Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. 5. Weather B Forecast.) Cloudy; siightly colder fonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, prob- ably followed by rain at night. Temperatures: Highest, 60, at 3 p.m. Partly yesterday; lowest, Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 it 41, at 7 a.m. today. ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar. service. Saturday’s 5 No. 30,862. post office, TEPPELINBIDS U. S GOODBY AND HEADS " NORTHTOGERMANY: SIGHTED BY LINERS « Takes Off at Lakehurst at 1:54 This Morning—Left Coast Behind at 6:05 After Passing Over New York. , ONE WOMAN PASSENGER AND 60 MEN ON BOARD Three American Naval Officers Making Trip—Message Reports 70-Mile Speed and Clear Weather. Decision to Leave Is Quickly Made by Comdr. Eckener. BOSTON, October 29 ®.— The Coast Guard Cutter Mo- jave, on patrol duty off the Nova Scotia coast notified head- quarters here by radio today that the Graf Zeppelin had been sighted at 8:45 am. off Cape Sable. The location was given as latitude 42 north and longitude 66.05 west. The Graf Zeppelin was heading Eastward at good speed. SOUTH DARTMOUTH, Mass., Entered as second class matter Washington, D, C. WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1928—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. Held Up by Bandit Above: Harry E. Lohmeyer, manager of Earle Theater, who with the assist- ant manager, Wayne Birdsell (below) was forced to open the safe in the thea- ter office today and hand over $4,000 to a bandit. —Star Staff Photo. 32 PERSONS KILLED October 29 UP).—The Graf Zep- pelin reported that it was about 110 miles southeast of Cape Sa- ble, Nova Scotia, in a2 message received today at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technol- ogy radio station here. The big dirigible was then making a speed of about 70 miles an hour and the weather was clear, the message said.__ NEW YORK, October 29 ®.— The Radio Marine Corporation was informed by the steamer Laconia that the Graf Zeppelin passed over the liner at 10:15 2.m., eastern standard time, at a point about 90 miles south- west of Cape Sable, Nova Scotia. ) — G €] Wi comm “m"flg"ndib wil th g the fofenoon. INAUTO ACCIDENTS Grade Crossings Account for 17 Deaths in Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania. By the Associated Press. Sunday cost 17 lives, while 15 others were killed in additional accidents. Seven persons were killed at Harwood, Md., when & stalled automobile was struck by a train at a grade crossing. In a similar accident near Seward, Pa., a family of five persons was wiped out. They were returning from christening. In Cleveland, five persons were killed when a truck and a sedan containing were be o taas ¥ o, 15 o'clock. The word from the dirigible was “all's well.” the Associated Press. ”Gl;.EAT POINT, Nantucket Is- land, Mass., October 29—The Graf Zeppelin, greatest ship that ever rode the air, bade farewell to the United States which for 14 days has been its host, and headed its nose into the breaking dawn and toward its distant hangar at Friedrichshafen, Ger- .many at 6:05 o'clock this morn- ing. After a speedy trip up the wuth(roz:x Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, ;(h.el.. the dirigible left land behind as it flew swiftly out over Nantucket Sound nearly midway between Great Point Light on this island and Monomoy Light on the long spur which juts out from the ‘southeastern tip of Cape Cod. It was just - four hours and eleven minutes from the time it cleared the Naval Air Station. Aboard were three- score men, including three officers of the United States Navy, one woman and a variegated cargo of freight. Strikes Boldly Out to Sea. After having hugged the coastline since it quit the air station the Zep- pelin struck boldly out to sea, heading southeast. A group of early hunters, who with the lighthouse keepers glimpsed the big ship, estimated it was making close to 80 miles an hour and that it was flying at an altitude of about 1,600 The group on either side of Nan- tucket Sound were not the last to see the giant craft. That honor went to Eugene Larsen, keeper of the lonely Santaky light, the first beacon sight- ed by incoming transatlantic liners. Larsen reported that from his posi- tion in the tower of his lighthouse, which rises from a precipitous cliff on the extreme eastern edge of this island, he did not lose sight