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A—2 %% PICKETS REPULSED INMINNESOTA ROAD Sheriff Forces Way Through Latest Blockade Attempt in Farm Strike. By the Associated Press. WORTHINGTON, Minn, September | 19 —Brandishing clubs and blocking | roads with steel girders, heavy Wwire CITY PLANNERS GO FAR INTO PROBLEMS AT SESSIONS HERE (Continued From First Page) demands on Government as against de- clining revenues was discussed at & ses- {sion of members of the National Mu- nicipal League this afternoon, with Louis Brownlow, director of the Public Administration Clearing House, Chi- cago, opening with a talk on “How Re- trenchment in Industries Has In- creased the Demands Upon Govern- ment.” Cites Increased Burden. Government today, declared Mr. Brownlow, is assuming a burden laid on its doorstep by the failure of in- dustry to keep plants running, and any | cable and spiked machine belts, Tarmer nickets seeking higher produce prices ! went into action today and soon after- | ward lost in their first brush with the | la: = | Sheriff Eldon Rowe and Deputy | Sheriff Albert Levine went to the aid | of 5. V. Calvin, & farmer living couth | of here, and rescued Calvin's load of | sheep after the preas~ unhitched his | team, tied the horses to a telephone | pole and ran the wagon into a ditch. | Led by M. B. Miller, vice chairman of the Ncbles County unit of the State | Farmers' Holiday Association, which de- fied the perent body in establishing | picket lincs, upward of 300 men pa- trolled 10 highways leading into Worth- ington. The pickets were instructed to turn back all nen-perishable farm products in a move intended to help stop ship- ments into Sioux City markets. Several truckloads of farm stuff were | turned back, but farmers apparently had withheld much of their products today to see whether the blockade would become effective. | Live stock streamed into Sioux City | today over highways free from pickets, | except Highway 77 in South Dakota.| Receipts at the stockyards were report- | ed heavier than at any time for more than a month. H A few pickets stationed at Stevens, 8. Dak., were offering only slight re- sistance to truck passage. Nebraska | Toads have been open for almost two | ‘weeks. STRIKE MOVE SPREADING. Al Midwest Farming States to Be! Enlisted. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, September 19 (). —A “revolt” against the selling of live stock and grain in all agricultural States of the Midwest today became the ob-| Jective of leaders of the Iowa-born farm “war” for higher prices. The order, calling on agriculturalists | to withhold their live stcck and grain until they receive prices equal to pro- duction costs, is to go into effect next Wednesday, but picketing is to be frowned upon by leaders of the move- ment. Affer spending weeks in laying the groundwork for the non-selling cam- paign, officers of the National Farmers' Holiday Association meeting here last night deaded the time was ripe for ex- tending the sirike into States far beyond the borders of Iowa. Heretofore the movement has been confined mostly to Towa, Nebraska and South Dakota. Would Widen Strike. If the movement is as effective as the | leaders hope it to be it will mean that the farmers in these three States, as well as Minnesota, Oklahcma, Wiscon- sin, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Il- linois, Indiana and Montana, will join the *'strike.” No one was prepared to say what the ultimate effect may be. This second phase of an agrarian re- volt that began near here August 8 will apply only to live stock and grain. Farmers need not withhold perishable products, including cream, eggs and but- ter, from market during the next 30 days, but if the prices of these commodi- ties do not reach production cost in that period they, too, will be withheld, the officers decided. Meanwhile, a situation that in the attempt to et governmental costs must recognize tuat there are increased de- mands made on Government for service during the depression. “Most frequently,” he declared, “is heard ncwadays in any discussion of | local government something like this: ‘Business has cut down its expenses and government must do the same.’ “With the last half of the statement, that government must cut down fits expenses in times lik> these, I heartily agree, Local government must make a tremendous effort, despite popular ob- jecticns, to_cut its expenses to the minimum. It must purge itself of cor- ruption and political party patronage which cost so much roney. governments are sanely and safely to | reduce their expenditures to the mini- mum is that the very fact of the indus- trial depression adds to the demands upon local government, and not only adds to the demands as represented by expenditures, but adds to the usefulness and to the imperative necessity of con- tinuing, and, in some cases, expanding those services.” Discussing the general question, “Has the General Property Tax Broken Down?” State Senator Seabury C. Mas- tick of New York declared: Fears for Real Estate. “It would seem that those taxes which are levied for direct benefit to real and that the only way of lightening this portion of .the tax burden is by giving less benefit. That portion of the tax burden levied in urban com- j munities which is not for the direct benefit of real estate could or should reasonably be shared in by revenue frem other forms of wealth, either by means