Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1932, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (U. 5. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; much change in temperature; moderate northeast winds. Temperatures—Highest, 63, at noon today: lowest, 53, at 3:30 a.m. today. Fuli report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Market: not s, Pages 14,15&16 No. #3238 F e e, Entered as second class matter Washington, B D. ¢ ch ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER ¢ Foening Star. 24, 1932—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. Sunday’s “From Press to Home Within an Hour” ‘The Star’s Carrier system coverseve: city block and the regular edition delivered to city and suburban homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 114,853 Circulation, 126,478 FHRP UP) Means Associ ed Pre: TWO CENTS. FRANCO-U. 3. DEBI DEBATE QUICKENED BY MUSSOLINIPLEA Duce’s Appeal for Erasure Focuses Attention on Paris Session Tomorrow. THREE OPINIONS VOICED ON PAYMENT FOR DEC. 15 $20,000,000 Interest Due—Parley Immediately After November 8 Election Is Suggested. By the Associated PARIS, October 24.—Italy’s new ap- peal for a clean slate on war debts has served to concentrate the attention of France on tomorrow's session of the Chamber of Deputies, where the entire debt question is expected to be aired. Interpellations on the debt question— | the December payment of $20,000,000 in interest on the debt to the United States—are expected to be deposited in the Chamber. Opinion Divided. Opinion as expressed in authoriative quarters appears to be divided into three categories here 1. That France should make no pay- | ment con the December interest, be- cause it would serve as a dangerous precedent and create the belief that the entire debt will be paid. 2. That the payment due in December | ghould be made with the reservation that this payment be taken into ac- count_when the debt is finally adjusted. 3. That negotiations regarding debts between the United States and France should be hurried immediately after the American elections on November 8, with the hope that the problem would be solved before the date the interest is due, December 15. French opinion recognizes that the -oblem is complicated by the so-called ' commercial debt” due on war stock purchases—a debt which is linked to the so-called “political debt,” but which France accepts must be paid. Studies Arms Problem. Meanwhile, Premier Edouard Herriot also was giving his attention to the dis- armament problem. En route from Lenz, where he urged world peace, the r last night said he was confi- + Europe would evolve a system of ity against war, Speaking briefly at Arras, M. Herriot said the difficulties of the external sit- ation should not be exaggerated. “We wiil succeed in surmounting these dif- fi jes,” he said. “I ask you to have confidence in our will to organize peace based on disarmament through se- curity.” DUCE MAKES DEBT PLEA. Wants United States to Cancel or Re- duce Obligations. TURIN, Italy, October 24 (4).—Boot- ed and spurred and wearing the new | 2rmy helmet, Premier Mussolini carried his message of industrial peace direct 10 the workers today when he visited a large automobile plant here. He stood beside & huge wooden anvil, d in the factory to remind the men tha Il Duce is a blacksmith’s son. “No other country in Europe or Amer- jca coes for the worker what Fascism is coing for you.” he told the assembled factory hands, *from morning to night 1 am absorbed in the task of seeking to create more employment for the pzople.” Mussolini wants the United States to cancel or reduce Europe’s war debts. He voiced the suggestion in an address Jast night The occasion was his first Visit to this industrial center. 40 miles from the French frontier, which here- lofore had been long the hotbed of anti-Fascism. The visit comes in_the last week of the first decade of Fascism, and the premier chose Turin to give Italy the slogan for the next decade “Advance, work, and, if and when necess: fight.” He ran the gamut of international and national problems in his 25-minute address, which was preceded by 5 minutes of shouting by the crowd. Mussolini_proclaimed for “all to hear follzws a policy of peace— “true peace designed to restore the equilibrium of Europe, peace that is in the heart like hope and faith.” warned fl?al ve want no o ve would be gamsz the establish- ment of eny hegemeny, especially if 1t creates a situation of obvious injustice.” The premier enviseged. hcwever, four-power conferenc: amorg_ Great