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3 » THE EVE NING STAR. WASHINGTON. N. €. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1928.° SMITH TURNS FIRE ON CHURCH BIGOTS AS “UN-AMERICAN” | | t Page.) | | (Continued from Fi SHITH WHPERIG Mann Contradicts Statement | doliars. | he had read where a woman went into CURTIS IN WYOMING " URGES HIGH TARIFF iVice Presidential Nominee’s | Voice Made Husky by Nu- i !REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN CAPITAL REPORT 'FARM LEADER HITS CURTIS' PROMISES | P Frank W. Murphy Makes Speech Where Nominee ! Units of State Committee Outline Progress of Campaign at Meeting. Reports of various committees were heard at A meeting yesterday of the | campaign committee of the Republic- an State committee at Republican head- quarters, 823 Fifteenth street. PRESIDENT VISITS OLD HOMESTEAD Executive and Mrs. Coolidge Place Flowers on Grave CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. A henefit card party for St. James' Church will be given tonight in th church hall, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue, Mount Rainier. Kenmore Council. No. 23. D. of A will give a progressive 500 card party tonight at 808 I street. FUTURE. Mid-City Citizens' Association will re- sume meetings Monday, 8 pm., at Thomson Community Center BERNSTORFF HALTS RS PARLEYPLA |Demands Date Be Fixeq fors Conference—Committee ““Where is the money coming from?" Made by Nominee in the national committee in Washington Progress of the work of the State = ‘The Ergatocrats Club will meet to- | he asked, and then told of an account Oklahoma City. Gov. Smith's charge in his Oklahoma City speech last night that the “whis- pering campaign” against himself. as presidential candidate. was aided and #betted by the head of a bureau of the Republican national committee. was flatly denied today by Col. Horace A Mann. in charge of the Southern divi- | gion of the Republican campaign. “Gov. Smith stated in his speech last night.” said Col Mann in a formal| statement issued by the committee, “that an inquirer for literature aitack- ing Gov. Smith because of his religion was directed by the head of a bureau of the Republican national committee tn the office of an anti-Catholic_peri- odical in Washington. Senator Robin- | #on. his running mate. in a speech the game night at Owensboro. Ky.. stated that T conducted a seeker after such material to a source where it could be obtained. Telis of Female Sleuth. 1 have already ~enounced this story 85 a falsehood in the columns of the paper which printed it 10 days ago. [ repeat this denunciation The truth is that this paper, or the Tammany national organization, sent a female | getective to my office to procure some | evidence along this line. Misstating her identity. she called three times and ! was told that we had no such liter-| ature and did not know where it could be obtained. The fourth time she ask- ed a clerk at these headquarters to! look up for her the address of a pub- lication che named. in the telephone | book, which as a courtesy he did fo her. In other words, this was an at-| tempted frame-up through a detective. chich failed because there was nothing for her to find. and the flimsy gtory which I have publicly denounced was_the result. | “This detective. in her statement. specifically disclaimed seeing me. Yet Senator Robinson says that I directed her to & place where she could get | anti-Smith religious literature. and Gov Smith declares that ‘the head of the bureau, evidently meaning me. ‘put her in an automobile.’ This is an im- | provement on the original canard in | the direction of further misrepresenta- tion. i Cites Religious Stand. “Ig it not a fact that both Gov. Smith and Senator Robinson, while denounc- ing campaign misrepresentations. thus show a willingness to broadcast them.| and that while denouncing religious, sgitation in the campaign. are taking | this means of using religion as a cam- | paign asset? : ‘1 am a Southerner, and through my | mother, a descendant. from a long line | of Irish Catholic ancestors. I have| enough regard for that church to resent | the effort to misrepresent attacks upon | I { that predatory organization. Tammany Hall, as attacks upon the Catholic Church. My objection to religious agi- tation in politics_extends even to the denunciation of Herbert Hoover in a Maryland speech by Senator Cara the coileague of Senator Robinson. reported in today’s Baltimore Sun, on | the specific ground that Mr. H«wnr'sl religion would make him a menace to the country as President. “On the question of religious toler- ance I stand with the Republican can- didate for President. who said in hic ecceptance speech: By blood and con- viction I stand for religious tolerance hoth in act and spirit. The glory of our | American ideals is the right of ev man to worship God according to t dictates of his own conscience. S SMITH CHARGE. ! | New York Headguarters Disclaims Blame | in “Whispering Campaign.” By the Associated Press | erty within the law | (#).