of State-collected and locally- shared taxes, by State aid, by locally- collected taxes for the purpose, or by specific payment for the service by the person benefited.” The general property tax, he declared, is fast approaching the breaking point as a source of revenue because real estate is already carrying a heavier burden than it can economically afford. The coming yvear will make greater | demands on public and private philan- thropy than ever before, and the cities will be carrying a_ great share of the burden, declared William Hodson, di- rector of the Welfare Council of New York City, speaking on the general sub- ject of “The Pressure of Unemployment on City Treasuries.” Many cities, he said, already are near their debt limit and must institute rigid economies in city administration in ad- dition to exerting an extra effort to administer funds, supply needs and otherwise take care of the destitute and needy. Intelligent administration of relief funds is an absolute necessity, if the value is to be received from the money appropriated from the city treasuries, he declared, warning against cities at- tempting to allow relief funds admin- ister themselves and thereby fall into inept hands, or become squandered and drafted. Advises “Made-Work.” He advised “made-work,” which would effect some permanent public im- provement as the best form of unem- ployment relief with funds appropriated from city treasuries. last two weeks grew increasingly tense was relieved by a decision of the asso- | ciation's Executive Council that picket- | ing of highways as a means of keeping | farmers’ goods from markets should be | discontinucd in this vicinity. Highways Now Clear. “ For the first time in weeks, Wood- | bury County highways today were en- ! tirely clear of pickets, and Sheriff John | A. Davenport, who last week asked Gov. | Turner to send troops here to disperse the strikers, declared he anticipated no further trouble. { The association leaders, in a state- | ment issued after their meeting here, | declared that “spontaneous and volun- tary picketing of roads has been of inestimable value in demonstrating that prices of commedities can be raised through an effective holding movement, as well as bringing the problem to the attention of the entire Nation.” R. L. Rickerd, State president of the | Oklahoma Holiday Association, said his organization probably would follow di- | rections of the national committee in | calling the holiday in that State. | County groups are working in 44 of Oklahoma's 77 counties, Rickerd said. The organization does not contem- plate the use of force, Rickerd main- tained. In Nobles County, Minn., holiday ad- herents announced the start of a strike | today. Despite leaders requests, they | declare they will picket highways. Several truckloads of men from Iowa ‘were reported to have arrived in Worth- ington to ‘“instruct” Nobles County strikers in their duties. INDIANANS DUMP MILK, Three Trucks Stopped Near Vincennes by Pickets. VINCENNES, Indiana, September 19 (®) —Pickets representing the Wabash Valley Milk Producers’ Association stopped three trucks loaded with milk in and near Vincennes early today and dumped their contents. The association has threatened to conduct a strike against a local cream- ery. John Risch, head of the cream- ery, appealed to Vincennes police and to 'the State's attorney of adjolning TLawrence County, Ill. to protect the drivers against a repetition of the dumping. GANDHI’S DEATH FAST WILL BEGIN TOMORROW Prepares for It by Cutting Down Food in Jail in India—Hopes Britain Will Relent. By the Assoclated Press. BOMBAY, September 19.—Mahatma Gandhi began training today for his “fast to the death,” which is slated to ‘begin tomorrow as a protest against the British government’s solution of the knotty problem of Indian communal elections. In Yeroda Jail, at Poona, where he is imprisoned, he began by cutting down the amount of food he takes at a meal and widening the space between meals. He has been studying ways, he said, for extending his life as long as possible after his hunger strike begins. He still hopes, however, he added, that the situation may change and relieve him of the necessity for fulfilling his Vow. MINE PARLEY RESUMED Wage Conference With Anthracite Operators to Continue Today. NEW YORK, September 19 (#)—A conference between officials of the Wnited Mine Workers of America and anthracite operators seeking a wage cut was to resume foday. The conferees have had several ses- sions_without reaching an dgreement and indications have been 'that the matter may go before a board of arbi- = s Speaking on “The Effect of the De- pression Upon Municipal Credit,” Carl H. Chatters, executive director of the Municipal Finance Officers’ Association, declared: “Municipal credit will emerge from the depression with many scars by which it will demonstrate not its weak- ness. but its strength. Soft spots in the local financial structures have been discovered; lessons have been learned, and corrective measures are being taken, Some few municipalities have defaulted in the payment of debt obligations, but the great majority have survived with a clear record.” Tomorrow a great deal of the time of the gathering will be devoted to the climination of billboards from the streets and highways at a joint meet- ing of the American City Planning In- stitute, the American Civic Association, the American Legislators’ Association and the National Council for the Pro- tection of Roadside Beauty, with Mr. Delano presiding. There will be discussion of roadside planting, elimination of illegal signs, the Massachusetts billboard control law. and a general outline of an effective bill- board law by Aloert S. Bard, counsel of the National Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty. Chapin Sees Vital Need. City, park and home planning are vital necessities in any program to avert future depressions, Roy D. Chapin, Sec- retary of Commerce, told the conference at the joint supper %f all organizations represented at the conference last night at the Willard Hotel. “City planning,” said Secretary Chapin, “is a basic and vital part of in- dustrial planning. So long as we fail to organize the growth of our cities we im- pede the stability of industry. Citles are the principal consumers of the goods of industry; so long as their consumption remains unplanned for, and therefore largely unpredictable, just so long will industry continue overexpanding its plants in periods of optimism, and so long will the effects of deflation con- tinue to put it periodically on the sick bed, “City planning is essential to indus- trial planning and to business because subdividing of land has represented one of the costly items in overexpansion; anything that will restrain it will work to prevent unwise building and over- production on the part of the construc- tion industry.” Good park planning, he declared, is an indispensable part of good city plan- ning. The Commerce Secretary was intro- duced by Dr. John M. Gries, member of the Home Loan Bank Board and execu- tive secretary of the President’s Con- ference_on Home Building and Home Ownership. Shown Films of D. C. Parks. After the dinner the delegates went to the auditorium of the new Commerce Department Building, where they were shown talking pictures of the park sys- tem in Washington by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Yesterday afternoon the delegates went to the Capitol to commemorate the laying of the corner stone of the Capitol on September 18, 1793, with George ‘Washington oficiating, Representative Sol Bloom, associate director of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, addressed the group briefly. READY FOR HOP TO U. S. Japanese Good‘Will Plane to Take Off for Nome Tomorrow. SAMUSHIRO, Japan, September 19 (#).—The Japanese good-will. airplane, which flew here from Tokio last weel in preparation for a transpacific flignt to the United States will take off for Nome, Alaska, at daybreak tomorrow, it was announced today. Six-year-old Peggy Deehan and her little sister were found playing in house in Mill Brae, Ireland, with a Mills bomb which they had picked up in a fleld. “What must be recognized 1f local| estate should be carried by real estate, | THE EVENING IPROSECUTOR SLAIN | INKENTUCKY FEUD Troops Called After Quarrel That Started in Civil War Flares Again. By the Associated Press. MANCHESTER, Ky, September 19.—National Guard troops were on cuty today following the killing of two men and the wounding of another yes- terday in the outbreak of a feud that started during the Civil War. The dead were Commonwealth At- torney Frank H. Baker, 39, of Lon- | don, Ky, and John Brockman, zbout }25 yeais old, formerly of Breathitt County and Southern Indiana. Frank Young, 40, was shot in the left hip and is in a serious condition. Rifle shots fired by men barricaded in the Clay County court house felled Baker as he stepped from the home of his uncle, Wiley Baker, 62. As Brock- man went to Baker’s aid, he was shot and killed instantly. Bodies Lie in Street. During the next four hours the two bodies lay in the street while the snip- ers in the court house fired intermit- tently at the Wiley Baker home. One bullet pierced Wiley Baker's shoe, but did not wound him. Another whizzed over the head of the dead official's | mother as she went to a door. The fire of the snipers was not returned. As suddenly 2s they had started shooting the men in the court house slipped away and escaped. Troops, sent | by Gov. Ruby Laffoon, at the request of Circuit Judge William Lewis of London, searched the court house, but could | find no trace of the assassins. Climax of Killings. The shooting climaxed a series of | killings which Clay County authorities have attributed to ill-fecling between two clans. Last February Alfred Neal, colored, was slain on a street here, and two months later Police Judge C. P. Stivers, a witness in the Neal case, was shot to death at the same location. Four members of the Baker family were indicted as a result of these two slay- ings, and State troops were on guard | when a special term of court was held last month for the trial. Frank Baker did not serve as prose- cutor during the special term. He was cleared at that session of charges of | malfeasance, misfeasance and arson, the latter growing out of the burning | of his home, D. C. SCHOOLS OPEN WITH ENROLLMENT PLACED AT 80,000| __ (Centinued From First Page.) regular service tables, is expected to be- gin_arriving within 10 days, so that within another 30 days that feature of the school will be in full operation, as | originally planned. The regular type- writing tables are due “any day."” Praises Two Companies. So pleased were officials with condi- tions at the new Roosevelt School, which was turned over to the District only a month