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- RODSEVELT SEEN ASCERTAINVICTOR Republicans as Well as Dem- ocrats, in Tammany Strong- hold, Hold View. (Continued From First Page) effect in the rest of the country, if not New York. ‘These editorials have pictured Gov. Roosevelt as subservient to Tammany Hall. Tuttle has charged again and again that, for the support of Tammany, headed by John F. Curry, the Governor has failed to open up the investigation of alleged corruption in the greater city. ‘The administration in Washington has taken cognizance of the situation and first through the Secretary of War, Mr. Hurley, and again through the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, has broadcast the charge that Gov. Roosevelt has been willing to keep hands off in the city in order to have the backing of Tammany, :,ithmn which he could scarcely expect win, ‘The cumulative effect of these on- slaughts on Roosevelt may make it difficult for him to win nomination in the next Democratic National Con- ‘The opposition will seek to him as Tammany’s tool. And if he should receive the Demo- cratic nomination for President, the Republican attack will be directed along same line. It does not appear probable that within the next week anything new will be turned up by the grand jury or other investiga- tors involving “other members of the New York City judiciary in the cor- ruption charges. But should further scandals develop after the expected election of Gov. Roosevelt, his present attitude would rise up to plague him two years hence. any at present is hitting on all elght cylinders, John F. Curry, the district leader, who fought his way to the front more than a year ago and succeeded to the post held by George ‘Washington Olvany, has proved an ef- fective leader. He has been able to harmonize differences that existed in the Democratic organization. In the mayoralty campaign after he took charge, Mayor “Jimmy” Walker was elected by nearly 500,000 votes over his Republican opponent, Representative La Guardia. This approached the biggest vote by which Al Smith ever carried the city. The Tammany leader today as well by Roosevelt as they did by ‘Walker and by Smith in this city. Builds State Organization. Gov. Roosevelt, unlike his predecessor, Al Smith, has undertaken build up & Democratic organization up-State, Smith’s idea was that the city vote would be sufficient to win for him. Roosevelt in the last two years has traveled frequently through the State. has advocated legislation in interest of the farmers of New York. cl credit for work actually begun by the New York Legislature, which is Republican, and has been sccorded that credit. The consequence is that Roosevelt is more popular in up-State rural sections of New York than was Smith. & considerable number more votes up- Btate than did Smith. ™he Democratic organization seems 1o be far better off for money this year Republican. The Repub- Charles H. Tuttle is an able man, a good lawyer and proved himself an active prosecutor. But, he is no rabble Taiser. He lacks magnetism, ®0 necessary on the stump in g:uuul . It he were a ’:“ an Al Smith, with the cor- : e 1144 i it EEE supposed that in New City itself the corruption issue, charges that judgeships were sold y and with at least one indicted .for purchasing his job, " séfl.: believed, however, there is no in The prospect. e people to be particularly excited. yet the record is an unsavory one. ad to scandals involving city officials evidence was accu- ting before the middle of last Sum- , according to Democratic New York World, that “men of low character had been made judges by Tammany and its allied tions in the city of New ‘York. Judge Mancusco was compelled to resign under threat of an investiga- tion for his removal following the scan- dalous collapse of a bank from which he dchrf' a salary while he sat on the ben Judge Vause was convicted in the leral Court for a stock swindle and sentenced to six years in prison. Magi- strate Vitale was removed on complaint of the Bar Association after it had been shown that he had borrowed $19,000 from Arnold Rothstein (a notorious gambler, racketeer and protector of criminals, who was murdered some time 280). ‘The final touch to the record was added when evidence was produced that the wife of Magistrate Ewald, an ap- rlnme of Mayor Walker, had loaned 10,000 to a Tammany district leader on an unsecuted note at the time of her husband’s appointment. Ewald is now under indictment. But despite the record, New York City does not appear to be excited. It | looks as though corruption issues left the voters cold. Perhaps there will be & vote of protest that is now keeping silent. Such things have happened in the past. But if there is such a pro- | ar i Open Until 5 P.M. 3% COMPOUND INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS The Columbia National Bank 911 F Street Capital and Surplus $750,000.00 [Resigns, Fights Pinchot REPRESENTATIVE GRAHAM. test vote, it is very, very silent at the present time. The charge against Gov. Roosevelt is that he has not only failed to take the leadyin bringing about complete in- vestigation of the alleged sale of judicial offices, but that he has acted to post- pone or to prevent any real investigas tion. His statement the other night in New York City that he belleved the people of New York City could take care of their own affairs has not been particularly well received, certainly by the press of the city. The New York Evéning World, editorially, took a wal- lop at the Governor, saying: “If the Governor is so convinced that that the seven million people of New York City can handle their own affairs, why did he take the Ewald case out of the hands of the New York County district attorney and the regular coun- ty grand jury and give it to the attor- ney general and a special grand jury? “We are loath to believe this is Gov. Roosevelt's last word on the corruption issue in this city. We cannot even yet admit that Tammany has him tied, muzzled and blindfolded by the threat that only in that ignominious state can he be sure of its votes. “If so it prove, then the saddest thing in American public life today is the thing politics has done to Franklin D. Roosevelt.” That is merely a sample of the com- ment made upon Gov. Roosevelt’s at- titude by New York newspapers. But notwithstanding this unfavorable com- ment, the Democratic leaders continue to assert that they will carry New York City by half a million votes for Roose- velt, and some of the Republicans give it to him by 325,000 votes. Conservative observers estimate that Roosevelt will carry the State by 250,000 votes against ‘Tuttle, and some of the observers place the Governor's lead as high as 350,000. BYRNS SEES POLITICS MOTIVE FOR RELIEF Democratic Leader Says Time of Action on Eve of Election Arouses Suspicion. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, chairman of the Democratic Congres- sional Committee, charged that the administration, in postponing its ef- forts to relieve unemployment “until the very eve of the congressional elec- tions, arouses the sucpicion “that its interest is as much political as it is humane.” In s statement through the Demo- tic National Committee Byrns add- to the neeusllty of {npplt:x with the grave unemployment problem.” “While we rejoice,” he said, “that the tration is at last to do what it can at this late day to ease the distress from which so many mil- lons are suffering, we cannot forget nor fail to hold Mr. Hoover and advisers responsible for their unpar- - delay in doing anything at B added that, “although the ad- mni ition had from last November, when the depression e serious, until July 1, when appropriations for the new fiscal year ame available, w'rlmpm( rorb:in - ks, it act: ?l‘ = of public works, it actually ap- MJ, $25,922,562 less for public . | works this year than it did last.” bl Attt A uniformed junior police force has been formed to aid ir police in pro- 'g{lun' school children at Seminole, a. 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Mr. Graham, who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, in a formal statement, said he regarded Gifford Pinchot, Republican gubernatorial nominee, as a “menace to the return of prosperity” and added that his elec- tion would “increase the depression and suffering_in business.” The Representative assert:d that Pinchot was not a Republican; that he was against the program of President Hoover and that he ‘“associates with the President's enemies in ths Senate.” Pinchot's goal, Graham declared, “is to wreck the Republican party on the power issue raised by Senator Norris and, perhaps in 1932, become on some platform or with some party a nominee for President.” “President Hoover,” Graham's state- ment added. “accepting Mr. Pinchot’s own confession that he is a ‘progressive straight and propeses to act witn other progressives’ to destroy the policies of the Republican party, has not offered him any support, while giving it freely to New York, New Jersey and other States.” Mr. Pinchot replied yesterday to a statement by directors of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad denying charges alleged to have been made by him during the present political campaign. Mr, Pinchot declared his attacks were not directed against the railroad com- Pln,v. but against Gen. W. W. Atterbury, its president. Asserting that Gen. Atterbury had “misused the power of his office in a disgraceful political fashion,” Pinchot characterized the statement of the Pennsylvania directors as “a series of carefully worded evasions,” and said “some of the asscrtions are so menda- cious” that he doubted whether the directors knew they were to be made. ‘The railroad’s statement. Pinchot said, was “but a sample of the lengths to which he, Atterbury, has gone in his efforts to help Hemphill. Prince Is Suicide. BUCHAREST, October 30 (#)— Prince Grigore Cantacuzene, member of an old Byzantine family, committed suicide yesterday. His act was charged to ill health. WASHINGTON’S FINEST MEN’S WEAR STORE RALEIGH HABERDASHER buy more for . STAR. W TP 9 30, 1930. AUTHOR TO SPEAK Murdock Pemberton, author and critic of New York, will address members of the Community Drama Guild of Wash- ington in the McKinley Auditorium, Second and T streets northeast, Wed- nesday night, November 5. Pemberton will speak on “Ninety Years on Broadway” or the “Secret of Producing Plays.” The United States Army Band and Miss Lisa Gardiner and other dancers will present a program. SMITH ASKS NATION 70 60 DEMOCRATIC Makes Triple Charges of Re- publican Failure in Busi- ness Crisis. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 30.—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith last night urged the election of a Democratic Congress and told a Nation-wide radio audience he had three charges to make against the Republicans. He listed them as follows: 1. They made campaign pledges of continuing prosperity which they could not redeem. 2. They refused to face thg business crisis until it was forced upca them. 3. They failed to take necessary steps to relieve the situation. Amplifying these, Mr. Smith said: “It is & matter of history that the President himself as short a time ago |as March 8 made the definite state- Imfnt that the situation would clear in 60 days. He was assisted by his cab- inet officers in his refusal to face the facts. As late as June, 1930, the Sec- retary of Agriculture made the state- ment that the unemployment was sea- sonal and there was relatively no dis- tress. And further than that, the Sec- retary of Labor gave out figures with respect to unemployment which were shown to be false by the statistios gathered by the Department of Labor in the State of New York.” The former Governor said he did not take “the position of placing upon the Republican party the blame for the business depression and consequent unemployment, but we do seriously in- dict them for misleading the people into the belief that a