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NEW BRITAIN HERAL NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1928 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES CAMPAIGN DRAWS - HODVER GETS BIG OVATION IN LOVISVILLE. WHERE HE UPHOLDS PRESENT POLICES Expresses Confidence in Republican Victory By Virtue of Popular Sat- isfaction With Pro- gress and Advance- ment of Prosperity. Points to Unparalleled Registration as Expres- sive of Earnestness With Which People Are Meeting Issues. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 2 UP—Her- bert Hoover pointed today to the unparalleled registration for mext Tuesday's election as “‘expressive of the seriousness of the issue and the earnestness and conviction with which our people are meeting them.” “This evidence of unprecedented interest in the future of the republic must be gratifying to every one who has its welfare at heart,” he said in the second address in his final cam- paign swnig which will take him to his California. home to vote. Has Important Siguificance “It means more than triumph of our party over another; it means more than victory of one individual as against another; it means in the end the triumph of that ever lasting principle of self-government upon which America has grown to the leadership of the world.” ‘The issues in this compaign “are moral as well as economic,” he ns- serted, adding that they affected every home and that the result of the election “will affect the direc- tion of our national thought and our national actions for many years to come." Has Confidence in G. O. P. Reiterating his confidence 1in re- publican victory, Hoaver declared he dld not belleve the American people would wish & change in thelr policles of government “in a time of such manifest evidence of progress, as- surance of peace, advancement of proaperity, advancement of education and moral forces." Hoover's speech was delivered in the Jefferson county armory before a cheering throng which packed the huge building to overflowing. A last minute change was necessary as rain interferred with the open air meeting that had been arranged in (Continued on Page 33) PREACHER ASSAILS - SHAW IN LETTER Scores Him for Lacking Rudiments of Common Courtesy Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 2 (P— George Bernard Shaw has stirred the Rev. H. 8. McLelland, president of the Literary soclety of Trinity church, to furious anger. It apears that the society asked the noted author to give them a lecture, and beneath his usual printed note an- nouncing that he does not open ex- hibitions, nor speak at public din- ners or similar functions, his secre- tary wrote:— “Mr. Shaw is inexorable, and he advises you to keep the 40 guineas you offer for some younger man who needs them.” This aroused the Rev. Mr. Mec- Lelland, and he promptly wrote to Mr. 8Shaw and mentioned well-known public men who had becn welcomed to the society’s platform, then he continued: “You have & perfect right to say that you have not time to come, though I find that statement hard to believe from a man who evidently finds plenty of time to bask for hours almost naked on a raft on a sunny beach of the Riviera, and can spend whole evenings with a famous Yan- kee pugilist who secks to worship at the Bhavian shrine.” “What you had no right to do was to accompany your refusal with a gratuitous and typically insolent plece of advice to our secretary that we should keep our guineas for other men who need them more.” After asserting that Mr. Shaw was offered nearly 50 guineas, the Rev. Mr. McLelland says: “It is quite evi- dent that you are not in need of guineas. What you are in need of is the grace of common courtesy.” He concludes by declaring that Arnold Bennett, Kipling, Galsworthy, lace and Wells were ked to address the soclety, and adds: “But the replies of these men, each of them of fnternational reputation, have shown me what your answer utterly failed to reveal—that it is possibie to be both a genius and a gentleman.” G. B. 8. sent the following mes- sage on a postcard today in reply: “Hoots, toots, mon, dinna tak of- fence whaur nane is meant, and gie yer siller til the young, a’ tel ‘t ye. “G. BERNARD SHAW. “P. S. T trust this is worthy of & devoted student of Burns and Wal- ter Bcott.” Non-Partisan Family Found in New Jersey Passaic, N, J., Nov. 3 (P— ‘There is at least one strictly non- partisan family in this municipal- ity, it appears. Triplets, all boys, were born to