Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 5. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight: tomorrow fair; not much change in tempeyature. ‘Temperature—Highest, 58, at noon to- day; lowest, 42, at 4:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. ¢ Toening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,732 — Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 No. 30,830. b B tered as second class matte: shington, D. C. \\'ASIIIS'GTON. b. €, THURSDAY, SEPT o7 MBER 1928—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ¥ (#) Means Associated Press: TWO CENTS. SMITH T0 APPEAL FOR NORTHWESTS FARM VOTE TONIGHT Hears Rosy Reports When Governor of North Dakota Boards Special Train. MADDOCK SAYS HOOVER CANNOT CARRY STATE Declares Many Former Backers cf} La Follette Will Vote for Demo- | cratic Candidate. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Septem- ber 27 (#).—The Twin Cities of Minnesota opened their doors to Gov. Smith today, Minneapolis roar- ing out the first welcome to the neminee. St. Paul, where the gov- ernor will make his fiftth speech of the campaign tonight, has arranged a reception and parade. In all 25 miles of parade route had been laid out in the two cities. By the Associated Press. GOV. SMITH'S TRAIN EN ROUTE TO MINNEAPOLIS, » September 27.— Bearing encouraging Teports on the | presidential political outlook in North | Dakota/ Gov. Smith today entered the grain belt of Minnesota, to make the fifth speech of his Western tour at St. Paul tonight—a direct appeal for support from the mass of voters of the | agricultural Northwest. Farm relicf, the tariff and other al- lied subjects are expected to form the hub of the address. By working late last night as his train trnversgd the farming sections of North Dakota and western Minnesota, the Democratic presidential nominee completed a draft ©of his speech and was free today to en- gage in a round of activity preliminary to its delivery tonight in the St. Paul Auditorium. 4 A parade and reception in Minne- apolis and a Fms conference were on the program for the nominee, while a reception and luncheon had been ar- ranged for Mrs. Smith and other wom- an members of the party. Hopes for La Follette Votes. ny. reports have -eached Gov. Sl:g?hydufll‘:g his swing through this region that a majority of the 1924 La Follette followers are lining up be- hind him, and his managers are frank to say that this part of the electorate is one of the chief Democratic goals| November. mMinnesota‘s 12 electoral votes went to Coolidge by a clear majority four years ago, La Follette running second. Look: ing back, however, lieutenants of the New York executive point to the fact that lost to Hughes in 1916.by than 500 votes. l’genawr Henrik Shipstead, the only Farmer-Labor member of the Senate, is up for re-election in the State, whose delegation to the Kansas City conven- tion largely was for Lowden. The Dem- ocratic nominee in the senatorial race recently withdrew in favor of Ship- stead, who has yet to announce whom he will support for the presidency. Magnus Johnson, former Farmer-Labor Senator, is out_for Smith’s election. Crowds at half a dozen cities in North Dakota turned out to cheer the nomi- nee and shake his hand, as they ap-, ared at Mandan; at Bismarck, where g\:g nominee detrained to visit the State Capitol for a call on Gov. Walter Mad- dock, and the executive mansion to pay his respects to the widow of the late Gov. Sorlie; Jamestown, Valley City and Fargo. Party Leaders Call La delegations of party lagdgrs boar:igzei the special in North Dakota, principally at Mandan, across the Mis- souri from the capital, and at Bis- marck. Here Gov. Maddock entrained and rode as far as Jamestown, where in a speech to a crowd from the rear latform he introduced Gov. Smith as rhe “man who will sign the McNary- augen bill.” HBegfnte reaching Jamestown Gov. Maddock, who was a delegate to the Repsblican national convention, sub- mitiid to a long press interview in whigh he explained his political status, and declared that in view of the farm- ers #:ceiving “better treatment at Hous- | ton,” and as a result of Gov. §mithsl recent interpretation of the piatform adopted there, 80 per cent of the farm- ers of North Dakota now were for him. The North Dakota executive said #hat he had been a Republican all his life, | “principally because the Non-partisan Igaguepopeymted within the Republican party,” but now the leaguc, under t licy of reserving