—Four death at Paradise. in a remote section and “meekly walked up to the man in | charge and said. ‘I want some litera- ture on Gov. Smith: I want the non- political kind.' And he brought her downstairs, put her in an_automobile and took her over to an office where & paper_is published called the Fellow- ship Forum, which for a number of vyears has boen engaged in this sense- less. foolish. stupid attack upon the Catholic Church and the members of that_feit After denounc g as “lies” a_series of reports he said had reached him. the governor continued: “Of course, it 5 very fine for the Republican national committee and the Republican chair- man to disown all this. It is very casy for them to say. ‘We disclaim knowl- edge of it and responsibility for what Mrs. Willebrandt said.” She is a deputy Attorney General of the United States She went before a Methodist conference of Methodist preachers and said to em in Ohio alone. enough to put this elec- aration of church and state for vou.” the nominee ssserted. and then asked, amid applause, “What would be said around this country if a member of my cabinet, if an attache of the Democratic administration at Al- bany, were to appear before a conven- tion of Roman Catholic clerics and make that kind of a statement?” Branding as another “lie” a repo: that while governor he had appoint only Catholics to office. the governor amid cries of “Ham, Ham!" directed at the Baptist minister on the platform, read a long list of his appointments, shownig a good portion of Protestants and Jews in his cabinet. in the State judiciary and county offices Orating with vigorous, sweeping ges- tures, and at times assuming a crouch- ing position as he came down with swing of the arm to emphasize a point. the governor brought his address to a close with his appeal for a clean, con- structive campaign. “Let this debate be held in the ope and let us put down forever in th country this un-American, un-Chric- tian doctrine that is finding its wav into this campaign. Let us debate on the level. Bring it out in the open. have the records consulted and ¢ platforms scrutinized. I am satisfied that the result on the 6th of November will show an overwhelming victory for the Demeccratic pa WORK REFUSES TO ARGUE. Denies G. 0. P. Countenances Religious Tssue, BOSTON. September 21 (P).—Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Repul lican national commitiee, in r=plv to Gov. Smith's declaration that Repab- licans had countenanced thr introduc- tion of the religious question into the campaign, saild last night: “Things that zre not so are not to be dignified by denials. “I need only point to the letter of June 29, 1928, of the chairman of the Republican national committee to na- tional committeemen and women, in which was said: | “*The campaign policy we propose to ilow will be informative and construc- and personal lib- re not proper sub- jects for political debate.’ " Mr. Work was here to attend a o ference of Republican leaders in New Englend. FOUR CHILDREN BURNED. fos tive only. Conscience Meet Death When House Catches Afire in Parents’ Absence. CHARLESTON. W. Va., Septcmber 21 children were burned 1o NEW YORK, September 21.—Officials | of Putnam County. when their home “There are 600.000 of you Methodists | merous Speeches. | By the Associated Press. EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR CUR- TIS IN WYOMING, September 21.