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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Falr, with slow] H e Iy rhhu"'umperlfure ures—Highest, 48, .m. y; lowest, 37, at 4 :"m‘ py:- terday. Full report on page 2. he Swunday Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION “From Press to Home Within the Hour” ‘The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. e (UP) Means Associated Press. No. 1,337—No. 31,596. GONGRESS CONTROL SEEN AS LIKELY 10 STAY REPUBLICAN Democratic Majority Regard- ed Possible, But Not Prob- able Next Tuesday. DEPRESSION AND LIQUOR MOST DISCUSSED ISSUES Gains by Minority Party and Wets Conceded in Most Political Quarters. Complete and interesting reports of the campaigns in the States, with forecasts of Tuesday's results gathered in The Star's Nation-wide political survey, will be found in Part 1, section C, pages 1 to 9, of today's Star. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Republican control of Congress is threatened in Tuesday's election, with | depression and prohibition the chief | eontributing factors. Entered as mecond class matte post office. Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, B, SUNDAY MOR ’ NING, NOVEMBER 2, 1930—-134 PAGES. =* FIVE C IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS Republicans Say Foes Have Stood on Tariff Repeal Alone. The following statements, sum The Star by the Republican and De: BY ROBERT H. LUCAS. Executive Director, Republican National Commiitee. one real issue advocated by the Demo- cratic party—repeal of the tariff—and that has but recently been injected into the campaign. Be- fore it emerged from the Demo- cratic smoke screen with sound accom- paniment. the i Democratic party had sponsored nothing but attacks upon the President and the admini- stration. James M. Cox in a Nation-wide radio address made repeal of ihe tariff an issue. He prom- ied to strike from the statute books the Hawley-Smoot tariff. the bill for which so many of his party leaders in the Senate wcrked and voted and to have the repeal “without hearings or other ceremony.” As a fake issue the Democratic party (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Robert H. Lucas. On the eve of election there is but | Issues of the @npaign | Democrats to Rest Their | | Case on Success or ‘ Failure of Hoover. marizing the issues presented to the | | voters for decision in the general elcctions Tuesday, were prepared for mocratic National headquarters. BY CHARLES MICHELSON. Publicity Director. Democratic National Commitiee Tssues of the political campaign that culminates in Tuesday's election are all embraced in the general question of whether the Hoover administration has been a success or & failure. In other words has the country sustaincd at the hands of the ¥ present administra- tion such a_direc- tion of public af- fairs as was prom- jsed when Mr. Hoover asked the suffrage of _the | American 2 |if his party was | confirmed in_ its | stewardship of the Government cer- tain things were | guaranteed the | people of this | country. | " Chief of these was prosperity. | presidential candidate of that | paign advised the electorate | continuance of national good times de- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) Charles Michelson. ‘The cam- Democrats are due to make heavy fnroads into big Republican majorities in both House and Senate. ‘While these Democratic gains are to be large, there appears to be only a! possibility, not a probability, that a clear majority will be obtained by the | Demiocrats in either House of Congress. | Owing to discontment because of eco- momic conditions in the country, how- | ever, the swing to the Democrats may yet assume landslide proportions. If it does, possibility will become an accom- shed fact. The Republican majority the House will be wiped out. A Democratic’ majority in the Senate is & more remote possibility than a Demo- eratic majority in the House. i Controlled Since 1918. Control of both houses of Congress has rested with the Republicans since the election of 1918, the midway point in the last term of Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson. In the present Congrese, although the Republicans | nominally have 17 more Senate M.'llli than the Democrats, a “coalition” of | Republican its and Democrats ’d‘:nl Hoover to have his way in major ues. { ‘The election two days hence promises | dhan the | Botn it ave fne propable potiical 1 up are probable lor- tunes of leaders of both the major gmel. The election, too, is expected