Mrs. R. R. Calvert at the Beth Israel hospital, Passaic, today. They were named Herbert Hoov- er Calvert, Alfred 8mith Calvert, and Norman Thomas Calvert. LINKS GOVERNOR AND WATHINS CASE T. F. McDonongh Refers to Re- cent Hartlord Stock Scandal AUDIENCE HECKLES W00D Republican Speaker Asked Whether Trumbull Should Have Given Away State Water Rights, Replies It “Looked Bad.” . ‘The first campaign mention of the connection between Governor John H. Trumbull and the Watkins stock expose came this noon when Attorney Thomas F. McDonough as- sured wgrkers at the Corbin Screw corporation gate that “Charles G. Morris, the democratic nominee, would never be found tangled up in & stock proposition as was his op- ponoent, your present governor, John H. Trumbull.” The candidate also reassured his listeners that Candidate Morrs would not consent to a gift of the state's water power resources to any corporation of which he was ‘s director. In the expressed opinion of Mr. McDonough, a republican vote on next Tuesday is a vote for corrup- tion in high effice at Washington, and for a continuance of the atate of affairs existing at the capitol In Hartford, whereas a democratic vote is a vote to return the govern- ment to the people. Mayor Paonessa spoke at length on tarift and on prohibition, calling on the crowd to answer whether it favors prohibition. When several men answered with an emphatic “No,” the rest of the crowd ap- plauded. The mayor argued it was unreasonable to think that Alfred E. 8mith, who has befriended labor as governor of New York, would support any legislation to injure la- bor as president of the United States. Ool. Wood Heckled “Do you think it was proper for the governor of Connecticut to give, not sell, water rights to the Con- necticut Light & Power Co., without money being paid in, at the time when he was a director of that com- pany?” Col. H. Russell Wood of Hartford was asked by John L. Sul- livan as the republican rally got un- der way at the Russell & Erwin Mfg. Co. gate this noon. In reply. Colonel Wood admitted that it “looked bad,” but said that no doubt the governor was “playing his own game,” and he pleaded for a with- holding of opinion on the matter un- til all the facts could be learned. Colonel Wood was subjected to frequent heckling and was forced to compete with cheers for *“Al S8mith,” but he smilingly disregarded thcse and told his listeners to cheer if they wanted but to go home and think over what he was telling them. “Most of those who are cheering can't vote, anyway,” he declared in an aside. “The difference between the two _parties is the form of government.” the speaker said. “In Connecticut we need a protective tariff, to keep our factories going and keep us in work. We are interested oniy in this, because it concerns ourselves. jand we in the east are not interested |in farm relief because we are not | agricultural.” Colonel Wood repeated figures he had quoted before to show that American workers recelved the greatest wage paid anywhere. “There (Continued on Page 10) STONE SMASHES WINDOW; CARRIES DEATH THREAT “You Will Die at 12 Tonight,” Mes- sage to Steve Sorokey, 63 Clinton Stroet. “Beware mister, you shall die at 12 tonight” was the message scrib- bled in pencil on a small piece of paper, at the top of which was a crudely drawn skull and crossbone design, found wrapped about a small stone and tied securely, in the home of Steve Borokey, 62 Clinton street last night. Two windows in the front of the house were smashed by stones, one of them carrying the threat. Officer Ernest P. Bloomquist re- celved the report of the incident from Sorokey, and later learned the names of several boys who are sus- pected of having broken the win- dows. They were throwing stones at a street light on Albany avenue and ran when the officer hove in sight. Borokey registered a degree of anger considerably stronger than that of fright. ISSUES IN DISARRAY Clagg Impuises, Party Turmoll, Relf- gtous Prejudices and Raclal Hatred Foros Political Questions Aside A, P. Declares By BYRON PRICE Associated Press Staff Writer., The presidential campaign is end- ing, as it began, with mighty cur- rents of emotion at war beneath the troubled surface. To many millions of American Tuesday's election has become vastly more than a choice of men and par- ties. Throughout the whole country new and surprising forces are on the march toward the ballot box. The stormy spirit of the times has found expression in a