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4 » 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928. SMITH'S NEW BLOW ATG.0.P. IS SECRET Labor or Foreign Affairs May Be Philadelphia Topic Tomorrow Night. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 26.—Gov. Al- fred E. Smith set today aside to confer | with party chieftains and to collect new ammunition to be hurled verbally at| his Republican foes. The Democratic nominee also ar- ranged to give a lost look to the speech he has prepared for delivery tomorrow night in Philadeiphia, the home city of | Willlam S. Vare, who started a swing | to Herbert Hoover among Pennsylvania's delegates to the Kansas City convention. The governor has not disclosed the subject of this address, but it may be upon either labor or foreign relations, | as he has announced that both of these questions will be touched upon between now and election day. Bid for 38 Electoral Votes. The nominee’s drive into Pennsyl- vania, nermally one of the citadels of Republican strength, will be one of the few times in recent national campaigns that the Democrats have made a deter- mined bid for the 38 electoral votes of the Keystone State—a political plum coveted by both parties. In 1912 the State veered somewh.t from its usual political affiliation oy casting its vote for Theodore Roosevelt, but in 1916 it returned to the Republi- can fold, where it has remained with- out a waver ever since. The Demo- crats this year, however, have started a drive in an attempt to shake the State from its Republican moorings. They contend that Gov. Smith’s stand on prohibition has a wide appeal to the voters of that commonwealth, partic- ularly in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The swing into Pennsylvania will start the nominee off on the second stage of his final presidential drive. The first lap of this concluding effort was finished late last night when he arrived here tired but happy from responding to the welcomes of cheering crowds who greeted and delayed his journey from Boston. ] Crowds Yell Greetings. On his trip through Rhode Island and Connecticut, the nominee was the cen- ter of a yelling throng in every city, town and hamlet through which he passed, either on board his special train or in an automobile parade. The tumult and the shouting began on his way to the train in Boston. Here the streets were lined with thousands who yelled a farewell and engines in the rallroad yards tooted out a parting as his train passed on toward the open country. An hour out of that city he detrained at Blackstone, Mass,, and traveled by motor through one crowd after an- other until Providence was reached. On the way to that city an airplane with the words “Al Smith” marked on the bottom of its wings soared overhead. Parade in Hartford. Once through the jam in Providence, ‘where he passed through storm clouds of fluttering paper, the nominee greeted audiences from the rear of the train until Hartford was reached. Here there ‘was another rade, another paper storm, more cheering people, and a throng so thick at the station that a dozen or so newspaper correspondents were left behind. The nominee’s train, however, backed back and picked them up. § Darkness by this time had fallen and from, Hartford into' New York the sta- tion dlatforms were illuminated py the sputtering light of red, green and white flares. At all stations there were crowds, even at those points where the tl;lin went whizing by without stop- ping. New Britain and Waterbury roared out their welcomes and then Derby- Shelton was reached. Here many in the gathering carried signs. each bear- ing some inscrintion. Two of the placards read: “If you're a Socialist, so are we” and “Norris is with you, so are we.” Brown Derby Seised. At Derby some one snatched the gov- ernor's brown derby from his hand. It was the third casualty in his stock of the famous headgear and when he ‘went to the back platform at New Haven he waved a felt hat to the thousands that packed, jammed and pushed lmlgndmhh car, foving on to Bridgeport, the nominee looked down into a sea of faces that filled three streets from curb to curb. The tracks here were elevated, and the crowd roared up a “Hello, AL,” and the governor waved back. Other cities on the way into New York also turned out welcoming crowds and upon reaching here he found an- other group to greet him back to the city in which his name first rose to prominence. LOUDOUN COUNTY, ONCE DEMOCRATIC, NOW IS UNCERTAIN {Continued From First Page.) _ tween their organization and the Re- publican leaders there is an ung stanging, so that speaking dates are 1 allowed to conflict. They are both working toward the same end—the de- feat of Smith—and they are trying to keep the Smith vote in the county down to a minimum. The Republican leaders, whc have grown