Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and slightly cooler tonight; to- morrow fair; gentle east winds. Temperature—Highest, 79, at 1:45 gm- yesterday; lowest, 58, at 7:15 a.m. ds ay. Full report Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 28 and 29 on page 7. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. “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, 107,495 h No. 30,839 post office, Entered as second class matter Washington, 3 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY,. OC" TOBER 6, 1928 —THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS HOOVER T BREA PRECEDENT TODAY N NVADING SOUTH Wil Be First G. 0. P. Presi- dential Candidate to Cam- paign “Solid” States. TWO-PARTY POLITICAL » SYSTEM MAY RESULT fpeech, to Be Delivered in Repub- lican Territory, Will Reach Ad- jacent Regions by Radio. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Specinl Correspondent of The Star. ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., October 6.— Herbert Hoover today will break a prece- dent. He is here in these mountains of northeastern Tennessee as a Repub- llean candidate for President. He is here to tell the voters of Tennessee, of Virginia and of Kentucky and North Carolina why the South should give its electoral votes to a Republican. He is the first Republican presidential candi- date to invade the solid South during a political campaign. He breaks a precedent which has kept his predeces- sors for election beyond the confines of the solid South. Whether he is set- ting a precedent for other Republican residential candidates time alone can 1l. With the great development of the South, industrial and agricultural, @nd with the ever-fleeting years sepa- ting the President and the future from e days of the war between the States, s section of the country may yet e to 3 two-party political system in. In the Tenmessee mountains, it is true, Mr. Hoover is in a Republican district, an area carved out of the solid South. Many of these mountain people, like many in the mountains of southwest Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina, have been Republicans for generations. Republican Representatives. Two districts in Tennessee, the first and second, are represented in Con- gress by Republicans and to the north of the State line, scarcely 23 miles away, lies the old ninth district of WVirginia, which until recent years was represented in Congress by the Slemps, father and son, Republicans. But while Mr. Hoover stands in ter- ritory that is immediately Republican, his plea today is to the whole South. His voice will be carried by radio to many sections which are strongly Dem- ocratic. And his presence here is sym- bolic of the first real Republican effort to break through the solid Democratic e, which has stood so long south of e Potomac River. ‘The word has gone forth since the ésidential nominations were made last r that there was a chance for Republicans o+ e Southern States. Not because the people of the Southern States loved the Republican party more, but be- cause many of them dislike the Demo- cratic candidate for President, Gov. Smith. Mr. Hoover is here to urge upon the people of the South the wis- com of supporting the Republican y. He is not here to decry his %ocnuc rival nor to etir prejudice. He is here to point out that the Re- publican protective tariff is an essential to the South with its growing indus- tries as it is to the rest of the country. He is here to declare for the restric- tion of immigration, while his Demo- cratic opponent has taken a stand against the plan that now prevails. The people of the mountains have never ‘been partial to “furriners.” They are of the old pre-revolutionary stock. In- deed, the entire South las been averse to large immigration. Tennessee Once Republican. Tennessee has gone Republican once in presidential elections since recon- struction days. Harding defeated Cox by 13,000 votes. Four years ago, despite the big Republican sweep, Davis won in Tennessee over President Coolidge by 38,000 votes. ¢ " The Hardnig-Cox election brought out fhe greatest vote that has ever been cast fn a Tennessee election, a total of 416,- 000 votes. In 1924, the combined vote of Davis-Coolidge and La Follette was 2 little less than 300,000. In 1920 there were serveral reasons to explain the big wvote and Republican victory. It was an aftermath of the World War, and it was the first time the women were per- mitted to vote, and that year they were excused from paying poll tax. As in other States, the interest in the resent campaign is great in Tennessee. ere is a real interest in both the can- didates, Hoover and Smith. The inter- jection of prohibition and religion has played 1ts part in stirring up the voters. Predictions are made by both Repub- Jican and Democratic leaders that a big vote will come out. Some Democrats may decline to vote at all, rather than support a Republican ticket. The Demo- crats are setting great store by the vote cast in their party primary last August, 215,000 in numjer. In the Republican primary barely 75,000 votes were cast. But there was far greater rivalry in the Democratic camp for the State and sel atorial nominations. Here in Tenne: see a poll tax must be paid 60 days be- fore election. The time for paying the tax is long since gone by. There is still opportunity for voters to register but only for those who are on the books 2s having paid the tax. The Democrats are satisfied they have many more qual- ified voters than have the Republicans. But what worries them is whether they will all go to the polls and whether many of them will not vote the Republican ticket, { Predicts G. 0.'P. Victory. 