give impetus to the drive to do away with national prohibition &s it now exists, or to throw a wet lhnl'e: on! Benate, or both, would be regarded as & “repudiation” of the Hoover adminis- u-nk;n. i Clmhlyun would make the | ent's legislative program more icult of accomplishment than ever. the two remaining years of his term, owever, President Hoover, no matter ’hat happens on Tuesday, may attain more commanding position, especially | economic conditions should improve. Soreness Counted Upon. ‘The extent of the protest against thard times cannot be gauged with exact- ness. Democratic candidates for the House and Senate are expected to ben- it greatly by this protest vote. It is secret that they are counting on tae | reness of the voters to bring Demo- | tic vietory. Co-existent with the struggle between the G. O. P. ahd the Democratic party for control of Congress is the struggle between the wets and the drys, the prohibitionists and the supporters of Tepeal of the national dry laws. | The cause of both the Democrats and | the wets has been aided this year by | the business depression. In almost | every State and congressional district | where a wet and dry fight exists this| year, the Democratic candidate is car-| rying the wet standard. A notable ex- ception to this rule is found. however, in Montana, where Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat and dry, is opposed by Judge Albert J. Galen, Republican and “wet. Without the aid given by depres- slon, the Democrats in these wet and dry struggles might lose and the wet cause lose with them. For example. if 4t were not for business depression #nd | its accompanying unemployment prob. lem, Robert J. Bulkley, Democratic can- didate for Senator in Ohio, who has an- nounced for repeal of the eighteenth | amendment. would stand no show for | election there. His victory will be hailed | 85 a victory for the wet cause, however. Depression and the prohibition issue are going hand in hand to elect candidates for office this year. ! Wets to Make Gains. The anti-prohibitionists are due to make gains in both the House and Sen- ate. Already the wets have gained in a number of districts where anti-prohi- bition candidates have been nominated over drys. In other districts wet can- didates are expected to defeat their | dry opponents. But the drys will con- | tinue to have big majorities in both House and Senate in the next Congress. The Democrats have sought to make the tariff, farm relief and waterpower their campaign issues against the Re- publicans. The Republicans have ac- cepted all these issues and have gone to the mat on them. They may affect some votes. But in the main the great VARGAS WILL TAKE OFFICEON MONDAY Brazilian Revolutionary Chief Announces Financial Reform Program. By the Associated Press. Dr. Getulio Vargas, commander in chief nounced this evening that he would take office as provisional President of the country on Monday afternoon, No- vember 3. e His first official act will be to dis- | solve Congress. He said that, owing to | the present political situation in the country, he would assume the presi- dency “with discretionary power.” His announcement followed upon con- sultations with the northern insurgent military leader, Capt. Juarez Tavora, and officers of the military junta in the capital. The junta will probably be abolished within 48 hours. More rebel troops reached Rio to- day from Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo and Rio Grande Do Sul. The police here have been very active against Com- munists, who are charged with being responsible for the police revolt and street fighting on October 27. It was understood tonight that all banks would resume exchange opera- tions on' Monday. A rate for the milreis lower than the 9.3 to the dol- lar was forecast. the official quotation at the Banco do Brasil for the past two weeks. economic program, is one of the prin- cipal planks in Dr. Vargas' platform as provisional President of Brazil. Other Principles Announced. gas administration will stand were an- nounced as follows: Simplification of administrative pro- cesses and war on political parasitism. Reduction of administrative expenses. Simplification of legal procedure. Honest elections. Advancement of public instruction. Constitutional reforms relative to judicial and electoral procedure. Reformation of the powers and re- sponsibilities of the legislative and executive branches. It also was said that Dr. Aran] carrying on the revolution, probably would be minister of interior and jus. tice in the new cabinet, Thus the gov- ernment will be dominated by leaders from Rio Grande do Sul, the southern- most state in which the revolt was bor Triago Wurth, press representative "(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) WIFE OF NEWSPAPER MAN THROWN FROM HORSE Mrs. R. !.