Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) ‘ _ Fair, slightly cooler tonight; tomorrow fair; gentle to moderate southwest and west winds. Temperatures: Highest, 79, at noon vesterday; lowest, 63, at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Prefs news service. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Slae, ch WASHINGTON, Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,879 — — No. 5).852. 1928—FIVTY-EIGHT PAGES. = TWO CENTS. Eitered as second class matter post office, Washington, D, C. POSTIASTER LOSES PRESIENT HOLDS POSTIN U, 5 PROBE e e Kerors DROSPERY 5 DU ATTACKING HOOVER e no one may know of it. { Robert Lewis was shot in the leg Assistant in Lansford, Pa., |’ Office Also Suspended After D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, (#) Means Associated Press. SHITH PREPARES. | SPEECH AND TOURS CHIAGDBY AUTO Nominee Silent on Subject of Tonight’s’ Address, Last of Present Trip. PRESIDENT HONORS ECKENER IN ROUND OF HOSPITALITIES Zeppelin Commander Guest at White House Breakfast in Busy Day. Shot While Seeing Talkie, but No One Heard the Report 0 7 \E(Emz.s THEY picture was full of gunfire, and one extra shot more or less passed un- with a bullet in his leg, hob- He Declares. m the theater without the | audience knowing he had been hurt. | st might when a pistol dronped trom | HOFth and South, Reconciled, C. T. Vaughn's pocket. The talking | 5 K Share Industrial Progress, Alleged Obliteration Marks on Envelopes. MEMBER OF CONGRESS SUSPECTED BY OFFICIAL | G. 0. P. Candidate's Affiliation With Quakers Basis of Charges‘ Against Him in Circulars—75,- 000 to 100,000 Believed Dismb-l uted—Inquiry to Continue. | Postmaster General New this pfternoon announced the suspen- sion of the postmaster and assist- ant postmaster of Lansford, Pa., pending an investigation of what he believes to have been a con- spiracy to violate postal regula- tions in the mailing there recently of thousands of alleged “whisper- ing campaign” circulars against | Herbert Hoover. New declared that inspectors of the Post Office Department have reported to him the name of a chauffeur, employed by a Con- gressman, who is said to have de- livered the circulars for mailing. Office N Taken Over. . The suspended employes are Robert | H. Stickler, postmaster, and Mrs. Bessie Burns Stickler, assistant postmaster, and reported to be a sister-in-law of the postmaster. The office has been taken over by a postal inspector from the department here. 3 The postmaster general, in announc- ing the suspensions, told The Star: “I -am perfectly satisfied that there has been not only a violation of the| proprieties, but of law, and that the mailing of these circulars is the result of a conspiracy costing thousands of dollars, Somebody furnished the money. “It couldn't have happened in the way it_did_ without somebody in that post office knowing a good deal more about the facts than any of them have yet been frank enough to admit.” . Reflected on Patriotism. The circulars in question, The Star has learned, cast. aspersions on the patriotism of Hoover because of his membership in_the Quaker Church. They declared Hoover was a member of the “Hicksite Quakers,” who “be- trayed” their country in the Revolu- tionary War. The pamphlets declared, further, it is understood, that Hicksite Quakers drove. their fatted cattle past | th the starving soldiers at Valley Forge and sold the beef to British so\dierg‘ laughing at the plight of Wa.smngtons‘ en. m‘rhe circulars are understood to have | pointed out in effect that Gev. Smith, the Democratic nominee, “is a member | of the Roman Catholic Church, whose young men did not. hide behind the skirts of religion to avoid military serv- ice, but fought for their country on the | battlefields of France.” £ A poster, bearing similar reading mat- ter, recently came to the attention of the Republican national committee, which had photostatic copies made of it. At the time it was understood that the committec was making a private investigation into the origin of the poster, which had been displayed in Pennsylvania. It bore the “s{gna(urc of & “non-partisan committee.” The circulars under investigation by | the Post Office Department are said to have been probed also by the Repub- Jican naiional committee. It is be- Jieved that evidence uncovered by agents of the (‘nn’*mi"(’:’ led to the call- of postal inspectors. m’%t,:npc:rs that the inquiry by the | Republican national committee first de- Veloped the fact that the stamped postmark on the cnvelopes of the mailed circulars was indistinguishable. It was this fact, together with other allegedly suspicious circumstances, that is said to have led the investigators to | call the matter to the attention of Post- | master General New. Penalty Is Dismissal. Officials familiar with postal laws and | yogulations told The