Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow. Temperatures: Highest, 52,. at noon; lowest, 36, at 6:30 a.m. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Burcau Forecast.) today. ah ¢ Foening _ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star., service. No. 30,864, post office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, 0. G, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1928— FIFTY PAGES. - (#) Means Associated Press. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 106,440 TWO CENTS. TEPPELIN AT COMST OF FRANCE AFTER A BISTERDLS TR ACROSS BISCAY BAY Air Liner Heading Straight for Friedrichshafen—May Reach Home Hangar About Daybreak Tomorrow. APFROACHES SHORE LINE IN VICINITY OF NANTES Expected to Fly Over Lyon, Dijon and Basel—Made Speed of 80 Miles an Hour at Times, Aided by Strong Winds—Seen Fre- quently by Steamers. By the Associated Press. LE BOURGET, France, October 31.—The dirigible Graf Zeppelin informed Le Bourget Flying Field late today that she expected to strike the French coast in the vicinity of Nantes about 7 p.m. Greenwich meridian time (2 pm.| Eastern standard time). The great air liner, rapidly ap- proaching the end of homeward flight from Lakehurst, N. J, to Friedrichshafen, notified the fly- ing field that she was traveling at a rate of 60 miles an hour. The boisterous weather over the Bay of Biscay was abating. Nantes is midway between Bor- deaux and Brest on the western coast of France, and is on a di- rect line to Friedrichshafen. May Land Tomorrow. Aviation experts expressed the opinion that the Graf Zeppelin would fly over Central France, passing over the cities of Nantes, Papers Disappear From Office of Citizens’ Service Secretary of Anti-Bootleg- ging Organization Sus- pects Theft. Disappearance of valuable “inside” papers of the Citizens' Service Associa- tion, anti-bootlegging organization formed to aid police in enforcement of the liquor law, from the office of the | secretary, Dr. Everett M. Ellison, 1720 M street, foday, was reported to police. Dr. Ellison gave police the name of a man he suspects. The papers included articles of in- corporation of the organization, the constitution and by-laws and the min- utes of every meeting since the body's formation, with the exception of the last two meetings, Dr. Ellison said to- day. The burglar, however, overlooked an- other bundle of papers in Dr. Ellison’s desk containing evidence and data on bootleggers in the District. “We are planning a new campaign,” Dr. Ellison said. “Sunday night a week ago I took out my papers on the asso- ciation and was looking them over. | bundle, marked it ‘Citizens’ Service As- sociation’ and left it on my desk. When I went out the next morning I left my office door open as usual. “When I returned about 9 o’clock that morning I could not find the papers, It is my opinion that some one who op- poses me because I am against alcohol and Al Smith, or some one seeking the data I have against bootleggers in the District stole the papers.” Dr. Ellison explained that his delay in notifying police was due to his be- lief that he could replace most of the papers. “The minutes of the meetings are the most valuable,” he said. Dr. Ellison said the man he suspects came to see him almost daily in refer- ence to securing work in the collection of bills. The man, he said, gave as reference a bank in New York City. Dr. Ellison wrote the bank and had not received an answer today. CAMPAIGN HEATED IN FREDERICKSBURG Adherents of Smith and Hoover Wage War in Spotsylvania. lLyon, Dijon and Basel with the likelihood that she would reaca Friedrichshafen about daybreak tomorrow morning. i da Aided by ‘powerful tail winds the ht.y tg: huge air liner was m: ing € %&W aver- age speed ;:) times h as 80 miles an hour. ‘The great m‘m reported many times by s E. among_ these being the We k and Boulder Pool, which reported sighting her. The Graf Zeppelin was repo over the Bay of Biscay at 6:21 am. Eastern standard time in a message from her picked up by the British-air ministry. Her course then was ex- pected to carry her toward Bordeaux. German experts expected that Dr. Hugo Eckener would fly across France straight for Priedrichshafen. ‘Home Hangar Tense. The home hai of the Zeppelin was tense with excitement as prepara- tions were being made for the recep- tion of the dirigible and for fittingly celebrating completion of the first round trip transatlantic commercial air voyage in history. Duflynag yesterday’s run the Graf Zeppelin followed a northerly course along the northern steamship lane, but during’ the day turned in a southerly direction, and