‘Pickenfi“'l‘nnled at Geargetown Hospital for Injuries About Head. Osvaldo ‘Thrown from her horse while riding {on the campus of American University yesterday afternoon, Mrs. R. 8. Pickens, 3005 Forty-fifth street, well known in Washington press circles and wife of Robert § Pickens, newspaperman, was painfully but not seriously injured. Mrs. Pickens is in Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital suffering from injuries about the head, bruises and shock. According to Mr. Pickens, he and his wife were out for a canter when, for some reason he has not discovered, | his wife’s mount became frightened and | bolted. Mis. Pickens sought vainly to | check the horse but failed, and was thrown heavily to the ground, striking on_her head. Pickens rode up, picked up his wife carried her to Nebraska avenue, where determining issues will be those of hard (Continued on Page 2, Col he obtained an automobile and rushed her to Georgetown University Hospital BANDITS MAKE WATCHMAN RING ALARM, RESULTING IN CAPTUREi Police Cars Arrive When Seventh Box Proves Emergency Rather Than By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, November 1.—The lucky seventh was John Rusyel’s inning, to the deep humiliation of five robbers he “outnumbered” today. Rusyel was night watching at a|tors cleaning establishment when the quin- tet surrounded him with a battery of pist-ls. “I have” them, “seven alarm boxes to 1 three minutes.” the watchman warned pull in Routine Box. ‘Good,” they said. you pull them all.” They strolled about the plant to- lled six boxes. “We'll see that gether. Rusyel p “Ah, lLat pull 07 on, it He did. “Where's No. 77 RIO DE JANEIRO, November 1.—! of Brazil's successful revolutionists, an- | | Financial reform, comprising a vast Other principles for which the Var- | who had much to do with| That's only six,” his cap- | Come In a moment the crescendo Ignore Weather on Amster- dam Flight. By the Associated Press. ALTENRHEIN, Switzerland, Novem- | ber 1..—Weather reports from the north | along the course over which the greoat | flying boat DO-X is to fly tomorrow on | |the first leg of her flight across the | ocean to America, were unfavorable to- | night, but are not expected to delay the airship’s d-parture. Comdr. Friedrich Christiansen was not gloomy at the prospect. Start Set for 8 “We will be off shortly after 8 o'clock | in the morning.” he sald. All the mechanics and other members | of the crew were ordered to be aboard | the airship by 7:30 am. Her fuel tanks were full and engineers had made the last adjustments to her | instruments in final preparations ior {a start to Amsterdam at 8 o'clock (3 am. Eastern standard time). | Select Tentative Route. Comdr. Christiansen said he planned | to head his ship into the west, follow- | ing the Rbine until it winds into Hol- land, but his exact route will be de- | termined by the weather he encounters This figure has been | and by how much daylight is left after | the take-off. If the start takes place promptly at | 8 o'clock, the pilot should sight Schell- | ingwoude, the Dutch naval airport out- side Amsterdam, between 1 and 2 lo'c!ock in the afternoon. 35 Hours Over Ocean. The transatlantic_cruise is expected to consume about 35 hours of actual | fiying time, but th= amount of time for | layovers at the various scheduled stops { en route depends on the weather and | other contingencies. It is not unlikely that the DO-X may take a weck o more to reach New York from Lisbon Ten_ hours is the estimated flying time from Lisbon to the Azores and | there probably will be a one-day lay- over thers before the start of a 12-hour leg to & tauk ship which will be waiting | about 700 miles southwest of Bermuda. It will be only a brief stay at the | tanker before the 6-hour hop to Ber- muda begins. At least one day will be spent on ihe island, and perhaps several days, before the final 7-hour stretch to New York begins. KIDNAPERS SEIZE RICH REALTY MAN Ransom of $10.000 Is Asked of; Wife After Abduction by i Four Bogus “Agents.” By the Associated Press DETROIT, November 1 estate dealer, reported to police tonight that Kaler was Kkidnaped Thursday night by four men who have demanded $10,000 ransom. Police said the report was made to) them after