the right to support either Republicans or Democrats d placed him on the Iiemocratic ticket be- cause that party, for the first time in jts history in the State, is dominated by Progressives. Says He Is With Farmers, Emphasizing that he was a farmer himself and was “speaking the farm sentiment” instead cf his individual opinion, Maddock declined to be drawn out flatly in favor of Gov. Smith, de- claring: “I do not want to express my personal opinion at all. I am for the best interests of agriculture, and the agricultural organizaticns of this State are 80 per cent for Smith.” A “And you are Igrdthcm. with thom?’ a reporter suggested. "Ip:m withgth"m all the way down the lin Maddock replied. E “In other words, you are for Smith?” "torpret that as you wish.” Maddock, olic, said nothing had occ him change his mind about Ho the Republican national convent declared that the former Commerce Secretary could not win in North Da- kota “because he did not properly ent the agricultural intercsts.” the farm sentiment in his State South Dakota . and expressed the opinion_that the “great bulk” of thz former La Follette vote in North Dakota would be for Gov. Smith. While some of his followers brought word that he faced an uphiil battle in North Dakota, the nominee was happy to Jearn from others that despite a weak Democratic organization he was gaining support from voters. Coolidge won North Dakota’s five electoral votes in 1924, but Smith sup- porters point out that the combined La Follette-Davis vote topped that given the President by approximately 9,000. Sugar Plebiscite Planned. HAVANA, September 27 (£).—. biscite of all sugar growers and grinders | in Cuba will be held syon under the auspices of the National Sugar Cwners' Association, it was announ: day, to discuss whethor t curtailment” in the , @overnment intervention, 1 b ho lik» Smith is a Cath-| “rings true” in Minnesota and | independent | sl i indusiry without | Victim’s Mother Makes Struggle to Attempt Rescue, but Is Held Back. Husband and Father of Woman Suffer Injuries to Faces in Blaze. ‘While her mother struggled to free herself from restraining hands in a desperate but futile attempt to go to her assistance, Mrs. Lucille Schlorb, 19 years old, 3040 Grant road, was burned to death early this morning in the kitchen of her home, the blaze sup- posedly starting by the explosion of a can of kerosene which she was using to kindle a fire in a cook stove. Her hus- band, Edward Schlorb, and father, George A. Burkf, were both painfully burned about the face. Mrs. Schlorb lost her life while her husband and two small children were asleep on the sccond floor and her father and mother were in another part of the house. They failed to dis- cover the blaze until the kitchen was a mass of flames. The house was de- stroyed before the arrival of firemen. The first known of the blaze was when Burke was leaving the house at 4:30 o'clock this morning to go to work. He had put his hand on the door-knob when he heard a muffled sound that made him think some mem- ber of the family had fallen out of bed. Finds Family Asleep. Puzzled, Burke went back upstairs, where ne found other members of the family asleep, and then went back downstairs and opened the door lead- ing into the kitchen. He was met by a }:urst of flames that badly burned his ace. Mrs. Mary Burke, his wife, heard his cry and rushed into the room. When she scnsed the situation she attempted to dash into flames to save her daugh- ter and her husband grabbed her. Fighting to free herself, Mrs. Burke screamed so loudly that her cries waked the entire neignborhood, resi- dents of which telephoned to the four- teenth precinct station house that there was some trouble at the Burke home. Her screams were heard as far as Con- necticut avenue, three blocks away. Policemen W. S. Sager and Henry Osborne were dispatched to the scene, which is almost a mile from the sta- tion house, and it was not until they had gotten in sight of the burning house that they discovered the fire and turned in an alarm. By the time fire apparatus reached the place the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) JOAN CODLIDGE UNHURT IN CRASH Passengers in Gther Car In- jured ir Collision With Gevernor’s Auto. By the Associated Prass. NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 27. —John Coolidge, son of President Cal- vin Coolidge, newly entered in railroad- ing as a lifz career, has been in his | first transportation collision, and