Star this afternoon | that paragraph 2 of section 525 of the | s and Regulations appears | 1o be 1e only inhibition against de | liberate mutilation of postmarks. This sion on any mail % bearing any other on which such matter * or the erasure of any postmark or back stam or purpose of fraud or d , or to conceal a delay or dete mail matter or a s ate than that mailed * date of whetl ceptio tion of cial error or delinquen the offender to dismissa ice.” Under egulation the severest meted out to a guilty of oblit- ald be dismissal scretion of the regulation this er ould not be outside the p Action Was Prompt. Mr. New acted promptly this after- noon upon receipt of a detailed report from Postal Inspectors A. E. Furniss E. 5 who conducted an in- ord The report submitted to New by the inspectors declares that an employe of the office admitted that thousands of envelopes containing the circulars were stamped in the Lansford office, in the presence of the postmaster, with a_cork cut into the shape of a four-leaf clover. The Postmaster General declared this was done apparently to conceal the place of mailing of the circulars. Suca an act, he said, is a violation of para- graph 2 of section 525 of the postal laws and regulations, prohibiting eras- ure of the date on postmarks New asserted that the investigaticn would be continued, and expressed the opinion that others might be involyed. According to_the report of the in- gpectors, both Stickler and Mrs. Stick- ler denied knowledze of the alleged im- proper_stamping of the envelopes, and when later confronted with the allezed | confession of another employe in the “ACentinued on Page of | | Hamilton, against any one | HOPE FOR AIRMAN'S SAFETY ABANDONED Only Mrs. MacDonald Clings to Slim Chance That Hushand Lives. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, October 19.—With every hour that passed today without news of Comdr. H. C. MacDonald, hope for the RBritich airman’s safety grew fainter un- til by mid-afternoon it had almost reached the vanishing point. ‘The chief ground for what hope re- mained was that he might have con- quered the Atlantic with his Gypsy Moth De Havilland and landed at some | isolated spot on the Irish or Scotch coast. May Have Been Picked Up. Apparently the only other chance was that he might have been picked up by some small ocean craft unable to report the fact by wireless. In this connec- tion, the case of Harry Hawker was cited, it being recalled that it was seven days after the beginning of his flignt before it was learned that he had been rescued by a Danish steamer, No one cherished these hopes more strongly than Mrs. MacDonald, the fly- er's wife, who was still doing her best | to keep up courage, although worn by the long vigil of nearly 48 hours, which she has maintained broken only by a few brief intervals of fitful sleep. Only once had MacDonald been re- ported since he left Harbor Grace, New- founcdland, Wednesday at 11:51 am. Eastern standard time. The Duich steamship Hardenberg reported sighting | jof an airplane at 7:30 p.m. Eastern| standard time Wednesday far North of Macdonald’s course. The position given was 700 miles east and north of Har- bor Grace and the airman had then some 1,200 miles to fly to reach Ireland. Message Import Ominous. ‘The message came after 25 hours of complete silence and Mrs. MacDonald voiced its ominous import when she re- marked: ““That is a long time i Generally conditions at sea had been regarded as favorable for MacDonald's flight. When the French liner Paris reached Plymouth this' morning the captain said visibility had been good for 30 hours, but that he had seen nothing of the plane. Yesterday morning when e 2irman’s coming was awaited in Ire- land the weather was unfavorable there. Had he been forced down on the At- laniic by the failure of his motor or ice forming on the wings of the plane, it | was thought that MacDonald would have been able to keep afloat not more than 20 minutes by partly empty gasoline tanks. He had no wireless and in that brief span of time could only send up flares in the slim hope that some vessel might come to his aid. 18 OTHERS LOST LIVES. Americans, British and French Among Vietims of Atlantic Flying, NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—Prior to Lieut. Comdr. H. C. MacDonald’s flight 18 persons lost their lives in attempts _to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. They were: Capt. St. Roman, a French officer and Comdr. Mounevres, started from St. Louis, Senegal, May 5, 1927, for Bucnos Aires and were never heard from again. Capts. Charles Nungesser and Fran- cois Coli, French, lost their lives trying to fly from France to America the same month, On August 31, 1927, Capt. Leslie Col. Frederick F. Minchin and Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim took off from Upavon, England, in the St. Raphael for Ottawa and disappeared. Three Americans, Lloyd W. Bertaud, James Hill and Phillip Payne, perished when they flew from Old Orchard, Me., on September 6, 1927, in an attempt to reach Rome. Capt. Terry Tully and Lieut. James Meccalf were lost after leaving London, Ontario, September 7, 1927, for London, England. Capt. Walter Hinchliffe and the Hon. Elsie Mackey vanished after leaving England on a transatlantic flight on March 13, 1928. Mrs. Frances Grayson in the Dawn left Roosevelt Field, N. Y., with three | companions—Oskar Omdal, Brice Golds- | borough and Fred Koehler—for a flight to Newfoundland en route across ?ll;n(ic and were lost off Newfound- and. ITALIAN SLAIN ON STREET. ST. LOUIS, October 19 (#).