stirring of racial and religious groups, a confusion of class impulses, turmoil in party organiza- tions and a return of the old-time fervor of the political crusader. Issues Are Tossed on these swift-running currents, political issues are in strange disarray in these closing days of the campaign. Weeks of de- bate have produced no agreement as to the paramount considerations that arc to be resolved by the clear- ly, and each denies that existence of issucs thrust forward by the other, farm relief, prohibition and all of the others are jumbled together in a tangle of argument. One thing, however, is fully ap- parent, this has been a campaign of national self-examination. Not for many years have the parties gone to the country talking so little of foreign affairs and so much of home affairs. Introspection has turned the light of public discussion on such domestic questions as prohibition, agrjculture, immigration, water- r, and general business stabil- ity.” In a literal sense, it has been a time of national moul-searching awakening of class and group con- sciousness, the campaign may be characterized as the most sweeping national stock-taking since the United States became a really eos- mopolitan country. Still Undecided ‘What sort of a balance the veters ‘will strike out at Tuesday's election, and whether it will be in favor of Hoover or 8mith, still rests on the re- plies to a complicated set of ques- tions, which are the same questions the politiclans were asking them. selves when the campaign began. How great a defection will there be on the religious jssue? How will Smith's gains among re- (Continued on Page 10) BROTHERS IN SERVICE IN SAME ARMY UNIT Clarence and Herbert Smith in 13th Infantry at Camp Devens (Bpecial to the Herald) New York, Nov. 2—Doubly entitl- ed to be called “brothers in arms" are Corporal Clarence J. 8mith and Private Herbert A. Smith of 107 Lasalle 8t., New Britain, Conn., now serving as soldiers in the Thirteenth Infantry, U, 8. army, at Camp Dev- ens, Mass. Like 251 other sets of soldier- brothers, these sons of the same family are soldiering together in one organization in conformance with an established policy f the war department where brothers are assigned to the same unit whenever possible. This large number of brothers in the same regiments of the regular army became known today when the results of a personnel survey of the military establishment were made public at army headquarters here. That a still greater percentage of brothers is to be found among our doughboys is indicated by the offi- clal statement that soldiers with brothers in regiments other than the one they themselves were serving in were not included in the survey fig- ures, Not only pairs of brothers were noted by the army statisticlans. In ten cases out of the total 252 sets, three brothers were found in the same regiment. The Eighth U. 8. Infantry at Fort Sereven, Ga. has three such trios. With twenty sets of sons of the same family in its ranks, the 29th U. 8. Infantry, stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., led all other units of the army, the survey showed. Corporal Clarence Smith 1is a ‘World War veteran, while Private Herbert Smith is serving his third enlistment. Both have qualified as rifle experts. “I'd Get a Surveyor,” And Dawes Was Passed Chicago, Nov. 2.—(P—"How to Become a Lieutenant Colonel” was outlined to the Society of American Military Engineers in a speech by Vice President Charles G. Dawes last night. “When I was examined for my commission as lleutenant colonel in the engineering corps,” he sald, *“T knew nothing about engineering. “I was asked the question: ‘What would you do if you were ordered to survey a fleld? * ‘I'd send for a surveyor' was my reply. And I passed!” Victim of Fire -~ Copyright, 1928, NEA Service. - Transmitted by Telephoto Here is a new photograph of Miss Elfrieda Knaak, who died today from burns mysteriously received in a furnace in the base- ment of the Lake Bluff (Ill.) police station. She says she inflicted | the burns on herself, although police doubt her story., DENIED WAGE RAISE, TRIES TO END LIFE Despondent Factory Work- er Found in Gas Filled Room Anthony Roulllard, aged 32, of 39 Curtin street attempted to com-| mit sulcide at his home last night because of despondency resulting from the refussl of his request for an increase in pay at Landers, Frary & Clark's fagtory, where he has been employed for some time. He was found on a davenport