Britain, France, & posibie solution of Europe's troubies. Such a conference was proposed by Great Britain after Germany demanded Germany's demand for juridical ¥ of ermaments is fully justified.” emier said. “it must be recog- ed. and the s-oner the better. But the same time Germany must not ask rearmament in any way as loug the Dissrmament Conference en- Cnce that conference fails. Germany in in the League of Na- | Remain in League. gain we still will remain gue of Nations. it is extraordinarily sick, we d The League is too loses efficacy with have benefited some but in the Far East i its words remain without sense, without signifi- scolini spoke directly to the work- | many of them unemployed, as he ged better co-operation among the <l He conceded Le was concerned about Italian unemployed this Winter, while “cven now masses of unemployed” were marching on London. “Politically we could pass 50 gray ‘Winters with nothing happening,” he said, “but it'’s from the human view- point I am concerned, because even the thought of families without necessities causes me physical suffering.” Floor Collapses, Killing 14. CAIRO, Egypt, Octcber 24 (#).— Fourteen persons were ki'led today when a floor collapsed in a house near Girga ; in Upper Egypt while a wedding cere- mony was in progress. The bride was one of the victims. SR e Railway Service Resumed. MEXICO CITY, October 24 (P).— Failroad service between Monterrey and !':nm&m:.l susp‘el:'!delt‘iwua days a by ‘washouf ong the rande River, Das been resumed, Especially | Denver Covered By 5-Inch Snow; Traffic Impeded Storm Threatens to Ter- minate Search for 3 Hunters. By the Associated Press. DENVER, October 24—A wet and clinging five-inch snow today was piled upon Denver, breaking down trees and shrubbery and seriously impeding traffic. Reports indicated the storm was spreading northward. Snow was falling from Pueblo, Colo., northward to Sterling, and mixed rain and sncw were falling through most of Wyoming. Cheyenne, Laramie and Cas- per, Wyo., all reported snowfall. A drenching rain fell in Western Ne- braska. The snowstorm in the Big Horn Mountains ot Wyoming threatened to close all mountain highways and ter- minate the search for three hunters be- lieved to have perished in tke blizzard ‘thnt swept the range last week. They i are F. E. Dimmel, Sheridan, Wyo.; Dil- | lon McKinnon, 17, Greybull, and B. F. | Yoakum, Columbine. | A strong wind at Cheyenre, Wyo. | damaged trees and shattered numerous panes of glass in the residential dis- trict Nortnwestern Montana reported clear skies. JOBLESS MARCHERS NEARING LONDON |Police Prepare as Thousands of Unemployed Converge on British Capital. By the Assoclated Press LONDON, October 24 —Gathering converts as they advanced, nine groups | of British unemployed continued their | march on London today from many points in the country. Undeterred by almcst incessant rain over the week end, they came from Scotland and Wales and from the tex- tile district of Manchester, determined i to present their plea for government relief. The London county hall resembled a police barracks when a deputation rep- resenting the marchers called there this afternoon to request from the board of aldermen that acccmmodation be pro- vided for their comrades when they arrive. A large force of mounted police was in the forecourt and there was a squad of radio cars nearby. Shopkeepers Reassured. Inside the building police guarded every corridor and entrance on the floor where the sldermen were meeting. Oth- er police went about the neighberhood assuring shopkeepers that there would | be no trouble. - London police estimate 2,000 persons to protest their plight. | " The Manchester-Lancashire contin- | gent was within 55 miles of the goal | today. When the Lancashire grcup of 230 reached Oxford, 50 sympathetic undergraduates tried to make the week j end comfortable. The students cbtained billets for them as well as treatment for wounds inflicted in clashes with police at Stratford-on-Avon Friday. Women Stormbound. ‘The Lancashire men said Sunday was their first day of rest since they left i the textile city 19 days ago. The storm was too much for 38 women marchers who had expected to reach Leighton Buzzard from Wolver- ton yesterday. They remained storm- bound at Bletchley. Another contingent was at Braintree, Essex, after a march from Colchester. The Braintree Labor Club supplied dry clothes and a co-operative society pro- | vided food and cash. INORRIS IN HOSPITAL; | | Stricken With Severe Cold and | Throat Infection, He Halts Campaign Tour. | | By the Associated Press. | SPRINGFIELD, Ill, October 24.