made steady progress last night over a course carrying her toward France. MAY DROP BALE OF COTTON. Residents of Bremen Expect Zeppelin to Fly Over City. BREMEN, Germany, October 31 (). —Bremeners today wondered whether the Graf Zeppelin would fly over this Hanseatic town en route to Friedrichs- hafen to drop a bale of cotton weigh- ing 240 pounds which is to be auctioned off for the benefit of the airship's crew. The populace saw in the airship’s car- rying of cotton in the first cargo to Eurcpe by air a symbolic confirmation of Bremen's importance as a cotton center. It was assumed that the bale would be dropped at the airdrome which al- ready has American associations. Pi- Jots Risticz and Edzard made a forced Janding there in August, 1927, on a flight to America from Dessau on the plane Europa. Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine, transatlantic fiyers, arrived there from Berlin with a large group of American newspaper men in June, 1927, to welcome their wives, who were arriving on the steam- ship Berlin. ‘There was much speculation as to the price the bale would bring. It was recalled that Mrs. Chamberlin had succeeded in raising the bids to above 20,000 marks when she auctioned off & similar bale. AIR CURRENTS AID ZEPPELIN. . Radio Station Transmits Weather In- formation to Dirigible. HAMBURG, Germany, October 31 (#).—The marine weather station to- day forecast powerful western to north- -western air currents during the last stretch of the Graf Zeppelin's flight from -America, making relatively great speed possible. The radio station at Norddeigh was in touch with the dirigible this morning transmitting European weather in- formation .at the airship's request. CONVICTED OIL FAILURE PAIR FACE SENTENCES By the. Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 31.—At the end of more than six months of trials in State and Federal courts, to which a career of high finance led them, S. C. Lewis and Jacob Berman, central fig- ures in the Julian Petroleum Corpora- tion failure, today fouhd themselves facing the prospect of prison terms. Convicted last night in Federal Court of using the malls to defraud in connection with the financing of the Lewis Oil Co., Lewis on eight counts and Berman on seven, they can be sen- tenced to prison terms of five years and fined $1,000 on each count. Sentencing Note—This is the tenth of a series articles discussing the political situation in nearby Maryland and Virginia BY DONALD A. CRAIG, Staft. Gorvespondent of The_ Star. 3 FREDERICKSBURG, Va., October 31.—There probably never has been a hotter political campaign in Fredericks- burg and Spotsylvania County than that ‘which is today being waged by adherents of Gov. Smith and Herbert Hoover. Normally this city and county are Democratic by a safe majority. This year the Smith Democratic leaders ad- mit the majority for the Democratic nominee for President will be cut tremendously probably to 100 in Fred- ericksburg and to a similar figure in the county outside. The oppositibn to Smith includes many Democrats, as well as the old-line Republicans, who say they can carry this city and county for Hoover and are doing their level best to prove it. are meeting with stiff opposi- ‘They tion from the pro-Smith regular Demo- mv_s and each day, as the time for o When I got through I tied them in a | CANDIDATES' STAND ON CIVIC MATTERS Submits Ten Questions in Fight for Presidency of Citizens’ Federation. | SWANTON BROADSIDE ATTACKS OPPONENTS Statement Signed by Clayton Charges Effort to Becloud Merger Issue. ‘The fight for the presidency of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, which will be settled in the election Saturday night, grew warmer today when from one of the candidates, Ed- win S. Hege, came a serfes of ques- tions on public issues, on which he sug- gested the three aspirants for the office give their stand for the Benefit of the delegates who will select the president, while from the opposing camp of W. I Swanton came an attack reputedly directed against both Hege and Dr. George C. Havenner, the third candi- date, Hege's Questions. Hege's questionnaire follows: “The three men put forward for the presidency of the federation are friends and fellow workers in a civic cause. Why not let all the delegates have answers to the following questions? “l. Do you favor any change in the form of the District government? “2. Do you favor increasing or de- creasing the powers of the District ‘Commissioners? “3. Do you favor excluding non-resi- dent pupils from District pubfic schools? “4. Do you favor for the District a compulsory automobile liability insur- ance