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C. C. 8 NEWS AND OBSERVER. RALEIGH, N. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1928.

November Election Vote Was Heaviest in History Hoover Got Votes of The 36.798,669 Cast In The Nation AL SMITH GOT TOTAL OF 15,005,497 VOTES Hoover's Plurality Not As Large As Coolidge's; Figures By States (Copyright, 1928, by the Associated Press). Washington, Dee. the 36,798,669 votes vast in the November election, the largest number in the history of the nation, Herbert Hoover received 21,429,109 and Alfred E. Smith received 15,005,497. The Republican candidate's plurality over that of his Democratic opponent was 6,423,612, on the basis of these figures gathered by The Associated Press from the election officials of the 48 states.

Candidates of minor parties received the 364,063 votes aside from those for Hoover or Smith 89 follows: Thomas, Socialist, Foster, Workers, Reynolds, Socialist-Labor, Varney, Prohibition, Webb, FarmerLabor, (scattered) 327. Despite, failed his large 914.901 plurality, Mr. by votes to equal the plurality of 7,338,513 given Calvin Coolidge over John W. Davis in 1924, but at that time the La Follette- independent ticket received 4,822,856 votes. In that year they While Republican the vote Republicans was carried 15.725,016.

37 states in 1924, they garnered 40 in the recent election. This represents the most overwhelming defeat ever sustained by the Democratic party in the electoral college. Governor Smith's vote, however. exceeded 6,628,994 the 8,386,503 polled in 1924 by Davis The total November vote cast exceeded by 7,707,252 the total of 091,417 cast four years ago. Much of the increase was accounted for in the Southern states, where approximately 83 1-2 per cent more votes were cast.

The increase for nation as a whole was slightly above cent. Votes for the two major parties in the once traditionally Democratic "Solid South" totalled 3,004,145 with 1,406,488 going to Hoover 1. 597,657 to Smith. the states considered being Alabama, Arkansas Flor ida, Georgia. Louisiana.

Mississippi, North Carolina South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. Of this group, however, Hoover carried Florida, North Carolina. Texas and Virginia which had suported Democratic presidential candidates since reconstruc- UNITED PRESS GIVES STATISTICS ON ELECTION Chicago. Dec Hoover's plurality over Governor Alfred E. Smith was 6,690,256, the first official tabulation of the vote in the Presidential election November 6 made by the Press today showed.

The total vote for all Presidential candidates reached the new record of 36,732,818. The vote as tabulated from official records in the offices of the secretaries of the 48 state sshows the following totals: Hoover, Republican- Smith, Thomas, Socialist Foster, Workers (Communist) 948. Reynolds, Varney. Webb, The vote by states: Alabama 120,725 127,796 Arizona 52,533 35,537 Arkansas 77.751 119.196 California 1,151,021 614,793 Colorado 253,872 133,131 Conecticut 296,614 252,040 Delaware 68,986 35,354 Florida 144.168 101,764 Georgia 99,368 129,602 Jawo 623.818 378.936 Indiana 848.290 562.691 Idaho 96,580 52,288 Illinois 1,868,141 1,313,817 Kansas 513,671 193,003 Kentucky 558,054 381,065 Louisiana 51.160 164,655 Massachusetts 775,566 792,758 Maine 179,923 81,179 Maryland 301.479 223,626 Montana 110,758 77,330 Michigan 965,396 396,762 Missouri 834,080 667,631 Mississippi 27,191 124,598 Minnesota 560,977 396,451 N. Hampshire 115,404 80,175 Nevada 18,327 14,090 New York 2,193,344 2.099.863 New Jersey 925.285 616,162 New Mexico 69.618 48,095 Nebraska 345.745 197,959 N.

Carolina 349,615 286.407 N. Dakota 131,441 Ohio 1,627,543 804.210 Oregon 205,341 Oklahoma 394,046 219,174 Pennsylvania. 2,055 382 1 067.586 Rhode Island 117,522 118.973 S. Carolina 5,223 57,340 S. Dakota 157,603 102,660 Texas 367.036 340,237 Tennessee 195,388 157,343 Utah 94.756 84 914 Virginia 164.609 140,146 Vermont 90,404 44,440 West Virginia 355,551 263.784 Wyoming 52,748 29,299 Washington 302.311 142.603 Wisconsin 544,205 450,259 Totals .....21,458,569 14,988,133 SENATOR SMITH TO SEEK COTTON PROBE Washington, Dec.

