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GIRL TELLS POLICE SHE SAW SLAYING Escapes Gang After Two Days’ Imprisonment and Cruelties, She Asserts. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 5.—A story of having witnessed the slaying of her girl friend and having been beaten, slashed and attacked herself in a Central avenue den. where she was held prisoner for two days by a gang of colored men. was told today by Irene Willard. 26. She staggered breathless and bruised Into the Nfwton street police station in the colored section early this morning with her story. Miss Willard told police she saw her friends throat slashed by one of the Negroes, the body wrapped in sheets and then dumped into an automobile. Hollywood Girl Named. Her friend, she s=.:d. was Gladys Scclcy. 23. of Hollywood. Police located the address where the supposed mur der victim lived and found her absent. The landlady, however, said the young woman was in the habit of being absent several days at a time. Miss Willard related that hte last night the colored men loaded the body nf her friend into the automobile, forced her into the front seat of the far. and started to drive toward the beach. "I jumped out of the car and escaped.'’ she said. "I ran as fast as 2 could.’* » Barefooted and Hatless. Miss Willard showed signs of having been abused, officers and hospital at tendants said. They were uncertain, however, whether the woman was suffering from hallucinations and nervousness. Bruised and cut about the face. Miss Willard was clad only In a thin frock. Bhe was barefooted and hatless. Police said she admitted she had been drinking. "My friend and I went on a slum ming expedition last Tuesday night," •she said. "We had some drinks. I don't remember what happened until, the next morning. I found myself in that horrible place with the Negroes." — —— > GOVERNMENT INCOME OVER BILLION MARK Bevenue Since July Is 271 Mil lion Ahead of Same Period Last Year. By the Associated Press. The Government’s income today passed the billion-dollar mark for the fiscal year since July 1. running ap proximately $271,000,000 ahead of re ceipts for last year. All principal classes or ordinary re ceipts gained over last year with the exception of customs, which dropped from $94,986,890 to $82,372,443. Total receipts, as of October 3, the latest date available, were $1,004,023, 428 as against $733,134,583 in the com parable period of 1933. The sharpest tax gain was in re ceipts from processing taxes, which rose from $35,734,153 to $133,750,617. All this, however, Is earmarked for payments to farmers. income tax receipts at S216.739.304 Compared with $165,044,918 a year ago. Miscellaneous internal revenue re ceipts of $489,000,906 were approxi mately $66,000,000 ahead of last year. • Figuring largely in the receipts was $49,894,913 of silver seigniorage or "profit" arising from issuing certifi cates at $1.29 an ounce against metal bought at a lower price. HAUPTMANN ALIBI HELD BROKEN BY . 13 NEW LETTERS (Continued From First Page 1_ spot. Whatever I say about Haupt mann will hurt him." Murphy said Russell, who Is 35. claimed to have been a close friend of Hauptmann and of the late Isadore Fisch, who was named by Hauptmann as the man who gave him money identified as part of the $50,000 ransom. Rebuild Garage. Carpenters started today to recon struct Hauptmann’s garage, where police found $14,590 of the $50,000 which Col. Lindbergh paid for the return of his son. already dead. The garage had been torn apart, board by board, after some of the money was found concealed in a beam. Schwarzkopf, in answer to reports last night that Dr. Condon had been told by the kidnaper that negotia tions would be called off unless ‘Red’’ Johnson was released, asserted Con don "never told me anything of that tort and never told me 'Red' John son was ever referred to in any way by the kidnapers." Johnson, a sailor friend of Betty Gow, who was nurse for the Lind bergh infant, was questioned early in the investigation. DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANTS TO BE GUESTS AT DANCE Cabin John Fire Department to Give Entertainment To morrow. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CABIN JOHN PARK, Md.. October 6 —Several Democratic organization candidates will be guests of honor to morrow night at a barbecue and dance to be given here by the Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department. The affair, to be staged in the fire house, is in celebration of the depart ment's base ball championship of Montgomery County. Speakers will include State’s Attor ney Stedman Prescott, Sheriff G. Ed ington Bell, County Commissioner Robert D. Hagner and John Imrie. The Potomac Band will give a concert from 6:30 to 9:30 o'clock, with dancing to follow. The five Beall brothers of Rockville and the "Graham Crackers" Orchestra will feature the musical program. Ex-Banker Sentenced. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 5 (Ah.—Melville S. Cohn, former vice president of the Meyer-Kiser Bank here, today was sentenced to serve 2 to 14 years in prison on a charge of embezzlement. -0 . - . - Algerians Irked by France. ALGIERS October 5 <FP).—Algerian wine producers planned an economic revolt against France today because of the mother country's failure to re lieve the colonial depi^ssioa. What’s What Behind News In Capital Japanese Purchase of Railway Seen De laying War. BY PAUL MALLON. THE whole undertone of world relations Is undergoing a subtle change. It started within the past 30 days when the Japanese decided to buy out the Russian half interest in the Chinese Eastern Rail way. Our diplomats doubted at first that reports of the purchase could be true. They knew very well that the Japanese never would lay out $50,000, P00 for the railway if they intended to have war with Russia any time soon. By merely declaring war the Japanese could take the railway for nothing. Apparently the wise men of Tokio decided to purchase a temporary peace in their rear for $50,000,000 so they could face eastward to their adver saries across the seas. You can see what that means plenty of trouble in the Impending London naval discussions. Also that Russia can relax her military pressure on the Manchurian border and pay | more attention to Mr. Hitler and the i Poles. Which will cause Mr. Hitler to i give some thought to his eastern fron tier. thus relaxing his pressure on France. Planes Demanded. You may have noticed the front page squawk by the Japanese mili tarists the other day demanding thou sands more planes. The little railway news Item is behind that also. The Japanese militarists know very well that the Japanese naval jaction is going to get the upper hand in Tokio out of this railway deal. A war with Russia would be a land war. If it becomes less imminent, army expenses will be cut down and the money will go into ships. Now. no one on the inside here be lieves the railway deal will prevent an ultimate war. What they do believe is that it will delay the war at least three more years. That Is delay enough to permit Japan to carry out her naval building intentions. Naval Parley “Hopeless." The preliminary naval conversations at London two weeks hence are re garded privately as hopeless. There is every reason to expect that the Japa nese will demand parity, or. at ?he very least, a bigger crvliser ratio. Britain will take the lead in declining, but she will have the bacl^ing of the United States, Italy and France. After a few sharp words, every one will go home and build more ships. Norman Davis nearly let the cat hut of the bag the other day. , He ia %ie most optimiatic man in the world. He has to be, or he would not still be working for disarmament. But. when some one asked him if he would take any naval experts to London for the conversations, he replied: "You bet. I need all the troops I can get.” He might truthfully have added: ' And then some.” Rumors of Secret Pact. There are a lot of international rumors going around. One is that Hit ler has signed a five-year secret al liance with the Japanese for both Eastern and Western co-operation. Also that Hitler is sending 600 aviation pilots and mechanics to Japan during the next six months to act as in structors. Another is that a white Russian army of 150,000 has been organized in Manchoukuo to help the Japanese. Our officials are inclined to doubt the figures cited in the rumors, but suspect there is some basis of truth in the ideas. Mother Influential. The inside influence of the Presi dents mother on certain New Deal affairs is being talked about wherever New Dealers assemble. Mrs. James Roosevelt is supposed to have been responsible for the selection of Harry Hopkins as relief administrator, and for several other equally important choices. All insiders have a great respect for her judgment and her character. Audiences at the movies here ap plaud her picture talks with a gusto usually reserved for the President himself. TT. S. Imports Wheat. It is incredible but true that we now are importing wheat into this country for the first time in 10 years. Nearly 3.000.000 bushels of durum were imported in July and August from