Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1928, Page 16

| party which, he argues, support *\ late for his speech, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER o e L A close one in the second battle of the world series. Bengough, Yankee catcher, trying to score from second on Paschal’s single in the third, almost slides under the waiting ball in Wilson’s hands. to cut off the run, but the Yankees scored called out. It took a sharp rela enough as it was. y from Douthit to Frisch He was —Wide World Photos. President and Mrs. Coolidge taking in the Military Exposition and Carnival yesterday at Washington Barracks. One of the guests on their stand was Barbara Kent, motion picture actress, on the left of the President, who presented Mrs. Coolidge with the flowers which she wears. Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis at right. OLD ANTFHOOVER ATTAGKS DUG UP Robinson Goes Into Records of Past to Revivify G. 0. P. Leaders’ Views. By the Associated Press. CLOVIS, N. Mex., October 6.—Utter- ances on Herbert Hoover by Republican leaders in days gone by have been dug out of dust-covered files by Senator Joe Robinson for use in his campaign in the Southwest. During his three-day drive through Oklahoma, his swing through the pan- handle of Texas and his opening speech in this State last night, the Democratic vice presidential nominee has brought into play many quotations from those high in the councils of the Republican is con- tention that the reign of Republicanism in Washington should be ended. Mr. Robinson, who today moves on to Roswell for a second address in New Mexico, has dug out of the Congres- sional Record a statement by Senator Borah of Idaho, now campaigning for Hoover, that the Republican presidential nominee while serving as food adminis- trator under Woodrow Wilson had per- mitted three vast monopolies which con- trol food in this country with relation to their commodities to fix their own prices. Another Borah Quotation. Further, he quotes the Idahoan as| saying at another time that Mr. Hoover, | “who violated the most fundamental principles of the Constitution of this country, will not have very much regard for a statute in Europe.”, The Democratic candidate also de- clares that Representative Wood of In- diana, chairman of the Republican con- gressional campaign committee, in re- ferring to Hoover’s work as administra- tor, once said, “I deny that we have an American at the head of this distribu- tion committee.” Further Robinson deolares that Sena- tor Simeon Fess of Ohio, who sounded the keynote at the Republican national convention at Kansas City, was quoted in the press on February 4, 1928, as ha | ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., October 6 (Spe- cial).—Five colored persons were taken into custody by local police yesterday and last night in three prohibition raids. Edward Lucas, 38, colored, was fined $70.50 in Police Court by Judge Wil- liam 8. Snow following his arrest at his home by Detective Sergt. Edgar Sims, Police Sergt. Charles McClary and Motor Cycle Policeman Ronald Mullen. A portion of a quart of liquor was found in the home. The same raiding party arrested Clarence Murray, 26, and Elizabeth Fleming, 25, both colored, in a house on North Pitt street, where nine half-gallons of alleged liquor were found concealed in a trap. They will be given a hearing in Police Court Mon- day morning. Police Sergt. Ernest Suthard and Desk Officer L. E. Brown raided 719 Wilkes street last night and found 10 half-gallon jars of alleged liquor be- neath the flooring of the second story. John Sledge, 24, and Margaret Fair, 17, both colored, will be arraigned next Saturday, having been granted a con- tinuance by Judge Snow today. James J. Smith, 22 of Fort Humph- reys; Raymond Haynes, 38; William Robinson, 37, and Walter Bryant, 34, the latter colored, were each fined $14 for drunkenness in_Police Court this morning. Theodore Roberts, 22, colored, forfeited $5 on a charge of violating a traffic law. Campbell on Vacation. Police Capt. W. W. Campbell will leave today for a_ week’'s vacation at Charlottesville and Barbourville, Va. Po- lice Sergt. Heber Thompson will be in command of the local force in his ab- sence. Fire of undetermined origin damaged four frame dwellings at 409, 411, 413 and 415 South Alfred street Thursday { night. The buildings are owned by Judge | William P. Woolls. The damage Is| placed at $1,000. Rev. Dennis Whittle, who has recent- 1y been named rector of an Episcopal Church at Covington, Va., after five years’ service at Luray, will preach to- morrow morning in St. Paul's Episcopal Church here. He was rector of the| Chapel of the Good Shepherd while a student at the Episcopal Theological Seminary. The Laymen’s Association of the four | Episcopal churc] of this city and | | Braddock will co-operate with those | in charge of the open-air service to- morrow, at 4 p.m., in the National Cathedral, in Washington. Teachers |and children of the various Sunday | schools of those churches will be trans- | ported fo the ceremony by