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AL SMITH ASSAILS - ‘CRACK-POT' DEAL “Somebody Is Going to Be Double Crossed,” He Says, Hitting Party Pacts. By the Assoclated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., October 31.—Alfred E. Smith, Democratic candidate for President i 1928, charged tonight that New Deal leaders “deliberately re- tarded recovery in this country so they could put over a few of their * ‘crack-pot schemes.” He assailed President Roosevelt and other Democratic leaders for making , slliances with other parties such as - the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota, . the American Labor party in New York and the Progressive party in Wisconsin. . “SBomebody is going to be double- , crossed.” he shouted after citing these . and other instances of alliances. He . kept repeating it until it became a sort of refrain after each paragraph. Hits Communist Support. * “Why are the Communists support- ¢ ing Roosevelt?” he asked. “That they are there can be no doubt. Why? * Is it because he has a pleasing radio + voice or an enchanting smile of some % kind? Not at all. Why, they are a “ hard-headed, thoroughly business ¢ group. They are cold-blooded to the i last degree. “I will tell you why they ‘are sup- + porting him—because they are.entire- ly satisfled with his administration in that it gives promise by the united front of the farmer and the laborer as dictated from the comintern in Moscow to conquer America and coun- tries like America that have constitu- tional law by peaceful means rather than by bloodshed in the beginning.” He struck at Democratic leaders for placing Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and other labor leaders, described by him as “left wing So- cialists,” on the ticket as Democratic electors. Says Party Livery Stolen. ‘The New Deal, he asserted, “is a party that has stolen the livery of the Democratic party, and if allowed to exist for four more years there will be no such thing as a Demo- cratic party.” Smith spoke at Harmanus Bleeker Hall, where .every one of the 3,200 seats were occupied and all standing room filled. His speech was the fifth and last of a series against the New Deal. As in his other speeches, he urged the election of Gov. Alfred M. Landon, Republican candidate for President, to “make the American form of Govern- ment safe.” “We have a conscience and a free will,” he declared, “and if we take that conscience and free will into the polling place next Tuesday, there is 7 nothing you can do if you love'| America except change from the present administration to Gov. Landon of Kansas.” It was after a reference to Hillman that the former New York Governor shouted for the first time that “some- body is going to be double-crossed.” “Who is it going to be?” he asked, - “The Democrats or the Socialists? You can't please them both because their political creeds are just as far apart as the two poles. Somebody is going to be double-crossed.” ‘While talking about the withdrawal of the Democratic candidates for United States Senator and Governor in Minnesota in favor of the Farmer- Labor candidates, Smith mentioned a statement made by his 1928 running mate, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, that Smith was “walking in a ceme- tery.” “If I am in a cemetery,” the one- time Democratic standard bearer as- serted, “that cemetery is up in Minne- sota. I can hear the doleful sound of the bell as each funeral carriage passes behind the remains of the Democratic party in that State.” He said he had received numerous letters from Democrats asking him how they could “bring themselves around to vote the Republican ticket” and stated he had told them to “look into their conscience.” . Smith was introduced by Mrs. Mal- colm S. Davis, chairman of the Albany County unit of the Independent coali= tion of American Women, which spon- sored the meeting. He was cheered as he took his place before the micro- phone and started his speech. Thanks Audience for Applause. He began by thanking the audience for the reception it gave him and said he was deeply touched by the sing- ing of “Auld Lang Syne.” He said he was moved by speaking in Albany where he helped make “history in the Democratic party.” Declaring that “it may ve all right for the governorship” for the New Deal to support the Farmer-Labor party in Minnesota, Smith said, “Don'’t let an outright Communist get into the United States Senate with Democratic votes.” Frequently with quip and anecdote he brought gales of laughter and loud applause from his audience. “I was elected to office in the State of New York more times than any other living man and I never was on any ticket but the Democratic ticket,” he shouted. Says Poor Loaded With Debt. Saying that people told him Presi- dent Roosevelt was “good to the poor,” Smith declared: “If there is anything that gets me excited inside it is for anybody to exploit