used to being snowed under at election time, are not now claiming pri- vately that Hoover will carry the county, but some of the anti-Smith leaders are making that claim. Both the Republi- cans and anti-Smith Democrats, how- ever, claim certain towns and election precincts for Hoover, and the regular Democratic leaders admit in confidence that there is considerable. basis for these claims. Record Vote Expected. All sides admit that Loudoun County will poll the largest vote in its history | this year. The county is being combed with'a fine-tooth comb and efforts are being made to pledge every voter one | 40,000 FACE LOSS OF VOTE'® UNDER NEW JERSEY DECISION By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J., October 26.—Forty thousand registrants in the election dis- tricts of Hudson and Essex Counties, Democratic strongholds, today faced the prospect of having their names stricken from the voters rolls on the ground that they were illegally regis- tered. Proposed action against them was announced after the decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday upholding the constitutionality of the State law which gives to superintend- ents of elections the right to strike from lieve to be illegally registered. The law giving the superintendents such power was passed by the Repub- lican Legislature early*this month, ve- toed by the Democratic governor, Harry Moore, and repassed over his veto. Hague’s City Under Fire. The act was the outcome of the in- vestigation of Hudson County condi- tions by the Case legislative committee which is still under way. Hudson is the home of Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City, vice chairman of the Democratic national committee and long a power in New Jersey politics. Democratic leaders interpret the the lists the names of citizens they be- | Illegal Registration Decision Affects Dem-! ocratic Stronghold in Hague's Area and { Hits G. O. P. in Atlantic City. action as an effort to defeat Gov. Smith. They say that the redress to the courts given voters whose names are stricken from the lists means little as the time is so short befare election that only a small part of the 40,000 will have an opportunity to be heard. They also have asked an investigation of the regis- tration in Atlantic City, one of the strong Republican cities, where 76 per cent of the estimated population is registered. Atlantic City Charges. Prosecutor Louis Repetto of Atlantic County has charged that children too young to go to school, persons long since dead, parrots, cats and dogs have been registered. He is moving to have over 2,300 names of voters stricken from the list. Democratic leaders in Hudson County said that in starting their checkup of the list of barred voters they found that 20 registrants from one house in Hoboken were struck off the list, whereas all 20 lived at the address given and were qualified to vote. Alarmed by the large increase in registration in Hudson and Essex Coun- ties United States Senator Walter E. Edge, Republican, intends to ask the assistance of the Department of Justice to safeguard the polls on November 6. and is bordered on the northeast by the Potomac River. It is a region of small towns and farms. It is famous for the richness of its soil, the general wealta of 1its inhabitants, for its thoroughbred rac- ing horses, splendid milch cows and the high yield of its acres. Practically all of its milk goes to the Washington market. The same is true of much of its farm produce. The Star’s repre- sentative found many of the leading farmers absent temporarily from their homes with their strings of racing horses. One farmer showed him what he called & “small” cow barn, which ap- peared to be constructed of hollow tile, glazed on the outside—or it might have been a species of brick. It had concrete floors and stalls for 30 cows, constructed of round iron bars. It was large, roomy and plenty of light and air came in through an ample num- ber of windows. It was supplied with running water and electric lights, and each cow had her individual drinking cup. There are many such barns in the county for cows and for horses. The main barns are usually built of stone, and many of the farm houses, large and small, are construcied of the same material. Many of the little cross-roads stores do a larger busi- ness than much more pretentious establishments in the city of Wash- ington. These things are mentioned to give an idea of the sort of place Loudoun County is, for the benefit of those who have not been there. Religion Paramount Issue. In this whole region religion seems to be the paramount issue, and next to that comes the liquor question, Actual- ly the two, in most cases, are incx- tricably mixed. Some pro-Smith Demo- crats- claim that religion is not the chief issue—or, at least, that it should not be. The