Smith, South Carolina Democrat, told the Senate today that after the Christmas recess he will seek authority for another cotton investigation. Smith said the agriculture department over-estimated the 1928 cotton crop in August and caused a slump from which the market has never recovered. He said the investigation would be for the purpose of placing the blame. Mahogny in said to have been frat brought to England by Sir Walter Baleigh, THREE HURT WHEN CARS COLLIDE AT HILLSBORO CORNER Eugene Sinclair, of 3100 Hillsboro Street, driver of the bottom car, and two Negro women Jessie Rogers and Catherine Jeffers, who were in the top car, were injured when the cars collided at the corner of Hillsboro Street and Oberlin Road yesterday morning. GREAT RIVERSIDE CHURCH IN RUINS Partly completed 000 Rockefeller Edifice Destroyed By Fire New York, Dec.

that started in a workman's charcoal brazier destroyed tonight the partlycompleted Riverside Baptist Church, a $5,000,000 structure that was to have been one of the finest in the world. A brisk freezing wind from the Hudson fanned the flames. Enveloping the scaffold, they soon made the building a magnificent torch that lighted up the fashionable drive for miles and attracted thousands of people not only from Manhattan to the scene, but brought residents on the New Jersey side of the river to the opposite shore. Before long, the heat of the flames caused great stones to be loosened, and they made a deadly rain among firemen who, handicapped by the bitter cold, were fighting it. By 9:45 four alarms had been sounded, and at that time the tire had spread to two adjoining struetures.

The church was made possible by the generosity of John D. Rockefeller, and it was to be a dream come true. He and Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Rockefeller Park Avenue Baptist Church, had conceived the idea of building on the beautiful drive one of the great churches of the world. Architects went throughout Europe studying the finest cathedrals, and obtained most of their inspiration for the new building from Chartres Cathedral in France.

So serious did the fire become that two more alarms were turned in. The streets became a mass of ice from the streams of water, which were thrown ineffectually towards the highest portion of the tower. Firemen were forced to let the tower burn itself out, and confine their attention to the main body of the church and to the adjoining buildings. Fire Chief Kenlon made a preliminary estimate of $1,000,000 damage, with the idea that by extensive cleaning the stone of the main building could be salvaged. VACATIONS WITH PAY FOR POSTAL EMPLOYES New York, Dec.

employes of the Postal Telegraph- Company, including messengers who have been in the service of the company for one year or more, are to receive vacations with full pay. This was announced yesterday by Col. A. H. Griswold, executive president of the company.

Col. explained that the company in the past had granted vaeations with pay to many of its employes, but beginning with January 1, 1929, the plan will be expanded to include all. Under the new plan, those who have been in the employ of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company for one year will receive one week, while those who have been in the company's, service receive for two two weeks' or more vacation. Those who have not completed their year, but who will plete it by July 1, 1929, will be eligible for a vacation at that time. CUTTER LEAVES TO AID IN RESCUE OF BARGE Savannah, Dec.

United States guard cutter Yamaeraw left afternoon coast, shortly after 5:30 o'elock to give the steamship Gulf Coast aid in reseuing the barge Iroquois, which is broken in two, but is still floating. Position of the barge was given as approximately 130 miles southeast of Savannah lightship, JUNGER SUDDENLY GIVES UP BATTLE Narcotic Figure in Rothstein Case Must Now Talk or Serve, Twelve Years New York, Dec. Unger, a shrivelled little man of middle age, sat in a cell tonight without the solace of his opium pipe and started to study the big probtom of his hectic life--whether to biow the lid off the Rothstein case or spend his next, and maybe last 12 years in prison. Unger guilty today, suddenly deciding "take the rap," to charges involving his attempt to take 000 worth of assorted drugs to Chicago. He had pleaded not guilty, and promised a fight, when his trial open ed.

He had been a most unsatisfaetery prisoner to questioning detectives, cynically silent or philosophieally talkative; but with such unhelpful replies to intimations that he faced a long terms as "Oh, well; it'll all be the same a bundred years from now." Unger's arrest and the seizure of the drugs--besides the seizure since then of an additional $5,500,000 worth at other sources--resulted from federal examination of papers left by the murdered gambler Arnold Rothstein, revealed in death AS the head of the greatest drug smuggling ring in history. Unger's, plea The of judge guilty fixed came Janu- sudary 4, two weeks from now, as the date of sentence. Federal attorneys said they would ask the limit-12 years. But it is understood that Unger has one way out. That is to tell what he knows, which is believed be almost everything, about the criminal activities of Rothstein and his associates.

