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FRENCH PEIEPUN
IS GIVEN TO POWERS
Multilateral Pact Proposes
National Right to Defen
sive Warfare.
By tbe
PARIS. April 21.—France today de
( livered to the United States. Great
Britain. Germany. Italy and Japan her
Idea of what should be the text of
Secretary Kellogg's proposed multilat
eral pact to outlaw war.
The French draft makes it plain from
the start that she will reserve the right
to wage legitimate defensive warfare,
particularly where present treaties de
fine violations of certaui provisions as
’*• hostile acts
A reservation embracing fulfillment ;
of obligations under the League o*
Nations covenant is also included.
The proposed covenant would pledge
the six powers to renounce war com- |
pleteU "as an Uistrument of personal |
political action, spontaneous and aide- ;
pendent, in which they take the tmw-,
Uve." Within the meaning of this
limitation they pledge themselves noi
to attach or invade one another.
France also proposed ttat «w
nations be given opportunity to sub
scribe to the yeaty.
USEFUL. SAYS POLISH OFFICIAL.
Zaleski favor* Pact and Quotes Mus
solini As Agreeing.
WARSAW. Poland. April 21 j/T —A
multilateral agreement to outlaw war;
would be -usexuL- said August Zaleski.
foreign minister of Poland. He R dded !
that Premier Mussolini of La.j. w..h
whom he talked recently to Rome. |
agreed with him on this.
M Zaleski said there would be no
oblection to the proposed agreement
so far as this government is concerned, t
provided the treaty conformed to the
particular requirements of Poland. j
The foreign minister was enthusiastic .
about the success of his visit to IVme
He pointed out. however, that his object !
m going to the Italian capital was not.'
as had been asserted in some sections
of the European press, to settle any j
concrete questions He said he went j
to Rome to discuss foreign policies with ;
Mussolini, in general terms, and to ex
plore the possibilities of future co- !
operation.
He had discovered with pleasure that,
on the whole, the Italian and Polish
foreign policies were proceeding in the
same direction and that both govern
ments have been maintaining the will |
for peace.
SMITH PARTY QUITS
ASHEVILLE TODAY
Governor Will Spend Week at
Abseeon. N. J., Before Re
j
turning to Albany.
8t the A-«'V iatMJ Pfp«*
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. April 21—Gov
Alfred E. Smith of New York today
prepared to end his first Dixie vacation
with a few personal calls and a dinner
, and reception tonight at the home of
Mrs. J F. A. Cecil, the former Cornelia i
Vanderbilt
The governor and his party will leave
tomorrow for a week at Abseeon. N. J.,
before returning to Albany. He has
reserved quarters at the Sea View Golf i
Club
Gov. Smith came to Asheville aboard
the private car St. Nicholas, accom
panied by William Todd. William F
Kenny. James J Rlordan and Sergt
William Roy. guard. The party later
was Joined by Justice Joseph Pros
kauer member of the governor’s “kitch
en cabinet." and Prof Lindsay Rogers
of Columbia University. This same
group will accompany the governor
homeward. Mr. Todd, who returned
to New York last Monday, is expected
to rejoin the party tomorrow.
Throughout his vacation Gov. Smith j
has maintained an absolute silence on j
• political matters, though his numerous I
political conferences have been no j
secret.
INDIANA MEN FREED
ON CONSPIRACY COUNT
Coffin and Marsh Indicted With
Gov. Jackson for Alleged
Bribe Attempt.
br to* A«rM»
INDIANAPOLIS. April 21—On a
motion by William H Remy, prosecutor, j
the Btate today dismissed the indict- <
ments in a conspiracy case pending !
•gainst George V. Coffin. Republican
chairman of Marion County and Rob
, en I Marsh, an Indianapolis attorney
Both men were indicted with Gov,
Ed Jackson on a charge of conspiracy
in connection with an alleged attempt j
to bribe former Gm Warren T McCray ;
in 1922 in connection with the appoint- j
memos a local official Oov Jackson. !
who was tried several weeks ago. was
ordered acquitted by Special Judge
Charles M. McCabe, who held that the
State had failed to prove concealment, i
a point necessary to offset the statute i
of limitations
TEACHERS PLAN MEET
FOR SAVANNAH IN FALL
Southern Commercial Association
Expect* WX) at Thanksgiving
I Week Convention.
Bf Ut* &<■+•* I* »**
SAVANNAH. G*. April 21-The ex-,
eeutive committee of the Southern Com- ]
mrrciai Teacher*’ Association met here I
today to Iwo, date plans for the annual :
convention to be held m Savannah 1
Tbsr ,**gjvtng »<*k An attendant of !
