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Startling Victory of Democrats in the Maine Election ?
Hoover Calls for Big Budget Cutd ? Von Papen
? Triumphs Over Reichstag.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
GREAT rejoicing among the Demo
crats, and corresponding/ dismay
In the Republican <^amps. Maine, nor
mally a rock-ribbed Republican state,
has gone Democratic,
and everyone is quot
ing the old adage:
MAs Maine goes, so
goes the Nation."
Whether or not that
is true, this Septem
ber election certainly
gives Immense en
couragement to the
supporters of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. Nor
did the Hoover forces
attempt to minimize
its Importance.
Louis J.
Brann
For the first time
In 18 years Maine chose a Democrat
for governor. He Is Louis J. Brann,
mayor of Lewlston, whose plurality
over Burleigh Martin was nearly 1,400.
The Democrats also elected two out
of three congressmen the victors be
ing Edward C. Moran, Jr., Rocliland
Insurance agent who twice ran for
governor, and John G. Utterback, an
automobile dealer who was once re
form mayor of Bangor. Congressman
Carroll L Beedy, Republican, was re
elected In the First district
Republican National Chairman Ev
erett Sanders sent a reassuring tele
gram to President Hoover, but the
Chief Executive was not to be de
ceived. His reply wire said :
"The result of the election In Maine
imposes need for renewed and strong
er effort that the people may fully un
derstand the Issues at stake. We
have known all along that, owing to
the ravages of tho world depression,
our fight is a hard one; but we have
a strong case and a right caufee. Our
task is to acquaint every man and
woman in the country wfth the facts
and issues which confront the nntion."
"We are greatly disappointed," ad
mitted Vice President Curtis. "But It
will only make us work the harder,
and we will carry Maine in Novem- |
ber."
Democratic Chairman Farley grinned
exultantly as he said he was impa
tiently awaiting a Republican expla
nation of the Democratic victory In
Main?.
"The Democrats do not concede a
single state," he added. "I think It
must be admitted by Mr. Hoover's sup
porters that In this particular com
monwealth the Democratic prospects
were no better, to put it mildly, than
in the least promising (from our point
of view) of the so-called doubtful
states. Maine was no harder hit by
the depression than the rest of the
country and had no more reason to
resent the evasive policies of the ad
ministration."
PRIMARIES were held In various
states during the week. In Mich
igan Gov. Wllber M. Brucker, Repub
lican, easily won renomlnatlon and
Representatives Walcott and Person
also were victors. The Democrats
named W. A. Comstock for governor.
Senators George H. Moses of New
Hampshire and Porter Dale of Ver
mont were renominated by the Repub
licans, as was Senator E. D. Smith by
the Democrats of South Carollna. Cole
Blease being rejected. In Louisiana
' Representative John H. Overton,
friend of Senator Huey Long, defent
ed Senator Broussard who sought re
?, nomination.
MR. "HOOVER poked a stick into
a hornet's nest when he made
public the report of Attorney General
William D. Mitchell on the bonus army
nnd tho regrettable
Incident of Its oust
ing from Washington.
Mitchell said his In
vestigators found that
most of the B. F3. F.
members were hon
est, earnest and law
abiding, but that per
haps a quarter of
them were criminals,
* many were radicals,
many were arrant
fakers, and the worst
were among those
who were evicted by
Att'y Gen.
Mitchell
troop* with tear gns andv flrimes.
The attorney general defended the
manner of eviction and the conduct
of the troopn used, and the Presl
dent said; "This report should cor
rect the many misstatements of fact
as to this Incident with which the
country has be&n flooded."
But many newspapers and Individ
uals, hotly discussing the report, de
clared It was misleading generally
and absolutely false In certain vltnl
parts; and It is a question whether
It did not still further alienate a con
siderable part of the body of wnr
veterans from suppoft ot jthe admin
istration. Of course, it was one of
the major topics of talk among the
members of the American Legion
when they assembled 16 'Portland.
