Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1928, Page 1

' PALM BEACH LAID WASTE, RADIO | e WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr and cooler creasing cloudiness and cooler; variable winds. tonight; tomorrow in- light ‘Temperature—Highest, 87, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 69, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ¢ Foeni . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star, service. Saturday's Sunday’s Circulation, Circulation, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 96,566 632 No. 30,820. Precrohes Entered as second cliss matt Washington, er o WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1928 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. F¥ (A Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. EAST COAST IS DESOLATE IN W AKE OF HURRICANE, REPORTS FROM AREA SAY PORTO RICAN DEATH Hundreds Injured, Fl—lblic Utili- ties Paralyzed, Autoists State. All Wires Downed by Wind. REPORTS OF BIG DEATH TOLL HAVE NOT BEEN CONFIRMED Hotel Windows Blown In—Local Red Cross Functioning—Establishes One Relief Station. By the Associated Press. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., September 17.—A story of destructive force, hundreds of minor injuries and paralyzed public utilities was brought to Daytona Beach at noon today by two telephone company employes who drove a light sedan from Palm Beach, the first persons from the storm beleaguered city. J. W. Hutchinson, Atlanta inspector, and J. P. Mason, lineman, reported that hardly a single place of business or residence escaped the destructive hand of the storm. They said that hundreds of persons with cuts, bruises, broken limbs centralized in the telephone office and more minor injuries were and at all the hotels. Hotel windows were largely blown from their casements and the guests slept on cots in the halls. No light, power, gas or sewers were in operation. The R®d Cross local organization is functioning and has established a relief station in the telephone office. NEW ORLEANS, September Pompano to the Palm Beaches reported today by Hal Leyshon, 17.—General " desolation from in’ Florida from the hurricane was news editor of the Miami Daily News, in a dispatch to the Associated Press by the Tropical Radio. Palm Beach, the exclusive Winter resort, was reported cut off from all communication with the mainland since the storm struck, and ~ check on deaths and other casualties there was impossible up to noon today. Despite persistent reports of heavy death toll at Palm Beaches, the report said, police at {West Palm Beach had received no notice of any deaths at 9:30 this morning. West Palm Beach was reportec badly damaged, only one storelless. It was feared that the property on the principal business street escaping serious damage. Hundreds of refugees “were reported housed in the Harvey Building at West Palm Beach. At the Pennsylvania Ho- tel the chimney collapsed and crashed through the roof to the ground floor with a $60,000 loss, but no one was reported injured. At the height of the storm two babies were born at the Good Samaritan Hospital while the end of the maternity ward was ripped out by Martial law was declared, thc mes- #age said, with Coast Guardsmen from the Fort Lauderdale base patrolling the streets. Several reports of looting were received. ‘The official barometer, the News re- d, read 27.64 at West Palm Beach at 7:10 pm., maximum wind of 125 miles an hour was reached at 5:30 p.m., followed by a calm at 6:15 p.m. as the center of the storm moved over with the tail of the storm lashing the city from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September 17. A radio message picked up here this morning by Gitiord Grange, local ama- teur, said that an undetermined num- ber of persons had been injured and great property damage done at West Palm Beach and Paim Beach by the hurricane late yesterday. There was no known loss of life, the message said, but many homes were wrecked and buildings left intact were filled with refugees. The message was signed “D. H. Conk- ling.” That is the name of the pub- lisher of the Palm Beach Post, an As- sociated Press member newspaper. The message was addressed to the Associ- ated Press, and Grange said it was transmitted by Station 4AFC, a Palm Beach amateur radio. The hospital was partially destroyed, the message continued, and the Red Cross set up a temporary hospital in the Pennsylvania Hotel there. Aid Believed Needed. “Aid not officially asked for in this message, but believed needed,” the mes- sage said. It said that estimates of damage were not possible. Grange, who is credited with having obtained the first message from the Miami hurricane area in 1926 and was commended by the Navy Department for his services, said the message today was being transmitted to an amateur station at Tavares for retransmission to