— !Day and night speaking against the whistling winds of the Western plains is the daily program encountered by Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice | presidential nomince, on tour of the | tarm areas. | “Senator Curtis has made from 2 to | 14 speeches a day and with one exception all have been out of doors, at three county fairs, from | courthouse steps, from the back platform of his private car and on all manenr of temporary stands The voice of the veteran campaigner | was a litile husky today as he carried ais plea for a protective tariff with high- er rate for agriculture into Wyoming. | but he was out on the back platform at an early hour to speak to the crowds along the route. | Tonight he speaks at Sheridan, in his {only stop in this State. Last night at | Valentine, Nebr., the Senator answered | @ plea to address a Republican rally and | for the first time in the West he spoke indoors. Despite an 80-mile motor trip | during the day over treacherous roads |and & busy afternoon with the Sloux Indians at the Rosebud reservation, he { spoke for more than an hour at Valen- tine to an enthusiastic crowd. Mr. Cur- tis declared that farmers could lool for greater mssurance in the “promise of Herbert Hoover for farm relief “than in a Democratic Congress, which Gov. Smith might bring in.” He said a higher tariff on agriculture importations was needed and would be given by Republicans. He said the present provosed by the farmers. “Why didn’t the Republicans go high enough?" he asked. tion. We wrote this tariff bill after the war in unsettled times. “We wrote Into it the rates asked by the organized farmers, but now we all know we did not go high enough and T tell you we are going high enough.” He read statistics showing importa- tions of butter, eggs. wheat, hav, seed and hides. He compared the im- portations with those under the Demo- cratic tariff act. He said that 354.000 pounds of ha were imported in 1926, although the Republicans had doubled the rate on h He said thai flax seed importa- tions last year were 18.000.000 bushels “more than is grown in the three grea fiax producing States of this country. He said the answer was to boost the tariff. Senator Curtls spoke at Valentine on the same platform with A. J. Weaver Republican candidate for governor, and he called for the election of the entire Republican ticket in this State and in- dorsed the record of Senator Howell running for re-election. 10WA FARM UNION 70 OPPOSE HOOVER Brookhart Says Peek. Mur- phy and Hirth “Double- Crossed” Agriculturists. just By the Associated Pre: DES MOINES, Towa, September 21.— The convention of the Iowa Farmers' Union listened yesterday while Senator Brookhart, Republican, praisad Herbert tariff act embodied the rates| “A proper ques-| committee, the Republican State Voters' |State Clubs, League of Republican | Women, the Hoover and Curtis Club |and the Hoover and Curtis Republican | Lergue was outlined i Plans for an open meeting of the { Hoover and Curtis Club early in Oc- | tober when a nationally known Re- | publican speaker will be here are being | made. sterday’s meeting. Samuel TP presided. Other members | present _were: Willlam Tyler Page, A | E. Chaffce, Edgar C. Snyder. Thomas nce leaving chk-ngn:p_ Littlepage. Mrs. Virginia White Speel, | declared today that the Democrati | Mrs. E. A, Harriman, John Lewis Smith, William J. Dow and Thomas L. Jones MICHIGAN INDORSES Democrats Unanimously Ap- { prove Nominee During State { Convention. By the Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.. September 21.—Cemplete harmony, with unani- { mous indorsement of Gov. Alfred F. Smith as their candidate for President. was in prospect when Michigan Demo- crats met. in convention today to com- plete the ticket that will go on the State ballot in November. According to Willlam A. Comstock. | national committeeman, and Horatio J. ! Abbott, State chairman, internal diffcr- {ences that were apparent when Gav | Smith was nominated have been sub- | merged in the interest of party uccess and there will be no reflection of them in_the convention. Resolutions lauding the New Yorxz governor were ready for presentation. | The keynote speaker was a dry, Marvin |8 Pittman_of Michigan State Normal Association, the League of Republican | SMITH CANDIDAGY Spoke Wednesday. By (he Associated Press. SPENCER. Iowa. September 21 Speaking from the same platform on ! which Senator Charles Curtis, Repub- lican vice presidential candidate, two days ago promised reliefl to agriculture | through tariff revision. Frank W. Mur- | phy of Minneapolis, chairman of th | | legislative committee of the Corn Belt Federation of Farmer Organizatios | party and candidate “promise legi | tion to make the tariff work for agricul- | ture. wkile that is exactly what the Re- publicap party and candidate reject.” In an address at the Clay County fair, Murphy said that responsibility | for ‘bringing farm relief into politics ‘rests on the shoulders of Calvin Cool idge. who vetoed the McNary-Haugen | bill,'and men like Senator Curtis, who deserted his wheat-growing constitu- ents in Kansas for a chance at the vice presidency.” Charges Six Years of Inaction. The Republican vice presidential can- didate, Murphy continued, “tells you now, after six years of Republican in- action on the fariff. that the tariff on | farm products will be raised 1f you wil only kneel down once more under the party yoke. “My reply to Senator Curtis is this— if what agriculture needed durinz the past four years since the 1924 Repub- | lican convention promised equalitv for agriculture was higher tariffs, as he now affirms. why did not the Republican party enact them? Hits Republican Committee. “I now assert, and I challenge Sena- tor Curtis to deny my charge. that every bill introduced in the last sessi of Congress intended to increase agri- cultural tariffs was strangled to death by the Republican ways and means | committee.’ | Decllrln%I that the McNary-Haugen bill would ha ve become law had Curtis, Republican Senate leader, “voted as he | should have, to override the veto.” Mur- phy suggested that Curtis explains to the farmers his “abandonment of their cause by voting to sustain the Presi- dent’s veto.” s | School, at Ypsilanti. While he refused {to concede that the Smith position | toward prohibition is correct, he praised | the candidate for his courageous atti- | tude and promiced that Democrats, wet |or dry, North or South, will give their i support_to Smith. The Democrats, whose contests for State offices rarely have been succe: | ful in Michigan. plan to make one of their most vigorcus battles in Novamber |and to this end plan a complete ticket | against the Republican incumbents cking re-election. Former United States Senator A. O. Stanley of Kenucky, in & preconven- tion address, asserted that Gov. Smi W “the hope of the Nation” and Herbert | MONTGOMERY. Ala. Srntr'n;bl:r [‘1(‘- Hoover “the candidate of a party which | —Senator J. Thomas Hefiin cele iy | has made empty promises.” | his homecoming here last night with a 21p- S8 inst the Pope, Paving tribute to Gov, Smith, he said: [2}2 hour address agal )l “Snobbery protests he is of the slums: | TAMMAAL (,*.l‘:“‘;m:lr'yr:r‘iml:‘hpSm!lI]!.\imgg | a denizen of the East Side. Falsehood & ‘L'm : s ‘and. cheering au- {dubs him the slave of Tammany.|DIess e A Athetc: sta | Bigotry calls him wet and Intolerance fdience in the Municipal e a dium. | cald the newspapers attacking him wer ;!llmr”nl and a Roman Catholie. Wint | tic thg BTRIPG0 the Pope. G %5 nations of the world Candidates for secretary of state, at- | o There Are 0 BELTY Rome. and it | | torney general, treasurer, auditor gen- e thing to do with it they won't | e & fot thres places on. the State| LEAYE SHYLIINEE Suipreme Gourt bench are to be chosen. get the United States in on their plan,’ | B g he continued. | OIL MAN’S BODY FOUND. “Smith has as much chance of carry- 'HEFLIN CAN'T FIND SMITH DEMOCRATS| Homecoming Marked by Attack on Pope, Tammany Hall and “Villainous Press.” By the Associated Press | \ | | | ing New York State as a mouse-colored mule has of operating an airplane. He won't carry 12 States in the Union. 1 have been to eight States and 1 have ot seen a Democrat who thinks he w be elected. and not one who said he would vote for him.” o LOS ANGELES, September 21 (#).— { Rocks and earth dumped down & can- | yon side by road builders on the Ridge | Route Highway. north of here, yesterday | gave up the body of Fred J. Walter, | Coolidge trail and which carried them | of Son Calvin. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Corresponcent of The Star. PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vt. Septem- ber 21.