Of greater Importance to the I/O
< jtlonnnlres than this affair ,wss the
demand for Immediate cash payment
ot the bono*. The resolution calling
for this was adopted by a vote of 1,167
to 109 after a noisy debate. The dele
gates thus disregarded tfffe warnings
of President Hoover and General
Hlnes, director of the veterans' bu
reau, that the payment would cost tha
treasury between two and two and
one-half billion dollars and Impose an
Intolerable burden on taxpayers.
Other resolutions adopted called for
repeal of the Eighteenth amendment
and Immediate modification of the
Volstead act, opposed cancellation of
foreign war debta and favored ade
quate national defense. Chicago was
selected for the 1933 convention, and
Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, W.
Va., was elected national commander.
HOW the problem of Intergovern
mental debts may best bo solved
Is the puzzling question that Is now
being considered by a new organlza
tlon of business lend
ers of the nation, sev
enty-six men promi
nent In Industry, agri
culture and labor. Al
fred P. Sloan, Jr.,
president of General
Motors, Is the chair
man, and the vice
chairmen Include Hen
ry A. Wallace, farm
paper publisher of
Des Moines; Dr.
Nicholas Murray But
I A. P. Sloan, Jr.
ler, president of Co
lumbia university ; James M. Cox, for
mer governor of Ohio; John W.
Davis, former ambassador to Great
Britain; Frank O. Lowden, former
governor of Illinois; E. A. O'Neal,
president of the American Farm Bu
reau federation, and Louis Tabor,
master of the National grange.
Mr. Sloan's new forum, It Is an
nounced, will devote itself to "mob
ilizing practical opinion" on the
international debts question.
PRESIDENT HOOVER started off
the week well by calling on the
heads of departments and the execu
tives of all other federal activities to
cut out all non-essentials from bug
get requests for the next fiscal year.
The President said he had requested
Director of the Budget Roop ' "to
make every "flfort to secure a reduc
tion of at least $500,000,000 in the
estimates of appropriations for the
next year from the appropriations
made for the current year, and the
co-operation of the responsible ad
ministrative officers Is necessary to
achieve this end. A, part of this can
be accomplished in reduction of con
struction, activities which have been
so greatly speeded up during the past
few years as an aid to employment."
. From administration sources It was
learned the President hoped the to
tal budget reduction might bo $800,
000,000.
Just before sending his message to
department head3, the President an
nounced that the government would
go ahead with that portion of the
construction program which the relief
act made contingent on the ability of
the treasury to raise the necessary
money. He said he had Instructed
the various departments to speed up
the program by the amount of slight
ly less than $200,000,000.
On Tuesday the War department,
to advance the government's employ
ment relief efforts, approved a great
construction program thnt calls for
the expenditure of $41,f>77,200 on flood
control and rivers and harbors proj
ects. The dopnrtment expects these
activities will provide work for 25,
000 persons now Jobless.
THOUGH supported by only one
fifteenth of the relchstag, the gov
ernment of Chancellor Von Papen of
Germany remains In power, for It has
the bricking of Presi
dent Von ITIndenburff
who seems to agree
with the chancellor
that parliamentary
government In the
relch Is a failure..
When the relchstag
met Monday Von Fa
pen tried to read the
command for its dis
solution given him
by the president, but
Herman (Joerlng, the Von Papen
Nazi president of the!
parliament, refused to recognize him
t until after a voto of non confidence In
the government had been moved by a
Nazi and carried by an overwhelming
majority.
Von Papen wnlked out, leaving the
decree of dissolution on Ooerlng'H
desk. That gentleman announced It
was not valid since thA relchstag hnd
already overthrown the cabinet. I,ater
he admitted thfit both the dissolution
and the vote of non-conflrtonco were
legal, after being rebuked by the pres
, Ident for his action, -dovernment offi
cials aald there would be new elec
tions Within sixty days, according to
the constitution, but tho Deutsche*
Zeltung, mouthpiece of the govern
I ment, said: "There will bo no new
i elections? no decision on s date of
l election Is expected In the near future."
