Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 5

THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, T!)'_’B.‘ * EEDRAPSHODIER ONFARH CNTRO Charges Candidate Sought to Depress Prices of Products During War. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 31 (#).—Senator James A. Reed of Missouri spent an hour last night flaying Herbert Hoover for his activities in connection with the control of farm product prices during and after the World War. The Senator’s speech, the third he has made in behalf of the candidacy of Gov. Smith, was heralded by Democrats as his most important utterance in the campaign. “Perhaps the most insolent misrep- resentation ever made in a political con- test is the claim in the Republican campaign book that Mr. Hoover sus- tained the prices of American farm products both during and after the war, and that he thereforc has been the friend and benefactor of American agri- culture,” declared the white-haired vet- eran. “That statement has been repeated to the press hundreds of times and bears the sanction of a number of United States Senators who know better, or ought to know better.” The Senator said in previous speeches he had demonstrated that Hoover came to the United States at the outset of the war to regulate the price of farm products and he would prove that the Republican nomince persistently sought to depress farm product prices. $10 Wheat In Prospect. “On May 1, 1918, Mr. Hoover in a public address said: would be getting $5 and perhaps $10 a bushel for their wheat if it had not been for the restrictions imposed by the Gov- ernment,’ ” continued Senator Reed. As to claims of Republicans that Hoover sustained farm prices after the war, the speaker presented copies of telegrams exchanged by Hoover and George N. Peek to prove their falsity. “At the termination of the war,” he continued, “there was created the indus- trial board of the Department of Com- merce to co-operate with American in- dustry in bringing about a lower level of prices of manufactured products—not farm products. Peek, who had served during the war as a member of the War Industries Board, was made chairman. “When the armistice was signed, the whole world was clamoring for our wheat and our farm products. Everybody knew they would command high prices in all European markets. Mr. Hoover insisted on maintaining the high prices 1.2 had forced during the war. But Peek was of a different opinion. He ‘wanted .our farmers to enjoy the advan- tages of the high prices they would secure in Europe. Hoover was in Eu- Tope. Pork Prices Jumped. “Mr. Peek went to President Wilson and induced him to order a release of the control of pork prices. Hoover vio- lently opposed, but the control was broken and immediately hog prices ad- vanced $1.50 a hundred. Thereupon Peek sought to have flour taken from under Hoover’s control. “As soon as Hoover learned of Peek's attempt, he issued at Paris a public statement opposing any release of his control.” His exact words were: ‘We \ might see wheat at $3.50 a bushel, as it was in the Spring of 1917, if there is & free market in wheat and uncon- trolled prices.’” Senator Reed said Peck cabled for an explanation and Hoover replied in a message which was never made public although he requested his associates to give it to the press. The speaker quoted the telegram as follows: “ ‘Referring to the necessity of main- taining control of wheat, in order to prevent higher prices before next har- vest, early, in March the war irade board freed the exportation of pork mducts. ‘The price rose rapidly. In month of March alone we shall kill about 1,000,000 pounds of inspscted and country slaughtered hogs and the in- creased price will be fully 174 cents net. ““This action was taken against the rotest of my entire staff and myself. f the control of wheat were removed during the next two or three months in the face of the world situation, prices in this commodity would advance mate- rially beyond the present level. I wish to repeat that unless soms superior force intervenes we intend to hold the price of wheat to the figure it was during the entire war under congres- sional guarantee. paltivries CANNOT SUPPORT SMITH. JACKSON, Miss.,, October 31 (#).— ‘W. N. Ethridge, West Point, yesterday tendered his resignation as a member of the Democratic State executive com- mittee “because I find myself unable to _support Gov. Smith for President.” The resignation was accepted by the committee and Judge O. J. McIntyre of West Point was appointed in his place. Diamond Set 15-Jewel Gruen, $60 up 15-Jewel Gruen « Cartouche, $35 Other Designs, $25 15-Jewel Gruen Cartouche, $50 Others, $i0 o §75 Gruen Octathin, $40 Other Semi-Thin Pocket Watches, $25 to $78 ‘I agree with the | contention of some farmers that they | Smith Family Able To Outvote Hoovers By 2-to-1 Ratio By the Assoclated Press. The Alfred E. Smith family can outvote the Herbert Hoover family two to one next Tuesday, as there are 10 of votingage in the immediate family of the Democratic _presidential candi- date and only five in that of the Republican nominee. Besides the governor and Mrs. Smith, there are two sons and thelr wives and two daughters and their husbands who can cast their ballots. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, there are two sons, both of voting age, and the wife of one son, Herbert, jr. All five of the Hoovers wili vote at the same polling place on the campus at Stanford University, but the members of the Smith family will have to separate, some of them voting outside of New York City. HOOVER AND SMIITH ON RADID MONDAY G. 0. P. Nominee to Speak in Falo Alto and Democrat From New York. By the Associated Presa. NEW YORK, October 31.—Radio will carry the final appeals of Gov. Smith and Herbert Hoover to the Nation next Monday night, the eve of election day. Hoover will speak for 15 minutes from his home at Palo Alto, Calif, at the end of a musical rally staged here by theatrical stars, and the one-hour program will be broadcast over a net- work of 72 stations, it was announced today. The broadcasting, with WEAF as the key station, will start at 9 o’clock Eastern time. Gov. Smith will speak for an hour, starting at 10 o'clock, Eastern time, from New York over a combined hook- up of WJZ and network and WOR and the Columbia chain. He will address only the radio audience. Thz theatrical program to be pre- sented a prologue to Hoover's ad- dress cHtitled, “Men of Destiny,” nine periods of American history will be portrayed, each with its distinctive characters and music, ending with a Hoover episode. Mme. Amelita Galli Curci, Freida Hempel, Raymond Hitchcock, William Hodge, Pauline Lord, Elsie Ferguson, Ian Keith, Walter Hustorr and Florence Reed are among the artists who will participate, said the announcement by B. S. Moss, chairman of .the advisory committee of the Hoover-Curtis The- atrical League. Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, also will broadcast a final appeal on the eve of the election. The Socialist national campaign committee announced today that he will speak for half an hour from 8:30 to 9 p.m., East- ern standard time, next Monday over a hook-up of 11 stations of the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. He will ad- dress only the radio audience and will %’:3( from the studio of WJZ in New NEWS WRITERS BACK LUDLOW CANDIDACY Former Presidents of National Press Club Wire Colleague Run- ning for Congress in Indiana. Twelve presidents of the National Press Club yesterday joined in a tele- gram to Louis Ludlow, also a former president of the club, expressing their hope that he will be elected to Congress (ro_xl;zm thé] Indianapolis district. legram was signed by Carter Field of the New Yorkfinld-y'l‘ribune. Robert B. Armstrong of the Los Angeles Times, Henry L. Sweinhart of the Havas News Agency, Oswald Schuette, formerly of the Chicago Inter-Ocean; Ulrich Bell of the Louisville Courier- Journal, Grafton Wilcox of the New York Herald-Tribune, Theodore Tiller of the Atlanta Journal, Mark Goodwin of the Dallas News, George Authier of the New York World, John Suter of the Associated Press, Frank B. Lord, formerly of the Buffalo Times, and Ear] Godwin, formerly of the Wash- ington Times. Schall to Seek Re-election. BROOTEN, Minn,, October 31 (#).— Senator Thomas D. Schall, Republican, announced in a speech last night he would be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 1930. 1 DR. STRATON ASKS RITCHIE TO DEBATE Governor Refuses to Meet Pastor in Baltimore on Night Before Election. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, October 31.—Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Cal- vary Baptist Church of New York, a foe of Gov. Alfred E. Smith, last night is- sued an open letter challenge to Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland to debatc the question of the “fitness of Gov. Smith to become President of the Unit- ed States.” Dr. Straton said he objected to the “slighting references” of Gov. Ritchie to “Bishop Cannon, Mrs. Mabel Walker ‘Willebrandt and myself in your address at Baltimore Monday night, preceding the wild harangue of Candidate Alfred E. Smith.” Gov. Ritchie in making reference to Dr. Straton said: “I hope he loves his God as much as he does h's publicity.” Dr. Straton_proposed that the debate be held in Baltimore Monday night, November 5. GOV. RITCHIE DECLINES. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 31 (#).— Gov. Ritchie, when informed last ni % it of the challenge to debate issued by Dr. John Roach Straton at Kansas City, declined to accept, declaring that the New York min‘ster had backed out of a debate with Gov. Smith, and adding that he was already busy with cam- paign speeches. = “The Rev. Straton #1es me honor, Gov. Ritchie said, “bu I cannot accept his challenge. 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Smith had “Intimated” he stood for the principles of the Mc- Nary-Haugen bill, but later had declar- ed he had not indorsed the equalization fee of that measure, “and he now proposes to name a commission to study the problem.” The crowded auditorium cheered when he said, *“you needn't worry, for Gov. Smith will not be elected.” In his second Wisconsin visit, the Republican vice presidential nominee made no reference to Senator La Fol- lette, Republican, of Wisconsin, who has been silent on the national ticket. Previously he had indorsed him. Last night, however, he did praise the rec- ord of Representative Frear of Wiscon- sin and called for his election and the election of Walter Kohler, Republican nominee for governor, who is supporting the Republican national ticket. The Senator still had his right hand in a sling, protecting the finger in- jured in an automobile door several weeks ago, but he was busy shaking hands with the left hand at train stops. 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