— Germany and Italy es| Senator George W. Norris, Progressive | | Republican of Nebraska, today canceled speeches he intended to make here tonight and in Kansas City tomor- row night on behalf of Gov. Pranklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential neminee. He entered a hospital with a severe cold and throat infection. | 23 Reds Arrested. | PARIS, October 24 (#).—Police raid- {ed a Communist meeting at dawn to- 1 day, arresting 23. would reach the capital by 'I'hursadny‘ CANCELS SPEECHES CHEST GOAL FXED W SLAISIHTAGAN FORCOMIG YEAR Approval of Total Expected at Trustees’ Session This Afternoon. ONLY MINIMUM NEEDS INCLUDED IN ESTIMATE Executive Committee Also Proposes Fiscal Year of 11 Months to Aid Deficit Problem. The Community Chest campaign goal | this year will be $2,419,787, the came | amount raised in last year's campaign. | it was announced today by Elvnod Street, directer of the Chest. Final approval to that figure, recom- mended by the Executive and Campaign Committees of the Chest, is expected to be given at a meeting of the trustees of the Chest at the United States | Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. The figure has been set as the mini- mum upon which the Chest can hope to cope with the welfare and relief sit- uation in the Capital during the coming year, although it is admitted by the Chest director that this figure 1s much less than is necessary for the Chest i0 meet fully the welfare and relief de- mands of the city. Executive Committee Meets. Faced with the problem of taking | over the uncmployment relief burden > the city when the $350.000 appropria- tion for this work made by Congress is exhausted, probably in the latter part of November, the Executive Com- mittee of the chest was meeting this |afternoon with District Commissioner | Luther H. Reichelderfer, Director of | Public Welfare George S. Wilson and District_Auditor Daniel J. Donovan. Mr. Street this morning said that| while the burden already being borne by the Chest probably will leave it with 2 deficit of approximately $300,- | 000 for the 1932 vear. there exists a real problem in the exhaustion of the funds for unemployment relief in which |the Chest will undoubtedly have to | take a hand. Details of this tieing together of the | | Chest and the work of the Board of | Public Welfare are being worked out this afternoon. | bef \U. S. AGENTS HELD UP ' ON CRANE HIGHWAY | Three Colored Men Flee When Of- ficers Brandish Guns Near Marlboro. | Federal and Prince Georges County ‘authonnes united today in a search for | three colored men who held up two | Federal agents on the Crane Highway near Marlboro yesterday and escaped after several shots had been fired. | Apparently uuaware o1 the identity of their intended victims, the trio, | armed with pistols, stopped the agents’ | |car near Wells Cormer. The agents | | alighted and the colored men, appar- | ently nervous, opened fire befo-e mak- ing any demands. As the agents drew i ;‘heill; guns the colored men took to their eels. | _ The agents, R. A. Brantley and Lynn | | L. Ney, said they fired several times at | | the ground and pursued the colored men a short distance, but were unable to | overtake them. | MINE FAMILY ESCAPES | Oklahoma Home Emptied Just Be- fore Dynamite Blast. | MCALESTER, Okla., October 24 (#)— | —Warned by the acrid odor of a burn- | ing fuse, a mine family ran from their home at Dow, Okla., 8 few seconds be- fore a dynamite blast virtually destroyed the house early today. : _The wife and daughter of T. T. Nor- ris, miner employed at the non-union Milby-Dow workings, were injured by ! fiying glass and wood splinters. I was the third such blast in the| long coal mine strike in this region. State operatives began an investigation. WOMAN DIES AT 100 | Recently Told Friends She Never Had Been Seriously Ill. MARION, Ind., October 24 (#).