AS WAS forecast a week ago,
France rejected the German de
mand fpr equality of Armaments,
though In a conciliatory way, assert
ing that the other allied nations and
also the United States would have to
assent to. Che proposal before It could
be granted. Chancellor Von Papen
thereupon announced, that German
delegates, would not attend further ses
sions of the disarmaments conference,
which reassembled Wednesday.
FROM Riga comes the Interesting
statement that Josef Stalin, dic
tator of Soviet Russia, has loBt his
influence and before long will be re
placed Q8 secretary
of the Communist
party ? the only office
he holds ? by M. I.
Kaganovlch. This lat
ter man, however, Is
a devoted disciple of
Klem E. Voroshllov,
commander of the
Soviet armies, so It
is taken for granted
that Voroshllov will
thereafter direct the
policies of the Com
munist party and of
the nation.
K. E. Voro.
shilov
Stalin's reign, it is said, Is being
brought to u close because of failure of
the flve-year plan to industrialize the
country, coupled with the growing
shortage of food, which Is causing
workers everywhere to desert the In
dustrial undertakings and return to
the villages.
Another reason for the fall of the
dictator Is said to be Moscow's hope
to obtain American recognition by a
radical change of Internal policy. Vo
roshllov is anxious to obtain America
as an ally against Japan, whose plans,
Russians fear, threaten Siberia.
MANCHOUKUO, the "independent"
'state set up by Japan In Man
churia, is now a full-fledged nation
for Japan gave it recognition by sign
ing a protocol Thursday at Chang
chun, which city was re-named
HBlnching, meaning "New Capital."
There was great rejoicing in Tokyo
nnd a display of Intense resentment
in Chinese cities.
CHILE narrowly escaped another
revolution during the week. A
military clique led by Col. Arttfro
Benitez, air force commander, served
notice on Carlos Davlla, the Social
ist President and former ambassa
dor to Washington, thnt unless he re
signed the Presidential palace would
be bombed or attacked by troops.
The clique already had forced the
resignation of the cabinet, and the
men and planes of the air corps gath
ered at Santiago ready for action.
So Davlla gracefully stepped down
and out, saying he would leave Chile
and probably would seek a job in
journalism in some other country.
G athered in sioux city for the
purpose of considering the needs
of the farmers, governors and other
representatives of nine middle west
ern states outlined a proposed federal
program for financial aid to farmers.
Among other things they suggested
tariff revision to protect, farm prod
ucts, "sound" expansion of currency.
Reconstruction Finance corporation
loans to farmers, $ moratorium on
farm mortgage foreclosures and crop
surplus control legislation.
This program seemed fuirly satis
factory to the farmers who were on
"strike," and there was an Immediate
decrease in the picketing that had
kept much farm produce out of sev
eral large cities, especially In Iowa.
FOR several days It was believed
the "Flying Family," made up of
Mr% and Mrs. George R. Hutchinson,
their two small daughters and a crew
of four, had perished, off the coast of
Greenland on their flight by stages
to Europe. Their huge amphibian
plane was forced down and smashed
in the Ice, but all of them were found
alive and unhurt In an Eskimo settle
ment and were taken to AngmagKnlik
P?y the lirltish trawler Lord Talbot.
The projected flight of the Hutchin
sons over Greenland and Iceland was
not approved by the Danish govern
ment, and the taking of the children
has been severely criticized.
Receivers for the insuii utility
Investments, Inc., report to Fed
eral Judge Llndley In Chicago that
the concern Is hopelessly insolvent,
Its assets being $27,473,304 and ItH
liabilities $253,084,341. Aside from
the $148,000,000 which 51,078 persons
Invested in the stock of the corpora
tion and lost, there still remains a
deficit of $78,474,403.