—The President and Mrs. Cool- idge today are enjoying the quiet and beauty of this remote place nestled far up in the Green Mountains, where the President was idge family has lived for generation: This Is the first time in the last two years that they have visited the place and it is very probable that it | Wil be their last visit while Mr. Cool- idge is President. They are fully en- | joying the familiar landscape about them and the exchange .of greetings with old friends and relatives of tne President What was probably_their principal | reason for coming to Plymouth at this time was to visit the little hillside bury- ing ground on the outskirts of the ham- |let where are buried their son Calvin, | who died in Washington five years ago, | and the President's father and mother !and two of his grandparents. Very shortly after breakfast this morning | they went to this quaint little cemetery | and with an outward evidence of con- siderable feeling placed roses and other flowers about the mounds. President Motors to Farm. ‘The President this morning motored | over to his farm. a half mile away, | where he heard from Lynn Cady. the tenant, how everything has been progressing and where he inspected the It was nearly 8 o'clock last night when the President and Mrs. Coolidze reached the Notch after the journey from Washington. which included an inspection trip about that section of Vermont damaged by the flood of last year, There was only a small crowd of natives collected at the cross-roads in front of Miss Cilley's store at Plymouth Notch when the President and Mrs. Coolidge alighted in front of the Coolidge home. just across the road. It was dark and it was difficult to dis- tinguish faces, but the President and Mrs. Coolidge recognized several and waved acknowledgement. Among the “kin-folk™ old home this morning were Gracia Wilder, a sister of the Presi-| dent’s mother. and her husband. John. who live on the adjoining place to the | Coolidge home. | The President and Mrs. CooMdge ate | breakfast in the kitchen. The Coolidge | house has no dining room. Motor to Weodstock. After their visit to the cemetery and after chatting for a while with some | of their old friends and neighbors. they went for & motor ride which took them along what is now known as the Col received at the along the picturesque Ottaqueechie | River and to Woodstock, 13 miles dis- tance. They left the trail long enough | to motor to the Coolidge farm. The | President, although he had ‘been there | earlier in the morning, was so well pleased with the appearance of ever: thing about the place, he wanted to show Mrs. Coolidge. After the mid-day meal at Plymouth today they were to motor to Cavendish bout 20 ‘miles away, where they will Asit for a few moments with Mrs Sarah Pollard, another sister of the President’s mother. They will then board their special train. Before head- ing direct for Washington, the train will travel some more about the State to afford the President opportunity to see more of the reconstructed work that has been going on in the area damaged | by the waters of last Fall. When the train reaches Northamp- | ton, Mass.. at 9 o'clock tonight, Mrs Coolidge will leave the party to re- main_with her mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue. who is ill at a hospital in that city. She expects to stay in | | old | new silo and the addition to the barn | Mrs. | born and where the Cool- | morrow, 8 p.m., at 817 Thirteenth strect Speaker: John A. Savage. Subject ‘Abuses in Insane Asylums.” Free Tomorrow will be Optimist night at the Beaver Dam Clubhouss. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Phillips will be hosts. FOUR TEXANS ASSURE GOOD OF VICTORY Alvin Moody Tells G. 0. P. Western Manager Democrats Will Not Follow Raskob. By the Associated Prass CHICAGO. September “1.—Four Texans called on James W. Good, West- ern Republican campaign manager. to- day to assure him that Hoover and Curtis would sweep Texas in Novem- T, “I just walked away from my busi- ness July 16 to organize the State against Al Smith.” said Alvin Moody. “Our opposition to Gov. Smith is based first on his prohibition stand and next on his immigration views. The South is the home of religious freedom and tolerance. and ~ur anti-Smith cam- paign is not one of bigotry. “The wet Republican Raskob, who speaks so much for Gov. Smith. is not the kind of leader Democrats in Texas are going to follow ™ Accompanying Mr. Moodv were Cato Sells. former Democratic national committeeman from Fort Worth: Judge Marshall Hicks of San Antonio. a Democratic convention delegate at New York in 1924. and Henrv Zweifel of Fort Worth, former United States dis- trict attorney. 