1 visited Knoxville before coming here, district, is the home of Rev. J. Will Taylcr, the acknowledged Republican leader of the State and national com- mitteeman. Mr. Taylor is sanguine. He confidently predicts the State will g0 Republican by 25,000 to 30,000 and says the Republican lead may run as high as 50,000. The Democrats pooh- pooh such claims. They express no less confidence than Mr. Taylor in their own success. Impartial observers be- lieve that the result will be extremely close; that 10,000 votes or less will teil the tale. The tide at present seems 1o be running Democratic and the State leans toward a Democratic_victory. "This condition may change. The visit of Mr. Hoover and his speech here to- day may prove a rallying call which will shift the current year. There is no doubt the Republicans in eastern ‘Tennessee are aroused and will pour out a big vote for the presidential ticket. Mr. Taylor says that the Republican lurality in the first district may go as igh as 35,000 and in the second, his own district, to.25,000. Prohibition, religion and race enter fnto the political equation here as they do in North Carolina and Virginia. One ~ @Pentinued oa Page 2, Column 5.), Knoxville, lying in_the second | l Old Resident Dead | JUDGE CHARLES S. BUNDY. JUDGE G. 5. BUNDY DIES HERE AT 31 Well Known Washingtonian and Civic Worker Long a Figure in Capital Life. Charles SgBundy, retired judge of the Municipal Court, and one of the most widely known residents of Wash- iugton, died this morning at the age of 97 at his home in Falkstone Courts Apartments. Active until a year ago, Judge Bundy recently had been in falling health. He was associated with many civic organizations and two years ago on his ninety-fifth birthday representa- tives of the Board of Trade, Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association and the District Bar Association were among the hundred old friends and associates who joined in the celebration of his birthday. Served for 36 Years. Appointed to the office of justice of the peace in 1878 on the reorganization of the justices courts of the District he was reappointed successively every four years until 1910, when the Municipal Cors: was established. He was one of five men appointed judges of that court and served six years. In all served 36 vears in the judicial servite of the District. Judge Bundy joined the Columbia Heights Citizens' Association in 1894, and served nine years as its president and seven years as it treasurer. long been .an .active member Washington Board of Trade and for 12 years chairman of its committee on parks and reservations.’ He was also a member of the Columbia Historical Soclety and was vice president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. He was a director of the Park Savings Bank. Judge Bundy also was the author of “Bundy’s Justice.” He was a member of St. Stephen’s Protestant Episcopal Church. Judge Bundy was born July 3, 1831, in Windsor, Broome County, N. Y., the son of Oliver T. and Lydia Smith Bundy. He was grad- uated from Hamilton College in 1854 and served as a private, sergeant and second lieutenant in Company K of the 5th Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War. Honored by Citizens. Several years ago Judge Bundy was forced to flee from a fire which late at night gutted the apartment house in which he lived. On July 3, his ninety-seventh birth- day, the Columbia Heights Citizens’ As. sociation held a tree planting cere- mony in Meridian Hill Park in his honor. Judge Bundy helped to plant the tree and made a short address on the occasion. He was eulogized at the time by Commissioner Taliaferro and Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. Funeral arrangements have not been TWO ARE SENTENCED FOR FAKING DEATH Woman and Daughter Convicted of Attempting Fraud in Ferryboat Disaster. By the Assoclated Press. OAKLAND, Calif., October 6.