the poor.” - “What have they got at the end of three and a half years? A glowing lot of promises and the heaviest debt that was ever laid upon the books of the American people in time of peace or even in time of war, and who is going to pay it? The poor.” “The President,” he continued, “was down in my old neighborhood Tuesday afternoon of this week, down where there are a lot of tenement houses, dilapidated, mean tenement houses. I started the movement in the capital over there to get rid of them. I put the law on the statute books in this State, and was responsible for all that has been done in the housing line, and I'speak of it with an inti- mate and personal knowledge of the subject. And here is what he said: “‘We have not yet begun adequately to spend money in order to help the families in the overcrowded sections of our cities to live as American citi- eens have a right to live. You and I will not be content until city, State Join cause the colonists “wanted to get away from a king.” L) Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star Nov. 1, 1836. PART ONE. Main News Section. POLITICAL. Roosevelt given ovation in final major address. Page A-1 Landon pledges “full recovery”, in St. Louis address. Page A-1 Election day rain predicted by Weather Bureau. Page A-1 Smith fires final broadside at New Deal. Page A-2 Knox concludes tour, says is won. Labor leaders waging last-minute cam- paign for Roosevelt. 'Page A-20 Roosevelt margin in Maryland esti- mated at 130,000, Page A-16 FOREIGN. Madrid death toll 189 in air bomb- ings. Page A-1 King reported host to Mrs. Simpson again. Page A-2 NATIONAL. Secretary Perkins reports large em- Ployment gain for year. Page B-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY, Washington holds its largest Hal- loween parade. Page A-1 Federal share not half Federal costs here, says Donovan. Page A-1 Child frustration tests may offer key to education progress. Page A-2 One-cent per quart milk price boost effective today. Page A-2 E. C. Babcock faces driving-while- drunk charges. Page A-4 John M. Keith, prominent G-Man, resigns job. Page A-21 D. C. labor aids Rep. Sisson’s re-elec- tion campaign. Page B-1 Lusk to present definite tax-collecting improvements. Page B-1 4,000 D. C. children immunized against diphtheria. Page B-1 Ickes reported vigorously opposed to Gobel abattoir project. Page B-1 New record being set in District's absentee voting. Page B-1 SPORTS. Rice trims Colonials; Maryland bows to Florida. Page B-6 Wildcats upset Gophers; Army and Navy both beaten. Page B-§ Hoya subs crush Shenandoah; Gallau- det beats Wilson. Page B-8 Dartmouth overcomes game Yale team, by 11-7. Page B-7 Levi Yoder wins Kenwood golf cham- pionship. Page B-9 Bob Olin in good shape to battle Buck Everett. Page B-10 Roman Soldier wins Washington Han- dicap at Laurel. Page B-11 Cecil Travis rated permanent shorte stop of Nationals, Page B-8 MISCELLANY, Washington Wayside. Lost and found. Traffic convictions. Vital statistics. Obituary, Educational. City news in brief. Army orders. PART TWO. Editorial Section. Editorial articles. Page Editorials and comment. Page D-2 Political Round-Up. Pages D-3- Civic news. Women's clubs. Parent-teacher news. Cross-word puzzle. Military and veterans® news, Resorts, PagesD-7-8 Page D-10 RT THREE. iety Section. PagesE-1-11 Page E-9 Page E-10 Society news. Well-known folk. Barbara Bell pattern. PART FOUR. Feature Section. News features. John Clagett Proctor. Dick Mansfield. Radio programs. Amusements. Automobiles. Auto show puzzle, Children's. Highlights of history. Public Library. PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Retail sales advance. Page Brokers ponder election effects. D. C. clearings soar. Stocks irregular (table). Bond changes slight (table). Curb list mixed (table), Stamps. Page ‘Winning contract. Page Classified advertising. Pages G- BLASTS ON GREEK SHIP AT AMSTERDAM KILL 17 Bs the Assoclated Press. AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, October 31.—Three explosions ripped i3 QaQe 009 Q Page Y Page Page through the Greek steamer Petrarkis Nomikos as it lay at a dock here to- day, killing 17 persons and injur- ing 15. A majority of the victims were caught in the second and third blasts when they went to the rescue of those trapped in the first, All the explo- sions occurred in an ofl bunker after fire broke out there. ‘Thirty sailors and 20 workmen were busy aboard the ship and the on docks when the first blast rocked the vessel. Those ashore rushed aboard and were burned as blazing ofl spread from end to end of the Petrarkis Nomikos. Radio Mix-Up Cuts In Landon Speaker On Roosevelt’s Time BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 31.