Evening Star Newspaper, October 1, 1928, Page 1

WEA (U. 8. Weather Fair, continued row increasing cloudiness and warme: light northeast an Temperature—Hi today; lowest, 44, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 THER. Bureau Forecast.) cool tonight; tomor- d east winds. ighest, 59, at noon @b ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. service. Sunday's Saturday's Circulation, Circulation, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 98,695 109,346 ~— office, Wa . \No. 30,834, post tered as second class matte r C. shington, D. PONCARE. REVIVES WAR DEBT PAYMENT IMPASSE WITH U. S Premier Again Links German Reparations With France’s Settlement. SAYS CUT MUST APPLY | IN BOTH DIRECTIONSE Btand Is to Recent American Declaration. in Direct Opposition | Br. the Associated Press. PARIS, October 1.—A speech by Pre- mfer Poincare at Cambrey, where he unveiled a war memorial yesterday, was eted today as again putting the ion of a cut in reparations and 2 cut in the French debt squarely up 10’ the United States. f'he premier reiterated the French pcticy that any reduction of Germany's veparations debt to the former allies “rhust be accompanied by a correspond- ik cut in the interallied debts to the | Ufdted States.” Washington has always maintained that the questions must re- main apart. M. Poincare insisted especially that Ffance still considered the interde- | pfadency of reparations and Rhineland evacuation problems, as definitely cor- rolated to the interallied debt ques- ! tiyn. His reference to deb's was brief, but clear, the premier saying: Sees Progress Blocked. “If we are to consider the reparation pioblem anew, we are obliged to re- member that an agreement to be equi- table must suarantee France from our dé#btors beyond the integral amount Of‘ what we must pay our creditors, a clear | indemnity for our war damages.” | “The premier said the peace treaties eysured France two things—security and r¢paration. All steps taken by France since the armistice, even the occupation of tne Ruhr, he said, had been made | with a view to promoting either of | those ends. 2 | It was thought in American quarters | hat, should the French government rémain adamant in such a policy, it would be practically impossible to make téal progress in future negotiations re- | ’nrdmg reparations and evacuation of | ja e Rhineland without the active par- | ticipation of representatives of the United States in the discussion. United States Adamant. ‘The American Government has re- peatedly insisied that the reparation 2nd allied debts questions must be kept distinct. _Such was recently stated to be the Washington attitude when it @ppeared that an attempt would be made to bring the United States into the reparation and evacuation discus- sions determined upon by France, Great | Eritain, Belgium, Japan, Italy and Ger- Taany at Geneva. M. Poincare somewhat modified the npparently irreconcilable aspect of his speech when toward the conclusion he | said that while France must be prudent | #a the whole business of reparations and cebts the government had no concealed ntention of “dragging out the nego-| tiations which have been started or saaking them fail.” PRI URGES LEGISLATION FOR RETIREMENT LAW | Donovan Reports on Conditions Affecting 3,000 Per Diem Employes. Additional legislation will be necessary to give the 3,000 per diem employes of | the District government the benefits of | the retirement law, according to a re-| port submitted to the Commissioners today by Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer. The report is based on a study Don- ovan made of the retirement act at the direction of the Commissioners, who several months ago decided to take steps to have the benefits of this act WASHINGTON, e Sues Over Ousting LIEUT. COL. H. E. GLADMAN. 100,000,000-Year-Old Germ Resuscitated For Science Study | | Micro-Organism, Found in Rock, Seen as First Stage of Life. By the Associated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., October 1.—An- nouncement by Dr. C. B. Lipman, pro- fessor of plant physiology at the Uni- versity of California, that he believed | he had revived micro-organisms which | had lain dormant in rock for 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 years, was under the | scrutiny of science here today. The announcement, which was made | by Dr. Lipman, who reported his dis- coveries to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said | CECLARES HE DEFENDED iMotion in Case Will Be Argued in COL. GLADMAN HITS - DISMISSAL IN SuIT, - CHARGING SECRECY |Executive Officer of 121st Engineers Cites Efforts to Oust Others. FELLOWS SLATED T0 GO District Sugreme Court Friday. Charging star chamber proceedings led to an order for his discharge as executive officer of the 121st