—Mrs. Mary Watson, who recently told friends she never had been seriously ill, died at her home here yesterday. She was 100 years old last July 29. A native of Ohio. |she came to Indiana in a covered wagon as a child. Cloudburst—Giant Cr: | By the Associated Press. | BAKERSFIELD, Calif.,, October 24— Digging out a 285,000-pound locomotive that was buried under 15 feet of rock | and gravel after it had been swept from | its tracks by a mountain cloudburst that | cost 15 lives will prove, rail executives ieve, one of the greatest pieces of salvage work in American railroading history. The Santa Fe lccomotive, lost since Octcber 1, when a 45-foot wall of water rushed through the Tehachapi Pass and caused damage estimated in mil- lions was one cf the two large freight engines, with at least six boxcars, which were lifted easily by the water from the tracks and depositzd in a grave of silt 150 feet from the point of disappear- ance. Onc of the locomotives, owned by the Ssuthern Paciic, was found soon after the cloudburst. but the Santa Fe en- gine's resting place remxned-ncret until October 12, when /it was found 285,000-POUND ENGINE IS DUG FROM 15-FOOT GRAVE OF SILT Magnetic Needle Finds Locomotive After Mountain anes to Lift It to Spur. with the aid of a magnetic needle. ‘The needle, borrowed by Santa Fe engineers from the high school here, was the same as used in the relief work after the St. Prancis Dam dis- aster in locating turbines buried by that tragic rush of water. The engine, swept down the stream bed, was found to have been washed at least 50 feet from the main line spur. It was at a point 65 feet below the main line track level when found. A crew of laborers have unearthed one side of the locomotive. H. S. Wall, mechanical superintend- ent of the Santa Fe lines, said he would construct a spur track from the main line to one end of the overturned en- gine. A 150-ton crane will be placed an one end of the spur, he said, and a 200- ton crane on the other. The two giant cranes will lift the buried engine to the improvised spur and pull it to the main tracks. The superintendent said he expected the locomotive would be in use again within three weeks after it enters.the Santa Fe’shops at San’ Bernardino, ‘ | Washington by the thousands to back { ings of the Marine Workers' Industrial | | l[[\‘ 1 KNow You m, mK.‘JAcK.DEA:} Bur THE NORTHERN ATMOSPHERE IS HARD ON You&'fiwm BILLION' LOANED } 10 CREDIT UNITS S | Thousands of Banks, Trust| and Insurance Firms and | Building Groups Aided. By the Associated Press. The Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion announced today that up to Sep-| tember 30 it had loaned $1,016,328,228 to banks, trust and insurance companies | and building and loan associations. Loans totaling $853,496,289 were au- thorized to 4,973 banks and trust com- panies. | Eighty-eight insurance companies | with 14,898,000 policy holders received | $75,193,000. | Building Associations Aided. | Advances of $87,638,738 were author- ized to 736 building and loan associa- tions, with 1,544,000 members. The statement said that 3.482, or 70 per cent of the loans for banks,| amounting to $14,720,867, went to| towns of less than 5,000 population. | Also, 801 loans, or 18 per cent, aggre- gating $117,485,432, went to towns and cities of from 5,000 to 25000 popula- | tion; 341, or 7 per cent, totaling $158. 156,742, to cities of 25000 to 100,000: 250, or 5 per cent, totaling $292.425- 966, to cities of 100,000 to 1000.000 population, and 99, or 2 per cent, total- ing $144.698,279, to cities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants. 14,340,000 Depositors. The corporation said these banks had, as nearly as it could determine, 14.-| 340,000 individual depositors, of which 900,000 were depositors in 443 closed | banks. Loans amounting to $44,178,509 were authorized to the receivers or liquidat- ing agents of the closed banks to en-| able them to make an early distribu-| tion of funds to the depositors, or to| | effect reorganizations which would per- mit reopening of the institutions. SEAMEN THREATEN MARCH ON CAPITAL i Declare 80,000 Jobless, Many Starving, Will Send Delega- tion to Congress. A threat was made at the White | House today by a group of merchant | seamen, who had called to present & | petition to the President asking xelxef.‘ that “unless something is done imme- diately in our behalf we will return to up our pettion.” This group, delegated at recent meet- Union and the Waterfront Unemployed Councils in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, to present the petition to the President, was received instead by Theo- dore Joslin, one of the President’s secre- taries. At the hearing George Mirk, spokesman. for the group, read the pe- tition. Secretary Joslin assured them that the matter would be laid before | the President and that they would re- ceive an early answer. Mink stated that there were more than 80,000 unemployed seamen and that many were starving. The petition declared that “we will continue organ- izing and will return in even greater numbers and if necessary we will be here with our demands when Congress convenes, determined to force the grant- ing, and at that time we will have with us masses of unemployed workers from other industries, starving farmers and the ex-service club whom you so brutally treated when they demanded their back pay.” T e e Comedian's Father to Wed. HOLLYWOOD, October 24 (P).