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\WEATHER. (U 8. Weather Rain tonight and probably tomorrow morning: continued cool; fresh north- east winds, strong Temperature—Highest, 64, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 56, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 e e e red as second cla: office, Washingto! Ei D Bureau Forecast.) at times. t The Ty PR T NN WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. service. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,990 — —a TWO CENTS. "HURRICANE DEATH TOLL MAY REACH 2,000 BLAST SPENDS ITS FURY, UP ATLANTIC COAST 'LO NEW ENGLAND ROARING Dead in Florida Estimated at 400 or More. PROPERTY LOSS | IS $100,000.000 Pneumonia, Starva-| tion ‘and Typhoid | Menace Homéless. By the Associated Press. The West Indian hurricane that wreaked its first fury on Porto Rico and upward through Florida, causing deaths that may well total 2,000 and damage of approximate- ly $100,000,000, was spending its force on a final spurt up the Mid- Hurricane at a Glance By the Assoclated Press. Hurricane blows up Atlantic Seaboard apparently with greatly decreased intensity as restored communication lines reveal major disaster to portions of lower Florida Peninsula. Number of known dead in Flor- ida reported more than 250; in- jured at more than 1,000: home- less unestimated and property damage figured at upward of $30,000.000. Many reported miss- ing and fatality list expecied by Red Cross officials to mount. Some distress and incipient disease outbreaks along sutheast- ern side of. Lake Okeechobee, where greatest number of deaths so far yecorded. " ~lothing. medical and other supglies hastened to strick- en_territory. Martial law urged for Palm Beaches, portions of which laid in ruh‘:‘s‘.’ National Guardsmen sent to Refugees crowd inadequate quarters and hospital facilities in some sections of storm-swept area. Transportation strained by in- sufficient vehicles forces workers to leave bodies in open in some cases to hasten evacuation of in- Jjured. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic vice presidential can- Frencffieport 660 Dead in Colony. STARVING RIOT IN PORTO RICO| Militia and Reserves Ordered to Duty. Stores Stormed. Gov. Towner of Porto Rico re- ported today to the War Depart- ment that 106 persons were killed in 30 towns.in the storm area of Porto Rico. “police reports from 30 munici- | palities state number killed by storm, 106; number injured, 323; Smith, at Wichita, NEW JERSEY SEEN INHOOVER COLUMN DESPITE WETNESS Republican Nominee, How- ever, Admits State Is “Critical.” SECTION’S PROSPERITY VIEWED AS G. 0. P. AID Smith Is Popular, but Only Tre- mendous Turnover Would Give Him Victory. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. 8taff Correspondent of The_Star. NEWARK, N. J, September 19.— New Jersey has had its glimpse of both Democratic and Republican presidential nominees. Herbert Hoover, Republican, has just returned to Washington after a two-day tour of North Jersey, well satisfied with his reception and with the work being done for him there. Gov. Smith is to be brought back into the State for a final drive just before elec- SMITH BACKS PLAN OF MNARY-HAUGEN FARM RELIEF BILL Omaha Address Pledges ' Party to Principle of Ve- toed Measure. FAILS TO SEE LIQUOR AS “THE GREAT ISSUE” !Non-l’nfiun Commission to Study Agricultural Needs Is ; Pledged. ) i Sk By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., September 19.—With a flat declaration that he favors the “principle” embodied in the twice-ve- | toed McNary-Haugen bill as s working basis for adequate farm relief legislation and that he did not consider liquor “the igreat issue” in the present campaign, Gov. Smith has opened his drive for the presidency in the West. In an auditorium crowded to th: {doors and as millions listened i tion day. throughout the Nation over the radio, Unless the Democrats do far more |the Democratic presidential nomines, effective work in organizing the un-|in his first campaign speech in the YOUNG NOMINATED dle Atlantic States today. didate, forced to cancel Atlanta v The wind was no longer of hur- ricane velocity (80 miles an hour), but full gale warnings wera posted as far north as New England, and the storm was still a serious mer.