buses. Home After Operation. ing said that Hoover “must be great embarrassed in seeking nomination at the head of a party he conspired to de- feat in 1918." Finds Groups of Arkansas Friends, During his swing {hrough the South- west Mr. Robinson has found in many cities groups of former Arkansas citi- zens who are out working for “Joe T." as he is known in his home State. At Amarillo yesterday the Senator said, “The further I get from home, the more people I find from Arkansas. The only thing that puzzles me,” he added with a smile, “is why they left Arkan In all of his speeches in the South- west the Senator is opening up on thosz @pposed to Gov. Smith because of his membership in the Catholic - Church, contending that opposition on this ground cannot be justified either by the Constitution or by reason. Mr. Robinson reached Clovis last night on a special train from Amarillo, after Santa Fe Railroad officials found that a boiler explosion on the engine of the train to whi~h his cars were to have been attachsd would delay that train and thereby make the Senator - Charles H. Stewart, former motor cycle policeman of the local force, has | returned to his home here after being | confined to Emergency Hospital, at | Washington, three weeks, following an | operation for spinal injuries received | in February, 1927. Stewart has been | unable to walk correctly since he was | knocked from his motor cycle by an | automobile. The northern Virginia degree team, which wil confer degree work at the annual meeting of the Northern Vir- ginia Odd Fellows’ Association at Myr- tle Lodge, No. 50, in Fredericksburg October 18, held a rehearsal last night in Odd Fellows' Temple. Alexandria Canton, No. 1, Patriarchs | Militant, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, paid a surprise visitation to Sarepta Lodge, No. 46, Thursday night to arouse interest in the annual meet- ing of the association. Other such visits throughout northern Virginia are planned by Canton, No. 1. James P. Fletcher and wife, Grace H. Metcher, have sold lot 4, block 37, Weolf's resubdivision of lots 1 to 8, in- clusive, in South Braddock Heights, to 'H. E. Gentry, .—Associated Press Photo. The flowers had some sharp competition at the National Capital dahlia show, opening yesterday at the Mayflower Hotel. Miss Josephing A’Hearn (left) and Mrs. John Holbrook are exhibiting this basket of blooms. —=Star Staff Photo. One of the first photos of the Rockford-to-Greenland flyers to arrive in this country since their thrilling rescue after being forced down in Greenland. rescuers, Prof. Hobbs, Stuart and Etes, on arrival in Copenhagen. Left to right: Bert Hassell and Parker Hobbs, leader of the relief party; Etes and Cramer, Cramer are shown with their Hassell, Stuart, Prof. —Wide World Photos. Horse play at the Military Carnival. An equestrian feat of streamline effect is put on by the catch-as- catch-can riders of the Fort Myer 3d Cavalry. Spectators who thought they had seen every kind of stunt riding on the books admitted that this tail flight of the hindmost riders was a new one.—Star Staff Photo. ‘When the big gun went off at the Aberdeen Proving Ground ordnance show. Spectators who failed to stuff their fingers in their ears when this 16-inch coast defense gun was fired had a queer sensation in their druyms for some time after. distance of more than 25 miles into Chesapeake Bay. The giant gun hu rled a 2,000-pound projectile & —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. {RESCIND INVITATION TO MRS. WILLEBRANDT St. Paul Women Take Action Against Speech Date Because of Recent Criticisms. By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, October 6.—The board of directors of the St. Paul Busi- | ness and Professional Women's Associ- ation voted last night to rescind its in- vitation to Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, Assistant United States Attor- ney General, to speak in St. Paul. Mrs. Olivia Johnson, president of the association, said the invitation was rescinded because of widespread op- position among members of the associ- ation to sponsoring Mrs. Willebrandt's visit here. The invitation, she explained, had been sent before Mrs. Willebrandt had figured so conspicuously recently in the public press because of her political ac- tivities. “When these activities aroused such resentment among our membership,” she sald, “we decided to reconsider the matter.” SHOT IN HOLD-UP. Man Seeks Diamond Ring From Jeweler’s Finger—Gets Bullet. MONTREAL, October 6 (#).—A man who gave his name as John M. Steward, 28, of Chicago, was in the Western Hospital today, under police guard, charged with the attempted hold-up of a jewelry shop. Steward was shot and seriously wounded by J. Shapira, owner of the store, who grappled with his assailant when the latter attempted to pull a dia- mond ring from his finger. The robber had aready taken $95 %.P the tilL Mrs. Smith Would Be Ideal First Lady, M!‘S. Rosamond . By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 6.