—Con- victed of attempting to defraud the Key Route Ferry Boat System by faking death in the ferry boat Reralta disaster last February 17, Miss Isabell Robertson and her mother, Mrs, Bernice Huffman, yesterday were sentenced to serve six months in jail. No notice of appeal was given. Following the ferry's nose dive in San Francisco Bay, which drowned five pas- sengers, Mrs. Huffman reported her daughter missing, and sued the com- pany for $50,000 damages. Miss Robert- son later was found working under an- other name as an entertainer in a road- house near Martinez. It was alleged Mrs. Huffman knew her daughter was alive when the suit was filed, and that the girl participated in the fraud. CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED TO CLOSE RADIO STATION Union-Owned WCFL to Fight Al- leged Attempt of Large Inter- ests to Control Air. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 6.—A plot to silence the union-owned radio-casting station, WCFL of Chicago, was charged today by E. N. Nichols, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. He made the statement in outlining union labor’s plan for appearing before the Federal Radio Commission October 23 to pro- test the commission’s order diminishing the power of WCFL and reallocating the station. in what we charge amounts to a con- spiracy to silence the station,” he said. “We shall spare o one whom we feel is responsible for the attempt to give the air to a few large interests. Failing to obtain what we consider cur rights in the ether, we shall carry our battle he | eral statutes in Maryland, whicl MARYLAND LIQUOR ARRESTS BY . C. POLIGE ILLEGAL U. S. Commissioner’s Deci- sion May Open Way to Pros- ecution of Four'Officers. WARRANTS SWORN OUT BY ACCUSED PAIR Extradition Papers Demanded if Assault Charges Are Presced in Prince Georges. . ‘The local police this afternoon re- fused to arrest the four members of the force charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, as the result of a liquor case in Maryland. Inspector H. C. Pratt advised Sheriff Early of Prince Georges County that the four would not stand trial in Maryland without requisition. Members of the Metropolitan police force are prohibited from crossing the Maryland State line to make liquor ar- rests, United States ' Commissioner Needham C. Turnage ruled this morn- ing in an opinion that was construed as opening the way to prosecution of four members of the local department who were charged with assault with a dangerous weapon by two men they took in a dry case several days ago. ‘The ruling was handed down in the case of Stephen Johnson and Ralph Harbaugh, picked up on September 24 on Good Hope Hill, just beyond the District Line, when their automobile was disabled by losing a wheel. The arresting_officers, Joseph P. Comiskey, Le Roy Batchelor, J. W. Connors and E. W. Gore, reported finding 480 quarts of liquor in the car. ‘Turnage also ruled that the search made of their automobile was illegal and that the liquor said to have been taken from the car was not admissable in evidence. The charges of transport- ing and possession of liquor placed against the men were, therefore, dis- missed. When the men were brought before Turnage, charged with {llegal trans- portation and possession of liquor, their attorney, E. Russell Kelly, moved that both charges be dismissed because the arrest and selzure was illegal. This raised the question of whether those members of the Metropolitan Police, who do not posses the power of revenue agents, have the right to enforce Fed- 'h Turn- age has been studying ever since. Some few local officials have this dual au- of ce Thomas S. Griffis of District B¢ e | Seights, - Mdo ‘Was - charging the four po- licemen with assault with a dangerous weapon. The warrants were forwarded to the local police by Deputy Sheriff A. W. Hepburn of Prince Georges Coun- ty. They were not served, however, pending the decision of Commissioner Turnage. Now, the warrant may be served and the men forced to make bond heve pending a requisition hearing, or they can waive extradition and go into Maryland for arraignment. It is “We will put into the records the facts | expected extradition will be demanded. Opinion Covers Seven Pages. Turnage’s opinion which covers seven typewritten pages and on which he has been working for nearly two weeks, goes into the propositions of arrest and searches at great length and in it he lays down the hard and fast ruling that a policeman is without official power beyond the boundaries of the district in which he is appointed. He said: “It is also regarded as settled law that a policeman, as a conservator of the peace, is without official power to apprehend offenders beyond the bound- aries of the county or district--for which he h2s been appointed. When such an officer attempts to make an arrest beyond his jurisdiction without a warrant he is considered in law as having only such authority as a private person would have in apprehending criminals. “Therefore, and for these reasons, it must be concluded that as police offi- cers these policemen were without offi- cial power to arrest, search or seize in the State of Maryland. When they undertoek fo perform these acts in the State of Maryland their authority and right was limited to that of any other private person. All Persons Bound, “This