- ace to shipping, most of which, however, had had sufficient warn- ing to prepare for the blow. In the districts of worst suffer- ing first-estimates of 1,000 dead in Porto Rico seemed justified by later reports, the figure of 660 in the French West Indies'still stood, and the list of 250 known dead in Florida was constantly increasing. Starvation Threatens. The plight of the tens of thou- sands of honielesswas-eritical;-the “threat of disease and starvation) being general. Food riots in Porto Rico were reported, and some se:- tions were under military rule. Red Cross relief workers were in command of the situation, fight- ing against time to save the needy. The coast of Maryland,” Dela- speaking engagement because of storm delaying train. Damage in Georgia and Caro- linas from storm’s sweep indi- cated negligible. FULL STORM FORCE DUE HERE TONIGHT Strong Winds and Heavy Rain Expected—Little Dam- age Done So Far. Heralding its approach with a cold rain driven hard by winds, the West Indian hurricane, considerably reduced in proportions, twisted steadily nearer to Washington today and was scheduled to pass this city nearly 100 miles to the east during the early hours tonight. Electric light lines in the Chevy Chase and Southeast sections of the city were g o read. “These reports are accurat and can be relied on.” By the Assoclated Press. ! PARIS, September 19.-—The trop- ical hurricane took a toll of 660, lives in Guadeloupe, French West Indies, the ministry of colonies; announced today after receiving | an official report from the gov- ernor of the dependency. The deaths included 300 ot Pointe a Pitre, 70 at Ste. Anne, 58: at Le Gozier, 50 at St. Francois, 60 at Les Abymes, 28 at Bourg and | 60 at Le Moule and some at other | places. Prench West Indies, September 19 (#).— Medical aid and foodstuffs were urgently needed in Guadeloupe today, with three- arters of the population homeless as :“rmlt of the tropical hurricane which devmte;l the island group on Sep-, er 12. w?he number_of deaths at Pointe a Pitre alone today was estimated to be 300, with 1,000 injured. Owing to the e e e ROMA TURNS BACK AFTER ROME START {Motor Trouble Thwarts Flight From Old Orchard 21 Minutes After Plane Takes Air. By the Assaciated Press. OLD ORCHARD, Me, September 19.—The Bellanca monoplane Roma turned back and landed on the beach here at 11:32 am. (Eastern standard time) today, 21 minutes after it had taken off.on a projected non-stop flight to Rome. 2 It returned because of motor trouble. Comdr. Cesare Sabelli declared when the Roma landed that he could not say what had caused the apparent failure of the motor to function perfectly until he had a conference with the other fiyers. An inspection of the moior revealed i that the air intake on the carburetor ! was broken and bent. The intake had ware and New Jersey all felt tie force of the storm today, moun- tainous seas and winds from 50 to more than 70 miles an hour being reported. damaged by preceding winds. As the storm draws closer to the city tonight it will bring moderately hea; rains, a 35-mile-an-hour wind an temperature drop to between 50 and 55 degrees. a | Horace Descamps, the Associated complete breakdown of communications | heen pronounced perfect on an inspec- no definite information has been r:d- | tion prior to the take-off and the fiyers ceived from other parts of the island. ] pelieved the wheel of the plane had Press | picked up a stone and thrown it against correspondent, was among those killed | &edmtetcmm with force enough to N A 400 BELIEVED DEAD. el Lake Town of Pahokee Pays Heaviest in Storm. P ST PALM BEACH, Fia. September WEST P, % " 19.--Relief workers estimated today that lost their “m'.h“:‘ the Deaths in the East Coast communities we‘ac not expected to exceed 10, they said. Surveys showed that the lake town of Pahokee paid heaviest toll, relief wonkers placing the dead there at 200, and at Belle Glade, 1° miles-south, 80 were known dead, but all the bodies had not been recovered,- Relief workers reported 30 bodies found in or near Mdorehaven, and that 15 bodies had been taken to a morgue a1 Okeechobee Rescue and relief parties were organ- 1zed last night. Food, clothinz. medicine and drinking water were badly needed and shelter was scant. Capt. Sam F. Baker of Fort Lauder- dale, assisted by members of the Amer- ican Legion, has taken charge at Paho- kee, where cmergency hospitals have been established and four pnysiciaus and three nurses from here were on duty. ‘More than 50 white and 150 negroes were the injured under their care. Hun- dreds of negroes, meny ill, wandered iu there yesterday clamoring for food and seeking aid. Colored Men Save White Women. “The greatest devastation and loss of Although the storm has changed its course and is now traveling up the At- lantic coast over the land, Washington will be visited only by a fringe, the Weather Bureau announced. ‘The lashing winds expected to en- velop the city this evening will be ap- proximately one-third