New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1928, Page 16

S R o TR R ; orn regional : Senator Walsh of Montana. LA FOLLETTE PARTY 15 BIG QUESTION Democrats and Republicans Both Debate Yote Tura Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 27 ® —An interesting mathematical theory lies behind the democratic bid for western electoral votes in 1928. It is that Governor Smith, once his views have ben presented tully to the western electorate, “ill | win the bulk of the support that went to Senator La Follette in the hree-cornered campaign of 1924. Adding this to the vote given John W. Davis, the dopesters arrive at a Smith victory in a number of states which Coolidge carried without hav- ing a clear mmjority over the com- bintd vote of his opponents. Purely Democratic Thesis This, it should be understood, is purely a democratic thesis, to which | the Hoover managers do not sub- scribe. The republicans deny that| the La Follette vote, or even the western “progressive” vote, can be treated mathematically as a uuit, capable of transfer en masse from one allegiance to another. Republi- | can dopesters say, furthermore, ‘“at | most of those who voted for La Follette were republicans and that they naturally will return to the paternal hearthstone now that the La Follette party is no more. The hopes of the democrats in this matter have their beginning in | the well established western urge to- | ward “progressive policies,"—a term often wped but variously defined, Roogevelt, always a western dol, | sslgcted the mame “progressive” for hix third perty in: 1913, twelve years before the same label was chosen for the third party venture of La Follette, The independent bloc of | westerners who have been operating in the senate at Washington go by | the name of ‘progressive,” it is the belief of the democratic managers that before the campaign is over, | Governor 8mith will have given| convincipg proof of his devotion to “progressive” principles, even though he does not agree with all| of the opinions of other ‘‘progres | sive” leaders. | Chairman Raskob . has told his subordinates in the democration na- tional organization that he expects | Smith to recelve the support of 80 | per cent or the ‘“progressive” vote, | as represented by the La Follette | four years ago. The west- headquarters of the | democrats here in Salt Lake City, after & canvas of La Follette's 1924 leaders in Idaho, declares that in that state Bmith is assured of 75 per | cent of the La Follette following. In | | Idaho La Follette ran second in the | 1924 election, the vote standing: Coolidge €9,000, La Tollette 54,000, Davis 24,000, Democratic Reasoning For whatever it may be worth, is the way the democrats apply «ir reasoning to the Rocky Moun- 7zroup of states as a whole: | . group includes eight states, all | ordinarily as republican | s and all claimed today by the licans—Montana, Idaho, Wy- -, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Ari- . and New Mexico. In six of o states, the republicans have n in the minority in three ont of the last four presidential elections. The one republican sweep was the Harding landslide of 1920. All eight wers carried by Wilson in 1816, Coolidge carried them all in 1924, but only in Wyoming and Colorado did his vote exceed the combined | “anti-republican” vote cast for Davis and La Follette. These eight states together have but 30 electoral votes, just two thirds accorded New York state ajone. When Governor 8mith was nominated at Houston, many poli- ticlans belleved he would stake everything on a combination of east and south, and would leave this| western corridor to take care of it- | self. Instead, the democratic nom- inee already has delivered two cam- Paign speeches in this section, and the democratic orgmnization is dis- puting all states with considerable vigor. At Denver he spoke on water| power and at Helena on Tespotf Dome. Water power has been pro- nounced an outstanding issue by va- rious leaders of the “progressive” | group including Senator Norris of Nebraska, who has made many sen- ate speeches aftacki- z the “power trust.” The senate resolution for investigation of public utilities l‘u( introduced by another westerner,| It was the elder La Follette who proposed | the Teapot Dome investigation, and | Benator Walsh who prosecuted fit. It was Benator Wheeler of Montana. La Follette’s running mate in 1924, who prosecuted the Daugherty in- vestigation. Hope To Get Vote Censidering all of these things, the regional managers of the demo- | cratic western campaign at head- quarters here expect these two ad- dresses to greatly aid in swinging | the La Follette vote into the Smith column in November. To which the republicans reply | that the whole theory that the la Follette vote in the west can be captured by a sachem of Tammany hall is a rank fall Tor instance, M Bryant B. Bronks, republican committeewom- i for Wyoming. says: “My idea is, western vestern people; why York?® Hortford Times Lawsuit Is Reopened by Plaintiff | Washington, Sept. 27 (R —Thomas D. Taylor. whose confract with the Hartford, Conn., Times covering a| plan for securing classified advertis- | ing was cancelled by the lower fed- | eral court when he sued the Burr Printing company for an account- ing. has asked the supreme court to review the controversy. serting | that the contract was made in October, 1920 and called for ment to him of a percentage of 1he increase in revenues received by the Times from the use of the plan, Tay- lor would have met aside the find- ings of the lower court that he ch- tained the contract through misren- resentation which rendered it in- valid and unenforecahle. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS men for vote for New | pression | Mr. Hoover | tration period,” Mr. Moses said. “Al- |Rotarians Hear Talk [ | Falls, Mass., governor of the 30th or | by Kolodney Brothers against David REPUBLIGAN PARTY ALWAYS HAS BEEN ONE FOR PROGRESS (Continued from First Page) applauded the nominee as he took his place on the dais at one end to make his brief talk. After the ex- change between Proctor and the nominee there was another round of applause and then the crowd be- gan to break up. Shakes Hauds ] would like to shake hands with you all,” Mr. Hoover said. as his visitors began to move slowly to- ward the stairway. They came for- ward eagerly. The nominee noted several gray hcads among the younger ones. “l guess you are not a first timer,” he said with a smile as he greeted Stanley F. Ford of Rich- | mond. “No, sir, but I've brought along a couple of sons who are” Ford replied, introducing the two boys. “He made a mighty favorable im- on all of us.” Yord said later, “He's gentler than 1 expected. The women who came with us were | | especially impressed.” Political Conference Before greeting the first voters, conferred individually with a number of party leaders, in- cluding Chairman Work and Repre- sentative Franklin D. Fort, af New Jersey, of the National committee; Senator George H. Moses, of New | | Hampshire, vice chairman of the | eastern advisory committee, and Horace A. Mann, director of the southern division campaign. Senater Moses said he had dis- cussed¥ “several matters with the candidate; received from him some words of wisdom and am now on my way. Asked about the situation in the | east generally the senator said ft | | had improved but he described that | in Massachusetts as extremely diffi- | | cult to analyze. | “No accurate analysis of the regis- | tration there can be made until after | |the end of the supplemental regis- | | | | | | ready 115,000 new names have been put on the list in the state and while some republican wards in the city | of Boston have shown a larger in- crease than democratic wards in that city, this is not a fair basis of com- parison because of the overwhelm- ing democratic vote in Boston, Mass. Is Difficult “The {ssues? Well, you must un- | derstand that 53 per cent of the | population in Massachusetts is [ Catholic. It is difficult to determine | to what extent the state will be in- | Auenced by the wet issue. They are | having a poll in the state on the | prohibition question and I am hop- | ing that the republicans will stand by thelr party in the national elec- tion and express their prohibition preferences in the state poll.” Mr. Fort sald he rcgarded the Massachu- setts situation as much more favor- able than it was a month ago. An analysis of increased registration in Boston, he said, had shown that a larger increase had taken place in republican wards than in democratic | wards. The situation in New Hampshire | was a particular subject of discus- | sion between Mr. Hoover and Mr. Fort. “We have just finished a hard ' primary fight there,” Mr, Fort said, “but the good sportsmanship of the defeated candidate for governor has gone far toward bringing the party back together for the campaign ahead.” Chairman Work declined to go into details about his conference other than to say it was about con- ditions generally. Mr. Mann saw Hoover about the candidate’s forth coming trip to Elizabethton, Tenn. | By District Governor Members of the New Britamn | Rotary club today listened to an ad- dress by James Gunn of Turners New England district. | talk was of interest only to Re- tarians. He told them of the work Mr. Gunn’'s I his daily |sist in the gigantic task of giving |sons, Eric H. Sandstrom, being done by the 138,000 Rotarians | in the 40 countrics throughout the | world where Rofary exists. | A drawing was exhibited of the | fireplace the Rotary club will pre- sent to the Boy Scouts at their camp site near Willimantic. Several solos were given by Maurice Wallen, a member of the Colonial male quartet of Hartford. CIVIL Suit ITS RECORDED | for $350 was brought today Elia through Attorney Monroe . | Gordon. Deputy Sherifft Martin | Horwitz served the papers. A $400 suit was brought by Hiuseppe Gerare against Lucy Bosco and others through the law firm of Casale & Casale. Deputy Sheriff Martin Horwitz served the papers. | Al Jolsor’s Bride | |= ———— Ethel Ruby Seeler, 19 3000 -o1d dancer, and Al Jolson. singer of Cmamy® sonze are on their pean honeynior ¥ mar- ned at Port Chester, N. Y | were | more by Scere | sufficient MARY B. HAYDEN The Herald, impartial orfes reflect the political Haupert, Oliver and Miss Dalrymple assigned to Herbert Hoover. Washington, D. (. Sept. 21 (@ | Recognizing the tremendous inter- est in this year's political campaign, The Associated Press, New Britain Herald and its other member news- | papers throughout the country are | carying out an extensive program of news dissemination to keep the pub lic fully acquainted with the can- didates, issues and all developments | of the race. A special corps of ten men, and | women, experts in their work, has been placed in the field by The Associated Press to write solely of political developments, In addition to these reporters, it has its regular news organization, consisting of the members papers and a network of burcaus stretching over the, whole of the United Statcs, to as- | complete, accurate and coverage on the campaign. While more than doubling the | number of writers assigned exclu- sively to political ncws gathering, The Associated Press has recognized the place of women reporters in such campaigns. In both the Smith | and Hoover camps a woman has been stationed to write news espe- clally as its intercsts the millions of women voters Moreover, this great news organ- ization has decided that readers of its member papers should have, be- sides the daily report of the activi- | impartial cport of the National campaign a D.F. BRITTLE through the Associated Press membership, is giving its readers the most complete and Byron Price is traveling throughont the country and sits. ilable. develoy its in eac are with Alfred E state he Smith, w ties of the candidates, an accu survey of activities in every state. This survey is under the personal | supervision of Byron Price, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press, an astue political observer with long experience in the capital. Mr. Price has been a ‘Washington corespondent for fifteen years; has traveled with presidents and candidates for president, and was in charge of the staff at the national conventions which nomin- ated Hoover and Smith. Assisted by D. Ficld Brittle, his task wil be to visit and advise the general public of the issues upper- most in various sections; of the forces at work; of the part women are taking in the contest; the meth- od in which the issues are pre- sented, all with the idea of placing before the public a faithful account of a memorable political battle, The survey by Mr. Price and Mr. Brittle wil be written in a series of articles. There will be no departure from the | traditional policy of the Associated Press—fairness and nonpartisan- ship, In