Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1928, Page 5

DEMOCRATS PLAN TOHOLD BIG PARTY Demanstration Friday Nigh to Be Addressed by Speak- er of National Fame. The National Capital is to have its| biggest Democratic rally of the cam- paign on Friday night, with a speaker | of national fame and a Nation-wide | radio hook-up and with all the dozen or more Democratic organizations co- operating. This announcement was made today by John F. Costello, Demo- | cratic national committeeman. The rally is scheduled for Friday night in the Mayflower Hotel at 7:30 o'clock, with the National Broadcasting hook-up from 8 to 9 o'clock. Senator Tydings Co-operating. Senator Millard H. Tydings of Mary- land, in charge of the speakers bureau of the Democratic national committee, has been co-operating with National Committeeman Costello, and the rally is in charge of the following committee: Mr. Costello, chairman: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, national committeewoman, District of Columbia; John B. Colpoys, chairman Democr: central commit- tee; Richard Seely Jones, chsirman veterans' organizations Democratic na- tional committse for the District of Co- lubia; Frank Sprigg Perry, director of finance for the District of Columbia na- tional committee; Charles W. Darr, president “Al Smith” Club: Robert N. Harper, president the Jefferson Club, and Charles A. Douglas, president of Lawyers’ Club. The organizations incorporated in the | arrangements for this meeting are the following: The Victory Smith-Robinson | Veterans’ Club, the Market Men's Smith-Robinson Club, the Francis Scott Kay Smith-Robinson Club, the Mount Alta Smith-Robinson Veterans’ Club, the | ‘Woodrow Wilson Smith-Robinson Veter- | ans’ Club, the Walter Reed Smith-Rob- inson Veterans' Club, the Georgetown Bmith-Robinson Veterans’ Club, the | Georgetown Democratic Association, the Bouth Washington Democratic Asso- | ciation, the Lawyers’ Smith-Robinson Club, Jefferson Club, the Al Smith-for- President Club. Costello’s Statement. | Chairman Costello issued the follow- | ing statement: “This meeting at the Mayflower is the | beginning of a series of rallies to be held in the District of Columbia. The Democratic headquarters at 16 Jackson | lace has already handled in the neigh- rhood of 28,000 absentee voters. It is our desire to reach those who have not yet availed themselves of .our ab- sentee voter bureau. We dealing in this campaign with one €ommodicy- that is the vote for Gov.Smith and the Democratic ticket, and it is belisved thess final mass meetings will do a great deal to bring our work to the at- tention of the Democratic public of ‘Washington.” .* DANIELS ENDS TOUR BY SCORING BORAH North Carolinian Charges Idahoan With “Spectacular In- consistency.” By the Associated Press. i LOTTE, N. C, October 24— s | the “spectacular inconsistency” hoan's stand on political issues, Jose- phus Daniels, Raleigh, N. C., and Secretary of the Navy in We ‘Wilson’s cabinet, rounded out a speak- Ing tour with an address here last night in behalf of the Democratic ticket. Declaring he was not opjecting to Benator Borah su g Mr. Hoover, nor to “his Nation-wide display of his spectacular inconsistency,” he said he did feel “that he (Borah) undertakes to lecture other men for alleged in- consistency he shiuld pluck the beam out of his own eye before he attempts to eradicate the mote from the eye of those who for the time differ with him.” The speaker then charged that the Idahoan had voted agains the Fordney- McCumber tariff bill in Congress and was “denounced by high protectionists of his own political faith” as a result. “My warm approval of his course at that time,” Mr. Daniels said, “makes it all the more regretable that last week he lauded the principles of that very measure in his speech at Charlotte.” ‘The North Carolinian expressed sur- m that Senator Borah had charged with. being inconsistent becauvse “gs a sincere and lifelong Democrat I do not desert my party because Al Bmith wishes amendments in the eight- eenth amendment, He declared that if the Republican party “ a prohibi- tion party” and “enforced the prchi tion law” he perhaps could be blamed | for not shifting his support. He de- | clared that he did not, however, con- cur with the New York governor in his prohibition stand, but pointed out that the amendment cannot be changed without the consent of the people, MOODY DECIDES TO ENTER CAMPAIGN: Texas Governor Will Break Silence by Making Speech in Re- sponse to Borah. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., October 24.