law? 5. Would you favor public ownership of the traction lines in the District? “6. DI you favor the Fitzgerald workmen’s compensation bill? “7. Do you favor granting lump-sum appropriations to the School Board or any other District board? “8. If you had to choose between one- man cars and increased street car fares how would you vote? “9 Do you favor hydro-electric de- velopment of Great Falls, and by whom? “10. Have you any program to crease District expenses in the fiscal year 1931 over the fiscal year 1929? If so to what extent and how would you raise the money to meet such inessasc? Clayton Signs Broadside. “The “broadside M~ the forces was signed by Charles T. , as chairman of the Swanton committee, and declared the move to elect Swanton was an effort to “purge the federation activities of petty policies.” It mentions neither Hege nor Dr. Havenner, by name, but declares that the “only real oponent” of Swanton, is “through his stal horse, an ostensible candidate, ummathw to becloud 'the true issue, which is the traction mel?fl' ‘This, it was said by one member of the committee, refers in order, to Dr. Hav- enner and Mr. Hege. Hege has not yet openly announced his candidacy, but has taken an active m‘in the campaign as one who has “importuned to run.” The Swanton committee’s action fol. lowed the flurry of letters among f eration leaders, one of which was sued by James G. Yaden, retiring presi- dent, who has supported the candidacy of Dr. Havenner, attacking Swanton’s public improvement program. Hege re- cently made an issue of the Swanton program by declaring that he had side- st certain specific questions asked of him regarding his program and its effect on the tax rate in the District. draws nearer, the battle grows livelier. On nearly every street corner, in nearly every store or other place of business, day and night, as much, or more‘h time is spent in politics as Nearly everybody—man and woman, too—is developing into a politician, with the sole exception of that big army of “silent voters,” who are found here and in the county, the same as else- where in Virginia and throughout the country. These are the voters who intend to take advantage of the pro- tection extended by the secret provision of the Virginia Constitution and vote as they- please without anybody else being the wiser. ‘The Star correspondent came to Fredericksburg from Charlottesville, passing through the rural section of Albemarle, Orange and Spotsylvania Counties en route. Prior to that he had studied the political situation in the Shenandoah Valley from Winchester to Staunton, from which place he crossed the Blue Ridge to the Atlantic slope. Political conditions were found to be much the same east of the Blue Ridge as in the véiMley on the west side. Smith Praised and Fought. ‘There is much argument here in fa- vor of Gov. Smith by his adherents, who point to his record of progressive York, his promise of relief for the farm- ers, his “honesty in facing the evils that have grown up in connection with the efforts to suppress the liquor traf- fic,” his effort to solve that problem xlssn;l his “attractive personal character- tos.” But here, too, is found an organized Democratic opposition to Smith, work- ing as hard, if not harder, for his de- feat and the election of Hoover as the Republican organization. There is some talk of other issues, but always when a discussing any other subject. | porting legislation in his home State of New | Text of Resolution. The text of the resolution follows: “Whereas our chief reason for sup- W. 1. Swanton for the presi- dency is our desire to purge the federa- tion activities of the plague of petty politics which has hindered it in the performance of the functions for which it was intended and, whereas, it now clearly appears that Swanton’s only real opponent is, through his stalking horse, an ostensible candidate, endeav- oring to becloud the true issue which is the traction merger, be it resolved that we voice our sincere belief that the delegates to the Federation of Citi zens' Associations will see the true sues of this campaign and will on No- vember 3 insure a constructive year free of time wasting politics and faith- ful to the interests of the citizens of the District by elecu# a capable and impartial presiding officer in the per- son of W. 1. Swanton.” Besides Chairman Clayton, the other signers were Frank M. Barnes, Mrs. Elizabeth Hayden, H. V. Speelman, Dr. A. A. Chenay, H. F. Dismer, W. A. Roberts, Maj. A. M. Holcombe, Mrs. M. H. Worrell and Kenneth P, Arm- strong. When chown the resolution, Hege announced that he would accept it as an “implied