rank and file of the voters do not hesitate to say that, much as they deplore the fact, religion ‘l!:xd 12“‘:: are 'g:ign ml:mhmw( e Loudoun cam| i religion in first place. instance: A Here is a typleal woman with whom this writer talked and whose intelligence and long-time Democl‘l‘tlc sympathies were quickly a pparen! eaid: “I and my family have iways vcted the Democratic ticket. But 1 do not want to vote for Smith. Yet I can- not bring myself to vote jor a Repub- lican presidential candidate. My pres- ut" lilnwnnon is not to go to the polls at all, Reluctantly for Smith. “However, I cannot bear to think of my town, county or State going Repub- lican. If I learn at the last mivute, as a result of the careful canvass that is being made by the Democratic precinct workers all over the county, that there is any danger of either my town, or Loudoun County, or Virginia going for Hoover, I shall vote for Smith, but I shall do it reluctantly.” This woman is a Protestant and a prohibitionist. She did not go into de- tail about her reasons for not liking Smith, but it was not hard to infer them from her conversation. There are hun- dreds of men and women who feel just as she That is the fact which has been made most apparent to the into many towns and rural corners of the county. ‘The chairman of the Loudoun County Democratic committee is Charles R. Lowenbach of Leesburg, and the chair- man of the special 1928 Democratic campaign committee is T. U. Dudley of Middleburg. The vice chairman of this campaign committee is Mrs. Henry Fair- fax of Aldie. The headquarters of the Democratic campaign are in Leesburg, The campaign committee is composed of active workers in every election precinct in the county. Rivals at Purcellville. The headquarters of the Anti-Smith Club are at Purcellville. Thurston J. Potts of Round Hill is president. The club also has precinct organizations, and Dr. W. D. Sydnor has the title of president of the board of precinet chairmen. The Republican county committee is headed by Shirley Piggot of Purcellville, chairman, and N. C. Nichols of Lees~ burg, secretary. The larger number of persons who ex- pressed their opinions in interviews spoke in favor of Smith, although with reservations in some instances. But a great many persons would not express any preference. There is a big “silent vote” in Loudoun County this year, and that fact has led many persons to say frankly that they do not know what will happen. A meeting of Protestant ministers of the country was held not long along, It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to way or the other. Preparations are be- ing made to get every voter to the | polling places on election day. | Heretofore, every Democratic nom- | inee for the presidency has carried this | county as a matter of course. Election | day has come end gone without caus- ing a ripple. There has been no cam- paign. There has always been a smail Republican vote, and the Democratic | vote, which has usually been three times as large, might easily have been much | Jarger had it been necessary. | In 1924, the vote for President in Loudoun County was as follows: Davis, 1,794; Coolidge, 552; La Follette, 82; Labor candidate, 2. There were only mbout 35 Coolidge votes in Leesburg | that year. This year there are 125 pledged Hoover voters, according to the | figures of the regular Democratic lead- ers, and the vole of the town is ex-| peated to be 720 In excess of the 1924 al. Borrow. Easy to Pay Monthly De Loan $120 $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100. $6,000 $500.00 Loudoun County is well known to ‘Washingtonians. Ma of them have Summer homes or farms here. Thou- sands of them spend a few days or| weeks here on th: vacations every | Summer. Leesburg, the county seat, can be reached by automobile in one hour and a half or two hours by going at a comfortable speed. The county extends from the border of Fairfax fQounty to the top of the Blue Ridge THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H STREET, N. W. representative of The Star in his trip | . at which a resolution against Smith was adopted. Methodist, Baptist, Pres- byterian and Episcopal ministers were present. Since then two or three of these ministers have come over to Smith, but the rest are standing firm for Hoover. The Ku Klux Klan is ac- tive, and is especially strong around Purcellville, which is the center of the Hoover movement. “I feel certain that we will carry the county,” said one of the pro-Smith Democrats,” by a majority between 850 and 1,000. The trend 'in recent weeks has been toward Smith, and I believe it will keep up that way.” J. H. Monroe of Purcellville, secre- tary of the Anti-Smith Democratic Club, said: “We have about 200 en- rolled members, and we expect 600 to vote with us for Hoover. We expect that Hoover will carry