Mrs. Kaier had taken $2,000 from a bank to a hotel where she was to meet the kidnapers. The abductors, police were informed, did not keep the engagment and Mrs. Kaier collapsed The report to the authorities said that four men who represented them- | selves as ‘Federal agents” Kajer home Thursday visited the night | He accompanied them, | ransom demands were | said. ‘The police did not learn immediately what negotiations led to today’s unkept rendezvous. Detective Sergt. Reuben Haynes, who | was working on the case, said that Mrs. Kaler was in a highly nervous condi- tion and could not be interviewed to- might. H made, police sald the bogus “Federa! attorney in their Kaler. conversation with o5 lnztnu used the name of the district | | | Man, 80, Seeks Divorce. BATON ROUGE, La. November 1 (), —Sambola Jones, 80 years old, and former United States Minister to Hon- duras, has filed suit for divorce from of police car sirens brought chills to| Mrs, Julia D. Jones, aged 28, on the five spines. ‘The robbers were captured. 7 was the emergency Box No. | grounds of desertion ‘They were mar- ried in Honduras when Mrs. Jones was 15 | that a/ DX HOPSTODAY INTRPTOU.S. |Great Flying Boat Likely to Relatives of | Charles Kaler, 42, wealthy retired real| | Amur | News and told | him he was “wanted at headquar’ers.” | and later the | U. 5. INTERVENTION MAY SOLVE NAVAL PAGT DIFFICULTIES | | | Offers Through Gibson to End Dangerous Franco-Italian Rivalry. |MAY ENTER CONSULTATIVE i PLAN IN PEACE INTEREST “Parity” Is Chief Difficulty—Four- Party Treaty Seen as Pos- sibility. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, France, November 1.—The United States is making an erergetic | eleventh-hour intervention for Euro- pean peace and world disarmament. It | has offered, through Hugh S. Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, its good offices to bring a happy conclusion to the | long-standing and dangerous Pranco- Italian naval rivalry, Where: Great Britain in seven months of almost. continuous efforts has failed, our diplomacy still courageously hopes to succeed. Although the difficulties are, if anything, greater than ever, these hopes seem not wholly unwar- ranted. Great Britain is supporting | us, but the initiative continues in our hands. Events are moving fast, and already vast possibilities_are mooted. One of hese is a short-term agreement on figures, leaving the parity issue to be | settled later. Another, which has been mentioned particularly in Washington dispatches to the London press, is that in case general disarmament proves practical the United States may be willng to enter a consultative paot with cther leading powers in the inter- ests of world peace. May Extend Locarno Terms. Both of these proposals came up during the London Naval Conference and fell through for one reason or an- other. Another possibility is a four- party treaty omitting Italy. It is said that Great Britain may be willing to grant an extension of the terms of the Locarno pact to the North Sea area, thus insurance France and incidentally Germany against naval attack in this region and supposedly enabling a cor- responding reduction in the French figures. All three of these suggestions are be- lieved to contain interesting potential- ities. Is it worth noting that this is the third step taken by the United States in the :uz few weeks in the supposed direction of European peace, Toliowing the recent international ten- sion and disarray? First was the $125000,000 credit by American banks to Germany, which, it is conceded, has done more than anything else to strengthen the presen: German government -against the as- saults of the Hitlerites and the Com- | munists. Second was the formal refusal of President Herbert Hoover and Secre- tary of State Henry L. Stimson to en- courage the Germars in the idea of & moratorium or revision of the Young plan or war debts in any near future. Our viewpoint seems to be that such a move in present circumstances would merely be an additional cause of inter- national disturbance and therefore highly inopportune. Our friendly intervention in the Franco-Italian difficulties, is said to be due partly to the fact that Great Brit- ain has informed us that it will be obliged to invoke the escape clause of | the London treaty and build beyond the treaty figures if Prance and Italy keep on building and partly to the ad- ministration's desire to achieve some striking success in foreign policy, but | mainly to Mr. Hoover's firm belief that the furtherance of peace through dis- armament