Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 6

“TURTSETES TS N WATOML DT ~Points to $6,000,000,000 Reduction as Achievement of Republicans. By the Associated Press. HENRY, Il September tion of the Nation's debt $6,000,000.000 in the Wepubiican rule wes pointed today | ny Senator Curtis, Republican = vice Presmiasiz? mamin s one of thej “outstanding acmesements” of this administration | Speaking here this afternoon in the | heart of the rich farming region of Illinois, the Senator also renewed his emcusmion, <! the agricultural situation | in whih §.e Hedices a higher tariff will| he c1 considerable help, but his pre- pared address was devoted to a recita- tion of the public debt reduction. Cites §950,000,000 Saved. Through this policy of public debt | reduction, Senator Curtis declared. a | saving had been accomplished in inter- | est payments alone of $950.000.000. sum aimost equal to the entire p interest-bearing debt of the Nation.” He | stated that the total gross public debt | on June 30, 1921 was $23.976.250,608, | compared to $17.604,203201 on last | June 30. 4 “This saving of interest -payments.” | he . “fogether with savings from | Tefunding opcrations which converted | securities bearing interest at the aver- | age rate of 4.2 per cent into securities | bearing interest on which the average | rate is 3.88 per cent, represents a per- petual savings in interest of approxi- mately $274,000,000 per annum. Payments Last Year. “The payment on the debt during the last year was $900,000,000. and the interest saved on this amount aione for the future will be $35.000.000. As re-; cently stated by President Coolidge. this 18.—Reduc- v more than s of, FEMININE ENTHUSIASM GREETS SMITH ON FIRST SPEAKING TRIP Women Predominate in Crowds Gathered at Stations—Nominee's Wife Is Welcomed With Cheers. BY MARTHA DALRYMPLE. By the Associated Press. GOV. SMITH'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO OMAHA, Clinton, Iowa, Septem- ber 18.—Feminine enthusiasm, hearty though shrill, has greeted Gov. Smith so far on his first speaking trip to make a bid for the presidency. At most of the stops of the Demo- cratic nominee’s special train women predominated in the crowds that gath- ered about the rear observation plat- form. Though their predominance was not always in matter of numbers they were always in the lead of their male com- panions vocally. turned and many a silk stocking came in dangerous proximity to flagmen's lanterns, but they trudged the dreary two blocks over railroad ties and around locomotives to the end of the tram. Mrs. Smith Called. “My dear,” came the excited greeting of a middle-aged woman to a com- panion who arrived late. “I was the first one he shook hands with.” Though the original cheering was in most cases for_the governor, it was not stinted when Mrs. Smith, smiling gen- fally, was called from the inside of the car by her husband. Children of all ages and tempera- ments were thrust to the railing of the platform to get their share of -the caresses of the governor and his wife One jubilant mother ‘brought her 5-months-old baby to the yards in Chicago and tried in vain to quiet its crying while it ‘recelved a gentle hug from Mrs. Smith. The governor's wife has thoroughly ) her. first trip through the dle West and spent much of the time the train was speeding through track,” she marveled. “For miles it is as straight as a string. It isn't much like the railroads in New York with all their curves, is it?" Enthusiastic Over Role. She is frankly enthusiastic about the role she is to play in the formalities | of the six citics where her husband =i deliver his campaign speeches. She was to know today after conferences with Omaha Democratic women leaders what program has been outlined for her, her daughter, Mrs. John A. Warner and Mrs, Caroline O'Day of New York, who is also a member of the governor's party. A .round of teas, receptions and dinners arranged especially in her honor will be her lot not only in Omaha but also later in the week at Oklahoma City and Denver. “Certainly I am going to do every- thing I possibly can,” she declared. “I am very anxious to know more of the women of this part of the country and I have several friends out here that I want to see. | STUDENT DIES IN CRASH. Youth Dead When Pulled From Beneath Auto. | NEWPORT NEWS., Va., September 18 | #P).—Jack Van Putten, 21, student at the College of William and Mary, Wil- liamsburg, Va.. was killed yesterday morning when his automobile, in which he was riding alone, hit a ditch bank and turned over on him. He was found dead, his neck believed to have been broken, when his body was pulled from under the car, Van Putten was en route from Wil- liamsburg to Fort Eustis, where he had made his home with an officer there. He was the son of a former Fort Eustis BORAH ANNOUNCES SPEECH ITINERARY Idaho Senator Will Cover Eight States Campaigning for Hoover. By the Associated Press. Senator Borah has made public his | political campaign itinerary for the rest of this month and early October, which will take him into eight States, Michi- gan, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kentucky. Tennessee, Oklahoma, Missouri and New York. After this trip is completed. the Idahoan probably will return to Wash- ington to receive further assignments from the Republican national commit- tee, with the likelthood that he will cover the East and go into the South during the last stretch of the cam- paign. First Speech in Detroit. ‘The first speech has been set for to- morrow in Detroit, and will be broad- cast over a radio hookup extending to the Pacific Coast. On September 24, in Oklahoma, at an undetermined city; September 26, at Kansas City, Mo.; Oc- tober 1, at Minneapolis. He then will swing into Nebraska to speak, probably at Omaha. There is a possibility, however, under a plan de- sired by the Senator that the Nebraska speech ! take place at a more cen- tral location in the State, possialy Kearney. Present plans eall for him then to return East for a speech in New York City. Senator Borah said that his addresses will include an attack on the plan pro- posed by Gov. Smith for Government retailing of liquor. He indicated that he would indorse the plan for a fact- finding investigation advanced by Her- bert Hoover, as a means of finding ways of making prohibition more stringent. Secretary Jardine announced yester- several personal a] .Saturday morning claimed a record of day that he has been deliver a number of polif over the radio in support candidacy. He also expects to rances in North- ‘west States to aid Republican presi- dential nominee’s campaign. In a statement released through the Republican national committee, he said, f Gov. Smith is elected and tariff rates are reduced to the schedules of the Underwood act, as the governor forecast in his acceptance speech, the entire farm industry will be thrown into a state of utter demoralization.” later, at his first press conference following_his inspection r of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. the agricul- ture Secretary reiterated his views that wheat farmers should hang on to their crops. He said that the present price level is lower than justified and that everything pointed to an increase. The Government should help to pro- vide better marketing methods for | wheat, the Secretary said. Declaring| that many farmers are forced to sel their crops to pay debts, Mr. Jardine declared that whenever this necessity is not_present the growers should try to hold on for a rising market. SWIMS 5§ HOURS. Maltese’ Champion Seeks to Set New Record. VALETTA, Malta, September 18 (). —Arthur Rizzo, Maltese amateur swim- ming champion, left the water at 12:50 a.m. yesterday, after a swim of 59 hours and 20 minutes. He entered the water at 3:30 p.m. Friday to test his powers of endurance. He swam within the same few yards all the time. A doctor at- tended the swimmer and his health re- mained satisfactory. Mrs, Myrtle Huddleston of California 60 hours' continuous swimming after ending a swim in a Coney Island, New York, pool. 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