—J. Darsie Lloyd, 62, father of Harold Lioyd, film comedian, and Miss Helen Marshall, 40, an actress, will be married ‘Thursday, the couple announced today. “A Path To Paradise” By | I I Coningsby Dawson Begins on Page A-10 Of Today’s Star. Friend Greeting Roosevelt Loses Wallet With $25 By the Associated Press ATLANTA, Ga, October 24.— It cost W. Z. Turner, Atlanta business man, $25 to pat Franklin D. Roosevelt on the shoulder. As he reached over to greet the presidential nominee, some one patted him on the hip and a mo- ment later he discovered his wallet containing $25 gone. Turner wes among the crowd welcoming the New York Gover- nor at a hotel here. DEADLOCK ON ARMS PARLEY CONTINUES France and Germany Still| at Odds on Site, British Official Reveals. 1B the Associated Press. LONDON, October 24—Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, revealed to- | day that a European deadlock continues over the proposed Four-power Emer- gency Disarmament Conference because France and Germany still are unable to agree on a me:ting place. Pressed for a statement concerning the possible danger of Germany re- arming while the Disarmament Con- ference is progressing, Sir John said the purpose of the emergency confer- ence was to prevent such a course, but that no definite statement of German policy has been made. Addresses Commons. ‘The foreign secretary made these dis- closures in an address before the House of Commons. Great Britain proposed a four-power | conference before the General Disarma- ment Conference, set for November 3. It was for the purpose of settling Germany's demands for arms equality made public about two months ago. Germany announced its withdrawal from the disarmament conference unless these demands were met. Geneva Rejected. The four-power conference was to be participated in by England, France, Germany and Italy. The German gov- ernment refused to accept Geneva as the meeting place because it was the seat of the League of Nations and the scene of the General Disarmament Con- ference. It was said unofficially in Berlin that any other Swiss city would be unacceptable. Norman Davis, American disarma- ment representative, was in conference at No. 10 Downing street with Prime Minister MacDonald and Sir John. The meeting added strength to a be- lief in British quarters that a new Anglo-American _declaration on dis- armament will be made soon if Mr. Davis' negotiations are successful. AL SMITH TO SPEAK IN NEWARK TONIGHT Subject of First Campaign Address on National Issues Not Announced. By the Assoclated Press. NEWARK, N. J., October 24.—Alfred E. Smith, who had the support of New Jersey Democracy at the recent Demo- cratic National Convention, will speak to thousands in a campaign appearance at the 113th Infantry Armory tonight. The former Governor, who has called for complete victory for the Democratic party November 8, will speak in detail on national issues for the first time in the campaign. His exact subject has not been announced. Seventy-five amplifiers have been erected so that he can be heard outside the armory as well as in, and the speech will be carried on & Nation-wide net- work of the National Broadcasting Co. The address is scheduled for 10 pm., Eastern standard time. Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, ‘who led the fight for Smith at the con- vention, will welcome the 1928 standard bearer of the Democrats to New Jersey. He expected a crowd of Essex and Hudson County Democrats would help him in the welceming. — Radio Programs on Page B-9 ATLANA THRONGS GREE ROOSEVEL School Children Turn Out to See Governor—Cohen Host at Luncheon. | By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., October 24.