Regiment of Engincers, the largest unit of the District National Guard, Lieut. Col. Harry E. Gladman today filed a suit in the District Supreme Court for rein- statement which may involve the status of 27 of the 30 officers of the regiment. Col. Gladman has been an officer of the Guard since 1919. The suit brings into the open a con- troversy which has been going on for several months and reveals charges that | cfforts have been made to force out | certain members of the Guard. | Col. Gladman in his petition to the court charges that previous to the order directing his honorable discharge cer- tain officers of the Guard had under- taken to deprive him of his commission, assigning as thelr reason that he is not that these ancient organisms not only | lived, but even reproduced their kind | under culture. At least one, and per- | haps two, of the organisms so pro- duced were declared by Dr. Lipman to be totally unlike anything known to svience up to the present. Followers of Dr. Lipman said that if the process could be continued with variations, the modern world might have an cpportunity to examine living organisms perhaps similar to those | first on earth, and that discoveries re- | garding the first generation of life might b2 forthcoming. Date to Pre-Cambrian Age. Dr. Lipman began his experiments | a year and 2 half ago with rock from Canada of the pre-Cambrian age, the first period of geological history. All the resources of modern bac- teriology were used to prevent the cul- | tures in which the micro-organisms were placed from coming into contact with free air or other agencies by which modern bacteria might invade the ancient rock. Dr. Lipman said some of ths pre- Cambrian rocks had been exposed to the air within comparatively recent times, but that he took every possible precaution to use sections of ths rock s0 encased by other rocks that organisms sealed up there were practically certain to_have been isolated. { From these sealed up rock centers he | took micro-organisms apparently dead, | and placed them in culture plates, again | sealing them from all contact with the | modern_world. ! In this manner he said. he produced | spore-bearing rods, appearing in chains, which he was convinced were an indi- genous to the rock itsolf. Evidently th ancestors of the micro-organisms found | had been spore-producers, and their tiny offspring had been able to scal themselves up somewhat in the manner that larvae are sealed up in cocoons. Found in Grand Canyon. Dr. Lipman also obtained other rock from the Pliocene age, estimated at from one to two million years ago, and duplicated the experiment. Thz2 Plio- cene rocks were taken from thz Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Dr. Lipman said that although these micro-organisms were, in comparison with the pre-Cambrian growths, only geological infants, the experiment had one advantage over the other, because th> rock had been obtained from a great depth leaving room for little cloubt that modern organisms could find their way into the cultures. ALASKA NOMINEE NAMED FOR LAXITY IN ELECTION Indictment Charges Thomas A. Marquem Failed to List Cam- paign Ezpenditure: apply to the per diem workers as weli as the employes on the annual pay roll Donovan recommended that confer- ences be held between Daniel E. Garges, | cretary to the Board of Cnmm‘.ss)on-‘ himself and other department heads | 10 learn definitely whether the per diem employes want the change. | Since coming under the provisions of | the retirement law would mean a de- | duction of 3'; per cent from the, weekly wages of the per diem workers, | Donovan thinks that this feature wouid | not prove attractive to a large group of | the employes. In certain cases where servite of per diem workers has continuous the auditor believes a way may be found to bring them under the operation of the present law. He cites decisions of the Commissioners prove | that they have no right to accep: any 2nd all employes who may choose t come under tie law. They may be ac- | cepted, however, he said, as classes, but | not as individuals. | LS SR e | PAIR BELIEVED DROV/HNED. can Bay for Tel-| Army Airmen £ low Flyer and G SAN FRANCISCO, Octo 1iissing since Fricay t, %. Woodrufi, United St and Miss Grinel Gotte Belvedere Society girl, are beli have perished while on a moonlight ca- noeing trip in the bay. Aviator frie of the pilot scanned the bay from the air yesterday, but their search failed to reveal any wreckage of the canoe. IIADE WHITE HOUSE AIDE. Lieut. Kenneth M. Hoeffel, U. S. N., | of the office of Naval Operations, has been appointed aide to the White House, the Navy Department announced | today. Licut. Hoeffel wes graduated from the Naval Academy in 1917 and before coming on duty to the department he ‘served aboard the