300 is expei-*>-0
E L. f ayfteid of HmU igh, N C , pre»i- |
dent of the organization presided
Other executive members are C M ,
Gray, Stvannari, vice president; Miss;
May Cheat tiain Atlanta secretary
treaeurer Wiliiard J Wheeler lilr
•ninrham Ain Clara E Hamaon At
fari»a Mrs Waiter f. ledn'im I>ur-1
ti*»i N C arid C J Richards, Ha van - j
ruto W C i/twe Atlanta l* a past
president ano ex-ofltoto member of tile
committee
ZOOLOGIST WILL HEAD
IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE
• ■— l ■ -
Bt t»*m a*eo>iaU:iJ Htee*
OMAJfA Nebr Apili 21— Dr Henry
Saidwin Ward profensot of gookmy a*
the Uhivmlly of Illinois wax elected
preside*)’ of the Isaak Walton Ja-ague
of America by unanimous vote her*
tods V
Herbert Hoover H*«»nary of Com
fneue, war re-elected iionorsry jcrest
dent.
Four new vim- presidents were like
wise oiiaihmo'iSiy electod- They sre
* ‘J beodoia Robnuon of Chicago f>» O
C Red he id, k*M> Fab* b Dak ; Charles
Biedereolf Judlanspom : i homas A
\ V JaJly, Spokane, arid Dr, John ft
1 Star, he id Fort Worth
i Fred A Preston of Chu ago was
jl rnosen treasurer, and F»*4 N Feat,
Chicago, becieury. _^. .rrr
11 “FLOATERS.” SEEKING U. S. WORK.
11 FLOCK TO CROWDED D. C. FIELD
( | (Continued from First Prge.)
tramped and rode over the city, indi
cated quite clearly that it just can’t be
done. But it served to bring to the
mind a vivid picture of want, privation.
1 1 melancholia, and even starvation which
| must face many of the mechanics and
j their growing families, all of whom re*
i quire food for sustenance, which fails
j to come each day ns the father reports
j home, tired and dejected, reporting an
j other day of failure and the creditors
pressing a little harder And all be
! cause the local field is crowded by out*
j siders
Caused by Misunderstanding.
The attraction to the “floaters." who
| say they came because of their having
; read of the Government work, does
not result from misinformation in the
press, but a misunderstanding on the
part of the average workman, who.
when he reads that Congress has au
thorized the construction of certain
j buildings, does not know the workings
!of the governmental legislative ma
chinery An authorisation of a build
| ing. in his mind, means that the work
: is getting under way, or will follow in
a short time, as most of them arc from
! the industrial areas of the country,
where they have learned that when a
j big manufacturing company announces
| that it has authorized a big building
j project, everything is ready to proceed
| and it is a matter only of days before
j the actual work begins.
But in the case of the building pro
gram of the Government here, it is
I different. First, there is the authoriza
tion. then the appropriation of the
money, then the purchase of the land
jor its condemnation, followed by the
drawing of the plans and specifications,
the asking for bids, the letting of the
contract and then time for the success
ful bidder to assemble his plant and
force. This goes into weeks, months
and then years, a continuous program
which does not call for as great a num
! ber of men as would be the case if the
| whole building program was being put
i into effect at once
Here Are Experiences.
But this is all a general summary oi
some of the results of the week’s efforts
About this matter of getting a job The
* writer selected the carpenter's trade
| Not because he had any experience as
> a carpenter, but probably because of
the fact that he felt more experience
in handling a hammer, saw and a few
: nails gave him more confidence in pro
ceeding in this sphere.
1 To the carpenter s union assembly i
j room, the reporter hied himself. For
j two reasons One to get first hand im
pressions of actual conditions prevailing
here and. secondly, to get a good idea oi i
how a carpenter must appear. There j
The reporter found more than half a
hundred men. of all ages, either stand- j
ing on the street outside the hall, or in
the room in the cellar used as a plate <
where they could wait for work. There ,
i they wait for some one to call for a ear
; periter. and wnen there is a call it is
written on the board, for anyone to go
out for it But no calls came during
! the morning. Right on through the
I lunch period they waited.
In the room was a big board posted
i with notices from unions in various
; cities asking the local to tell their men j
! to stay away as there was not work
enough for the resident carpenters
There were stories of long months when
there was no work for some, not told
I for public benefit, for the men there did
j not know that the one in their midst
; was a reporter. It was caught in over
! heard conversations
Dinner of Water Cress.
There was one man. not so very old.
but very much disheartened, with i
family consisting of a wife and three
small children. A brother carpenter
asked him how much time he had put
in since last January, and he said that
he had made just six days since Sep
tember 1. last. Last Sunday, he said. .
he had to go out in the woods to get
a dinner for his family, which consisted
of water cress which he had gathered
And if he gathers it for dinner today
perhaps he will not have any fire to
cook it. unless he gathers wood at the
same time he gathers the cress, for his
gas bill is two months behind, and un- <
der the usual procedure it probably win
be cut off.
Others, of course, had been more
fortunate, some of them having made
as much as six months’ actual working
tim. since Christmas, 1926. Why do
they wait there for work instead of
going out to get it? Well, the re
porter found the answer to this after
a trving experience during the follow
ing davs wnen he tramped and rode
I around the city trying to find one of
I those elusive jobs.