at his home in a sick and weakened | condition, by James Parillo, a boarder, who returned about 10 o'clock. Gas was escaping from two Jets. Ofticer Danlel Cosgrove, who was called by Parillo, learned from Mrs. Roulllard that her husband, on reaching home earlier in the eve- ning, was so disagreeable that she and her four children left, hoping that his mood would change if he was alone for a while. He was dis- couraged, she sald, at his inability to obtain an increase in pay, but she had no suspicion of his intent to end his life. Dr. John J. Tokarczyk was called by the police and Mrs. Roulllard gave her husband an antidote of milk. Questioned by Officer Cos- grove, Roulllard said he was so de- spondent he could not resist an im- pulse to end his worries. He was not seriously affected due to the timely arrival ot Parillo, who is Mrs. Rouillard’s nephew. LONERGAN QUERIES SENATOR WALCOTT Wants Four Questions to Be Answered by Re- publican Nominee Hartford, Nov. 2 (A—Augustine Lonergan, democratic nominee for | United States senator, sald today he | was asking four questions of his re- publican opponent, Frederic C. Wal- | cott.. They are as follows: | Wil you please inform the voters | of Connecticut the day you became ! a voter in this state? | Are you still a director American Power and Light Com- pany? What connection, if any, has that company with the power trust? At the last session of the Connec- ticut general assembly. you were chairman of the senate finance com- mittee which reported favorable on senate bill number 570, which was | enacted into law as chapter 210 of the public acts of 1927, and which provided for deductions in the state tax on gross earnings from the sale or rental of appliances using water, gas or electricity, or from the sale of any water, gas or electricity to other public service corporations: will you state what prompted this amendment to the law and what companies are benefited by its pro- | visions? et MOVE AGAINST CONG. FENN An appeal to the voters of Con- necticut to defeat Congressman F. Hart Fenn next Tuesday and send his democratic opponent, Herman P. Koppleman to congress, has been sounded by “Labor.” the national publication of raliroad labor organ- izations. The periodical sets forth as its grievance that Fenn has voted against all labor and progressive legislation and has followed the dic- tates of John Q. Tilson and the re- publican machine. Mr. Kopple- mann’s record of labor legislation in the Connecticut general assembly is contrasted with that of the present CODETIANMAN. of the | {small spots STAMFORD SUSPECT IN MURDER GASE IS HELD Paul Lambert's Alibi Not Entirely Convincing, According to Police Stamford, Nov, 2 (—For a few minutes today, Paul G. Lambert, a suspect in the fatal assault on Olga Dayes, stenographer, of this city and Ansonia, was nearer his freedom than he has been st any time since Thursday when ;e was detained by the police. it w%u practically deetd- ed to releasc him after a chemist's report had shown that stains found on the door of Lambert's garage and on his car were made by some sort of grease and not by blood as had been suspected. Then two other witnesses came forward with information which again threw suspicion on the alum- inum ware salesman and Columbia graduate. The new witnesses are Mrs. Anna Polack and Miss Mary Tarent, em- ployes of the Davenport Coffee Shop where Lambert had often lunched. Both women told police today that on Thursday night, October 25, Lam- bert came in at about 8:15 o'clock, called for a cup of coffee, drank half of it, and hurried out without pay- ing. Both say that he appeared nervous. Their statements contra- dicted in part the story told by Lambert of his movements on the night on which the girl was attack- ed and thrown into a brook, and also tend to disprove the statements of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Lockwood and their danghter, Winifred, who say that Lambert was demonstrating aluminum ware at their home from late in the afternoon until after 10 o'clock. However, Lambert has told the police that he stopped in at the coffee shop on his way home from the Lockwood home and he claims that the two women are mistaken in their placing of the time. Lambert claims in his own defense that he was demonstrating his aluminum ware at the Lockwood home at West Shippan Point in the hour that Miss Bayes was struck with a rock and tossed into a brook by a man who had offered her a ride to the Stamford