light cruiser U. S. S. Omaha, His home is at Green Bay, Wis., and he is the brothor of Dr. ‘Gerald Hoeffel of the Children’s Hos- pital at Boston. Lizut. Hoefiel lives at the Racgues Cluly " | The indictment is the first of its kind Tallure to repert receipts and ex- nditures under the Federal corrupt practices act is charged in an indict- ment reported teday against Thomas A. | Marguam, who, in November, 1925, had been a candidate for the office of dele- gate from Alaska in the House. Marguam is said to have been a can- didate against Dan A. Sutherland, and although various persons and organiza- | tions contributed a total of $3,000 for his campaign, Marquam refused and cted to file a report of receipts and nditures, as required by the act. n e in th2 District WILL HAVE FRENCH PLANE Milita:y Attache Socn to Get to Aid Him in Work. Thenault, mi! n Washin irplane at | on to aid him in his | Craft | t W S- c | cers and men whose official scalps were | a civil engineer. Col. Gladman continues that there are 30 officers in the 121st Regiment and that only 3 of them possess the qualifications of civil engineers. He adds that there is no requirement of law or Army regulations that officers, in the National Guard engineer units | be civil engineers. “Aided Others.” | Although it was not stated in the ! petition, Col. Gladman declared he was ! torced out becauss he aided other offi- | sought. One of the most recent of D, C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1928 —FORTY-TWO PAGES. “THE.. HAPPY WARRIORS.” PLAN INDIVIDUAL ANTISMITH FHGHT Capital Methodist Ministers to Wage Campaign Against Liquor. A plan of individual service to the | anti-Smith cause by Methodist ministers | of the Capital was adopted today at a | meeting of the Methodist ministers’ or- | ganization at the Methocist Building, | which turned down the proposal for | thesz cases was that of Capt. William F. Jorgensen, commanding Company | C, Col. Gladman's old unit, whom Guard officials sought to have tried by | a general court-martial for alleged dis- | obdience of orders. Twice the Judge | advocate general's office of the War Department dismissed the charges, then | the Guard officials sought to give hlmi a reprimand, which was later with- drawn, when Capt. Jorgensen addressed an appeal to the President of the United States, demanding either a trial by gen- eral court-martlal or the withdrawal of the reprimand. The petition continues, that the officers of the Guard, in thelr effort to vacate his commission, wrote certain letters, rteceived replies thereto and pretended to take certaln testimony | but gave him no opportunity to ex- amine the letters or the replies or to be present at the taking of the testi- mony, to have an opportunity to cross- examine the witnesses, | Refused Data. “After the testimony had been taken,” the petition says, “the plaintiff de- | manded of the War Depariment and of | the sald officers a copy thereof, said | demand being made both verbally and | in writing and the same was refused. In no other manner and at no other | time has there been any attempt to comply with the law with relation to commissions of officers in the National | Guard of the District of Columbia or to the vacation of the plaintiff’s com- mission as required by the said Army | regulations. “The relator says that the vacating of his commission in the National Guard was without warrant of law, in violation thereof, andusurpation of the authority of the President of the United States and a violation of law.” With the filing of the suit by Attor- ney H. Winship Wheatley, representing | Gladman, there was filed also a motion, | returnable in the court on Friday for | the issuance of a common law writ of certiorari, and the case will be argued at that time. The suit was brought in the name of the United States on the relation of Col. Gladman, and it names as defendants, Secretary of War Dwight | F. Davis, Maj. Gen. Creed €. Hammond, chief of the Militia Bureau; Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the local Guard, and Frederic H. Smith, U. S. Army, who reported today as adjutant general of the local militia. Seeks Discharge Order. The court is asked to issuc the writ ! commanding ti> defendants to certify | to the court the records of the Militia | Burezu of the War Department and | certain records in the case, which re- | sulted in the issuance of the discharge | order which Col. Gladman assarts was issued “without color of authority and | in violation of the law.” It prays ths quashing cf all the records in th2 case, and for a restoration of Col. Gladman's status as an officer of the guard. The sworn petition of Col. Gladman dis- closed that the proceedings which re- sulted in the discharge order were held entirely ex parte and that neither the