as_strong as those accompanying a full-fledged hur- ricane. The heavy rain which almost invariably accompanies storms of the hurricane will begin to fall be- tween 6 an o'clock and probably will continue through tomorrow morning. The temperature, according to the Weather Bureau, will remain in the low 50s for at least 24 hours. Shipping .Is Damaged. The hurricane which has left in its wake an appalling toll of death and de- struction,” had apparently diminished yesterday, but was reported to be re- gaining intensity this morning. An 80-mile wind played havoc with shipping around the Delaware hreak- water this morning and at Atlantic City, where the wind reached a velocity of 76 miles an lour, startled residents secame convinced they were in the grasp of the hurricane proper. This was de- nied at the Weather Bureau, where offi- cials stated that the center of the storm was just inland off Cape Henry, at 11 a.m., and would not reach Atlantic City until late tomorrow or Friday. Service of the Potomac Electric Power Co., was temporarily disrupted today when wites were blown down at the in- tersections of Connecticut avenue with Primrose street, Bradley Lane angd Jones Mill road. Wires were reported down at Alabama avenue and Stanton road southeast. Company officials stated the trouble was not of a serious nature and Jife with litfle outside aid” was report-| that the damage would be fully repaire e o B AW, Ziebold of Miami, 10 | by noon. ly vepaired charge of field wotk, who left his post| As the storm gained strength the at Lake Worth and made a survey ot' Weather Bureau moved its storm warn- the lake region. Joe Frank of the Amer-, ings as far North as Provincetown, ican Legion reported here yesterdav [ Mass., and issued the following detailed that he and his fellow workers weie}warning: caring for 750 negroes who came from | “Advisory 9:30 a.m. warning changed the low country surrounding Belle|to whole gale north of Atlantic City Glade. He said many of them walked | to Provincetown. Storm central be- ed white women 10 /tween Raleigh, N. C, and Cape Hat- 20 miles and carrie safety on their bacl Yesterday refugees poured from the stricken lake area into southerly cities of Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Miami. George Brewer of Miami said five bodies were in a pool room when they reached the stricken town and that they recovered 12 more within a radius of 300 yards. Howard Selby, chairman of the Palm Beach County Red Cross organization told a conference of relief workers this morning that to date bodies of 200 per- sons had been definitely located by re- lief workers. The bodies, half of them white per- sons, came from the region about Lake Okeechobee, Selby said. He said 56 already had been buried here and that other bodies were en goute here by truck and boat. . “Conditions in the stricken area are growing worse every minute,” Selby said. “About 8,000 persons in the lake region are in desperate need of clothing, food and medical aid. “They have been standing in water for hours and hours and there are a number of cases of double pneumonia. There are about 15,000 homeless in the county. “The estimated damage of Palm teras, N. C. moving northeastward or possibly north-northeastward. “Northeast winds will likely increase to whole gale force this afternoon and tonight. “Northeast warnings continued north of Provincetown to Boston, and north. at Pointe 4 Pitre. l Worst Storm in Histery. | The hurricane was the worst ever known here Il’lil l;fl'll leltl:ly devut::‘e:] Guadeloupe. ost of e sugar H crops and, factories were destroyed. | The mayor asked that an urgent ap-: peal be made to the American Red Cross | through the Associated Press for relief. He said the necessities most urgently needed were medical aid and assistance and foodstuffs. ¢ Ships Bring Food. FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, French West Indies, - September 19 (#).—The steamships Esperanto and} Antilles have sailed for Guadel6upe with | food for the victims of the tropical hur- ricane. STARVING MOBS STORM S’l‘ORES.l Militia and Reserve Officers Called to! To Duty in Porto Rico. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, September 19 (/P).