will be the surest way to bring back better economic conditions to a sorely tried world. Secrecy Being Observed. i Although the strictest secrecy is being | observed in the negotiations, Ambas- sador Gibson seems to have seen Pre- mier Andre Tardieu of France and Philippe Berthelot, general secretary of the French foreign office, on Monday and Tuesday and then left quietly for Rome. On Wednesday the British Am- bassador seems to have seen M. Berthe- lot. On Thursday Mr. Gibson, in Rome. saw Foreign Minister Dino Grandi. and ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) TODAY'S STAR PART ONE—38 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B-4. Star's Nation-wide Political Survey— Pages C-1 to C-9. serial “The Cas —Page C-12. D. A. R. Activities—Page C-12. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page C-12. Organized Reserves—Page C-12. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Fditorials and Editorial Features. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 5. At Communi'y Centers—Page 5. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society Section. . PART FOUR—12 PAGES. ment Section—Theater, and Music. In the Motor World—Page 5. Aviation—Page 7. Fraternities—Page 8 District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Paj and Scarab Murder Screen ge 8. of the Clubs—Page 9. Army and Navy News—Page 9. Veterans of the Great War—Page 9. Radio—Page 10. PART FIVE—6 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—I12 PAGES. Pinancial News and Classified Adver- tising. The Home Gardener—Page 12. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 12. District National Guard—Page 12. Spanish War Veterans—Page 12. Marine Corps Notes—Page 12. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. ENTS lTEN CENTS FLSEWHERE ————— THROUGHOUT U.S. Murder Takes Spurt Along With Other Offenses in | Last Nine Months. BY REX COLLIER. Gangsters' guns are speaking with more regularity and greater effective- ness. | Their deadly voices have poured into Uncle Sam’s ear a sordid story of crime | rampant and on the increase during the | first three-quarters of the current year, according to a Nation-wide inquiry con- diicted under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the United States Bu- reau of Investigation. | A chart for the period from January | through September, just “published by | Director Hoover in the second monthly | report of his survey, discloses a steadily | mounting trend of crime in general dur- | ing the nine months, with murder | sharply in the ascendancy. ‘ Upward Trend Lately. ‘The total of all “offenses known to police,” officially classified as “murder and non-negligent manslaughter, man- slaughter by negligence, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary (breaking or entering), larceny and luwmoblle‘ theft,” dropped slightly last February, | rose rapldly in March, fell off again in April and May and then began a grad- ual upward curve that has had no in- terruption since the Spring. The trail of murder descended slight- ly in Pebruary, shot skyward abruptly in March, wavered and declined in April | and May and ever since has been climb- ing to new peaks for the year. There | was no noticeable change in the mur- | der situation during August and Sep- tember, after a steady upgrade during the Summer, | At the outset of the year murderers | were claiming an average of three vic- | tims a day. In September the average was more nearly five a day. | Average Four Killed. | “Negligent manslaughter,” under | which the Government classifies all | homicides not first or second degree murder, showed an aggregate declinc | during ‘the nine months. An average of four persons were killed each day by negligence in January, while “three and a half” persons was the average last month. Petty larceny (theft of under $50, according to official classifications) has been on the upgrade since February, when a slight falling off from January | was apparent. | Larceny of sums over $50 declined n the Spring, rose again during the Sum- mer and has slumped a few degrees | during August and September. ‘ An encouraging sign, viewing the period as a whole, is a net decrease in the average daily number of robberics. More than 50 hold-ups a day were | recorded in January, the average drop- | ping to a low mark of a little above 30 a day in May and then advancing again to more than 40 last month. Report on Burglarles. Burglaries do not seem to vary much. The average has remained under 150 | a day. “Aggravated assault” has