That apparently wipes ont the pur
chasers of $58,045,028 of debenture
bonda In the company, with Atill n
deficit of nearly $20,000,000. That Is
nearly half of what the bankers
loaned the corporation.
KOUR years ngo John D. Rockefel
ler, Jr., conceived the Idea of r?
storing the old town of Williamsburg,
Va., to the conditions of colonial days.
Tho first step In the project, the
restoration of the historic Raleigh
tavern, has been completed, and the
structure, rebuilt on the original site
nnd furnished In the style In vogue
150 years ago, was opened to the pub
lie on Friday. This one Item has
cost more than $200,000 of the $5,000,
000 Mr. Rockefeller has contributed
for tho entire work.
Close by tho tavern, which Is sit
uated on' the f)uke of Gloucester
j, street, Is the old Colonial Capitol
building, another of tho stmeturo
which ha* been Included In the res
toration plan nnd which In now near
?' Ing completion. * ?
1932 W??t?rn NewApnpor Union.
Disappearance of Judge
Still Remains Mystery
T wo- Y ear Search for New
York Jurist Unavailing.
.Kew York. ? Two years ago Supreme
Court Justice Joseph Force Crater
sauntered casually out of Haas' res
taurant, 332 West Forty-fifth street,
Manhattan, stepped into a taxicab,
waved a Jovial farewell to the friends
with whom he had been dining, and
I drove off into oblivion.
Not only have the police been un
able to find any trace of him, dead or
alive, but they have been unable to
locate the taxi driver or cab in which
many of his friends believe he took his
last ride.
But whatever his fate, he left be
hind him a baffling mystery that al
ready has taken its placo beside the
mysterious disappearance of Dorothy
Arnold and Charlie Ross.
Intensive Search Futile.
Never in recent years has there
been so intensive or so futile a search
for a missing person. Coming in the
midst of the investigation of charges
that District Leader Martin J. Healy
had accepted a $10,000 bribe for ob
taining George W. Ewald an appoint
ment as city magistrate, It created a
political sensation.
The attorney general's investigation
Into the Healy-Ewald charges was ex
tended to cover other charges which
were sent from various sources to the
attorney general affecting higher and
lower courts. The attorney general
dug deep into the Crater disappear
ance in an effort to learn whether his
mysterious absence had any connec
tion with the Judicial probe. He could
find none.
The police, personal friends and
members of the family of the Jurist
were equally unable to find any rea
son why he should vanish. The board
of aldermen offered a reward of $25,
000 for Information as to his where
abouts. Mayor Walker offered $5,000
reward. Other rewards were offered
by the newspapers.
It was estimated that in all some
$250,000 was spent in running down
wlll-o' the-wisp clews in various parts
of the United States, Canada. Mexico
and Cuba. The search Is still on.
Legally Justice Crater Is still alive.
His wife, Mrs. Stella Crater, still
clings to a tenuous hope that he may
actually be so. ?
If he is alive, a secondary mystery Is
how a man with such unusual charac
teristics can remain undiscovered after
his photograph and description have
been spread so widely throughout vir
tually the entire civilized world.
For Crater's appearance was such
as would attract attention anywhere.
Although he was six feet tall and
weighed 185 pounds, his head was so
small that he wore a hat. With
all his bulk, he had a long, thin neck,
and wore a size 14 collar.
Crater was appointed to the Su
preme court bench on April 8. 1930, by
Governor Roosevelt to succeed Joseph
F. Proskauer.
Spending the summer of 1930 with
his wife at Belgrade Lnke, Maine,
where they had been going for 15
years, Crater received a telephone call
on August 2 and told his wife he was
going to Manhattan on important po
litical business.
Never Saw Him Again.