of the Zep- pelin until it disappeared, on a south- east course over the Rose and Crown shoals, miles off shore. Many See It Passing. The Zeppelin was reported over Lower Manhattan at 3:15 am, and from that time until it left the main- land there were but brief intervals when those on shore were out of sight or_sound of its progress. It held its course over Long Island sound, and then picked up the Rhode Island shore. A few minutes later is was steering a course over Vinyard Sound, and for a short time it appeared as if it might head northeast for Province- ton, but it soon straightened out, pick- ing up its bearings and held east until it had passed through. TAKE-OFF 1S IMPRESSIVE. Great Ship Rises Against Moon and Quickly Disappears. NAVAL AIR STATION, Lakehurst, N. J., October 29 (A).—The German dirigible Graf Zeppelin, imprisoned for days by contrary winds, heaved off its bonds early today and headed back through the moonlight skies for its home port at Friedrichshafen, Germany, whence it came October 15. It left at 1:5¢ am. With threescore men and one wom- an aboard, the greatest airship that ever flew the skies was dragged tail first from the hangar not long after midnight and_then, seeming suddenly 10 acquire a life of its own, it lifted proudly against the moon and strode away on its journey across the seas. All day yesterday departure of the feet. | Halloween merrymakers collided at a street intersection, 20 KILLED IN OHIO. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 29 (#).— Twenty persons were killed in Ohio yesterday as the result of automobile and grade crossing accidents -and an equal number are in 'hospitals recover- ing from injuries. Five persons were killed in an auto- mobile crash at a street intersection here. The accident occurred when a truck which was speeding to a hospital with a young woman injured previously in a fall from a machine crashed into a sedan occupied by four persons. ‘Two boys were killed at Amlin, when a train struck their car at a grade crossing. A brother and sister met death in a collision near Marysville. A father and his two small daughters were fatally injured in a grade cross- ing accident at Zanesville. ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. Smm. Pa., October 29 (#)—Five persons were killed and another seri- ously injured -when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by the Pittsburgh«Philadelphia , express of the Pennsylvania Railroad east of here early this morning. The train left Pittsburgh at 11:10 pm. last night and the accident oc- curred - at 12:40 a.m., further details were lacking. SEVEN DIE IN CRASH. HARWOOD, Md., October 29 ().— Seven persons were killed here late yes- terday when the auto!in which they were riding was struck and demolished by & Baltimore & Ohio passenger train, Those killed' were Emil Ashman, 47 years old; Mildred Ashman, 19, his wife; Baby Ashman, Mrs. Mamie Kirby, Mrs. Ashman’s mother; . Mrs. Sallie Kirby, Mrs. Kirby's mother-in-law; Mrs. Mary Shriver, 25, and Catharine Shriver, 22 months old. Henry T. Snyder of Baltimore, engi- neer of the Washington express, which struck the automobile, which was stall- ed at the crossing, said he saw the ca~ when he was about 50 feet from it, and {that he applied his brakes but could not stop. Mrs, Shriver and her baby were caught on the pilot of the locomotive as was the gasoline tank of the demol- ished auto. The gasoline burst into flames and burned the woman and her child almost beyond recognition. PG AL Freud, 72, Makes Flight. BERLIN, October 29 (#).—Prof. Sig- | mund Freud, noted psychoanalyst, made his first airplane flight today at the age of 72. He went up in one of the ‘Tempelhof planes. Three automobile accidents alone | be DAVUEHT HOLDAP OF THEATER NES LOVE BADIT S0 Robber Forces Manager of Earle and Assistant to Open Safe. STUDIES LOBBY POSTERS AFTER OBTAINING LOOT Three Youths Who Saw Loiterer Give Police Description and Aid in Hunt. Within two bldcks of central police headquarters, a well dressed bandit strode into the Earle Theater, Thir- teenth and E streets, at 10:25 o'clock this morning, at the point of a pistol forced Harry E. Lohmeyer, manager, and Wayne Birdsell, assistant manager, to open the safe, took the Sunday re- ceipts of $4,000 and calmly strode out again, stopping for a moment in the lobby of the theater to.examine the posters of this week’s bill. Police, notified