—In an apparent renewal of gang warfare |among Italians here, Joseph Monti, 28, |a salesman, was killed last night by a man who shot him down near his home and escaped in an_automobile. The | gang war has taken 10 lives in the past 115 months. | “The only witness to the shooting was a janitor in_the neighborhood, whose {name was withheld by the police. He {said the assassin and Monti appeared to have been riding together. Both alighted and the slayer opened fire on | Monti, wounding him fatally. GREETED BY CROWDS AT FREDERICKSBURG Dedicates Virginia Battlefields at Memorial Ground-Breaking Ceremonies. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staff Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. October 19.—In a country now tranquil and in- spiring in its beauty, but once the scene of five of the bloodiest and most des- perately fought battles of the Civil War, President Coolidge this afternoon, in an address delivered to a huge gathering a short distance from this historic eity. | extolled the greatness, the progress and the prosperity of the United States. Mr. Coolidge declared that as a result | of all this the American standards of living have reached levels never before experienced by any people in human history. He added that during these remarkable strides the door of opportu- nity Bas been open to all the inhabi- tants and that the benefits of the Na- tion's prosperity has been widely dis- tributed among the great mass of the people. Emphasizes Industries. In emphasizing the industrial ad- vancement and the general prosperity of this country Mr. Coolidge gave no indication that his utterances were prompted by political reasons. He traced this prosperity to the union which the Civil War preserved and saw in today's ceremonies a sign that re- sentment between the North and South was being forgotten and that recon- ciliation is becoming complete. Such a wonderful record of pros- perity, the President contended, would be of little avail, if it had not been accompanied by evidences of the great moral power of the Nation. In this connection he cited the increase in edu- cation, lavish charities, the promotion of science and the actions of this Gov- ernment in behalf of limitation of naval armaments and the negotiations in be- half of promoting world peace. i The occasion for Mr. Coolidge's ad- dress was the breaking of ground cere- monies for the National Battleflelds Memorial, which is in the form of a national park created by an act of Congress and which will include the battlefields of Fredericksburg, the Wil- derness, Spottsylvania and Chancellors- ville. The ceremonies, which were highly patriotic and impressive in their nature, were held amid a picturesque setting in front of Mannsfield Hall, now the home of a country club, but for- merly a private home which survived those days of bitter fighting. Travels on Special Train. Several thousand persons, among them Gov. Byrd of Virginia and other State officers, and men and women| prominent _in official and social life in the Old Dominion, had assembled to participate in these ceremonies and to hear the President of the Nation de- liver the dedicatory address. ! Mr. Coolidge made the journey to Fredericksburg from Washington on a special train of the Richmond, Fred- ericksburg & Potomac Railroad. Virginia’s governor and members of his staff, and members of the Battle Park Association were at the station at Fredericksburg to formally receive the party and escort them to Mannsfield Hall three miles out of town. Besides Mrs. Coolidge, the President was accompanied by Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia and Mrs. Swanson, Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of Naval Operations; Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant, of Marines; Brig, Gen. Briant H. Wells, acting chief of staff of the Army; C. Bascom_ Slemp, former Representative from Virginia and formerly secretary to the President; Everett Sanders, the President’s secre- tary: Col. Osman Latrobe, military aide; Capt. Wilson Brown, naval aide; Dr. James Coupal, presidential physician, and Erwin