Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau .:”um:'z,d. Cloudy, preceded TS i tomorrow fair; notlzm‘ch change yln Temperatire—Highest, 50, at 4 pm. yesterday; lowest temperature, 35, at 8 am. yesterday. Full report on page 4. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star’s exclusive carrier service. Phone Main 5000 to start immediate delivery. The Sunday Star., WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION FIVE CENTS (#) Means Associated Pnu.m WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS lTEN CENTS ELSEWHERE No. 1,232—No. 30,861. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING,. OCTOBER 28, 1928—114 PAGES. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, e REPUBLIGAN”HEADS SEEK 70 BECLOUD HOOVER MAINTAINS LEAD AS FINAL WEEK STARTS D mocratic Nominee Reported Fighting ISSUE, SMITH SAYS :)esperately to Overcome Odds of 227 “Sure” Republican Electoral Votes. IN' PENNSYLVANIA Governor’s Philadelphia Talk tion and Possible Congres- sional Support. G. 0. P. NAMES BOOED BY NOISY AUDIENCE Candidate Promises Crowd He Will Listen to It if Permitted to Finish Address Without Inter- ruption—Goes to Raskob's Dela- ware Home. By the Assoclated Press, PHILADELPHIA, October 27.— Carrying his speaking campaign into Pennsylvania, Gov. Alfred E. Smith tonight opened an attack on Republican leaders who have been shooting at his recent utter- ances and accused them of at- tempting to becloud the issues be- fore the American people. Speaking in the arena, the Dem- ocratic standard bearer several times had to plead with the au- dience, which packed every seat and jammed the aisles, to be quiet 50 he could talk. “The gallery orators can come down here after I get finished,” he shouted at one juncture, A little later he told the crowd if it would wait until he was done, that he would then stay and listen to it. Each time the governor appealed for silence his requests were punctuated with applause. G. 0. P. Names Booed. References by the nominee to Her- ‘bert Hoover, his ‘rival for the presi- dency, were greeted with boos. The erowd also booed the mention of the names of Charles E. Hughes, Secretary BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The last week in the presidential campaign opens with Hoover in the lead. o < e, Gov. Smith, the Democratic nominee, is campaigning desperately Deals With Tariff, Prohibi-| to overcome the odds against him. Mr. Hoover is seeking to hold and congolidate the gains he has already 'made. The Democrats are taking heart of grace from the huge crowds which Gov. Smith is drawing wherever he goes. They point to the outpouring of people in Boston when Smith spoke there and in other New England cities during the last week. They see their candidate winding up in a final dash for the election which will prove ir- resistible. The Republicans point to the polls and straw votes taken in every part of the country, all of which show Hoover well in the lead even in States which are by tradition and political complexion surely Democratic. These polls are dis- counted by the Democrats, who assert they are not fairly taken, or at least do not reach the Democratic voters. The same thing was said by the Democrats of the polls taken in 1924 and 1920. At all events the polls probably are as good indication of popular sentiment as the gwérmg crowds for Smith, perhaps tter. 227 G. 0. P. Votes “Sure.” Canvasses of the country at large give Hoover the advantage. Twenty States may be placed in the sure Republican column, with a total of 227 electoral votes. This is 39 votes shy of the neces- sary 266 electoral votes to win. Eight other States with a total electoral vote of 58 are leaning to the Republican column. Add the sure Republican States and those leaning to Hoover and the total is 285 electoral votes, or more than enough to elect. For Smith, nine States are listed as sure with 102 electoral votes, and six others are leaning Democratic. The latter have 98 electoral votes. If Smith takes all six of the States listed as lean- ing Democratic, plus those which are considered sure Democratic, he will have 200 electoral votes. Five States are still in the doubtful column with a total of 46 electoral votes. If Smith wins all these doubtful States he will still be short of election by 20 votes. ‘The* States listed as sure Republican are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Vir- m and Wyoming, with 227 electoral Those States regarded as I to Hoover are Delaware, Ken't:xw g;mv:ds. Ne;m.