Use Star to Get Facts.
1 On Monday, the writer found, most
i of the men had determined that there
i was nothing doing for them for the
1 following week And they find out in
this manner: When The Star comes out ,
on Saturday they grab the real estate
section, wherein is printed the list of
building permits together with the
name of the builder and other tnforma-
I tion. They go over the list and visit
j some of the builders in an effort to see j
i if there is an opportunity for them to ;
get a Job. and if they do not find one,
i then of course they know that it is
useless to go out and visit the “job"
i for an interview with the foreman
: Many of them do find work in this
manner and in other eases the fore
man for the bluilder has his ltst of
workmen whom he knows and usually
gives them a call when he needs th* m
Os course, on big projects, such as the
Government building program will oe
i when It gets under way, any carpenter
applying, or any other mechanic for
j that matter, will get a vacancy if there
|is one open. And that is the way the
i “floaters” figure.
It was disclosed while the writer was
at the union quarters of the carpenters
j that only approximately 10 per cent of
! the total membership of 2.600 carpen
! ters in this district paid their dues last
week They can't make enough to
i feed themselves and their families, so
j the dues have to go by the board. In
1 addition to this number of union car
( penters it was estimated that there are
about 1,000 open-shop carpenters in the
i city.
Warning Poster Kent Out.
In an effort to keep the “floaters"
| away from the city, the district coun
] c;J several w<eek* ago sent a large poster
, to the secretaries of all affiliated local
unions and district councils of the
j United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
i Joiners of America, which read as fol
lows:
“This district council earnestly re
! quests you to advise your members to
j stay away from Washington, D, C,
Alexandria. Va , and vicinity At tills
time we have over half of our mern
, b<-r hip unemployed and the prospects
are none too good The Government
work, which your members read so
rnych about, will not net underway for
at least two years from now if in that
1 time The money has not been appro
priated in the first place, if It was, It
will take some considerable time to buy
the property and search the titles for
arne before they could even start tear
ing down the oid buildings Pay no
* attention to articles in the newspapers
regarding money that Congress Is go
i u,g u> spend on new buildings in Warn
ing ton as it U ali propaganda It can
i not be spent unless Urey appropriate the
I atony—that is the one thing they have
not done Below is one of the charitable
i institutions which has taken care of
j rn any of the mechanics who have been
forced to ask tor aid during the win
ter Now feilow members, for your
own good, mO ours we again respect
fully request you to stay away from
the Washington district.
| Below this is printed a large picture
of a number of men sweeping the pave
ment to front of ’tie Gospel Mission
I With the following caption
“Several of the «4g perso* who were
j driven to charitable Institutions here
by the cotd last night are shown strove.
Many are skilled tradesmen who were
forced to appeal to charity because of
unemployment They, were given a
warm tied food and cJAhing The pic
ture shows them cweeplnff the pavement
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C.. APRIL 22. T.
in front of the Gospel Mission, 214
John Marshall place northwest, early
today as the mercury hovered at 20
below freezing."
Many Coming Into Town.
At the Gospel Mission It was said
that many men are coming into town
and that ’ast Sunday between 70 and
180 were fed. Many of them are me
| ehanies. some of them indicating that
i they were attracted to the city by pros
j poets of finding work on the Arlington
Memorial Bridge or the addition to the
power plant at Benning. A couple ot
j families which came in by automobile
are now being eared for by this mission,
jit was stated one of them consisting of
the workman, his wife and two .little
girls. Os course, at the missions no
j questions are asked as to why the men
| are here or where they came from.
They have only the information that is
! volunteered when inquiries are made by
the applicant for aid
The writer’s actual quest for a job
j started on the second day, after proper
; preparations as a workman. The day’s
work began at the junction of Wiscon
sin avenue and the District line, fol
lowed bv a long walk from that point to
Rpsslvn, Va., w ith no results The writ
er visited projects on this thoroughfare
and went into several side streets where
he could see that building was going on.
In the vicinity of Van Ness street,
east of Wisconsin avenue, the w-ritet
sought out the foreman and asked if
he was in need of a carpenter, and in
between strokes of the hammer which
he was using on an upper story, he
called back that he had all the carpen
ters he could use.
Other Application* Futile.
On an adjoining project a easpentet j
said-he was not the foreman, but that
he understood the latter was going to
put on some carpenters in a few days
But the foreman wasn't there. At an
other project on the Avenue the writer
was informed there was no work, but
| sat around awhile w atching one of the
; fortunate ones cutting lumber on a
gasoline engine propelled circular saw
Another project was passed by be
cause it had been going for so long a
period that it was almost certain that
the staff was permanent and there
would be no jobs for an itinerant.
Other small projects of one or two
houses were passed by without even ap
plying. as they seemed to have enough
carpenters at work, and then another
i big project which seemed to have a lot
jof carpenter work in framing going i
on. There the writer did not reach the '
foreman, either, for he was pretty well j
discouraged. A carpenter informed him j
that a number of carpenters had been
laid off the night before.