the Hoover campaign James L. West, chief of the senate staff, and lorg a student of political af- fairs, is writing about Mr. Hoover's life from day to day for The Her- ald. Dr. Harold Oliver, who has covered every important news run | in the capital, is doing a Iilo as- | signment on the contest being wag- |INVALID FOR FOUR YFARS IS FOUND DEAD IN HOME Frank W. 149 Arch| Street, Succumbs to Heart Sandstrom, Discase Attack. In the sudden death this morn- | ing of Frank W. Sandstrom, 54 years old, of 149 Arch strect, four years | of confinement to his home with iliness was brought to an end. He | was found dead in the bathroom by members of his family. | Mr. Sandstrom was born in Sweden, but made his home in this | city for the past 25 years. He was | a rule maker by trade and worked until his iliness forced his retire- ment. Dr. John Purney, deputy medical examiner, pronounced death as due to heart disease. Surviving him are his wife, four Thure W. Sandstrom, Sten W. Sandstrom and Harry W. Sandstrom: a brother, John Sandstrom of this city, and | five brothers in Sweden, and two | |sisters, also in Sweden. Funeral services will be held Sat- | urday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Er- | win chapel. Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahl- quist, pastor of the First Lutheran church, will officiate. Burial will be |in Fairview cemeter: % |Chamber of Commerce Forms Bowling League Invitations have been sent to seven | organizations and will be sent to one ary Ralph H. Beuson inviting the organizations to join the Chamber of Commerce bowling league now being forr The or- ganizations alrcudy included are the Chamber of Commeree, the Lions' club, the Kiwanis club the Rotary club, the Probus club, the Exchange club, The eighth club to be invited probably will be the New Britain Medical association, If ther are applications the lcague !llu) be extended to 10 teams. Younfr Re~ublicans Open | Drive Tomorrow Nizht A mecting of the Young Men's Republican club will be held tomor- | row night at § o'clock at headquar- ters on Main strect is meeting will mark the formal opening of the club’s drive in behalf of the Hoov. er-Curtis national ticket and the republican nominees for state office. It is expected that the club mem- hership will he greatly increased | during the campaign Forced Intd anl&fixptcy, Creditors Claim Fraud |speech tonight. (ticnal 10 HEAR “AL” BY RADIO | Men's Democratic Club of First Ward to Listen in On Smiil's Ad- dress At Card Party Tonight, The Men's Democratic club of -the first ward will hold its first meeting tonight at 8§ o'clock at the headquar- ters, 36 Rockwell avenue. Follow- ing the meeting there will be a card | party. The members of the club have installed a radio and those present will be given the opportu- nity of hearing Governor Smith's be served. to all men wishing to attend. NO I)I\'ll)l“ll PAID New York. Sept. 27 (#—The Na- Radiator ('urpnrn!lnm Johns- town, Pa., operating plants in New York. New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois, today omit(cd the quart- | erly dividend of $1.75 due on the preferred stock at this time, »|ed by Governor Bmith. Refreshments will | The meeting will be open | SPECIAL ASSCCIATED P'{ESS STAFF COVERING NATIONAL CAMPAIGN | §1,000 FOR RELIEF Brittle is accompanying Price. Ragrdale and Miss Hayden are Chamblin is with Joscph T, Robinson and Stephenson with Charles ('TW. In addi- |tion, each vice presidential candi- date is being accompanied by & man, Francis M. Stephenson,” a member of the senate estaft and former White House reporter, being with Senator Curtis, and Walter Cham- blin, Jr., in charge of the Associat- ed Press staff at the house of repre- sentatives, being with Senator Rob- inson. Both are experienced in the ways of politics. In addition, Mary Bainbridge Hayden is with Hoover, writing features and stories of interest to women. Martha Dalrymple is doing eimilar work with Governor Smith. Both are members of the Whshing- ton news staff and attended the political conventions. This enlarged staff has been told | to write interestingly and truthfully. | It went to work with an admonition from the general manager, Kent Coper, that the policy of strict im- partiality which has won the confi- dence of