Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1936, Page 4

SMITH EXPLAINING CAUSES FORWALK Roosevelt Repudiation of Platform Assailed in Phila- delphia Address. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 9.— Al- fred E. Smith, former Democratic candidate for President, indicated to- day his two remaining speeches in the campaign would be devoted to giving his reasons for “taking & walk” from his party and supporting Gov. Alf M. Landon, the Republican presi- dential nominee. He started his explanation in a speech here last night by telling an audience of 4,500 the chief reason for his “walk” was “the almost complete abandonment of the Democratic plat- form by the so-called Democratic” administration. “Never as far back as I can remem- ber or as far back as I am able to read history,” he asserted, “did I ever see so complete a repudiation of a platform in letter, in spirit, in princi~ ples and in detail.” Danger to Democracy. He made no mention in his speech of Gov. Landon, but warned his audi- ence of “great danger to our demo- cratic form of government.” This, he #aid, “lies in the possibility that a majority of the people may put the stamp of approval upon a political party that abandons its platform and goes back on its promises.” “For years,” Smith said, “I was ready at the drop of the hat to hop all over a Republican who said any- thing. I can't do it this year. I will | tell you why. When you hop at a fellow you have got to be right your- self.” Outlining his plans for his future | speeches, he said: “During the rest of the campaign I | propose as far as it is humanly possi- i ble to do it to develop my reasons | for the walk.” He is scheduled to speak in Chi- cago October 22 and Albany, N. Y., { October 31. { Smith stated he would show in his later speeches “just exactly what the New Deal party did with the promises they made in 1932” and to assure the “Democrats” that “they need have no fear of being accused of walking out of the party.” Left High and Dry. “Far from it," has walked away from them. It has left them high and dry, and the| meanest thing that can happen to| | the rank and file of the party is to be tune, she contended today in her fight | put into a position where it has to| defend or apologize for what a party | was in honor bound to do. gstration into power on the assump- | tion that they stood for a certain set | of principles found out afterward that they had been entirely misled, and they put at the head of the Government a group of men, bent upon a program that has angered millions of citizens throughout the United States, citizens of both political parties, who trusted in the honesty of the platform and the honesty of the men that were elected upon it. | “I will speak for myself. If I thought that I was going to get the platform of Norman Thomas rather than the Democratic party, I will tell | you what I would have done. I ‘would have done something for Hoover | that he didn't do for me. I would| vote for him. * * * “I am not responsible for the sins of commission and the sins of omis- sion cn the part of the leaders of my party when they betrayed the trust of the people in the repudiation, not only of the party platform, negatively and affirmatively, but a betrayal of the fundamental principles upon which the party was constructed.” A large part of his speech was de- | voted to discussion of the agricultural plank of the platform and the New | Deal agricultural measures. He termed the A. A. A. “a colossal flop.” He also touched briefly on the 1932 pledge to reduce Government bureaus and agen- | cies. He concluded his speech with an appeal to his listeners to “separate the political bunk from the facts” between now and November 3 and to induce their neighbors to do the same. —_— DR. GEORGE W. SMITH DIES AT AGE OF 81 Alexandria Resident Was Re- tired Weather Bureau Official. B 8 Staff Corresponcent ot The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va, October 9.— | Dr. George W. Smith, 81, former United States Weather Bureau official and a member of the Association of | Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, died yesterday afternoon at Garfield Hospital in Washington. He lived at 1403 North Highland street here for the past several years. Dr. Smith, who was born in Wash- ington in 1855, was retired from Gov- ernment service five years ago, after serving for 55 years in the United States Signal Corps and at the Weath- er Bureau. He was a life member of New Jeru- salem Lodge of Masons of Washing- ton; Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine; Columbia Chapter, No. 1; Columbia Commandery, No. 2, and Adoniram Council, No. 2, of the Masonic fra- ternity. He leaves his wife, Mrs, Kate E. Smith; one son, Herbert F. Smith, Lyon Village; two daughters, Mrs. J. H. Dyer, Warrenton, Mo., and Mrs. A. P. Pierce, Washington, and a brother, William E. Smith, Washing- ton. Burial will be in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, but other funeral details are not completed. ROCKVILLE CLUB PLANS ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW By a Staff Correspondent ot The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 9.