{;mmzartb Dakota, oma, le d Dakota, with 68 electoral vo‘f:ld. coge “Sure” Smith States All in South. The “sure” Smith States are all in the solid South. ‘They are l:l“nbum, Mellon, whose home is In Pittsburgh, | Missiselppi, South’ Carolina. Texas and Virginia, with in the western partfof the State, and The Btates Mary] Massacht co, ‘New Yotk and North with 98 electoral Senator Borah of Idaho, who is stumping the country for the Repub- jamming parade route peo- a weicome, as cllgwda else- his Louis- if the Dem- business, ug] nt which he him get away members of Congress ing to follow his leadership on the “Well, I am going to relieve the gov- ernor's mind of any worry on that seore and I will tell you why,” he said. The candidate then announced h had wired Democrats seeking election and re-election to Congress, and had received r?uu from 80 per cent of them. Each one, he added, had prom- to support utterances at on the tariff. “Just let that definitely and finally t to sleep,” he continued, “all fear that Gov. Hughes or any other Republican spokesman may have about the Democratic attitude on the tariff; and there is no reason why they should themselves, by their utterances, dis- turb business by predicting calamity in the event of Democratic victory.’ Turning his verbal fire again on Mr. Hughes, this time on prohibition, the governor said he would assure that g:nugmm there was no sham battle fought. . ““g‘n&m battle,” he asked. “What Gov. Hughes mean by that?” “This is a real fight; and it is not a fight upon the merits or demerits of the eighteenth amendment or the sus- taining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, in- temperange _and disregard and disre- spect for all law.” Wilson's Name Applauded. After applause had died down, the speaker added: “And the American people do not fight sham battles when these questions are at issue.” A reference by the governor to Wood- yow Wilson was applauded and more applause punctuated the quotation by the nominee of Wilson that “You can- not regulate the morals and the habits of a great cosmopolitan people by plac- ing unreasonable restrictions upon their liberty and freedom.” The governor said Hughes “must know all this,” and the audience began booing again. Th¢ audience booed once more at a mention of Hoover's name. When Mr. Smith said that while it was true that “we have no saloon,” the Republican presidential candidate, Mr. Hughes and Senator Borah knew, as every one else did, that liquor was be- ing sold illegally in every State in the Union, the audience again applauded. The governor motioned for silence. “you are not making any contribu- tion to the success of this meeting,” he told his hearers. “Just keep quiet, and after 1 have finished you can gd as far as you like and I will stay to hear you." The audience apparently took this good naturedly, as it applauded again. Gets Crowd’s Cheers. Continuing on prohibition, the nomi- nee had the crowd laughing when he quoted Hughes as saying Smith's elec- ll?nnfing to Smith are usetts, New Mexi- Carolina, votes. ‘The five States listed as “doubtful” Arizona, ,__Montana, Missouri, Ne- braska and Wisconsin, having 4 - toral votes. i Many Democrats will lay claims to NORRS EXPLANS STAND FORSHT Water Power and Farm Aid Real Campaign Issues, Senator Says. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, October 27.—Senator George ‘W. Norris, Republican, tonight declared prohibition was not an issue of the presidential campaign and that the Re- publicans were trying falsely to make an issue of it. ‘The Nebraska Senator, who announc- ed his decision two days ago to sup- port Gov. Smith for President, did not deviate from the general text of his prepared speech, but shortened it due to the limit of radio time accorded the meeting. Speaking under auspices of the Pro- gressive League for Al Smith for Presi- dent, he outlined the water power and farm issues—the main reasons, he said, for his decision to bolt the Republican ticket. The Senator will not bolt the party entirely, however, for Monday evening he talks at Fairbury, Nebr., in behalf of his colleague, Senator R. B. Howell, Republican, As vigorously as Me praised Gov. Smith, Senator Norris scored Herbert Hoover for his record on water power and his silence in the face of official leclared _that Refers to Farm Bill. Asserting that Gov. Smith had come out “courageously and frankly” in in- dorsement of the principles