—An error in switching over a National Broadcasting Co. network at the conclusion of President Roose- velt's New York speech tonight THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1936—PART ONE. The Star’s Final Survey (Continued From First Page.) certaln.tfl into the final hours of the campaign than any other. From parts of the country reports have come to me that the issue is turning workers away from Roosevell. The Democrats have been working desperately to overcome it. The issue may have the crushing effect on Democratic hopes that the old Re- publican “full dinner pail” slogan had in the days of 1896. « Prob- ably no two national political campaigns in the last half century have held so many parallels as the cnmpalix; of McKinley against Bé{an 40 years ago and the campaign of Landon against Roose- velt. Particularly do the younger workers, both men and women, seem to resent the pay roll tax. Those who are nearing the age of retirement are much more inclined to go along with the social security law. Landon’s promise to revise the social security act so as to take the collection of funds for old-age pensions from a g&neafi tax, rather than from a direct tax on pay rolls, has been effective. The election is further complicated by the presence of the Lemke-O'Brien presidential ticket, backed by Father Coughlin and his Union for Social Justice. While not'a pro-Landon campaign, the campaign waged by Father Coughlin, the chief mouthpiece of the Union party, has been strongly anti-Roosevelt. It has been figured, and properly it appears, that the Lemke votes will come from citi- zens who might otherwise have supported Roosevelt. Lemke and Coughlin, it is said, have lost ground in recent weeks, and the Lemke vote may not be as lmPressive or effective as it was first believed. On the other hand, it is likely to have effect in Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ohio and Michigan, and in those States may be the controlling factor in the final result. Coughlin has injured his cause by the violence of his attacks upon President Roosevelt. His later diatribes have been against the wages paid W. P. A. labor, which he has described as “scab labor” because of the low pay. While silent on Landon support, Coughlin has declared for the G. O. P. candidate for Governor in New York. Dr. Townsend, head and forefront of the $200-a-month old-age nsion movement and the thousands of Townsend clubs scattered hroughout the country, also has declared himself against Roose- velt. He has gone f! er than Coughlin and has declared himself for the election of Landon over Roosevelt and has urged his fol- lowers to vote for the Republican candidate in all States in which Lemke is not on the ballot. That means in California, where the Townsend clubs number 1,000 and where the Townsend vote is estimated from 500,000 to 750,000. The Republicans have also the aid of anti-Roosevelt Demo- cratic organizations throughout the country, called in some in- stances Jeffersonian Democrats and in others Progressive Demo- crats. A bevy of former leaders of the Democratic party, among them Al Smith of New York, John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York, both former presidential nominees; former Gov. Ely of Massachusetts, former Senator “Jim” Reed of Missouri and Bain- bridge Colby, Secretary of State in the Wilson administration, have given strength and substance to these anti-New Deal Demo- cratic organizations. Strong Labor Organization Backs Roosevelt. On the other hand, President Roosevelt is backed by a strong organization of labor—the Non-Partisan Labor Committee—domi- nant figures in which are John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. In New York, this group has gone so far as to organize a political party of its own and has picked as its presidential electors the same electors as the Democratic party, so that this year its votes may be counted for Roosevelt. It is believed that this vote may cut strongly into the Socialist vote for Norman Thomas and turn many votes to the Democratic candidate. It has a candidate for Governor, which may mean less votes for Gov. Lehman, and thereby prove of some assistance to Bleakley, the Republican gubernatorial selec- tion. Roosevelt is backed, too, by a Nation-wide organization of Pro- gressives headed by La Follette of Wisconsin, Norris of Nebraska, La Guardia of New York and others. This group is urging all liberals in the country to get behind Roosevelt and defeat Landon, on the theory that a victory for Landon will mean a reversion to conservatism. In Wisconsin and in Minnesota the Progressive party and the Farmer-Labor party, respectively, have gone over, lock, stock and barrel, to Roosevelt, and their votes are counted upon to carry those States for the Democratic President. Charges that the New Dealers, headed by President Roosevelt, sold out the regular Democratic nominees for Senate and Governor in Minnesota for the sake of support from Farmer-Laborites have caused a burning resentment in that State which may have a flare- back. In Nebraska, the President turned his back on