compliment,” then issued is serles of questions. ZEPPELIN CARRIES 101,683 PIECES OF MAIL ‘The Graf Zeppelin carried 101,683 pieces of mail back to Germany, for which the German postal administra- tion will be credited with $75,713 by the voter is pinned down to his real reason for opposing Smith for the presidency he or she admits that it is on account " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—The fa- miliar figure of speech, “seeing with the eye of another,” will become in a measure an actual experience for a pa- tient in the Eye and Ear Hospital if an operation by which the cornea or lens of another human eye was transplanted onto his eye proves successful. Opthalmists at the hospital now are awaiting the removal of bandages from the right eye of Bert Ferguson, 32, to see whether what they consider one of the most daring and 8elizate operations on the human eye been successful. of the two men and their co-defendant, Clarenge O. Steppe, convicted on one count, was seb for Mondag. Perguson, an inmate of the Home for the Blind, has lost his left eye, and the vision of the right one was impaired i » American Postal Service. ‘The mail, weighing about one ton, consisted of 49,745 letters and 51,938 post cards, most of which were dispatch- ed from the New York post office. Cornea of Man’s Eye, Requiring Removal, Grafted on Another’ s by Daring Surgery by a cataract. Charles E. Greenblatt, 32, was discovered to be suffering from an eye tumor, necessitating removal of his eye. The cornea of Greenblatt’s eye, however, was found to be perfect. The operations were performed simulta- neuosly and the cornea from Green- blatt’s eye set onto Ferguson’s eye as s00n as cataract had been removed. Success of the operation, surgeons said, depended upon the tissue of Fer- guson’s eye being strong enough to nourish the tissue of the grafted cornea. The outcome will not be known for ten days or two weeks. Raqio Programs—Page 44 1S ASKED BY HEGE WAR TRIO PASSES INLANSING DEATH Last of Three Figures Who| Shaped Foreign Policy Ex- pires—Burial Tomorrow. Death yesterday afternoon overtook Robert Lansing, former Secretary of State and last of the three figures who bulked large in the enunciation of American foreign policy during the critical days of the World War and the period of peace negotiations that im- mediately followed the great conflict. A victim of a heart ailment described by his physician as myocarditis, from which he had been a sufferer for some years, Mr. Lansing died in the quiet of his home, 1323 Eighteenth street, sur- rounded by his family, after an acute illness of several days. He was 64 years old. Funeral services for the former Sec- retary of State will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Inter- ment will take place in Brookside Cemetery, Watertown, N. Y., his birth- place, the following day. A special fu- neral car will be attached to a regular train for the trip to Watertown, which | Pe! will begin immediately after the fu- neral service. Rev. Willlam A. Eisenberger, assistant pastor of the Church of the Covenant, where Mr. Lansing worshiped, will read the Scriptures at the services here, and Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, the pastor, will read the prayer. During the decade (nllnwmf his resig- nation from office, upon receiving a re- buke from President Wilson, Mr. Lans- ing had lived in more or less obscurity to witness the passing of his er war-time chief and Willlam Jennings Bryan whom he succeeded as Secretary of State, after the latter himself had retired under fire. Four weeks ago Mr. Lansing returned to Washington from his Summer home, at Henderson Harbor, N. Y, and a short while later his illness became th three “days, ac- e 2, Column 1) MANUFACTURER GIVEN THREE YEARS IN PRISON Man Accused of Defrauding Credi- tors of $1,000,000 Sentenced in St. Louis. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, October 31.—A high- pressure financial career was ended here today when David “Purity” Jones, laundry machinery manufacturer, plead- ed guilty of using the mails to defraud creditors of $1,000,000 and was sen- tenced in Federal Court to serve three years in the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. Postal inspectors charged that Jones had defrauded banks, finance com- panies and his laundryman friends and } customers through duplicated promis- sory notes and spurious chattel mort- gages. It was charged Jones sold ma- chinery and took notes in &lyment, He discounted the mnotes with banks or finance companies and later got re- newal notes from the laundrymen. promising he would destroy the