of the Mc. Nary-Haugen bill, Senator Norris said: T want to say to you, particularly to my Republican brethren who have s for the McNary-Haugen bill, who haye (Continued on Page 24, Column 2.) = FIREMAN KILLED BY SCAFFOLDING Another Man Seriously Hurt When Smokestack Crashes to the Ground. One man was fatally injured and an- other seriously hurt when a scaffolding which was being used to raise a 110- foot iron smokestack to the rear of the ‘Washington Post Building, collapsed and fell 20 feet to the ground yester- day afternoon. The dead man is Albert J. Greiner, 50 years old, of 4026 Galt place north- east, a fireman of No. 27 Engine Com- pany, who had been detailed to the the | Fox Theater for the matinee perform- ance. He was standing in the rear of the theater, watching the stack being raised when struck by a portion of the falling scaffolding. Crew Foreman Hurt. Menefee Moffatt of 106 Seventeenth street southeast, foreman of the con- structiop crew which was raising the stack, also was struck by a portion of the scaffolding. At Emergency Hospi- tal, where he was taken in the ambu- lance, it was said he was suffering from lacerations about the head and a pos- sible fracture of the skull. Dr. I. Rut- koski, who treated him, reported his condition was serious. Spectators said the big smokestack was being raised by a scaffolding man- ipulated by pulleys on the roofs of the Munsey and National Press Club build ings. It had nearly reached the up-: right position when, without warning, it gave way and the stack, weighing more than a ton, crashed to the ground. No one was struck by the stack itsel Greiner was taken to Emergency H pital in a private automobile, dying about 10 minu fter arrival. Moffatt was given first aid at the scene and later taken to the hospital. On Force 23 Years. C.. W. Gill, deputy chief of the first battalion of the Fire Department, identified Greiner. Greiner_had been a member of the District Fire Department 23 years. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Florence Greiner; two daughters, Mrs. Florence Gravatt and Mrs. Anna Thomas, both residing in Washington, two sons, Albert and Wilson, and several grand- children. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. Sl i Auditor Goes to Prison. CHARTRSTON. W. V2. October 27 ()—John C. Bond, former State auditor, left here today in custody of Warden L. M. Robinson for the State Penitentiary at Moundsville, under sen- tence “of six years’ imprisonment for misuse of State funds. Bond had been tion might impede its enforcement. s ~ more_laughter when he tinued on Page i, Column 1.) confined in the Kanawha County jail since Octhber 16, after various legal mansuvers to keep courts falled, <+ (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) POLITICIANS AT SEA ON VALLEY RESULT Rockingham County Consid- ered as Normally Republican by Small Margin. Note—This {is the seventh fertes of articles umuufi:"tm St n in . leal” situation mearby Maryland BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Staft Correspondent of The Star, HARRISONBURG, Va., October 27. —This busy community, the county seat of Rockingham County, is the commercial, social and welfare center of a large portion of the Shenandoah Valley, 1Its people are strangely stirred in this strange presidential campaign. The result of the voting for Smith and Hoover November 6, in this section of Virginia is difficult to forecast. ‘The most experienced political prognosticators confess that they have no rule by which to measure the pres- ent situation. It is entirely new, especially for this part of the country, and. factors never before known in a political campaign seem to be swaying voters. So far as a mere landsman may be, the politicians of every stripe here are completely “at sea” and with no land in sight yet. Normally Republican. This immediate county may be con- sidered as normally Republican in presidential elections, according to one Democratic leader with whom The Star correspondent talked, but only by a very small majority. In fact, Davis, Democratic presidential nominee four years ago, carried it by about 45 votes in a total vote of something like 4,000. But Harding carried it by about 1,500 eight years ago. The Democratic party, as elsewhere in the famous Valley of Virginia, is very strong here and throughout the seventh congressoinal district, of which this county is a part. Gov. Byrd of Virginia, who lives in the seventh dis- trict, 50 or 60 miles