ago, that Mr. Crane said he would recommend that the Board of | Education formally express its appre- ciation to the American Seating Co. and its agent, the Snellenburg Co., of Phila- delphia, for their co-operation in rush-| ing to completion the furniture order | for that school. Officials pointed out | frequently manufacturers used not only | all of the specified contract time in| filling their orders, but actually used extensions. Meanwhile, Roosevelt High School | was accepting only the students who were certified for admission to it by the elementary and junior high schools last year and those who came to the school from the high school boards of admis- | slons desirous of taking Roosevelt's in- tensive business course. The estimated enrollment of that school, 1,620, prob- ably will be reached as all of these children are registered. ~ After the| school's student body has been organ-, ized, students from other high schools, | who live within the Roosevelt neigh- borhood, will be transferred to Roose- velt if they desire. The Roosevelt School devoted its time today to or- ganization work and its students were dismissed at 1 o'clock. A similar pro- gram will be followed tomorrow, but by Wednesday the cafeteria will be operat- ing with old stoves moved in tempo- rarily from the now vacated Busi-| ness High School Building at Ninth | street and Rhode Island avenue, with | facilitles for providing lunch for the students. The school Wwill then settle down for the year's business. - Emergencies Awaited. Another point of interest was the new Phoebe A. Hearst School, at Thirty- seventh and Tilden streets. With all its furniture intact, that school had the appearance of one of the city's vet- eran elementary buildings at 10 o'clock, with every child in his seat and every teacher actually instructing. At Franklin School the officials were at their desks awaiting emergencies. With the exception, however, of the mere handful of parents who sought official aid in transferring their chil- dren from building to building, no such “emergency” had arisen by noon. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, characterized the opening of schools as “thoroughly satisfactory” in every way. THREE BURLESQUE SHOWS TO BE CLOSED Mayor J. V. McKee of New York Announces Action to Elim. inate “Filth.” | By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Mayor Joseph V. McKee announced today that three burlesque theaters in the Times Square district would be closed. “I have not seen any of these shows,” McKee said, “but my decision is based ! on the general principle that there will be no place for that filth in New York City. These shows have created a bad influence not only morally but also in the lessen: of real estate values in the neighborhood in which they exist.” Before making the announcement the mayor had conferred with James F. Geraghty, commissioner of licenses, who has been investigating complaints against the theaters. POST OFFICE IN PANIC WHEN SNAKE ESCAPES Reptile, in Transit to Zoo, Finally Is Found in Drawer of Desk. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, September 19.—To- ledo Post Office employes breathed easier today, after the capture of a 4- foot, blacksnake, which escaped in transit. Unaware that the reptile was non- | polsonous the employes gave ‘“special handling” to all packages in the office and stepped gingerly past dark corne: until the snake was found—in a draw- er cf a desk. It had escaped from one of two cans in which several snakes had been shipped to the Toledo Zoo from the Carnegle Museum at Pittsburg. 438 STAR,, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932. ITHREE PRIMARIES ~ IMILITIA PATROLS Figures of the first day enrollment in Washington schools today are expected to show 80,000 registered. In the top photograph are some of the “early birds” at Central High School. Lcwer right: Robert Adams calls the pupils at Thom- son to classes. Lower left: The Thompson first grade class receiving bocks from Miss Rose W. Carmack, teacher. —Star Staff Photos. UPTURN REPORTED OVER WIDE AREA Trade Editors Find Slow but Steady Advance in Many Lines. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—Business and industrial magazine edit:rs through- out the country, reporting trade trends during the early part of this month to the Associated Business Papers, Inc., observed a slow upward movement in many lines. It was reported building contracts in- creased substantiall: Midsummer ad- vances in cement prices were holding than seasonal rise; credit was more | readily available for railway improve- | ments, and labor troubles showed a tendency to decrease. Pig iron demand and ingot produc- tion_were found to be rising somewhat | slowly, while machinery orders were a | trifie ahead of July; oil producers and rcfiners were slowing down production, customary to this period; chemical con- country's stocks were declining; the moderately beiter, but millwork build- ing continued low. | The editcrs especially stressed the | | improvement in the textile industry.