—Gov. | Pranklin D. Roosevelt waved his bat- tered campaign hat to thousands of At- lanta school children who were massed | at strategic centers tpday for a glimpse | | of the Democratic presidential nominee. | On this tour he made no stops, but| his automobile moved slowly past the | waiting children, who greeted him with Ccheers. He started his automobile ride at 10 o'clock, after having rested overnight from a strenuous day that began yes- terday morning with a tumultuous wel- come from thousands massed about the | Atlanta Ugion Station as the Governor | stepped from his special train. Visits Warm Springs Home. | He spent part of the day at his Georgia home at Warm Springs, where | he was greeted by another tremendous | outpouring of people. All along the | route to Warm Springs and back xgnni | to Atlanta in the evening he was greet- | ed by other thousands. THREATENS WATSON | found “facing the fight of his life” | time tn his career, had the unanimous | | indorsement of the Republicans for the A big parade through the main sec- | tion of Atlanta in honor of Gov. Roo: velt was the high spot of the day’s pro- | gram. A political luncheon "at_ his hotel, a series of conferences with Dem- ocratic leaders from the Southeast and | | a campaign address at the City Audi- | torium at 8:30 p.m. will complete his | | Atlanta visit. The Governor's special | | train is to leave at 10 o'clock tonight | for Raleigh, N. C. Governors, United States Senators, Representatives and others’ high in | public life and in the Democratic party from six Southeastern States ~were | among the visitors in Atlanta to con- | fer with the New York Governor. | Six Governors Present. The Governors were Henry H. Horton | | of Tennessee, O. Max Gardner of North | Carolina, Ibra C. Blackwood of South | | Carolina, Doyle E. Carlton of Florida and B. M. Miller of Alabama. Gov. Richard B. Russell, jr, and Eugene | Talmadge, = Democratic ~ nominee _for | Governor of Georgia, also were promi- | nent in the conferences. United States Senators were Hubert D. | Stephens, Mississippi; James F. Byrnes, South Carolina, and Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee. Other Senators who had accepted invitations to share in the | welcome for the nominee were J. W.| Bailey and Cameron Morrison, North ~ (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) LEAS DENIED DELAY Tennessee Publisher, Davis Lose in Supreme Court. Luke Lea, Tennessee banker and pub- lisher; his son, Luke Lea, jr., and Wal- lace B. Davis of Asheville, N. C., failed in the Supreme Court today to obtain | postponement of action on their peti-| tion fer a review of their conviction in | North Carolina. They sought a delay | until they could file an appeal from the refusal of the North Carolina courts | to grant them a new trial. The court also refused to review the appeal, which was perding before it. The Leas and Davis were convicted | on a charge of conspiracy to misapply the funds of the Central Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville, N. C. Son and | nors” and some State party leaders, DEPRESSION FATE IN HOOSIER STATE Republican Senate Leader Perscnally Strong, But Has Hard Foe to Beat. VICTORY FOR HOOVER WOULD PUT HIM OVER| “Sunny Jim,” 68 November 2, Still Good Fighter, With Way of Pulling Through. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 24— Senator “Jim” (James Eli) Watson is | “facing the fight of his life” in his | effort to be re-elected to the Senate. The Democrats, however, who are hop- | ing that this year, at least, they will defeat Watson, remember with some misgivings that Senator “Jim” is one of the most astute and resourceful enemies they have ever opposed. Futhermore, they recall that many times in the past Watson has been | and that he has won. In fact, Jim| ‘Watson has more political lives than the proverbial cat. There is no joke, however, this time about the seriousness of the fight in which Senator Watson has engaged. It is the irony of political fate that in this year, when Watson, for the first| senatorial nomination, he should find | himself really threatened with defeat. The nomination was given him by ac- clamation. There was no other candi- date to oppose him on the Republican side. Always in the past he has had to fight factions within his own party. Today he has more whole-hearted sup- port of the G. O. P. in Indiana than ever before. Watson is a tradition in this State. His ability to slip through narrow places and win in campaigns is what continues to worry some of the Demo- crats here now, although they insist that they will defeat him. They have nominated against him Frederick Van Nuys, an_attorney practicing law in Indianapolis. Has Strong Opponeént. avVan Nuys has been a Democratic wheel-horse for. years. He is highly regarded. His only public office has been in the State Legislature and United States district attorney during the Wilson administration, although he has been in the past Democratic State chairman and in the hectic Madison Square Garden Democratic Convention placed in nomination for President the late Senator Samuel Ralston. Watson is suffering, like other Re- publican candidates this vear, from the depression. He also, like