New Orleans. Signals of the Palm Beach set. ‘evidently operated on bat- | teries, were weak, he said, and Tavares | may not have received the message, | which was being repeated over and | over. There was no wire service of any | kind into either West Palm Beach or Palm Beach today, the lines having | gone down shortly after the hurricane struck the citles. Relief forces were | dispatched from Miami today follow- ing unconfirmed reports of casualties. Miami, however, was isolated from wire communications and if couriers have | returned from the hurricane area no report has reached the outside world. North of West Palm Beach the lack of communications extended to Mel- bourne, more than 100 miles, while conditions south were not known owing to the failure of the wires. ‘The Palm Beaches, one of the most widely known of the Florida Winter re- sorts, are on the lower east coast, some 70 miles north of Miami. Actually, Palm Beach and West Palm Beach are separate municipalities, separated by Lake Worth, but linked together by long bridges or causeways. Palm Beach, the seat proper of an exclusive Winter colony, is situated on the Atlaptic Ocean side, while its neigh- bor, thriving commercial center, is on the mnland fringe of the lake. Palatial hotels, private residences and casinos abound in Palm Beach, which derived its name from the luxurious palm trees that flourish along the beach for miles in each direction. Exchisive bathing beaches, where celebrities of many countries are seen during the season, bridle paths and boardwalks that wind through exotic tropical foliage and wide boulevards (COOLIDGE DIRECTS HURRICANE RELIEF Supply Ship to Rush Food and Tents to Porto Rico. Towner Sends Appeal. Under direction of President Cool- idge, the Federal Government and the American Red Cross moved swiftly today to the relief of the people of Porto Rico, many thousands of whom are threatened with starvation and disease as the result of one of the most destructive hurricanes even known in the West Indies. So serious is the situation that President Coolidge may issue a special proclamation calling upon the Ameri- can people to contribute money and supplies. When the President learned this morning that conditions on the island are much graver than first reported, in his capacity as president of the Amer- ican Red Cross he at once ordered John Barton Payne, national chairman,. to double the quantity of food to be ship- ped there from New York. The naval supply ship Bridge, at the New York Navy Yard, is taking on board 750 tons of food, purchased by the Red Cross at a cost of $160,000, and 1,500 tons of tents and blankets supplied by the Army. It will leave at the earliest pos- sible moment for San Juan. Confer at White House. Swift action by the Army, Navy and Red Cross followed a conference at the White House this morning between President Coolidge, Chairman Payne, Acting Secretary of War Robbins and Maj. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the Army. Informed of the gravity of the situation by a cablegram | from Gov. Towner of Porto Rico, the President directed the following imme- diate action, pending consideration of further relief measures: 1. That the Army transport St. Mihiel, which left New York Friday for Panama, discharge its subsistence cargo of 550 tons at San Juan, Porto Rico The St Mihiek is scheduled to arrive at San Juan tomorrow. 2. That the freight transport Ka- | nowis, due in Panama eastbound to- { morrow, be dispatched at once to stand | by Porto Rico pending further instruc- | tions from the War Department. The Kanowis has on board about 200 tons of canned food. . Gov. Towner in his latest cablegram, which was before President Coolidge this morning, said that one-half of the homes of the Porto Ricans have been | destroyed and 700,000 people are home- |less, He reported the loss greater than iat first believed, but was unable to fur- nish a rellable estimate. He asked for immediate aid. Destroyer on Way. The .destroyer Gilmer with emer- gency supplies is on the way to San Juan from Charleston, S. C. She is |due to arrive tomorrow. | Baker, director of field relief of the American Red Cross, is aboard with nurses*and assistants. There is no immediate intention of declaring martial law in Porto Rico as suggested by some citizens of the island. That will not be done unless that skirt_the city from lake to ocean “"{Continued on Page 8, Column 6.) civil authorities are unal to cope witls the situation. F * Declaration of martial law, requisi- Henry M.. LIST PUT AT 1,006; Martial Law May Be Declared. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Septem- ber 17.