like- wise he has made his first collision report. | Returning from Plainville this morn- | ing, where he had been the overnight | gucst of Cov. and Ms. John H. Trum- “hu!l and Miss Florence Trumbull, an< | wh he had joined his mother, the | aich was taking him to a rail- | road office was in a collision witk another machine at a strect intersec- tion. Young Coolidz2 and Gov. Trum- bull’s chauffeur, William Cunningham. were unhurt, but Mary Veno and " (Continuea ¢ 2, Column 3) (Continuea on Pa; MOMBASA PLANS HUGE WELCOME FOR WALES Prince’ Will Receive Address of Greeting in Ivory Chest Studded With Gems. By the Assoclated Press. | MOMBASA, Kenya, East Africa, Sep- | tember 27.—This famous port of Eas Africa is rushing its last-minute prep- larations in anticipation of the arrival iof the Prince of Wales and his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, tomorrox morn- ng. The prince will be presented with an address of welcome contained in a cas- ket of ivory and ebony made partly from a twisted elephant tusk, on which is mounted a silver head, the whole forming a huge cobra with gleaming eyes of rubles and diamonds. YOUNG WIFE FATALLY BURNED IN KINDLING FLAMES WITH OIL| three of the four children she rescued from fire which destroyed her home fo- day. In Mrs. Burke's arms is Lillian Schiorb. . Upper right inset. Freddie Schlorb. Lower right, Katherine Hen- dricks. The mother of Freddie and Lil- lian was burned to death. —Star Staff Photos. SOUTHERN VOTERS GAL ON HOOVER Choigz of Party Is Im- portant Decision. Herbert Hoover today welcomed to his fold an enthusiastic .group of Southern young men and women who came to him with a pledge of support and a dcfinite premise that their first votes as citizens would be cest for him. cision s to party allegiance is *‘one of the most important of his life,” Hoover coupled with a prediction that their confidence in him and in his party would not be misplaced. ' Many of those in the delegation wore | placards on their cars or buttons on! their coats proclaiming the fact that they were “Hoover Democrats,”. and several so described themselves verbally while shaking hands with the candidate. Hoover laughed and thanked them for their support. The majority of the group were from Virginia, while others were from North Carolina and West Virginia. Decision Is Important. “I am very glad you have come to see me,” Hoover told the delegaiion in the big lobby on the second floor of his headquarters on Massachusetts ave- nue. e decision as to the party with which you would align yourselves In your first vote is one of the most important of your life. It is one which vou should approach by consideration of the fundamental things for which parties stand. The Republican party over thcse many years has been the party of prosperity and progress. “You are all young; you are there- fore active. The Republican party al- ways has bcen the party of action, action for the country at large with- out regards to sectional or special in- terests, “Although you arz young your vision will grow broader than that of the older generation because you have the bene- fits of their experience. The Repub- lican parly is old in experience. It is also ever young with each new genera- tion because in every expanding cycle of our country's advance it has caught the step of progress and has marched in the lead in bringing about those DRY AGENTS HELD IN GIRL SHOOTING Alleged to Have Fired Into Auto When Car Failed to Halt. By the Asscciated Press. LORAIN, Ohio, Scptember 27.—Miss Betly Heywood, 22, of Elyria is in a serious condition in a hospital here from a bullet wound alleged to have b2en re- ceived when prohibition officers, working under Mayor J. C. Standen, fired on a car in which she was riding early today at South Lorain. The prohibition offi- cers alleged to have done the shooting are in jail. The Federal officers, Frank Klady. Walter Knitter and Louis Cicco, all o Lorain, are held on technical charges of investigation. The shooting occurred at a bridge in South Lorain where the dry agents were tationed to apprehend rum runners. They are alleged to have fired on the car in which Miss Heywood was a pas- senger when it did not stop on com- mand. Charles Edwards of Elyria, driver of the car in which his wife, infant daugh- ter and Miss Heywood were passengers, said he believed the agents were hold-up men and increased the car’s speed when they orderad him to stop, and 2s the car sped past one shot was fired, striking Miss Heywood in the neck. Are You Interested in How to Cast Your Vote? If you vote Ry mail and are perplexed, write to The Star and your questions will be answered in a celumn to be devoted to these data up until election day. Today’s Column Appears cn Page 6 Mrs. Mary Burke photographed withl Young Mcn and Women Told| Dezclaring that a young voters de-! extended to each of the 60 or more visi- | tors a cordial hand shake of fellowship, | BAN ON POLITIGAL AGTIVITIES BY 1. 