—Gov. Dan Moody of Texas, who, beyond declar- ing his loyalty ‘to the Democratic ticket, has maintained silence in the national campaign since the nomina- tion of Gov. Alfred E. Smith at Hous- ton, will break his silence in Dallas Saturday night to reply to the cam- Ellg‘n speech which Senator William . Borah of Monday. ‘The governor announced his decision last night, but refused to indicate what ground his speech would cover. Before the national convention the governor opposed the candidacy of Gov. Smith, but subssquently pledged party support, although he did not take ad- vantage of g=veral opportunities to gpeak in behalf of the nominee. In a statement issued yesterday the wyouthful executive assalled Senator Borah for his attitude toward Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson during and after the World War. He charged that it was opposition of Senator Borah and nis colleazues that forced the war- time President to decide to tour the Nation in order to espouse the League of Nations and permanent peace to the people. President Wilson's health broke dur- ing the trip, and he never fully re- covered from the illness which forced him back to the White House before it was completed. “I don’t believe we need this kind of spellbinder to arbitrate the family difference that exists among Demo- crats in this State” the statement said of Borah, who spoke under anti-Smith auspices in favor of Herbert Hoover. ¢ P SR ‘The Most Rev. Dr. Joteph MacRory was recently installed Archbishop of Armagh snd Primate of Al Tetans ot !Hoover Autographs His Own When | have buried the little brown derby in |ening fact that in this crucial time of | Georgia and the Southland’s distress Idaho delivered there | governor's | | | [ | | ' '!|r decided to ask Herbert Hoover for a CGIRL’S PHOTOGRAPH PLEASES CANDIDATE Mariana Evans, 7, Sends Him Her “Favorite.” A little blond-haired girl's “favor- picture of herself, showing her dressed as a bride in 'a school play, proved so distracting to Herbert Hoover that he laid aside a mass of important business to write her a personal message on a picture of himself which she had asked him to autograph. The young lady in the case is 7-year- old Mariana Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., of 3405 Lowell street. Her father is vice president of the District National Bank and her mother the only woman member of the board of directors of George Washing- ton_ University. Mariana’s picture was uncovered by Republican presidential nominee, from s pile of correspondence on his desk. He swept the pile of letters and documents and things aside, picked up the picture and the letter accompany- ing it and investigated. With the letter also was a photograph of Hoover and his police dog, Tut, which Mariana wanted autographed. The letter ex- plained that Mariana was thrilled by that picture of Mr. Hoover and Tut in the garden of their home, and she had told her mother she wanted noth- ing so much as to have one suitably autographed the picture, and wrots: “To Mariana Evans, whom I wish to see some day.” BURIAL OF BROWN JUG AND BROWN DERBY SEEN W. C. T. U. Leader Chides Geor- gians for Failure to Produce Political Leaders, By the Associated Press. BAINBRIDGE, Ga., October 24— Declaring that on November 6 “we shall the grave of John Barleycorn side by side with the little brown jug, twin em- blems of a day that shall never come again,” Mrs. Marvin Williams addressed the opening session last night of the State convention of the W. C. T. U. She attacked the political leadership in Georgia and defended herself and her organization for the stand taken in the current presidential campaign. Mrs. Williams, who is State president of the W. C. T. U., declared that “we are Christians re we are Demo- crats, and where a moral issue is con- cerned principle must come before arty. No political party should de- mand that its members vote against their conscientious convictions. * * ¢ It has been a sad, a tragic, a disheart- Georgia has not developed a single statesman among her national repre- sentatives—no one who, like Senator Simmons of North Carolina, is standing [trus to principle and wiliing to lose their jobs for the sake of a moral | cause.” ASSAULT IN BALTIMORE LAID TO WASHINGTONIAN Sylvester Carroll, 49, Held on| Charge of Entering Home and | Attacking Occupant. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, October 24.