the regular Democratic nominee for the Senate and sponsored personally the re-election of Senator Norris. The Roosevelt forces have made this year a strong play for the Jewish vote, which is tremendous in New York and very strong in Illinois. They have in the field as candidates for Governors of Illinois and New York two Jews, Horner and Lehman. And this year the New Dealers are counting heavily upon the Negro vote, which may well hold the balance of power in a num- ber of large States in the North and the East and in one or two States of the Middle West. From Civil War days down to 1932, this Negro vote has been invariably strongly Republican. Some of it in New York turned to Al Smith in 1928, and more of it went to Roosevelt in 1932. 8till more of it was found voting Democratic in 1934. This year, with hundreds of thousands of Negroes on the relief lists, the Democrats are claiming they will have a huge percentage of the colored vote and certainly it seems likely they get a majority of these votes. In New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, In- 4 | diana and Ohio this colored vote may upset Republican predictions. Business and industry, as represented by the emgloyers, are in the Landon camp over the country., They have played a big part in the Republican drive on the pay roll tax issue. It is under- stood that the Republicans have circularized 42,000 manufacturers in all parts of the country—practically all the manufacturers—on this subject and that many of them have been supplied with data explaining to employes the tax which is to come out of their en- velopes beginning January 1 next. Democrats Charge Coercion in Pay Roll. In a feverish effort to stem this tide of anti-pay roll tax prop- aganda. the Democratic administration has threatened prosecu- tions on the theory that this amounts to coercion of employes’ votes. Democratic United States attorneys all over the country have been urged to take steps. The Republicans laugh at this, saying that they have merely been giving the employes informa- tion in October of what must happen to them in January and that they are within their rights to do so. The Republicans point out, on their side, that many charges of coercion of W. P. A. workers to vote the Democratic ticket have been made—and upheld by affidavits—but that the New Dealers have declined to permit any public investigation of such coercion. Never before has there been such a drive for bloc votes in a national election im this country. Never before has there been such an organized effort to bring labor, organized and unorganized, into line for a single political &any. Despite Republican claims that the vast farm population of the Middle West and the West has swung back to the G. O. P. there is reason to believe that thousands of farmers in Iowa, Kansas, Ne- braska, Illinois and other agricultural States are still sticking to Roosevelt, grateful for the Government checks they have received under the old A. A. A. and hopeful for those which have been promised under the new agricultural program of the Democratic administration. The huge Government spending program, which during the last three years has run into billions of dollars is proving both an aid and a liability to the New Deal ticket. Those who have bene- fited from this spending, including those of relief, on relief work and the farmers and the industrialists who have received big con- tracts for Government J)rojecu will many of them support Roose- velt. On the other hand, a huge number of voters who do not come within those categories, are fearful of the effect which this spend- ing program will have on the credit of the Nation and particularly are they fearful of heavy taxes which will be exacted of them to meet this spendix;g spree. As the campaign draws to a close, the Democratic leaders ex- ress the utmost confidence in the outcome. Big “Jim” Farley, the velt generalissimo, lays claims to the electoral votes of prac- tically all the States. His principal fears lie in New England, Kansas and Michigan. He will not for publication admit the possibility of the loss of any State. He is claiming Pennsylvania, which Hoover carried in 1932, and also Connecticut. Roosevelt, he says, will be elected by a larger electoral vote majority than he was four years ago. Despite the large claims made by the Democratic leaders, Pres- ident Roosevelt has spent weeks on the stump, mzhmf through the Middle West, the and the North, to an extent which has rarely been equaled by a President in office seeking re-election, He is in New York City tonight to make a final plea to the voters of his home State to stand by him and the New Deal. The crowds Roose- velt has drawn have been enormous, so large as to give Democratic leaders courage in a number of States in which they had prac- tically thrown up the sponge before his visit. If there had not been a measure of worry on the part of