Purcellville, Lin- coln, Lovettsville, Waterford and Ham- {lton. We might even carry the coun- ty, although we are not claiming we will. We are working toward that end.” In Purcellville, on the front of a building on one of the two main streets of the town, is a sign, 5 by 15 feet, bearing the inscription in bold letters, “Headquarters of the Anti-Smith Dem- ocratic Club.” A prominent Republican of the coun- ty, who holds a Federal Government position, and who asked not to be quoted by name, admitted that in his opinion the county would probably go Democratic and he estimated the Smith majority at about 300. Everywhere this correspondent traveled ugh the county he was met by the same question: What have polley you found out? How is the county going? How the State? It is an unprecedented situation that exists to- day in the Old Dominion. One method that is employed by the regular Democratic organization to keep the members of the party in line for Smith is revealed in a political adver- tisement in the Loudoun Times-Mirror of Leesburg, which contains a letter and questionnaire sent to all Democratic officeholders in the county. The office- holders are asked to answer publicly the following questions: 1—Were you appointed to office as " POl st vl 20 2—] your purpose to vote for al the nominees of the Democratic party llx;”uu general election of November, ? 3—Do you propose to lend the above named nominees your active augoport in the present presidential, senatorial and congressional campaign? “Please answer all the above ques- tions ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and mail to E. O. Russell, secretary, Leesburg, Va.” the letter concludes. The letter and ques- tionnaire are being sent out officially by the Democratic committee of Loudoun. Printed in the newspaper, following the questionnaire, is a list of officials who have answered the questions af- firmatively, and another list of those who have failed to answer. One man, J. R. Latimer, county agricultural agent, replied as follows: “With regard to attached question- naire, we county agricultural agents are strictly required not to take any active rt in political . The writer ries to comply with the Federal and State rules and would consider the signing of the questionnaire or pledge would constitute an infraction of these es.” —_— “Baby” in “Skyscraper.” Traveling in a special “skyscraper” crate, a giraffe recently went from its former home in South Africa to its new abode in England. The crate had to be specially constructed because of the animal’s long neck and exceptional Kroenmom were taken to guard its ealth in its change from the tropical to the temperate climate, giraffes being delicate and subject to many allments in Northern climates. G. 0.P. PROSPERITY DERIDED BY RASKOB f Tells Radio Audience Smith’s | Tariff Stand Is Backed by Democratic Lawmakers. NEW YORK, October 26.—More than three-fourths of the Democratic mem- ers of, and candidates for, Congress Have signed a declaration indorsing the Democratic tariff plank and Gov. Sinith's interpretation of it in his uisville speech, Democratic National Ckairman John J. Raskob announced in a wadlo address tonight. whe declaration reafirmed the al- leglance of the party to a non-partisan tariff commission as recommended in thé platform and expressed approval of ‘Gov. Smith’s remarks at Louisville, when he promised to consider no change in ‘the tariff, but specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on the basis of investigation by the non- paridsan commission and hearing before Congress. Pyosperity and prohibition were dis- cussed by Raskob, who declared that present-day prosperity had its origin in the war policies of “Woodrow Wilson, which sent wages skyward to a high level: where they still remain in spite of Republican efforts at a general de- flatich. He resented and branded as misrépresentations Republican asser- tions: during the campaign that Gov. Smitk's election would be followed by a breaking down of the wall against immigration. P Mr.‘nnskob spoke at’some length on prohibition and upheld the governor's prohibition program as the means of bettering law enforcement and pro- moting temperance. He declared him- self a most ardent advocate of temper- ance and declared building of character rather than removal of temptation should be the method used to attain tempershce. “Therz are few people more inter- ested ir§ the restoration of temperate life to wur country than Mrs. Raskob and 1” Mr. Raskob said. “We are the parents f 11 living children, none of whom dfink intoxicants and none of whom smoke. This result has been accomplished through education and teaching,: not by prohibition and force. We believe the way to build character in childrén is not through keeglns all temptation .from them, but through teaching :them