On August 4, 5 and 0 he was in his
chambers in the New York county
courthouse,' according to his personal
attendant, Joseph Mara, son of John
Mara, Tammany leader of the twenty
third A. D. On August C, Mara said,
Perfect No Trump
Hand Dealt Player
Buffalo, N. Y. ? Mrs. George O.
Lehmann was dealt a perfect bridge
hand In a recent game with her
husband and two ott er players.
Mrs. Lehmann kept a straight
fac6 when picking up her cards and
with no trace of emotion bid a grand
slam at no trump <o the astonish
ment of. the other players.
The unusual hand contained- ev
ery aee, king and queen in the deck,
together with one Jack.
Justice Crater spent most of the morn
ing tearing up papers and putting
others ip a brief case and in four card
board boxes.
Then he sent Mara out to cash two
checks totaling $5,100. Mara returned
with the money and helped the Jurist
carry the hoxes of papers and the
brief case to his apartment at 40 Fifth
avenue, Manhattan. He told Mara he
was "going up In Westchester for a
swim" and would be back the next
day. That was the last Mara ever
saw of him.
But he did not go to Westchester
that afternoon and his movements
have been traced that night up to the
time he enteied the mystery cab. At
0:30 he purchased a theater ticket at
the theatrical ticket office of Joseph
Gralnsky In Times Square. Then he
weht to the Forty-fifth street restau
rant.
In the restaurant he dined with
William Klein, attorney for Shubert
brothers; a show girl named Sally Ix>u
Ritz, and her parents. They left the
restaurant with him and It was to
them he wtived farewell after he
stepped Into the taxlcab.
Red Ant* Fill Signal,
Halt Trains in Texas
Marshall, Texas. ? Ants ? common
red ants ? stopped traffic on the Ivouls
lana division of the Texas & Pacific
railroad for a time, much to the an
noyance of everybody.
Passenger train No. 24. eastbound,
encountered a red light near Scotts
vllle and halted. Trainmen were un
able to find the cause. Train No. 20
had the same trouble.
An Investigation revealed that ants
had worked Into the signal box and
formed the contact/ Many ants had
been electrocuted, breaking the cur
rent and causing the signul to remain
red.
England's "White Horiei"
There are three "White Horses"
in England, one In Berkshire, one on
the downs three miles east of West
bury in Wiltshire, and a third at Lul
worth near Weymouth in Dorsetshire.
On the top of the White Horse hill
In Berkshire Is a magnificent Roman
camp, complete as If left only a few
years ago, and on the downs at West
bury the earth works are as perfect
as any could be found in France from
the World war. As these two horses
are only a few miles apart, with their
camps, there seems good reason for
believing the legends told of them to
be founded In fact. There Is no doubt
that battles were fought In that sec
tion. The Dorsetshire horse was cut
to commemorate another event.
BO" CALLS TEAM OUT
"Bo" McMlllin, as tie was known
when ho led the "praying colonels" of
Center college, Kentucky, has lined up
some promising material for the new
season at Kansas State college, where
he now officiates. The future quarter
back in the picture is Jere Robert Mc
Mlllin, ten months old, who shows con
siderable aptitude in learning signals,
according to his proud dad.
Two Great Expositions
Are Planned by Paris
Paris. ? Two great world expositions
are planned for Paris during the next
five years, a first World's Kibor fair,
in 193."), and the second International
Decorative Arts exposition, in 1037.
They will be followed by a third In
ternational Colonial exposition before
1940.
Modern decorative arts, particularly
in furniture, interior decorating, jew
elry and architecture, have changed
so rapidly that the lines which existed
in 192a, the epoch of the first arts
exposition, are sadly out of fashion.
The Labor fair is intended to revive
the trades and corporations of other
centuries, to re-establish the bands of
each branch of industry. It will also
revive the great labor fetes of the Eu
ropean calendars of the days of kings
and serfs ? the annual harvest fetes,
grape picking parties, and other cele
brations which went out with the revo?
lution.