involves the further inquiry as to the legality of the arrest and search by these officers who were in contempla- tion of law acting as private persons. The rule of the common law is that every person, whether an officer or not, who is present at the commission of a felony, is bound by law to arrest the felon, on pain of fine and imprisonment. The authority of a private person to ar- rest at common law and at the present time was and is much more confined than that of officers. “The violation charged against these defendants is a misdemeanor and in the case of a misdemeanor, a private person could only arrest when the misdemeanor was committed in his presence and in- volved a hreach of the peace. If these officers whose official character had ter- minated at the District line, made the search in question as an incident to an unlawful arrest, such search would like~ wise be unlawful.” ““Therefore, it must be held that these officers, acting as private persons, ‘were without lawful right to arrest in Mary- land, and without right to make the search and seize the automobile and liquor.” ‘Turnage further points out that the officers believed they had the legal right to act for the Federal Government in the enforcement of the national prohi- bition act, but in fact became the com- plainants in the case. Of this he says: “In the matter now under consideration, it must be con- cluded that these police officers in making the search in Maryland were " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Enlarged | Rotogravure | Section The Rotogravure Section of " Tomorrow’s Star will contain 14 pages. Order your copy of The Sun- to the floor of the United States Con= gress and make a record there for voters to read, 3 day Star from your newsdealer i| todaz. o N H v SMmT sirs pROMIBITON ¢ wor, 7HE 55U 7 Zpe PRESENTZ = <4A/PA/56// 7t —_— > 7S ot A or Eresd N NVA v GO = N \ lad ! S > =2, DRLCNATS Z, £, s v D, T SVITH SOBRIETY CHARGE STIRS ROW Minister Alleged to Have Made Accusation From Public Rostrum. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., October 6.—A charge involving the sobriety of Gov. Smith and alleged to have been made last Au- gust in Indiana by the Rev. Manning E. Van Nostrand, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church of this city, wasa sub- Jject of controversy today between Ed- ward G. Griffin, counsel to the Demo- cratic presidential nominee, and the Al- bany minister. In a statement issued from the execu- tive chamber at the State Capitol, Mr. Griffin sald a communication had been received there some time ago saying that Rev. Mr. Van Nostrand had made a statement at a Bible conference in Winona Lake, Winona, Ind.,, that Gov. ith *‘was so intoxicated when he was to talk over the radio imme. diately after he was nominated at Hous- ton that two men had to hold him up.” Immediately upon receipt of this com- munication, Mr. Griffin said, the min- ister visited the executive offices, at the overnor's request, and was asked, in &u presence of the governor himself and George B. Graves, the governor's secretary, after the letter had been read to him, the direct question. “Did you ,make any such statement about ever me?” Minister Denies Statement. Mr. Griffin said the minister then asked the governor whether the writer of the letter said that he (the minister) had made the statement “directly to the writer,” whereupon the letter again was read and the question repeated. “I never said Jt," the lRélv, Van Nos- trand was quoted as replying. Since thqat conference, Mr. Griffin said, an affidavit, signed by Mrs. A. J. Wickard and sworn to September 17 last, had been received here, in which the signer deposed that on August 23, while in attendance at a Bible class at Winona Lake, she heard “one Mr. Van Nosterland (affidavit spelling) suppos- edly from ‘Albany, N. ¥.,” make a state- ment substantially as quoted by Mr. Griffin from the communication he re- celved, and that the minister also said that “the governor on another occasion, in the railroad station where Mr. Smith was preparing to board a train was under the influence of liquor and was passing it around to men and ladies in his party.” Made on Public Rostrum. Mr. Griffin's statement added that Mrs. Wickard “further says that these statements were made on a public ros- trum or platform at Winona Lake, evi- dently with the intent of belittling the character and personality of said Alfred 3 ith.” 3 S&‘ Mr. Van Nostrand, who has been a pastor in Albany for 10 years, gave his sideeof the controversy soon after he heard of Mr. Griffin's statement, He sald he had not made the charge that the governor was “intoxicated” the Sun- day after his nomination, but added that at the time he was questioned about the incident in the executive chamber the governor “did not ask me if 1 had made any similar statement, or if I had made any other statement con- cerning him to the effect that he had been intoxicated or that he drank.” ‘When asked