'WOOD WARNS LEGION OF BAN ON POLITICS Cites Rule Prchibiting Wearing of Uniform or Insiznia at Gatherings, American Legion units should not ap- pear in uniform or with Legion insignia when they attend politica: gatherings and the organization should hold itself aloof from partisan politics, Harlan Wood. cepartment commander. declared vesterday in a formal order. He cited Section 4 of the department's const tution, which forbids the Legion to en- ~age in politics and pointed out that there is a similar provision in the na- tienal constitution of the organizaiton. “We must resnect neutrality,” Comdr. Wood said todav. *~n Y iding a publis elective office can hold a post in the Legion. This action was taken on the heels of | of comnlaints reaching loca’ | * numhber *! anticaal hasdanarters that District Legionnaires were taking a hand in po- litical rallie: These were occasioned narticulatly by th» anpearance of the Drum end Bugle Corps of the Victory Onst at Union Station when Herbert Hoover returned from California and A snanoanneerent that it would parti- cinatz lzst night at the Demncratic rally i Alexen-ria The corrs, in uni- ‘ovm. did narticinate in the Alexandria r;fly‘ but Legionnaires pointed out that “oth major varties. makine things even. Annonuncement was made by Demo- ~ratic_headquarters that th= Costellr | Post Drum and Bugle Corps would ac- “ompanv n(n;rt,\' on a tour of Arlington ~mvnie tanight exnlaining that* no Fails to Agree. ¥ the Associated Press GENEVA. September 21.—The draft- ing members of the disarmament com mittee of the Assembly of the League of Nations last night failed to agree on a common text of the resolu:ion on future disarmament to present to the Assembly At the meeting Count von Bernstorft held out persistently for the fixation of a definite date for the international conference on the reduction of arma- ment. but the majority of the committee were against him. As result it was deeclded to report merelv an exoression of opinion instead of a formal resolution. ‘This decision Loudon. Holland. chief paratory commission of the disarma- ment conference, to convoke the next session of the commission whenever he i make like. the report leaving Dr. Lou- don’s authority complete Count von Bernstorfl was asked after the meeting whether the committee’s action meant that Dr. Loudon had been empowered to suggest A private meet- ing of .epresentatives of the big naval powers. He answered: “I suppose #n I see no reason why he wouldn't be able o do so." However, as a means of increasing the sense of security of states. thereby stimulating the reduction of armament, the disarmament committee adopted a resolution urging all countries to con- clude treaties of non-aggression and mutual assistance on the basis of model treaties prepared by the League. These are treaties which many experts think will logically reinforce the Kellogg- Briand pact by reducing the chances and temptations to resort to war, - . |SMITH SUPPORTERS i HIT BY -MRS. NICHOLSON | Mre. Ross Challenged by Chevy will empower Dr. J of the pre- | Chase Woman at Annapelis to | Give Inspiration Source. Special Dispatch to The Star. | _ANNAPOLIS. Md.. September 21 Democrats of this eity and surround- | ings opposed to Gov. Smith for the presidency heard Mrs. Jesse W. Nichol- son of Chevy Chase assail the candi- date as a_harmful wet, Tammany as a cancer, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland as a turncoat and Mrs. Nellie T. Ross as an intruder at a campaign meeting here last night. Mrs. Nicholson pointed out that she is not campaigning for the Republican committee, but is appealing to the womanhood of the Nation for a defense of the home against a threatened in- vasion of the liquor intere: challenged Mrs. Ross. former of Wyoming. to say as much. president of the National Democratic Women's Law Enforcement League. Gov. Ritchie was scored for turning wet after his election by the prohibi- tion forces to the governorship in 1919, It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count gt this Bank to Borfow. ’ Q% pLAN have now appeared at functions of | | | ‘ Easy to Pay Monthly Hoover as a friend of the farmer. “who missing La Jolla, Calif.. oil promoter. Miss Wilson Critically Ill. { Noribansatbei aboUB 108 dige: o two N st Republican national headquarters caught fire in the absence of the pa- unanimously denied today any connec- tion with any “whispering campaizn™ agamnst Gov. Smith. “The governor's accusation in his Oklahema speech.” said Daniel FE. Pomeroy, vice chairman of the Repuid- lican national committee, “that the Re- ublican national committee is responsi- E!