northwest of this place, is popular here, and the only newspaper, an up-to-date publication edited by John R. Crown, former ‘Washington newspaper correspondent, is partly owned by Gov. Byrd. It seems significant to outside ob- servers that this newspaper is refrain- ing from taking sides in this campaign. It is confining itself, apparently, to printing the news from both sides and such political advertisements as either side wishes to pay for. Byrd Carried County. Shenandoah County, which is ad- jacent to this one on the northwest, is considered by the Democrats as nor- mally Republican in presidential elec- tions, although Byrd has carried it for hig case in the 1 i governor. The seventh congressional (Continued on Page 23, Column 1. ROBERTSON, FREED ON MURDER COUNT, FACES NEW TRIAL Acquittal Comes After Jury Is Out Less Than Hour and a Half. THRONG IN COURTROOM APPLAUDS CASE VERDICT Wife and Child With Accused at End—Assault Charge Still to Be Tried. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FREDERICK, Md., October 27.— Samuel T. Robertson of Bethesda, Md., was found not guilty of the murder of Edward L. Mills, by a jury of Frederick County farmers shortly before midnight. The jury was given the case at 10.2F o'clock and reached its verdict an hour and 30 minutes later. In accordance with Maryland law, Robertson stood facing the jury with his right hand held in the air, the thumb of his left hand was hooked in his trousers pocket and he wore a con- fident smile on his face, as he waited for the foreman to announce the jury's decision. Despite the fact that Judge Hammond Urner had announced that no demonstration whatsoever would be tolerated, the more than a hundred persons packed in the courtroom shout- ed for nearly five minutes after the ver- dict was announced. Wife Hears Verdict. Robertson left the courtroom with one arm around his wife’s shoulders and the other bearing his smallest child, who had fallen asleep during the tiresome wait while the jury was out of the room. Although cleared of the murder charge, Robertson still must stand trial on a charge of assault with intent to murder in connection with his alleged attack on Wilson Trout of Glen, Md. It was after this fight with Trout that Robertson surrendered to police and was _charged with the murder of Mills. After a consultation between the prosecution and defense counsel, it was agreed to let Robertson go home with his family tonight and he will appear in court Monday and post bond in this case. The acquittal of Robertson leaves the Mills murder as one of the most puz- zling mysteries in the history of Mont- fi:::ery County, The consensus among spectators here after listening to the evidence in this case was {hat the identity of the man who walked up to Mills under the guise of iriendsh'p on his farm near Hunting Hill and shot him to death at daybreak, July 7, 1927, will never be known. Mrs. Mills Unmoved. Every seat in the courtroom was taken and more than 100 persons stood during the five hoars consumed by attorneys in their argument to the Jury. Almost hidden in the dense crowds were Paul Mills, son of the dead man, and Mrs. Bertha Mae Mills, his widow. Mrs. Mills appeared des- pondent while waiting for the iury to return and showed no signs of emotion as its verdict was announced. As Robertson was preparing to return to his home for the first time in six months, he paused to shake the hand of each juryman and expressed his appre- clation of their decision. “The knowl- edge of my innocence has sustained me throughout this ordeal,” he said, “but I cannot forget the terrific strain my wife has been under, and the insulting: sinuations made against her charactes Robertson, with his wife and three children, left for his home as soon as he could make his way through a crowd of friends who_thronged about him to fiute his hand and slap him on the ck. Police Are Criticized. The theme of the arguments of de- fense counsel was expressed in one sentence by Albert M. Bouic, who said: ‘It is far better that this crime go unsolved than to take this innocent man and make him a victim to save the scalps of the police force of Mont- gomery County.” Chief Alvie Moxley of (Continued on P:xt 2, Column 4.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—40 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 10. Political Survey of the United States— Pages 24 and 25. Radio News—Pages 34, 35 and 36. PFinancial News—Pages 37, 38 and 39, PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 4. Review of Autumn Books—Page 4. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Soclety. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10, D. A. R. Activities—Page 11, Around the City—Page 11. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 12, At Community Centers—Page 12. News of the Clubs—Page 16. Y. W. C. A. Activities—Page 16, PART FOUR—16 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. News of the Motor World—Pages 6, 7 and 8. Aviation Activities—Pages 9 and 10. Col. Lindbergh's Story—Page 9. Veterans of Great War—Page 12. District National Guard—Page 12. Army and Navy News—Page 13. District of Cqlumbia Naval Reserve— Page 13. Civillan Army News—Page 13. Fraternal News—Page 14. ,;;rhe ‘Tule Marsh Mur- Spanish War Veterans—Page 15, Cross-word Puzzle—Page 15. ‘W. C. T. U. Activities—Page 15. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART SIX—10 PAGES. Classified Advertising. News of the Clubs—Page 9. PART SEVEN—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Humor. GRAPHIC SECTION.. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—4 PAGES. Mutt and Jeff; Reg’jar Fellers; Mr, and Mrs.; High of Historys GETTING THE “LOW-DOWN” FROM LA FOLLETTE. NEVILS INSTALLED WITH GREAT PONP Distinguished Group Attends Georgetown University Cere- mony for President. Inaugural ceremonies for President ‘W. Coleman Nevils, S. J., of George- town University were conducted last night in Gaston Hall in the presence of the most distinguished group of educators, officials and diplomats that has met within its walls since the his- toric occasion of Georgetown's centen- nial celebration 40 years ago. Dr. Nevils, who was presented for of- fice on behalf of the board of regents by James A. Farrell of New York, presi- dent of the United States Steel Cor- poration and s doctor of laws of Georgetown, made a plea in his in- augural address for “progressive con- servation” in educational training. He deplored the tendency especially to place too much emphasis on special- ization and electivism in college courses, attributing this in a measure to the “impatient rush and hurry of America shown in many ways, even in the fleld of education.” Procession Is Colorful. A colorful academic procession in which delegates from approximately 100 leading American and foreign uni- versities, including 20 university presi- dents, formed at 7:45 o'clock in the lower corridor and marched to the academic hall, where Dr. Edmund A. ‘Walsh, 8. J., vice president of George- town, officiated at the. induction of the new rector. R. O. T. C. cadets bear- ing the American and Georgetown col- ors headed the spectacular procession as it wound its way through the cor- ridors. - The conferring of honorary de- grees upon five distinguished alumni and professors of the university, as well as the awarding of a degree of doctor of divinity upon President Nevils in honor of his career as priest and teach- er, was a feature of the inaugural cere- ‘monies. Referring to tendencies during his address, Dr. Nevils declared: “We find each year that special- ization begins earlier,” he said, “and electivism, if it keeps the same pace as this first quarter of the twentieth century, will soon be introduced into the kindergarten and we shall find a lisping youngster gravely electing courses in clay modeling or crayon drawing. Need of Moral Courage. “Our present day need is not_tecl nical experts,” President Nevils decla ed, “but men and women of intellect- ual power and moral courage; men and women of general and genuine culture—a culture that is the result of harmonious training and the facul- ties of the soul. Hence we rejoice to see our professional and technical schools growing more and more in- sistent that those who enter them shall_come fortified with a_college de- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) STUDENT ADMITS HOLD-UP SLAYINGS Oglethorpe Sophomore Says He Shot Two in Atlanta for “Thrill.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., October 27.