American newspapers read- ers must not be disregardetd in a single instance. Recently each staff member received from Mr. Cooper a notice on this subject: “Keep in mind the necessity that our report must be absolutely non- partisan, avoid predictions, specula- tion and editorial opinion. . . Dur- ing the cempaign, as at all other times, the Ac<sociated Press report must be fair, truthful and impar- tial.” City Itms A daughter was horn last night to “ir. and Mrs. L. E. Johngon of 25 cenwood sirect. St. Mary's Ladles' T. B. society | will hold an important mecting at Y. M. T. A. and B. hall tonight at 8 o'clock. A social will follow the mecting. A regular meeting. of Pride Circle, lady Foresters, will be held this cvening in Red Men's hall, 277 Main street, at §o'clock. Thomas L. Stanton is recovering |friom a serious operation ut New Britain General hospital. Thomas McKeough of 387 Main | street has 1eceived word of the death of his mother in Vermont. There will be a tenth anniversary | mass for John J. Moriarty at 8 | o'clock Friday morning at 8t. Peter's church, Hartford. The senior choir of 8t. Mary's church will hold a rehearsal tonight at 7:45 o'clock. A full attendance is requested. A Byrd Dog and His Master The ereditors of J. Bruzauskas of Church street and Mrs. A feika of 24 Austin streef, defendants in sundry suits for aleged intent to defrand their creditors, filed an in- voluntary prtition in hankruptey against the two i the [, 8 Distriet eonrt in New Haven, Afterney Teracl Nuir was appointed receiver in the matter. Os- Not upon airplanes alone will the Byrd Antarctic exnedition de- pend for motive power, | team of faithful ]m\l\u |dried fish, dfl"s to the Commander Byrd well knows that a can get a lot of mileage out of a few Here' s Byrd and his favorite dog, Chante, one of a [mk of carefully chosen and trained huskies. g : | They were wait- t Hampton Reads, Va., for the ship that is to carry the polar lands. RED IIIIIISS SENDS murnmmm A cheek for $1,00 from the New Britain chapter of the American Red Cross was sent today to nationa: headquarters in Washington as this city’s first payment on its quota of “Not less then $5,000." The New Britain quota has “been set at a minimum of $5,00¢ with the hope that mere can be realized. decretary italph H. Benson today received a telephone call from na- tiona! headquarters at Washington stating that the need fundsofr vrd stating that the need for funds was 80 urgent that ¢he receipts are not coming in rapidly enough to meet expenditures and- asking that New Britain's appeal be made as snappy as possible, ‘The directors of the local chapter will meet tomorrow afternoon to dis- cuss the need of a more urgent Ap- peal. Adjutant Carl Fredrickson of the Salvation Army, which erganization is working in cooperation with the Red Cross has a box of wearing.ap- parel fer women and chjldren ready and is asking for enoulh to fill an- cther box., Tho report of funds received to date is as follows: Total quota .. . Yesterday's total ”fl l‘ Received today 1 0 . $5,000.00 $1,140.5¢ Btill needed $3,859.16 POLICEMAN SAVEY MUCH ON LITTLE (Continued from First Page) late yesterday at & hearing at which Captain of Police Charles Cohen and 28 members of the police bureau ap- peared to answer charges of bribery and extortion, All had been sus- pended after their arrest on war- rant {ssued by request of District Attorney Monaghan and were held under bail for trial. Members of the grand jury re- cessed from thelr deliberations and attended the hearing in a body. They heard a confessed bootlegger, lorris Clearfield, testify that he had paid weekly - tribute to the accused cap- tain and his men and saw “The Little Black Book” in the form of Clearfield’s written record of what he identified as his weekly payroll tor pollca protection. Pail $300 Per Weck The payments averaged about $200 a week for approximately 10 weeks, Clearfield testified. During that time he turned out about 250 or 300 gallons of alcohol weekly without molestation from police. Subsequently he was closed up by federal agents. The police payroll introduced at the hearing was seized at the time of the federal raid and later turned over to the district attorney. The Weekly record of Nov. 16. 