-, for aiding and abetting the so- called whispering campaign_is utterly false. Only this week, while Mr. Hoover was in New Jersey at a luncheon given, for him by Senator Walter E. Edge. he absolutely and specifically stated “this ‘must not be a campaign of personalities | and I will not tolerate any personal fll-| tacks on any opponents.” Col. John Q. Tilson, chairman of the Eastern division of the Republican | &peakers bureau: “If the governor's remarks di- rected at those conducting the Hoover | campaign he is wide of ine mark, be- cause the Republican campaigi mana- | gers have studiously avoided anything | remotely resembling the methods ¢riti-| cized by Gov. Smith. On the contra the Hoover managers have been gistent that their speakers and rubor-| dinates shall not indulge in perscnali- | ties, and most of all to refrain f-om| everything touching religious preju-| dices. “If the governor's remarks are di-| rected at his own party or at people outside the Republican party, that is a matter for the Democrats to handie among themselves.” Congressman Rob- ert Low Bacon of New York, assistant 10 Senator George H. Moses, vice chair- man of the Eastern advisory commit- tee. who was out of town: “The Republicans are leaning over and backward in their effort to make this an impersonal campaign. Mr. Hoover is a high-minded American gentleman who is conducting the cam- | paign in the open and above board. wonld not countenance such a proposi- | tien for one minute.” william H. Hill, State Hoover-Curtis cheirman: “So far as T am able to find out. the | Democrats are doing most of the talking | on this religious business. I am re- ferring both to Gov. Smith's Oklahoma | epeech and Mayor James J. Walker's epeech in Newark, N. J., last night. 1| don’t believe anybody could aceuse me | of being tied up with the Ku Klux | Klen, because they fought me up State.” | HARPER IS UPHELD IN BAN ON STRATON i i AUDITORIUM SPEECH| rents, the Putnam County coroncr learned today. The father, Ransom Kelly, was at- dren alone in the house. When the pe rents returned home their house was & ashes. One child was 6 years old, two of them were twins, 3 years of age, and the fourth was 1 year old. The tragedy occurred last Tuesday. ALLOWS GERMAN TONGUE Mussolini Makes Concession to Clerics in Austrian Tyrol. INNSBRUCK, Tyrol, Austria, Sep- tember 21 (/) —Responding to the ap- peal from the Pope and Fascist au- thorities, officials of the Italian Tyrol, which contains a large Austrian popu- lation. will henceforth allow the Ger- man-speaking clergy to teach Austrian children Scripture in their mother tongue. The concession by Premier Mussolini in this regard is 1eported to have given much satizfaction to Italy’s Austrian province, where heretofore the German language has been suppressed. Seattle Round-World Flyer Leaves Marigname, France. MARSEILLE, France, September 21 (#).—George H. Storck, Seattle fiver who is on a trip around the world, took off from Mariznane at 3 o'clock this afternoon for Bastia, Corsica. His flight was interrupted early thi week when the motor of his 300-hors | power seaplane was damaged. Storck's itinerary calls_for landings at Naples, Corfu, Athens. Famagusta on the Island of Cyprus, Alexandretia and Bagdad. Berlin, Collier and Buck to Go on Air Wednesday. NEW YORK. September 21 (#).— Irving Berlin, Willie Collier and Gene Buck, stars of the theatrical world, will {80 on the air next Wednesday in & { campaign program for Gov. Smith, the | National Broadcasting Co. announced | last night. | Eastern Standard time, and will con- (Continued from First Page.) sentatives of either party are welcome to use our hall at anv time.” Referring to the allusion by Rogers to the ex-nun incident, Harper said it was a fact that he had heen criti- cized by some Catholics for hiring the hall to the self-styled former nun. and that as a result he had written a letter to them explaining the attitude of the corporation in permitting her to_speak The next thing I knew.” *there appeared in a Catholic journal » statement that I had apologized ab- jectly. Subsequently. some Protestants demanded that I apologize for making the so-called apology. So there you are. I got it from hoth sides.” tinue for half an hour over a hook-up of 30 stations. Tentative arrangements | have been made, the company said. to | rebroadcast on short wave from Sche- ! nectady, N. Y., for foreign iisteners, | . | YALE STUDENTS HELD. 1 ‘Washingtonian | Get Bail in Pennsylvania. { WAYNESBORO, Pa. September 21 he said, | #.