—Sylvester Carroll, 49 years old, of the 800 block of | L street, Washington, is being held by | the police of the southwestern district, lon a charge of entering the home of John Grace, 1800 Sexton street, last | night and assaulting him. | Grace, who is at St. Agnes’ Hospital | | with a possible fracture of the skull, | | sald he heard a noise downstairs and | on investigation found Carroll, who an- | | nounced he intended to spend the night | |in the house. When ordered to leave, | Carroll is elleged to have struck Grace | on the head with a club. James Grace, a brother of the Injured man, arrived at this point and knocked ! Carroll out with a blow on the head. | Policeman Kammer, who was sum- ! moned, said Carroll threatened him | and he was compelied to draw his pistol in order to make the arrest. | Sylvester Carroll's name does not | appear in the city directory, and no one could be reached at the L street address he gave. The ultimate cost of the New Yoik City Medical Center, at Broadway and 177 ctrest, will he '$40.064 AAN Pyt - When Mariana Evans, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Evane, erself in exchange, and chose a psint of the above. The swap went over in fine | | tashion. THE EVENING | | { | picture, she thonght she’d offer one of ROBINSON SEEKS PROGRESSIVE VOTE On Way to South Dakota, Confident of Support of La Follette Group. 1 By the Associated Press EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR ROB- INSON ‘TO SIOUX FALLS, 8. Dak., October 24.—Two weeks from today Senator Joe Robinson will know whether his direct call to adherents of the Progressive party to vote the Demo- cratic national ticket this year has had the effect he hoped when he made it. Convinced that the Smith-Robinson ticket can carry most of the Middle | Western States if those who voted for | Senator La Follette in 1924 will chooss | Gov. Smith November 6,"the nominee | prepared to push his bid for Progres- sive votes today in South Dakota, an- other State which gave La Follette a strong vote four years ago. Assails Hoover and Curtis. Although Senator Robinson has de- c%:ed upon several occasions that the “Democratic party now has become the progressive party of the Nation,” he | made his strongest appeal to the Pro- | gressive group at Sioux City last night | in a speech in which he assailed both Herbert Hoover and Senator Curtis as “reactionaries.” He called Senator Curtis “the king of standpatters,” and | declared that “Hoover's principal ef- | forts have been obstructive of progres- | sive legislation.” The nominee also took the occasion to take a fling at the New York speech of Hoover, prefacing his attack with the statement that Gov. Smith had pled; himself to work out the farm problem along the lines of the McNary- Haugen bill. Senator Robinson said: “Mr. Hoover declared that the Demo- cratic plan for bringing relief to ths farmers is a form of State Socialism. Well, there is no man who hears me tonight who does not know that it Herbert Hoover is elecied President there will be no farm relief. Indorses McNary-Haugen Bill. “The McNary-Haugen bill does not encompass any socialistic principles. It does encompass an attempt to place ag- riculture on an equal footing with other industries. If that i3 Socialism, then we need a new definition for the term. Now, Mr. Hoover has blown hot and cold on every issue of the campaign and has left them where he found them. He took one month, so it would seem, from the newspapers to prepare his New York speech, and when he had finished he had said nothing.” ‘The crowd which packed the Sioux City Auditorium rosz and applauded Senator Robinson for full minute when he pledged that the Democratic party, if placed in power, would “solve the farm problem in six months, as a contrast to the eight vears of broken promises by the Republican party.” . Yields Pennsylvania to G. 0. P. Quoting a political writer for a Chi~ cago newspaper, Senator Robinson said | it was reported Pennsylvania, although | showing much sentiment for Gov.| Smith, would go Republican, “consider- ing how much money Mr. Mellon has not hesitated to blow on elections in the past,” and added: “We do not believe that the people will support an endeavor to buy elec- tions like common merchandise.” Senator Robinson renewed his charge that Hoover advocated depressing the price of corn to make live stock raising profitable, The nominee was due at Sioux Falls around noon today. After his speech there tonight he will go to Fargo, N. Dak., making an afternoon address at Wilmar, Minn,, en route. F R DY PRIEST ASSASSINATED. MEXICO CITY, October 24 (#).—EIl Univerzal today said that Felips d» Jesus Ochoa, a 70-year-old priest of the Schismatic Me: had been assassinated at Guadal Three masked men brok in a and stole all the valuables. They then forced the priest to accompany them to the outskirts of the city where he was stabbed to death. The Schismatic Church was estab- lished about a year before controversy between state and Roman Catholic bishops over the religious laws began and it adheres to the laws. George Arliss Il in St. Lonis. ST. LOUIS, October 24 (#).