—With reports of food rioting cur- rent, nine companies of the Porto Rican National Guard today were policing 23 towns of the island. The guardsmen were called out by Gov. Horace M. ‘Towner after re] became prevalenet | that in several towns devastated by the tropical hurricane starving people | had stormed and looted stores. Instructions were also issued to 25 volunteer reserve officers to proceed throughout the island, delivering emerg- ency supplies, informing the inhabi- tants of relief pians and surveying the needs. (Cav. Tower in a radio message to th: \War Department last night stated there was “no disorder anywhere; and there was “absolutely no necessity for martial law.) Food Riots Increasing. Henry M. Baker, national director of disaster relief for the American Red Cross stated that food riots were in- creasing. Mayors of a dozen towns in appealing for aid, informed him that the people of their towns would mob them if they returned empty handed. They begged for something. either money or food, to take back with them. The mayors said their people werg in a | desperate plight and were plunged in despair because of lack of relief. Baker arrived with five assistants on the United States destrover Gilmer and (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) Adoption of punitive measures, familiar to men in the Army and other branches of the military service, are being seriously considered by adminis- tfative officials of the Police Depart- ment as means of improving discipline, it was learned today at police head- quarters. The plan, it is understood, was con- Imtved by Inspector Henry G. Pratt, ! assistant” superintendent, who is ac- quainted with service life. having been a major in the Army and now holds a lieutenant, colonel's commission in the Officer Reserve ‘Corps. Briefly, the Pratt plan would give Beach County. placed yesterday at $25,- ©00.000 now is nearer $30.000.000. “Sanitary _conditions in _the lake on Page 3, Column ¢, _ commanding officers great discretion in punishing policemen for minor infrac- tions of the rules and regulations and only ceses el Military Disciplinary Plan Considered To Govern District Police Department chronic offenders would go before the police trial board. This would have the effect of reducing the work of the trial board, which already has passed on more than 450 cases this year. A ma- jority of them;-however, were of the minor nature. Failure to patrol a beat, neglect of duty and failure .to pull a box are typical of the offenses which under the Pratt plan police captains would dis- pose of by disciplinary action. Extra duty after hours and fatigue work around station houses werc suggested as penalties in licu of small fines now imposed by the trial board for such minor infraction: Inspector Pri recommeandations, it was indicated, vy bz modificd com>- what before they are sent to the Dis- | Declared Essential at Gasoline was thrown over the side when the motor began to miss and when the Roma landed it was dripping with the fuel. PARLEY PRbPOSED ON NAVAL AFFAIRS Geneva Before Disarmament Discussion. By the Assoclated Press. . GENEVA, September 19.—Convoca- tion of a conference of representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan to reach an agreement on naval matters now divid- ing them has been recommended by Jonkheer Dr. J. Loudon, president of the League of Nations Preparatory Dis- armament Commission. Dr. Loudon, in making the suggestion before a meeting of the League Assem- bly's disarmament committee, said it was absolutely useless to think of con- voking the preparatory commission un- til an accord had been reached between the naval powers. He suggested, there- fore, that representatives of, the powers meet with him privately in Paris. He added that if such an accord were not reached he would not take the respon- sibility of calling a session of the % paratory commission unless he received a dlt:lect mandate from the League As- sembly. ‘The proposal created a sensation, and Lord Cushendun, acting British foreign secretary, quickly objected. He apparently misunderstood the scope of the suggestion and asserted that in his opinion none of the great naval powers would accept such an invitation. Lord Cushendun said that the naval powers concerned were all signatories of the Washington treaty, which is due for revision in 1931, and that Dr. Lou- don apparently was proposing revision before this date under different auspices and from an entirely different angle. Dr. Loudon then explained that his ides s merely to further the work of the preparatory commission and that he had no idea that the Paris meeting should be a sort of a Washington con- ference. “My only thought”” he continued, “was to try to get the five powers to understand one another on the basis of the Franco-British compromise. Lord Cushendun then requested an opportunity to get instructiops from his government. He said the suggestion was ‘& complete surprise to him, and, as far as he knew, to the other powers. The French delegation added that it was a surprise to them. LENGLEN QUITS TENNIS. NICE, France, September 19 (#).