specific questions in In- diana concerning the nominee, the min- ister said he did make the statement “that I had been informed that upon one occasion when Gov. Smith had broadcast he was so intoxicated that he had to be supported by two persons.” Says Governor Drank. “I also made the statement in In- diana,” the minister added, “that I had been informed that on the Sun- day following his nomination ths giv- ernor went to New York and that when he was in the Albany station he had been drinking. I also made the state- ment that in my opinion 1f any one asked the governor the direct question as to whether or not during his oc- cupancy of that high office he had used intoxicating liquors or had been a drink- ing man that the governor would ad- mit that he had done so.” The minister said he further stated in Indiana that he had “never read or heard any denial by the governor him- self that he was a drinking man; but the only denials I had heard of were made by others, and I did not believe the governor would deny it if he were asked the direct question.” LARRY SEMON DIES. Famous Motion Picture Comedian Succumbs in Sanitarium. VICTORVILLE, Calif., October 6 () —Larry Semon, famous motion pic- ture comedian, died last night at a sanitarium near Victorville, said a report reaching here tod: . Radio Proggms-,l’age 10 PLANS LANGUAGE LAW. | Turkey Reported About to Prohibit Use of Alien Speech. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 6 (#).— The newspaper Djimhurriet, semi-offi- cial organ of the People's Party, today published a long-whispered rumor that the Turkish Parliament intends to pass a law soon prohibiting the use of any language other than Turkish through- ‘out Turkish territory. Imprisonment would be provided for offenses. FSLAPEDLUNATI CAUGHT I NEWAR Robert Evans, Who Fled From St. Elizabeth’s, Held for Burglary. Sought since August 3, when he escaped from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, where he was sent as a result of an at- {tempt to shoot -several personsin " Jewelry store hold-up here in January, Robert Evans, 24 years old, of New York City, is held in Newark, N. J,, on three burglary charges, local police were advised today. At the time of Evans’ escape all po- lice precincts were advised to be care- ful of him since “he is a dangerous man and may be armed.” Despite a city-wide search by police and hospital guards, Evans eluded apprehension here and has been at large until his arrest in Newark. On January 9 of this year Evans walked into the jewelry store of Samuel Mitchell, 711 Ninth street, broke open a show case and stole jewelry valued at $3,280. As he started from the store he fired one shot at Lawrence J. Shel- ton, a clerk, and another at Edmund Thomas, 148 F street northeast, who at- tempted to stop him. Neither shot took effect. There followed a chase that led to Eleventh and F streets, where Evans fired a shot at Edward Dailey, 1040 Bladensburg road. one of his pursuers, the shot breaking a window in the store of W. B. Moses & Sons. He then ran through a department store and was pursued by Policeman Roy Bridges of the Traffic Bureau, as he jumped into an automobile and forced the driver to speed away with him. Bridges com- mandeered another car and caught up with Evans at Ninth and E streets. There Evans made a last effort ta shoot Bridges, but his pistol jammed and he was_arrested. When taken to trial Evans was de~ clared to be of unsound mind and com- mitted to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, from which he escaped. Hospital authorities today told police that they have no funds with which to send for Evans, but will accept bim if he is returned here by. the New Jersey authorities. Otherwise, they said, they are willing to have him tried in New Jersey. BENJAMIN STRONG TO UNDERGO KNIFE Governor of Federal Reserve Bank, Il Several Years, to Be Operated Upon. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 6.—Benjamin Strong, governor of the New York Fed- eral Reserve Bank, is to undergo an operation for an’intestinal disturbagce, it was announced today. Mr, Strong, who has periodically suf- fered from ill health for several years, was taken to the New York Hospital Thursday evening. St. Louis to Assemble Every Resource Tomorrow, With Odds Against Team. By the Associated Press. EN ROUTE WITH THE CARDINALS TO ST. LOUIS, Octoberf 6.