Canada. There will be 7.000.000 bush els more coming In this Winter. Durum is the particular type of wheat which was hardest hit by the drought. The price of $1.50 a bushel makes im portations profitable despite the 42 cent tariff. At the same time, we are exporting to the Orient another type of wheat, the soft white grade grown in the Pacific Northwest. It would make a good parlor game to try to reconcile this paradox with the A. A. A. farm program. Boom in Capital. The New Dealers brought a minia ture boom to one town—Washington. Since Mr. Roosevelt's inauguration, the population of this city has increased by nearly 100.000. It now has half a million. Good houses are actually hard to get. More are being built all the time. Housing Administrator Moffett Is supposed to have straightened out that little matter of rental for the Soil Erosion Service. The money Is to come out of the appropriation for his housing commission. Don't tell any one, but the N. R. A. strong man, Donald Rich berg, plays the piano and writes poetry. When the new N. R. A. Board held its first meeting, newsmen wandered in to ask what was being done. The reply was: "We are just scratching our old gray heads wondering what we are supposed to do." The Federal relief outgo has now been stepped up to $100,000,000 a month, which will b^ pleasing to those GRAN! TREATED * Film Actor at First Told Police He Was Suffering From Poison. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD. Calif., October 5 — Cary Grant, movie actor whose do mestic difficulties with Virginia Cher rlll, actress, were made public a few days ago, was treated for alcoholism early today by emergency doctors who had respondent to a call that he had been poisoned. After receiving attention at the Hollywood Receiving Hospital. Grant was permitted to return to his home. The police surgeon. Dr. C. E. Cornell, said his condition was not serious. Grant and his wife, one-time lead ing woman for Charles Chaplin, sep arated last Saturday after a quarrel Took Poison Tablet. Dr. Cornell quoted the actor as say ing he had taken a poison tablet "un der the stress of great worry.” The landlady of Grant's apartment houie, who refused to give her name, said the actor had been putting in call after call during the night for Miss Cherrill, asking that she come to him. The identity of the person who called the police hospital was a secret, but Dr. Cornell said he "thought” he recognized Miss Clierrill there when ne arnvea. Identified as Mias Cherrill. Several persons later Identified a woman who was seen talking to Grant in the lobby of the apartment as Miss Cherrill. Some said she had her arm around the actor. When Dr. Cornell and Ambulance Driver Bert Tainker arrived at the Grant apartment, the actor was lying across the bed in his underwear. Grant, who at one time was leading man lor Mae West, has had a marked success since coming to the films. He signed a new five-year contract at double his present salary with his studio last week. -« LARGE SPIDER ENTRAPS LIVE MOUSE WITH WEB Rodent Remains Suspended in Midair Until Gust of Wind Breaks Strands. By the Associated Press. SALISBURY. Md„ October 5—A big spider in the barnyard of C. T. Whittle turned cowboy, with surpris ing results. It lassoed a live mouse with a strand of its web and by some mysterious means suspended the mouse, strug gling. 15 feet in the air. Whittle walked out of his barn to day and was astounded to see the mouse hanging In midair without visi ble means of support. Close inspec tion disclosed the spider's web. A gust of wind broke the thread as a photographer was slipping up to make a picture of the trapped victim.! The mouse scampered away and the! spider was robbed of its prize catch, j RUSSIAN GRAIN PLAN IS 85 PCT. FULFILLED — Collections About 10 Per Cent Ahead of Same Period Last Year. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW. October 5 —The govern ment announced today that its grain collection plan was 85 per cent ful filled October 1 as against 75.1 per cent at the same time last year. Eastern and Western Siberia and Kazakistan made the poorest showings among the 30 republics, provinces and regions of the Soviet Union. Eastern Siberia fulfilled only 37 per cent of its allotment and the state farms there only 15 per cent. The collective farms in general de livered 88 8 per cent of their quotas, while the state farms only 79.1 per cent. 288 OFFICERS ADVANCE - War Department Promotions Are Effective October 1. The War Department today an nounced the promotion of 288 officers, of all ranks, effective October 1. By the promotions officers in all branches of the service were moved up one rank, creating 21 new colonels. 