—The death list of the tropical hurricane in Porto Rico was increased today with the re- ceipt of reports that at least 29 | persons were killed in the town of Comerio. . Frederick Krug, manager of thc hydro-electric plant at that place, reported that the bodies of 22 per~ sons were discovered near the plant by a search party which was seeking the bodies of seven mem- bers of one family known to have been washed away in the vicinity. No alarm previously had been felt for the safety of the 22 found. Krug expressed belief that more dead would be found in the neigh- borhood of Comerio. With the entire death toll con- servatively estimated at 1,000, the specter of famine stalked through Porto Rico today. At least 300,000 persons were stated to be hungry. Disease was threatened. Half of the island’s population of al most 2,000,000 was thought to be home- damage would pass $100,000,000. tioning and rationing of food and draft- ing of all able-bodied men was urged upon Gov. Horace M. Towner by a group of leading citizens. The group, in a petition, asserted that so far neither the Government nor any other agency had taken adequate steps for relief to prevent sickness and starva- tion nor to ascertain the facts as to im- mediate needs. The National Guard has been ordered out to protect property from looters. Efforts were made to stop profiteering. News Trickles In. Nine of the island’s 77 towns reported more than 250 dead. Others reported no loss of life, and communication with others lacking. It will be weeks before accurate reports can be received from the rural section, in which more than 70 per cent of the people live. Physicians and others familiar witn conditions said that a death toll with 1,000 as a final figure was a conserva- tive estimate. No continental Americans }mved been reported either killed or in- ured. ‘The known dead in the various towns reporting werc: Cavey, 75; Guayama, 60; Humacao, 50; Ponce, 25; Arecibo, 15; Aguadailla, 10; Naguabo, 10; Las Pledras, 5, and Fajardo, 3. Most of the food crops were destroyed. Half of the homes, even those of thatch, were destroyed or damaged beyond re- pair. Probably the most seriously situ- ated were the “jivaros,” the poor coun- try folk, numbering nearly 1,000,000, who have no resources. Talks of their suffering were reaching San Juan. Joaquin Villanueva, a university in- structor of Vega Baja, said the country people were coming into town by hun- dreds, begging for food. Hard-pressed merchants gave them as much as they were able. Villanueva with his family walked most of the 25 miles from Vega Baja to San Juan. Man With Food Mobbed. Paul Maloney, who motored from Naguabo, on the East Coast, said a man with a bag of rice, a bag of beans and gszld; of }l)ol'k Wfls lifieral]y mobbed hY| omeless an un; ople at Naguabo Playa. i A petition to Gov. Towner said that 300,000 persons were hungry and wou'!d have nothing to eat for another week unless immediate and drastic action was taken. These four proposals were laid before the governor: One. Martial law throughout the land be declared, with officers of the 65th Infantry in command. Two. All food, supplies and materials in the island be requisitioned to be issued only on permit following a defi- nite plan of rationing. ‘Three. Vessels in San Juan be loaded with food and medical sup- plies and sent to other ports for dis- tribution for relief in the interior. Four. The army plan followed dur- ing the San Ouriaco hurricane of 1899 be followed, to include drafting of all able-bodied men for employment in public works, on farms, or elsewhere as need, with payment in food and commissary stores. Await Assignments.- The petitioners asserted that while all _organizations, government of- ficlals and employes and citizens gen- erally were ready and eager to co-cp- erate in a plan for relief, they were still awaiting assignment for duty. The communication was signed by Manuel V. Domenech, president of the Chamber of Comerce; C. C. MacRae, president of the San Juan Clearing House Association; E. B. Thomas, manager of the Federal Land Bank; Francisco Soto Gras, vice presi- | dent_of the American Bar Association \for Porto Rico; F. J. Garffer, presi- dent of the San Juan Rotary Club; NDICATES G Wi i 77 7 THEY'RE OFF AT LAST! CLAIMS FIVE SLAIN ON‘MURDER FARNY Father Gives Police Clue to Search for Bodies of Alleged Victims. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, September 17.