— Suzanne Lenglen, the great woman ten - nis player, who turned professional in August, 1926, today renounced the game forever. She also took a fling at mon- gers of marriage rumors, “I shall never play tennis again, either as an amateur or as a profes- sional,” she said. “I have complotely given up _the game, :mul 1 o a0 Will See Memorial To Carrie Nation By the Associated Pross. WICHITA, Kans., September 19.— A memorial to Carrie A. Nation, fam- ous temperance crusader, faces the speakers’ stand being prepared for Goy. Alfred E. Smith's reception at the Union Station here Friday after- noon. Admirers of the late Kansas.pro- hibitionist erected the memorial, a fountain from which clear sparkling water bubbles unceasingly, on the spot where 28 years ago police ar- rested her when she began her mili- tant campaign against liquor. ‘The Democratic brflmmmml can- didate makes a f_stop here en route from ok‘mmmhm. COOLIDGE LEAVES FOR HOME TONIGHT Presidential Party Will Make Two-Day Visit to Ver- mont Points. President Coolidge will leave Wash- ington tonight for a two-day visit to Vermont, his home State, to inspect the reconstruction work that has been done there since ‘the heavy flood of last year, and to visit the old Coolidge homestead at Plymouth Notch. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, At- torney General Sargent, whose home is near Plymouth, and the customary presidential aides, secret service dper- atives, newspaper correspondents and photographers, the President will make the trip aboard a special train of the Pennsylvania Railroad. To Visit Mrs. Goodhue. At Northampton, Mass,, the official home of the President, the train will | stop for an hour, which will give the President and Mrs. Coolidge an oppor- tunity to visit Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, Mrs. Coolidge's mother, who has been ill at the Dickinson Hospital since last Winter. The President has not yet de- cided whether or not they will drop-in for & moment or so at their home on Massolt street, which he has maintain- ed during the time he has lived in ‘Washington. . The train is schediled to rmake a number of stops in Vermont, which will permit the Prcsident to receive local delegations and to learn how the State has recovered from the wrought by the flood. Among these stops will be Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Windsor, White River Juncton, Bethel, Montpeliar Junction, Burlington, Mid- dlebury, Brandon, Rutland, Benning- ton. Petersburg Junction and Green- field. Governor to Jein Party. Gov. Weeks of Vermont, at whose in- vitation the President is making this inspection tour, will board the Presi- dent’s train when it reaches Mont- pelier Junction, At Bellows Falls, Park H. Pollard, a cousin of the President, will board the train. Mrs, Sargent, wife of the Attorney General, who has been staying at the Sargent home in Ludlow, will join the party at White River Junction. Ludlow, the nearest railroad point to the Coolidge home at Plymouth Notch, will not be reached until 6:30 o'clock tomorrow night. Motor cars will be waiting to take the party to Plymouth, a distance of 13 miles. The President and Mrs. Coolidge will remain at the old place until after luncheon lay, when they will motor to Cavendish, a distance of about 40 miles, where they pay a brief call on Sarah Pollard, an aged aunt of the President. At Cavendish they will board their special train and travel some more about the State before going to Northampton, Ma.3., where Mrs. Coolidge will get off to remain for a week or so with her mother. The President will continue on to Washington, arriving in time to have breakfast at the White House Saturday morning. All Ball Games 701! 'l:othy. Al! games scheduled to he played in the Naticnal® League today were post- poned on account of rain. No Amer- ican League gauyes are for today, e . N MASSACLSETS Will Oppose Walsh for Sen- ate—Allen Named by G.0.P. for Governor. By _the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 19.