—The Community Garden Club of Rockville will hold its annual amateur flower show at the Fire House today, it is announced by Miss Laura Ann Wads- worth, club president. Entries were to close at 11 o'clock this morning with the judging to be conducted from that time until 2 pm. The show will be open to the public from 2 p.m. until 9 pm. Miss Wadsworth said that all ama- teur horticulturists are invited to enter the show. The programs, which may be obtained from Miss Wadsworth or Mrs. Eugene Scott, chairman of the show, includes divisions for dahlias, roses, annuals, perennials, artistic ar- rangements, unusual potted plants or cut flowers, fruits and - vegetables. A junior section with gnany prizes 8150 is scheduled. y Pope Pius Receives Journalists Pope Pius XI, shown as he received 250 journalists who attended the international meeting of the Catholic press. JIMBRADY'S GENS ENTER GREEN CASE Widow Says She Was Lured by Jewel to Give Up Estate Claims. By the Associated Press. PORT HENRY, N. Y., October 9.— Gems of “Diamond Jim" Brady, the he added. “The party magnificent, lured the widow of Col. | E. H. R. Green into signing away her claims to the colonel’s $80,000.000 for- for his estate. Brady's “transportation piece,” & | miniature train studded with dia- | “The people that voted this admin- | monds, was on display at the offices of | a New York trust company in 1917, | before her marriage, the colonel's widow testified, and the colonel asked her if she wanted to see it. This was before their marriage. Arrived there, she related, she un- wittingly signed away her “rights” to ! the fortune, founded by Hetty Green, the colonel’s mother. The pre-nuptial agreement she signed, she said, gave her $625,000 and an $18,000 annuity in return for re- nouncing her claims to the estate, but she believed the colonel merely was giving her pin money. E Excluded from the record in yes- terday's court session was this state- ment by the colonel's widow: “He told me, ‘I don’t want you running up bills on me after we are married, and I am arranging some pin money for you.'” She did not read or look at the paper she signed, her attorney as-| | serted. Her attorney asked, “What was your | attitude toward Col. Green in those months before you were married>” “I was very happy,” she responded, Gold-PavedRoad Fails to Cause Prospector Rush Workers Blast Into Vein That Fizzled in 1870. By the Assoclated Press. WHEELING, W. Va., October 9 —A road through the hills will be paved with gold. Workmen blasting rock from a hill- side uncovered a vein of ore contain- ing a low content of gold. But -no one became excited. The “pay dirt” first was located in the 1870's. There wasn't enough gold to pay for operations. A “gold rush” | fizzled out. One of the original prospectors who abandoned their farms to “work” the vein still is living. He is 83-year-old George Buchan- an of suburban West Liberty. TALK WITH CHIANG FALSTOENDCRISIS ‘,Tokio Warns Optimism Is | Unjustified—Demands Are Deemed Excessive. ;sy the Assoclated Press. cials declared today that the confer- ence between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, China's dictator, and Jap- anese Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe did not warrant optimism for settle- ment of the Sino-Japanese crisis. TOKIO, October 9.—Japanese offi- | “and I loved him. I wanted to marry | the man I loved.” Col. Green died in Lake Placid, N. | Y., last June 8. His widow already has won a preliminary court fight for A joint communique, issued after the conference at Nanking yesterday, authoritative sources said, suggested his property in Texas. | mands as “excessive” and indicated 5 b | negotiati Wi Waging the fight against the ‘di:icun ions would be protracted and colonel’s widow, the former Mabel i Harlow of Chicago, the colonel's sis-| (Sentiment in both Japanese and ter, Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks of New | Chiang regarded the Japanese de- | Chinese circles in Nanking indicated | Picture made in his Summer home at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. ~—Copyright, FUNDS COMMITTEE GIVEN AFFIDAVITS “Corruption” by New Deal| Is Alleged in Dozen Sent to Senate Group. | By tne Assoctated Press. While Democrats and Republicans hurled *“spy” charges at each other in the battle over Pennsylvania's W. P. A, the Republican National Commit- | tee announced today it had sent a dozen new affidavits of alleged “New Deal corruption” to the Senate Cam- paign Funds Committee. Today's afdavits, the Republican | National Committee said in a state- ment, were “for the most part from W. P. A. workers who had been fired | | by their foremen, acting on orders | trickling down from higher-ups, for | refusing to knuckle under and swear | allegiance to Roosevelt.” o The spy charge was first hurled by Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. admin- | istrator, who said yesterday that, agents of the Republican National' Committee circulated among W. P. A. workers, “took them out and fed them, and probably drank with them,” | to obtain statements of political coer- cion from them. He said Sam Jones, chief of the Republican publicity office | here, is “well known in labor spy eir- cles.” William Hard, the Republicans’| radio commentator. later broadcast & letter saying Democratic spies “were working on every job” and that no employe dared express anti-Roosevelt views “on pain of being discharged.” Hard said the letter was “anonymous | A. P. Wirephoto. _ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ‘C.z FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936.