—An amazing story of torture and the mur- der of five boys was before, Los Angeles police today as they renewed of Cyrus G¢ Northeott “murder farm,” near Riverside, for graves of the supposed victims of Gor- don Stuart Northcott, 21, a fugitive. Questioned for two days regarding the reported -killings, the Elder North- cott, held in custody here, finally opened up last night, police said, and “talking like a streak,” unfolded a gruesome account of some of the acts of his son, whom he described in appearance as resembling an ape. Following sensation after sensation unfolded in his vivid story, the elder Northcott early today led police to the garage_on the. small Northcott ranch near Riverside and search for the corpses of three of the supposed victims was begun under a concrete floor. Riverside authorities have announced complaints charging murder will be filed against young Northcott and his mother, Mrs. Louise Northcott, whom the father said was the only person having any control over the youth and who is believed to have been an accom- plice in the suspected murders. The elder Northcott told the police that his son and grandson, Sandford Clark, 15, now held by the authorities, had told him of the murders, but that he did not believe their stories. Claims Victims Kidnaped. First reports of the “murder farm" were given police by young Clark fol- lowing his arrest for Canadian immi- gration authorities. He sald young Northcott had forced him to aid in one of the slayings. Four of the victims, he said, were young boys kidniped in suburbs of Los Angeles in the past few months’ and held and abused at the farm before they were put to death. Account of a fiftth murder was added by the father of the suspect in his rambling story. It was reported to have occurred in a miner’s cabin nearby where Northcott and a miner are re- ported to have slain another miner. Finding that a boy had witnessed the killing Northcott seized him and he was taken to the farm, where a. few days later he was put to death. The father “described his son as an “ape man” over whom only an indul- gent mother had any control. He charged both his wife and son with making repeated attempts on his life. He said he left them in Canada and came to California, but they followed him. The last attempt on his life, he declared, was six weeks ago. The elder Northcott started his state- ment to the police after he had been informed that his granddaughter, Jessie | Clark, had told a similar story to Van- couver, British Columbia, authorities. At the same time Northcott declared ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5) | SPANISH BALLOONIST FOUND DEAD IN SHIP| Air Line Believed to Have Failed | as Molas Sought New Alti- tude Record. By the Associated Press. MADRID, September 17.—Maj. Benito Molas, noted Spanish balloonist, who participated in the 1927 Gordon Ben- nett Cup race at Detroit, was found| dead last night in the basket of his bal- loon while on a flight to establish a new altitude record. The major was using the same bal- loon, the property of the Aero Club of Madrid, which he took to the United States for the Gordon Bennett race. The balloon was'found near the vil- Thomas E. Benner, chancellor of the University of Porto Rico, and Frede- rick Krug, manager of the Porto Rico Railway, Light & Power Co. Gov. Towner announced later that he had invited leading citizens and ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) lage of Caravaca in the province of Murcia, It was believed that the major died when the airline failed him while at a great altitude. His companions in the flight corps at Alcaceres left for: Caravaca today to bring back his body. L “Cuss” Each Other In Sign Language; One Gets Wounded By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 17.—Neither sald a word, yet their language was terrible. It wound up with gunfire. At a hospital, he who got shot wrote this: “I am Robert Rosenberg, first cook at the Chicago Christian Industrial League, I am deaf and dumb. The second cook, James Wood, is deaf and dumb. We called each other names in the sign language, and I got shot.” OVER T0.000 PUPILS BEGIN SCHOOL YEAR Children Enter Classes With- out Confusion as Vaca- tion Ends. Boys and girls of the District returned to school this morning, and at noon today officials at the Franklin Adminis- tration Building were compiling the at- tendance figures of all the schools, confident that the total enrollment will be considerably higher than that re- corded on the opening day last year. By virtue of the completed prepara- tions which the city's teachers have been making since they returned to work last Thursday the schools were opened without confusion in the han- dling of more than 70,000 children. In a few of the buildings the princi- pals were able to place the “boy patrols” on duty at street intersections to direct other boys and girls when to cross thoroughfares and to warn motorists of their proximity. Other boy patrol units will resume duty tomorrow, and by the end of the week Seldon M. Ely, super- vising principal of the fifth division and chairman of the school system’s safety committee, said today, the patrols throughout the city will be functioning under the joint supervision of their respective school principals. and the American Automobile Association, which has supplied the youthful guards with white Sam Browne belts and badges. The Gordon Junior High School will not be ready for occupancy for two weeks and its student body was organ- ized in adjoining elementary buildings under the teaching staff which will have charge of it in the new structure. Frank Woodward, principal of the new junior high school, is established in temporary offices in the Fillmore School, adjacent to the Gordon Build- ing, while some of his students are in class in that structure and others are organized in the next nearest group of (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) TRAINMEN DISCUSS APPEAL TO PRESIDENT May Ask Coolidge to Appoint Com- mission as Strike Interven- tion Move. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 17.—The pos- sibility of* presidential intervention in the wage disagreement between 70,000 railroad trainmen and conductors and 57 Western railroads was discussed to- day after a fortnight’s effort to reach | a settlement had failed. Committees representing the men and the roads, after meetings with mem- bers of the United States Board of Mediation, appeared no nearer agree- ment than when negotiations began. | strike has been authorized by the con- | ductors and trainmen, but it has been | held up pending the result of the pres- ent negotiations, It may be necessary, committeemen said, for President Cool- | idge to appoint a fact-finding commis- sion to Investigate the situation. | The employes are seeking wage in: creases ranging up to 18 per cent. 'ARRESTS | SEEK EXTENSION OF HALF-HOLIDAY Federal Employes’ Federa- tion Officials Ask President for Executive Order. President Coolidge is considering the advisability: of extending the Saturday half-holidays for Government employes to’ the time when Congress disposes of legislation now pending, which provides for permanent Saturday half-holidays throughout the year. A formal request for such an ex- tension was made at the White House today by Luther C. Steward and Miss Gertrude M. McNally, presidént and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes. In the request made by these officers the President was reminded that the Saturday half-holidays .will end with the last Saturday in this month. They requested the President to issue an executive order extending the half- day Saturday, because of the favorable attitude on the part of Congress to this proposal. 1t is set forth in their request that a poll of members of Congress has dis- closed that the bill making the half holidays permanent will surely pass this Winter. The President was re- minded that two bills on the subject passed by the Senate last session are now pending in the House. The President has given no indica- tion of what he will do. SIX OF PLANE CREW RESCUED IN SIBERIA By the Assoclated Press. MOSCOW, Russia, September 17.— 8ix men of the Russian plane Soviet of the North, missing since August 22 on a flight from Vladivostok to Leningrad, have been rescued by the steamer Stav- ropol. Their airplane was wrecked during a storm, near Kolyuchin Bay, Siberia, and the crew, apparently unhurt, walk- ed more than 200 miles over a bleak and frozen plain to the ice-bound coast, where the steamer took them aboard. M. Krassinsky, head of the party, and a mechanic returned to the wreck- ed plane to fetch their equipment. First news of the men's safety came today in a wireless message from the Stavropol. It had been the intention of the men to fly across the edge of the Arctic Cir- cle to Leningrad, exploring the little- known coast line of Siberia and Russia between Bering Strait and the former Russian capital, - IMMINENT IN PHILADELPHIA By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, September 17.— Important arrests were promised by A jasserted l Radio District Attorney Monaghan today as the grand jury investigation of rum- runners and gang murders swung into its fifth week. ‘The prosecutor declined to disclose the names of those to be taken into custody, but he said the arrests would have “an important bearing” on the grand jury investigation. A score of witnesses were summoned to appear before the jury today, among them several policemen alleged to have received Christmas gifts, chiefly tur- keys, from Max “BooBoo” Hoff, named by Monaghan as the “king of the boot- leggers.” - Evidence already uncovered by his detectives, the district attorney said. had shown that the bootleg ring had paid more than $2,000,000 a' year to police and police officials for protec- e on. Despite the investigation, Monaghan that truckloads of illicit liquor were entering the city almost daily. Last week, he said, his detec- tives had seized five trucks of beer and alcohol, “merely to obtain evidence for the grand jury and not in any ef- fort to clean up the city.” Px:pgrs;ms-—]’age 28 CUT N ESTIMATES FOR D. C. SCHOOLS DECLINED BY BOARD | Refuses to Scale $2,000,000 From Figures, as Directed by Commissioners. HOOVER DEPARIS 10 OPEN CAMPAIGN IN'EAST AT NEWARK Nominee, Seeking Industrial Vote, Will Speak on “Labor.” $13,972,000 MINIMUM NEEDED, CARUSI SAYS Budget Officers Are Instructed to Transfer