some of the New Dealers, it seems scarcely likely that the President would have been sub- Jected to such strenuous campaigning. - Hamilton Confident, Fears Only New York. John Hamilton, flery cam manager for Landon and chairman of the Republican National Committee, contradicts flatly these Democratic claims, He is confident that Landon will carry nearly all the Great Middle West. He is certain of Pennsyl- vania, of all New England. He goes b‘gyond the Mississippi River certain of South Dakota and yomln%ot Nebraska and ernelpdfwtod&yuu the Empire State 7 electoral votes. e epssentatige o0 Martin, G- ive “Joe” - Eastern Seaboatd, is- am supremely confident the East majority for Gov. Landon. The Landon vote . Massachusetts will give a Lan- and he will have-a substantial lead 2 B EEgEL g2 i ‘® of the Presidential Race were twice as large. Delaware will be safe and we will carry West Virginia by a good plurality. “In the last week there has been a strong tide rolling in favor of Gov. Landon, and as he has gained strength he has come to a ition where there is-a nfno,w chance for victory in Maryland. e Landon vote in Virgi North Carolina and Florida will be very large and we have reason to expect we can pick up at least one of the States. . “1 firmly believe Gov. Landon will be the next Presidenmt of the United States and will have more than 300 votes in the elec- toral coueae. This is a conservative estimate and not to be classi- fied with the ballyhoo statements which are quite common.” Polls and straw votes have been taken in all parts of .the country. One qf them, the largest by far'in point of numbers, is the Literary Digest poll, which gives the election to Landon. According to this poll, Landon will receive 370 electoral votes from 32 States and Roosevelt 161 electoral votes from 16 States. In the poll Landon received 54.43 per cent of the popular vote, and Rooseevlt 40.94 per cent of the total. The remainder, 4.63 per cent, goes mostly to Lemke. Nearly every one of the other polls gives the advantage to Roosevelt, some of them by large majorities. The fact that the Literary Digest poll has been correct so often in the past is great encouragement to the Republicans. The cor- rectness of all these straw votes will be finally told Tuesday when the poll of the entire Nation is taken. Pacific Coast States Regarded as Roosevelt’s, The Pacific Coast States have been regarded generally as in the bag for Roosevelt for weeks. Landon’s swift invasion of Cali- fornia two weeks ago, following Dr. Townsend’s announcement for the Republican candidate, has given the Republicans hope, even though the Democratic registration there is 600,000 greater than the Republican. . The longshoremen’s strike and the tie-up of shipping, which has come right on the eve of election, may shift some votes to the Republican column. In the congressional race the Republicans have already made a gain of two seats in Maine, in the September election, and have all three Representatives from that State. Other gains, according 1'.r) Republican sources, are expected in the Eastern States as fol- OWS : New Hampshire, 1; Massachusetts, 3; Rhode Island, 1; Con- necticut, 2; New York, 5; New Jersey, 2; Pennsylvania, 6; Maryland, 2; Virginia, 2, and Florida, 1; a total of 27. If the Republican sweep develops, they add 10 more to their expected gain in this part of the country. The Republicans expect to pick up from 50 to 75 House seats west of the Alleghanies. Even a gain of 100 seats by the Republicans would not give them control of the House, which is now overwhelmingly Demo- cratic. They hold now 102 House seats. A majority of the House is 218. They would have to pick up 116. Barring a landslide for Landon, this seems impossible. No matter what happens in the election, the Democrats will retain their control of the Senate. Today that body is composed of 69 Democrats, 23 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Laborites and 1 Pro- gressive. Only 30 Senate seats are at stake in the election, and 12 of them are in the solid Democratic South, and three are in border States which appear to be Democratic. Maine has already re- elected Senator White, a Republican. Eleven of those left are held by Republicans. If the Republicans add five Senate seats they will have a total of 28, and the Democrats with still 64. The best chances for Republican gains lie, it seems, in Massa- chusetts, where Henry Cabot Lodge is expected to defeat Gov. James M. Curley; in Minnesota, where Representative Christianson, Re- publican, is facing Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite; in New Mexico, M. A. Otero, jr., Repubilcan, and in South Dakota, where Senator Bulow is having a hard fight with Chandler Gourney, Republican. The Republicans may lose a Senate seat in Delaware. Hastings, the incumbent, is suffering from a division in Republican ranks in the State. An independent Republican is