~George Marsh, 23, homore at Oglethorpe University, confessed today he shot and killed two men during a series of seven recent hold-ups in Atlanta, police an- nounced late today. Marsh, who told police he was assisted by a fellow siudent, said the hold-ups were the re- sult of his desire for a “thrill.” Marsh told A. LaMar Poole, acting chief of police, he had fired the shots that killed E. H. Meek and Willard Smith, clerks in two of the stores he held up with his accomplice. Takes All Blame. ‘The lad, who is the son of a widowed mother, took all the blame for the mur- ders, police announced, saying his com- panion merely was the driver of the automobile they used. Detectives were in Athens, Ga., late today, in search for Marsh’s companion. ‘Working on a clue furnished by a pair of bloodstained trousers which had been sent to a dry cleaner, police traced the hold-ups to Marsh and arrested him today as he stepped from a class- room on the Oglethorpe campus. He was taken to the office of Acting Chief Poole, where, after first denying knowledge of the crime, he confessed. ! Three U. S. Airship Experts Will Take Graf Zeppelin Trip Three of the United States Navy's lighter-than-air craft experts will be on the Graf Zeppelin when it starts from the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., for Germany. ‘The men to make the voyage are Comdr. Maurice R. Pierce, executive officer of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station; Lieut. Charles Edward Bauch of Dorchester, Mass, a sur- vivor of the Shenandoah disaster, and the oldest lighter-than-air craft man in the Navy in point of service, and Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle of Washington, one of the board who helped design and draw up plans for the Navy's two new $6,500,000 airships. It was announced at the Bureau of Aeronautics that these men were being sent to observe the perform- ance of the airship on its eastward TAN CLUE SYARES HOLD-UP SUSPECT Man Arrested Few Hours After Silver Spring Bank Robbery. A wary taxicab driver and two Dis- trict headquarters detectives yesterday caused the arrest of a man identified as a bank robber less than five hours after the Silver Spring, Md., Bank had been held up and robbed of $1,600. Hugh L. McDaniel, 27, 30 Columbia avenue, Takoma Park, Md., is being held at Rockville jail pending. arrival of State’s Attorney Robert B. Peter, who will fix his bond. He was arrested shortly after noon. At the time of the hold-up there were no customers in the bank. An un- masked man entered and stepped up to the window of Fred L. Lutes, assistant cashier, at 8:05 am. The bank opened at 8 o'clock. “What do you have to do to get a loan here?” the man asked. Confronted With Gun. “Have you made any previous ar- rangements,” queried Lutes. “No,” was the reply. “Then you'll have to see the cashier,” said Lutes, turning to indicate the cage where sat Ira C. Whitacre, cashier. As he turned back, he found himself look- ing down the barrel of an automatic pistol. “Give me all you've got,” snapped the stranger and Lutes handed out packages of currency. Whitacre overheard the conversation and pressed the burglar alarm button. He procured a pistol and started to the rear of Lutes' cage. The robber backed away and Whitacre fired three shots at the man as he passed through the door. Then he went to the door and fired twice more. Lutes secured his revolver and rushed to the door, firing & single shot. Then, seeing the crowd in front of the bank he told ‘Whitacre to cease firing in fear of hit- ting a by-stander. Woman Is Wounded. One of the bullets penetrated the right ear of Miss Helen Hobbs of Lin- den, Md., who was sitting in a parked automobile. Her escort, Bradford Fox, also of Linden, who was standing be- side the car, ducked out of the way of the bullets. Seeing that Miss Hobbs was wounded he drove her to Dr. How- ard H. Howlett, nearby physician, for treatment. Dr. Howlett reported her condition was not serious. Another bullet passed through the overcoat of Hewitt D. Bodine, a coal and ice dealer of 410 Pine street, Ta- koma Park, Md, who was standing nearby. The bullet tore two holes in the coat without touching the flesh. One of the bullets ripped through the plate glass in the front door and a fourth was found embedded in the plaster over the door. During this fusillade the bandit failed to fire a single shot. He hurried to a waiting taxicab, flourished his gun -at the driver’s head, and ordered him to drive to Washington. The cab started away, closely fol- lowed by an automobile driven George F. Hamilton of Silver S 3 optician, with offices at 1409 New Yor! avenue. Hamilton had seen the shoot- ing and followed in the hope of halt- ing the robber. He followed the cab along Georgia avenue and turned left into Falkland drive, near the rail- road tracks. The cab went over the railroad bridge and turned right on Philadelphia avenue, with Hamilton in close pursuit. The chase took them along Carroll avenue and Hamilton lost the cab it turned north. He lost "(B\Efied on Page 3, Column 6. BIENNIAL ART SHOW ATTEMPT 10 KILL CRUISER PROGRAM LAID T0 PACIFISTS Plans Made at Non-Public Meeting of National Council for Prevention of War. NAVAL EXPANSION HELD GREAT “POKER GAME” Organization’s Bulletin Urges Ar- mistice Day for Demonstration Against Conflicts. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. To kill the pending program for con- struction of 15 cruisers and 1 aircraft carrier—approved by the House but still awaiting action in the Senate—is now the avowed purpose of the official pacifist organization. At a non-public meeting held in Washington October 17 by the National Council for Pre- vention of War plans were perfected to that end. To accomplish it the council, under the energetic leadership of its executive secretary, Frederick J. Libby, will conduct the same intensive, Nation-wide campaign as it success- fully waged against the administra- tion's original 71-ship bill. As before, DRAWS THOUSANDS Guests Acclaim Corcoran Gallery Exhibition of Ameri- can 0Oil Paintings. An exhibition intended and con- sidered to be fully representative of the best in every existing school of painting in this country was last night inspected by as fully a representative gathering of persons qualified to appreciate its merits, when several thousand guests visited the Corcoran Gallery of Art in response to special invitations of its president and board of trustees to the ti’:pxe}:‘mtglmefl“u view of its Eleventh ibif of Contemporary American Ofl Paintings. This biennial event has come to be eagerly anticipated not only in the Na- tional ital but throughout the realm of art in the United States. The attendnnt\:e‘.l whlcl; included, ;a llwl¥s, representatives of official, diplomatic, -m and residential ci Was commensurate with the importance of the affair, considered one of the out- standing art events of the country. That the verdict of the guests was fa- vorable to the display as a whole was as apparent as their keen interest in each individual offering. The discrimi- nation of gatherings of this nature in ‘Washington is proverbial. Appreciation of Awards. Evidences of appreciation given last night must prove gratifying to the members of the professional jury which selected and arranged the paintings and the bestowal of the four imy nt William A. Clark prizes. The untiring efforts, both physical mental, of these distinguished painters, both here and in New York, may be considered of themselves as an important contribution to the advancement of art. They labor without pay, give freely of their time and energy and to them is freely accredited a large success of any of these biennial events. The personnel of this jury, which serves as a hanging committee, and whose members are all among the most best known of present-day painters, is: Charles W. Hawthorne of Province- town, Mass., and New York City, chair- man; Karl Anderson of Westport, Conn., and New York; Ernest Blumenschein of Taos, N. Mex.; Adolph Borie of Philadelphia and Aldro Hibbard of Boston. The director of the Corcoran Gallery, C. Powell Min- geflserode. served as an ex-officio mem- T There was no formal receiving line last night. This has come to be the custom the last few years in order that the fnllery‘s guests may have the most ample opportunity to inspect, enjoy and discuss the pictures. The gallery was, (Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) ARMY DEFEATS YALE AS NAVY DOWNS PENN Surprises Feature Results of East- ern Battles—Dixie Games Run True to Form. ‘While Army was jolting Yale, 18 to 6, through the great work of Red Cagle, halfback, in the feature game of yester- day’s scintillating foot ball card, lots of other guesses went wrong. Navy came to life in an unexpected | pt fashion to down Pennsylvania, 6 to 0; Harvard gave the experts one on the chin by trimming Dartmouth, 19 to 7; West Virginia defeated Lafayette, 17 to 0, and little Gettysburg turned the most surprising feat of the day by conquer- ing Bucknell, 14 to 12. Princeton nosed out Cornell, 3 to 0; Towa gained a 7-to-6 edge on Minnesota in a similar clash; Wisconsin beat Michigan, 7 to 0; Ohio State won over Indiana, 13 to 0; Purdue smothered Chi- cago, 40 to 0; Carnegie Tech beat Pitt, 6 to 0, while Nebraska downed Missour, 24 to 0, in the main struggle in the Valley. Prom a local