—George Arliss, veteran actor of the stage and n, lay ill of laryngitis here yester- di His vehicle, “The Merchant of Venice,” failed to open at the Shubert- | STAR, WASHINGTON, OHO IS UIBELED SIFLY HODVER Estimates of Republican Lead Run From 250,000 to 600,000. (Continued From First Page) at Loraine, urging the Methodists to 'support Hoover and to oppose Smith. | | While these addresses of the Assistant Attorney General in Charge of Prohi- | hition Cases caused an uproar in the East, they did not have any appreci- le effect in Ohio, it is said, for the imple reason that the drys already were " to oppose Smith and vote | for the Republican national ticket. For {the most part, Protestant ministers have made no attack in this State on Gov. Smith because of his membership in the Catholie Church, but have confined themselves to campaigning against the EEW York Governor on the prohibition | issus. { Ohio has a very considerable negro jvote. As a rule, this vote has been overwhelmingly Republican, but this | year, because of Ku Klux Klan activi- ties in the State in the past and the | opposition of that organization to Gov. | Smith and because many of the negroes |are “wet” in sympathy, many of them |have been “off the reservation.” This | has been indicated in some of the polls taken in districts where they live. In a close election the defection of the negro voters might be a determining factor, but it is predicted here that the defec- i tion of the colored voters, even though it be of large proportion, will be only a drop in the bucket and will only result in reducing somewhat the lead which Hoover will roll up. It is reported here that Marcus Garvey, radical negro leader, who is now out of the country, has sent word to the colored voters to support Smith. Farm Aid Not Issue. ‘The farm problem, as such, does not cut much figure in the election in this State. In the first place, the great ma- Jority of farmers are Republicans, they are dry and they are Protestants. Here and there Republican farmers are re- ported to be in favor of Smith, but on the other hand some of the Demo- cratic farmers are against him. Gov. Smith has no more elements of strength in Ohio than any other Demo- cratic nominee would have. Further, he has elements of weakness which other candidates would not have, including his affiliation with Tammany, which is not popular in this part of the coun- try. The Democratic party in Ohio is | Any other Democratic nominee would have their support. He has the sup- to any other Democratic candidate, though labor does not vote solidly as a rule here or elsewhere, ‘When the records are examined and the huge majorities rolled up by the Republicans in national elections are taken into consideration, it appears quite clear that any Democratic candi- date, to win in Ohio, must have much more to offer to the Ohio voters than the general run of Democratic presi- dential candidates. In 1924 President Coolidge carried his State with a vote of 1,176,130 to 477.888 for Davis and 357048 for La Follette. His ma jority over the combined vote of Davis and La Follette was 340,294 votes. When Ohio had favorite son candidates in both the Republican and Democratic parties, Harding and Cox, Harding had & lead of 402,000 over his Democratic opponent. Wilson carried the State in 1912 with a less vote than the combined Taft and Roosevelt votes, and in 1916 Wilson also carried the State against Hughes, large- ly on the slogan, “He kept us out of war.” In 1916 the State was prosperous because of the huge war contracts, and there, was a great opposition in Ohio to th® entry of the United States into the European conflict. Cox Loses State. Wilson’s victories, however, are the only Democratic victories that have | been checked up for a Democratic pres- idential candidate in Ohio since the Civil War. When Cox ran against Harding he had three times been suc- cessfully elected governor of the Buck- eye State. But, while Ohio was ready to give it up to Cox for governor, it was not ready to vote for the Democrat for President. Here in Ohio some of the Democrats are asking whether the fate which overtook Cox, after he had been repeatedly elected governor of this State, may not overtake Smith in New York, where he has been elected gov- ernor four times with Republican sup- port. Conflicting claims are made regard- ing the German-American vote. Many of the German-Americans