of the hold-up a few minutes after his departure, sent out a flash from headquarters and imme- diately started combing the downtown section of the city. They have a good description from three youths who saw the man loiter- ing for about 15 minutes in the lobby of the theater before he entered the manager’s office and who saw him again when he came out and stopped to examine the show posters. They were Charles Wilson, 11 Quincy street, Chevy Chase, Md.; Allen Burton, 5406 Connecticut avenue, and John Benson, 107 Bradley Lane, Chery Chasc. Manager Collapses. Lohmeyer was the only person in the office when the bandit entered. He collapsed while telephoning to John J. Payette, general manager of theaters for the Stanley-Crandall Co., after the bandit had left the office. He hit his head on a desk in the office when he fell. He was unable to tell of the rob- 1y when police arrived. Birdsell said he came into the office and saw a man standing behind Mr. Lohmeyer, who was down on his knees before the safe. “I thought. nothing of it until Mr. Lol called me-over to him,” he said, “and said, 'I am being held up. Don’t make any false moves.” Then the robber, who had both hands in his side coat pockets; told - to d L any face to. the.- ‘Mr. Lohmeyer fumbled with the safe, which is built in the wall, but was 80 and nervous he d not_work combination. “Then the man told me to go to work on the safe. I did so and opened it, Mr. Lohmeyer standing aside. The man asked for the money and I gave u.o: him. He stuck it under his top- coat. “Then he said he wanted five minutes to get clear of the bullding. “We didn’t give him that much time. I don’t know how long it was, but pretty soon Mr. Lohmeyer went to the tele- phone and called Mr. Payette.” “The man,” Birdsell eald, “was about five feet seven inches tall, wore a light gray top-coat and a light gray hat, a well pressed dark suit and clean linen, He was of a dark complexion and had long u!ge-hums and had just been sl K Birdsell said the bandit did not seem very much excited about the hold-up and went through the motions calmly and as if he knew his business. ‘When police arrived in the office, Lohmeyer was lying on the floor and was being given first aid by Birdsell and other attendants of the theater. He was moaning that his head hurt. He was Immediately placed on a stretcher and sent to Emergency Hos- pital in the first precinct police patrol. Birdsell then told Capt. Thaddeus | Bean of No. 1 precinct the details of | the robbery and the flash was sent out | to the Detective Bureau and to down-| town police precinct stations. Youths Aid in Hunt. ‘The three youths who saw the bandit before and after he entered the man- ager's office were taken by police around the downtown section in an | effort to find the man. ‘The manager’s office is inside the theater, on the orchestra floor, beneath the gallery stairway. Birdsell explained that while the theater was not open for the mornihg show, which begins at 10:45, the doors had been opened for theater employes to use. There were five or six of them employed in the theater, he said, when the hold-up occurred, but none of them was near the office. “I had not started work and did not see the man when he entered,” Birdsell said. Payette, who arrived on the scene a few minutes after the police, is of the opinion that it was a carefully planned robbery. by “This would be the only time of the day that this sort of robbery could have been attempted,” he said “Whenever we handle the receipts in any of our theaters we have a man outside the locked door of the manager's office to guard against entry. “The bandit must have picked the time just before the show opened, when he knew some one with the combina- tion to the safe would be in the office, to pull the robbery. The whole tmng looks as if he knew our system an used it to his advantage. “I heard Harry say somcthing about a hold-up and then there was a noise and the connection was momentarily | broken. I couldn't raise him again. I | "(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) By the Assoclated Press. CROYDON, England, October 29— Using the airplane from which Alfred Lowenstein, the Belgian financier, feli into thz English Channel and was killed last July 4, a party of sportsmen head- ed by Lieut. Comdr. Glen Kidston left this afternoon for Africa on the first aerial big game hunt. The airplane