3. WORKERS SCORED Warnings to Classified Civil Service Employes Protested to Chairman Work. FORBIDDEN TO WEAR BUTTONS OR BADGES Campaign Signs cn Autos Also Prohibited—Nearly 60,000 Affected in District. Warnings to classified civil service employes against political activities in the present campaign have rouscd the ire of Representative Addison T. Smith of Idaho, Republican. Mr. Smith in a letter to Chalrman Work of the Republican national com- mittee declares that the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic na- tional committees should “take steps to unloosen the tongues of the classified employes and enable them to walk the streets and highways as frez, independ- ent American citizens instead of cring- ing Government slaves, and without oe- ing branded as political eunuchs and denied the privileges that every free | American citizen enjoys.” His protest goes to the warning to the Government employes that they must confine expressions of views on political subjects to private conv tions, and that they must not display campaign stickers or signs on automo- | biles or wear campaign buttons or badges. Calls Warnings Absurd. ‘To ban such expressions of political | preference by the classified employes of | the Government, Mr. Smith insists 1s “absurd, presumptuous, ridiculous, con- temptible.” Chairman Work said flatly, when questioned sbout th= protest of Mr. Smith, that he did not intend taking any steps in the matter, that the Civil Scrvice Commission was the govern- mental body which had full authority. Chairman William C. Deming of the Civil Service Commission defended the warning issued to the Government em- ployes, which quotes the following rule of the commission: “No perscn in the executive civil ! service shall use his official authority or !influence for the purpose of interfering with an election or afTecting the results thereof. Persons who by the provisions of these rules are in the competitive eclassificd scrvice, while retaining the wight to vote as they please and to ex- press privately their opinions on all political subjects, shall take no active part in political management or in political campaigns.” Orders Issued for Years. Mr. Deming said that the commission had for years been in the habit of is- suing such orders and warnings as those now put forward in campaign years. The present warning, he said, was more specific than in past years be- cause the commission had been asked for rulings by employes themselves on the use of automobile tags, wearing buttons, ete. He pointed out that the employes were lcft entirely free to vote as they please, to make voluntary con- tributions, but not in a Government building_or to another Federal em- ploye. The restrictions prevent the em- ploye while in the service of the whole public from turning his official posi- tion to th2 benefit of one of the parties into which the whole public is dividet lin_politics. In the District of Columbia there are Government, most of whom are in the classified civil service. Outside the Dis- trict the number of employes of th- Government, classifled and unclassified, is about 93.000, of whom 450,000 arc classified. The warnings issued by the Civil Service Commission in regard to political activity do not apply to the unclassified employes, who include pres- idential appointecs. They are not di- rected against members of the cab- inet, for example, or other presidential appointees, like Mrs. Mabal Walker Wil- lebrandt, Assistant Attorney General. There is no rule and no law which i applies to such officials of the Govern- ;m(‘x\t and they are left entirely frec to particivate in political campaigns as they see fit. governed only by the pro- pricties of the situation. | Alleges Discrimination. | _ Mr. Smith, in his letter to Chairman Work. complains particularly because th2 classified emvloyes are discriminat- ed 2gainst in this matter when the higher Government officials are left frec to do as they wish. He says: “The members of the cabinet