|of paralysis two weeks ago. Cotton stocks, it was said. were the | lowest on record, with unfilled orders | the highest since March, 1929. Whole- | sale dry goods buying was found to be | heavy, stores apparently stocking against rising commedity prices. Printers reported increasing requests | was his eldest son, James W. Cain. The | for estimates, particularly in the large | Eastern cities. The hotel business showed some improvement and meat | packers stated that consumption was | maintaining a normal level. G. 0. P. MOBILIZING FULL FORCES FOR DRIVE TO VICTORY (Continued From First Page.) spent the remainder of the day visit- ing points of interest, including the Capitol, Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Today their program calls for visits to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Mount Vernon, the Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, and Rock Creek Park. They were luncheon o at the Willard Hotel today of the Republican National Committee. Sanders Is Hopeful. Secretary Mills, Chairman Sanders said, would deliver an address in De- troit at the Michigan Republican State Convention on September 29 and then g0 to Los Angeles for addresses there October 3 and 4. The second speech is to be delivered before the American Bankers’ Association. Mr. Sanders’ comment on the political | pec: situation was as follows: “There has been a steady sweep favor- able to the Republican cause, beginning with the President’s acceptance speech. A vigorous campaign now is ungerw: to bring forcibly to the people of the country the doctrines which he enunci- ated in that speech. “When that educational campaign is effectively accomplished there will %e no doubt as to Mr, Hoover's re-election.” Judson Welliver, who was connected with the Executive offices during parts of both the Harding and Coolidge ad- ministrations, and Wright Patterson, Chicago editor of the Western News- paper Union, took part in the politica! conference the White House last Mr. Sanders conferred with Vice President Curtis on campaign plans this afternoon. 30 TIN MILLS REOPENED. Largest Operation in Two Years Starled at Sharonm, Pa. SHARON, Pa, September 19 (#).— The Farrell works of the.American Sheet & Tin Plate Company began operating 30 mills today, the largest operation in two years. Officials declined to say how many men had been recalled, but announced that the mills will operate 15 “turns” a week. The schedule for many weeks has| been 20 mills running nine “turns” weekly. | the post for one year. Big Fish in Pacific Has Tall Story to Tell Of Losing Fisherman By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 19.—The fish off Visitacion Point, San Francisco Bay, had a tall story to tell last night about a big fisherman that got away. M. A. Rozz!, 20, cast a line from a rock at the point and a fish grabbed the hook and pulled him in, Rozzi got out and was taken to a hospital where he was treated for bruises and shock. ENDSHALF GENTURY RAILROAD CAREER I steady; carloadings showed a better Ben B. Cain, Sr., Was Former Vice President of Short Line Association. Ben B. Cain, sr., for many years vice president and general counsel of the American Short Line Railroad Asso- | sumption continued to rise, while the | ciation and for mcre than 50 years identified with railroads in the United | paint trade exhibited improved demand | sStates, dled today at Boulder, Colo., {from both industrial and consumer | according . e LB | sources: woodworking plants were doing e £ D murd pecele by ciates in the Capital. old. Mr. Cain had been recuperating at the Boulder Sanitarium after a stroke His condi- tion became worse and he died at 2 o'clock this morning. Wife at Bedside. His wife, Mrs. Belle Chrip Cain, was at his bedside when he died, as also He was 73 years body will be returned here, where Mr. Cain made his home, for burial in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, probably Friday. Another scn, Ben B. Cain, jr, an attorney associated with the same rail- road association, also survives. James W. Cain is president of the Duvall- Texas Sulphur Co. and also head of a small railroad in Texas. ‘The Cains lived at Tilden Gardens, on Connecticut avenue. Born at Wetumpka, Ala., June 22, 1859, Mr. Cain entered the railway service in 1881. He was secretary of the Kansas & Gulf Short Line Railroad untill 1883, when he became assistant to the president and assistant general attorney of the road. In 1885 he became regional attorney for the International & Great Northern Rail- road and the St. Louls, Arkansas & Texas Railroad. Later General Manager. In 1888, Mr. Cain took up the prac- tice of law at Los Angeles, Calif, and in 1907 became vice president and gen- eral counsel of the Gulf, Texas & West- ern Railway. He later was general manager of this road, which position he_occupied until 1921. He became chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of Short Line Railroads of the United States in 1918, retaining In 1919 he was named vice president and assistant to the president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, and in 1921 ame vice president and general counsel of that association, which post he held up until the time of his death. GALE LASHES SEABOARD Eastern Canadian Crops and Ship- ping Damaged by Storm. MONTREAL, September 19 (P).— Gales swept up from the Atlantic over the week end lcaving a trail of destruc- tion from the Maritime Provinces to Riviere du Loup, Quebec. Fishermen were imperiled along the Atlantic Coast and it was feared later reports would show some had been lost. Throughout Eastern Canada high winds destroyed fruit orchards and dis- rupted communications and heavy rain- falls caused landslides. Part of the clif at Quebec was washed away by rain and fell upon an abandoned factary. SPEED FLYER HURT Lieut. Stainforth, British Ace, Crashes, but Escapes Death. LONDON, September 19 (#)—Flight Lieut. G. H. Stainforth, who set an air speed record of 408.8 miles an hour last September, was injured today when he crashed during a flight at Cornwall. A passenger also wn,,}xun. Neither was seriously injured. RODSEVELT CALLED HOOVER ‘CRIBBER Governor “Lifted” dent’s Plans for Railroads, G. 0. P. Claim. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19.—State- ments released through the Republican National Committee asserted tcday that Gov. Roosevelt’s suggestions regarding railroads were “lifted bodily from the President’s message to Congress’ last December and “cribbed” from Interstate Commerce Commission documents. Ccmments on Gov. Reosevelt's Salt Lake City speech were signed by Repre- sentative Bertrand H. Snell, House leader; Senator Jam:s E. Watson of |Indiana, and Senator Daniel O. Hast- ings of Deleware, assistant Eastern campaign manager. Glad to See “Progress.” “I am glad to see that Gov. Roose- velt is making progress,” read Repre- sentative Snell's statement. “The first constructive suggsstion that he has made during the entire campaign is lifted bodily from the President’s mes- sage to Congress 2s late as last Decem- er, referring to the railroad situation. “I am also glad to note that Gov. Roosevelt has finally retracted his un- fair criticism of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation’s railroad lcans, made in his ‘forgotten man’ speech of last April. He now admits that these loans have saved our national railroad fabric. Senator Watson’s statement said: Roosevelt in his speech on the s has practically adopted the | | recommendations of the President and the Interstate Commerce Commission for long-view policies, yet he has the effrontery to say that the difference be- tween the policies of the President and | his policy is that the President suggests | only temporary credit, while the Gov- | ernor’s policies look to the long view.” Gives Hoover Credit. “Gov. Roosevelt,” said Senator Hast- ings, “made a strong appeal to per- | sons interested in financing and oper- ating railroads as well as those em- | ployed by them by giving a graphic re- | cital of their difficulties. At the same time he attempted to blame the Presi- dent for his failure to meet the serious | situation. | _ “He must have gotten his facts and | his idea of the importance of the rail- roads from the messages of President | Hoover to the Congress.” i RAIL CHIEF LAUDS STAND. Pelley of New Haven System Praises Roosevelt Address. N YORK. September 19 (®).— | 3.J. Pelley, president of the New Yor New Haven & Hartford Railroad, called Gov. Roosevelt's speech at Salt Lake City “a very constructive statement concerning the situation of the rail- roads” in a statement issued yesterd: through Democratic national head- quarters. The statement, he said, ‘“should | hearten all those who have a financial | stake in the railroads, and there are 30,000,000 people with such a stake. The public generally should approve it because every one has a stake in the railroads, either directly or collaterally. The carrying out of the policies out- lined by Gov. Roosevelt will enable the railroads to restore their credit.’ Daniel J. Tobin, chairman of the labor division of the Democratic Na- tional Committee, said the speech had aroused “a high degree of satisfaction” in railway labor circles.” FAILS TO SEE DIFFERENCE. President Willard of B. & O. Holds Plans Coincide With Hoover’s, BALTIMORE, September 19 ().— Daniel Willard, president of the Balti- more & Ohio Railroed, praised the ad- Leke City Saturday night, but added there is no “essential difference” be- tween his views and those of the Re- publicans. “I am quite in accord with what I understand to be the spirit of Gov. Roosevelt’s railroad policy,” President Willard said. e COOLIDGES TO VOTE Ex-President and Wife Motor to Northampton. PLYMOUTH, Vt., September 19 (#).— Former President’ and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge motored today to Northamp- ton, Mass., where they will vote in Tues- day's- Massachusetts primaries. ™ Presi- | CLOSE TOMORROW New York, Massachusetts| and Wisconsin Select Nominees. (Continued From First Page.) redesignated the Democratic organ- ization in his e area. Instead the organization named Joseph A. Esquircl, former Assemblyman. Whereupon Love was gen ths Republican designation. He g ks the Democratic nomina- tion. In another Brooklyn Democratic con- test, Senator John A. Hastings, friend of Walker and a figure in the legisla- gve investigation, is opposed by David . n. Boam Beckerman and Walter &. i Mack. jr., seek the Republican nomina- tion for the Senate from the seven- teenth or ‘silk stocking” district of New York to succeed Samuel H. Hof- stadter. Eenator Hofstadter. chairman of the inyestigation committee bearing his name, is retiring from the Legisla- ture. \ ‘There are 17 contests slated for con- gressional nomination, with prohibition the chief issue in most of the 10 fights in the Republican ranks. Of the Re- publican contests, only one is in New York City, where the renomination of Representative Ruth Pratt from the “silk stocking” seventeenth districl is opposed by G. Hiram Mann. The other are in up-State territory gressional contests are in Brooklyn, where independent candidates have challenged the indorsement by John H. McCooey's Democratic organization of Representatives George W. Lindsay Patrick J. Carley and Emanuel Celler. 