have been wet and Democratic in the past, and it is expected that a great number of them will support Smith in this election. But that the whole group will cast their votes for the Democratic nominee 1s emphatically denied. A poll recently taken in a strongly German and Dem- ocratic county revealed the startling fact that the county this year was likely to go for Hoover. Mr. Hoover has much personal strength in Ohio. This was demon- strated during the presidential prefer- ential primary when he was running against the late Senator Willis for the Ohio delegation to the Republican na- tional convention. Willis' death in the midst of the campaign, political ob- servers here say, made no difference in the final result. Hoover, they say, would have won if Willis had lived. Dire predictions were made follow- ing the Ohio primary that dissension would run riot in Republican ranks be- cause of the entry of Hoover into the contest against Willis. But this predic- tion has not been borne out. Indeed, Ralph D. Cole, who was one of the Willis leaders Hoover, is now on the stump in the West supporting ticket. POLICE CAPTAIN OUSTED. False Arrest. LOS ANGELES, October 24 (P).— Police Capt. J. J. Jones was suspended by the Los Angeles Police Commission yesterday. Jones by Mrs. Christine Collins, in which she declared she was falsely in- carcerated and mistreated. Mrs, Collins accused Cn?t. Jones of sending her to a psychopathic hospital becduse she refused to recognize as her son a boy who later was identified as an imposter. Mrs. Collins has filed suits against the city totaling $500,000 for alleged false imprisonment and mis- treatment. ) Nineteen cities will see the Princeton Triangle Club in a new musical comedy this season. UMBER MILLWORK PAINT HARDWARE BUILDING SUPPLIES COAL Whatever Your Needs Talk With Us First! Small Orders Given Careful Attention No Delivery Charge Rialto Theatsr Monday night. Reports that his liness was serious were dented TSR heslnsne mananer, wha gaid the J. Frank Kelly, Inc. 2101 Georgia. Ave.3 N. 1343 recognized as the party of the wets. | port of labor, which probably would go | and _denounced Mr. | the Hoover»cums‘ Suspended on Woman's Charge of | The suspension followed a public pro- | |test regarding charges filed against D. C. WED { | Author of By midnight of November 6 it is pos- sible, and indeed probable, that fully half of the people of the United States will know who is to be the next Presi- jdent and the next Vice President. 1f more have not received the news it will be because they did not care to sit up for the returns. Only in case that the result is very vlose will there be any| doubt by midnight of election day. Most | of the votes will have been counted and | the vast machinery of news gathering | will have assembled the results and an- nounced the verdict. This compilation of presidential elec- |tion returns is the most extensive and strenuous job performed by the news- gathering agencies of the country. | Their distribution to ths waiting public |1s a combined triumph for the press, ithe telegraph and telephone and the radio. None of this machinery of pro- viding early returns is official, except |the counting of the ballots. The offi | eial count and tabulation of results m take days, weeks or months. The n: | paper returns must be gathered with all |the speed which modern ingenuity can | muster. | More than half our population is in | eities, and most of this half will have | access to newspaper bulletin boards, but many of this half, and most of the rural population, will get its returns this year by wireless. The radio has brought clection results into millions of house- holds. It will be the newspapsrs. how- ever, which gather the facts and brond- cast them, with perhaps some diract gathering by t!leg{n'P:‘l. radio and tele- phone companies. e great press as- sociations have their plans well laid for |the task. In every State they have of- fices with wires reaching into every county. At the center of this network sit experienced men, assembling the fig- ures, using mechanical tabulators, and flashing their results onward to central {offices where groups of States are as- sembled, and finally to one nerve center where the whole mass of figures is di- ested and the meaning read in the ight of the total possible electoral vote. Mode of Gathering News. At almost every precinct polling place, | as soon as the polls close, there will be a representative of a newspaper, a unit in this great web of information gather- ing. His purpose will be to learn at the earliest moment the presidential vote of that precinct and to transmit the