and | heads of burcaus are active in urging the people to support one or the other of the political parties because thay be- lieve in the principles and policies of their party, but if the cmployes should undertake to do so, they are threaten- ed with dismissal. Why should it be corsidered dishonorable or criminal for " (Continued on Pag 4, Column 2, KIDNAPERS TAR MAN IN LABOR DISPUTE Abduction Is Latest Violence in + Kenosha, Wis,; Mills Troutle. KENOSHA, Wis., September 27 () —Blistered by hot tar poured on him by his kidnapers, Harold Hendrickson Allen A. Hosiery Mills employe, was returncd to his home this morning. He was taken there by friends to whose home he had wandered after being bound and left on a highway last night. Hendrickson was seized by masked men six miles west of Kenosha, as he was riding in his automobile with his two sisters. The kidnapers forced him to stop his car and took him away after striking one of the sisters over to_aid her brother. | The captors fled with their prisoner | in_thelr own automobile, while the sis- ters hurried into Kenosha to report the abduction. Bomk g and sluggings have preceded t kidnaping in the wek? of labor ° .culties which have involved the mais during the last six months, or from becoming “perniciously active” | some 60,000 employcs of the Federal | | the head with a gun as she struggled | | | Setsuko, Schooled Here, | Prepares for Cere- mony. [ |Royal Romance Captures Imagination cf Japa- nese Public. By the Associated Pre: TOKIO, September 27.—Tomorrow is | the wedding day for the little “com- moner's” - daughter, ‘Who may one day | be the Empress of Japan. Miss Setsuko }Matsudaira, just turned 19, a few 1 months azo0 a schoolgirl in Washington, }with interests' and tastes much like those of any American girl of her age, will become the bride of Yasuhito, | Prince Chichibu, brother of the Em- !pcror and heir presumptive to the i reigning house in the world. Although some of the bluest blood in Japan flows in her veins, Miss Setsuko's father, the former Ambassador to the United States and Ambassador-desig- nate to Great Britain, Tsuneo Matsu- daira, bcars no title. bride is a “commoner,” the first to be- MISS MATSUDAIRA WILL WED PRINCE CHICHIBU TOMORROW { throne. Thus she will enter the oldest | Hence the little | Set MISS SETSUKO MATSUDAIRA. AL come a princess of the reigning house by mnrr?ngz. ‘The imperial household law forbids such unions, so technically POLICEMANHEARY'S DISWISSAL URGED {Patrol Drivar Is Fined $50 by | Trial Board — Charges | Against Two Dropped. One policeman was recommended for !dlsmx‘\sal from the force, a second was fined $50, a third was ordered to pay $10 monthly on an old debt and charges | against two othors were dropped by the Trial Board eos the result of yester- | !day’s session, it was announced today |as the board met egzain at the h precinct station to consider the cases of two more officers. In urging the dismissal of Policeman Brady A. Henry of the second precinct on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and of being off his beat while cn duty the board brought the total number of men it has ordered removed lup to ecight. The present board has met but four times since its appointment, and its' docket has been cleared up to such an | |extent that it is believed it soon will {be unnecessary to hold more than onc | | session a week. i Found in Darkened Auto. i Henry was brought up after he was | said to have been in a darkened auto- | mobile at New Hampshire and Concord | avenues, August 10, with another officer | and two women. and to have assaulted ! and cursed Motor Cycle Policeman ! Frank G. Scoville of the thirteenth | precinct, who found him and at-; tempted to persuade him to return to | his own precinct. He admitted he was ; ‘on duty at the time. i | " The ‘other officer, C. A. Worthen, ! | formerly of the second precinct, wag| | dismissed from the force several weeks | ago. At the trial of Worthen. Scoville | appeared before the board with a hadly | discolored eye, but Henry denied yos- | the eye with a blackjack as was al- | leged. Seoville testified that Henry cursed | | | terday that he struck the officer over i | him, attempted to hit him with his' I night stick, then pointed his gun at! 