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WEATHER INDICATIONS FINAL EDITION Mostly cloudy to-night; to-morrow cloudy, followed by rain; gentle aw ii. ii ii 11 11 if 11 ii ii ii 11 11 tv 11 122, BROOKLYN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, PAGES. GSHIIiffER Fiffl A NOTHER WONDERFUL SPEECH 3 Bluecoat With Brass Buttons Enlivens Gray Day by Chasing Green Snake With White Spots variable wind boeomlnf 1 rate southeast, NO. Brooklyn Man, Paul Marko, Highly Phased by Trip ra Great Dirigible FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Not, 1 (U. The Graf Zeppelin was grounded outside ber hangar here all 7 .00 a.

to-day, completing a voyage of approximately 4,400 mllei from Lakehurst, N. in 71 hours and 15 minutes. IIE17 RECORD liSiiF mod. AFTER iV 4 irJll St It waa the second round trip in hie- Governor Smith buttoned np hia coat when he and Mrs, Smith left the Newark Armory in which ha the Republican party for deceiving the voters. PRICE TWO CENTS firing 12 Great Demonstration in Manhattan Will Be Home Town's Tribute to Leading Citizen Gov.

Alfred E. Smith will be wei- corned home to New York to-morrow in a demonstration that probably will be the most pretentious and heartfelt "of any since Col. Lindbergh came home. At noon a parade headed by Gov. and Mrs.

Smith will stsrt from the Batetry, proceed up Broadway to City' Hall, thence np Broadway to Fourteenth street through TTnion Square to Fifth avenue and on np to Fifty-ninth street. Some two dosen cars win follow the Governor's machine, and a police escort and a mounted Mod will lead the procession. The parade has been arranged by William H. Rankin, president of Associated Business for Better New-York. Mr.

Rankin announced last nfclit that the' Governor had accepted the sociation'a invitation to take part The organization has asked business houses along the line of march to decorate with the national colors and city flags. Assurances received thus far indicated that the line will be liberally bedecked. Mayor Walker and George W. 01-vany will ride in the leading car with Governor and Mrs. 8mith.

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Colonel and Mrs. Herbert H.

Lehman will be Continued as Page Fosr ASPHYXIATED BY GAS FUMES Mother, Daughter and Sen Found Dead in Beds Apparently Died ra Sleep Mrs. Minnie Atkise, 45 years old, her daughter, 21, and her son, James, 23, were found dead from gas to-day in their apartment on the third floor of No. 263 Clermont avenue. Patrolman Edward Scanlon of the Claason avenue station, who forced his way into the apartment, found three gaa jets In the kitchen and one In the lull bedroom occupied by James turned on. Scanlon reported that be found all three in their beds, and that apparently they had died in their sleep.

The. gaa fumes were so heavy when the police man bunt Into the apartment that was nearly overcome before he waa abt to get the windows open, ho was summoned by Mrs. Ada Sinclair, a neighbor living on the floor below the Atkise apartment 8h told them, police aaid. that aha had heard groaning in the Atkise apartment at about 1 o'clock thla morning and that sh had knocked on the door but had received no reply. They were preparing to move and had spent 'yesterday packing so, believing them tired from their labors, she did not bnther tfa'ie further, police said Mrs.

Sinclair tll them. III HE Hl'J 1 Sill SMITH PLEDGES LABOR HOOVER TO END CAMPAIGN WITH FOUR SPEECHES Makes First Tonight in Maryland Will Then Move Westward WASHINGTON, Not. 1 (United Press). Herbert Hoover will leave the national capital to-day, the center of hia career for three administrations and the base of the unusual campaign for the Presidency, on a trans-continental journey to his California home to cast hia vote. It would be a costly Tote, but he goes on another mission, to garner other votes on his way west by publie appearances before thouaanda of voters and by four speeches in which he la ex-pecetd to restate, Jn general, hia position upon the issues of the eleciionT He will deliver the first of these final campaign messages to-night, standing beneath the sputtering flares reminis cent of other political campaigns in the little town of Cumberland in western Maryland, a Republican stronghold in this State generally conceded as "doubtful." The high point: of hia Western trip will be his appeal fo farm support in hia St Louis address' to-morrow night over a national hook-up.