in the race. It is that division which is likely to give the State to Roosevelt, for the I. Dolphus Short reaction has placed a set of presidential electors in | the field, too. ; The Democrats are hopeful of defeating Senator L. J. Dickin- | son of Iowa, Republican. ov. Clyde Herring, Democrat and Dick- | inson’s opponent, claims victory. Two Senate races that have drawn Nation-wide attention are those of Senator Borah versus Gov. Ben Ross in Idaho and Senator George W. Norris, who is running as an independent against Robert G. Simmons, Republican, and Terry Carpenter, Democrat, in Ne- braska. Borah is regarded as a sure winner, by probably 25,000 to 30,000. Norris has a real fight on his hands and the Republicans are hoping to defeat him and elect Simmons. Norris is supporting Roosevelt. Borah, while making Republican speeches, has at- tended to his own knitting and taken no part in the presidential election. favor of the District would be $723,897, but such a figure would be tremen- dously outweighed by the findings in the succeeding 10 years. Such a cal- culation would show that the costs ¥» the District for the services and other benefits to the United States exceeded the total of the Federal payments during those years by some $35,000,- 000. The greatest extra costs were found among the school, police, welfare, fire and highway divisions of the mu- nicipal government. MECHANIC BADLY BURNED Explosion Sets Fire to Auto and Man's Clothing. Fiscal (Continued From First Page.) erties of religious, welfare and char- itable organizations was computed at | $99,415,545, and the amount of ex- empt District government property at $60,796,809. This brought the to- tal exempt property valuations to $809,940,512, whereas the total for the properties which are taxed was placed at $1,144.457,153. Hazen frequently has pointed to the extraordinary amount of Federal property here as strong justification for a boost in the Federal payment, which, for the present fiscal year, was cut to the low mark of $5,000,000. where Senator Chavez is meeting stiff opposition at the hands of | The chart which Maj. Donovan made public without comment shows that during the 12-year period in- cluded in the financial survey. the costs of services and benefits to the United States increased from $3475,- 066 to $12,152,505. During the same period the size of the Federal poy- ment to the District was cut from $9,000,000 to $5,700,000. Payment Twice Exceeded Costs. In but two of the 12 years did the size of the Federal payment exceed the findings of Maj. Donovan as to the costs of the benefits provided for the Federal Government. The first was the fiscal year 1925, when the Federal payment was the lump sum of $9,000,000 and the estimate of the extra District burden $8,475,066. The second was the fiscal year 1926, when the Federal payment again was $9,000,000 and the extra costs placed on the District were calculated at Alton C. Posey, 25, a mechanic of 813 A street northeast, was seriously burned early today while working on his automobile in a garage at 2009 Eighth street. An unexplained explosion set fire to the car and Fosey's clothing. Posey was taken to Emergency Hos- pital with burns on his chest. arms and hands. His condition was termed critical. DENIES WHEELER IS ILL BOZEMAN, Mont., October 31 (/).— Dr. R. E. Seitz said today Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Mon- tana, reported by State Democratic headquarters in Helena to be ill in a hospital here, was “very tired” but not ill. The doctor said the Senator had been confined to his hotel room here $8,801,037. The difference there in ' by a minor intestinal disorder. Federal Expenses Paid by District Costs placed on the District by reason of the special services and benefits provided by the city to the United States for the fiscal years 1925, 1930 and 1936, as calculated by department heads of the municipal government and Auditor Danlel J. Donovan, are shown in the table below: Piscal Year Fiscal Year Fiscal Year 1925. 1930. 1936. --$3614,723 $4,824911 $4,225654 823,489 820,847 1,122,112 641,182 586,382 761,007 906,314 1,618,949 2,864,567 285,302 312,031 170,174 392,225 399,863 653,379 44,040 170,000 315,679 65,958 79,224 76,320 203,612 215,953 195,534 162,137 2,498 3,536 57,048 114,362 25,000 21,922 15,120 75,235 35,699 73,307 210,967 398,524 225 Name of Service. Public. Schools .. 210,974 71,128 1,925 4,002 29,160 1,364 16.000 17,272 15,120 54,005 43,863 361,508 147,647 295,684 137,515 28,000 21,603 15,120 111,617 14,792 76,482 214.402 323,280 225 City Refuse Division - Public Utilities Commission. 18,000 8 1,779,821 11,223 42 42,000 Support of Convicts .. 