fig- ures, usually by telephone, to his news- paper. There are not enough regular reporters for this work, and many news- papers will have trained a set of de- livery boys, or a special group of high school students, or some other force of m;n or women to handle this precinct job. Where voting is done on voting ma- chines the election judges will be able to open the machines and read the mechanically added totals within a few minutes after the pol's close. Where paper ballots are used the counting will be slow, but in mest places the presi- dential vote will be the first to be counted and its result given unofficially to the newspaper representatives as soon as possible. From this beginning the chain winds its way through county centers, State centers and regional cen- ters. A few hours after the polls are closed the people of Maine will know that a certain number of precincts in | Oregon gave Hoover so many votes and Smith so many. Hour by hour the flashes of news will show the progress of the count, and by midnight, unless it is very close, enough precincts will { have reported in Oregon to show pretty | certainly which side has carried the State. Difference in Time Figures. Oregon, however, will know the Maine result much sooner than Maine hears from the Pacific Coast, because of the difference in time. Indeed, the West Coast will have heard the returns from many of the precincts in States using voting -machines even before the polls close in the Western States. In early days the exciting business of watching or listening to election returns was unheard of. To begin with only a tew States had popular elections for the presidency, as the Legislature chose the presidential electors. By 1828 all States were having popular elections except South Carolina, but not all were voting an the same day. From early October until late November, various States had clections, and returns were gradually collected by mail. In 1845 Congress adopted the uniform national election law. fixing the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as the date for all States. In 1848 the first news- paper bulletin board displayed election returns. Gen. Zachary Taylor, then a citizen of Lousiana, was the Whig can- didate, and the New Orleans Picayune, now the Times-Picayune, was the news- paper which inaugurated the election bulletin system. The slow gathering of returns even after telegraph wires extended every- where was once the cause of a great election contest, in 1876. A Democratic inquiry of a Republican newspaper showed that the Democrats were not sure they had won, although the Re- publicans thought that Tilden was elected. This doubt caused the Repub- lican campaign manager to issue his famous order of “claim everything.” On that order was built up the background for public opinion to support the Re- publican claims in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, which finally won Hayes the presidency. Claim everything remains the political manager's rule to the last ditch. Returns Misleading. Early election returns have often been misleading, the last instance of this being in 1916, when Mr. Hughes went | to bed believing that he' had ,been elected, and woke up first to doubt and then to know he had lost. The differ- ence in time from East to West created that situation, for Wilson had won many normally Republican States in_the Far | Occulists’ Prescriptions Filled CLAFLIN 922 14th St. STENOGRAPHER WITHOUT WORK? If so, you are passing many opportunities if you fail to wcad the Help Wanted adver- tisements in The Star. Today's Star contains 102 Help Wanted advertisements, several of which are for stenographers. Other opportunities offered are for Agents Barber Bookkeeper Canvassers Cashier Chauffeurs Clerks Collectors Druggist Mechanies Painters Picture’ Framers Pressers Ealesladies Salesmen ‘Tailor ‘Telephone Operators NESDAY, OCTOBER Window Trimmer 24, 1928. The History of Presidential Elections : XXIV—Election Returns. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, “The American Government.” West. On that occasion, when it was certain New York had gone for Hughes and he seemed to have won the usual Republican States east of the Mississippi except Ohio, almost every one took it for granted that all was over. Bets were paid in some placss, and many news- papers of the next morning announced | Hughes' elsction Not until it was ¢er- ain that California had gone for Wilson by a close margin was the outcome de- cided, and for a time it Iooked as if N Mexico's four votes might be the de- ciding balance if Hughes won California and Wilson Minnesota. New York of Great Importance. There will be even more than the usual tendency this year to watch the New York result, as most observers feel that Smith must carry his home State to win. Even a Smith victory there will not he conclusive, but a Hoover majority would perhaps send many watchers to bed with the belief the election was decided. As early as 1796 Jefferson told his followers to watch New York. He said he could predict all but three electoral votes outside that State, and he was very nearly if not absolutely right. Watrh- ing New York at that time, howeiw: meant watching developments in it3 Legislature. A change of 600 votes in New York would have lost Cleveland his first election. and there were many charges of fraud. Very seldom, however, has it been even intimated that fraudulent voting or counting has affected the out- come of a presidential contest. In a very close election the losers might de- mand careful scrutiny of ballots in some part of a close State. There i3 no Federal authority to demand a re- count, as the returns certified by the election officials of a State determine which electors are chosen, and Con- gress counts only the electoral votes. In 1876 the difficulty arose because rival State governments existed in certain Southern States, and two sets of electors were certified to Congress. The electoral commission was created to decide which State officials were the authorized judges of their State elec- tions. There was no recount of in- dividual ballots. The great machinery for gathering the election news and spreading it everywhere by wire and wireless is al- ready organized, oiled, and waiting for the hour of action. From the close of the polls until the results are all in, the greatest modern mobilization of all methods of communication, and the whole news-gathering power. of the American press, will be at work to serve the Republic with the facts of its greatest governmental event, a presi- dential election. Tomorrow: The Presidential Succession. IRBRY RENEWS HOOVER TOUR. Mrs. Willebrandt Resumes Cam- paign at Wheeling Tonight. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, As- sistant United States Attorney General, will prove she ha '« been “muzzled” by making an extetisive speaking tour, be- ginning tonight at Wheeling, W. Va. Mrs. Willebrandt will speak tomorrow in Nashville, Tenn. Two days later she will speak at Mitchell, S. Dak. She will address a mass meeting in Los Angeles November 3 and will make her final appeal to the voters in behalf of Her- bert Hoover in Pasadena November 5. All her speeches will be delivered under auspices of the Republican na- tional committee. BAPTISTS TO GIVE. Armistice Day Set for Contributions to Make Up Carnes Shortage. ATLANTA, October 24 (#).—Armistice day, Sunday, November 11, has been designated as Baptist honor day, at which time Southern Baptists will be ;z)ée:i to c:ntribuut ;‘.o the church $953,- 0 make good the re| shorta, of Clinton S. Carnes, fmtrmng of the denomination’s home mission board, it has been announced by the promotional committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. “Baptist honor is at stake,” declared Dr. Arch Cree, acting executive secre- tary of the home mission board, in commenting upon the setting aside of the honor day. On an apple purchased from an Italian fruit peddler in London were the words, “I love you, Rosetta,” writ- ten apparently with a pin. SHITH INACCUMTE SIYSHENNRELY Misinformed cn Astual Costs of Government, Declares Postmaster General. By the Asscciated Press JERSEY CITY, N. J, October 24.— In a political spaech here last night, Postmaster General New answered at- | Smith in his Sedalia, Mo., address. He | charged that the Democratic candidate | had been misinformed as to actual eosts {of Government, and had given “ab- solutely inaccurate” figures. Defending his own department, which merous unoccupied post office sites | throughout the country, Mr. New said | the greater part of these were purchas- | ed during the Wilson ' administration. He then reviewed activities of the de- partment in constructing new post | offices, listing several under construc- | tion or contract in New York State, in | Micsouri end sections referred to by Gov. Smith. | Cites Debt Reduction. | The Republican administration has | reduced public debt by six and a halt billion dollars, he said, netting 2 saving | of almost $300,000,000 annually in in- | terast charees, | Quoting a recent assertion by John J. Raskob, Democratic national committee chairman, that Republican prosperity | is largely mythical, Mr. New cited the growth of the. General Motors Co, | which, he said. had its securities rise in market value from $365.378,266.50 on | the day President Coolidge was in-| augurated to $3,961.172.412 on October 16. 