C. Geisser, personal stenog- rapher to the President. Greeted by Crowds. The motor ride to the scene of the | dedication ceremonies was highly im- pressive and interesting. Besides the throng in the vicinity of the railroad station, which cheered the distin- | guished party as it detrained and en- tered the caravan of motor cars, there were dense crowds along the curbs of the streets of Fredericksburg through which the party passed. The journey was made in a leisurely fashion in order that the members of the party might have an opportunity to look upon the many places of historic interest in this famous old Virginia town. These included the quaint house in which Mary Washington, the mother of George Washington, lived for 34 vears and where the latter so frequently visited; the little frame house in which John Paul Jones lived four years; the Rising Sun Tavern, where Washington 2nd others prominent in tlse early his- tory of the section were wont to gather, and “Kenmore,” the home of Washing- ton’s sister. As the party passed through the town and upon reaching tbe open country, they had pointed out to them the posi- tions of the combating forces and the various scenes of the fighting in that section. As the President reached the " (Continuéd on Page 2, Column 3.) The text of President Coolidge’s speech will be found on page 5, Because they couldn’t understand the broken English of excited Italians, po- lice of the fifth precinct last night arrested a man for carrying a deadly | weapon, only to have him released in Police Court this morning when it was learned he and his wife wanted to re- port a robbery. The man, John Tremock, 700 block of Seventh street southeast, preceded by | his wife, rushed into the station house bout 7 o'clock. Both were gesticulat- ing wildly and the only word the police could understand was “razor,” spoken . Column 3.) ~ several times by the wife, They inter- | along alses [Police, Baffled by Broken English, " Jail Italian Trying to Report Theft preted some of the man's gestures as| “passes,” and concluded that he had been after her with a razor. Searching Tremock they found he had two razors in his pockets, so locked him up and charged him with carrying a concealed weapon. ‘When the couple were brought before Judge John P. McMahon, however, it developed that John had four razors. Somebody stole two yesterday, he claimed. So John put the remaining two razors in his pocket to prevent HARRIS 15 NAMED AS TIGER MANAGER Griffs to Get Player, Probahly Warner, Third Baseman, in Exchange. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 19.—Appointment of Stanley (Bucky) Harris as manager of the Detroit American League base ball team was announced today by Prank J. Navin, president of the local club. Harris, who led the Washington American League team to two pennants and a world championship title, suc- ceeds George Moriarty, whose resigna- tion was announced this week. . The length of the Harris contract and its financial terms were withheld. Part of the negctiations that bring Harri§' to' Detroit involved the transfer of Jackie Warner, Detroit infielder, to the Washington Club. Harris said he would be in uniform daily, but would play on the Tiger team only in emergencies. Harris’ selection to.succeed Moriar- ty was forecast almost with the close of the major league season this year, when he came to Detroit for a con- ference with President Navin. At that time neither Navin nor Harris would discuss the conference. The rumors of Harris’ selection were given added weight with announcement that Walter Johnson would take over the reins at Washington, followed shortly afterward by Moriarty’s resig- nation. Criticism of Moriarty’s management of the Tigers began ealy in the present season, his second as leader of the team of which several years ago he was third baseman. In his resignation Moriarty blamed “unfavorable circumstances” for the poor showing of the Tigers. He did not attempt to explain what he meant by the phrase, but added that his experi- ence had taught him to “accept the reverses of base ball with the same spirit that accompanies success.” The Detroit team finished fourth and sixth in the league standing under Moriarty’s leadership in 1927 and 1928. g e MEXICANS REPULSE ATTACK BY REBELS Several Reported Killed in Battle in Hidalgo—150 in Band Forced to Flee. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, October 19.—Reports of bandit and rebel activities in various partys of the country continue to flow inot the capitol. La Prensa's corre- spondent at Marvatio, State of Michoa- con, gives a detailed account of an at~ tack by 100 rebel infantry and 50 cav- alry on October 15 in’ the City of Hidalgo, where the mayor dirgefed the defense from the roof of the‘municipal building and the tower of the cathedral. |From these points of wartage his little band of home guards and police fired upon the rebels, who swarmed through the streets shouting, “Long Live Christ the King!"” They were repulsed from the cathe- dral itself, as well as from the munici- pal building, The rebels were forced to flee when the Federal reinforcements arrived. They are reported to have lost a number killed, while five of the de- fending forces were killed. QAT KELLOGG LEASES HOME. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., October 19 (/).—Real estate dealers announced here yesterday that Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg had taken an indefi- nite lease, beginning March 1, 1929, on the house of Mrs. Robert Cameron Rogers, in Mission Canyon, here, {Radio Prognml.—l’ages 42 &43 Five Divorces Give Six-Year-Old Boy Nine Grandparents By the Assoclated Press. GRAND ISLAND, Nebr. October 19.—Charles Keown is only 6 years old and has nine living grandparents, although four of them are “in-laws.” Each of his four grandparents has married after divorce, and a great grandmother is living. His parents also have been divorced and remarried. His mother is Mrs. Bernyce Smith of Grand Island and his father is Joseph Keown of La Grande, Oreg. HICKNAN HANGED: FACED END CALNLY White Face and Slight.Wa- vering in Knees on Trap Only Emotion Signs. By the Associated Press. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., Octo- ber * 19.—Willlam Edward Hickman was hanged here today for the murder of 12-year-old Marian Parker, Los Angeles school girl, whom he kidnaped last December. The trap was sprung at 10:10 am. ‘The youth, who boastfully called himself “the Fox” walked to the trap white, but with little other outward appearance of emotion, consistent to the last breath with the attitude dis- played since he was arrested in Oregon. Up a flight of 13 steps he went, pre- ceded by Rev. Willlam Fleming, Roman Catholic priest, under whose spiritual guidance he turned from Fatalism to Christianity in the shadow of the noose. Arms Strapped to Sides. His arms were strapped to his sides. On either side and behind him marched a guard. In a semicircle were some 200 persons who saw him die. The priest chanted the litariy of the dead from the Roman Catholic ritual as the dead march progressed and Hickman made the responses. The doomed man's lips scarcely moved, buf | he followed without a noticeable hreak. Hickman walked to his death-steady and straight as a ramrod, bup-his knees shook as he stood on the frap an in- stant before it was sprung. Twenty-two seconds after he entered the gallows room the trap was released. Hickman was pronounced dead at 10:25 am,~ ~Father Claims Body. _Phe doomed man's father, Thomas Hickman, gave Warden James B. Holo- han a signed order to deliver the body to a San Francisco undertaker, but the prison official declined to state where it would be sent. It was pre- viously announced that, the body would be taken to the East for burial, but the name of the town was not an- nounced, One of Hickman's latest moments was the reading of a letter from his mother, Mrs. Eva M. Hickman of Kan- sas City, delivered to him a few min- utes before he was led to the gallows. He'wept. It was the first time guards had seen tears in his eyes since his doom was sealed. The contents of Mrs. Hickman's let- ter were not disclosed. Hickman re- ceived and read three other comfort- ing letters from relatives during the morning. There was a telegram from Rev. Ed- ward Brady, in Rochester, N. Y., who was one of Hickman's first spiritual advisers after he entered San Quentin, Before the trap was sprung, Hickman had collapsed until his head was within three feet of the scaffold floor. For this reason his fall was not as complete as it otherwise would have been. This was believed by guards to have delayed his death by two or three minutes. b L R e e e S T S e R R R ek R R R R R What Zeppelin Trip to U. S. Means to the World An interesting article by America’s hero, Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh, appears in the Editorial Section of The Sunday Star Be Sure to Read It. further thefts and repaired to the pre- cinct to tell of his loss, His wife went KOHLER, STALWART, LEADSINWISCONSIN La Follette Appears Assured| of Victory in Senate Race. Blaine’s Prestige at Stake. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. MADISON, Wis, October 19.—Wis- consin’s next governor in all probabil- ity will be a Republican of the “Stal- war{” brand. Walter J. Kohler, who won the Republican gubernatorial nom- ination by some 20,000 votes over Beck, the La Follette Progressive candidate, is opposed by Albert E. Schmedeman, Democrat, mayor of Madison and at one time United States Minister to Norway. Schmedeman is likely to re- ceive support from some of the La Fol- lette Progressives, but his goose seems to be cooked. The prospective Kohler victory is an- other milestone in the strife that has been waged for more than 30.years in Wisconsin between the La Follette Pro- gressives and the regular Republicans, “Stalwarts” they are called out here. To some it presages the downfall of the Progressives and their organization. But this is by no means a necessary corollary of the Kohler victory. Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr., heir to the La Follette leadership, but becoming more and more leader in his own right, won the senatorial nomina- tion in the same primary which named Kohler the gubernatorial candidate of the Republican party. Furthermore, the other candidates for office on the Republican ticket selected by the pri- mary are also of the La Follette Pro- gressive group, including Solomon Eevi- tan, the State treasurer. The governor, it the election turns out.gs cxpected, will be the sole Stalwart put into the office. although it is‘8did that the stal- warts will also_hdve a majority of the State Senate.~ The Progressives will re- tain their lead in the lower house of the Legislature. o~ Phillips Was Stalwart. b It appears, therefore, that the vic- tory of the Stalwarts in the race for governor does not spell the end of the La Follette Progressives necessarily. Not by any means. The Stalwarts have had other governors during the long contest with the La Follette Progres- sives. Such was Gov. Phillip, who served from 1914 to 1920. But after Gov. Phillip came other La Follette Progressive governors, among them Senator John J. Blaine. Two years ago there was another great fight over the governorship. The La Follette Pro- gressives put forward at that time Her- man L. Ekern as their candidate for governor. The Stalwarts had a candi- date, too, and Gov. Zimmerman, the present governor, who had been secre- tary of State and who claimed to be also a La Follette Progressive, threy his hat in the ring. The upshot of the matter was that Zimmerman was nomi- nated and later elected, largely, it is charged, with the aid of Stalwart votes. Having used Zimmerman once to beat the La Follette Progressives the stalwarts this year put forward a strong candidate of their own, Kohler, a suc- cessful business man. Gov. Zimmerman had an ambition to succeed himself, and it has been a custom to re-elect governors in Wisconsin for a second term. But the stalwarts under Kohler's leadership put up a hot fight, and the Progressive forces, some of whom fol- lowed Zimmerman, were divided. The result was that Kohler, who had never held public office ‘and who staged a businesslike campaign, won, with Beck second and Zimmerman a poor third. Gov. Zimmerman, if reports be true, (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) MAY TALK ON LABOR WHEN HE GOES TO BOSTON Reiterafes Stand Taken in Sedalia ot Economy Claims—Hits 7 Mellon’s Reply. By'the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 19 —Still suzm'i on the line of attack he will adopt, Gov. | Smith today planned to put the finish- ing touches on the address he will de- liver tonieht in the 131st Regiment Armory in an effort to swing this nor- mally Republican State into the Demo- cratic column in November, The Democratic presidential nominee put in nearly all of yesterday workidg | on the speech and late last night com- pleted a tentative draft. The first thing on his schedule today called for a re- vision of this rough outline and then for his participation in a two-and-a-| half-hour tour of Chicago by automo- bile, Arrangements had been made for | the procession to start from his hotel and to end there after a visit to North- western University at Evanston on the | north and Chicago University on the south side of the city. More than 50 miles of touring were on the program mapped out by a local committee and thousands of Chi-| cagoans, according to the arrangements | committee, had planned to turn out fo! witness the procession. Will Close Second Tour. ‘The night speech of Gov. Smith will | be the seventh he has delivered since | his present swing through the South | and border States of Tennessee, Ken- tucky and Missouri, all of which he feels confident of winning in the rapidly ap- proaching national election. The ad- dress also will bring to a close his sec- ond extensive tour oi’ the campaign. ‘Tomorrow will see him speeding east- ward to prepare for his third and final campaign dash which will carry him down the Atlantic Seaboard from Bos- ton to Baltimore. On the way East to Albany, he will stop late in the after- noon for an hour in Indianapolis, where Democratic chieftains have arranged a oarade in his honor. It also is expected that the nominee will find time to visit Tom Taggart, for years a power in the Hoosier Democracy and who is now ill in a hospital, No special stops are ex- pected to be made in Ohio. Gov. Smith’s first full day in Chicago was spent almost entirely within the se- clusion of the Congress Hotel. He re- ceived several Democratic leaders and | delegations of well wishers and held a press conference, but devoted nearly all his time to tonight's speech. After din- ner he ventured outside for the first| time for a 10-minute walk on Michigan bouklf\'nrd and then went back ta his des| Sees Labor Leaders, .’ One of the delegations he- received | was a group of labor leadefs, headed byI John Fitzpatrick of the~Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, who call themselves the Alfred E. Smih-for President Union to repres®it.- 500,000 trade unionists, tacking” the Republican party on its farp-relief, prohibition, labor and other stands and praising Gov. Smith's “pro- found humanitarianism” and “ideals of Americanism.” In a brief reply the Democratic stand- ard bearer thanked the delegation for its support, and promised he would de- vote an entire speech to labor soon, probably in Boston. “I have spoken on pretty nearly all the leading subjects.” the nominee said, “but I have not yet spoken on labor, and I propose with that subject—as I did with all the other big ones—to de-} vote a whole speech to it and give it the | prominence that I believe it deserves in campaign discussion. “I intend to do that, in all human probability, when I get to Boston or one of the great manufacturing centers of the country. However, it will be radioed throughout the country, and I think you | will be entirely satisfled with it, be-| cause it will be a continuation really of the record that I built up with the | labor unions in my own State upon | which they supported me five times for governor; as well as for sheriff of New York Cougty and for president of the | Board of Aldermen in New York City.” | The governor's press conference, at- tended by approximately 50 newspaper " (Continued on I 4, Column 7.) MANY HONOR EMPRESS. Doumergue Represented at Mass in Paris for Marie of Russia. PARIS, October 19 (#).—President Doumergue was represented by the chief of his personal cabinet at a| funeral mass in the Russian Church today for repose of the soul of the late Dowager Empress Marie of Russia. ‘Many members of the diplomatic corps were present. Blndits- ’i‘ake $12,000 Pay Roll. NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—A| $12,000 pay roll was stolen today by two armed bandits, who forced Onias Humphrey, an official of the Watson Elevator Co., into a Thirty-sixth street hallway as he stepped from his auto- mobfl;. Humphrey received a scalp wound. Liquor Squad Arrests Whole Family In Auto Said to An entire family, consisting of father, mother and two children, were captured in an alleged liquor-laden automobile after a chase of several blocks today by members of the police flymi;quwon. Police say that the back of the car con- tained 340 quarts of alcohol. Those arrested were Samuel Watch- msky, 27, of Baltimore; his wife, Mrs. Yetta Watchinsky, 23 years old, and two young sons, 4 and 6 years old. Members of Sergt. Little's squadron saw the Watchinsky family riding in a new coupe that seemed to be sagging on the springs, so gave chase at Tenth and N streets. The pursued car went west on N Eleventh street, down Contain 340 Quarts , Eleventh to Massachusetts avenue, where it is sald to have made a turn against the red light and then to New York avenue, where it was blocked be- tween Sixth and Seventh streets by a | big truck. The speed of both cars is said at times to have been as high as 55 miles an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Watchinsky were charged at the sixth precinct station house with transporting and posses- sion. Later the mother and two chil- dren were sent to the House of De- United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage fixed the bond of each at $500, pending hearing in Police Court, tomorTow, Labor League. The delegation, claiming | | presented she nominee a resolution ll-‘ REPEATS VTEW;FAVORING D. C. AS AIR TERMINUS He Will Take Dirigible West Wed- nesday for Tour Before Return to, Germany. The highest honors ever paid a for- eign aviator by this country were ac- corded today by President Coolidge and the National Capital to Dr. Hugo Eck- ener, commander of the German dirig- ible Graf Zeppelin. Accompanied by his first officer, Capt. Emst A. Lehmann, and three of his passengerson the momentous trans- atlantic flight, Dr. Eckener arrived at Union Station at 7 o'clock this morn- ing and plunged immediately into a full day’s program. The passengers who came to this city with Dr. Eckener were Col. Emillo Herrera, Spanish ob- server on the dirigibl Count Ale: ander von Brandenstein-Zeppelin, son- in-law of the inventor of the great dirigibles bearing his name, and Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N, com- mander of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles. ’ The