sections of th National Guard organic | act nor the National Defense act pro- viding a formal manner of eliminating officers was ever complicd Wwith by either tle National Guard officials or the War Department, In 1919 Col. Gladman organized un infantry company, then known as Com- pany C. and out of this compeny ae | recruited and sent men to form other | units which gr s informed _toda government had air-coled 1 that the eni him -hors2pow on plane, which has | New Y Maj. New Vork in a few days chine to Washington, whers an Covernment has offered s for keeping it. k. ault | to | prived and are continuinz to deprive ment which was subsequentl the War Dey into a reziment of engineers. he petition also sets forth that tha defendents are named “becaus: under color of thelr respective offices and in violation of law, they rave de- turned | rtment, | i (Continued on Pagz 2, Column 6.) A new f The King of “Graham McNamee Speaking” will begin in the next issue of The Sunday Star eature by Broadcasters | concerted action and took the stand 1 Capable legal minds have already shown | campaign is set forth in the declaration that the individual minister's judgment | would be the basis on which the fight would be conducted during the present campaign. In a statement issued after | the meeting, the body said: “We are not preaching politics. We are preaching righteousness and re- form.” ‘The statement further says: “We conceive the major issue involved in the present political campaign to be | the prohibition question. On this issue (whether we will or no) we are to have a national referendum. The outcome will _be vital. In spite of the over- whelming sentiment of the country and a dry Congress, it is possible to throw into the discard the eighteenth amend- ment and the laws enacted thereunder. us how a wet President may do this. The cry of security is not warranted. Our only hope is in the issue at the ballot box. “We are not making a partisan state- ment. The members of this body are divided in party fealty. Upon the prohibition issue we are a unit. That is a moral question and not a political one, Moral reforms belong to ministers. They have helped to produce them. We are pledged to the prohibition re- | form by a century and a half of sacri- | fice and effort. We are ready to fight | for the preservation of the relom]l whic.ewe have helped to achieve. “We register our solemn declaration | that no element of religious bigotry | enters into our activity. If the names | and parties and principles were re- | versed our stand would be unchanged. “The proper attitude of the Method- Ist minister in the present political made by the General Conference of that | church. | “As to the method by which each| minis;er shall serve this cause and help to defeat the enemies of righteousness | and reform, that is entirely a matter for | individual ' judgment. We are. not | preaching politics. We are preaching | righteousness and moral reform. “We are seeking to conserve a great reform which we helped to achieve. The welfare of every home and of every child in the country is involved in thc outcome. Our duty is clear. We have our marching orders. We cannot be si- | lenced by misrepresentation. boycott o1 | persscution. We have taken our stand | 1s a church and have done so in advance of part} positions and candidates, and we purpese to maintain it.” PRESIDENT TO TALK TO EPISCOPALIAN MEETING | Will Deliver Address During Tri- ennial Convention, Bishop Freeman Announces. i President Coolidge will deliver an ad- | dress during the course of the forty- {ninth Tricnnial General Convention of | | the Episcopal Church, which opens here | univers next week. In making this known today | Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of | ‘Washington, and honorary president of | the Washinston committee serving for | | the convention, who extended the invi- | tation to the President today, s(;\t(d‘ that no date has been set for the Presi- | dent's ettending the convention, but ! that this will b2 arranged later, accord- | ing to the convenience of the executive. | Bishop Freeman during his call upon the President was accompesied by Rear | Admiral Cary T. Grayson, U. S. N., gen- eral chairman of the Washington com- | mittees arranging for the coming con- vention, and Hugh T. Nelson, executive of the conventica. CERMAN WORKERS STRIKE| 50,000 Shipyard Employes Walk Out After Wage Dispute. HAMBURG, Germany, October 1 (#). —Fifty thousand shipyard workers went on strike today over a wage dispute in Hamburg, Kile and other German ports. | Work iIn the yards was continued | with skeleton staffs of foremen and apprentices. Radio Program—Page 33 ] Doctor and Plane STUDENT IS KILLED | saying the youth fainted during the | five other students had preceded him | lete, died after a mock initiation last Lose Death Race By Four Minutes By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 1.