52 lieutenant colonels, 75 majors, 63 captains and 77 first lieutenants. The promotions were made possible through the retirement of more than 300 officers for disability on Septem ber 30, two Democratic Representatives who called at the White House the other dav. They asserted they were just making a "friendly" call, but they really asked the President to hurry up with the $3,000,000 relief allotment for their State. eLse they would be defeated in the November elections. (Copyright 1B34J plimp ses of Ocean Mail Subsidies Hearing ^_._ __ _•__ JOHN LAMIELL. __i National Chairman Declares Action o* Georgia Com mittee “Invalid.” By the Associated Press. MACON, Oa„ October 5.—James A. Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, holds ‘'Invalid" the action of the Georgia State Con vention In attempting to oust Maj. John S. Cohen as State committee man after it had criticized the na tional administration. National committeemen are elected by the national conventions, Farley pointed out. adding his voice to that of Emil Hurja, executive director of the committee, who said Maj. Cohen "is in until 1936.” Dominated by Gov. Eugene Tal madge, who personally named more Than half the delegates, the State con vention declared "vacant” the place held by the national vice chairman and editor of the Atlanta Journal. It elected Ryburn G Clay, Atlanta bank er, to succeed him. Maj. Cohen refused to quit, saying. “The sum total of my offending seems to have been my consistent and devoted advocacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” He had been attacked for opposing party candidates. The convention condemned “the policy of the Government which dom inates and competes with private busi ness.’’ opposed the processing tax on agricultural products and called for "cessation of the orgy of money spending.” FLORIDA CITY FLOODED Fourteen Inches of Kain Fall at Pensacola In 19 Hours. PENSACOLA. Fla . October 5 OP) — Pensacola had received 14 inches of rain from nocn yesterday until 7 a.m. today as a result of the disturbance now located in the gulf somewhere south of here, the local Weather Bureau reported today. The rain was continuing a down pour at 9 a m. and the streets In the business section were flooded with stalled autos scattered everywhere. • The tide in Pensacola Bay was 18 inches above normal. The highest wind recorded so far was 35 miles at 6 a m. But it was blowing only 22 at 9 a m. SAFE CRACKING FAILS Kobbers Unable to Force Door at Piggly Wiggly Store. An attempt to crack the safe at the Piggly Wiggly Co. store. 2009 Eight eenth street, failed last night when the cracksmen were unable to force open the door. They drilled through a cement bottom of the safe, but were stopped when they came to the metal center. Hugh Sullivan, manager, found the safe in the alley when he opened the store this morning. It contained 8165, he said. Informed Authorities of Plan to Abduct Heiress on Wedding Eve. By th* Associated Press. WHEELING. W. Va.. October 8.— 1 To a humble coal miner, whose name remains undisclosed, authorities gave credit today for the "tip'' that led to frustration of the plot to kidnap Betty Bloch. Wheeling heiress, on the eve of her wedding. While sipping an ice cream soda in a drug store booth, the miner over heard a conversation which aroused hi* suspicion, and he notified Prose cutor Don McKee. The prosecutor called in Federal agents from P.us- 1 burgh. Authorities said the details sup plied by the miner enabled them to lay a trap for the conspirators, to "clinch'' details by use of dictagraph* and foil the entire plot. Meanwhile, Harry Thornton, a former foot ball player, and Thurman P. Bowen, both 31. are in jail under bond of *100.000 each, pending action by the Federal grand jury. Both pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of conspiracy to kidnap and face max imum penalties of life Imprisonment, if convicted. Miss Bloch is to be married tomor row to Wilmot Harris of Washington. Plot Nipped BETTY BLOCH. A plot to kidnap Miss Bloch, 24-year-old daughter of a wealthy Wheeling, W. Vt.. tobacco manu facturer, was announced yester day by Department of Justice agents, who arrested two men for the conspiracy. The men ar rested were Harry Thornton and Thurman Bowen. Agents said they admitted they conspired to kidnap the girl and hold her for $25,000 ransom. Miss Bloch, prominent in West Virginia so ciety. is to be married October 6 to Wilmot X* Harris of Washing ton, D. C. —A. P. Photo. When