original paper. Instead he sold the renéwals and kept the originals standing. Jones, who was a former saloon- keeper, was given the nackname “Purity’ from his advertisements of laundry ma- chinery, whick he signed “David Purity Jones.” e CONDEMNATION BEGUN OF TRIANGLE PROPERTY Square Between Twelfth and Thir- teenth and Avenue and B Street Sought by U. S. Government. The United States today began con- demnation proceedings in the Distrigt Supreme Court for acquisition of four squares of ground included within® the triangle between Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall. The squares sought to be condemned lie between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets and run south from | Pennsylvania avenue to B street. Citations will be issued against the owners and others interested in the 67 parcels included in the new proceeding, and public advertisement will be made against such interested persons as are not found. A commission of three citi- zens will then be selected by the court to hear testimony as to the value of the property and to make an award for each arcel. ¥ Asst. United States Attorneys Gen- eral Henry H. Glassie and A. Leftwich Sinclair, with Asst. United States At- torney James J. O'Leary are in charge of the Government condemnations. The four squares are being acquired for the TOOTING HALLOW Find Trace of Race That Vanished 700 | Years Ago in West | 1 | Minnesota Scientists Re-| port Tribe Lived in New Mexico Valley. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, October 31—Evi- dence of the history of a race which lived in the Mimbres Valley in New Mexico centuries ago, and which, as far as the evidence shows, apparently vanished about 700 years ago, was given by Dr. Albert E. Jenks, chairman of the department of anthropology at the Uni- versity of Minnesota, in a lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts last night. Dr. Jenks reported to members of the institute on the findings of its ex- pedition into the -Mimbres Valley last Summer and which he headed. The race studied is estimated to have lived in the valley from about the time of Christ until about 700 years ago. Dr, Jenks told of the finding of beau- tiful pieces of pettery of strange de- sign, of stone and adobe houses, built one Jayer upon another, gnd of peculiar burial customs. “Nearly all of the pottery found in the excavations we made were ‘kill' pleces,” said Dr. Jenks. “That is, each one had a small hole broken into its bottom before being buried with 2 dead TSon. “The name kill has been given these mutilated pieces because of the belief that the people who used them broke them -to kill them so that the spirit of the vessel, supposedly the favorite of the person with whom it was buried, might leave the vessel at the same fl,‘fi" the dead person's spirit left his The bodies were found buried just below the adobe floors. In nearly every case a bowl, with its bottom punc- tured, was found placed over the cranial bones of the skeleton, CASHIER MISSING, SAFE TIME-LOCKED Man Accused of “Kiting” Checks Prevents Vault From Opening for Three Days. By the Associated Press. GROVELAND, Fla, October 31— Discovery of evidence that J. H. High- tower, missing cashier of the Bank of Groveland, had engaged in the practice of “kiting” checks before he set a 72- hour time lock on the vault and then disappeared was announced today by George C. White, State bank examiner. White said he had discovered several instances in which Hightower had manipulated the bank’s funds for his own use, and charged also that the cashier had left here with $1,000 in cash belonging to the institution. The time lock on the vault is not due to open until tomorrow at the expira- tion of the 72-hour period. Meanwhils bank officials are checking the cashier’s accounts, and authorities have insti-| tuted search on a warrant charging him with larceny of $3,000. Hightower was bonded for $15,000, and the bank was capitalized for that amount, but P. B. Ruggles, president, said he believed there was about $20,000 | on hand in the institution before the cashier disappeared. Hightower, who is about 37 years old, has a wife and two children. He came here from Raleigh, N. C., several years ago after his trial and acquittal on charges of complicity in the failure of the Central Bank & Trust Co. there, bank officials said. GROCER IS SHOT TO DEATH! CHICAGO, October 31 (#).