—Though it shot through the air lanes to Water- loo, Jowa, 100 miles an hour, Dr. J. R. Buchbinder’s airplane yesterday trailed death by four minutes. Dr. Buchbinder was speeding to the bedside of T. F.- Brady, Swift & Co. manager at Waterloo, who had been injured in an automobile acci- dent. Barely two hours were required far the flight, but the physician was too late. INERAT INITIATION Electricity Sent Through Bed| Springs Fatal—Death Held Accident. By the Assoclated Press. AUSTIN, Tex, October 1.—Nclte| McElroy, 19-year-old University of | Texas student and an athlete of Hous- | ston, Tex., was dead today, the victim | of a mock Delta Kappa Epsilon Fra- ternity initiation, which turned from a | bit of student horseplay to tragedy. Mc- Elroy died last night a fow minutes after being shocked by light wires, con- nected by a rheostat to two sets of bedsprings through which he crawled as | part oi the additional fraternity ritual for neophytes. Two physicians, who examined the | body, declined to say whether fright or the electricity itself caused death. Strength of the electrical charge which | entered his body was not determined. District Attorney Moore, who insti- tuted an immediate investigation by | questioning upper classmen Who par- ticipated in the initiation, early today had not announced an inquest. No ar- rests had been made. Says Student Fainted. The {raternity issued a statement stunt, through which, it was asserted, and to which 184 other students had been subjected during the local chap- ter's history. Fraternity members expressed the opinion that the youth probably touched an exposed live wire leading to the springs. He fell screaming to the floor and lapsed into unconsciousness. His fraternity brothers attempted to revive him, but when their efforts proved futile they carried him bodily to Seton Infirmary, a block distant, where phy- sicians worked over him in vain for 30 minutes with a pulmotor. McFElroy was said to have been fed a raw oyster saturated with castor oil as a part of the mock initiation preceding the bed springs stunt. Father Is Housien Broker. The youth, who was a member of the university foot ball team, was a sophomore. His father, W. A. McElroy, | is president of the McElroy Bond & | Brokerage Corporation of Houston. An | older brother was graduated from the | university recently. In announcing later that there would be no inquest the district attorney indi- | cated the fraternity members would be | called before the grand jury for ques- ticning merely as a formality. Dean V. I. Moore said there probabl. would b2 no action by officials of th: | i It simply was a terrible accident lh.’:’t could not have been forcseen,” he; said. | Fraternity men said th> rheostat had | not been turned fully to its 110-volt| maximum when McElroy collapsed. OFFICERS ARE SILENT. Details of Initiation Death Awalted: by Fraternity Headquarters NEW YORK, Octeber 1 (#).—National headquarters of Delta Kappa Epsilon | Fraternity today declined to say wheth- | er any action would be taken against | the chapter at the University of Texas, Wwhere Nolte McElroy, 19-year-old ath- | night. | Clinton Lovett, secretary of the Na- | tional Council, said he had received a brief telegram saying McElroy had died. Lovett said he was -wamnf more details before any statement would be made. Lovett said the national organization two years ago had attempted to elimi- nate all dangers from initiations. At that time he said ths use of electrically charged bed springs, through which Mc- Elroy crawled and was shocked, had not been encountered in the survey of ini- tiation rituals. Lovett has general charge of fraterni- ty chapters under jurisdiction of other national officers and the board of trustees, ¥ | uation in the report which was EXECUTONSYSTEN ND.C.DENDUNGED Grand Jury Asks Special Chamber Be Set Aside for Electric Chair. The conditions surrounding executions | at the District Jail came under the fire of the rtiring grand jury, which, in a re- port today, termed them ‘“deplorable,” and szid a separate chamber should be set, aside for the electric chair. It is the second time that such a recommendation has come from a grand jury: On the previous otcasion, ‘ths Commissioners, in reply, said that an execution was gruesome enough without having a constant reminder of it in the shape of a death chamber. Now, the cheir is placed in a hall when used, then put away after it has served its purpose. Hope for Early Change. “We wish to emphasize,” say the grand jurors, “the deplorable conditions surrounding the electric chair. In the first place there should be a room for this chair where it could be made