other Re- publicans in this State, is meeting the opposition of voters to the record which the G. O. P. made in Indiana six or eight years ago, when the Ku Klux Kilan was riding high and when high officials, including “a couple of Gover- were jailed or threatened with jail. A | great many Hoosiers have been anxious for a long time toswat the Republicans, and this looks like a good year. They had hopes in 1928. But the nomination of Al Smith dashed those hopes. The contest for the Senate seat now held by Watson holds far more than (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) TRAPPED BY CAVE-IN WORKER IS UNINJURED Man, Caught With Only Head Above Ground, Dug Out Aft- er 40 Minutes. Trapped for more than 40 minutes in a cave-in at an excavation in which he was working at the Potomac Electric | Power Co. substation, 5927 Georgia avenue, today, Harold C. Dorn, 22, of 401 G street northeast, was rescued without injury by the Rescue Squad and a corps of firemen. Dorn was almost submerged by an avalanche of soil which had been re- moved from the 8-foot hole in which he was working. Ancrew Bragg, 50, colored laborer, was able to clamber out of the hole in time to escape being trapped by the falling earth. As the task of digging Dorn out be- gan, only his head was visible above ground. Besides the rescue squad, members of No. "2 Engine Company, No. 11 Truck Company and the 4th| Batallion chief aided in the rescue work. As the upper part of his body was| freed, Dorn was able to assist in ex- tricating himself, and clambered out of the hole unhu: Graf Off to South America. FRIEDRICESHAFEN, Germany, Oc- tober 24 (#).—The dirigible Graf Zep- pelin left early today on her ninth and last flight to South American ports for this year. She carried 12 passengers. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 24.—Sci- ence has gone to the desert sclitudes seeking to explain secrets in acoustics that will help to deaden noises in homes, theaters and all places of public gathering. Dr. Vern O. Knudsen, associate pro- fessor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, is making ex- curicns into the sandy areas of silence, while his coworkers are conduct laboratory experiments which *suggest they are on the verge of a new dis- covery. It is all just & study of molecules, another evidence of the big part these small things play in everything that cxists. Dr. Knudsen has worked out th: DESERT WASTES MAY UNCOVER SECRET OF DEADENING NOISES Scientist Studies Effects of Dry and Humid Air on Sound Absorption. retical and experimental data indicat- EE Ty F o g tion of sound waves by the molecules that is under study. Evidence so far obtained indicates that humidity, or moisture, aids the travel of sound, and that in air more dry sound finds the traveling harder, being absorbed more rapidly as it moves cn, hence does not get so far. Actual experiments are being carried on in the desert by Dr. Knudsen in measuring the travel distance, or ab- sorption values, of sound waves. ‘The real secret of physics sought is ting | not merely that it may be more diffi- cult for sound to travel through dry alr than moist air, but to know the actual conditions of mcm‘rfu of the not cnly the brinj a bit of the silence of the desert, but create conditions where sound can be made to travel more freely, for such signaling or other practical uses 88 or E -~ | naval SPEECH REACTION SPURS HOOVER 10 WHIRLWIND FINISH President, Heartened by Re- ceptions, Plans to Cover Remaining Fronts. ADDRESS IS DISCUSSED WITH MILLS AND BROWN Return to Middle West and Swing Out to Pacific Coast Are Under Consideration. Greatly encouraged by reaction to his Detroit address and by rcusiog re- ceptions accorded him dquring his numerous rear platform appearances en route, President Hoover today is working on a program calling for a whirlwind finish for his campaign. It is expected that a definite an- nouncement concerning his plans will be made at the White House with's the next 24 hours. Meanwhile the President, with the ald of associstse and political advisers, is charting & program which is expected to cover the remaining strategic batilefronts. Tentative plans for his personal par- ticipation in the fight, right on up to the eve of election when he will deliver his final appeal to American electorates over a Nation-wide radio hook-up of the two large broadcasting chains were dis- cussed by him for two hours with Sec- retary of the Treasury Mills and Post- master General Brown. Mr. Hoover also was in frequent long-distance tele- phone communication