Reductions to Sup- plemental List. Declining to make further cuts in their estimates for the operation of the District schools for the next fiscal year, the Board of Education has returned the estimate to the Commissioners. The Commissioners announced that the estimates would be turned over to Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, and budget officers with instructions to remove from the regular list school items totaling nearly $2,000,000 to con- form to the $12,000,000 which they have agreed must be the school figure to conform to the cuts made necessary by instructions from the Bureau of the Budget. i Certain items designated as of sec- ondary importance will be submitted as supplementals, it was explained at the District Building. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, said that the board had not designated any items as proper to be included in a supplemental es- timate dnd issued the following state- ment: “After the conference with the Com- missioners, the Board of Education cut its estimates of items authorized by law several million dollars. Thjs was done in.an effort to aid the Commissioners in keeping down the tax rate and to enable the total revenues to be fairly distributed among the various needs of the city. Board Declines to Accede. “At the meeting of the Board of Education of September 5, a communi- cation from the Commissioners was laid before the board requesting the board to cut their estimates a further million dollars and to include the million so cut in a supplemental estimate. After careful consideration in executive meeting, the board declined to accede to this request. “Fhe estimate as submitted repre- sented in the opinion of the board the minimum sum needed by the public schools and the board feels that as an independent body, created by Congress especially for the protection of the public school system, no considerations would justify it in presenting anything other than an accurate picture of the needs of the school system. The final outcome is in the hands of the Di- rector of the Bureau of the Budget. So far as the Board of Education is concerned, it will present its views on supplemental _estimates and what items should be included in such an estimate when it is called upon by the Bureau of the Budget to defend the school estimates.” No Cut, Dougherty Says. Commissioner Dougherty explained that the action of the Commissioners ordering the transfer of about $2,000,000 of the estimates from the regular budget to the supplemental list would not actually constitute a cut, as the supplemental list is a part of the regular estimates and receives equal consideration at the Budget' Bureau. The only difference between the two, he pointed out, is that if the Budget Bureau finds it necessary to make re- ductions it usually selects those items in_the supplemental list. - The original budget of the school board amounted to $13,972,000. A re- duction to nearly $12,000,000 was de- creed by the Commissioners when the Budget Bureau returned the tentative estimates of the District with instruc- tions to cut it to the figure allotted the District for the next fiscal year in accordance with the financial program of President Coolidge: Holds Board Independent. Mr. Carusi at various times in open meetings of the Board of Education consistently has taken the stand that the Board of Education is an independ- ent body and not subject to the di- rection of the Commissioners, as are the police, fire and other departments of the District government. In the face Iof the act of 1906, which specifies that the expenditure of school funds shall be “directed” by the Board of Eduta- tion, his contention has been that an assumption of authority over school svstem finances by the Commissioners has grown up through the school board’s own lack of exercise of the powers accorded it by law. He has contended further that school estimates :;‘loulg :etsubm:ned to the Bureau of e Budget, just as they are prepared by the Board of Education. | GENERAL MOTORS HITS NEW HIGH LEVEL Auto Shares Create Fevered Clos- ing in 4,100,000-Share Market. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 17.—Specu- lative interest in the motor and affiliat- ed shares was at fever heat in the final hour, when enormous amounts changed hands. A block of 20,000 shares of Continental Motors was taken |at 15. General Motors made its highest fig- ure for all time at 211 and Graham | Paige also touched a new Maximum | figure. Curtiss Aero took another up ward flight beyond 155, while many of the coppers extended the previous ad- vances. ‘Total sales approximated 4,100,000 shares. et CROWD CHEERS AS TRAIN LEAVES UNION STATION New Jersey City Plans Big Turn- out—Candidate Will Tour Through State. With Gov. Smith already on the road, Herbert Hoover forsook his general headquarters here today to make his first campaign sally into the East. ‘Waving farewell to a group of friends at Union Station this morning, the Re- publican presidential candidate turned his face toward the political front in New Jersey, where from a rostrum in Newark tonight he will bid for the votes of those in industry. As’ he moved to within striking dis- tance of New York, his principal ad- versary, Gov. Smith, was evacuating that State for a pioneeg venture into the West. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, their son Allan, George E. Akerson, assistant to the candidate, and a small personal staff left by special train at 8:40 o'clock. They were accompanied by a score of newspaper correspondents and photog- raphers. Bradley Nash, Hoover’s sec- retary, was in the small gathering who bade good-bye to the party at the station. Several dozen early travelers recognized Hoover and their greeting drew a smile and a nod of appreciation from the candidate. To Visit Edison. The train was scheduled to arrive at Newark at 2 o'clock this afternoon, daylight saving time. There he is be- ing met by a long procession of auto- mobiles and escorted through the Oranges and Montclair to tfte home of Thomas A. Edison at West Orange for a brief courtesy call. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover will spend the right at the Edison home. ¢ The address tonight on “Labor” will be delivered in the Ist Regiment Armory, which has a seating capacity of 10,000. Amplifiers will carry the speech to those outside the hall, and a chain of radio stations will broadcast the message to millions of voters. WRC in this city will be lihked in the chain. The address will begin at 8:30 Eastern standard time. Hoover appeared primed for the trip this morning, after a day of rest away from campaign problems. He attended church with Mrs. Hoover and Allan yesterday morning at the Friends' meeting house on Thirteenth street. “A hgndrk\lu of persons stood outside the church. ~ Labor Leader Sends Word. Before leaving Washington, Mr. Hoover received a word of encourage- ment from an Eastern labor leader with respect to his standing among working men. The message came from John B. Cooper, for 25 years a leading figure in labor circles of Pittsburgh and exalted ruler of the Pittsburgh Lodge of Elks. Cooper announced he is for Hoover and Curtis because “Hooyer always has taken the side of labor when he could easily have sidestepped,” and because of his stand on tariff and immigration. On the eve of the candidate’s appeal to the industrial East, the Republican national committee has issued several statements calling attention to Hoover’s sympathy for labor and his efforts to protect American industry from foreign monopolies and emphasizing how the lot of the wage earner has improved under Republican policies. High lights of a statement on “Pros- perity During the Last Eight Years,” is- sued today, are: “Ten million more wage ecarners are employed than in 1921. “The rate of wages is higher than ever before and from two to eight times higher than wages prevailing elsewhere in the world. “The average price of agricultural products has increased 25 pergcent. “Our foreign trade has increased over 30 per cent. “Since the Republican party came into power savings deposifs have in- creased from $15,000,000,000 to $26,000,~ 000.000, or 73 per cent. “Conditions of industrial wage-earn- ers are indicated by an increase of 215 per cent in the issuance of foreign pos- tal money orders. Fifty per cent more wage-earners are taking out industrial insurance now than in 1921 and their policies are twice as large. Point to Prosperity. “American homes have doubled theit purchases since 1921, and the increases in purchases reflect more than mere necessities, in that they represent re- modeled homes, addition of plumbing and electrical appliances, refurnishing of homes and other purchases possible only in prosperous periods. * “Americans have increased their pur- chases of automobiles from an average of 121,000 a month in 1921 to 245, 000 a month in 1927. They also have increased their consumption of gaso- line more than 200 per cent over 1921." The statement concludes: “In this record both the Republican candidates for President and Vice President have made important contributions and have been Jegzders—Herbert Hoover as a member of the cabinet developing co- operation between the Government and business to a new plane of service and Charles Curtis as Republican leader of the Senate in the legislative branch of the Government.” The release fs based on a section of the campaign T. m McKeever, 2‘9 &g‘:‘o{e - s, director of ansas University, Topeka, Kans., lifelong Democrat, wrote Publicity Dirsctor Henry Allen of the Republican national committee foday that he will support the Hoover-Curtis ticket. As a osychologist he has anal; s personatly. he said: and Tound v vare ( ued on Page 5, Columa 9 »