hn:e:een thoroughly overhauled and re- Aatt “We hope to reach Nairobi in about Zeppelin_on_its return flight had re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) 10 days” said Kidston on leaving. “We will make our headguarters there ' Big Game Hunters Hop Off for Africa In Plane From Which Lowenstein Fell and scour the jungle from the air look- | ing for big game. ‘We hope on occasions | to get a shot or two fromi the plane, but the usual procedure will ge to await reports from scouts of the pres- ence of big game in large numbers. Then, instead of having to make long treks afoot, we will fly to the scene in a few hours and alight in jungle clear- ings prepared by the scouts.” The machine has been specially fit- ted to permit shooting from the air, as well as the taking of moving pictures of herds of game on the ground. CLAWS EAS REALTY WORTH 311152 Testimony at Utilities Hear- ing Supports Estimates Made on Valuations. Testimony in support of & claim to a value of $3,111,520 for its tangible real which is reported to amount to $698,858, was introduced by the gas company when hearings were resumed today be- fore the Public Utilities Commission on the gas valuation case. Most of the property owned by the gas company was acquired years ago when prices were low in the sections where its plants are located, and has since increased in value as a result of developments in contiguous sections. To the $3,111,520 claim, however, the com- pany will later add intangible values on overhead which is expected to raise ~ William J. Flather, jr., member of the mpniul committee of the Washington al Estate Board, who, with Arthur Carr and Robert E, Doyle, made the studies..on which the com) based its claim to a $3,11,520 v gible real estate, was the first witness, He outlined in detail the procedure fol- lowed in mnkh;& the appraisals, and gave what, in opinion, constituted the fair market value of ail of the gas company’s real estate holdings, Mode of Computation. The total value of the land owned by the Washington Gas Light Co, was pu{ in the record at $2,895,030.45, and that in the possession of the Georgetown company at $216,490, making a grand mf-fl} of $3,111,520.45. The commis- sion’s appraisal is_approximately $400,- 000 under this figure. The original cost, as computed by B. McK. Bach- man, chief accountant of the commis- :llg:, ov;hfi made an historical investiga- he gas col 5533-‘253-53; 8 mpany, amounted to arious items, making up t value, were testified !5 lnp d:’telllw!bayl Flather. The west station property, the majority of which is in the vg:nlty of New Hampshire and Virginia avenue, F, G and H streets, Flather appraised at $3.00 a square foot, while t at the K street holder station, which is bounded by K, L, First and Canal streets southwest, he said, is worth §1.25 a square foot. The accessibility to water transportation and the loca- ton, he pointed out, were the main factors considered in determining these values. Actual sales in surrounding sections, he said, also were an element, The company’s property on Tenth ‘I}:!‘V‘Vecn lD illnd fE streets, which is ed primarily for office purpose: Flather appraised at $16 a squgrs !oa:: and that around the corner on E street between Ninth and Tenth streets at $10 a square foot. These appraisals he de- clared are conservative in comparison with recent sale prices of property in the immediate vicinity. Flather Explains Appraisals. Flather then testified as to his ap- praisals on the property at the East station of the gas company. Land be- tween M and N streets and Twelfth and Thirteenth street southeast, Thir- teenth street and Virginia “avenue southeast and Twelfth and M streets ;nuéhaast he valued at $2.50 a square 0ot The Analostan Island, which the com- pany acquired some years ago for the development of a gas-making plant, is included in the appraisal at $364,000. It contains 88 acres. After the real estate appraisals are concluded, the company will return R. O. Luqueer, its engineer, to the wit- ness stand to resume his testimony on costs. Luqueer finished his testimony as to direct costs last week, and will begin with indirect costs. NAVY SERVICE CHANGES. Three Rear Admirals Reassigned Under Recent Order. The Navy Department today an- nounced three changes in high com- mand. Rear Admiral Lucius A. Bostwick, who has been .president of the Board of Inspection and Survey, was ordered to