The two other speeches on the way West will be at Louisville to-morrow morning, which he will deliver from the Court House steps after an hour' parade through the city, and at Pueblo, CU the home of Chairman Work of the Republican National Committee, Saturday night. Chiracs and counter-charges concerning "whispering campaigns'' were raised here aa Hoover prepared to leave hia Eastern base of operations. Bon Leadm at Services for Mn. Mary Walth i Funeral services were conducted to day for Mrs. Mary Walsh, 82, of No.

301 Macon street, mother of Magistrate John J. Walsh. A high requiem mass waa celebrated at Our Lady of Victory R. C. Church, McDonough street and Throop avenue, Mona.

Charlea O'Brien. Burial was iri Holy Cross About 100 attended the services, including Park Commissioner James J. Browne, Magistrate Louis H. Reynolds and William T. Delaney, one of Brooklyn's Democratic leaders, Woman, Old Of hnJv, Sent To JeU On Intoxiettion Charge Nellie Kennedy went to the cup once too often.

Nellie and the cup that cheers have been bosom pala ior some time. to; the, -official ahe. baa been convicted forty-three times of intoxication. Yesterday afternoon aha. waa arraigned before Magistrate' Hirehfield la the Flatbush court on the complaint of Patrolman William Cadaa of the Bergen street Magistrate Hirehfield gave her six months in the Workhouse.

8he is but 38 years old and lives at No. lOTillary etreet aassnaasassaoBBSBSSSSassmasBBssBsaaBBBsaaaajBsn ToSaHi Revolving Hngta, FRANKFORT, Germany. Not. 1 (17. The municipality has started a popular subscription fund to build revolving hangar for dirigibles "here.

CkaTMf Hmt Figtrtt Bank ekarmga H.tOO.OOO.OOt Clear ing Heme hahncs HW. OOO.OOO; FeoVral Reserr Bank Credit baUnea IliS.OOO,- pot. building, and believe it or not stuck its head out coyly. Kenny made a pass with his stick. The snake drew Its head in just in time.

Then Kenny sent a call for help and four other policemen turned up. All five followed aa the anake darted down Henderson's Walk again until it wound itself around a tall pole in Ita way. The policemen stood underneath, and aa Kenny put up his hand to arrest It, the snake turned ita head and Kenny say so apit at him. That waa enough and Kenny brought bis nightstick down on hia assailant's head with a whack that left it almost motionless. A half hour later, in a box in the Coney Island police station it waa still almost lifeless all the spirit taken out of it.

WORKTO START IJPONNEWLANES ONQUjENSSPAN Berry Ordered to Contmne Negotiations to Purchase LaitdiorAppioaches Work on the construction of three new traffic lanes on the Queensboro Bridge will be started Immediately aa th result of the action taken thla afternoon by the Board of Estimate. At the same time the board authorised Controller Berry to continue hia nego- tations for the purchase of land ou the Manhattan and Queens side of the bridge for the three additional ap proaches contemplated under the Thla ateo to relieve the present con gestion on the Queensboro Bridge will entail an expenditure of approximately $6,000,000 an increase of $1,500,000 over the coat as planned by the eitv ancineers. A delegation of about 150 Queens residents and taxpayers were told that thla increase waa due to the jump in the a uesaed valuation of the land which the city seeks to purchase. Some delav la expected in negotiations with Manhattan property owners. Mora than SO per cent on the Queens aids jav already assented to sell their property to the cltv at a price slichtly higher than its aasessed valuation.

The main change on the bridge itself will in the relocation of the track, which at pres ent occupies almost the entire second tier. -These tracks will be pushed to one aide and a new roadway constructed on the other. Jabea Dunnlniham. Queens civic worker, and L. C.

L. 8mith, president of the Oueensboro Chamber of Commirce, acted as spokesman for the delegation. frotJlers Held lor Robbtry i Joseph and James O'Reilly, brothers, were held tor the Grand Jury In S3.500 bail each by Magistrate George H. Fol-well in Gate avenue court to-day, charged with robbery. The O'Reilly brothers were arrested on complaint of John Kindol, counterman in a restau rant at No.