Some Get “Friendship’’ Jobs.
Several smaller projects then were
visited, with the inevitable result--no
j carpenters wanted. And so the day
ended. But the reporter was learning
i that jobs are not obtained in this man
! ner, and those constantly in the trade
know it. But he did learn that some
of the projects are called in the trade
| “friendship" jobs, which interpreted
even to the uninitiated reporter-work
man meant that if you knew the fore
man and gave him a little something
you would get a job. The reporter had
no tempting bait, and perhaps some of
! those out of work can’t get it even on
these friendship jobs, because they
j haven't even the money w ith w hich to
I “purchase” the job
Not even a tip on where work might
be found was given You don't get any
j information out of these workmen. In
his quest the reporter found a lunch
j room where the workmen ate. a place
j where they serve a half a pie for 10
cents instead of the usual quarter or
one-fifth portion—the full dinner pail
for the laborer Taking his seat at the
crowded tables of the very small room,
he ate In silence, hoping to catch a
few snatches of shop talk But there
was none, not even a suggestion as to
where the work was going on. It might
just as well have been a church, judg
ing from the silence which reigned, not
even disturbed by the movement of the
soup
Trail Leads to \irgfnia.
The reporter finished the day in ,
j Rosslyn. passing over the Key Bridge,
sin a low frame of mind There he 1
made his final effort to find work, but
j without result, and proceeded home.!
with an air of confidence produced by
the fact that he did have a job
To Benning he hied himself the fol
lowing day. a half-day’s trip if without
funds for car fare. There a large ad
dition to the power plant is underway
Walking some distance off the road to
the project, he walked on to the |ob
; and reached the spot on the bank of
! the Anacostia wh»*e a number of car
penters were cutting and fitting boards
! for some purpose. He accosted « ie of
j the workmen and asked for the fore
; man, and when told that he was eLse
i where on the job. sought information
;as to the opportunity for carpenters
and getting the response that the car
penters didn’t know w-hat they were
going tq do.
While heading out in quest of the
foreman a man who was wiping his
hands on shavings told the reporter
I that no one was allowed inside of a cer
tain line which was Indicated
“I was just looking for the foreman
carpenter.” said the writer. “I would
like to get job ”
‘ I’m not the foreman." responded
the man, ’but the foreman told me to
tell any one who came that he did not
want any more carpent rs“
l w» Man From Baltimore.
Then the reporter volunteered that
he was Just passing through town and
heard of this project and wanted work,
which brought forth the following in
formation :
"There have been a thousand car
penters alone heie looking for work
There are 30 men on the job now and
when It gets going full there only will
be a place for 40. and these have been
promised, most of them to men from
Baltimore, I understand there are
2,000 men out of work. Most of the
applicants have been local men.”
Searches then were instituted in the
Southeast section, but with the usual
result, and the reporter finally ended
up at the Arlington Memorial Bridge
! He applied at the shack which had
on it a big sign of the contractor
Which indicated plainly that it was the j
employment office. There was no one i
In it, but < n coming out, the reporter
met a man clothed in overalls, and
slated that he was looking for a Job as
a carpenter, was given the Information
that he would have to see the foreman
carpenter, who was on the Job,
Walking ever to the plant where car
penter* are engaged in erecting the
framing for the concrete work in the
spans, he observed several men stand
ing around One of them, an elderly
gentleman, finally got up nerve enough
to go on the abutment and accost a car
penter engaged in cutting and fitting
some strips of lumber He asked for the
foreman, and was told that lie was up
on the span It is a perilous walk over
the scaffolding to reach this, and the
old man merely walked to the edge ot
the stone abutment, and sbaid looking
longingly upward in the hope that the
foreman might come down Then an
other of the group, anxious to beat turn
to it, raced up the span framework, and
in half an hour came back with the re
port for the other* that there was no
work,
“1 was given that old stall that they
expected'to put on Some in a few days,’’
he told the group.
Ktlll Another hltuatlnn,
Here the reporter found more < «rpen
ters applying for work than he had seen
at any oilier place and as he sat on the
stone pile with a group of the men, It
developed that the report had gotten
out that they were going to put on a
night shift One of the men said ihat
tie had made /H days since the fust ot
the year All of them said that they
were residents of the c;ty, but the man
who went up to me the foreman said
that tite Job was pretty well “guarded,"
which meant that the Job* were not
passed out freely to aii applicants, even
when there was work.
While sitting on the rocks watching
the workmen, a man came down and
called out to the group 1 was sitting
with, that if they knew «#y urn who
Operators Offer
Mine to Union
If Seale Is Paid
Br the Associated Pres*.
MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Aoril 21.