command battleship division 3 of the battle fleet, to succeed Rear Ad- miral Frank B. Upham, who will com- mand the control force, succeeding Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby, who was made president of the Board of Inspection and Survey. et it Qua];u— Reported in Cuba. HAVANA, October 29 (#)~—Special dispatches to the newspaper El Mundo report several earthquake shocks of slight intensity at Santiago de Cuba during the night. Much excitement was caused by the shocks, but no dam- age or casualties were reported. estate holdings, the original cost of| | * (#) Means Associated Press. Unconscious Man Unidentified After Being Hit by Auto Knocked from his bicycle at Tenth and W streets yesterday morning, an unidentified man has been unconscious at Garfield Hos- pital ever since and no inquiries have been made that might lead to his Men]uflec;wi);x’. (C)lrnude Dan- dridge, colored, ‘egon ave- nue, driver of the car that hit him, is being held by eighth - cinct police. The man is al 50 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 175 pounds. He was wearing riding breeches and a blue serge coat. Agother man, James PFraley, 26, is in Sibley Hospital, where he was brought unconscious after having been under a truck for some time on the Baltimore pike at Lakeland road, yesterday. He was found by Constable L. M. Walden of Hyattsville beneath the overturned truck of his em- ployer, the Thomas Electric Co., 1913 Ninth street. Me has a broken collar bone, ~concussion of the brain and other injuries and his condition is regarded as serious. HAGUE IS CITED BY PROBE BODY, = New Jersey Mayor, Accused of Contempt, Says Commit- tee Played Politics. By the Assoclated Press. TRENTON, N. J.,, October 2%.. -Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City and a vice chairman of the national Democratic committee, today was cited for con- tempt in refusing to appear before the Case legislative investigating committee. The citation was doubled when As- semblyman Barrett, member of the committee, moved that Hague’s action be placed before the bar of the Legis- lature, which reconvenes on November 19. The motions were carried by a vote of 4 to 2, a strictly party vote. Mayor Charges Politics. In a letter read to the committee declining to appear, the mayor held himself answerable to the committee's subpoena “as well as any other in- dividual,” but declared he refused “to become a victim of your present’ politi- cal maneuvering.” The letter quoted an item published in ‘a Newark news- paper in which Senator Clarence E. Case, chairman of the committee, said it would be “unfair” to call the mayor on the eve of the election. “I do not want the impression created,” the letter said, “that I am trying to evade the answering of any questions because, " after all, they can Just as well be answered after election as they can before election. “If you will now fix the date imme- diately after election I will then gladly answer your questions as I have been ready to do since last July.” Recites Past Experience. ‘The letter recited the fact that the committee was created last April, and that when Hague was subpoenaed on July 16 he was obliged to wait until 30 minutes before adjournment beforg be- ing called. “Since that time,” the mayor wrote, “four and a half months have elapsed. It is now evident that you delayed call- ing me until the eve of an important election. The delay until this later date cannot be construed for any other than political reasons.” The Case committee was appointed by the 1928 Legislature to investigate the conduct and operation of any de- partment or office of State, county or municipal government. It received the power to subpoena witnesses or records. ‘The membership of the commission is overwhelmingly Republican. 