- “A House Divided...” L0S ANGELES FETE T0 GREET POWER Huge Searchlights to Play on Skies as Line Is Opened. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 9.—A fes- tive welcome awaits the arrival here tonight of the first power from Boul- der Dam, the Government's collossus on the Colorado River. Across 266 miles of mountains and desert, through the world's greatest transmission lines, a 1,000-ton gen- erator will hurl electricity of 115,000 horsepower into the largest metropol- itan area of the West. Searchlights producing 7,000,000,- 000 candlepower will sweep the skies, heralding arrival of the current. Ceremonies at the Civic Center, in- cluding a Nation-wide broadcast, will start at 7 pm. (10 pm. Eastern standard time). At 7:36, Miss Eliza- beth Scattergood will touch a key to start the current, which will light & huge orange-hued arc, . 40 Iluminated Floats. Fourteen minutes later, a parade of 40 illuminated floats, 6,000 per- sons and numerous bands will move through the streets. The generator starting today is the first of 15 to be installéd eventually, giving the dam a total capacity of 1,835,000 rated horsepower. This is more than three times that of the next largest production in the United States, at Wilson Dam, Ala, and more than twice that of the next largest in the world, from the Dnieperstroy plant in Russia, which produces 750,000 horsepower. $30,000,000 for System. Los Angeles spent $30,000,000 for its transmission system, or nearly a fifth of the $165,000,000 cost of the dam project itself, and will gain about 10 per cent reduction in power and light costs, the municipal power bureau said. Boulder Dam power is allocated as follows: Arizona and Nevada, 18 per cent each; metropolitan water dis- trict of Southern California, 36 per cent; Los Angeles, 13 per cent; small municipalities, 6 per cent, and Southern California Edison Co., per cent, —- CATHOLIC ALUMNAE 100 Expected at Three-Day Ses- sion of Virginia Chapter in Alexandria. B & Staff Correspondent of The Scar ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 9.— Approximately 100 State delegates are expected here Sunday for the opening of the three-day convention of the Virginia Chapter of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnee. Msgr. Patrick J. McCormick. vice rector of Catholic University in Wash- ington, will be the speaker at the opening mass at 10 a.m. in St. Mary's Catholic Church. Rev. T. A. Rankin, pastor of the church, will be the cele- brant, An address by Miss Grace A. Kra- mer of Johns Hopkins University, Bal- timore, will feature a dinner meeting for State officers at the Kennedy- Warren, in Washington, at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, and a buffet supper and re- ception will be held at St. Mary's because of fear.” To Hopkins' assertion that Jones had agents among the W. P. A. proj- | ects “posing as W. P. A. workers and | | passing themselves off as legitimate newspaper men to get stories from workers,” the Republican publicist re- plied: “Our men do not misrepresent them- selves as ‘newspaper men,” but most of them are better newspaper men than the so-called ‘information directors’ of the W. P. A" Hopkins charged that Jones was re- Academy here Sunday night. MEETING PLANNED Jor a grade crossing project on ers was satisfied with the price other would not sell. So half Two men owned this house at Newburyport, Mass. Commonwealth of Massachusetts wanted to buy it to make way The U. S. Route 1. One of the own- offered and sold his half. The the house was torn down and moved away, and the other half was left standing. —Wide World Photo. BORNED REACHED IN'WORLD FLIGHT One of Globe-Circling Re- | porters Expects to Reach | Manila Tomorrow. Ry the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 9. —While his two rivals in a round-the-world race | were flying across India, H. R. Ekins, ' New York World-Telegram and | Scripps-Howard reporter, arrived at Balikh Papan, Dutch Borneo, at 3:05 | am. (Eastern standard time) todny,J still far in the lead. Ekins, ending an 800-mile jump | from Batavia, reported he expected to | reach Manila by tomorrow night. He ! will wait there until October 17, when the Pan-American Clipper leaves on her first eastward passenger flight to the United States. The other two reporters in the race— Dorothy