with the Repub- | lican national headquarters in Chicago and the Eastern head R eadquarters in New May Extend Drive West. Indications are that the President will spend the greater part of the time be- tween now and election day traveling. There is strong likelihood he will extend his fighting campaign into the Far West beyond the Rockies and to the Pacific Coast, stopping at his home in Palo to, Calif., where he will personally cast his ballot and then await the ver« dlglt.hol,;‘lo\'ember 8. e Far Western swing, however, not been definitely ngreegd upon. il The President’s only definite plan is to deliver his"major address in Madison Square Garden New York next Monday night and that he will deliver an im- portant speech in Newark, N. J, en route to New York. Postmaster General Brown, upon lnv{ng the White House, said the Presi- dent’s personal appearances thus far dl:'?':i:dlg:ee major nn:!:asu already ve unques strength- ened his campnleg. R ez May Enter Middle West. The President also is consider going to the Middle West again !ilhrmf toward the end of this week or imme- diately following his New York address next Monday night. Speculation re- garding another Midwest invasion in- clude major speeches by the President, first in Indianapolis and in Chicago, I1L. It is understood that Senator Glenn of Illinois and Henry Ford, who accom- panied the President on his train Jjourney to Washington from Detroit, have bezn urgirg the President to make a personal appearance in Chicago. Other advisers are understood to have told the President that while his chances are improving in Illinois, it is necessary for him to personally go to that State and make another fighting speech to swing it into the Republican column. Further speculation regarding the President’s wind-up campaigning in- cludes an excursion into Minnesota and a speech in St. Louis, Mo. It is thought that in the event the President does decide to carry his fight across the continent he surely will make a major address in Denver, Colo.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Portland, Oreg.. and Seattle, Wash. It is understood that the ten- tative plans do not call for a speech in California. It is understood that in these plans the President has reserved Palo Alto for his Nation-wide appeal over the radio the night before election day. It is thought that if Mr. Hoover does go to California to remain over elec- tion day, he will seek rest aboard a vessel, which will bring nim back to Washington through the Pan- ama Canal. Countless Messages Reccived. ‘Thcse who talked with the President today are impressed with his fighting spirit and determination personally to carry on the fight. He has received countless messages from all parts of the country congratulating him upon his Detroit address. The President is un- derstood to have been not at all dis- pleased by the “booing” that greeted him upon his arrival in Detroit Satur- day night. Mr. Hoover has reason to know that this rudeness and dis- courtesy came from Communists. ‘Therefore, he is represented as feeling that such a demonstration from Com- munists should be helpful to him per- sonally in this campaign. Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford and their son Edsel accompanied the President and Mrs. Hoover to the White House early yesterday afternoon. Later ir. (he afternoon Mrs. Hoover went driving with the Fords for about an hour while Mr. Hoover was busily engaged in the Lin- coln study. The Ford family left Wash- ington late yesterday afternoon for the South. Mr. Hoover showed no ill effects to- day from his Saturday ordeal of 14 rear platform speeches as well as the speech in Detroit. He rose at his cus- tomary early hour and played medicine ball on the rear ground and was at his desk at the executive office before 9 a.m. Rich Gold Strike Made. ‘WELLINGTON, New Zealand, October 24 (A).—A stampede to the banks of the Kewarau River in Central has followed the disclosure of a gold strike described as the richest find of 1luvial gold known in this generation. t was the find of two unemployed miners. Seven Flee Devils Island. ‘WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, October 24 (/) —Five Frenchmen, a Spaniard and an Italian, apparently escaped from the French g:ml colony on Devils Island, arrived here on Saturday in great dis- tress. They had made the trip of 1,500 miles in a sailing cance. Ship Towed to Port. HAMILTON, Bermude, October 24 (#).—The 90-foot motcr vessel Tana- makoen was cafe in St. Georges Harbor teday after having been towed in on Sat- i T #