen- nings Bryan, champion of the West, swung through the Eastern States in an effort to win the popular approval of that section in his drive for the presidency. Today, the East, in the per- son of Gov. Smith, is invading the West. Bryan was greeted by enormous crowds. His reputation as an orator and as an apostle of free silver drew many of the curious. Gov. Smith is as gu'cl:lzavnl ol:]efl. of interest ‘tg 'ix':: people est as was Bryan of the East in 1896. pe The West is aroused over the farm situation. A few weeks ago. thousands of farmers were reported to be in a frame of mind to bolt the Republican ticket and cast their votes for Smith, as a protest, if for no other reason, against the administration’s turn-down of the McNary-Haugen bill and the equalization fee principle. But in an interview, Gov. Smith said flatly that the equalization fee would not do. A reaction set in against the Democratic candidate and more and more Republi- can leaders in the West swung into line for Mr. Hoover, Brookhart in Iowa, Nye and Frazier in North Dakota, How- ell in Nebraska and many others, who supported the McNary-Haugen bill in Congress have announced their support of the Hoover-Curtis ticket. There have been intimations from Chairman Raskob of the Democratic national committee and other party leaders that Gov. Smith might after all not be so averse to the equalization fee, and that he might agree to give his approval to a bill containing that feature if it should be sent to him by Congress and he should be in the White House. Certainly, like the Democratic platform, Gov. Smith has said that he approves of the principle of having the cost of distributing surplus crops ap- portioned to producers of the crops. And this is what the equalization was designed to do. ‘Waits for Farm Views. To the West, Smith is known as a wet and a Tammany man, and in neither capacity does he make a hit in that section of the country. But the West is waiting to hear more from him on the farm problem. The Re- publicans are counting upon carrying practically all of the great States West E. Smith of New York."” “He called the promised conference in Albany in February, 1924,” the hand- book continues, “when he said: ‘There is one thing we cannot disagree on, and that is that unless the Constitution is obeyed and sustained in its every letter, it can serve no useful purpose, The eighteenth amendment is a part of that Constitution and just as sacred as any other part. The so-called Vol- stead act, making operative that eight- eenth amendment, is just as sacred as any other law in the country.’” Under the caption “Political Drys and Personal Wets,” the handbook says: “The Washington police recently made the accidental discovery of a thousand- gallon still near Capitol Hill, within a pretzel's toss of where the ‘dry’ Repub- lican speaker, Nicholas Longworth, pre- sides over his ‘bone dry' House, with his tongue in his cheek. All such dis- coveries by the Washington police are accidental.” The handbook says that “no matter how many thousands of stills and speakeasfes” and “a thousand other things of like import” there may be, they “are less poisonous to the morals and integrity of this country than is the hypocrisy of the gentlemen in Con- gress who are dry on the roll call and nowhere else, or the cynicism of that other Washington group supposed to di- rect enforcement throughout the coun- try of the law that Congress makes.” Prince George's Superior Officer Frowns On News Stories of Hollywood Visit By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 15.—Capt. Colridge of H. M. S. Durban today set the cold stamp of official disapproval|H. on all newspaper stories regarding Prince George's visits to Santa Barbara and Hollywood during the battleship’s sojourn in the former harbor. In reply to a wireless message from the Associated Press, asking his con- firmation or denial of reports that the youngest son of Britain's King had been dwnned for slipping away to Holly~ ‘when he was supposed to be at- 8 bouse party in Santa Bar- A bara, Capt. Colridge sent the follow- ing reply: 8 ly: “I should be obliged if you would note_that all press reports concerning . R. H. Prince George during the visit of H. M. 8. Durban to Santa Barbara are without foundation, and nr;fl:mugmmed." m ice George spent two days in and about Hollywood, dancing with Lil Damita, film actress, dining witl Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Picl ford, taking tea with Gloria Swanso: and mee a number of other celebri- ties of fiimdom. H. M. 8. Durban, aboard which Prince George is serving as “Lieut. Windsor,” salled yesterday for Bermudas. . of the Mississippi River and the States in the Mississippi Valley. Serious op- position is looked for by Republicans in only Missouri and Wisconsin. Smith, in his tour of the West, is not scheduled to go into Missouri. That, it is be- lieved, is reserved for a future excur- sion. But, in addition to Nebraska, the Governor will visit on this trip Okla- homa, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota and Wiscon- ?m. LhHe D:euxms itosl::w York in time for the Democratic State convention a Ro;gesrz]r Oc;ober 1. % e plan of campaign of the Demo- cratic high command calls for many speeches and much traveling by the presidential candidate. That of the Republican leaders, for only a few 8] hes by Mr. Hoover in ' carefully chosen sections of the country. When Mr. Hoover returns from New Jersey, he is not expected to leave Washington again for campaign purposes until he goes to Elizabethton, Tenn. where he speaks to the border States and the South October 6. In the past the barnstorming candidates for the presi- dency have not succeeded as well as have those who have inclined more to the front porch method of campaign- ing. But Democratic leaders have g come convinced that they must “sell” Gov. Smith and his personality to the voters of many States as he has been “sold” to the voters of his own State, _Battle On In South. While Hoover is inva the East and Smith the West, themggllllcfl bate tle in the South goes merrily on. For the first time in many years Democrats are campaigning for their national ticket in “the solid South.” Smith is under attack there. Democratic leaders are charging this up to religious bigotry, They are loud in denunciation of Proi- estants who may vote against Smith because he is a Catholic and because he is a Tammany man. Senator Robinson, Democratic nominee for Vice President, has been on an extensive campaign tour throughout the South. In North Carolina, Vi , and even in South Carolina, Georgia and Ala~ bama the Democrats are perfecting organizations in a fashion almost un- known in presidential cam; those States. They are making pleas wthevoumw‘omlhepolgln great numbers this , just as the Republicans are the voters to turn out in New and. Senator Capper of Kansas, leader of (Eontinued on Pags 4, Column 20, {