Poem* Were Returned
Educated, pure young Japanese poet
seeks position as Journalistic worker,
window cleaner, tutor, housekeeper or
schoolboy. ? Japan Advertiser, Tokio.
Nile River Water Will
Engulf Temple of Isis
<e_
Was Erected to Isis, Goddess
of Fertility.
Cairo, Egypt. ? Again one of those
extraordinary coincidences between
the super natural mythology of oncient
Egypt and happenings In the land of
I'haroahs In the present day has come
to startle believers In the occult.
When the late Lord Carnnvaron, who,
with Howard Carter, brought the
relics of Tut-ankh-Aninn's tomb to
light, died as the result of the bite of
an Insect, mystics pointed to the fate
of the great archeologist as the ful
fillment of a dire prophecy. The mod
ern world considered the death of
I/ord Carnavaron as merely a strange
coincidence.
And now those conversant with
Egyptian mythology point to the
forthcoming submergence of the tem
ple of Isis, ancient Egyptian goddess
of fertility, which Is so oddly linked
with the mythology of the goddess.
For the mysterious temple of Isis,
which Is located on the most beauti
ful islond In all Egypt, I'hllae, seven
miles south of the great Assunn dam,
will bo completely submerged when
the Assuan reservoir, now being en
Lost at Sea for 115 Days
-
Drifting helplessly for 115 days In n disabled SO foot flsKlhg boat, It. A.
Iilggs of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was picked up off Point San Luis, Calif. He
was weak from hunger and exhaustion after nearly four months of wandering
over the seas, during which, he srtld, he was once driven by the wind to a
point only 000 miles from Honolulu. The photograph shows Illgga on tho how
of his boat.
t larged, is filled by the annual flood
waters of the Nile.
; And as the waters of the Nile an
I nually recede from the flood stage,
this great temple, one of the most
beautiful ruins of antiquity, will, as
if having imparted to the waters the
fertility which the ancient Egyptians
believed was in the power of the god
dess to bestow, again for a season,
appear in Its former glory.
Isis, the patron goddess of the
Pharaohs, was the goddess of nature
and fertility, and the greatest goddess
of lOtfypt, who, with her husband
Osiris, legend relates, dwelt when on
earth on the fruitful Island of Philne.
Osiris was a kind and beneficent rrod.
lie was the first to teach his children,
the Egyptians, how to grow barley
and wheat and how to make wine. He
also built banks along the Nile to pre
vent it from destroying life and prop
erty lit flood times and constructed
Irrigation canals tn make richly pro
ductive the barren lands near the Nil
valley.
In addition to being worshiped as
the god of ascrlculuire, Osiris was
looked upon as having the same pow
ers as llep, the divine keeper of the
Nile. When the mineral impregnated
waters of the great stream made fer
tile the lands along Its banks so that
the crops grown thereon were boun
teous. offerings were made him by the
priesthood in the temple of Isis.
Boys Mixed Up at Birth
May Get Right Parent*
Iterlln. ? A mother's recognition of
familiar features of a son twelve years
old may restore to her her rightful
boy In place of the child given her by
mlstako at the time of his birth.
Frau Mario Donk of Oladhach, der
ma ny, has a suit, on file to force Kran
Mathilda Month to exchange sons born
12 years ago In a maternity clinic. Tho
prospects for the exchange are favor
able. but the happiness of tho boys,
in finding natural parents whom they
do not know, Is being considered.
Though Frau Donk declares she pro
tested to nurses in 1 5)20 that they had
given her the wrong baby, It was not,
until a few months ago when sh?
chanced to meet Heinrich, son of Frau
Heuth, on the streets, and found his
resemblance to her eldest son so strik
ing that she became convinced sho had
been given the wrong baby at the hos
pital.
Illood tests, fingerprints, and facial
features seem to prove Fhm Donk's
Judgment. If the court confirms tho
'scientists' Judgment, the Mouth family
has agreed not to challenge tho de
cision.