Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1928, Page 4

R THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. T. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ° 29 1928.° SMITH'S CHARGES DENIED BY WORK. G. 0. P. Committee Has Not Agitated Church Issue, He Reiterates. September 21.—Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Republican pational committee, in a statement isstied here last night in reply to Gov. i’s Oklahoma City address, branded s “untrue” the “reckless innuendo that | the Republican national committee engages in religious propaganda.” Dr. Work described the statement | that religious propaganda is issued by the committee as being “impossible.” £nd- & ed that Gov. Smith “might | heve the courtesy to acknowledge that M. Hoover preceded him in that de- nunciation by a full six wecks. . statement read *If Gov. Smith values the truth, he ehould v the reckless innuendo that the Rep 2 national committee | o glous propaganda. | “The ste he relates is untrue and | he has been grieviously misled. More- cer. religious propaganda from the mittee is impossible. The committee re selected without connections and ., Catholics, Jews many other sects r faiths. the Washington head- likewise, in confidential tatives of all these religions, and no reasomable person will believe that these people are carry ing on propaganda against their own fajth, either one way or the other. “Gov. Smith can go as far as he likes in denunciation of intolerance and I will go with him. But he might have the courtesy to acknowledge that M. Hoovet preceded him in that denuncia- tion by a full six weeks.” SWITH TO DISCUSS WATER POWER IN COLORADO SPEECH ___ (Continued from First Page.) crowd around the platform set up for him, the governor broke his resolution to refrain from speaking in the open air end made a brief speech of apprecia- tion. With him were Mrs. Smith and Representative Ayers, lone Democrat in the Kansas Congressional delegation, and that State's favorite son candidate for the nomination at Houston. “No speeches, I've got to save this voice for four weeks,” the nominee later told the crowd at Hutchinson. Mrs. Smith, Mrs. John A. Warner, her daughter and others of the Smith party had a busy time of it distribut- ing Smith-Robinson buttons to the crbwd, which became so dense at sev eral points that the governor, concern- ed over the afety of many children, leaned far over the railing to warn the people not to press so near. Chauncey Little, Democratic nominee for Governor of Kansas; Eugene Davis, candidate for attorney general, rode with the nominee as far as Dodge City, where mountain time began and watches had to be changed for the third. time since the train left Albany. Here au- tomobiles were parked far back into the streets bordering the depot. WOODWARD : U™ Fax Your Closets “r will show you how 1500.000 of the $4,000,000 budget needed. |iar_financial support is necessary.” Indians All Set To Make Smith Tribal Chieftain By the Associated Press. HELENA, Mont., September 22.— Gov. Alfred E. Smith, if willing, will be adopted and given the Indian name which means “Chief of All Montana” by representatives of In- dian tribes from the various reserva- tions of the State when he appears at the State Fair grounds here Mon- Aay afternoon. He also will be pre- sented with an Indian head dress, a peace pipe and a heavily beaded buckskin shirt. That information was contained in a letter received by State Chairman Charles H. Nevin from the delegation of 15 Indians chosen to perform the ceremony. DEMOCRATIC FUND NOW IS $1,500,000 Contributions Needed to Obtain Total of $4.000,000, Lehman Says in Radio Appeal. By the Associated Press. 3 NEW YORK, September 22.—Col. Herbert H. Lehman, Democratic finance director, last night in a nation-wide radio appeal for funds, disclosed that the party has in cash or pledges $1.- “Undoubtedly many people,” he said, “have gained the mistaken impression that the Democratic national committee is in possession of a large fund with | which to carry on the campaign and that therefore no widespread or popu- This impression, he believed, been created by several large gifts from personal friends of Gov. Smith and Senator Robinson. *“We need the sup- port of every man and woman in this country who admires or loves Gov. Smith,” he said. Turning from his appeal for funds, the Democratic finance director asserted “the candidacy of Herbert C. Hoover holds no promise of anything bevond what the country has experier.ced in the last eight years under the admin- istrations of which he has been a part as a member of the cabinet. Certainly he has acknowledged the existence of many very clearly defined moral abuses and economic weaknesses.” HEFLIN 1S UNDECIDED ON VOTING FOR SMITH| Says He Intends to Clean House Within Democratic Party in Alabama. By the Associated Press. | MONTGOMERY, Ala., September 22 —United States Senator J. Thomas Heflin announced here yesterday that he was in his home State for a stay of several weeks with the intention of cleaning house within the Democratic party, but he is undecided whether he will vote for that party's presidential candidate in November. Interviewers sought to draw from the Alabaman a direct statement on his stand on the candidacy of Gov. Smith, whom he has repeatedly attacked in speeches on the Senate floor and on the stump, the latest of which was here Thursday night before an audience of 8000 persons, but he side-stepped them. “I am not yet ready to-state what I am going to do,” was the answer he, gave. "I have said that I am against Smith. I think that is a pretty strong statement, don't you?” He added that his heart is with the Democratic party. 4 _ & LOTHROP p G STreeTs he Closet Shop” had | HOOVER'S FIGURES BACKED BY DAVIS Statement on Decrease in Unemployment Correct, Secretary Says. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, September 22— | The statement made by Herbert Hoo- ver, Republican presidential nominee, in his speech at Newark, N. J, last| Monday, that unemployment among the | American people had dwindled consid- | erably in the last eight years, was back- | ed up here yesterday by Sccretary of | Labor Davis in an_ address before the International Association of Public Em- ployment. Services Quoting figures from Bureau of La- bor statistics. Mr. Davis said that there were 6,000,000 unemployed in 1920 as compared with 1,800,000 in January, 1928. The labor secretary gave Hoover full | credit for cutting the unemployment figure. “On the basis used in computing more recent unemployment totals of last Winter it would have been possible to say that in 1921, not six but twelve million Americans were out of a job," he said. “What we do know is that those millions of jobless were put back to work, and in a remarkable brief period of time our country had reach- ed a prosperity higher than any before in our history. And I have no hesitancy in saying that for this remarkable feat Your closets need no longer be dark and dingy places— or the modern closet is gay with bright ensembles of wardrohe bags, hat and the sh oilcloth or hoxes and other accessories elves are edged with colorful chintz. Hat Stands, $1 and $1.65 Nested Hat Boxes, $2.50 Suit Boxes, $2.50 Booteries, $6.50 to $18.50 Oilcloth and Chintz Shelving 5 to 18 inches, 21c to $1.35 ArT EMBROIDERY, SEVENTH FLOOR. the American people are largely in- debted to Herbert Hoover.” Mr. Davis added that the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which compiled the unemployment figures, is a Democrat, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, SPEAKS AGAINST SMITH. Virginia ex-Senator Says Nomina- tion Was Betrayal of Party. Special Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va., September 22.— The nomination of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for President by the Houston convention was called an in- famous betrayal of the Democratic party. by George N. Conrad of Har- risonburg, former State Senator, in an address at the Warren County court- house here Thursday night. Three hundred citizens braved the rain to hear the address, and about 100 were turned away for lack of room The meeting was presided over by W. C. Deming. Rev. William G. Dearing in- troduced Mr. Conragd. BYRD SHIP GOES TO SEA. City of New York, Supply Vessel, Completes Repairs. PANAMA, September 22 (F).—After having had its pumps repaired. the City of New York, supply ship of Comdr Byrd's South Polar expedition, was at sea again today ‘headed for Duncdin, New Zealand. From there the explorers will go to the edge of the Antarctic ice cap. Capt. Melville, who was forced to put back when the pumps failed to work properly, said that he expected the trip to Ne: ,ealand to require two months. Raskob Regrets Smith Failed to Lay Pope Rumors By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, “regrets” that Gov. Smith in his Oklahoma City speech did not go farther and “explode the falacious belief of many people in the South that the Pope would rule directly or indircctly if a Roman Catholic is elected President.” “Perhaps_no better evidences of the impossibility of such a thing,” Raskob said. “are the statements made by Archbishop Ireland and other high authorities on that subject.” SUBMARINE REFLOATED. | e | | Hauled Clear of Panama Shoal by Naval Vessels. NEW LONDON, Conn., September 22 (f).—The submarine S-17, which went aground at Juan Point, in Almirante Bay, 90 miles from Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, Thursday morning, Was | floated yesterday afternoon and pro- ceeded o her base at Coco Solo, ap- arently undamaged, according to a | message to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, commander of the control force at the submarine base here. The submersible was hauled clear of the shoal by the sweeper Bagaduce and the oceangoing tug Swan at high water while the submarines S-14 and S-15, sister ships, stood ggo William Jennings Bryan's alma mater, Tilinois College, begins its hundredth vear this Fall. WooDWARD & LOTHROP 10 11™ F axp G STREETS Monday and Tues at 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. Shoe Fashion Show with Models The new Autunin models of Laird, Schober & Co., Woodward & Lothrop Bench-made and other fine Shoes will be shown Monday and Tuesday in the Women’s Shoe Section, by There are many interesting new stvles for street, walking, afternoon and spec- models. tator sports wear. You are cordially invited styles at 11 a.m. and 3 p. day.i | s 12 New Models in Laird, Schober & -Co. 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By the Associated Press. MONROE, Ga., September 22.—Party regularity in the face “of unspeakable vileness of the Vare and Thompson ma- | | chines of the Republicans, is vital to very life of democracy,” United States Senator Walter F. George di ared in an address here yesterday aft- | ernoon. The party cannot live as a national | party if Democratic votes in this cam- paign encompass the defeat of the party’s nominees and insure the elec- tion of the Republican candidates,” ‘he | declared, adding: | “This statement is not Inspired by Tammany. this statement is not a threat | coming out of the East, it represents | my deliberate judgment and it is the | inexorable logic of the situation.” The Georgia Senator reviewed the issues of the national campaign, touch- ing the problem of the prohibition question which, he stated, is not a party matter. i “If one’s political creed begins and ends with_prohibition, his logical place in the Prohibition party.” he said, in sference to “dry” bolters to the Re- publican party. Huge Eagle Killed in France. Measuring 6 feet 11 inches from tip to tip of its wings, an eagle was recent- ly killed by a sportsman on_the Laval plain near Cannes, France. 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