'him end_was knocked down and dis- | armed. Thinking Henry had no other | weapons. Scoville turned away, he told the board. and Henry struck him with a blackjack. Patrol Driver Fined §50. Policeman Frank A. Davis, a natro] driver of the seventh precinct, was con: victed on charges of neglect of duty and fined $50. It was alleged that on August 20, while off duty and in civilian | clothes, he followed a man, whom he! knew to be cerrying a gun, for four blocks without making any attempi to arrest hum, and then requested Police- man Joseph Sincovitz of the Traffic Bu- reau, who was on duty at Ninuh street and Pennsylvania avenue, to take the man into custody. Charges of using obscene language and false arrest preferred against Po- liceman R. 8. Miller of the third pre- cinet by Rebert Graham, son of Justice : Graham of the United States Court cf “(Contiaued on Page 2. Column 8J | women under " arrest on ijust prior to service of the injJsiction. DETENTION HOUSE DAMAGE SUITFILED B Street Apartment Tenant Sceks $1€,280 From Mrs. Vaa Winkle. Another angle of the fight over the location of the Hous2 of Detention at the apartment house 908 B street southwest was presented to the District Supreme Court today when Norval S. Horbert, a tenant in the apartment, filed a suit in the law side for $10.000 damages against Police Lieut. Mina Van ‘Winkle and the Wardman Construction Co., Inc., for their aleged interference with his residence there. He points out to the court, through Attorneys John G. Fitzgerald and George E. Sullivan, that it was his right to have th: apartment house con- tinuously maintained as a residence and that it was the duty of all persons to re- frain from doing anything to interfere with, disturb or impair his rights. Interference Aiieged. He alleges that between Septembor 1 and September 24 last che defencants interfered with his rights by causing a gang of workmen to be engaged in “tearing out and reconstructing or aitering, with loud and shocking roiscs, various portions of said aparfment house adjacent to, and in the vitinity of the said apartment occupieal by laintiff, including the installation of ron gratings at many of the openings in said apartment house, all for the purpose of converting it into a lc-k-up or place of incarceration for giryi and chaete of offense against eny laws ml‘orcedfn the l District of Columbia.” I The declaration also adds thit the | building has been actually publicl?’, used and devoted as a lock-up or fplace of incarceration, thus converting it into : a house of detention. 5 | Answers Filed. 1 The District Commissioners an Lieut. ! Van Winkle today filed their anskers to the injunction petition recently fed in | Equity Court by Willlam K. Wimsatt, ' owner of the adjoining property: in an effort to oust the detention hou:e from ! the new location. : It is denied that Mrs. Van Vinkle aid that “possession is nine pdints of he law” when she went into occuation of the premises as a house of déiention 1t is further denied that the makimum value of the premises is les. than $75,000, but, ‘on the other hai#i, the property 1s asserted to bé wort'i; much more, and that the District officials are paying only a reasonablc rental.” i is admitted that female ners more than 17 years of age twill ba! brought into the building, any other women held as witnesses, for irféestiga- tion and for examination, but ‘hat it should not be construed thattall fe- SCHOOL ESTIMATES REFORT IS STARTED Donovan to Hold Board Is Subordinate to District Commissioners. cation to reduce its budgatary estimates for the next fiscal year was started and budget officer. ‘The school board’s attitude, it is said at the District Building, may be the dependent organization with its own system. Donovan intends to show in his re- port that the school system is an in- tegral branch of the municipal govern- ment, subordinate to and under juris- diction of the Commissioners. In sup- port of this he will call attention to the recent ruling of Controller General McCarl which held that the Public Utilities Commission, which had long been considered an independent agency, is subordinate to the board of Com- missioners. May Revive 1916 Plan. ‘The action of the school board in declining to accept the Commissioners’ invitation to trim the schcol estimates, it was said, may force the revival of the 1916 proposal for legislation which was designed to abolish the Board of Education and set up a new system, under which a director of education would be appointed by th: Commis- sioners to administer the affairs of the public schools and who would be responsible to them instead of the school board as at present. The direc- tor of education would, however, have