Kilgallen, New York Evening | Journal and International News Serv- ice, and Leo Kieran, New York Times !and North American Newspaper Al-, | liance—Ileft Karachi. India, at 6 am. (Eastern standard time) by regular plane for Jodhpur. | They had arrived at Karachi at |4:40 am. (Eastern standard time),' ! after flying over the Arabian Sea from Sharjah, Oman. After Jodhpur their route takes them to Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok and Hongkong, which they hope to reach in time to catch the S. S. President Pierce, sailing next Wednesday for | Manila. Business sessions will start at 10| am. Monday at the academy, with Mrs. E. M. Holmes, Norfolk, governor | of St. Mary's School, in the chair. A banquet and dance will be held at 7 pm. Monday at the George Mason | Hotel. | The convention will close with a | luncheon meeting Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Army-Navy Country Club. Miss Jean Fannon and Miss Anna Mess are in charge of arrangements. Man, 114, Registers And Expects to Vote For Gov. Landon BV the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 9.— Resin Williams, 114-year-old colored man, registered here as a Republican and announced he would vote for Gov. Alf Landon. Williams, who said he was or- dained as a Methodist minister in 1856, was born in Prince Georges County, Md, in 1822. He never was a slave, as his grandmother was an Indian. ROLL CALL UNDER WAY | IN COLLEGE PARK AREA |E. I. Oswald Heads Committee in Charge of Red Cross Drive. Other Members. Py » S1ff Correspondent ot The Star COLLEGE PARK, Md. October 9. | Organization for conducting the an- nual Red Cross roll call in this com- munity has been completed, with E. L. Oswald serving as chairman of the committee, | muddy, { make a study of the water system, | Subsequently, he was detailed as engi= EDWARD D. HARDY DIES N SAN DIEGO Heart Attack Is Fatal to “Father” of D. C. Water Sysiems. Edward Dana Hardy, who as engi- neer in charge of building the Dise trict's modern fitration plants bee came known as “the father of Washe ington’s water purification systems.' died Wednesday of a heart attack in San Diego, Calif., according to word received here. He was 72 years old, Mr. Hardy re- tired in June, 1934, as principal engineer of the Washington Aqueduct, the po- sition coming under the United States Engineer'’s Office, War De- partment. He had gone to San Diego with Mrs. Hardy to spend the Winter. Since leaving this city, just after his re- tirement, he visited New Hampshire, his home State, and afterward spent two Winters in Florida. E. D. Hardy. Two of his daughters, Mrs. Helen Schreiner, 1340 Fairmont street, and | Mrs, Margaret Tompkins of Norbeck, Md.. left here last night by airplane for San Diego. Friends here wera awaiting word of funeral arrange- | ments. In 1898, at a time when Washing- ton's water supply frequently was Mr. Hardy was detailed to neer in charge of building the Mce Millan Filtration Plant, completed in 1905. Then, in later years, when the water supply became inadequate due to the rapidly increasing population, Mr. Hardy designed a new supply and purification system and constructed them, along with the Delcarlia File tration Plant. The latter was come pleted in 1928. As a result of his work Washington enjoys a water supply probal { part in the task of filling in 1 to none, and the purification here has been a subject for study leading engineers from many sections. Earlier in his career, while engaged in river and harbor work. he took d t | create what is now a large porti | | and the campaign has been started. The territory has been | divided into districts headed by mem- bers of the committee. The group includes Dr. H. F. Cot- term#n, E. F. Zalesak, M Hodgins, Mrs. J. L. Kelk, M ton A. . Mrs. Geary Eppley. S. Shaw, J. I. Palmore, Harry L. Clal George Darcy, Wade H. Rice, M Ridgeley W. Axt, Miss Audrey Kil- lian, Ralph A. Simmons and Mrs. W. | | S. Bailey. old F STREET the city's recreational system in Poe tomac Park, Born in Hebron, N. H., Mr. Hardy in 1891 was graduated with the dee gree of civil engineering from Darte mouth College. Before his graduation he had accepted a post in the civilian engineering forces of the War Departe ment, which brought him to Wash- ington. In October, 1893, he was married to Miss Mary Noud of this city. He is survived by his widow, three daughe ters, Mrs. Dorothy Francis of Woo bury. N. J.: Mrs. Tompkins and Mrs, Schreiner, and six grandchildren, Koran Heals Sick. Orthodox Moslems believe that a few verses of the Koran, if written on a piece of paper which is steeped in a bowl of water, will turn the water into a most powerful medicine which will heal the sick believer. . South Africa plans to pension old and sick animals. York, has filed for probate here the 1908 will of the colonel, giving the | estate to his mother, or, in the event | of her death, to Mrs. Wilks. MISS SEMPLE SUES LAWYER FOR LIBEL $150,000 Demanded of Mother's Attorney, Alleging Use of Word “Blackmail.” | By tne Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 9.