—Drooping under the weight of two Yahkee de- feats, the Red Birds are heading home today to save what they may from the world series of 1928. With the championship even now almost beyond their reach, the down- cast champlons of the National League are reassembling the bits of wreckage to build . up whatever defense they can against the Yankee invasion of St. Louis tomorrow, Slump In Hitting. ‘The selection of a pitcher to stop the American League champions with some e i han how the Red Birds themselves ht score a few. After giving George Pipgras two bad in- nings yesterday before the deluge de- scended upon Old Alex, the Cardinals lapsed back into the form they had shown against Hoyt on the previous aft- ernoon. Nothing plunges ball yers into the lower depths more easily than a sud- den cessation of the attack. The Cardi- nals today were a morose, taciturn band—altogether unlike the cocky crew which rushed to the Western front two years_ago as the battle shifted from New York. Bill McKechnie voiced no hopes, no fears. He pointed out the obvious axiom that it is hard to win ball games without hits—particularly . when a set of suspected cripples becomes obstreperous with one’s own hurlers. Haines to Pitch Tomorrow. McKechnie said Jess Haines, the big side-wheeler, would fling 'em at the Yankees tomorrow. All of the Cardi- nals believe the strapping right-hander can hold the Yanks. They spent their time wondering whether it would be Hoyt or Zachary for New York. The Red Bird family is in excellent condition except for the inevitable brooding over two straight defeats in New York. That state may be thrown off by the tonic of a home crowd whooping it up in Sportsman’s Park to- MOrrow. Officials of the National League, the National umpires, St. Louis newspaper men and St. Louis club executives ac- companied the players. John A. Heyd- ler, president of the National League, was prevented at the last moment from joining the unhappy caravan, He was called to another train to attend a meeting with Judge Landis, E. S. Bar- nard and Michael Sexton. DOUBTS PRISONER’S STORY OF MURDER Peake Believes Panzram, Morose, May Be Seeking Execution. Maj. ‘That Carl Panzram, a prisoner at the District jail, who yester told police that he had murdered two boys, was seeking execution as a y out of a world which has held nothing for him but jails, penitentiaries and reforma- tories was one of the theories advanced today by Maj. William L. Peak, the jail superintendent, who is inclined to doubt the accuracy of the “confession.” Since his incarceration, Maj. Peak revealed today, Panzram has been “mean” and morose, refusing any effort at kindness on the part of attendants, and at one time making an effort to escape. He was caught by J. T. Acton, a guard. Pronounced dead Wednesday night by a colored .doctor, and found alive iater in_the evening by the undertaker, Emma Payne, colored, 17-year-old wife of John F. Payne of 1956 Second street, is conceded a chance of recovery-at Freedman’s Hospital. The husband thought his wife deas until the next morning. Her condition was so precarious that it was thought best not to raise his hopes without cause. Payne, 18 years old, is employed as janitor at the Columbia exchange of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., 1420 Columbia road. He said that his wife’s illness dated from last May, when a child was born and died four days later from pneu- monia. t Wednesday she became Fuch worse and that evening she ap- ' breathe Woman Pronounced Dead but Found Alive By Undertaker Has Chance to Recover parently died. Dr. C. A. Tignor, who was in attendance, pronounced her dead. Payne's mother, with whom he lives, summoned John T. Rhines, undertaker, to take the body and arrange for the funeral. Rhines’ assistant, Kenneth Blackburn, colored, responded with the hearse and while he was stooping over the bed upon which the woman lay, preparatory to placing her on a stretch- he heard a faint sigh. He looked again and the sigh was repeated. Dr. Tignor was still in the house and was called to the room and found that the woman was still living. ‘Thursday morning she was taken to Freedman’s Hospitel in the hospital ambulance. There oxygen was admin- istered contiquously until Friday eve- ning, when ghe was strong enough to CAROS GNEHONE FAECRUCLTEST N SOUTH AT 3P Protest of Woman Fails to Stop Body Electing Husband Upsets Convention by Voicing Fear of Com- panionate Marriage. By the Assoclated Press. DALLAS, Tex., October 6.—Complain- ing that her life would be “nothing but companionate marriage” should her husband be elected president of the American National Retail Jewelers’ As- sociation, Mrs. William G. Frazier Dur- ham, N. C., appeared before the or- Ranization’s annual convention in a verbal protest here yesterday. ‘The nominating committee already had placed its selections before the convention, however, and the delegates had ratified this list when Mrs. Frazier was recognized on the floor. Her hus- band was named president. “I won't have it. They can't elect Mr. Frazier as president,” she said. “He will be away from home sp much that our life will be nothing but a com- panionate marriage.” Mr. Frazier countered with, “I have been the breadwinner of my family for 25 years, and I think I will continue in_that capacity.” Mrs. Frazier, greatly upset, was per- suaded to go to her hotel room, and the excitement subsided. Other officers chosen were: Charles ‘T. Evans, Buffalo, N. Y., secretary; A. W. Anderson, Neenah, Wis., treasurer; 1. J. C. Holland, San Angelo; Edwin F. Lilley, Milford, Mass.; H. G. Matthew, Asheville, N. C.; T. L. Combs. Omaha, Neb.; Albert B. Jones, Seattle, Wash., and Henry Willlams, South Haven, Mich., regional vice presidents. HOOVER T0 SPEAK Nominee to Deliver Fourth Major Address of Campaign at Elizabethton Today. By the Associated Press. HOOVER TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO ELIZABETHTON, Tenn., October 6.