15,300 CANDIDATES RUN. Massachusetts Primary to Break Nu- merical Record. BOSTON, September 19 (#).—The Massachusetts State primary tomorrow starts. There are 15800 candidates, an unheard of number, for offices rang- mittees. Gov. Joseph B. Ely, who placed Al- fred E. Smith in nomination for Presi- dent at the Demccratic National Con- I vention, has no opposition. An outstanding contest is that for the Republican gubernatorial nomina- tion. William S. Youngman, completing his second term as lieutenant governor, seeks fulfillment of the Republican tra- with the gubernatorial nomination. Op- ing him are Frank A. Goodwin, chairman of the Boston Finance Co missicn and fermer State registrar of motor vehicles; E. Mark Sullivan, for- mer corporation counsel of Boston, and Walter E. Brownell, also of Boston. Several cf the congressional contests have been hotly waged. whelmingly Democratic eleventh dis- trict, in Boston 2nd Chelsea, Represent ative John J. Douglass is opposed b; James H. Brennan, member of th Governor's council. In the ninth dis- trict, for years a Republican bulwark, Representative Robert Luce has oppoc- sition, director of the State Division of Neces- 'GAR WOOD POSTPONES SPEED MARK ASSAULT| Motor Trouble Develops in Wsnn-E ing-up Spin at 126.09 Miles | Per Hour. IBympAsmr.n'.ed €ss. i | ALGONAC. Mich. September 19— After “warming up” along a mile | straightaway at 126.09 miles an hour, | Gar Wcod today pestponed until Tues- | |7 iday his attempt to set a new world i speed record on the St Clair River | with his Miss America X when motor trouble developed. Wood drove the Miss America X onto the river course shortly befcre 8 a.m.| | today, ready for the attempt to beat | Kaye Don's world record of 119.75 miles an hour, established on Loch Lomond, Scotland, in Miss England III. Wcod made three dashes on the course. On one dash he | was clocked officially by the timers at 1126.09 miles an hour. Then he dis- i covered a broken ring in one of the gear boxes, which caused the shaft to overheat. of cne of the Miss America X's four 12-cylinder motors. After two hcurs ‘Wood announced the repairs could not b:dcompkted in time to make a trial today. sz said that if weather conditions were favorable he would make the at- tempt Tuesday morning at the same hour. THIRD BALLObN PREPARED FOR STRATOSPHERE TRIP Canadian Scientist Believes Two Others Have Returned to Earth With Valuable Data. By the Associated Press. CALGARY, Alberta, September 19.— Two balloons carrying recordings of temperature and air pressure in the stratosphere were believed grounded to- day, and D. C. Archibald, Western su- perintendent of the Canadian Meteoro- ical Service, was preparing to re- bt | lease & third balloon, probably Wednes- y. ‘The balloons were expected to ex- pand and burst between 6 and 11 miles above the earth and fall to the ground. Archibald said the two released last week should be found either in Alberta or Saskatchewan. FIRST WORKERS RETURN AFTER WALKOUT TRUCE i Between 50 and 60 Men Placed on Pay Roll at Pulaski, Va., Furni- ture Plant at Reduced Wages. By the Associated Press. PULASKI, Va., September 19.—From the group of men gathered at the gates of the Coleman Furniture Co. plant, at 7 o'clock this morning, in response to an agreement reached by a citizens’ committee. between 200 striking work- ers and the management, about 50 to 60 men were called into the plant and started work, more than it had been anticipated would be used in the first contingent. The plant management gave assurance that other men will be called back as rapidly as possible as production straightens out after the shut-down since Tuesday morning, when the men stopped work in protest mfl & wage cut and certain working The wage reduction stands. Thought Wedding Engagement. Giulio Nardini of London, Englan petitioned to have hunmo:rrh:e' nnd: nulled onthe ground that he thought he was only getting engaged. Boy Is Uncle of 26. ‘Woodrow Wilson Whitford, 13, Holyoke, ., youngest of a fam! 16 childs ls’ “fl!‘ grand-unc] 1 of of the uncle of d nine Republican congressional contests | Three of the seven Democratic con- | has smashed one record before it even | ing from Governor down to party com- | dition that rewards Jieutenant governors | In the over-| including Ralph W. Hobart, | “warming up” | Repairs necessitated removal | MINE STRIKE AREA Two Companies of Illinois Guards Called as Result of Bombings. By the Assoclated Press. TAYLORVILLE, Ill, September 19. —Turbulent Christian County, scene of much strife over the reduced wage scale for Illinois coal miners, was patrolled by two companies of Naticnal Guards- men today. The Guardsmen were sent here yes- terday after local authorities had ap- pealed for State intervention, due to the bombing of two buildings, supposed- ly as the result of the miners’ contro- versy. The bombings, which did only minor damage, were directed at the buildings ‘huuslng the Taylorville Daily Breeze iand the local headquarters of the | United Mine Workers of America. C. F. Jewell, publisher of the news- paper, said he had received several threats because of the stand the news- paper had taken on the mine contro- versy. He charged striking miners were responsible. Miners who refused to accept the $5 daily basic wage scale, negotiated by officials of the United Mine Workers | f America, have bolted the union and | organized a labor movement kncwn as | the Progressive Miners of America. OHIO STRIKE SETTLED. Gov. White’s Plan 0. K.'d by Men and Operators. MURRAY CITY, Ohio, Septenber 19 (#).