S58 Park avenue, who charged that they came into the restaurant Tuesday night laat and after attacking hia took S50 from the cash regiater. Chambtrlan't Health Restorii LONDON, Nov. (TJ. R)--Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, who is A green snake with white spots, 6 feet long, was captured in Coney Island to-day after a game of hide-and-seek-, at the end of which Patrolman William Kenny flattened it on the head with hia nightstick and subdued It The reptile waa thought to be one which escaped from a aide ahow last summer. When the snake turned np, it waa seen on Henderson's Walk, between the Bowery and the Boardwalk, In downtown Coney.

It created a mild panit among residents and Patrolman Kenny waa sent to bring it In. He chased the long gliding coil for a- hundred feet over the pavements, 'evidently with the intention of catchint the miscreant by the tall. i The snake darted into a hole in a O. P. TO LOSE STATE BY FEUD IN BORO GROUP LockwooLmngston Breach Bursts Boro to Go Democratic by 300,000 Despite the efforts of the Republican State and National Committees to heal a growing split in the Republican organization in Brooklyn, the breach burst wide open to-day.

All the from National leaders went to naught Btpoklyn loomed Democratic by 300,000, with the result that the State was aafely Democratic, and with the carrying of NeV Xork, probabl, Smith victory In the Nation. The feud between Charlea C. Lock wood, Transit Commissioner, Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, and power in borough G. O. P.

politics, and Jacob A. Livingston, Republican leader of Brooklyn, haa broken out again. The Lockwood group is accusing the Living ston organiaation with an attempt to "knife" the candidate, circulating reports that Ottinger will run far ahead of hia ticket here. The old feud which dis rupted the' machine here la .1920 la more bitter than ever. It is known that Continued On Ltt Ptgo) Will Know Betttr Sixt, Time For failing to have a kosher sign In the window of hia market, Louis Mai-bin, of No.

663 Flatbuah avenue, waa arraigned before Magistrate HirshBeld la the Flatbush court yesterday on the complaint of Inspector Nason of the Department of Markets. He was held in 50 bail for the action of the Court of Special Paris Creates the fashions for the veil-broomed Women the world and spe-dal writers forthe Citizen keep rou touch with the litest creations. READ THE 2--crnzEN IN JERSEY TALK Governor Chides Republican Party for Fooling the People On Great Issues of Campaign Enthusiastic Crowds Greet Him Blasting out the first of his last threeno general revision of the present' tariff. in tion when she waa introduced oa the platform by Governor Smith. The Text 'After he had introduced Cleveland's widow the Governor aaid he would select his text from one of Lincoln's famous quotations: 1 Continued on Pago Four Mrs.

Adele Gammack, Wife of Glen Core Rector, Dies After Long Illness GLEN COVE, L. Nov. 1. Mrs. Adele Coles the wife of the Rev.

John W. Gammack, rector of St. Paol'a Episcopal Church here, died early to-day in the North Country Community Hospital, after a long illness. The funeral service will be held at 3:30 p. m.

Saturday -in the church. Inter ment will be in the churchyard. Mrs. Gammack waa 58 years old. She waa the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charlea Coles and was born "in the Do-soris section of Glen Cove. She lived here all her life. Her husband haa been pastor of St Paul's for more than twenty years. Besides her husband, ahe la survived by a son, Henry, and a daughter, Mrs.

James Lipsey. The Rev. Gammack waa formerly City Clerk and Public Safety Commissioner here. Mma. Chhng Kai-Shek Appointed Member of GoTernment Cokmttee SHANGHAI.

Not. 1 (United Press). Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, of Wellealey to-day waa appointed, a member5 of the Legislative Cnah Committee the highest Government post over held by' a womaa la modem China. Madam Chiang formerly Meiling 8o-Ong, is the wife' of General Chiang former commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, whs brought' about the downfall of Chang Tao-Lin, North China Dicator and War-Lord. I I SUPPORT Smith ignored Hughes' query as to his stand on the equalisation fee in the McNary-Haugen bill and defied the "equal rights" proposal of the National Women's Party.

Republican claims of general prosperity he emphatically denied. Smith called the -warning of economic chaos in the event of a Democratic victory, propaganda and "a cold-blooded insult to the intelligence of workingmen." Herbert Hoover, Smith said, apparently waa unable to epeak for himself and is compelled to rely on Hughes. Smith asked Hughea why he had not taken the 'Republican Presidential nomination rather than act the "official spokesman'' for Hoover, and he invited Hughea to put the same questions to the Republican nominee had asked him. Smith directly challenged Hoover to deny in hia St. Louie speech, Friday night, that be had cabled from Europe during the war that: he was holding down farm prices.