sta- | tionary, doing away with the necessity of pulling it around into one of the dining rooms every time it is used. In the second place, it is quite a long walk from the death cell to the chair. It is necessary to go down a flight of steps to | reach the chair. We hope this condition will soon be overcome.” The jurymen, who made an inspection of the District penal institutions, were trong in their praise of the general sit- sub- mitted to Justicz Peyton Gordon. The report, in part, follows: “We, the members of the grand jury wish to recommend Mr. Barnard, super- intendent of Lorton Reformatory, Occo- | quan, and District of Columbia Jail. ou the way our reformatory at Lorton, Occoquan, and the District of Columbia Jail is conducted. “We wish also to comment on the wav that the tomato cannery is conducted The men who peel the tomatoes arc dressed in white, and everything is very sanitary. In all of the various shops we found the most up-to-date machinery and equipment, except in the laundry. There we found several men doing the laundry in an old bath tub set up in a frame- work to keep it from tipping over. They have a nice place for an up-to-date laundry machine, but we are told they have no aporopriations for this ma- chine. We hope this deplorable con- dition will soon be rectified, as we are informed some of the men have good clothes down there that they do not want mussed up in this make-shift laundry. They launder their own clothes and naturally this takes up quite a bit of their time, so you cannot blame the men for not wanting their clothes messed up. Everything else on the place looks so nice and efficient, that the laundry or the lack of a laundry, is really an eyesore. Auto Tags to Be,Ready. After seeing the rapid progress which is being made in getting out the 1929 automobile number plates, we feel rea- sonably sure that the District of Colum- bia will not have to wait for the tags this year. “At Occoquan we found everything in very good condition except some of he sleeping quarters which were barely “itable, but the new ones will be ready. to move into very soon now, so the prisoners. have something to look forward to at leas! ‘Maj. Peak has ything in wonder- | % (#) Means Associated Pri T™WO DEMOCRATS WATT SHATH' WORD ON STATE SLATE HEAD Governor Reaches Rochesterf to Find Party’s Convention Program Uncertain. i ROOSEVELT AND WAGNER | MENTIONED FOR PLACE | Both Doubtful, However—Others| Boomed—Presidential Nominee for Open Race. By the Associated Pre ROCHESTER, N. Y., October 1.—An | air of great uncertainty hung over the | delegates to the State convention of the | Democratic party today as to who would be the gubernatorial nominec. Gov. Smith arrived at 9:30 a.m. to- day on his special train to attend the | convention. He was given a big ova- | tion at the railroad station. At the last five conventions of the {party, Gov. Smith has been the | nominee, practically without opposition. | Now the governor's candidacy for the | presidency leaves the leaders in thz position of searching for a candidate. Governor's Word Waited. ‘There are a number of aspirants, but | their campaigns have not reached tho | shouting stage, because it is recognized | generally that the governor, who will ! address the convention tonight, will | have the final say by virtue of his lead- ership of the party. The governor has frequently said thas this will be an “open convention,” meaning that he would not attempt to dictate the slate. However, the leaders and the potential candidates themselves | | agree that the governor's desire must | be taken into consideration as a matter | of course. Among the State leaders there could not bs found a single onz who would | venture a prediction as to who the| standard bearer would be. Most of the talk among the delegates revolved about the names of Franklin D. Roosevelt and United tSates Senator Robert F. Wagner. Friends of Mr. Rooseveit said, however, that his health | would not permit him to make the race. Senator -Wagner was represented as _feeling tnat he could be of greater scrvice to the party in his present po- sition. Other Booms Started. Meanwhile bocms have been started for the following: Georg> R. Lunn, Schenectady, _ff lieutenant gov= ernor; Peter G. Eyck, Albany, for- | mer member of Congress: Representa- tive Meyer Jacobstein, Rochester; for- mer State Senator Nathan Straus, j New York State Senator Willlam La- throp Love, Brooklyn; former Attorney Thomas C. T, Crain, New York: Jus- tice Townsend Scudder of Nassau and ! George Albert Wingate, Brooklyn. United States Senator Royal S. Cope- land will be unopposed for renomina- tion. The most serious question which the people have before them is how to con- {trol the by-products of national pro- hibtion and how to curb conditions which have