—Slumped down in the driver's seat of his own automobile, the body of Vinci Signorelli, 50 years old, a grocer, was found to- day with a bullet hole through the! head. 1 Police made the discovery after resi- dents of the neighborhood reported an automobile had been parked in an alley all night with the motor running. The slayers, police believe, shot Signorelli before driving the car in the alley to abandon it. Greece Ratifies Liquor Pact. ATHENS, October 31 (#).—The Chamber of Deputies last night ratified HOOVER FINISHES HIS LAST SPEECH Candidate Begins Farewells Preparatory to Departure Tomorrow. The draft of his last formal address of the campaign completed and his desk nearly ready for closing, Herbert Hoo- ver found time today to begin a round of handshaking preliminary to his de- parture tomorrow afternoon for Cali- fornia to vote. £ From each of his callers he received not only well wishes, but optimistic eleventh-hpur assurances that he will return to Washington several weeks hence as President-elect of the United States. Among the callers today were Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who has just end- ed a stumping swing through nearly A score of States in the Southwest and 3 J. Donovan, Assistant ttorney General, and Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury. Col. Roosevelt predicted that Hoover will carry New York State by a safe majority. He said Gov. Smith’s lead &n N;w York City would be “greatly re- luced.” Mills is understood to have given the Republican nominee a similarly en- couraging g(cture of the situation in Gov. Smith’s home State. Assistant Attorney General Donovan merely paid his respects to his friend. Comparison Trip. Arrangements for the trip West have been completed. The Hoover special train_will leave Union Station at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. On board, in addition to the nominee, his wife and younger son, will be Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Republican national committee; Ralph E. Willlams of Ore- gon, vice chairman of the national committee; Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, in charge of women’s activities for the Republican campaign; George E. Aker- son, the nominee’s personal assistant: Thomas P. C. Gregory, a neighbor of the Hoovers at Stanford University; Ray Benjamin of San Francisco, one Hoover’s advisers; George Barr another adviser, and several The train will be converted into a traveling speaker’s platform, with a complete set-up of loud speakers to enable Hoover to address large crowds expected to greet him en route. Th2 first stop will be at 8:25 o'clock tomor- row night in Cumberland, Md., where the nominee will deliver an informal talk from the rear platform of his car. Louisville Speech Friday. Another informal speech will be made in Louisville, Ky., Friday morning. The formal address, on farm relief, will be made in the Coliseum at St. Louis Fri- day night at 8:30 o'clock Central time. Another informal talk is scheduled for Pueblo, Colo., Saturday night. The final speaking effort of the nominee will oc- cur election eve, when he is to make a radio talk from his home at Stanford University. The nez'(t day he will cast his vote in a polling booth at the university, and then return to his home to await the returns. N . A group of about 30 newspaper corre- spondents and photographers accom- pany Hoover to the coast. Asks Rum Ship Bé Held. _HAVANA, Cuba, October 31 (#).— Formal requests were made to the Cuban government yesterday by the American embassy to refuse clearance papers to the schooner Rosita of Hon- duran registry, which is reported en- gaged in rum running. The Rosita was forced to put into port here because of bad weather, and it is considered likely that she will be detained pend- ing an investigation. Old King Mummer takes up his scep- ter, dons his gaudiest ‘robes, mounts his throne of harvest plenty and reigns supreme tonight because it's Halloween. And, as usual, the King will see to it that his subjects make merry during his one-night reign. They always do. With King Mummer comes his reti- nue of black cats, Bats, witches, goblins and hobgoblins and the rest of his eerie court, and his subjects will bend to his sway in all the fantastic costumery that can be raked out again this year from the old trunk in the attic. ‘The annual Halloween ball of the City Club is one of the principal enter- tainments provided for the merry- maker tonight. It will open the Winter season for the club, and elaborate plans have been made to bring it up to the a Greco-American convention regard- standard of previous Halloween parties accommodation of executive offices and | ing the control of liquor carried by|of the club. not for any specific building designation, Greek ships in American waters, All of the hotels and dance cafes of oy 10 LABOR TONIGHT INNEWARK SPEECH Democratig Nominee to Carry Fight Outside Own State for Last Time. JERSEY CITY TRIBUTE SWITHMAY APPEAL [HAGUE'S TROUBLE HURTS DEMOCRATS CAUSE IN JERSEY Party Gets Bad Break om Eve of Election Through New Jersey Charges. PLANNED BY HAGUE | Preparations Made for Radio Hook- up for Final Plea to Voters Election Eve. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—Gov. Smith will carry his fight for the presi- dency outside the borders of his home State for the last time tonight, when he motors into New Jersey for a speech at Newark, a city only recently evac- uated by his Republican opponent. Returning to his headquarters here immediately after the address, the Dem- ocratic presidential nominee will spend tomorrow in preparation for his twin effort to swing New York Into line with speeches in Brooklyn and this city Pri- day and Saturday. Fifty-nine votes in the electoral col- lege are at stake in New Jersey and its neighbor State of New York, and Gov. Smith believes his chances are good for bagging them all, despite the fact that only once in the last quadren- | nial elections have they been found in the Democratic column. This was in | the tricornered race of 1912, when Wil- son carried both States. See Different Picture, President Coolidge had a plurality of more than 375,000 four years ago in New Jersey and topped the combined Davis-La Follette vote by approximate- ly 270,000. Smith campaign munm however, see a different picture this year and long have held that State to be debatable territory. What the Democratic nominee will choose for his text tonight in Newark had not been announced from the Smith camp today. It was considered likely, however, that he would devote a good portion of the speech to an appeal to the laboring classes, inasmuch as Herbert Hoover chose this topic for his Newark address. ‘Tentative plans call for the governor's departure from the Hotel Biltmore after dinner for the 20-mile drive to Newark by way of the Holland Tunnel and who arran or the nominee at N. J., shortly A e, prepara Democratic invasion of the | | | State. May Take Paft in Parade. The New York executive had not been apprised just what the Jersey City mayor had in store for him in the way of a welcome, but it was be- lieved the departure here would be so timed as to permit the nominee to par- ticipate in a torcl it parade befor reaching his destin: . ‘Whether Gov. Smith will stick to his original plan to wind up his speaking campaign in Madison Square Garden Saturday night, or consent to make a final radio appeal to the electorate Monday night is a subject of much discussion around headquarters here. Although no official announcement has been made, it is understood that ne- gotiations for a radio contract on elec- tion eve are proceeding with a view to having the hook-up ready should the nominee decide to speak for the first time on the same night with his op- ponent, PISIST L E NOTORIOUS BANDIT’S COT CATCHES FIRE IN CELL Jaworski, Partially Paralyzed by Bullet, Drops Match on Papers Under Bed. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, October 31.—Paul Ja-~ worski, notorious bandit, under sentence to die for killing a pay roll guard, fired his cot in the county jail here yester day, Warden John McNeil said today. The warden said the fire was an acci- dent and it was quickly extinguished. According to McNeil, the condemned man was lying on the cot smoking and dropped a match upon a newspaper under the bed. The paper NEWARK ALL PRIMED TO WELCOME GOVERNOR Greater Activity on Behalf of Smith Shown Since Recent Visit of Hoover. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Staz, NEWARK, N. J, October 31.—The Democrats have had a bad break here in Jersey, just on the eve of Gov. Smith's coming to Newark to make his big play for the State's 14 electoral votes. Frank Hague, mayor of Jersey City, Democratic boss of the State and its member of the Democratic national committee, has refused to appear be- fore a legislative investigating com- mittee at this time, He says he will appear as soon as the election is over., The impression he has left in the minds of many of the voters is that he is afraid his testimony might injure Democratic chances in the State, The question is whether his testimony would have done more harm than his declining to appear. Doubt is that he w be able to clear himself of the c! — against him and the organization which he controls. It has left a bad taste in the mouth. The Newark Evening ;News has taken him to task. It points |out editorially that Mayor Hague, if | he is able to clear himself, can do so now just as well as the