—Mrs. Rosa- mond Pinchot Gaston, society girl who played the role of the nun in the play, “The Miracle,” believes Mrs. Alfred E. Smith would make an ideal first lady of the land. “During the whole of this campaign there has been a great deal of what I think is shameful propaganda directed against Mrs. Smith,” she told members of the Junior Democratic League at a tea at Democratic national headquar- ters yesterday. “It must be admitted that this unsportsmanlike attack has been largely carried on by women. I, therefore, think it is largely up to women to fight it.” “Any one who has actually seen Mrs. Smith and, better still, has had » chance to talk with her would realiz: as I did immediately how preposterous Pinchot Gaston Says it is to attack her on social grounds.” Mrs. Gaston, who recently was a guest at the governor's mansion at Albany, said she found Mrs, Smith “the sort of a woman that one thinks of as | a mother and at the head of a peaceful | home. I am sure that she is responsible for the cheerful, contented look that has given her hushand the title of ‘The Happy Warrior." “T have lived abroad a good deal and I know what are the qualities in us Europeans admire most. They are the American simple unaffectedness, the naturalness, the friendliness, the open- heartedness, which are comparatively rare in European women. Mrs. Smith has these qualities to am outstandirg degree.” Mrs. Gaston characterized Mrs. Smith as_“distinctly pretty” and “very sweet.” Mrs. Gaston is a niece of former Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania. OIL EXPLOSIONS DESTROY FOUR STEEL PLANT MILLS Flames Sweep Carpenter Works in Reading, Pa., Doing $200,- 000 Damage. By the Associated Press. READING, Pa.,, October 6.—Oil ex- plosions involving three big tanks at the Carpenter Steel Works, in North Read- ing, eary today caused fires which de- stroyed the four mills in the wire sec- tion of the establishment, damaged the annealing plant and caused much loss in other parts of the great plant. The loss, according to Joseph S. Pen- dleton, treasurer and secretary, will be several '}:undred thousand dollars, A section of the plant two city blocks 4n extent was swept by flames, KISTLER SAYS SMITH WILL WIN PENNSYLVANIA Political Situation in State Is Without Precedent. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 6.—Sed; wick Kistler, Democratic national co: mitteeman from Pennsylvania, in a| statement last night declared that the | “tide of public sentiment has now definitely set in favor of Gay. Smith.” “Political conditions in Pennsylvania steadily grow more promising that Gov. Smith will carry the State in Novem- ber,” he said. “It may look like a big order for Gov. Smith to carry Pennsylvania, but every- body knows or ought to know there is a | political condition in Pennsylvania this year that has no ‘eccdenl." Declares BORAH STARTS TOUR OF SOUTH AND EAST Will Urge Merits of Prohibition, Senator Says—Plans Tariff Talks in North Carolina. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 6.—Senator Wil- liam E. Borah left Chicago last night to urge the merits of prohibition in the South and East. “I'm going to talk for prohibitiof,” he. said. “I've been talking it every- where I've been—even Detroit, though some persons didn't think it was wise there. But the applause I received demonstrated the popularity of pro- hibition.” . In North Carolina, however, Senator Borah plans to discuss benefits of Re- publican tariff as well as the Volstead act. In West Virginia and Texas he will discuss Hoover's farm relief pro- gram. Senator Borah spent yesterday here following speeches in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Huge Hoover Sign Erected. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., October 6.—An electric sign 20 feet high, with incandes- cent bulbs spelling the name “Hoove in letters two feet high, has been erect- | R. ed on the property of the Arlington County Social Club, at Clements avenue and Wison boulevard, Ballston, by the Ballston anti-Smith Democrats of that place. The sign was illuminated for the first time Thursday night. Ordered to Bolling Field. First Lieut. David W. Goodrich, Army Air Corps, stationed in Hawaii, has been ordered to this city for duty at Bolling Field. 2 L Do You Know How to VOTE BY MAIL?| | CURTIS 1S FAGING | Washinstonians who hope to vote | | doubtful concerning the laws of their | | home States on the subject, may re- | | celve the mecessary information by directing inquiries to The Evening Star, as follows: Voting Information, care News Depa Evening Star. The auestions answers will be Dublished each day. Q. I have been a resident and have paid property and poll taxes in Vir- ginia. My 1925 taxes were paid Novem- ber 9, 1925; my 1926 taxes were paid May 19, 1927; my 1927 taxes were paid June 8, 1928. Am I eligible to vote in the coming election?