come as a sequence of the national policy, said William Church Osborn in his address as temporary | chairman of the convention. Assails Tactics of D “I am not attached t| rum.” said the New York lawyer, 1 have succeeded in keeping reasonably within the law, although it has not my | respect. His enemies, in their attack, | have however, involved the dearesi | political right that I possess, a right | made sacred by th: Anglo-Saxon race | from which I spring, a right funda- mental to uor natlona life and embodied in the very base of our Constitution, and that is my right of personal free- dom, so long as I do not injure others. “Certain bishops of the Methodist Church and a United States official, Mrs. Willebrandt, are appealing to the great membership of the Methodist Church to act as a political body on this question. Thus they practice them- s what they condemn in others. eny ‘the moral authority of those | religious groups, who confess their fail- | ure to make men good by persuasion | when they ask the State to make men | good by force. I deny the authority | even of th2 Government to control my act when I injurs no one.” Sees Economic Virtues. “The prohibition law, intended to be a moral enactment, has had, in my opinion, great economic values, but has produced great moral wrong.” he said. “It is those moral lapses which I have termed by-products of prohibition with which we are concerned.” Mr. Osborn then recited crime condi- | tions which he said existed in every State, and especially in the cities of | Philacelphia, Chicago and Detroit.* | “Oh,” he added, “if you belisve in th2 virtue cof the country as against the city, think of the dandelion wine, elde: berry wine, hard cider and the ap) jack which fortify and cheer the spirits | of our rural neighbors.” Mr. Osborn devoted a considerabls part of -his address to praise of Gov. Smith. In a review of the governor's administrations he placed as the firsy achicvement _“the rys. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) (Continued on | Mayor Walker Waits, Whole Hour, Too. For Presentation to Supreme Court| The Hon. James J. Walker, mayor 1 of New York city, in all his sartorial splendor, today was presented to the Supreme Court of the United States and took the oath to practice before the highest tribunal of the land. The court made the usually tardy mayor wait more tHan an hour, during which time he took occasion to say he did not believe he would get the Democratic nomination for Senator from New York at the New York State Democratic convention, now in session at Rochester, and to pass the time of day talked with Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral and arch-foe of his friend, Gov. Al Smith. Before the meeting of Mayor “Jimmy" and Mrs. Willebrandt, the former, dis- cussing the woman Assistant Attorney General's legal ability, spoke highly of her work in her official position, but added, “Her very ability in her legal line is more or less proof of the fact that she is not am expert In other lines, IDN'B of her methods of rally- o ing opposition ameng the Protestant | | clergy against Gov. Smith. Their meeting took place in the crowded Supreme Court chamber. They spoke animatedly for about five minutes, but after the brief interview neither would vouchsafe what the other had to say. | Mayor Walker was presented to the | court by Charles L. Craig, former city controller of New York. Papers com- | plying with the court's regulations for admussion to practice before it previous- had bene filed with the clerk of the court. ‘The mayor, speaking to newspaper men betore the court opened, let it be known that he thought a seat in the United States Senate the ‘‘mosl attractive public office in the land.” The mayor was presented to the court so that he could be associated with the New York City counsel when the Inter- | ditional to say today regarding the | manism” letter incident, there were in- General, Carl Sherman, Buffalo; Judge | SMITH'S RELIGIO DISCUSSEDING. 0.P. TRACT N ALABAMIA Membership as Catholfc and Its Place in Campaign Is Subject, Says Leader. ADMITS SENDING OUT 200,000 IN STATE Statement Comes in Answer to Reported Warning From Dr. Work Here. By the Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October 1.