111,840 United States District Court for District of 103,378 eeemeeoceeeeaeeeen-2-$8,475,066 $12,672,214 $13,163,505 PAYIADE -oonoeoieooa 9000000 5,000,000 5,700,000 ' 139,114 139,784 ‘Total United States ¥ ) | [ Washington | Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. DES FAUSSES DENTS. WASHINGTON woman is just back from France with a story of the limitations of dictionary French which sort of makes your breath hiss through your teeth. On her way from Paris to Nice, she stopped overnight at a pension where English she was not spoke. The wom- an, with a bookful of French at her fingertips, was entirely undisturbed, however. But she was disturbed the next day in Nice when she discovered she had left behind an adjustable bridge, the kind full of spare teeth. To write for the teeth was the thing to do, of course, but the dictionary let her down terribly. So far as she could find, there is no French equivalent for “adjustable bridge.” Finally, at wits’ end, she piled up 2 bunch of French words which she | hoped would convey the right idea to the pension proprietor. After a long delay—tactfully as- cribed to a feast day by the pension man—the teeth found their way into the owner's bands, or—, * x % % AND HOW— Now, one story leading to an- other, as stories have @ way of | doing, it might be interesting to add that the French word for false teeth is harder to find than you | might think. With the idea that it would make a good head for the story above, a search for the word, or word combination, was begun. The request for it floored several mearby linguists, who appeared to consider false teeth a peculiarly American institution. Mrs. Mary Locke, providentially arriving by telephone after 11 years in Paris, brought us the wisdom that it was “des fausses dents.” It sounded so simple. * x % x THE END. And then we showed both of these | | stories above to the chap in the next | office. He read, shrugged and said: | “Hah. What did you think it would ' be? That just means ‘false teeth.'™ | P. 8—He couldnt help, though, | lwmn it came to translating English | to French. RED. F THE Communist party does not | run up a sufficient vote next Tues- | day to give it much encouragement, it | will still have the consolation of hav- ing seemed for just a moment to| have profoundly influenced the Nn-j | tional Broadcasting Co. Z00FOOTSORE MEN TRAMPTO LONDON Jobless, They March 260 Milgs to Tell Commons of Town’s Plight. B the Associated Press. LONDON, Octover 31.—With their mouth-organ band playing “It's & Long, Long Trail,” 200 footsore men from Jarrow-on-Tyne tramped through the streets of London today at the end of a 260-mile march from the north in search of work. Although the cabinet had issued a statement refusing to recsive them, two men at the head of the long col- umn carried an oak casket containing a petition to the House of Commons. It set out the plight of their Tyneside town, saying the shipbuilding yards and steel shops are closed and 50 per cent of the population is out of work. The marchers left their homes near- ly a month ago and each night held meetings in the market squares of towns along the road. Curious Throngs Look On. Curious but sympathetic crowds | watched their progress through the London streets. The marchers car- | ried waterproof capes slung around their bodies like bandoliers; their clothes were thin and travel-stained; most wore cloth caps or battered fedora hats. At the head walked Councillor David Riley, chairman of six commit- tees on Jarrow'’s Town Council, in ad- dition to being a local magistrate and head of a big electrical business. He had tramped every foot of the | way with the men, mending his own | boots at the roadside, sleeping on floors | gr benches without mattresses or bed- ing. “We have been called the forsaken men,” said one of the marchers with a wan smile, “but now we are giving peo- ple something to remember us by.” To Visit Commons. ‘The marchers intend to visit the House of Commons November 4 when Ellen Wilkinson, Jarrow’s woman M. P., will present their petition at the bar of the House. Miss Wilkinson her- self walked much of the way in their ranks. After their petition has been pre- sented, the marchers are to return to Jarrow by train. They will be cared for at local labor clubs while in Lon- | don. IRAQ'S PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED BY KING Move Preliminary to Election Fol- lows Exile of Deposed Cabi- net Members. BY the Assoclated Press. BAGDAD. October 31 —Preliminary to a general election, King Ghazi dis- solved the Iraq parliament today shortly after the new government of Hikmat Sulaiman had exiled three members of the deposed cabinet of — | It was at the conclusion of Candi- | | date Browder’s talk the other night that the announcer signed-‘off with: | “This program was sponsored by the | Communist party of America. This is | the red network of the National Broadcasting Co.” | He got just enough emphasis on the | “red” to make it sound satisfactorily | heretical to a local listener with a | sense of humor. * % ¥ X REQUEST. ATURALLY Miss Revis gets many | queer queries from the several thousand students of George