railroad station where a Smith demonstration was in progress. His story is substantiated by Lockwood, Mrs. Lockwood and their daughter. They deny ever having scen him before the appoint- ment for the demonstration was made on the previous afternoon. As the assault on Miss Bayes was made shortly after 8 o'clock and the Lock- woods are positive that Lambert was in their home at that hour, the cir- cumstances which connect him with the case have dwindled down to the on the garage door which he claimed were paints spots | until the new - witnesses appeared. lambert, an orphan since he was three years of age, was raised by two maiden aunts in Manchester. He graduated from high school in 1913 and later took a course in Journalism at Columbia University which he completed in 1919. While attending the New York school he met and marricd Miss Mary Wash- burn. After graduation he came to the Manchester Herald and later went to Lancaster, Penn., where he worked for a daily paper. Last year the Lamberts separated and Mrs. Lambert took their three children to New York while Lambert took his present position and also took a post | as caretaker of the Col. L. D. Van Aken place at Shippan. Funeral services for Miss Bayes were held from her home in Ansonja today. * THE WFATHER New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, probably rain tonight | and Saturda not much change in temperature. 4 tection from her burns had spread ‘SPIRIT-LOVE' GIRL Sell 1)\ MO O 'g\\\“.\‘ s 3 ey l\llm POLICE ARE STILL BAFFLED Dying Girl Contronted by Man She | Loved But Who Denied Loving | Her, But Passes Away Without | Revealing Real Story of Tragedy. Lake Bluff, Tll, Nov. 2.—(UP)— Miss Elfrieda Knaak died here early today of burns reccived in a furnace in the basement of the police sta- tion here early this week. | The death of the pretty 29-year- | old book agent left unsolved the mystery of her case. | Miss Knaak clung to her original story of “selftorture” to “purify her- self” and to satisfy a “spiritual love” which she said she held for the vil- lage's handsome night-policeman, | Charles W. Hitchcock. Throughout the three days and nights during which Elfrieda lay in Alice Home hospital she refused re- peatedly to change her story that she voluntarily placed hersel in the fur- nace, burning first her legs, then her arms, and finally her head. “I have told you all—you wouldn’t understand,” the dying girl moaned to her brothers and friends who sought to aid authorities investigat- ing the weird burning. Physicians last night reported Mss Knaak was sinking rapidly, that she would not live throughout the night. Her temperature had risen to 104, in.. A P through her body. A conference between State's At- torney A. V. Smith in charge of the Investigation, and physicians result- ed in the decision to canfront El- frieda with her “spiritual lover,” the “hitch” of her delirious mumblings. Greets Dying Girl Accordingly, night-policeman Hitchcock, former movie and vaude- | ville comedian, was brought to the | hospital. He hobbled into the little hospital room and greeted the dying girl. “Hello, Fritzie,” the policeman sald as he entered the room. “This is ‘Hitch'.” Miss Knaak opened her eyes, 100k- | ed him squarely in the face, then slowly turned her head away. ‘Aren’t you _gid to see me?” | Hitghenok asked. “Yes,"” Elfrieda mumbled faintly. The policeman then asked her several qeustiong—*“Why did you do | this? Who let you into the station? Why didn't you telephone me?” The young woman did not answer, hut as Hitchcock turned to leave the | the room, she mumbled “Good-bye.” Abandon Suicide Thcory The theory that Miss Knaak com- mitted suicide virtually has been | abandoned and once again the| theory that she was the victim of a (Continued on Page 29.) EGAN EXPLAINS LABOR | ACTIVITY FOR SMITH Tells of Federation’s Work | in Behalf of Governor’s | Candidacy Bridgeport, Nov. 2 (P—A state- ment covering the political activity lof the Connccticut federation of {labor in behalf of Gov. Alfred E. | Smith, was issued today by John J. | Egan, secretary of the federation and | chairman of the labor bureau of the organization. The object of the ex- ertions in behalf of Gov. Smith, it was explained by Secretary Egan |was “to present to members of the labor movement the accomplish- Iment of the labor movement under |the administration of Alfred E. Smith in New York and the obstacles we have met with nationally for the . past seven years under the