— Oliver D. Street of Guntersville, Repub- lican national committceman for Ala- bama and chairman of the State Re- publican campaign committee, said to= day that he had distributed over the State 200,000 copies of a circular cap- tioned “Gov. Smith’s Membership in the Catholic Church and Its Proper Place in the Campaign.” ‘The nature of the circular's contents as not immediately made clear. Mr. Street’s statement was made in connection with his denial of a special dispatch from Washington appearing this morning in th2 Age Herald, which caid Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the national Republican campaign commit- tee, had called on Street to observe his original instructions to ccnduct an “informative and constructive” cam- paign and not involve the religious issue. Street said he had received no such communication from the national chairman. Copies of the circular are obtainable at State Republican campaign head- quarters here, Street said, adding that “they speak for themselves.” SEE MRS. CALDWELL OUT. Virginia Leaders Believe “Romanism"” Incident Ends Usefulness to Party. ‘While Herbert Hoover had nothing ad- 0- dications from other quarters that the matter is not yet settled in the minds of some campaign leaders. A number of Republican leaders in Virginia are known to believe that Mrs, Willie W. Caldwell, Virginia national committeewoman, whose name was signed to a letter calling for fyomen “ta save the United States from being Ro- manized and rum-ridden,” has reached the end of her usefulness to the party, and should be relieved of her post. C. Bascom Slemp, national committee- man for Virginia, was an early caller at Republican national committee head- quarters today. Whether the topic of discussion was the Caldwell casz could not be ascertained. Spaulding Makes Cali. J. E. Spaulding, chairman of the Arlington County Republican com- mittee, who sent the copy of the letter to Hoover’s personal headquarters short- ly -before Hoover issued his ringing | repudiation of its contents Friday night, visited the Massachusetts avenue offices of the neminee today, and was in co ference with attaches there. He re- fused to divulge the purpese of his visit. Sees Chance in South. Chairmen Work has been advised that Hoover and Curtis have a goad chance to break into the solid South. Pointing out that the Republic] party, for the first time in its histo is conducting a determined fight for t! Southern States, Dr. Work made publ. ¥ a report by Horace A. Mann. Southern division directcr, declaring that Hoover is leading Gov. Smith in some of th» States in Dixie. Mann denied charges that the Re- publicans are ficoding the South with anti-Smith propaganda or maintaining close contact with organizations spread- ing the propaganda. f the election were held tomorrov Mann's report to Work said, “Hoov would be given an overwhelming ma- Jority of the 98 electoral votes” in the territory under his supervision, viz, North and South Carolina, Georgi Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky. Hoover is making big inroads in the South, Mann stated, and his popularity is steadily increasing. He predicted that by election time his supporters have grown in number to the p where they will be able to give Hoov nc{. olll)l; iome of the South's electo: Yvotes, “but a majority of all the v the South will cast. o e Charges Unfairness. Iann charged that the press in the South has been “unfair” pto the Re- publicans, but that the party message was reaching the voters from many platforms. Many thousands of Hoover ¢clubs have been formad, he said, the Democrats themselves having organized “thousands.” Mann claimed “without question” the entire electoral vote of Florida. Re- spective State leaders are optimistic over Hoover's- chance in the other States named, with the exception of “South Carolina, from which no report came. Mann denied that there had been any “mystery” about the campaign un- der his direction in the South, explain- ing that his offices had been located in the Munsey Building. rather than the Barr Building, merely as a convenience to Hoover Democrats, for whom “it would undoubtedly have been embar- rassing to wall: into the general offices of the Republican national committee.” Hoover wants his campaign to be financed with many contributions from small donors, rather than with a few gifts from the wealthy. Seeks Million Donors. The nominee yesterday indo.sed a program for spreading the cost of the campaign over the Nation among more than 1,000,000 subscribers—10 times the number who gave money to the party in 1924, The Nation-wide drive for funds was launched today by J. R. Nutt, cam- paign treasurer, who announced that “Hoover-Curtis legions” will be ore ganized throughout the country. The slogan will bs “One Million Con- tributors.” “Campaign contributions should not t | be limited to the few,” Hoover declared. “I believe there should be the widest possible participation in raising the necessary expenses of the campaign. Every presidential campaign is an im- borough Rapid Transit fare rate case comes up later in the ménth. The case, scheduled for today, was postponed, due to the liiness of Samuel Untermyer, portant educational period in national issues. It is the duty of political partigs to present their views and the issues to