how to handle them- selves in temptations and teaching them than in drong-doing they are not only unfair to their fellow-beings, but they are untrue to their God and to themselves—all of which can only re- sult in reat unhappiness for every one. This sort of teaching is a teaching of love—and it is the kind of teaching our churches should be engaged in.” Disclusses Wilson's Policy. “Against . violent Republican opposi- tion,” Mr., Raskob sald, in discussing prosperity, ¥“and to general industrial apprehensicn, the Wilson war Ilabor produced a flat upward and marked revision in all labor rates. The pay roll shét up 100 per cent between 1916 and 1020. Almost immediately industry opéned its eyes. ‘The high wage gave iabor opportunity to pur- chase things rgver dreamed of before and started 1 wheels of industry ;.uml.ng as they had never turned be- ore. Democratic contribution P rity. It is the most important single boost ever received by American business. ' “The Republican party does not rec- ognize this dm't‘:clple even today. The negative and ol ctive Republican at- titude toward agriculture an exact Enllel of its former attitude toward bor. : “The Republizans believe that pros- perity resides ia concentration of the benefit of political action on particular economic groups or particular geograph- ical areas, even ¢o the exploitation and depression of others. The Democrats belleve that prosperity les in main- taining equality *of benefits and thus broadly incre: the camunungr%ewer of our whole domgstic market. is is the only sound economic principle for an integral doméstic market 118,~ 000,000 people.” Mr. Raskob uki that dur the war years more billions of dollars expen- i ad Seeh Bencicd by’ aD peeceds n en ed by preced: the Republican #dministrations com- hined without peculation, fraud or pri- vate exploitation. * “The return of the Republicans open- ed with one of the'most shameful inci- dents in our political . he said. “Special interests which for eight years had been excluded from the Capital moved toward it inf solid ranks. ey came and, as usual, conquered.” Uphold Smith on Tariff. i Gov. Smith’s tarif? doctrine, he said, ‘has thrown the Republican party into a panic and they now tell you that the Democratic party wiy not support Gov. Smith in that polwyi ‘Well, here is the answer to that: t “Over three-quarters of the Demo- cratic members and candidates for Con- gress, both Senate and House, have signed the following declaration of ADVERTISEMENTS Lantz’s Drug Store—7th & D Sts. SW Is a Star Branch Office C opy for the Classified Sec- tion of The Star left at sny of these Branch Offices, located in practically every neighbor- hood in and around Wash- ington, will be handled promptly and appear in the first available issue. No fees are charged for Branch ce service; only regular rates. 1 There’s a Star Branch Of- ‘ fice near you—look for the | i \ THE above sign. ABOVE SIGN IS DISPLAYED BY AUTHORIZED STAR BRANCH OFFICES | The Star prints such an over- whelmingly greater volume of Classified Advertising every day than any other Washingy ton paper that there can be nc question as to which will give you the best results. the Corner” is a Star Branch Office Democratic tariff policy, with other sig- natures to come when others have re- turned home from their duties in the umpnl{n: We, the undersigned Democratic can- didates for the House and Senate, re- affirm the allegiance of our party to a non-partisan tariff commission as enun- clated in the Democratic platform adopted at Houston and declare our approval of the constructive interpreta- tion placed on the tariff plank by our standard bearer, Gov. Smith, in his Louisville speech, when he sald: “I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own meritd on the basis of investigation by an impartial tariff commission and a careful hearing before Congress of all concerned. That no revision of any specific schedule will have approval of the Democratic party which in any way interferes with American standards of living and level of wages. In other ) words, I say to the American working- man that the Democratic party will not do a single thing that will take from his weekly pay envelope a 5-cent piece. To the American farmer I say that the Democratic party will do everything in its power to put back into his pocket all that belongs there. And we further say that nothing will be done that will embarrass or interfere in any way with the legitimate progress of business, big or small. With this prescription hon- estly put forth with a clear-cut and definite promise to make it effective, I assert with confidence that neither la- bor nor industry nor agriculture nor business has anything to fear from Democratic success at the polls in No- vember.” And we hereby pledge our co-operation in carrying out the princi- ples