an advisory board of five members, also appointed by the Commissioners, who would function in an advisory and not in an administrative capacity. This proposed legislation was pre- pared and sponsored originally by Maj. Donovarr when he was secretary to the Board of Commissioners. It was given indorsement then by Commissioners Brownlow and Newman. Wiih public school system officials awaiting presentation of the schoel needs as seen by civic and community associations in various parts of the Dis- trict. the preparation by the Board of Education of a bill authorizing a second five-year building program still is in the preliminary stage in which, board mem- bers and school officers agree, no esti- mate of appropriations necessary to building program and to cover ~the needs which have arisen since the authorization of the initial program cax be_made. Following the meeting of the Board of Education, September 19, at which time its legislative commiitee was instructed to draft a tentative bill authorizing a second five-year building program, let- ters requesting outlines of school needs to the board by October 20 were sent to the civic bodies. At noon today, Harry O. Hine, secretary of ‘the Board of Edu- cation, said only two acknowledgments of the school board's letter had been received. Neither of these acknowledg- ments, however, contained an estimate of school needs, but merely set forth that the question would be considered at the next meeting of the responding groups. Henry school L. Gilligan, chairman of the board's legislative committee, i which is to draft the bill for a new building program, said today that the published $8,000,000 figure purported to be the school officials’ estimates of the system’s needs had nc official status so far as he knew. Charles F. Carusi, president of the board and a member of its legislative committee, said that that figure prob- ably would be “considerably below” the actual money needs of the system if its ills are to be corrected. He admitted that a specification of a definite amount before the civic and trade bodjes are heard from could be “only a guess.” MELLON PLANS SPEECHES Secretary to Make Addresses in G. 0. P. Campaign. Secretary Mellon announced today that he would make speeches for the Republican campaign committee on Oc- tober 11 and October 29. Under tentative arrangements the speeches would be made over radio from ‘Washington, although the Secretary said males brought there will have Béen ar- rested in raids in disorderly hoies. The court also is told that the defrndants were occupying the premises at Ahe time the Xn;uncu:wu instituted, i he had considered delivering one or both of them before public gatherings. Radio Programs—Page 38 Preparation of a report for the Dis-. trict Commissioners over incidents lead- | ing to the refusal of the Board of Edu-| today by Daniel J. Donovan, auditor | forerunner of a move to set up an in-| and architect, which Donovan estimates | would add several million dollars an-!make the girl subject nually to the cost of the public schoo! complete the present retarded five-year | IFATHER GONFESSES HOW HE SLEW GIRL INFIGHT AT HOME Gagged Daughter After Choking, Smith Admits to Folice. CORONER TO HOLD iNQUEST TOMORROW Held Micror to Mouth, Then Ap- rlied Rag to Insure Death, Parent Says. Hour by hour today police grilled a dejected half-blind little man who in a fit of rage yesterday strangled his 19-year-old daughter, Bessie Then from behind the locked door of the room in which the police homicide squad had put question after question to Franklin Ellsworth Smith, 49. confessed T, came the sounds of a clicking type- writer—a new confession was being | written. In this confession Smith described the details of the killing. He said that when he attacked the girl he threw her on the bed and pipe, holding his hands tightly about her throat for about five minutes. Then, according to his confession, he got a mirror and held it in front of the girl's mouth. Some moisture ap- peared on the glass so he took a cloth and bound it tightly around the mouth, holding her nose until he was satisfied that life was gone. Body Barely Marked. Barely marked from the attack, the ! body of the daughter is being held at the morgue pending the inquest, which is to be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow. It is expected tiat after the inquest a formal charge of murder will be placed against Smith. He is held on a charga of investigation now. District