—Benjamin Loring Young, Republican, former Speaker of the Masschusetts House of Representatives and a Boston lawyer, will oppose Senator Walsh, Democrat, in ‘the “Novémber election as a result of yesterday's primary. ‘The Republicans nominated Lieut. Gov. Frank G. Allen for governor. The Democratic nominee is Gen. Charles H. Cole. An eight-cornered race for the Re- public nomination for lleutenant gov- ernor developed into a close contest be- tween State Treasurer Willlam 8. ‘Youngman/ and Speaker John C. Hull of the State House of Representatives, | with Youngman apparently the victor. John F. Malley, former collector of in- ternal revenue, easily won the Demo- cratic nomination for lieutenant - ernor over Charles S. Murphy of Wor- cester. Returns from 1,604 in the State gave the candidates the following vote: For Sénator, _Republican—Young, 105,540; Eben S. Draper, 84,346; Butler Ames, 51,556. For Governor, _Republican—Allen, 165,786; Frank A. Goodwin, 98,986. For_Governor, Democrat—Cole, 111,- 346; John J. Cummings, 24,292. For Lieutenant Governor, Re) —Youngman, 65,959; Hull, 59,210 H. Sherburne, 41,730; Robert M. 40,360; Pehr G. Holmes, 22,381. For_Lieutenant Governor, Democrat —Malley, 83,276; Murphy, 42.986. Gen. Cole attributed his success largely to Democratic enthusiasm for Gov. Alfred E. Smith, whom Cole was one of the first in Massachusetts to favor for the Democratic nomination for the presidency four years ago. Representatives Martin and Gifford, Republicans, and Willlam P. Connery, ., Democrat, were renominated. Wil- blican ; John Leach, in | Rational party o Cormack of Boston the Democratic nomination in the twelfth district. The outcome in the ninth- district, where Representative Underhill, Republican, had two opponents, was in doubt today as were 'mocratic contests in the fifth, ninth and tenth districts. Daniel A. Martin of Holyoke won the Democratic nomination in a three-cor-~ nered contest in the first congressional district. Representatives Treadway, Foss, Stobbs, , Andrew, Dallinger and Tinkham, all Republicans, were re- nominated without opposif MRS. PRATT WINS. Gets G. 0. P. Nomination for House in New York Primary. ALBANY, N. Y., September 19 (#).— New York State yesterday selected can- for Congress, State Senate and Assembly to be voted on at the general election on November 6. Voters made 488 nominations and settled 32 contests in the State, 17 of them in New York City. Republican designees contested nominations in 20 instances and Demo- crats in 12. Organization designees were success- ful in three of the four Republican contests for congressional nominations | ploymen upstate, and a somewhat similar situa- doubtedly strong sentiment for Smith in this State than has been done so far, New Jersey will cast its electoral votes or Hoover in November. This is the deliberate judgment of men in the Democratic party who are mnot -fooling themselves because of the huge crowds which Gov. Smith drew on his recent visit to Sea Girt and Newark. Except in Hudson County, the Smith senti- ment in the State can scarcely said to be organized today. With seven weeks to go, however, much may be done. Bul'u things stand today, Jersey is likely to go for Hoover and Curtis, not with the plurality of 300,000 or 400.000 claimed by Senator Edge and other Republican leaders, but by the margin of 50,000 to 100,000 votes. Hoover Pleads for Unity. Before Mr. Hoover left here yester- day, at & luncheon given in his honor at the Elks' Club, to which all te and county leaders were g‘-‘nuh a plea for united party in New Jersey: 4 plea far the el of Kean to the Senate and Larson ernor’s_chair. The Repul the State must Bave tions in line and Mr, Hoover's recom- mendations are timely. In the past been elected in Jersey heart of the corn belt, last night tore into the Republican party for what hs termed its failure to keep faith with the farmer, including by name his op- ponent, Herbert Hoover, and Presiden: Coolidge in his indictment. His own solution, he said, and one or. which he and the Democratic platfor:: stand squarely, was the principle lai. down in the McNary-Haugen bill i “establish an effective control of th: sale of exportable surplus with the cos nhup:ud upon the commodity bene- L” He at ‘nowe ROk e Bmself b the. St {mechanics and r.ethod embodied in that bill,” and proposed, if elected, im- mediately to name a non-partisan com- s mentioned. ™ Views on Liquet. full page advertisement in newspapers by 10 themselves “citizens of classified not attempt to persuade any Democratic member of Cos to go against hi: 1117 precincts out of | 5T leading Admits State is “Critical.” Mr. Hoover frankly said that New Jersey was one of the “critical” States in the election. But he ex- pressed the belief that Republican unan- imity would carry the State for the Republican ticket. “New Jersey,” he said, “plays a large part In our national campaign year, for not only is it one of the critical States to our success, but Jerseymen have a large part in this election in our rganization.” He men- tioned Pomeroy, the national ittee- vice chairman of the Repub- Fort, the secretary of the national com- :nn:u: Senator Edge and other State eaders. in por the