shown a tendency to climb from near 20 a day to almost 30 a day. | A study of the figures discloses that the most frequent offense is minor larceny, the cases of which embrace about one-third of the total of all crimes teported. A typical distribu- tion of the offenses is shown in the September returns, of which 339 per cent are reports of larcehies under $50, 26 per cent automobile thefts, 19.7 per cent burglaries, 9.1 per cent larcenies over $50, 5.4 per cent robberies, 4.5 " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) GREEN WARNS WORKERS TO AVOID HOOVER DAM Plans for Construction Declared Insufficiently Advanced Now to Afford Many Jobs. By the Associated Press William _Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, yester- day advised workers to stay away from | Hoover Dam, asserting there was no| immediate prospect of employment there. After recelving what he termed a de- talled report on the project, the labor Magazine Section. Notes of Art and Artists—Page 18 Reviews of the New Books—Page 19. Croes-word Puzzle—Page 32. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in_Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Mr. and Mrs.; Little Orphan Brutus; the Smythes; Somel Highlights of History, leader said “it will be nearly a year before a contract can be let for con- struction.” The report, from an un- named source, said bids for construc- tion of the division tunnel and dam proper probably would not be called before next July. The report said in part: “It is neces- sary to emphasize this in order to cor- rect the general impression which seems to prevail that & large constru force is to be organized at once.” | we would expect Sports Highlights An unusual number of tie games resulted from activities on the gridirons of the Nation yes- terday. At least 10 were recorded and a majority were scoreless, these including the Yale-Dart- mouth, Princeton-Chicago, Ne- braska-Pitt, Florida-Georgia, Wis- consin-Ohio State, V. P. I.-Wash- ington and Lee and Gallaudet- Medical Field service team games. Other battles resulting in draws were those between Syracuse aud Brown at 16-all, Georgia Tech and North Carolina, 6-6, and Har\‘;rd vs. Willlam and Mary, 13-13. The feat of the Indians from Williamsburg in holding the strong Crimson array cn even terms at Cambridge was one of the upsets of the day, others being the 21-to-6 smearing Penn handed the strong Kansas Uni- versity outfit, the 27-to-7 trounc- ing Texas inflicted on Southern Methodist U. and New York Uni- versit; 20-to-7 vietory over Carnegie Tech. Of the local varsity elevens, Maryland, with a 14-6 verdie was the cnly winner, as New River State beat Catholic Uni- versity, 20-6; St. John's swamnped American U., 59-6, and Western Maryland blanked the Marines, 20-0, and Virginia State nosed out Hcward University, 16-13. Notre Dame romped on toward the mythical national champion- ship by submerging Indian Alabama drove another spike in the Southern Conference -crown by walloping Kentucky, 19-0, and Northwestern furthered its ambi- tion t> win the Big Ten title by taking Minnesota, 27-6. Army and Navy had an easy time of it, defeating North Dakota and West Virginia Wesleyan, 33-6 and 37- 14, respectively. Details -of these and other games will be found in the sports section. CHICAGO MAYOR'S CONDITION CRITICAL Thompson Awakens From| His Operation to Ask About Politics. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 1.—Physicians attending Mayor William Hale Thomp- son issued the following statement 6:30 o'clock tonight: “The mayor’s condition remains criti- cal. His temperature and pulse are under the ecircum- stances. »He is resting comfortably.” When Mayor Thompson awoke after | the operation he was in jovial mood and his thoughts reverted to the politi- | cal meeting he was to have addressed in a downtown theater yesterday in op- position to Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for the United States Senate. His speech was read by a member of his cabinet. Dr. Milton M. Portis said he asked to see the papers. “I want to read what the boys have been writing about me,” Dr. Portis quoted him. The papers were refused him, but Dr. | Portis told him to rest assured “the newspaper boys have handled things very nicely.” Later he asked his friend, Robert M Perbohner, if any of the papers printed the speech. Told they did not, he “I didn't think they would.” The speech was a vitriolic attack upon the Chicago Tribune and its pres- ent and past editors. | CANNON AGAIN SUFFERS SPREAD OF INFECTION