day after elec~ tion, and that his explanation would be more effective now, if he has one, th%'lufi would humho Democratic in New Je; so far as this el nlsconcem" lies in Hudson County, which includes .Iel‘seym(:llthy‘é and in the a part of Greater New Smith is tremendously pular . But they are afraid that Hague's declination to appear fore the legislative committee with the implication he has something to con- ceal, will alienate the independent voters, Hague Aided ‘Smith, gs i ke il { g : crats say, dem nh,lodnin%:;un, Philadelphia 3 are rel on the - nm'avhitlndlflszm'dmhemv?g o 't;:e m:xt;:mplx:hxwhlch will send tm'P‘J ol? November 6. i ticians and ol State shake their heads |are asked if Smith can carry New Jer- | sey. They just can't see it. The im- | pression is abroad that Smith can carry Just one county, Hudson County, and that the rest will go for Hoover. The Democrats hope plurality in Hudson Counf n not have more than co.o%.n%h?sg:{ estimates give Hoover a 200,000 lead in the rest of the State. In other words, the belief here is that Hoover will car- ry New Jersey by about 100,000 votes, :;tgg;gh this may be scaled down to Smith’s Strength Grows. The Democrats have been more ac- tive in the State since Hoover's vl:lt that and there have been signs Smith was gaining s His wet- flamed up and the cot was set afire. Jiworski is partly paralyzed, having been wound- ed by a bullet fired by Cleveland police when they captured him several weeks ago. —— COLUMBIA DELAYED. Transatlantic Flight Held Up Be- cause of Weather. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., October 31 (#).—Adverse flying weather over the Atlantic prevented the monoplane (g- lumbla from taking off today on its pfo- jected flight to Rome. Roger O. Williams, skywriter, who has borrowed the plane, with Peter Bonelli, from Charles A. Levine for the flight, was at the field during the iaorning, but called the flight off shortly before noon. He said that tonight's weather report would determine whether or not a take-off would be m: tomorrow. King Mummer Assumes Throne for One Night as Subjects Plan Merrymaking the city have made special preparations, too, for the occasion, and many are already booked to capacity for the night’s revelry. Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, however, wants it to be under- stood that revelry and rowdyism are two separate and distinct things, and issues the customary general order that the latter is not to be tolerated in to- night's doings. Police have been warned to be par- ticularly watchful of the pranks of a trength. ness and his appeal to the foreign groups and their descendants are help- ing here. On the other hand, the Re- publicans have a strong organization and it is working effectively. All the ?epul;ll;:mmfncflo:lxdx?lve gotten to- ether for the ve to push ver over the un:’ a winner. Lomrps Democrats admit that it is a real blow to have the leader of the organization not only under fire but backing away from an investigation It is an embarrassment to their candidates on the State ticket as well as to those on the national ticket. They have been quite confident that they would elect their candidate for governor, William Dill. They have been fairly confident of re-electing Senator Edward I Edwards, former governor. The Republican candidate for gover- nor, State Senator Larson, has not been regarded as a particularly wise selection. There have been charges that Boss Hague gave orders that thousands of Democrats in Hudson County should vote in the Republican gubernatorial primary .and nominate .arson, who was opposed for the nomination by Robert Carey, a bitter enemy of Hague. Investigation has borne out the charges that many Democrats did vote in the Republican primary, To get a clear picture of the situa- tion here it must be understood that Hague has been a real boss. Democratic candidates are nominated with his aj , and are tinted, therefore, wif d Hagulsm that the Repubiioans and Haguei Repul are ringing to bear now L Hague and Dill and linking them together. He says, for example: oot e e T e of ever o] in America. The leader is one of the most this State has ever destructive nature which usually accom- | Seen. y the Halloween celebration and ave been a gram since time immemorial. Ringing of doorbells, indiscriminate use of peppered feather ticklers, throw- ing of flour, brickbats and the like and annoyance to peaceful citizens in their normal nightly pursuits come under the special rowdyisms Maj. Hesse warns his force to be especially watchful of of the small boy’s pro- | the ernor so that he can coni trol of that office. Py .