1927, after it had been identified by Clearfield, was rcad by Assisteant District Attorney Hermes, It show- cd a payment of $326.50 to various policemen in sums ranging from §$o to §76. H Foroed to P'ay Soon “How soon after you opened up were you forced to pay for ' police protection,” the pmncuwr asked Clearfield. “About the: third week.” “How did you arrange for pro- tection 2" “Through Albert Long, special de- tective,” “Was Charles Cohen the captain at that time?" “8o I understand.” “Where did you see Long?" “At 2530 Bouth Reese street.” “How much did yo\l pay for pro- tection?” “I paid $756 a week to the cap- tain.” % “Personally ?" “No, never personally. I put the $75 in an envelope marked ‘cap- tain® and took it to the Reese street address.” “What was the system of paiyng the other men?" “I met them on the street or left the meoney in envelopes at Reese street.” Detective Never Was Ratded ““Were you .ever rajded by the dis- trict attorney?" “No, not once.” . Harry Goldstein, a tailor, testified that he:lived at the Reese street ad- @ress and that his home, where Clearfleld rented a room, was used a8 the ““pay-off” office where the po- lice received plain white envelopes. He sald he or his wife handed the money out to police when they call- ed. District Attorney Menaghan sald today that the end-of the: investiga- tion was not in sight. Of the police arrested thus far, three are captains, 10 detectives, seven sergeants and 15 patrolmen. Police Inspector John - Stuckert was iIn the grand jury room for six hours .yesterday and after that body hai adjourned he was questioned in the prosecutor's effice until nearly midnight. He was the sole witness before the jury during the day, and probably wilj be recalled today, Mr. Monaghan said. Women's Ald Asked Speaking of his own campaign against lawlessness in Philadelphia. in conjunction with the grand jury investigation, Mayer Mackey has asked the aid of the women's com- mittee for law enforcement to break up the rum racket. He blamed “near-beer” parlors as ane source of subsequent - lliquor violations. He said the consumer did not like “near-beer” and that “near-beer” salesmen had to “shoot” his product with higher alcoholic content to at- tract the money of the citizen-law- breaker.” The mayor advocated an amend- ment to the Volstead nct making it unilawful to sell beverages with an alcoholic content.of any per cent whatever. ) Dr. Ernest A. Hauser (above) showing a nutl enlarged model of his “new conception of elastic matter.” is is & sprin e which he has stretched between his hands, with small balls representing the rubber icles which form the sprin in raw rubber, and which elongate when pulled. NEW BRITAIN DEMOCRATS AT 0UT OF TOWN RALLIES Hardware City Organhation Sends Speakers to Other Communities In State, Registrar Thomas J. 8mith, Coun- cilman Frank L. Conlon and Coun- cilman 8amuel Sablotsky were the speakers at a democratic rally in South Windsor last night. The local ofticials discussed the campaign is- sues before several hundred listen- ers. Alderman Frank Zapatka, Coun- cilman Lucian Macora and L. S8am- orajezyk and former School Com- mitteeman A. 8. Andrulewicz spoke 3 a gathering of democrats. Tonight,) George LeWitt, candidate for sec! tary of state on the democrat] ticket, will speak in Norwich, andj Fugene Faselle will be one of the] speakers at a Middletown rally. Six Weeks Highway Safety Campaign Is Authorized Boston, Scpt. 27 (M — Howard Coonley, chairman of the governor’ committee on street and highway safety, informed the members of the| committee at a conference at the| state house today that Governor Ful ler had authorized a six weeks' high. way safety campaign to start Octo-| ber 15, The campgign is for thef special purpose of attempting lower the high automobile acciden. rates of the months of October and in Wallingford last night, addressing | November in the last few years. —ETHEL — ASHION'S LATEST Har@une@ CY o NECKLINES GROILD "% ALIKE= Ler @ une§” N GOt AND e 'thu.u. -~ Qouors FROCK anp AUKE [ P F e aeckine. @ RUFFLED ~s WELL —— voulL SiQY 4AUE O WA 0IR w2 et wnv ] © 1000 ov axa swwvice. we. Apartment and Tenement Seekers Will Find Their Selection Tenement Greatly Simplified In the Wide Range of Price and Location Advertised In the Classified Section of the HERALD today. of a New Apartment or