12 MARYLAND GIRLS HURT IN BUS-CAR CRASH NEWPORT NEWS, Va., October 29 (#)—Twelve girls, students of the Maryland College for Women, were in- jured here this morning when the bus in which they were riding collided with a trolley car. were rushed to the hospital, but. neither their names nor the extent of their injuries were im- mediately available. Eyewitnesses * expressed the opinion that some of them were serlously hurt. ‘The bus in which 24 girls had started for a sightseeing trip was struck broad- side by the trolley, overturned and dray for a short distance. The girls had come here from Luther- ville, Md., the seat of the college, to visit historic points of this section. Than ProC THursDAY NoV. 29, \ sGIviNG v FOR c.C. U. 5. WORKERS GET TIME FOR VOTING President Consents to Order Giving Employes Chance to Cast Ballots. Federal employcs throughout the country are to be allowed sufficlent time off from their work on election day to go to the polls. This has been made possible by the consent of President Coolidge, but he- is not going to issue an executive order to that effect, nor does he want this to be looked upon in the sense of a holiday. It is his inten- tion that the department heads excuse their respective employes for “reason- able periods” on the day of election. The President has notified the mem- bers of his cabinet and heads of various independent Government bureaus that he has no objection to them issuing orders in their respective departments and bureaus to.the effect that the em- | j may, upon. be_ex- votes. The - proposition. as made to the President two weeks ago by Luther Steward, president of the Federation of Federal Exployes, called for an executive order from the President excusing the el yes from work on election day. %fifl of men and women lvirg in this city who are voters in some one of the States fected by these departmental orders, but those living in the nearby sections of Maryland and Virginia, however, will be benefited, as will the many thousands of Government employes in other parts of the country. ‘The President and Mrs. Coolidge will go to Northampton, Mass, to vote on November 6. TWO KILLED, 3 HURT IN ALCOHOL BLASTS Fresh Explosion Rocks Philadel- phia Plant After $1,000,000 Loss Yesterday. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 29.—A fresh explosion shook the plant of the Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. today, injuring three firemen who were watching for an outbréak of the fire which yesterday wrecked the:plant and resulted in the death of two men. A circular top of a huge still, a sheet of Y-inch steel 25 feet in diameter, was thrown several hundred: feet in the air and landed more than 100 feet away, missing three policemen by a scant 3 feet. More than $1,000,000 damage was caused by yesterday's fire. A series of explosions released three-quarters of a million gallons of alcohol, which became a roaring mass of liquid flame. Francis J. Sears, Federal prohibition agent stationed at the Government- supervised plant, and Hugh Duffy, mechanic, were burned to death when a shower of flaming alcohol enveloped them as they were trapped in a cistern room. OPEN PARAC'HUTE FOUND. ELKINS, W. Va., October 29 (#).— Discovery of an onen parachute in a tree on Green Mountain, about 15 miles northeast of here, was reported today by Government foresters. No reports of an airplane accident in this vicinity had been received. The para- chute apparently had been used only r;c‘ensflyb ,and ore the markings DELAWARE RATED HOOVER'S, BUT RAGE FOR SENATE CLOSE Women’s Work for G. 0. P. Is Outstanding Feature of Campaign There. MOST OF DU PONT GROUP SUPPORTING REPUBLICANS Bayard, Democratic Candidate for Upper House, Waging Hard Fight to Return. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staft Correspondent of The Star. WILMINGTON, Del, October 29.— Delaware’s three electoral votes will be cast for Herbert Hoover unless there is | an unexpected development in the last days of the campaign. After Gov. Smith’s nomination, after the appointment of John J. Raskob as chairman .of the Demotratic national committee and after the announcement of Plerre S. du Pont that he would support Smith rather than Hoover there was a widespread belief that Dela- ware might be considered Smith prop- erty in the coming election. This ran along for weeks. But you do not find any such bellef in Delaware today. The Democrats are hoping, that's all. The Republicans, on the other hand, are supremely confident, their organization is hitting on all fours and even some of those who are supporting Smith say he has not a ghost of a show to carry the State. Delaware is sometimes looked upon as a baronial estate of the du Pont family. Certainly the du Ponts have a tremendous influence here. It is the du Pont industries that have taken the lead in making Delaware one of the most prosperous States in the Union for its size and population. So when Mr. Raskob, who made his home near here for years, and some $50,000,000 or so