Washing- ton Uaiversity whom she supervises in | the reading room of the library. One of the strangest reached her desk from | a coed who had been reprimanded often for disregarding the -silence | please” notice. | “Would you mind putting that mag- | azine displayed so prominently into a | more secluded spot? It gives me the unhappiest feeling every time I enter the library,” requested the coed. | The name of the magazine was “Our | Dumb Animals.” It was moved. » ok ¥ X QUICK CHANGES. ARRASSED officials examining applications for Federal jobs at the Civil Service Commission some- times get unexpected and amusing explanations of application errors. One applicant claimed New Mexico as her birthplace but the Civil Serv- | ice Commission established that she had actually been born in Italy. f wmMm/ “Oh yes,” the woman said when questioned. “I guess maybe that’s so, but I was so young when I was brought to this country I thought I was born here.” MEMORIES. Ripening pumpkins and Hal- loween witches riding their brooms led an operative to pause before a novelty shop on D street to look at bright-colored masks and favors. The assortment was piled high on a stand set out on the sidewalk. The articles offered for sale were distinctly ‘of Halloween motif—all except one. That one gave the op- erative quite a start. It was a sizable tin cowbell. On one side it bore a faintly etched portrait of President Woodrow Wilson, on the other a picture of Gen. John Pershing, and under each was printed boldly, “Victory Day, No- vember 11, 1918.” Thoughtfully, our man went his way. FRENCH RIOT INJURES 40 Communists Mass in Counter- Demonstration at Nice. NICE, France, October 31 (A).— Forty persons were wounded, two of them gravely, in rioting when Com- munists massed in & counter-demon= stration against a meeting of 6,000 of Jacques Doriot, an ex-Communist spellbinder, who is the head of the Prench People’s party. Doriot, 37-year-old mechanic, has given out little in his announcements %pouq. mainly contenting himself advocating the system of “strictly L3 former Premier Yassin Pasha El Hashimi. The expelled ministers were Yassin Pasha himself, Nuri Al Said and Rashid Ali Al Gailani. Nuri was formerly foreign minister and Rashid minister of the interior. “The government desires the public interest to be the chief concern of all and to achieve this aim, all personal interests must be eliminated,” an ofe ficial communique said. “Lawrence” Aide Dies. CAIRO, Egypt, October 31 (#)—The death of Ja' Far Pasha, former com- panion of British Corpl. T. E. Shaw, “Lawrence of Arabia,” during the Iraq military coup was reported here today. (Jerusalem advices confirmed the Cairo report.) Ja' Far was twice Iraq minister to London and fought on both sides in the World War, first assisting Ger- many and Turkey. He landed from a German submarine on the North Libyan Coast and led tribesmen against the allied troops in two suc- cessful battles. FOUR DIE, 3 HURT IN DANVILLE CRASH Couple, Child and Nephew Killed in Auto-Truck Col- lision. BY the Associated Press. DANVILLE, Va., October 31.—Four persons were killed and three severe- ly injured near here today when an automobile collided with a heavy truck and plunged over a 20-foot embanke ment. Three of the dead were mem- bers of Charles Hudson's family and the fourth his nephew. His three daughters were injured. When wrecking crews and ambu- lance attendants, hastily summoned, succeeded in drawing the sedan to the top of the fill, Hudson, his wife and his brother’s child were found crushed to death in the wreckage. The truck, thrown to the edge of the embankment by the impact, was perched so precariously that rescuers feared to descend the bank lest the heavy truck roll down upon them. Members of a wrecking crew looped a wire cable over the edge of the truck and meade it secure so that the work of rescue could go forward. Nannie Hudson, 14, Edna, 13, and Mrs. Ola McKinney, all daughters of Hudson, were rushed to the hospital in serious condition. Hudson's 3- year-old child died en route. The truck, heavily loaded, was driven by Thomas Jones of Leaksville, N. C., and also carried George John« son of Leaksville as relief driver, Houdini’s Spirit Fails to Appear At Public Seance BY the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 31.— Although it was paged over a thune derous public address system, the spirit of Harry Houdini failed to appear at & public seance tonight, on the tenth anniversary of his death. “He has not come,” sobbed his widow, the silver-haired little Beatrice Houdini. “I turn out the light.” She touched the switch on a little electric light which she said has been burning steadily over the picture of the great magician ever since his death, The seance, held on the roof of a Hollywood hotel, was attended by more than 200 persons, including newspaper men, newsreel crews and the attend- ants of a temporary radio station. L 3