continuance of the Republican party in power meant continued prosperity.” “What has happened to the Repub- lican party in this instance,” he co tinued, “Is nothing more or less th: false issues are injected into a cam- the result that must be expected when g:i‘n. Lack of sincerity or even honesty hind a false campaign pledge not only wrecks itself, but tends to bring about the destruction of those who is- sue it.” b. 0. P. GONGRESS URGED BY MELLON Secretary Asks United Sup- port of President in Time of Stress. By the Associated Press. Secretary Mellon last night emerged from his customary political silence to ask the voters to elect, next Tuesday, a Republican Congress. “It is not time for divided authority,” the Treasury chief told a Nation-wide radio audience. “It is rather a time for strong and united action and, in asking support for the President and the administration, I do so in the bellef that in this way we shall attain most quickly that full measure of economic recovery which is inevitable in a Nation so self-reliant and so justifiably con- fident of the future.” Efforts of Administration, ‘The Secretary said the administration was doing all possible to hasten re- covery from the business depression and alleviate suffering from unemployment, but he cautioned his listeners: “It cannot work miracles. The most that any administration can do is to keep the boat steady and headed in the right direction until the storm blows over; and that the President has shown he is well able to do.” Mellon was equally conservative in discussing the ecorfomic future, assert- ing no one could predict how long it would take to recover from the de- pression. “But_of one thing we can be cer- he said. “With our great inter- nization, our vast resources, our unparalleled domestic buying power and the indomitable spirit of our people, shall be among the first of all the tions to recover and resume the onwar march of progress.” Analyzing the depression, both in this country and abroad, the Secretary sald it was not caused by speculation in stocks, “though that was a factor, of course, in the situation.” Overproduction World-Wide. Its underlying causes, he said, were traceable primarily to world-wide over- production, especially of raw materials, which climaxed a 10-year effort to catch up with the shortages created by the four years of World War. Mellon ‘was strong in his praise of President Hoover. “President Hoover has shown himself a man capable of dealing with great emergencies,” he said. “I am confident that he will lead the country out of its present difficulties; but if he is to do so with a minimum of friction and loss of time, his hands should not be tied by a Congress controlled by his political opponents.” Philipsborn LCVENTH ST. = BETWEEN F4G Tomorrow brings to a close our enthusiastically awaited month end 1,950 Pairs of Regular $6.50, $8.50 and $10 Shoes on Sale at Brown Suede! Black Kid! Brown Kid? Blue Suede! 9 Blue Kid!- Reptile Grains! Satins! Patents! Styles for every occasion—scores of them for street, for dress—Oxford, Pumps, Straps, Ties. 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RESOURGES Declares Exaggerations by T cent of it at home. tions or production and distribuf are in some ways stroager than two years ago, He the worker is co-operating in the ent situation thout undue domands and with no thr This alone, he added, repre- sents “an achievement which records a notable chapter in economic history. It strikes a high note in the states- manship of our time ‘and augurs mmuch for the well-being of our country.” Doctor o; Athai;m to B;Eolfefld. 33 paign in Massachusetts was schedulea| Democratic Leaders Partly | ;enivcrap, october 30 (.—Atter for tonight, when former President Cal- vin Coolidge will break his political silence with his only radio speech of the Fall. Mr. Coolidge will speak for 15 min- utes over stations WBZ-WBZA, start- ing at 8:30 o'clock. A Nation-wide hook- up was refused by the former Presi- dent, who said that his speech was of interest chiefly to the Massachusetts voters. He will speak in the interests of Wil- | liam M. Butler, Republican senatorial candidat> who managed ‘the Coolidge campaign of 1924, and Frank G. Allen, who seeks a fecond term as governor. POSTAL AIDS THEATERS NEW YORK, October 30 (#)—The League of New York Theaters, formed “|to restrain speculation in theater tick- ets, entered into/a contract Tuesday with the Postal Telegraph Co. for the distribution of pasteboards through all its_offices. The action followed the resignation from the league of 16 ticket brokers as the result of a dispute over the dis- tribution of tickets. ‘The new plan provides that the Postal Co. may charge 50 cents above box | prices for its service. > Responsible for Depression. | | | By the Associated Press. | LIMA, Ohio, October 30.—Senator | Simeon D. Fess. chairman of the Re- publican National Committee, speaking | at a Republican rally here last night, | expressed confidence in the Nation's| tions by partisan leaders were partly responsible for continued business de- pression. “If carping critics would withhold their direful prognostications,” Fess | said, “if the desire for quick and large | returns in the field of speculation would | give way to that of honest investment | and if the partisan leaders would be satisfled to stay within the facts in- stead of employing exaggerations, quite a ltfilflerem. situation would present it- self.” Fes sald the country's banking re- sources are abundant and that the ala-J‘ nificant barometer of buym’ power still is present in the form of individual bank deposits and activities of building and loan associations. _M\?’ld. manufacturing plants are intact, | national production is one-third of the | | world's production and we consume 90 ‘The Senator said the credit system is | . two years’ study graduates of an anti~ religious university opened recently will receive the degree of doctor of atheism. 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