—Two Yale students yesterday were | ! held in $1,000 bail each on_charges of | impersonating Federal officers and assault with intent to rob as a result | of an alleged attack on a Waynesboro grocer. The youths, Alexander Knapp | of Baltimore and Sydney R. Prince, Jr., Their program will begin at 9:30 D.m..1 and Baltimorean | opposed the veto of the McNary-Haugen bill,” and then adopted a resolution opposing his election. The vote on the resolution was followed by the singing of “The Sidewalks of New York." Senator Brookhart told the union that three farm leaders—George N. Peck of Moline, Ill., chairman of the “Committee of 22.” a farm organization: Frank W. Murphy of Minnesota, and William Hirth of Missouri, chairman of | the Corn Belt Federation of Farm Or- ganizations—had “double crossed” the farmers by swinging their support to Gov. Smith, the Democratic presidential nominee. Murphy, who was present, said he did not see why he was included in the; attack, unless it was because of his speeches recently favoring the McNary- Haugen bill. ‘ In a reply to Brookhart's address, Milo Reno, the Farmers' Union presi- dent, said he considered Hoover “the most relentless enemy of the farmer.” Murphy also took the floor and was given an ovation when he asked his, hearers to stand with him for continu- ance of the fight for the McNary- Haugen bill. | The resolution adopted indorsed the recent resolution of tha corn belt com- mittee resenting “the high-handed and | insulting manner in which the national | Republican convention at Kansas City turned a deaf ear to the pleas for; justice for agriculture.” i “The nomination of Herbert Hoover | at Kansas City.” it concluded, “pledged | assistance to the carrying out of the ' Coolidge policies, and with his record of | injustice to agriculture should be re- sented at the polls by every farmer in the Middle West.” i k3 % Pure Lead, Zinc and Linseed Ol RN DA%/ 3 BRANCHES 676.C Sts SW il S™AFlaAwNE MPRICES ) 5921 Ga AvNW A WORTH-WHILE TOWN HOUSE Handsome colonial = residence in a delightful part of Washing- ton, an unusual opportunity. Splendidly constructed, exceed- ingly well planned for entertain- ing, house combines the appoint~ ments of a town house with the charm of commodious, sunlit rooms of a country home. Library, drawing room and dining room open from a spa- clous entrance, attractive vista from any angle. Concrete silver vault, Three master bedrooms with baths, small writing and sewing rooms on the second floor, third floor guest room and bath, quar- ters for several servants. Built-in garage, laundry, sunny kitchen, trunk lift, maid's sitting room and butler's room and bath, Nice shrubbery. Price, $72,500 For inspe~tion app'v to | Late Tuesday the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Albert La Huis, wealthy Zeeland. Mich.. residents, were found at the same spot beneath the wreck of Walter's au- | BLOSSBURG. Pa.. September 21 (). __Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, daughter of William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor under President Wilson, and herself the Democratic candidate for Congress in the sixteenth district. was reported last night to be critically ill. She underwent a major operation Monday. PRESENTING THE HATS OF 1 Sor HERZ0G /... F Street at Qth tomobile, in which the promoter had left Bakersfield August 8 with the couple to inspect oil lands in which La Huis had invested $75,000 through Walter. P YOUTHFUL SMARTNESS Other " Mallory Hats %6 10 10 The Mallory Aristocrat Hat $7 First In Fashion Wf E do more than merely hat a man. We style his head and flatter his face— and intensify his indi viduality. » : : : : : » E : : : : : : : : : : I ! f A Complete Array Of Shapes And Shades In b | week: ) | Washington, which place will be reach- ed _ecarlv_tomorrow morning. LANTERN 733 17th St. Enlarged and Redocorated Friday’s Special " Deviled Crab Lunch and Dinner says for he and “Cap” Stubbs are going to try and keep Star readers amused with their antics. 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He explained that the board of directors. which ap- roved hie action last night. is_com- rsed of “Catholics, Protestants, Demo- cras and Republicans.” tempting to board his truck. Sydney R. Prince, sr., today furnished | bail for his son and Knapp. They will be tried next week. Knapp and Prince, who were spend- ing the Sumnger at Monterey, near here, told police y thought Rowe's truck contained liquor. l Main 4792 Byrne Representatives; “l amas } “Cravenette’’ LOOK AT YOUR HAT—EVERYONE ELSE DOES ) F | 4 { | : 4 { { i ! { { { { { { { ! | : :