chemists today began an analysis of the contents of the stomach of the slain girl. | Believes Girl Fainted. _ The ease with which the man, weigh- ing only 150 pounds, killed with his {own hands his daughter, a large and j muscular girl weighing 165 pounas, i frankly puzzles police, but Coroner J. { Ramsay Nevitt, who superintended the | autopsy made late yesterday on the auditor. purchasing agent, repair shop | 8irl's body, found the girl had an ub- }nc_mlmnymlurgch healxt. He is of '};x; opinfon that the enlarged heart woul h%e%fim_u speils, | He believes the girl just fainted when | attacked and this made the crushing jout of her life a matter of no great physical exertion on the part of Smith. Seemingly in a4 daze since he gave | himself over to police, Smith has gone | about, police say, without quiie knowing | what he does. | _ At the first precinct station last night Smith slipped off to sleep after eating | half-heartedly of the jail fare. Not a | word cf complaint nor a request was received frem him during the night. ! And when h» was taken to the prise {oners’ line-un at headguarters this | morning he still s2emed to be in a doze. Piece Story Together. He was taken from the line-up and i a few minutes later closeted with mem- bers of the homicide squad. and the grilling began. For hours the monot- ;onous drone of questions cams from j the room as the detectives pieced to- | gather the odds and ends of his personal | and family life that led to the tragedy i that occurred yesterday morning at ilhe Augusta Apartments, 1151 New Jer- | say avenue. { Smith is expected to testify at the | inquest tomorrow. Important testimony also is expected of John G. Steele, the | friend of Bessie Smith, who has been |a lodger in the Smith apartment for several days. Police believe that Smith's jealousy | over the attention paid Steele by his daughter and her mother was fanned to a faver heat when Smith came home j tired from his work as night watchman at the National Metropclitan Bank yes- | terday morning and found his daughter | ready to go out without having pre- pared his breakfast. | "In his statement last night Smith, | police say, complained that the seem- | ingly favored position of Steele in his { household had been a matter of con- | siderable contention for some time. { Mrs. Smith was prostrate with grief | today 2nd would see no one. Walks in Station House. While police of every precinct and jmembers of the homicide squad were combing the city for him, Smith walk- ed into the first precinct police sta- tion shortly before 5 o'clock yester- day afternoon and surrendered. He was taken to headquarters immediately, where he is said to have admitted choking his daughter to death. Smith told the detectives that his act was the culmination of a long-stand- | ing quarrel between himself and his | daughter concerning the latter’s keep- ing company with John Steele, who lalso lives at the Augusta Apartment. | " “My temper got the best of me and I held my hands around her throat until she had stopped breathing,” Smith | said, according to Detective Sergt. Jo- | seph Waldron, who questioned him for {more than an hour. |, The father said he returned home from the Metropolitan National Bank, where he was employed as a night watchman, about 8:30 yesterday morn- {ing. He asked his daughter to pre- | pare some breakfast, and she refused, | he is reported to have told detectives. Found Food Gone. Thereupon he examined the ice box and found that certain food he wanted | was gone. Returning to the bedroom where his daughter was dressing, re- putedly to go out with Steele, the quar- rel was renewed, Smith accusing the girl of giving all the food to Steele. Finally, Smith told Detective Wal- dron, he “grabbed her by the throat jand threw her on the bed and held her there several minutes.” She made no outery and did not put up a fight, the father said. He held her until her breathing had completely stopped and he thought she was dead, the detective declares. He placed a pillow over her face and stayed around about a half hour. As he was leaving he met Steele and told him, “Bessie is dead.” He then went out, locking the door behind him. Smith said he kept in touch with the happenings in his home through the newspapers as he wandered about the streets. He had several papers in his possession when he appeared at the first precinet. Detective Waldro id Smith failed “(Continusd on Page 2, Column &) pressed both thumbs against her wind- <