— Herbert Hoover is in the Southland to- day to make his fourth major address of the campaign—a personal appeal to the voters of Democratic Dixie to sup- port him as the Republican presidential candidate. Speaking at Elizabethton, in the heart of traditionally Republican territory, & radio hookup was arranged to carry Hoover's message out beyond the east- ern Tennessee mountains into the old States of the Confederacy, which have been Democratic strongholds since the days of reconstruction. To Speak at 3 PM. A high mountain formed a back for the scene of the nominee’s fourth major address of the campaign, delivered from a platform facing a roil- ing meadow and a great crowd from Virginia and North Carolina, as well as Tennessee. His address was scheduled to be started at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard time and to be carried by radio into the East and Middle West as well as into the South. After his speech at Elizabethton, Hoover's program called for a second address at the Soldiers' Home at John- son City, Tenn., and dinner as the guest of the Chamber of Commerce before : g the return trip to Washing- on. Before leaving Washington last night, the Republican staridard bearer approv- ed a much shortened schedule for his trip to Boston, week after next, for the delivery of the fifth prepared address since his nomination. There will be no prolonged stop in Connecticut, either going to or returning from Boston. Bay State Campaign. Leaving Washington a week from to- morrow, Hoover will proceed into the Bay State direct with his train stopping at Springfield and Worcester for rear platform appearances. At Newtonville, the nominee and his party will detrain for’an automobile trip into the city, where they will be welcomed by the mayor. After delivering his speech at Mechanics’ Hall, on Monday night, Oc- tober 15, the nominee will start back for Washington, arriving there Tuesday. In setting out last night from his headquarters for Tennessee, Hoover passed part way down the Valley of Virginia over a route which he so often followed only a little more than a year ago, as he went into the South as Sec- retary of Commerce and personal repre- sentative of President Coolidge on his mission of relief for the Mississippi | flood sufferers. The route was to be followed only as far as Bristol, Va., where the first stop, other than those for train operating purposes, was scheduled, with the nom- inee making a brief address to the crowd at the station. There, Repub- | lican leaders of Virginia, including State Chairman R. H. Angel, and J. C. Schaf- fer, Republican candidates for the House of Representatives from the ninth district, were invited to join the party. With a detour at Bristol, the route of the special train was directly to the south to the little town of Childers, where the program called for Hoover and his party to detrain and enter Elizabethton by automobile. After passing through the principal streets, | a luncheon with the Chamber of Com- merce as the host and then rest before going to the Natural Amphitheater for | the speech. H Climax to Historical Celebration. Hoover's visit to Elizabethton fur- nished the climax to a historical and industrial celebration there in com- memoration of the Revolutionary battle of Kings Mountain, and for the pur- pose of dedicating a new silk mill. Representative’ J. Will Taylor of La Follette, Tenn., Republican national committeeman for the State, was called upon to preside at the political meet- ing and to present former Gov. Alfred A. Taylor, now 80 years old, and liv- ing in retirement in Happy Valley, with the latter welcoming Mr. Hoover on behalf of the State and introducing him to the audience. After the speaking—and Hoover ex- pects to make his address in 45 minutes —the nominee and his party planned to view a pageant and rest at the hotel until 5:15 pm., the time set for be- ginning _the journey to Johnson City via Bluff City, a detour being necessary as it Is desired to handle the heavy train on the main line of the South- ern Railway. Upon the completion of his talk to the veterans in a hall which has a ca- pacity of about 3,000 Hoover will be met by a delegation of the chairmen of Republican service men’s clubs, in the surrounding countles of Tennessee and aeighboring States, G P R UNFIEDEUROPEAIN OF FRANCE HELD AS NO ENMITY T0 .S Program of Poincare for Peace and Prosperity at Home Held Sound. EXPLANATION DEFERRED FOR POLITICAL REASONS Writer Sees French Silence as Un- willingness to Enter Presi- dential Campaign. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicazo Daily News. Copyright, 1628. PARIS, October 6.