England’s Great Liner Took to Water Aerial view of the giant English liner, the^Queen Mary, as she was towed into the fitting-out basin after her launching at Clydebank, England, recently. Queen A V Mary of England sponsored the giant 'ship and christened it after herself. It is said to be the only boat bearing the name of a living sovereign. * —JLr. Photo. JAMES PEACOCK._ maTs is reported" IN PHILADELPHIA; Detectives Seek Fugitive Gangster Seen Driving Away in Automobile. By the Associated Presa. PHILADELPHIA. October 5 —City detectives last night said they were "hot" on the trail of Robert Mais and Walter Legenza. gangsters who killed j a prison guard and wounded two others In shooting their way out of the Richmond, Va., jail last Sat urday. Mais was seen standing on a street comer in Philadelphia Tuesday night while police of the eastern seaboard were searching for him and his com panion, the Detective Bureau dis closed. He drove away In an automobile bearing New Jersey license plates, they said. The detectives added they had re ceived word last night from the sheriff at Hagerstown. Md.. to be on the watch for an automobile with District of Columbia licenses. The car, the sheriff said, carried both Mais and Legenza and was heading toward Philadelphia. RICHMOND HUNT BALKED. Trails Prove Cold—Toots Dies From Wounds. RICHMOND. Vs.. October 5 Police today were back at their start ing point in the search for Mais and Legenza, who had another murder charged up to their gangster records. Early trails have proved too cold for Detective Capt. A. S. Wright and a searching squad to follow. Back in Richmond seeking more ‘‘leads.’' the police mourned the loss of their comrade, Patrolman W. A. Toots, who died with four gangster bullet wounds in his body. Meanwhile M. Haley Shelton, lawyer for Mrs. Elizabeth Mais. 58. held on charges of aiding in her son’s escape, announced a slander suit would be filed against Public Safety Director J. R. Sheppard for alleged remarks about Shelton's reputation as a lawyer. CROWN PRINCE’S SON LIKES AMERICAN GIRLS But Hohenzollern Heir Says He Will Obey Ex-Kaiser and Not Wed Commoner. By the Associsted Press. LONDON, October 5—Prince Louis Ferdinand, son of the former German Crown Prince, is going to mind his grandfather. ex-Kalser Wilhelm, and never marry a commoner. But that, he said in an interview before leaving for Berlin, is no prob lem; “There are too many pretty girls to think of getting married," he said, laughing. The prince put in a word or two for the United States, where he said busi ness is booming “and everybody is making money.” Louis Ferdinand now is the ultimate heir to the Hohenzollern fortune, since his elder brother was cut off because of his marriage to a commoner. Hence the prince’s statement, “I like American girls best of all in the world, but I’ll never marry against my grand father’s wishes.” HONOR VETERAN MASON Thomas T. Luckett Is Given Gold Emblem. Thomas T. Luckett, retired real es tate operator, was honored by the grand master of District Masons, Vernon T. Owen, at the grand visita tion of the Grand Lodge officers to La Fayette Lodge last night. Mr. Luckett was presented with a gold Masonic emblem by Grand Master Owen. The occasion was the 55th anniversary of Mr. Luckett's mem bership in La Fayette Lodge. Mr. Luckett’s three sons. Dr. Daniel G. Luckett. Thomas I. Luckett. and Harry M. Luckett. the latter being a past master of Pentalpha Lodge, were present lor the exercises. Above, left to right: Postmaster General Farley, W. W. Howes, First Assistant, and Karl A. Crowley, solicitor, as the Post Office Department opened its in quiry into the use of ocean mail subsidies yesterday. Peacock, direc tor of the Commerce Department’s Shipping Board, told the postal officials that mail contractors owe the Government $111,366,757 on loans advanced for reconstruction, reconditioning and purchase of ships. Lamiell, director of the Division of International Postal Service. Is pictured telling of the ramifications of the subsidies. —A. P. Photos. WILL BE EVIDENCE — Company Seeks to Refute U. S. Contention of “Im position” in N.I.R.A. Case By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del , October 5 — The Weirton Steel Co. made known today its plans to introduce ballots— "thousands of them”—to dispute the Government's contention that the em ploye representation plan was "im posed" upon the Weirton employes in violation of the N. R. A. The ballots will purport to show the voluntary selection of collective bar gaining representatives by the work ers under the