party was met at Union Station by Government and diplomatic officials and Dr. Eckener and Capt. Lehmana were given a rousing welcome by a crowd of several hundred there despite the early hour of arrival. Official Welcome Given. Dr. Eckener was officially welcomed to the Capital by F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aero- nautics, and Edward P. Warner, Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy for Aeros nautics. Others in the welcoming party included Maj. Frank N. Kennedy, Army Air Corps, who was a passenger on the Los Angeles, formerly the Ger- man Zeppelin ZR-3, when she was flown to this country four years ago by Dr. Eckener; Dr. Otto C. Kiep, coun- | selor of the German embassy and | charge d'affaires ad interim; Maj. | Casajos, military attache of the Spane ish embassy, and Clem W. Gerson, man- ager of the Gariton Hotel, whose guest the German commander will be whiis !in Washington. The visitors passed through roped-off lanes of cheering spectators in leaving the station and paused at the presi- dential entrance to satisfy the de mands of a score of photographers and newsreel cameramen. They were then taken by automobile, with a police motor to the Carlton Hotel, where a small erowd had gathered to see the party. Dr. Eckener held a brief press con- ference in his rooms at the Carlton just before leaving for the White House _ads a breakfast guest of President Zool- idge. Will Leave Tomorrow. Dr. Eckener told reporters that he would leave Washington at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with Capt. Leh- mann. He plans to go by railroad to Akron, Ohio, the home of the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, where he will re- main Sunday night, and then proceed to_Chicago. He will return to Lakehurst, N. J., Tuesday night to take over command again of the Graf Zeppelin, which is being repaired and refueled 2 the Navy dirigible hangar. He will take the ship on the proposed Middle West trip at about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, heading for East St. Louis, where he will spend Wednesday night. The Graf Zeppelin will be tied up to a dirigible mooring mast at Scott Field, Belleville, Ill: The American tour will be resumed Thursday morning and the Zeppelin will return to Lakehurst ‘Thursday night to be refueled and fitted out | for the return flight to Germany on Saturday, Dr. Eckener said. Askes whether he will have any passengerg on his Western trip, Dr. Eckener said: No Pay Passengers. “I will have several invited guests, but no pay passengers. The invitations have been sent out from Lakehurst, but I cannot tell you now who is on the list or just what cities we will fly over. I wish ‘to say that it will be absolutely impossible for me to accept all the in- vitations for the Graf Zeppelin to fly over cities because it would not take two days, but two months, and I must get back to Germany. I want all these cities to know, however, that I appre- ciate their invitations and am sorry I cannot_accept them all.” Dr. Eckener said that he could not claborate at this time on his announce- ment that he is considering the estab- lishment of a great transatlantic diri- gible passenger and mail route with the United States terminus in the vicinity of this city. “Washington would be the ideal terminus for such a route,” he said, “not only because it is the Capital of your Nation but because of generally favorable weather conditions here and because it is a natural center of traffic on the Atlantic seaboard.” Larger Airships Planned. In his announcement of the proposed route, made at New York, Dr. Eckener said that it is planned to employ at least four huge dirigibles even larger than the Graf Zeppelin. President Coolidge’s breakfast guests in addition to Dr. Eckener were Comdr. Rosendahl, Capt. Lehmann, Count Brandenstein-Zepplin, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Secretary of Interior West. J. Ruben Clark, acting Secretary of State; Chancellor Kiep, Assistant Secretary Davison, Assistant Secretary ‘Warner and William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. and Col. Osman Latrobe a;:id Capt. Wilson Brown, White House aides. Leaving the White House, Dr. Eck- ener and his companions were taken to the Massachusetts avenue headquarters of Herbert Hoover, where another crowd had gathered. In receiving Dr. Eckener, Mr. Hoover expressed the hope that a regular transatlantic air service could be built up, adding that every shorten- ing of communication between nations added solidarity between the peoples of the earth. Seeking Routes. Dr. Eckener that the flight of the Graf Zeppelin was the first of sev- eral trial flights he hopes to make, both to establish confidence in lighter-than- air_transportation and to investigate (Contipged on Page 2, Column 4, 4 cycle escort, through deserted streets.