—L. M. N. A. The Virginia law requires that all State poll taxes assessed or assessable against one for the three years next pre- ceding election must have been paid at least six months prior to the election. The election is on November 6 and, in order to have complied with this pro- vision of the law, your 1927 taxes must have been paid not later than May 6. ‘While the date of payment seems to be June 8, whether or not the registrar in your precinet will enforce this provision to the day remains to be determined. If you have registered and voted previous- iy you are otherwise eligible to vote on November 6. If not registered, the last day to be registered is-October 6. Q. Will you kindly state how voters who vote by mail may get information as to the dryness or wetness of the dif- ferent candidates running for offices in the different States?—J. A. A. Communicate with the Anti-Saloon League of America, Bliss Building: or the Association Against Prohibition Amendment, Information Department, National Press Building. Q. I wish to know whether or not my mother is entitled to vote. She makes her home with my sister and myself, who are in the Government service. If our Government service was to term- inate we should go back to Minnesota and she would go with us, as we regard that State as our home.—F. R. A. As a member of your household your mother, undoubtedly, is entitled ‘o register and vote in Minnesota. Q. I left the State of Washington in June to enter the Federal service here. I registered and voted at the election in 1926. Can I vote by mail, and if so, what must I do?>—H. M. J. A. The Washington law requires reg- istration in incorporated cities and towns biennially: ~elsewhere in the State, quadrennially. Registration must be made in person. October 17th is the last date, so that it would seem that unless your name has inadvertently been left on the register you would be required to return to your State to reg- | ister. After registration one may vote by mail by procuring from the registra- tion officer in his home precinct not more than 20 days before election a certificate of registration, mailing same | to the county auditor with affidavit ap- plication on prescribed form, which will be furnished by the county auditor, who will return the official ballot with full instructions. Q. Is it possible to vote by mail in Wyoming? If so, what are the require- mensts for a Government employe?—W. A. For the purpose of voting, a Gov- ernment employe does not suffer loss of residence while in the service of the United States. He must be registered in person if he lives in an incorporated city or town in which more than 400 votes were cast the last election. The last day for registration is October 26. To vote by mail, application must be accompanied with the sum of 30 cents and should be made to the county, city or town clerk on a blank form fur- | Full Calendar of Speeches Scheduled for Final Month of Campaign. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 6—Facing al- most a full calendar for the final month of the campaign, Senator Charles Curtis, ! the Republican vice presidential nominee, dug in at his hotel quarters today with the hops of getting a day of rest through privacy. It was late last night when the veteran campaigner returned from an all-day motor tour of northern Indiana and tomorrow he sets out again into the Northwest, spending the week in North Dakota, Minnesota and Wis- consin. Only a tentative luncheon engage- ment at hte Union League Club stood between the Senator and the complete idleness he sought today. The doctor ordered the idinesss and the weary nominee was favorably considering the order. After next week in the Northwest, the Senator will move eastward to join Herbert Hoover in the final drive on that sector which party leaders con- sider the battleground of the campaign. Curtis will open that phase of the cam- paign_at Ralegh, N. C. October 15, and for 10 crys will march up the Atlantic Coast line into New York State and Massachusetts. PEASEAT G. 0. P. CLAIM CITED AS POLITICAL BUNK Gov. Ritchie Criticizes Declaration That Republican Party Is Nat- ural Guardian of Prospertiy. By the Associated Press. HACKENSACK, N. J, October 6— Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland last night described “the Republican party's claim that it is the father and natural guardian of prosperity and that the Democratic party is its natural enemy," tas "shce{ pgll“ca] bunk.” The execu- ive spoke before the Ber Democratic Club. gy g “Whatever prosperity the American people as a whole enjoy at any parti- cular time is not due to any particular political party,” he said, “although to the extent that there is any underlying political cause for it the credit Justly belongs to the Democratic pary for the revision of our banking system, which ;x‘x:lde nx:imcilag panics no longer pos- e, under the Democra aders| otT\goodmw Wilson.” o Fot e speaker hoped the country would be “spared the fate” of the conl;ly;\umce of the Harding-Coolidge policies, for which Herbert Hoover declared him- self. The Harding leadership, Ritchie declared, “led to corruption” and "burgl;lflnflnn of the Nation's ofl re- serves,” while the Coolidge administra- nished by the county clerk for the official ballot o ship tion “has exhibited 4 e ¢ no sl.gm of leader-