Unger confessed, while under arrest, that he himself, as often is the case, had been a user for 25 years the drugs he also marketed at somewhat higher prices-usually about 1,000 per cent higher. Opium was his way of painting a rosy tinge on his life. In jail he cannot "hammer the gong," and it is understood author ities hope that without his pipe he may view less complacently the prospect of a long stretch in a pen itentiary. Before he comes up for sentence. he will have two full weeks, on plain, healthy, unromantic food alone, to out his position.

If he does decide, finally, to "take the rap." it will be a long one. If he talks. he find himself treated with surmay prising mercy when he comes up for sentence. That brings the alternative problem of what will happen if he does tell what he knows about the dope market. Some of his associates may to jail in his place; those who go do not, or friends of those who do, be waiting for him when he may reaches freedom.

In the 14 days he has to reflect will come Christmas day and New Year's Day. Pictures that will form themselves in his mind as he gazes at the walls of his cell; a Christmas and toys; a drunken orgy in tree cabaret in celebration of Christ's a birth, or a quiet hour alone on a couch with his pipe may decide him to face the more remote alternative of gangster revenge and seek his early freedom from the law that has him hostage. Makes Her Debut. Philadelphia, Dec. 21.

(AP) Hope Hampton, stage and screen star, made her debut tonight in the title role of Massenet's "Manon" with the Philadelphia Grand Opera company. She was enthusiastically received. ENDS ITS PROBE OF OIL CONTRACT Interior Department at Same Time Let's Contract for Sait Creek Field Washington, Dec. Senate Public Lands Committee today closed its investigation into the renewal of the contract of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company on the Salt Creek, Wyoming, oil field coincident with action by the Interior Department in contracting with the White Eagle Oil and fining Company and the Texas pany for sale of oil from the field. The contract for this field was held by the Sinclair Company from January 1, 1923, until October of this year, when the Attorney-General held that the renewal of the agreement from January 1 of this for another five-year term was invalid.

The government will receive 21 3-4 cents per barrel above the highest posted field price. The field price was the rate at which the Sinclair contract was drawn. The bid of William L. Walls, of Cheyene, Wyoming, was 42 cents per barrel above the posted price, but all bids were thrown out when Walls was unahle to satisfy Secretary West financial ability to handle the contract, and today's sale followed as provided by law in this event. At the Capitol, Erward C.

Finney, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, told the Senate committee that he thought the optional renewal clause in the Sinclair lease was valid and added, "in fact, that I still think so." Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, questioned him regarding the opinion by Earnest O. Patterson, department solicitor, in which Patterson gave his view that the law allowed the Secretary "discretion" to provide a renewal provision in the contract. Finney said the opinion was "not an exhaustive review" of the matter. SHOWS TRAGEDY IN LIFE OF ACTOR Theodore Roberts' Bitterness Over Family Affairs Embodied in Will Los Angeles, Dec. between a mother and a father and a talented son brewed a bitterness in the life of the late Theodore Roberts which ne-er softened in the years between youth and a old age, Robert Higgins told the Associated Press today.

Higgins, a commercial illustrator from New York, nephew of the late Thespian. came to Los Angeles ale to arrange the the actor's affairs. As one who "suffered like him as an exile from heme," Higgins was bequeathed the estate of "more than $10,000" of the "Grand Old Man" of the screen, the will filed for probate disclosed today. Roberts died last Friday after an illness of several years. The will was a three-page document in which the actor told of a rift in family relations which never cooled from the day he chose 8 career that conflicted with his parents' wishes.

It drew a lengthy tale from the nephew, of a secret heart-ache which the famous smile of the actor never betrayed. "It all goes back to the past generaticns," Higgins said. "I do not believe Theodore's intended to cast imputations upon those who are living today. like Theodore, left the nest early in life and the things that we both have known among our families have not always been pleasan'. "Theodore's mother wanted him to felt that his son should learn his, trade, enter the ministry, while father preferably, navigation.

They lived in a great old Louse in San Francisco then and the family was wealthy. Theodore's wish to go upon the stage was a shock butt his parents and they protested, the son was resolute and when but a boy he left his home. "That was the first of a life of family unhappiness. The second instance came some years later when the father, once wealthy man, grew old and his fortune dwindled. There was a brother, Martin.

Martin had not the capability Theodore and Theodore felt that if his father's estate was left in his own charge, be could gather the frag gether and possibly rebuild it for all of the family. "This proposal he made to his father, and I understand it, the the agreement was reached that Theodore should administer the cotate. Theodore was fairly successful now and the scope of his talent began to shape up. He went away from the family home in San Francisco and I imagine they didn't hear from him very frequently. Anyway when the father died, his entire estate went to Martin, Martin, in the years that followed, lost the remainder of a once comfortable fortune.