Hospital But Condition of Bishop - at Described as Serious, Not Critical. By the Associated Press. Dr. R. Lyman Sexton, who has been attending Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, said early this morning the arthritis in- fection suffered by the churchman had begun spreading again and now has reached above the right knee. Bishop Cannon's condition was de- scribed as “serious but not eritical.” Dr. Sexton said the infection appeared to have been checked during the day but that a relapse had caused it to advance to_joints not hitherto affected. The churchman entered the hospital last week for treatment. | i KA AS NOVEMBER 4th NEARS! | | | e HAVENNER DEFEA 1§ STENGLE, 777033 His Third Successive Term as President Is Won on First Ballot. Dr. George C. Havenner was re- elected president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations last night for the third successive term, decisively de- feating his only opponent, Charles I. Stengle, by a vote of 77 to 33. Dr. Havenner's re-election came on | the first ballot, and he swept into office the same three men who have served with him during his first two terms as head of the federation—B. A. Bowles, vice president; David Babp, | recording secretary, and A. H. Gregory, | treasurer, 112 Delegates Attend. ‘The election marked the close of an intensive campaign between Dr. Havenner and Stengle and was par- ticipated in by 112 delegates, the largest number ever to attend a meet- ing of the federation. Of the 112 votes cast two of them went to Willlam McK. Clayton, first president of the federa- tion and now chairman of its important Committee on Public Utilities, who was not a candidate and was not nomi- nated. Stengle’s defeat did not come as a surprise, although his supporters had predicted his victory. But Dr. Haven- | ner announced on the eve of the elec- | tion that he would be re-elected by a | substantial majority, and said he counted on 70 votes, just 7 less than he actually received. Dr. Havenner was nominated by George R. Wales, who extolled the fed- eration’s record of achievements during the first two years of his administration. The seconding speeches were> made by Fred A. Emery and Maj. A. M. Hol- combe Stengle's Work Praised. Henry 1. Quinn, who headed Stengle’s Campaign Commit! nominated him, and the seconding s hes came from E. M. Richardson and W. J. Neale. Quinn urged the election of Stengle as a reward for his five years of service to organized citizenship of the District, as delegate to the federation from the Petworth Citizens’ Association and also as a member of the Citizens’ Advisory Council for three terms. Bowles also had one opponent in the contest for the federation’s vice presi- dency — Miss Etta Taggart, the first woman ever elected by the federation to the Advisory Council. Bowles defeated her on the first ballot by a vots of 72 to 32. One vote each also was cast for Column HOOVERS MARK BALLOTS Absentee Votes Are Dispatched to California by Airmail. Three days ahead of time, President and Mrs. Hoover marked their ballots yesterday for the general elections. | Voting an absentee ballots forwarded | from Palo Alto, Calif., the White House | occupants made their choice and then immediately dispatched their votes by airmail back to California. They are expected to reach the proper polls by ‘Tuesday easily. ‘The privacy of the ballot was respect- ed even for the President, and no one asked him if he had expressed his arek(erence for the straight Republican cket. WODDS URGES ALL WHD CAN 10 BY ASAIDTO JOBLESS Many Suggestions Received by Committee as Balm for Unemployed. CHAIRMAN ASKS STUDY OF CINCINNATI FIRM PLAN Senator George Fears Work Plan by Government Will Start Too Late. | By the Associated Press New balms for the aches of unem- ployment were proposed yesterday to the President's Emergency Committee as a word of advice came from its chairman for prospective purchasers. Scores cf communications poured into the mail box of the committee telling of successful efforts by civic and welfare organizations and Government bodies to provide work. At the same time Col. Arthur Woods, chairman of the committee, admonished these without income or savings to buy | wisely, but encouraged those who could flord to make purchases without en- | dangering their finances to do so. Not only would purchases now stimulate in- | dustry and employment, he sald, but | they would constitute wise economy in view of the generally low prices, Cites Cincinnati Company. The chairman recommended to in- dustry a