standpoint, Georgetown stood out with a 35-to-0 win over Duke figured in L. | of five cruisers and the Libby organization will have the active co-operation of the Federal Council of Churches. The House of Representatives surrendered to the “voice of the people” last Winter and Mr. Libby and his coadjutors seem con- fident the Senate will quail under the same pressure. Veteran members of Congress never experienced such a bar- rage of organized propaganda. At the end of last March, following the defeat of the 71-ship program, the pacifist organization flooded the coun- try with telegrams to its constituents. The telegrams described the curtailed program just adopted by the House as “competitive and provocative.” The 15 cruisers voted to be built in three years were attacked as being “as bad as the original 25 cruisers in five years.” The wmbmclum: '!l:eelunt pros- o program in Senate, pro- Pided Nation-wide protest posarrockint “The National Council for Preven- tion of War," said Mr. Libby te this writer, “is for the moment chiefly in- terested in bringing about the ratifica- tion of the Kellogg pact for renuncia- tion of war. Whether the pact is rati- fied by the Senate or opposing the proposed tion. The project to first concern of the peace Our next step will be to the opposing of the naval program. look upon the anti-war paet and the naval building scheme as entirely separate issues; but no matter what whip up public sentiment against ex- pansion of the United States fleet is set forth in the official News Bulletin of the National Council for Prevention of War. The project voted by House and vi rtion of the Britain it vy group game in May, 1924, with a bill authoriz- ing eight 10,000-ton cruisers, which passed the House in that month by a substantial majority. The British fol- lowed that Summer, under a minority Labor government, with authorization began actual con- struction. .The following December our T.| Senate passed the House authorization bill and it became law. In the Summer of 1925, the British approved the Birkenhead program of 16 more cruisers to be built in five years, ending in 1929. ‘Then our big-Navy group asked for it took right ‘ane. dropped e Bri and three of theirs. America’s m?lrgp 12:: outraged public opinion here and was forced to drop to 15, but still wants 5 for 1929, 5 for 1930 and 5 for 1931. . . Could any gambling be madder? It is high time for this little game to be stopped by those who pay. The Brittens and the Birkenheads who do this kind of gambling are not the ones that have to pay the bills. They play, The people pay. Navy States Views. The Navy Department has just issued its own official version of the necessity for enacting the cruiser bill into law. Speaking at a public meeting in Wash- ington on October 25, in the presence of Secretary Wilbur and other high officials of the Navy, Rear Admiral Wil- liam H. Standley, assistant chief of naval operations, s “While treaties like the Kellogg pact lessen the probability of wars and the hostile employment of armed forces, they do not reduce the urgent necessity for maintaing navies for self-defensive d must include the and property of legitimate pursuits wherever they may be. “Laws and treaties have the effect of law, but do not insure obedience to the law. There must still be a sanc- tion which can be :lrpued when other measures fail. As illustrating this, I need only to call your attention to the fact that there are laws on the statute books of this country to cover every conceivable human act, but in spite of these laws every city and community has its well police force. Therefore, unless there is further agreement between the various powers, the situation as s same today as it was before the Kellogg peace treaties to renounce war were signed.” Favor Anti-War Demonstrations. The pacifists would like to convert the forthcoming commemoration of Armistice doah College, while Gallaudet lost to > Juniata. In the leading games in Dixle, Georgia Tech routed North Carolina, 20 to 7; Georgia turned back Tulane, 20 to 14; Tennessee beat Washington and Lee, 26 to 7; Florida beat North Carolina State, 14 to 7, and Vanderbilt downed Vi ia, 34 to,0. sults were true to ¢ All these re-! tional Council fa vention of War, in its October “News Bulletin,” asserts that “the Armistice day anniversary in 1928 offers to us the largest hope for peace that we have ever had and hboundless - tunities to achieve it. nnmmsg (Continued on Page 6, Columan Py