—An ofTor to "make a present" to
the United Minp Workers of Amer
ica "of any mine we have in Ohio
or Pennsylvania, providing you run
it under the Jacksonville scale and
pay us 10 cents per ton for the coal
you take out of the ground," was
made yesterday by James A. Pais
ley of Cleveland, head of the Pais
ley coal interest* owning mines in
Pennsylvania. Ohio and West Vir
ginia
The telegram containing the offer
was made public at the Paisley of
fices here. It was addressed to
! Phillip Murray of Pittsburgh, inter
national vice president of the United
Mine Workers, and to the members
of the Senate committee now inves
tigating the soft coal industry.
"Quick action, please, we are going
down for the third time," the tele
gram concluded.
MERGER PROSPECTS
GROW DIMMER AS
VALUATION IS PROBED
(Continued from First Page.)
| added to the Capital Traction valua
j lion, would amount to $56,000,000.
| Col. Brand submitted to the commit
tee his persona! valuation of the two
companies, which he totaled at $57,000.-
000, after deducting $4,297,500 for 15 ;
per rent depreciation of the Washing- i
ton Railway Electric Co The value !
of that company, exclusive of land, he I
gave as $28,650,000.
Deducting depreciation, he said, this !
would leave a $24,362,500 valuation, to
which must be added land which was
included by the commission in 1919 at
$830,600. now probably worth consider
ably more. This gives a total of $25,-
193,100, to which, he said, must be
added the intangible element* of value.
$2 321.000, which were included in the
commission's valuation
Adding allowances for working cash
J at $318,000. one-twelfth of the operat
! ing expenses for 1927. and materials and
; supplies at $205,000. the actual inven
j tory of December 31. 1927, he declared, j
! gives a total of $28,037,100
; "Based on the annual index figure." j
ihe explained, "the result would be
j hicher and would show approximately
$30,000,000 for the Washington Rail
wav Ar Electric Co.
"But if we place it at the low figure
of $28,000,000 and add $26,000,000 for
the Capital Traction Co. $2,500,000 for
the Maryland property of the two com
panies. which is claimed to be worth
| $4,000 000. and $500,000 for the Rapid
Transit Co., which thev claim is worth
SBOO,OOO. we get a total of $57,000,000
valuation, approximately.
“I. therefore, decided that if a valua
tion were made today of the properties
involved the fair value would be found
to be at least $50,000,000."
—- (
KING GEORGE QUOTES
SOLOMON IN ADDRESS
Corir-ivimVi.rf of th<> Pr ■-«
LONDON.—Bits of wisdom handed
down by old King Solomon were quoted
by King George in opening the new
home of Lloyd's, underwriters’ agents,
completed at fv cost of $10,000,000
"It was a very wise man.” said the
King at the inaugural exercises, "who.
ne irly 3 00° years ago. said. "Two are
better than one * • * for if they fall the
one will lift the other: but woe to him
that is alone when he falleth’’ * * *"
After referring to the romance of the
“ca the King continued, "It is the or
ganized system of marine insurance
has transformed overseas trade
! from a daring and hazardous to th“ !
! orderlv and smoothlv working exchange
of commodities on which modem clv
j filiation depends "
| had any pull it might be possible to get
a Job; a further indication, according
to the Jobless, that the work was
"guarded."
The fellow who hustled up over the
frame work in quest of the foreman
said that when the Job began he came
down pvery morning early in search of
work, and that was sufficient time to
convince him that there was nothing
j doing, although he thought when he
heard that a night shift would be pm
on there might be some chance of get
tin in on it At any rate, he did not
want to overtook the bet, having had
| but 28 days’ work this year
The next day before visiting other
building projects. I applied at the Cen
tral Union Mission. The young fellow
behind the desk was most courteous to
me. sought out the man in charge of
employment, and came back with the
report that he had not had any appli
cations very recently for carpenters He
dtd offer me a Job at hanging awnings,
which I turned down, telling him that J
was Just going through the town and
hoped that I might obtain work at my
trade on the Government projects He
satd a lot of men were of the same
opinion, but that there was no work go
ing on there at the time.
3,000 to 4.000 "Floaters."
N A James, financial secretary of
the Central Labor Union, said that the
unions report in monthly the number
of men coming into the city, but their
reports are based entirely on the me
chanics who come to various local
headquarters to get their cards ap
proved The last reijort. that of April
1. Indicated that there were beween
3 000 and 4,000 "floaters" in the town
during the previous month Some of
these went on when they found there
was no work.
Just as the carpenters are hit by the
presence of "floaters" in Washington,
so are members of other trades, accord
ing to their own statements Likewise,
i as in the case of the carpenters these
! skilled and unskilled workers are at
tracted to Washington by the mythical
"pot of gold” they suppose has been
created bv the announced plans of the
Government's great building projects.
Outside of warning mechanics else
where of conditions here there appar
ently is no remedy for the situation. In
the opinion of labor leader’
Twelve low-side gondola ears recently
completed for the Carnegie Steel Co
are said to be the longest cars evei
! moved over any American railroad j
I Each car has an outside length of «r
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DECLARES SMITH
IS WEST’S CHOICE
Montana Leader Praises
Governor at Dinner of
Democratic Club.
By the Associated Pres.