present | administration.” Mr. Egan said that for the past tew years aproximately 60 per cent of the men in the labor movement have been republicans ‘“quite a handicap in the first place to over- come.” Mr. Egan appointed five sub- chairman and they, following in- structions, appointed lieutenants in | every community in which there | was a labbr organization. The re- | sult was 492 men working within | the ranks of the labor movement “driving home facts pertaining to | Alfred E. Smith.” Reports made, Mr. Egan said in | the statement, show that “We can depend upon between 90 to 91 per |cent of the labor vote in Connecti- jcut for Al Smith.” The number of organized workers in the state is placed at between 46.000 and 47,- 1000 and Mr. Egan added, “We have | conducted a clean campaign among them.” { tion of Judge Allyn L. Brown in su- ey B Oct. 27th ... 15,077, PRICE THREE CENTS THOUSANDS CHEER SMITH AS ESFROMPLZ'S' GOVERNOR GOES THROUEGH STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY But Two Vets Remain , From Mexican War 8an Angelo, Tev., Nov. 2 (P— Surviving veterans of the 1848 war with Mexico in the United States numbered two today fol- lowing the death of Albert How- ard, 97, at his home here yester- day. Howard served with an ai tillery unit in the siege before Vera Cruz. ‘War department records show the two remaining veterans are William Fitzhugh, 100, Paris, Mo, and Owen Thomas Edgar, 97, Washington. STRAND WINS SUIT OVER BOY'S DEATH {Jury Returns Verdict for De- fendant This Afternoon FATHER SUED FOR $10,000 Judge Brown Directs Jurors to Find For Defcnse, Counsel Claiming That John Bernardo Was Tres- passer On Theater Property. (8pectal to the Herald) Hartford, Nov. 2 — At the direc- perior court at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon the jury sitting in the suit of Amillo Bernardo to recover $10,- 000 for the death of his son, John, | who was killed when a section of ! metal from the penthouse on the roof of the Strand theater, struck him, returned a verdict for the de- fendant, the Hoffman theater ente; prises. The Jury on motion of Attorney-Joweph P. Berry, counsel for the defense, X who claimed that-the victim wi an aileyway on theater 1 when he was fatally hurt. Attorney Berry summed up all the evidence, stating that the victim never was invited to come in and make use of the passway where he met death and in doing 80, was & trespasser, and being such, it was no duty for the defendant, who knew nothing of any impending danger, to warn any trespasser. As to ascrid- ing negligence to the defendant, that cannot be done, as the owner knew nothing of the construction. Furthermore, Mr. Berry stated, there was no evidence shown that | the passway was ever used by any- one except the owners of the pro- rerty, and it was not the duty of the defendant to warn any trespassers. Calls Owncrs Liable In response, Josiah M. Peck, coun- sel for the plaintiff, argued that th owner of the property was respon- sible for defects in the original structure and that the bolts were not sufficiently strong to hold the heavy roof. Such being the case, the owner is liable inasmuch as the structure was accepted by him as originally finished by the contractor. As to John Bernardo being & (Continued on Page 31) CALIFORNIA TOWN SHAKEN BY QUAKE Lompoc, in Santa Barbara County, Feels Temblor Last Night— No Damage Reported Los Angeles, Nov. 2 UP—An earth- quake shook Lompoc, Cal, in Santa Barbara county shortly before 10 o'clock last night. No damage was reported. Ronald Adams, a newspaper man at Lompoc, denied to the Associated Press that the town had been shaken by two heavy temblors, as telephone company reports had said. Adams declared that there had been a toiler explosion at the Lompoc high school shortly after 11 o'clock last night. He reported it was caused by defective boiler. DRIVER IN HOSPITAL AFTER TRIPLE CRASH J. Hatsing Injured When Threc Cars Pile up in West End. Henry Three automobiles figured in a | Mr. Egan sald that as to a pre- | | diction on the outcome in state he {could not give one as he was not | conversant with the effectiveness o? the democratic campaign. He said {in the statement, “I felt it was my duty simply to take care of the la- their ticket and still remain loyal that reason our mission was simply in the interest of Alfred E. Smith.” COL. ARMSTRONG DEAD Ottawa, Ont, Nov. 2 (A—Col. John Alexander Armstrong, C. B. C. M. G, who organized the Ci nadian army dental corps in 