"The disinheritance was a great disappointment to Theodore, who sufferec Ag his parents had when he left home. The differences were irritated over other minor things, but these two stood out. "An unhappy marriage which ended when Theodore spent six months in the old Ludlow Street jail in New York because he refused to pay alimony added to his life's sorrows. "When his mother passed away and all of her personal effects were kept from him Theodore's bitterness was himself had long been successful by that time and money meant little. It was the loss the family ties that hurt around tho, whole family circle." Higgins will remain in Los Angele: until the late actor's affairs are closed.

FRIDAY WAS' SHORTEST DAYLIGHT DAY OF YEAR Yesterday, December 21, was the shortest day of the year. Moreover, it was the first day, or rather first night of winter. Winter officially began at minutes after nine o'clock, according to the Weather Bureau, there's just three more months of it ahead. Since the twenty-first day of last June until yesterday the days, or rather daylight, grew shorter and shorter. Now they grow longer and longer until June 21 next.

The sun yesterday rose at 7:21 and set at 5:03. Today will be over a minute longer. Just as a sample of what's ahead, winter brought in freezing weather. Yesterday's low was 30, bigh 43. EMPLOYES PRESENT WATCH TO FRANK PAGE Highway Commissioner Frank Page was the recipient of a handsome watch last night at a Christmas tree party in his honor by high way employees of the Raleigh and district offices over the State.

The party was held on the second floor of the highway building, which was appropriately decorated for the oceasion. A number of employees from over the State were present. CREDIT COMPANY SUES W. J. AND J.

M. Suit was filed in the Wake County Superio -Court yesterday by the Commercial Credit Company, of Baltimore, against J. M. Bryan and W. J.

Bryan for $555 and costs. alleged to be due the plaintiff through the failure of defendants to pay this balance on a promissory note issued to the C. C. Motor Company. The note, the complaint charges, was for payment for a Cbrysler automobile, which was subsequently wrecked.

The West Indian maiden plum I plant yields a milky juice which on exposure to air becomes indelible black dye. FUNERAL YESTERDAY FOR MRS. FRANCIS FRAZIER Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon from the First Vanguard Church for Mrs. Francis Frazier, aged 77, who died Thursday at noon at the home of her son, J. R.

Frazier, 555 East Martin Street. Rev. C. J. Hollandsworth, pastor, conducted, the Oldham, services, pastor assisted of the by Bap- the tist Church of Wendell.

Interment was in the family burial grounds near Knightdale. The following grandsons acted as pallbearers: H. H. Pool, G. C.

Pool, G. L. Pool, L. H. Pool, O.

D. Pool, and W. H. Pool. Mrs.

Frazier is survived by 22 grandchildren, 22 great grandchildren, two sons, J. R. Frazier, of this city, dale, and and H. one H. daughter, Frazier, of Mrs.

J. Knight- HE. Pool, of Knightdale. Weathers Storm. Norfolk, Dec.

by storms for 28 days, the four-masted schooner Paul Thurlow arrived in Hampton' Roads today to seek a cargo. vessel was 28 days making a voyage from Searsport, but was not damaged and did not lose any of her sails. OBELISK OBELISK FLOURI Always Reliable! PLAIN OR -RISING THREE HURT WHEN TWO CARS CRASH AT CORNER Young White Man and Two Negro Women in Wreck; Both Cars Turn Over Sixteen- year-old Eugene Sinclair, of 3100 Hillsboro Street, was fully cut and bruised and two Negro women, Jessie Williams, of 2211 Joint Street, Oberlin, who was driving, and Catherine Jeffers, of 615 Camden Street, were more seriously injured when two automobiles collided at the corner of Hillsboro Street and Oberlin Road yesterday morning. Both cars were turned over. When he crawled out of the overturned car Mr.

Sinclair was bleeding from cuts about the head and neck, received from broken glass. His injuries were treated at State College hospital. Jessie Rogers had her hand badly cut and both legs severely bruised. Catherine Jeffers suffered bruises about the head and it was feared she might have been injured internally. Both were taken to McCauley's Hospital where last night it was reported that they were doing very well though it was too early to report whether or not internal injuries of a serious nature had been sustained.

The women were coming in from Oberlin Road and young Sinclair was driving west on Hillsboro Street. Witnesses told police officers that in an effort to avoid hitting the light coupe which the women were driving Mr. Sinclair swerved to the left and was himself hit broadside by the other car. The coupe turned over. SEVEN COUNTIES GET SPECIAL TERMS COURT Judge Clayton Moore To Preside Over Two Weeks' Term Civil Court Here Governor McLean yesterday called special terms of court in seven counties to meet in January or the first week in February.