State has given in the past, and upon the fact that Smith is personally pmunr with a large number of Jersey voters. But the have a big task ahead of them in Jersey. | State is Republican in national elections and has been for years. Presiden Coolidge carried it by 378,000 votes four years ago, and Senator Edge was elected ; Representative | PurPOSe t | methods embodied in that wanted prohibition Gress. (hat e would spesk In Wi in le language any question o been | carry this policy out for the rest of his ign which him south- City. In his adress the governor frequently glanced at the prepared manuscript before Lim and at intervals read quoted Pfll’llflh Bh‘s lmmm);l; own and Hoover'’: speec! of acce ice, deviated most of the polated and omitted here made no important changes he wished to drive home. entire last page of *his whevr:r;u ‘made :‘::whn X G lous peo ave attempted. to misrepresent and confuse my attitud: with respect to the McNary-Hiugen bill,” he said. “I do not propose to leave the slightest doubt in anybody's mind on_that subject. As I read the McNary-Haugen bill, its fundamental ToroF the sale of exportabie. surphs ol of the sale of with the cost imposed upon the com- modity benefited. “For that principle the itie ds squarely opposed to this by which the farmer could get benefit of the tariff. What remains of the McNary-Haugen bill is a mere matter of method, and I do not limit myself to the exact mecbhuzln)'lu anc Continuing, the nominee, interruptec frequently by applause, said here wa “a clean cut issue which the farmer e odtow ~ Wilson_ falled to | 2nd the voters of this country mu: carry New Jersey, favarite son candi- | decide. o R o re-election . r to “It remains but to work out the dc in New Jersey this year necessitates a | tails,” he added, “by which this prip tremendous turnover. So far there has | ciple shail be put into effect, and . been nothing to indicate such a poltical | have pledged myself to name & upheaval, despite the claims of some | partisan commission of farm leader: of the Democratic leaders, more par-|and students of the problem to wor. ticularly those who come from outside the State. Jersey is wet in_sentiment, but it loves the dollar. Business conditions are fairly good. There is some unem- t. but nothing unusual, it is said. _With wages good and employ- (Continued on Page 4, Column 6. By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., September 19.—There are no press seats for “‘cov- ering” a hurricane. T. R. Gill, an Associated Press staff man, and J. P. Buchanan, Paramount News' photographer, found this out al- most disast y when Gill stopped his automobile under the shed of a garage at Kelsey City, West Palm Beach sub- urb, late last Sunday afternoon to seek shelter from the imminent blow. Hardly had the car been stopped when a terrific gust brought the roof of the shed crashing down on it. Buchanan rolled out and under the automobile and Gill jumped into the garage and took shelter under another machine. Then the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) !Reporter and Cameraman Buried Under Crumbling Buildings Ducking Hurricane way to a hedge, where he held b lessened tuflelen'.l.vu'tgr until the wind walking. Locating a house, he crashed a window and enf , to have the roof begin falling around him with an- other-onslaught of the hurricane. ‘This time Gill stayed in the wreck- age, which he now thinks he have done the first time. He was slightly injured and was burned by a “live” wire, but does not remember ex- actly how he came to be hurt. The automobile was demolished, and the men had to_make their way afoot intc West Palm Beach when the storm was over. S R R i Programupiids 8 S When the noise of the crashing wall | subsided, Gill crawled out and made his | pape: out these details. I shall make thet appointment, if I am elected—not when | I take the oath of office as but immediately after election; and pledge to the farmers and to the e of this country that no stone will left unturned “to give ite and adequate farm relief by ition car- rying into practice this definite prin- ciple for which my party and I stand o course alone gives of rescuing the farmers of country the complete ruin which threatens them today.” ! Here ended the prepared address ( given out in advance to newspaper men, and when the nominee hagn to take ! up the questions asked him in the news- r “open letter” addressed _to him, a boy in the crowded i 5 ute now,” the governor said, holding up his. hand in the general direction of the boy. “We are eating up radio time. Bel you and that sounds like static.” The audience it 1 should | roared