NEW YORK. April 21.-Two thousand
Democrats at the Jefferson dry dinner
of the National Democratic Club tonight
cheered J. Bruce Kreroer of Montana,
vice chairman of the Democratic na
tional committee wnen he , ; qid ihe tolld
West “now insists on Gov Alfred E j
nv h as Ihe party's prcsi-ientiil can- j
dideto."
He said the people followed an In
spired leader In Jefferson, a darins j
crusader in Jackson end mas’er of j
political science in Wilson, and they will j
•'follow a ohamWm of progress, an in- j
comparable executive, a proponent of j
honest and incorruptible government j
when they elect Alfred E. Smith as i
President."
Former MeAtlon Supporter.
Mr. Krrmer. once a McAdoo sup
porter. praised Senator Thomas F.
Walsh of Montana, who is backed for
the nomination by McAdoo. but de
clared that “under th" guidance cf the j
New York governor the Nation s bust- j
ness affairs would he conducted with
much greater assurance cf success,
than under Walsh. '»nd ‘the honesty cf
equally preserved.”
“The West is constructive," he said, i
"and its people believe in creating j
: rather than in destroying At heart
! the West Is Democratic and Us people i
| who have watched the career of Oov
| Smith, are in accord with his cham
! ptonship of liberalism and progress
1 They know that as an executive he
had made a record surpassed by none
and equaled bv few "
From Asheville. N C.. where he is
varationine Gov. Smith telegraphed his
regret at being unable to attend the
dinner.
Governor’s Message.
“The vitality of Jefferson’s principles
Is the best test of his greatness," hs
said. "His faith in the average man’s
ability to govern himself and his warn
ings against too much centralization
of government are freedoms of a
! political creed which answers the need
; of the hour ”
i Other speakers were Mayor Walker
Senator Millard E Tydlngs of Mary
land. and Mrs Mary T. Norton, Con
gresswoman from New Jersey.
HOOVER FOES USE
DEATH OF WILLIS
AS OHIO BLUDGEON
(Continued from First Page.)
liam F. Brown and Representative
Burton, saying that if they had not in
sisted upon Secretary Hoover being a
.candidate in Ohio. Senator Willis
■would still be alive and well. Fred M
Warner chairman of the Republican
State committee and a leader In the
Willis organization, charged the man
; ager of the Hoover campaign in Cleve
■ land Cincinnati and Toledo with
: planning to practice frauds in the vot
ing in those cities, and in the counting
of the ballots. It was not hear-say
with him. but Insisted that he knew
what he said to be true
Col Carmi A Thompson, anti Hoover
organization manager, asked the Oec
tion board* in those three cities tor
permission to place witnesses and ehal-
, * , pgers In the voung places. This is a
right that the law puaramees Col.
Tiiad Brown, manager of the Hoover
movement, characterized ihe tatement
of Warner and the request cf Cel
! h a gesture *n preparation
for making *ho charge of fraud when
the sweeping defeat sure to overcome
I'prltdates in these places
, feet
Hooveriles Carry On.
The Hoover leaders have proceeded
with their fight, holding meetings in
all parts of the State, addressed by Mr
Burton and Representative Free of
California, and local Republicans. Their
meetings have been quite well attended
and by use of the radio they have
reached most of the voters of the State
with dignified presentation of the quali
fications of their candidate.
Outside of tbe large cities the Re
publican organization Is anti-Hoover
and the Willis organization has the
best of it as to working agencies among
the individual voters.
In spite of the violence of the cam
paign however, it is evident that large
elements ot voters on both sides are
not showing much Interest in the pri
mary. Secretary of State Clarence
Brown estimates the vote that will be
cast in Tuesday’s primary at not less
than 700,000 Most experienced poli
ticians here think the secretary has
placed his estimate too high, and would
regard 500.000 as much nearer the
mark.
A weakness of the Hoover movement
is the fact that it has drawn into it a
great many people who are not familiar
with political methods and trained to
carry through to the voting booth
Many of them are ilkely to let small
matters prevent them from going to the
polls Organization Republicans and
such for the mast part the Willis sup
porters are, have been trained that the
only thing that counts in an election
Ls the ballot put tnto the ballot box
Weather I* Issue.
The season has been rather back
ward in Ohio and farmers are some
what behind with the Spring work.
Much will depend upon the weather on
election day as to the vote cast in
the rural portions of the State If
the day Is fine thousands of Ohio farm
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heal in a conduit iunnel at Connerticut avenue and N streets to relieve a short
i circuit, which tied up street cars and extinguished street lamp* for more than an
hour last night.
ers will «pcnd it in their fields and omit
voting. This will be a blow at the anti-
Hoover movement for admittedly the
strength of Senator Willis lay in the
country and the dry sections of the
j State generally’.
The last estimate made at the Hoover
: headquarters conceded nothing to the
| anti-Hoover side. Os course, the
s presidential preference election wdll be
carried by Mr. Hoover. Everybody has
expected that result since the death of
Senator Willis. Col. Thad Brown
claims that the entire list of delegate
candidates, both district and at large,
on the Hoover ticket will be elected
overwhelmingly.