study of the plan adopted by Procter & Gamble of Cincinnati to keep its 10,000 workers in plants in eight American and Canadian cities at work the year round without reduction in salaries. The company advised him to- day its monthly pay roll amounted to $1,000,000, and assured 50,000 men, women and children of a comfortable living through the Winter. Meanwhile the War Department an- nounced projects costing $3,074,721 had been put under way, and the Inf Department said it would ask for for contracts totaling $3.000,000 Novem- ber 15 on the Hoover Dam project on the Colorado River in order to give em- ployment. Representative ceglcr, gemocnt, New employment measure, George Says It's “Hokum™ Senator Gt , Democrat, said yesterday there was a “m of hokum in the trumpet blasts sbout ummmnem that the administration is loose just before the elegtion.’ o re T S any program to relieve un ment -nJ, was heartily in favor any move to aid the pepole out work, but that he “was afraid the fan- fare would lead to false impressions zhn'vmnu in turn lead to disappoint~ ment.” “The truth of the business” he added, “is that the administration has been slow in starting its building pro- gram. There has n_unreasonable delay in letting contracts and other snail-like moves in a tine that called for unhampered rapidity. The Winter will be almost over before the program about which we hear so much can give any real relief, for the Treasury's methods will continue, I'm afraid, {o be slow, despite the announcements” George sald the administration had aided in accentuating the depression by not lending its support at the last session to the Wagner bills to_relieve unemployment. These contemplated a planned program of public buildin, with acceleration during times of de pruksion and a fund to carry on the work. The Democratic Senator added he had sponsored a joint resolution at. the last session which urged expedition of the public building program. “The resolution passed,” he said, “but the expediting has yet to be don MISSING BOAT SOUGHT Coast Guard Cutter Searches Lake Superior for Grain Carrier. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich.,, Novem- ber 1 (#).—The big Coast Guard cutter, Seminole, this afternoon began a thor- ough-going search of Lake Superior between the American mainland and Michipicoten Island in an effort to lo- cate the Canadian grain-carrier, Ash- bay. overdue here since Wednesday. The Ashbay, with a crew of 25 men, left Fort William at 7 p.m. Tuesday headed for Sault Ste. Marie. On the next night the light keeper on Michipi- coten Island reported seeing a steamer in. distress. A search failed to reveal any boat, and it was only after it was discovered that the Ashbay was- lon | overdue that the Coast Guard accept the Teport from the island as probebly correct. Quake Felt in New York. MALONE, N. Y., November 1 (#).— A slight earthquake shook Malone and vicinity a% 9:40 o'clock tonight. No damage was reported. The tremors | were felt throughout a considerable area. {BROTHER OF FIRE AUTO VICTIM smiled, Perbohner said, and declared | INJURED IN SIMILAR ACCIDENT Marlboro Jinx at Wheel Saturdays, Chief McCormick Escaping Injury Second Time. A jinx rides at the wheel with Chief ‘W. W. McCormick of the Marlboro Fire Department on Saturdays, it seems. with_painful effect on the members of the Kerr family in Marlboro. ‘Thus far on successive Saturday aft. ernoons—yesterday afternoon and Sat- urday of last week—one man has been killed and two members of the Kerr family injured in automobile accidents when McCormick was at the wheel. In both accidents McCormick has escaped unscathed. Yesterday" & Kerr who was hurt wi mac on the way to Cal pital ere he and Kerr wi Wesley Kerr, injured last while riding with McCormick, liision _with a machine dr} R. Ferguson of Meadows, 3 2 t was Charles “McCormick’s Ity Hos- to visit turday s in by Wesley Kerr, Charles’ brother, was hurt while riding on the Marlboro fire engine Saturday afternoon a week ago. McCormick was driving it when it turned over trying to pass another ma- chine on a gravel road near Ritchie, Md. In that accident B. Wesley Cran- ford, a captain in the Marlboro Fire Department, was killed, but McCormick came through unhurt. A coroner’s jury held the accident was unavoidable, 2 by ing glass and treated by Dr. Paul C. Van Natta. the driver of g;‘e r&thé{“ T-cgme. was arrested e) rles S, Early, who happened by, on charges of driving while drunk and failing to obey a stop . He was released in $1,000 bond pearance in Police Court at w