in the bargain, got on the Smith train and Plerre S. du Pont came out pub- licly for the Democratic nominee things ed rosy for Smith in this State. Other du Ponts for Hoover. But the defection of the du Pont 1 from the Republican ranks stopped right there. As it m there is a la group of nwmlm-:o“.h?edurontl outside of Plerre du Pont. Among mmg are Lamont du Pont, t head of , and Irenee Plerre, , not to mention Senator Coleman T. du Pont, now_representing the State as a Re- (Continued on Page 4, Column- 6.) SHENANDOAH VOTE CONTINUES PUZZLE Democrats Expect to Carry Valley for Smith, but Keep Up Hard Work. Note—This is the eighth of a series of articles on the political situation in neardy Maryland and Virginia. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Staft Correspondent of The Star. STAUNTON, Va., October 29.—Not since “Stonewall” Jackson fought his famous “Valley campaign” against Banks, or the day when Early's men, worn by protracted campaigning, at length succumbed to the Union Army under Phil Sheridan, has the Shen- andoah Valley been in such & state of disturbance as one finds here today. In those distressing days it was ma- terial things—houses, barns, wheat and corn flelds—that were in danger in this “grainary of the Confederacy.” Now it is political issues, and moral ques- tions transferred into the political arena, that are declared to be at stake. Traveling by automobile along the historic Valley road, from Winchester to Staunton, trod so many times by Jackson’s weary but indomitable “foot cavalry,” The Star correspondent found evidence of the present unusual state of affairs everywhere he stopped. Oc- casionally he made side trips from the “Valley road,” part of which is now called the Lee Highway after Jackson’s famous commanding officer. Here, too, the information was the same. Now Modern Highway. Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation, The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news 104,638 112,269 TWO CENTS. BALTIMORE SPEECH TONIGHT LAUNCHES FINAL SMITH DRIVE Governor’s Firm Belief in Fast Finishes Expressed = in Week’s Schedule. SUBJECT IN MARYLAND IS STILL UNANNOUNCED May Touch Upon Prohibition. Big Reception Is Planned for Nominee’s Arrival, By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., October 29— With four speeches ahead of him in the last week before election Gov. Smith today reached that stage of the presi- dential race which he predicted soon atter his notification would be the turn- ing point of the campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee is a firm believer in strong campaign finishes, having practiced it in his gu- bernatorial battles on the theory that thousands wait until the final week to make up their minds which way to vote. So tonight in Baltimore he will start down the home stretch of his Atlantic Seaboard offensive confident that his last four efforts to present the issues in “plain, everyday” language will swing to the Democratic party the voters nec- essary to place him in the White House. Parade in Baltimore. Rested after a week end stay at the nearby home of John J. Raskob, chair- man of the Democratic national com- mittee, at Claymont, the governor planned to motor to Wilmington 4o board his special train at 1:30 p.m. His arrival at the Mount Royal Station in Baltimore was set for 3 o'clock, and a parade of an hour through the indus- trial and business centers was to fol- low, terminating at the Hotel Belvedere. A more strenuous program was un- ders to have been mapped out by a Baitimore committee for the nominee’s reception, but this was curtailed by the :;ew:fi lx; org:r that he might have e for dinner and last preparations Iotz hkr;‘ S] 'lu e The s night to be delivered in the 5th Regiment Armory, where Wood- row Wilson was nominated in 1912, will be broadcast over the Nation beginning at 9 o'clock Eastern time. the case of his more recent addresses, the nominee will withhold the subject of his firylmd n_pped until he goes on the Mrs. Wilson on Platform. Introduced in Boston by one of Wood- row Wilson's daughters, l{!rl Pnneeosh% Sayre, Gov. Smith was notified that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson would be on the plaiform in Baltimore tonight. Other guests will be Senators Tydings and Bruce. Howard Bruce, Democratic na- tlonal committeeman, planned to board the nominee’s train at Aberdeen to ac- company