1928, #n increas= of 98" per cent. dence of hard times?" he asked. Replies to Ridicule. | . Mr. New dwelt at length on Gov. | Smith’s ridicule of savings accomplished | by Budget Director Lord in remeving blue stripes from mail bags. While he quoted Gov. Smith as saying that re- moval of the stripe saved the Govern- ment $2.000 in one year, Mr. New de- clared that the saving had been $69.- 17745 for the three years past and would be over $40,000 for ths current year. He also denied a shortage of mail | bags in Chicago last Christmas. which | he said Gov. Smith charged, and added | that the governor had changed a saving of over $500.000 into a loss of the same | rented furniture with post-office-owned equipment. SMITH CLUB TO PARADE. | James M. Cox to Address Vander- bilt Students at Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 24 (#).— Sixty students of Vanderbilt University, composing the Fulton Fish Market Chapter of the Al Smith Club, plan to parade here tonight, wearing brown derbies similar to the one worn by the Democratic standard bearer, immedi- ately preceding an address by former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio, who is to speak in behalf of the Democratic na- tional ticket. e Novena Begins Tonight. 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'HARDWICK DENOUNCES . | DEMOCRATS WHO BOLT | Tormer Governor Alio Assails “Po- ; litical Parsons” in Speech In- { velving Raes Issue. | By the Assoctated Press. | HIGH POINT. N. C, October 24— Former Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick of |G‘er3in. speaking here last night, de- nounced bolting Democrats and “polit- | feal narsons.” E “The Hooverites,” he asserted, “say | that the time has come when the | Soutkern white man can give his sup- { port to a Republican candidate. They | say that the negro question is ancient Gov. Smith criticized for owning nu- | = “Does Mr. Raskob consider this evi-| history. We still have the n us r_r:d the Republican party S toves Hardwick traced the origin of the Re- tacks on ths Republican record by Gov. | publican party to what he called hatred of the South. Of ‘1,561 married alumnae of Rad- | cliffe College, 645 are wed to Harvard ‘ University men. amount in discussing the replacement of || | i | | | | i | | i | that the popularity of the knitted dress for sportswear 's undiminished as evidenced by the number of styles of rpe noted at the Army- Harvard game. Several ex- ive imported dresses of type are now displayed the Sportswear Section. ‘riced _at $35 /and $42.50. Tifth Floor, The Hecht Co fsce~- —that many who motored to the game used the new “snuggle rugs” of plaided wool. You shp your feet into the closed end...pull together a zipper fastener which extends to the waist ...and voila, you are warm as toast and the rug cannot slip down. First Floor, The Hecht Co. —that, speaking of sports, many golfers prefer knick- ers of genuine camel's hair wool. I noted several at the Manor Club the other day, all worn with plain col- ored sweaters ‘and matching hose. All these items are shown_in the Men's Shop, Fitst Floor, The Hecht Co. " see~~ —that with her tailored dress or ensemble the smart woman often wears a little leather flower...or perhaps one of glazed leather...just the right finishing touch. Shown in all new colors on gvoe First Floor, The Hecht i see-- —that beneath a tailored sport coat the younger set wears a gayly colored “col- legiate” scarf—long and rec- tangular in shape. They can be obtained at $295 on the First Floor, The Hecht Co. "I see~~ —that a new feminine trick is to wear “gartered undies” ... knickers of crepe de chine or georgette with garters that can be attached or de- tached as one desires. If you don't like to wear a girdle... and dislike the ef- fect of round garters.,.this idea was made for vou. First Floor, The Hecht Co. il sce~~ —that the idea of dressing brother and sister in match- ing suits gains daily in popularity. The newest vogue is for them to wear little Scotch suits ~with knickers and skirts of navy jersey and blouses of plaid knitted fabric. These are priced at $7.95 and matching plaid caps can be obtained for $195. Second Floor, The Hecht Co. I see~~ —that many children’s bed- rooms are charmingly fur- nished with novelty sets of painted wood in cheerful colors. These miniature suites include matching beds, tables, desks, chairs and costumers and are priced from $125 upward. Second Floor, The Hecht Co. 7225 e, Personal Shopper for T'he Hecht Co.