so-called company union plan. Fourth Day of Hearing. This angle of the company's pro posed defense came out in United States District Court as the fourth day of the hearing got under way in the Government suit for a permanent injunction to prevent the company from interfering with employe elec lions. Robert H. Richards of Weirton coun sel. made known the defense plan when he suggested to the court and Government attorneys that a list cf names be substituted for stack of cards offered in evidence, because "we will probably have a large number of bal lots here to offer in evidence—thou sands of them." Government attorneys agreed to work out the substitution. With the resumption of testimony the Government shifted the locale of its story from Weirton, W. Va., to Steubenville, Ohio. Stack of Cards Shown. Through Jack Reese, an officer of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers there, attor neys introduced the stack of cards purporting to show the number of Weirton employes who enrolled in the amalgamated. The number of cards was not stated. Reese said the principal complaint he heard against the employe repre sentation plan was the embodied right of the company to terminate the plan with the expiration of the N. R. A. Earl F. Reed. Weirton chief counsel asked If It were true that the word "recognition" is "practically synony mous with a 'closed shop.’ ” "No, I don't think so," Reese re plied. EX-MINfSTERS ORDERED TO RETURN ALL PAPERS British Cabinet Alarmed by Se crets Leaking Out in Books by Former Officials. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October 5.—Alarmed at the number of books written by former government officials, the cabinet has ordered all ex-ministers to return state documents in their possession. The government decided the action was necessary after many secrets began to crop out between the covers of books. The cabinet secretary wrote letters sometime ago to the former ministers, most of whom complied. The Socialist leader, George Lans bury. however, refused, saying the cabinet "has no moral or legal right to Interfere" with the traditional prerogative of ministers in taking copies of all documents when they leave office. Escaped Slayer Hit-Run Victim. RIVERSIDE, Calif., October 5 UP).—An itinerant sign painter killed four days ago on the highway near Beaumont by a hit-run driver, was identified yesterday as Leon Stufm, alias James Leroy Fuller, escaped murderer of Raleigh, N. C., Coroner Ben F. White announced. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band, this evening at 7:30, at the Capitol. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader: Suite, "Looking Upward”.Sousa1 "By the Light of the Polar Star.” "Beneath the Southern Cross.” "Mars and Venus." Selections from "Rose Marie”.. .Friml Two movements from the suite "L’Arlesienne” .Bizet "Intermezzo.” ••Farandole.” March from the third movement, "Pathetique Symphony” TschaikoWsky Symphonic poem, "Les Preludes.” Liszt ^'"Hie Star Spangled Banner,’* PINCHOT OPPOSING Governor Is on Warpath, Seeking Scalps of Earle and Guffey. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The political fat Is in the fire Is Pennsylvania, and Gov. Gifford Pin* chot is on the war path seeking the ^ scalps of the Democratic nominee* for ' Governor and Senator, George H. Earle and Joseph F. Guffey, respec tively. In ar. address at Wilkes-Barre last night the Governor characterized Earle as a ‘'greenhorn playboy" and said: “I can’t stand for Guffey." H* explained later in his address why h« was opposed to Guffey. Brands Him a Fool. In an interview yesterday Gov. Pin chot branded Earle as a “fool and a liar.” He was referring In the inter view to a charge made by Earle Wed nesday night that Pinchot had sought to supplant Guffey as the Democratic nominee for Senator, and failing In that direction, had later sought to have Mrs. Pinchot go on the Demo cratic ticket as candidate for Gov ernor in place of Earle. Gov. Pinchot said there was not the slightest bit of truth in these Guffey charges, and he said he believed they were made because Earle had obtained an ad vance copy of the Governor’s speech at. wiiaes-earre ana naa sougnt to distract public attention from the attack which he, Pinchot, was about to make upon Earle and Guffey. If the Democrats ever had any hope that Pinchot would come to their aid in the present campaign in Pennsyl vania—and there seems to be evi dence that they had such hope—it is gone now. Pinchot from this time until election day is likely to be a menace to the whole Democratic ticket. The Governor