Gpvernor Smith, on hia way to Newark, rode ten miles through, one of the moat spectacular demonstrations he -has had. 'Along the line of his route, thousands packed the streets aad 'fireworks, note making devices ahd cheers lit' the night and shook the atf. Aa overflow crowd of approimately 18,000 persona outside the armory heard the speech through amplifiers Finishing his speech shortly after 10 p. -aa. Governor Smith aad Smith left the buildisg with other members of hia family and received aa big a reception as had beta accorded them within the armory.

Mrs. Thomas 3. Preston, widow of President Clereland, waa given en" ova 1 tpry across the Atlantic' Ocedn by an airship, and the fifth1 crbssWgV The Graf U'rgeat dirigible Tr put in service" and the nra tarna-atlantic air liner, broke the record for fast dirigible flight acroaa the ocean. The best previous tmle was made by the British K-34, when aha flew from Long Island to Fulhham, England, in 1019 in 75 houra. The B-34, however, In completing her round trip" across the ocean, coTered about a thouaand miles lesa than the Graf Zeppelin.

The Graf Zeppelin's flight waa re mnrksble not onlyor ita speed but for the stability and endurance showed by the airship, in making her way through atTere storms which beset her almost fiom the time she left the American coast until she crossed the coast of France near Nantes at 1:25 p. yesterday. Brooklynlte Pleased Although the Graf Zeppelin 'encountered a bad gale off Newfoundland, and braved the dangers of the stormy tea north of latitude GO, those of her 24 Continued on Ptfft Two CHICAGO POI ICE GRII THREE IN GIRL'S BURNING LAKE BLUFF, Nor. 1 (United Press). Three men, whose names were withheld, will be questioned to-day In connection with ha burning of Miss ElfMeda Knaak, pretty Deerfieid Sun- day school teacher who waa found near death In the basement of the local police tatlon.

Miss Knaak is in a Lake Forest hospital. Her condition is critical and hpysicians said ahe bad alight chance of recovery. She waa found propped np against the furnace In the basement of the police station at 7 a. m. Tuesday morning, her legs, arma and head terribly burned.

Miss Knaaks' family scoffed at the story the girl told aa ahe gained drug-laden consciousness at the hospital. She mumbled a tale of imposing ghastly self-torture upon herself by thrusting one limb after another, into the biasing furnace "to test my lore" for Charlea W. Hitchcock, a Lake Bluff! policeman. Hitchcock, married and the father of five children, waa confined to i hia bouse with a broken leg at the time of the tragedy. Miss Knaak'a brothers, Aivin and both local business men, be-1 lieved with, police and physicians that their sister had been the victim of.

a fiendish attack. The three men, Detective Ed Hor-areaves said, were named by Charlea. W. Hitchcock, village policemen, who been teaching Mini Knaak ssles-r anelrp and elocution. salvos in his "whirlwind battle of the Atlantic Seaboard," Governor Alfred E.

Smith promised labor full dinner pail, increased prosperity and protection in an address delivered before 12,000 people in the 8ussex avenue armory in Newark last night Hia' appeal to labor was made in the heart of the largest Industrial center of New Jersey, ordinarily a Republican 8tate. Smith promised to end the abuse of the power of injunction in labor disputes and aaid be would maintain the protec tive tariff. He renewed hia assertion of allegiance to the McNary-Haugen farm relief plan and proposed the enactment of measures to prevent unemploy ment The Democratic nominees arrival was triumphant one and he waa generously applauded in the packed armory. Taking np Charlea E. Hughes chal lenge on the water power question.

Smith said that he waa for public construction and operation of power houses on public sites but not of power transmission lines. In effort to modify the Eighteenth Amendment and the Act, Governor Smith said that what he proposed waa "to' accept the leadership of the American people' In aa effort to consummate his prohibition plans. Cngrtasmew TTHh Hint Safety'ot the tariff in hia Smith said, might be seen In hia announce-' ment that 90 per cent of the Democratic members of and candidates for Congress i were with in hia pledge to attempt on a trip to America for hia health, cabled to the Birmingham Unionist As1 million to-day, "I aa glad to say any hralthMs completely restored.".

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