Col. Thompson does not claim as
much. ; Evidently he does not have any
hope of electing Willis delegates in
either Cincinnati or Cleveland, and
probably not much hope of carrying the
Toledo district. However, he does not
specifically concede them Outside of
the big city districts he claims a gen
eral Willis victory, and he feels sure
that the big votes rolled up in Hamilton
and Cuyahoga counties for the Hoover
delegates will be wiped cut by the vote
in the smaller towns and the rural por
tions of the State.
Predictions Are Few.
Outside the two headquarters and the
ranks of enthusiastic adherents of the
two camps of Republicans, politicians
are inclined to be cautious in making ;
predictions as to Tuesday's result. There
are too many factions in the problem,
many of them difficult to evaluate, to
make a confident prediction.
Am>>ng other things, thev say no man
can tell what the real effect of the
death of Senator Willis has had on the
sentiment of large elements of the Re
publican voters. What will the colored
voters do? How will those who were
in the Wortd War line up? How strong
is th» Ku Klux Kian organization in the
State, and what effect on it will the fact i
that Mr. Hoover wax married by a priest
have? It Is an organization that is
* waved by what most people would re
gard-as trivial matters. How has the
un-Amcn.cani*m charge registered with
this organization?
How efficiently will the regular Re
publican organization <everywhere out
j «ide of the big cities, pro-Willis> make
| its machine dick Tuesday, and how
j many more Republicans than are com- !
prised in the partv organization ranks
can be got out to the polls?
Organization Slipping.
Be fare the death of Senator Willis it S
seemed that the ground was slipping i
out from under the feet of his organ- j
tzation Those who were with the Sen- ]
ator in his last days believe that he
realized it. and that may have been
real cause of his prostration Has h’.s
death changed the situation? It has j
certainlv put fight into the leaders of i
the Wiills movement in this cjos'nt ‘
' ueck of the campaign; if they have !
been able to pass the spirit on to the '
ranks, a good showing may be mad-' j
| aft-r all
Evidently they have had the aid of
some able political managers in the
protection of campaign literature and
of funds to meet the expenses of dis
seminating it. Many of Hoover Re
publicans think with Mr Burton that !
j a campaign of such virulence as that j
I which the anti-Hoover forces nave
staged this week, will have a reaction
and many will be driven from the ranks
! of leaders who are responsible for it.
On the democratic side there is no
j reason to expect that anv of the State
i organization nicked delegates to Hous
j ton will meet any difficulty in being
| elected Tursdav. nor is there any reason
I to doubt that most of the delega'lon
! will at once go over into the Gov.
| Smith column—ali of them eventually.
INSTRUCT DELEGATES.
GREENVILLE. Tenn. April 21 (4>V
Republicans ot the first congressional
district today instructed their two dele
gates to the national Republican Con
vention to vote for Herbert Hoover for
President.
John Q. Tilson. majority floor leader j
of the House, a native of Unicoi County, j
Tenn., was indorsed for Vice President,
[hoover and smith
CONTINUE IN LEAD;
FORMER FACES TEST
(Continued from First Page ) ;
this Coolidge adherent insisted that the
President could still accept the nom
ination with good grace if it came tc 1
1 him from the convention following a
: hopeless deadlock.
The President's message to the Mass
achusetts voters was so timed that it
is likely to be of aid to Mr. Hoover in
three States which are to hold pri
j maries on Tuesday— Massachusetts. ;
Ohio and Pennsylvania. These three
States have a total of 169 votes in the
Republican national convention Both
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are ;
planning to send "uninstructed” dele- j
cations to the convention, although it
is believed Mr. Hoover will win the
preference vote by a lfrge majority in
Massachusetts, and that some 30 of the
39 delegates from that State will favor
his nomination. In Pennsylvania no j
candidate has entered for the preference
vote.
Ohio Situation. ,
The victory of Mr. Hoover in the
President's own State, it is likely, will
; go still further toward cementing the
idea that the Secretary of Commerce
is. after all. the administration can
didate. at least to the extent that he
represents more than any other candi
date the policies of the present adminis
tration.
In Ohio Mr Hoover is running osten- >
i ably against the late Senator Willis of
that State, but in reality against the
! "field.” The Lowden. Dawes. Curtis
and Watson supporters have united
forces against Hoover. After the death:
lof Senator Willis the Willis slate of *
delegates, at a meeting in Columbus.!
seriously considered putting forward j
President Coolidge as their first choice. |
But they were warned that if any such !
step were taken, the President would ]
quickly repudiate it. and demand that ;
his name be not considered The con
sequence was that the Willis delegates
felt back on their second choice candi
dates. Mr Lowden was the second
choice of 34 of them,
i Reports from Ohio suggest a light
vote in the coming primary . A light j
vote usually means a bigger turnout in
the cities than in th? rural sections, be
cause of the accessibility of polling
places. And a bigger vote in the cities, j
j it is said, may help Mr. Hoover.