and policies therein set forth. G. 0. P. “Prohibition Party.” “This leaves the question of immi- gration and_tariff as campaign issues as dead as Damon and leaves the Re- publican party the Prohibition party of the United States, as they have no other issues.” Mr. Raskob went on to say that Her- bert Hoover, the Republican nominee for President, had repudiated the Smith proposal to take the tariff out of poli- tics through the creation of the tariff commission and come out in favor of “retention of the political advantage of the old log-rolling method.” The Re- publicans also, he said, proposed to leave the farmer outside of the tariff wall. “No power on earth, under the protective systern as the Republicans propose to apply it, can keep out the effect of world depression to batter down the domestic prices of our great export crops,” Mr. Raskob said. “u prefacing what he had to say on prohibition, Mr. Raskob quoted a state- ment made by Willlam Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the United States Su- preme Court, made in 1918, in which he predicted that prohibition would usher in the present era of bootlegging. He ajso quoted at length from the pub- lic utterances of Gov. Smith on this topic. He cited statistics to show that drunkenness was on the increase. “I have aligned myself with Gov. Smith,” he said. “He never broke a promise, evaded responsibility or dodged an issue in his life. Sharp practice is an abomination to him. He is master of the art of political government under the forms prescribed in our Constitu- tion. He would not advance an illusory platform. He is a constructive thinker and a man of action. He gets results.” i R A Brooklyn evangelist'’s Sundav talk in the Academy of Music is illustrated by a cartoonist. HUNT 7 MEN IN BOMBING AND KANSAS CITY RACKETEERING Grand Jury Indicts Ten in Outrages Laid to Labor Trouble—Three Sur- render to Police. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 26.—War- rants for seven men, named in grand jury indictments as alleged participants in recent bombings, sluggings and other racketeering activities here, were in the hands of Sheriff John Miles today. Officers expected some of them to sur- rerider voluntarily. The Jackson County grand jury yes- terday returned the indictments, nam- ing 10 men. Three were arrested and arraigned. The bills were brought in at the conclusion of a month’s inves- tigation of recent outrages here, under- stood to have centered largely around bombings of bulldings where non- union labor, bombing of an apart- ment and slugging of two employ- ers of non-union labor. Names of the seven men not arrested were with- held. The three men arraigned were Rob- ert Jackson, alleged racketeer; W. H. P. Doerr, charged with second-degree arson, and James Martin, gangster, in- dicted for second-degree arson and as a habitual criminal. Among the acts of violence under grand jury investigation was the al- leged beating of F. A. Taylor, a con- tractor. October last, Taylor, who did not im- mediately report the beating because of reported threats on his life, first told of it after Willlam A. Faust, labor organ- izer and former San lentin convict, was arrested and alleged a labor leader had paid him $200 to help beat Taylor. Another outrage investigated was the bombing March 5 of the home of Phitip Minkin, a contractor, who employed mixed union and non-union labor. He said he had been warned by labor rep- resentatives against use of non-union labor. The bombing did not injure any of the members of the Minkin’s family. Other acts investigated included th> slugging of H. M. Koontz, a contractor, and bombing of a cleaning and dyeing establishment. Martin was ordered held without bond last night; Jackson's bond was set at $22,500 and Doerr’s at $10,000, which he gave and was released. » The grand jury was in sesslon 12 days, and heard 60 witnesses. ROBERTSON TYPING TEST HIT AT TRIAL IN EVIDENCE TODAY (Continued From First Page.) recess, Jones was still on the stand. Cross examination of the witness will continue this afternoon. Jones First Defense Witness. Robertson started his defense at the night session yesterday after the State had rested its case. Mr. Jones was the first witness called. He said that he had been successful in finding bullets of the same make that killed Mills in a New York store. Experts for the State had testified they conducted a search through several countries in an effort to find similar bullets but had been unsuccessful. ‘The bullets, Jones said, were manu- factured in Germany, shortly after the ‘World War, and are now almost extinct. The last witness called by the State yesterday was Charles O. Gunther, an- other firearms expert. His testimony was designed to substantiate that pre- viously given by Col. Calvin W. Goddard, also a firearms expert. Asked