—This correspond- |ent is authorized by the best possible | authority to make certain statements |to to the American people regarding | France's position in the various recent | negotiations which have been giving |rise to sensational reports. Despite numerous requests, some al- most official in _character, both Premier | Poincare and Foreign Minister Briand have decided to refrain for the present from granting interviews or writing ar- { ticles for the American public. Other- wise M. Poincare might have been able to dispel before now the misunder- | standings which seem to have arisen re= i;ardmg France’s aims and motives. Attitude Is Explained. The reason for this attitude on the rt of the French premier and foreign ister is a disinclination to say or do anything which might be used in |any way as campaign material by | cither the Republicans or the Demo=- crats in the American presidential ! election. | " But important events continue to oc- tcur in other parts of the world, even | while our people are engaged in chossing a new chief magistrate. Some of these events, notably the Franco-British naval | compromise, the Franco-British political entente and the new reparations ne- gotlations with Germany, directly or in- directly concern the United States. All have provoked many interpretations or | giisinterpretations. Ttaly and Germany seem alarmed, Russia is alert and the | Unit #. States 1s anxious. Important international conversations on both disarmament and reparations have begun and will continue. On whether or not they succeed will de- pend whether the last political vestiges of war and the war spirit can be obliterated in the next few months. “Nothing,” said Premier Poincare in a recent speech, “would be so dangerous for the success of the work thus under- taken as a collaboration embittered hy bad humor or chilled by skepticism.” France’s Program Given. ‘This correspondent is therefore privi- lexe"dm to present, wt'fl:gt directl\; quoting any onc, some of aspects o tha French viewpoint. . What France wants to do, the writer is categorically informed, is to help res construct a unified and peaceful Eus rope in which all peoples will be con- tented and prosperous. She has, there- fore, been trying in the last few years to settle by frequent and repeated ne- gotiations her differences with Ger- many, Italy, Great Britain and even Russia. But at no time has France ever dreamed of collaborating thus in a uniformed Europe which would either during or after reconstruction be in any way inimical to the United States. Nothing that France does, either re- garding disarmament or reparations, Will be undertaken against the United States even in the slightest degree, or without continuous negotiation with and hope of agreement with the United States. Indeed, the United States s almost the only great power with which France has never in her history had really serious difficulties. Now Closer to Britain. But with Great Britain since the World War, France has had many difficulties. Many people have felt that a large part of Europe's slowness in re- construction was due to Franco-British antagonisms which were manifested on numerous occasions. France, therefore, has been greatly desirous of reach- ing a better understanding with Great Britain. Thanks to the constant efforts ten Chamberlain, M. Bri- d on Page 2, Column 6.) $200,000 GEM THEFT MYSTIFIES POLICE Fail to Unearth Clues in Reported Kidnaping of Diamond Merchant. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 6.—The report of Murray A. l@ng, New York diamond merchant, that he had been kidnaped on a downtowfi street here, carried away in an automobile, robbed of $200,000 in gems and then left tied to a tree in a park mystified the San Francisco police today. Nearly 24 hours of work, detectives said, had failed to unearth any clew as to the identity of the men mentioned by Lang. Lang said he had been une able to get a good look at his captors because they had thrust a pair of glasses with dark lenses over his eyes and ordered him to keep his head down to avoid recognition by passersby. Lang. son of Samuel Lenkowsky, head of S. Lenkowsky & Sons, New York jeweclers and diamond merchants, said the jewels were insured for about $150,000. Although the kidnaping was reported as having taken place on one of the busiest downtown corners, police said they had been unable to find any wit- nesses to the occurrence. Police learned of the affair when city employes found l:';;nz tied to a tree with a telephone re. MEDIATION ON NAVAL PACT HELD UNLIKELY Okada Says It Is “Highly Improb- able” Japan Will Act on Anglo- French Compromise. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, October 6.—Admiral minister of marine, said in an mggl% today that it was “highly improbable” that Japan would attempt to mediate with America on the Anglo-French n:}'t-l compr:z‘l:f. He added: regre! e that the outlook aaval'feduction {5 uob hopelih” ‘?