Failure of Mr. Hoover to run well in '
Ohio and Massachusetts on Tuesday j
would be a decided blow to his candi
dacy, although it might not be fatal
i Mr. Hoover's strength with the rank
j and file of the voters has been his chief
\ claim to leadership
Hoover headquarters in Washington
last night issued a statement asserting
; that 282 of the delegates already chosen
I to the Republican national convention
are either instructed, pledged or favor i
the nomination of Mr Hoover. The
statement further claimed that 94 dele
gates. the total delegations representing
California. Maryland. Oregon and New
Jersey, would be for Hoover. The en
j tries in the presidential primaries in
those States have closed, that in Mary
land yesterday, and Mr. Hoover is the
only entrant on the Republican side.
The Hoover headquarters further in
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Severed Cable Throws Brit
ish Embassy In Darkness
Until Power Is Restored.
Blue flames and dense smoke shootini
from a manhole In thb sidewalk 11
front of the British embassy aboi»
6:30 o’clock last night threw the whoii
neighborhood into confusion for mon
than an hour, tied up street car traf
fic on Connecticut avenue and brought
No. 1 Fire Engine Company to the seem
i in response to a hurry call from th#
embassy.
All lights went out in the embaisj
and candles had to be lighted. Housei
and stores on Connecticut avenue be
tween N street and Dupont Circle wen
in darkness. A large crowd gathered
in the street around the manhole.
When the firemen arrived, they wen
unable to do anything, and had to a« a»
arrival of the trouble truck of the Po
tomac Electric Power Co. When the re
pairmen came, the fire was too hot ts.
permit them to enter the manhole, an«
it was necessary to ait off the current
completely over a wide area.
Investigation showed that a big elec
i trie cable had burned out from a short
circuit. The insulation was worn oil
I or had been cut by rats, the workmer
believed After an hour or more, th*
lights in the nearby buildings *er»
turned on again by switching the elec
tric current to another cable. Bv f
o’clock the street cars, which had beer
stalled for several blocks in both di
rections. were running again.
sisted that 750 out of the 960 delegates
elected to the Washington State con
vention have been instructed f«
Hoover. The State convention meet.
May 5.
Gov. A1 Smith of New York has ac
even greater number of delegate
pledged and instructed and favoring
: his nomination than has Mr. Hoovei
on the Republican side. Furthermore
his nearest opponent has far less dele
gate? than has the nearest opponent oi
Hoover. Mr. Lowden. The Lowden sup
porters claim approximately 200 dele
gates. including the entire 61 from Illi
nois. instructed for Lowden by th*
State convention Friday Within tty.
last day or two Illinois Democrats ir'
State convention have instructed th*
whole delegation. 58 in number, to rot*
! for Smi‘h. The lowa State conrentior
has instructed the 26 lowa delegates tr
support him. notwithstanding threat?,
made bv E T. Meredith, who was th?
favorite son opponent of Smith in lows.
The claim was made here last night
however, bv Charles M. Howell. W*sf
j »rn manager of the Reed for President
I campaign, that the “effort to stamped*
■ »he Democrats and nominate Smith*.
I had been launched too early. Mr
Howell insisted that the opposition tc
Smith was strengthening dav by day
despite the Smith claims. The great
issue of tlje Democrats in the comini
campaign, he said, was corruption in
politics and public office. This issue
h» said, had been developed and car
ried to the country by Senator^Reed cl
i Missouri, and he was the logical choice
of the Democrats at Houston.
Meanwhile the dry Democrats art
not satisfied with either Smith or Reed
Thev are hoping that these wet candi
dates mav effectually check each other
A two-thirds vote is necessary to nom
inate in the Democratic national con
vention. and a deadlock may occur
more readily there than in the Repub
lican convention, which nominates bs
majority vote.
Middle West Claim*.
As was predicted, the Hoover opposi
tion has concentrated its efforts in the
last few days on the suggestion that«
Mr. Hoover could not carry the wheat
and corn States of the Middle West and
Northwest against Gov. A1 Smith. This,
i nas been asserted several times in the
Senate and elsewhere by supporters cdt •
Mr. Lowden and Vice President Dawes.
But these assertions have brought strong
idenials from many Middle West Re-*
> publicans. For example. 40 Nebraska •
‘ Republican newspapers telegraphed the
j Hoover headquarters here resenting the *
statement that Smith could carry that
: State against Hoover next November.
But the anti-Hooverites continue to
insist that he would lose in the Middle
West. Here and there is heard the sug
gestion that if the Republicans pm
Hoover in the field and the Democrats
nominate A1 Smith, a third party may
I vet be found tn Western territory on
I the theorv that neither Hoover nor
Smith is acceptable
The first definite sector on the battle
I line in France assigned to American
aviators to defend in the World War
was the area between the Meuse and
the Moselle Rivers, according to Gen.
William Mitchell in the Liberty Mag*-
sine .
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