continues to praise President Roosevelt and his policies. He did so in his Wilkes Barre speech last night. But he is flaying the Earle-Guffey ticket. What effect this will have on the political situation remains to be seen. One thing is sure, however, and that Is the Pinchot attacks will not be help ful to either Guffey or Earle. Approve Schnader. The Governor gave his out-and-out approval to Attorney General Wil liam A. Schnader, the Republican nominee for Governor. While he did not praise Senator David A. Reed nor use his name, the Governor hit out at Guffey, Reed Democratic op ponent. without gloves. •'I can t stand Guffey,” he said re peatedly. In the gubernatorial contest Gor. Pinchot said at Wilkes-Barre, “Just about the best-fitted man in all Penn sylvania Is running against just about the worst.” The belief prevails that before the campaign has progressed much fur ther Gov. Pinchot will be supporting the whole Republican ticket, includ ing Reed, not because he has any love for Reed, but because of his strong opposition to Guffey. The rally last night was one of the largest ever held in Luzern* County, according to the press dis patches. Mr. Guffey has been recognized as the Democratic leader in Pennsyl vania. He was early on the Roose velt side in the contest for the presi dential nomination in 1932. and did much to have a large number of Roosevelt delegates sent by Pennsyl vania to the national convention. Indictment Charged. According to a dispatch of the As sociated Press, Gov. Pinchot said, after insisting that he could not stand for Guffey, that Guffey was indicted in 1922 on a charge of embezzlement and that it stood for eight years before be ! ing dismissed. “So far as the record shows.” con tinued the Governor. “Guffey made no effort whatever to clear his name by bringing the case to trial.” Pinchot also attacked Guffey for “posing as Roosevelt's fair-haired bov" "I think.” said the Governor, "that he (President Roosevelt) is often de ceived and hampered and harrassed by the Farleys, the Guffeys and tha rest of the spoilsmen and little broth ers of the rich in his own party,” Democrats Primed. The Democrats were primed for tha attack which Gov. Pinchot planned to make on their ticket, apparently. Earle, who launched the first blow at Pinchot Wednesday, charging that Pinchot had sought to make deals to get on the Democratic ticket, de scribed the Governor as the “medicine man of the Republican party.” Charles J. Margiotti, former candi date for the Republican nomination for Governor but who has since coma out for the Democratic ticket, said at Harrisburg that he had been asked by the Governor to join in launohing an independent ticket, and added he would have more to say In a radio address. The Democratic State chair man, David L. Lawrence, at Pittsburgh, charged Gov. Pinchot with the “un speakable crime of betrayal.” saying that the Governor had secured indorse ment of his five public service com missioners in return for support of the Republican ticket. And so it goes. Gov. Pinchot, in his interview de nying that he had sought to get on the Democratic ticket, said that lrom about the middle of 1933 a number of Influential Democrats had come to him at different times with the state ment that the Democrats ought to nominate him for United States Sen ator. He said: “Another plan suggested to me from an important Democratic source was that I should set up an independent ticket which would then be Indorsed by the Democrats. "I was asked to make no answer to these propositions, and I made acne. Announced Candidacy. “In March I announced my can didacy on the Republican ticket. Attempts by certain Democrats to have me indorsed by the Democrat* were renewed after my defeat at the primaries. “From that time on these efforts to secure the withdrawal of Mr. Guffey and my selection in his place were continued. It was known, of course, that the people of Pennsylvania would refuse to stomach Mr. Guffey. “My reply was that I would not support Guffey under any circum stance, and that I would not con sider any plan that did not include proper representation on the ticket for the progressive Republicans and proper consideration for them after election. I said that such represen tation must include either the sena torship or the governorship, I did not care which.” Hail Official Dies in Georgia. ATLANTA, October 5 OP).—R. A. McCranie of Jacksonville, Fla., gen eral superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with headquar ters in Jacksonville, died in a private hospital here yesterday after a brief i^es*. ^