him to Baltimore. A separate reception for Mrs. Smith was on the P view of th view of e nominee’s statement that he intended to employ the final week of the campaign in a summing up of the questions he believes are at issue, several of those in his party were of the opinion today that he would de- vote at least a part of his single Mary- land speech to prohibition as he did in the big ballot center of Philadelphia. Others thought he would take an- other oral fling at Herbert Hoover, probably in connection with his extra session statement on farm relief. In Newark Wednesday. After an overnight stay in Baltimore, Gov. Smith will return to New York to prepare for his second speech of the week, at Newark, N. J., Wednesday night. On Friday, in the Academy of Music at Brooklyn, he will deliver an address on State issues, and on Sat- urday night wind up his speaking cam- palfn with a general appeal to the national electorate from Madison Square Garden. With his Saturday night address he will have delivered 17 formal campaign speeches in 15 States extending from Massachusetts to Montana and Okla- homa to Maryland. Three will have been made in his native State of New York, counting his address to the Democratic State convention in Roches- ter October 1. Raskob Sees Vietory. Scores of telegrams had reached the governor today praising his Philadel- phia speech. Chairman Raskob had something to say about it himself in a statement issued at Claymont. “At Philadelphia Saturday night,” the statement said, “I witnessed a demonstration for the Democratic presi- dential nominee, which, I am informed by members of the party who have traveled throughout the country with him, was similar in comparison with the size of the other cities visited for its enthusiasm and spontaneity. It can mean nothing but victory. “It is easy to appreciate the enthu- of the independent citizens' It was a road, as roads went in those far off days of '61 to '65, but today it is a lern automobile high- way, and, best of all—for any person interested in the history of his coun- try—there are large markers bearing ample accounts of the historic events 2 occurred llnn%othg famous road. Here the dashis nfederate cavalry leader, Ashby, fell; there Jackson de- feated Banks, and here Sheridan con- ducted his last raid before turning toward Richmond to join Grant and help to end the war. f people of this whole jon—one of the most beautiful and fertile in the world, and for the most part comfort- ably Democratic in former presidential (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Lindbergh, in Plane, After 20-Mile P Kills Antelope ursuit Above Mexico By the Assoclated Press. !AGL!!hMPAS\S. ';l'lzx.. ‘chbeh; Havin, an antelope from tp‘lln: Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has left the Hal Mangum ranch in Coahuila, Mex- ico, for another ranch in Chihuahua, Eagle Pass residents who had been cn- tertaining Lindbergh, said today on their return here. Col. undb"% shot the antelope, they said, after a 20-mile chase in an at- close enough to his tempt to get uarry wu%mtfte Hutrenomwen&ut. Col. McNab from Mexico City had shot the antelope from a plane Lindbergh but visitors on the Man- ch sald Lindbergh did the colonel also killed two deer. After a visit on the Chihuahua ranch, Col. Lindbergh gl:m to return to St. Louis to vote, after which, it is said, he will return to Mexico for a visit with United States Ambassador Dwight Mor- oW, Radio Program—Page 22 A committee of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Democratic organization in their firm belief of carrying that rock-ribbed Republican city after last night’s demonstration.” BALTIMORE WOMEN GREET MRS. SMITH Democratic Nominee's Wife and Daughter Arrive to Hear Speech Tonight. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 20.—Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Emily Warner, arrived here today at 12:30 p.m. and was greet- ed at the station by Miss Elizabeth Menefee, Democratic national commit- teewoman for Maryland, and a com- mittee of women representing the United Democratic Women’s Clubs, who escorted her to a luncheon being given in her honor by the clubwomen. On their trip ‘Wilmington, Del.. Mrs. Smith and her daughter were ac- companied by Maj. John A, Warner and Dr. Arthur P. Sullivan. ‘The Democratic presidential nominee l.l‘ e'xpeclcd to arrive from Wilmington at 3 pa X B