—Gov. George White's 10-point pro- gram for settlement of the Southern Ohio bituminous coal strike was ac- cepted by representatives of the miners yesterday at a delegate meeting called to ratify an informal agreement reached last week b# mine union officials, oper- ators and the Governor. Meeting at the call of their union leaders, miners’ delegates voted 72 to 24 for ratification of the peace plan. | Their_action ended a strike which | started February 1, when the operators effected a reduced wage scale. The scale stipulated in the Governor's plan is slightly higher than the operators’ scale, alling for 38 cents a ton on machine- | mined cozl and $3.28 a day for laborers _The meeting was the second held by the miners to consider the settlement t earlier agreed to by the United Mine Workers of America. They met | Friday, but postponed action when it was found 18 of the 96 delegates were without instructions from their local unions. Yesterday's developments end the strike in all parts of the State, since miners and operators in other districts | previously accepted the Governor's pro- ch will be operative until next gram, | May Both sides made concessions in order to end the strife—temporarily at least. liners had hoped for a high wage and _recognition of their leaders, in- uding Lee Hall, president of District 26, United Mine Workers; David Wat- kir vice president; G. W. Savage, secretary-treasurer, and Percy Tetlow, internaticnal crganizer. Ohio operators long have refused to deal with the union, but negotiated the | agreement through Gov. White in Sep- arate conferences after he met with the | miners’ representatives. The latter | have indicated they will seek agree- | ments with individual operators between now and M: | Meanwhile, both sides, under the | peace plan, will submit all disputes to | the chief executive, who will name a disinterested mediator. Gov. White first submitted his pro- gram four months ago when the strike w2s at its height, with several hundred National Guardsmen on duty in the fields to prevent violence. He said the troops would be withdrawn simultane- y with final settlement of the dis- marked by sporadic disorders, in ich two lives were lost and consider- able damage done to property. Gov. White said the strike settlement wpuld be far-reaching in its effects on usiness conditions in Ohio. Distribu- n of the piay rolls, he said, would revive commerce in the mining regions |and thus mark a “decided step toward | the return of prosperity” in the entire State. The Southern Ohio field comprises X counties employing normally some [ 7.000 miners and producing an aver- | age annual tonnage of 3.750,000. WALKER IN SICILY Ex-Mayor Declines to Make Any Comment on Politics. | PALERMO, Sicily, September 19 () | —Former Mayor Walker of New York arrived today on the steamer Conte Grande, still maintaining silence re- | garding his plans for the future and | the political situation in New York he only thing I'm thinking of right he said, “is my health and the health of my secretary.” George Collins, his secretary. who is | accompanying Walker, was still suffer- ing from intestinal trouble contracted | during the trip from New York. JURY TO TRY DAVIS IN LOTTERY CASE IS CHOSEN QUICKLY (Continued From First Page,) poses in fraternal orders,” the court said. Queried on Fraternities. The talesmen were asked if they had any feeling of any sort toward Senator Davis, but none replied. None was a member of the Moose, Eagles or Mystic Shrine. Three talesmen were members of the Knights of Columbus and one answered that he was a Mason. Further questions indicated the court sought a jury free of bias toward fra- ternal orders, organized labor, Govern- ment office, politics or lottery itself. “It is possible for a reasonable man to believe that lotteries are traditicnal and no crime.” said the court. One talesman was excused because he knew a member of Tuttle's law firm, another because he said he had formed an opinion. Included in a list of Government wit. nesses which was read to the prospec tive jury were: Donald F. Stewart, Mal- colm R. Giles, George Warde, Ernest Poselle, Albert H. Lovner, jr; Ed G. Hennessy, Charles I. Binnett, Jerome N. Sleeper, Wililam J. Londy, J. C Mikle, John J. McClay, F. W. Jone: Joe Jenkins, Harry A. Shaner, Ed A. Theis, Fred Yehiman and Henry W. Busch, The Government exercised several peremptory challenges, excusing two members of the Knights of Columbus and a labor union man. One prospective juror, Walter B. Isaac, told the court: “I couldn’t bring in verdict against this man on the charge —1I can see no harm in it.” Other defendants in the case are Theodore G. Miller, official of the Moose Bernard C. Maguire, New York mer- chant; Raymond Walsh, his assistant; Conrad H. Mann, national head of the Fraternal Order of Eagles; Frank E. Herring, publisher of the Eagle liazs. zine; M. J. Rivise, head of the packzge delivery department of Western Unlon, and the telegraph company. The trial of the others is expected in November. DA Ll Model apartments have just been built near the new railway station in Singa- pore, Straits Settlements, to provide Lv- ing quarters for railway emgicyes.