A two weeks civil term in Graham County was changed to January 7, and Judge Harwood assigned on account of a conflict. Dates of the special terms and judges assigned were: Buncombe County, three weeks mixed term, beginning January 17, Judge Townsend; Nash, one week criminal term, January 14, Judge Lyon; Harnett, one week criminal term, January 21, Judge Lyon; Wake, two weeks civil term, January 14, Judge Clayton Moore; Durham, two weeks civil term, January 21, Judge McRae; Johnston, two weeks civil term, January 28, Judge Devin; Anson, two weeks criminal, February 4, Judge Webb. 'WANDERING MOOSE' IS ON WAY TO CONVENTION "The Wandering Moose," who has tramped some 37,000 during the past five years, and his dog Spike, with 6,000 miles of tramping to her credit and a Moose button on her harness, wandered into Raleigh yesterday on their way to Jacksonville, Florida, for the Moose convention on ary 21. The wanderer -he says he's tramping for his health-also boasts membership in the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He hails from Binghamton, N.

Y. occupation is to boost the works two pet organizations. His, CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SHOPLIFTERS JAILED First to be arrested of the Christmas shopping rush shoplifters, Naney Covington and Salathiel Leggett, two Negro women, were jailed yesterday. The women were found with goods that had been stolen in several local stores. Police officers recovered $20 or $30 worth.

WHALEN ABOLISHES HOMICIDE DIVISION New York's New Chief of Po. lice Continues His Reorganization Work New York, Dec. Commissioner Grover Whalen today wiped out the homicide squad, the police arm which had direct charge of the investigation of the slaying of Arnold Rothstein, Broadway gambler, and retired its commander, Deputy Inspector Arthur A. Carey. The failure of the squad to clean up the Rothstein case brought the administration of former Police Commissioner Warren under fire just prior to his resignation.

Whalen announced that Carey was invited to retire, but preferred not to do so, "so I decided to retire him under the 60-year law." "The record of the homicide bureau shows that from January 1 to December 20, 1928," Commissioner Whalen said, in explaining his action abolishing the homicide squad, cases of violent homicides were reported to the homicide squad for investigation, and the records show arrests, record were of made in that only kind two doesn't cases. deserve any consideration. And some of the arrests made in those two cates were made by precinct deteetives. Therefore, the homicide squad is abolished and a homicide squad will be established in each borough, supervised by a competent officer." FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOSEPH D. MAAG TODAY Funeral rites for Joseph D.

Maag, well-known Raleigh citizen who died Thursday night at his home, 806 West South Street, after an extended illness, will occur at the Sacred Hearth Cathedral this morning at 10 o'clock, with mass to be conducted by the Monsignor requiem, Thomas P. Griffin. The services will be concluded at the grave-side in Oakwood Cemetery. Mr. Maag was a native of Baltimore, but had made his home here since 1916.

He is survived by his widow, who was formerly Miss Anna Dughi, of Raleigh, and a brother and fire sisters. Among those from outof-town for the funeral are Miss Mary Maag and Frederick C. C. Maag, sister and brother, respectively, of Baltimore, and lows: B. Streb, P.

B. Edelen, J. The pall bearers will be folMurphy, of Roanoke, Va. a Parham, F. P.

Biggs, C. T. Rand and Neil Hester. SCREAMS SOUND FROM CLOSED PICTURE SHOW "Help! Help!" Muffled cries sounded through West Martin Street about 11:30 last night. Young men, eager to come to the aid of any damselle in distress, stopped and looked about but no one could find from where came the desperate screams.

Finally one went over to the dark and locked Capital Theatre. "Whose there!" he cried. "It's me and I wanna get out," answered Zeke Chaney, 12-year-old resident of Cabarrus Street, who had been in the wash room when the lights were turned out and the theatre closed. "I been hollering and hollering. thought I was going to have to stay here all night." Makes the Body Strong Makes the Blood Rich Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic 60c.

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PIGGLY WIGGLY is full of these things that go to make this the one day of the year to be remembered. "Around the corner" you will find your "Own Raleigh Piggly Wiggly" ready to fill your every need for those things that will make your day more enjoyable. Swansdown Cake Flour, All JELL-0 Flavors, 3 plea. 25cl HERSHEY COCOA, 29c Stewing Figs, 3-lb. bag 42c No.

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