for Demonstration. After Gunther had stated that the barrels of the two revolvers figuring in the case were easily interchangeable Defense Attorney Stedman Prescott asked him to demonstrate to the court just how this is done. Mr. Gunther struggled with the revolver handed him for nearly five minutes, finally announc- ing that he was unable to remove the barrel. The State then recalled Col. Goddard, who switched the barrels in accordance with the request of defense counsel. Alva Moxley, Montgomery County chief of police, testified for the State during the afternoon session. He testi- fled that he had told Robertson that the firing pin marks on the shell and the barrel marks on the fatal bullet had been made by his pistol and that a typewriter found in his home had been identified as the one which was used in typing the note found on Mills’ body. He sald Robertson replied, “I think you're wrong on part of that.” When he asked for an explanation, Moxley said Robertson replied, “You can’t expect me to show my hand at this time.” The newest methods employed by scientists in seeking a solution of a gun murder, with only the bullet from the body and ¢he empty shell as clues, were unfolded at yesterday's session as Col. Goddard resumed his testimony. ‘The expert came into court armed with microscopes, a battery of electric lights, charts, photographs, revolvers and bullets. His testimony, however, was of such a highly technical nature that few of the persons in the court- room grasped the significance of the evidence he laid before the jury. Goddard told of taking the fatal bul- let to his laboratory in which he placed it under his special microscope, which brought out the tiny indentation made by the ridges in the revolver barrel as the bullet twisted out after the weapon has been fired. Then he fired another bullet through for test pur- poses, but the markings were not the same. ‘This condition resulted, he intimated, because the slayer removed the barrel ANTIHFREEZE FRAUD CHARGED BY DORAN Prohibition ~ Commissioner Warns Against Dilution of Auto Radiator Mixture. With the Weather Bureau forecasti: colder weather tonight, prohibition ad- ministrators, autcmobile owners and garage dealers were warned today by Prohibition Commissioner Doran that dilution of anti-freeze mixtures for au- tomobile radiators was being resortec to by some garages and filling stations as a fraud upon the public and a vio- lation of the law. Reports reaching the Prohibition Bu reau, Dr. Doran said, showed that cer- tain unscrupulous dealers in anti-freeze mixtures were diluting these mixtures with water. Such dilution Dr. Doran branded as “a fraud upon the public,” as well as a violation of the Govern- ment regulations governing thé dena- turing of alcohol. In making public his warning, sent to all prohibition administrators throughout the country, Dr. Doran ex- plained that under the law and regula- tions the completely denatured alcohol which is the base of anti-freeze mix- tures is prepared under Government formulas, and labeled to reach the con- sumer in proper condition. Dilution of this formula can be used as a basis for prosecution, Dr. Doran said, warning all dealers to sell the anti-freeze ma- terfal as it is received from the manufacturer. make after the crime had been com- mitted. The State contends that the revolver designated as No. 2, the one said to have been found in Robertson's home after his arrest, makes barrel markings identical with those on the fatal bullet, indicating that the barre! of the fatal weapon was removed and attached to the second revolver. In making his identification of the shells found beside Mills' body, Goddard said he followed a similar process. The breaches of the two weapons, however, had not been changed, the State ci : and the markings on the shells fired in tests from revolver No. 1 are identical with those found on the shells found lying beside the body. In other words, what happened, ac- cording to the State, was that after Mills had been killed the murderer re- moved the barrel from his weapon. Then later he uréd another revolver and transposed the barrels, The mys- tery surroun the shooting was fur- ther intensified yesterday when Col. Goddard declared that the bullet re- moved from the body was a make un- known to him. He said he communi- cated with cartridge makers of this country and in foreigh. countries, but ghez none had ever seen such a bullet 2fore. ‘There are 21,000 horses working on the streets of Philadelphia, with an- of the fatal weapon and substituted an- sther barre] from a revolver of the same PAR-KERRY 20 AND MORE other 2,000 being used on the bridle paths. In the best of style, Par-Kerry overcoats achieve the highest regard of particular men...Selections include woolens of foreign and domestic looms, woven for winter service.