—Roberta Semple, complaining she was “injured, disgraced. and defamed,” demanded $150,000 today as damages from the personal attornev of her mother, Evengelist Aimee Semple McPherson, as the latest turn in the family rift at Angelus Temple. A slander suit on file in Superior Court by the brunette heiress to Mrs. McPherson's Angelus Temple pulpit was.directed against Willedd Andrews, veteran Los Angeles lawyer. Miss Semple quoted Andrews as hav- ing said Mrs. McPherson “has been threatened, intimidated d black- mailed for the last time,” and the evangelist would take all precautions to preserve the Foursquare Gospel Church she founded in 1923, BYRD TO DELIVER CAMPAIGN SPEECH Radio Address Will Be Made From Richmond Tuesday Evening. By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., October 9.—Sena- tor Harry Flood Byrd will make his first speech of the Democratic national campaign from Richmond by radio on Tuesday evening, October 13, at 9 o'clock. ‘The Senator, who has been recuper- ating from a recent illness, will follow by 24 hours the appesrancé in the mosque here of Col. Frank Knox, Re- publican vice presidential candidate, whose address also will be broadcast. Senator Byrd's address holds inter- est beyond that of a regular campaign address because some of his criticisms of the New Deal have been used by the Republicans in their campaign.* Before and after the ocratic National Convention the * Virginia Senator made it plain that he was sup- porting the Democratic ticket, al- though he said he had no apologies for his opposition to some of the New Deal measures. - - Senator - -Carter Glass, Democrat, of Virginia held-a similar Pposition. a lessening of tension. | (The Japanese embassy said Chiang expressed “deep regret” over the re- cent killings of Japanese in China and applauded Kawagoe's “spirit.”’) The newspaper Yomiuri asserted Japanese demands include: 1. Joint defense against any Red invasion by a third country. 2. More liberal rights of self-gov- ernment for the five North China provinces. \ government to control anti-Japanese activities. 4. Revision of “excessive” tariffs. 5. Completion of traffic connections between Japan and China, including | the Shanghai-Fukuoka Airline. | 6. Employment of Japanese ad- iviurl in all departments of the Nan- Kking government, | CAMERAMAN DIES AFTER OPERATION Fox Movietone Veteran, Charles J. Davis, Had Accompanied President on Trips: Charles J. Davis, 44, veteran cameraman for the Fox Movietone News, who “covered the President.” died today in George Washington Uni- versity Hospital. He underwent an operation 10 days ago. Mr. Davis, with the Fox Movietone News about nine years, had been assigned to Washington for seven years and had accompanied President Roosevelt on many trips. Shortly after the introduction of the sound motion pictures Mr. Davis is said to have been the first to photo- graph the then Prince of Wales and other foreign notables, including George Bernard Shaw, with the new sound device. Years ago he was with Warner Bros. and the old Biograph Co. when they were producing the silent movies, 5 Mr. Davis, whose home was at 5428 Nebraska avenue, was a member of the Columbia Country Club, the American Society of Cinematographers, an or- ganization of production camera men, and the International Alliance of The- atrical and State Employes. He was a native of Brookiyn, N. Y. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. May Davis, and two daughters, Miss Doro- thy Davis, 19, and Edith Davis, 14. Funeral arrangements were to be announced later. Oppose Hair Curling. ‘That hair curling is “immodest, ex- pensive and a device of the devil” is the dictum of a society formed to pro- tect the morals of women in Canton, China. b Chinese The 1937 cdition of a ~ sponsible for the circulation at a 3. Sincere efforts by the Nanking Southern ‘rally of a picture showing Mrs. Roosevelt with a Negro, < This was denied by Jones. — . TYPHOON HITS CROPS MANILA, P. I, October 9 (P.—A typhoon ripped through provinces of Northern Luzon today, uprooting trees, destroying crops and shattering native huts. No loss of life was reported. High winds delayed the regular eastward flight of Pan-American’s | trans-Pacific plane, 205 F STR u_ o 2 Hat $ A Smart campus style! New Fall colors! And The. New SPORTSMAN . . . . $5 “The New POLO ¥ il GROS TWO CHILDREN HURT An unauthorized—and quite unex- pected—ride in their father's automo- bile yesterday landed Kenneth Moore, 5, and his 1-year-old sister Joan in Georgetown Hospital. The children, who live at 3210 | Forty-fifth street, accidentally released the hand brake while playing in the car in the 4400 block of Klingle road, |and the machine started down the street, It traveled only a short dis- | tance, however, ending up in a hedge. Kenneth and Joan were treated for cuts and bruises. EET « «+ It has the.new LO-CROWN with a wide welt brim that turns up sharply at the.back in a smooth, flowing line. 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