1915 and took it overseas, and one of the hest known surgeon dentists in Canada died here today. He was ¢5 years of age. | bor end of it as we have, undoubt- | | edly, a great many who will split | | to the party of their belief, and for | collision last evening in front of the Hart & Hutchinson factory on West Main street, and Henry J. Hatsing. aged 60, of 27 Roberts street, sus- tained painful injuries to his side and back. He is under treatment at New Britain General hospital and judge instructed the | was said to be fairly comfortable to- day. Motorcycle OfMcer David Doty, who investigated, learned that Mr. Hatsing was in a car going east on ‘West Main street and another car, driven by Arthur J. Bushnell of 31§ Pearl street, Hartford, was going out of the factory driveway. Bushnell's car struck Hatsing’s car and turned it over. A third car, driven by An- drew McKnight of 43 Academy ave- nue, Forestville, was going west on ‘West Main street and was caught in the collision. The thres cars were damaged, Drizzling Rain Fails to Halt Celebration and Home Town Pays Glorious, Roaring Tribute to Presidential 5,000 Policemen Have Dif« ficulty in Checking Crowd as Gotham Honors Citizen Born and Raised 6n Its East Side, New York, Nov. 2.—(M—A man i§ a brown derby who as a ragged boy, s0ld paper’s on the city's streets an@ clerked in a fish market rode is triumph from the Battery to Central park today as thousands upon thoue sands cheered and fought in the rais to catch « glimpse of him. It was New York city's tribute te its native son, Alfred E. Smith, onod one of the most obacure inhabitantsy but now the democratic nominee fes president of the United Statea, . And the old home town of th@ democracy’s standard bearer gave to its former citizen of the lowep East Side one of those uproarious greetings that it bestows on Linde berghs, Byrds and Ederles. From the Battery to Central Pari the governor traveled betwees cheering, roaring throngs—first up the narrow street called Broadway that worms itsa way between the skyscrapers and then up splendid Fitth avenue. o got Wii¥er way just after noon when the lunch hour crowd of the downtown business and financial districts were on the streets. A score of bands, sprinkled here and there in the procession, played merrily—not omitting that song, about New York’s sidewalks—as the procession of cars entered the mouth of the Broadway canyon for the long ride to 59th street and the avenue. Tape Zig-Zags Down Ticker tape, tomsed from the highf buildings, sig-sagged upon the slows ly moving motors. Tons of torm | papers fluttered street-ward untsy sidewalks and pavement were cove ered. People shouted lustily, the sireng of the motorcycle escort shrieked, bluecoats—there were 5,000 of them along the line of march—adopted football tactics to keep the crow§ (Continued on Page 33) i [ —— CITRON AGAIN ASKS FREEMAN TO DEBATE Has Challenged Republican Congressman to Argue in Norwich Willimantic, Nov, 2 UP—Williang M. Citron, democratic nominee foe congress in the second district today, sent another letter to Congressman ' R. P. Freeman, his republican ope ' poneit challenging him to debate, Norwich suggested, on Saturday ee Monday, on the issues of the came paign and more particularl what he called “absenteeism at roll calls.” In the letter Mr. Citron saidg “Not having received any reply from my letter of October 30th, I am ree iterating my offer to debate the ise sues. I am submitting the follows ing questions which I believe you ought to answer for benefit of your constituents. Of course, I stand ready to debate the issues and pare ticularly your record which shows many unexplained absences. I am willing to cancel my engagements Saturday and Monday for this pure pose and would suggest as & convene ient place, Norwich.” Three questions were in the lets ter, the third one giving more thas a score of dates on which it was ase serted Mr. Freeman was absent from roll calls, the bills before the nae tional house being on rural routes, prohibition and caal strike, federal trade commission, merchant marine, national defense, surplus war mae terial, army and naval applicationg, foreign commerce, marine h prohibiting firearms in the matig Arlington memorial bridge and spe gar_imports. d The first question was Do yod favor modification eof the 18§ amendment and the Voistead act? Second question: Do you bellevd the federal government should 9 tain ownership of Musele Shoals other natural resources?