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FOUNDED FEB 18 1891-15275 COLUMBIA FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 21 1932 DAILY 5c SUNDAY 7c (ON DRAINS 10c) GREAT CROWD EXPECTED AT STATE FAIR FOR SCHOOL DAY BIRDS BEAT TIGERS IN STUBBORN BATTLE Federal Deficit Passes Half-Billion Dollar Mark CONFIDENCE GROWS PEOPLE AT BACK BIG THURSDAY IS BIG INDEED Thousands Pour Into Columbia for Gala Event NORMAN DEPICTS WORLD GROPING IN ECONOMIC FOG Head of Bank of England Breaks Role of Silence at Banquet LIGHT GLIMMERS AT TUNNEL END Gamecocks Make it Two Cheering Crowds Acclaim Roosevelt in Capital of Indiana Increased trading in the stock market brought additional revenue from stock safes and transfers while increased taxes on 'gasoline electrical energy automobiles brewer's wort malt and grape concentrates checks and most of the other new excise taxes did their pert in counterbalancing the sharp drop in income taxes The new tax ooltections in September showed that stock market activities in that month and August had brought in a total of 55594571 in tax on sales and transfers compared with 32021795 reported tiie previous month Hie tax on stock and bond issues changed little amounting to 51520366 compared wife $1509445 the previous month Tiie gasoline tax returned 5HM9-747 in September against 38944875 the previous month while the 3 per cent tax on electrical energy added 520398N to the total compared with 5967612 in August Brewer's wort malt and grape concentrates brought in $1678249 compared with 5356217 while checks returned $37931136 compered with $364251 and automobiles and motorcycles brought in 3107898 compared with 5864655 For three months of the fiscal year comprising the first quarter the government's total tax collections from old and new levies amounted to $358-108065 compared with 545514439 in the same period feat year Washington Oct Tax collections increased in September but till loitered below the rate of expenditure with the result that the lowly mounting federal deficit had passed the half-billion dollar mark and stood October 17 at 355457227 While the income was 136r 540976 greeter in September than in August it waa 398099648 leas than in the corresponding month of feat year The total of all collections waa showed in a treasury statement tonight to have beat 5216481288 lest month 579940310 in August end 331280930 in September 1931 New levies included in the 31000-000 ON tax lull approved last -winter brought increased revenue but meanwhile the old income tax continued fading away It amounted to $142-203202 in September compared with 5263877854 in September feat year Treasury experts aaid collections to date would probably have little bearing on the total revenue for the fiscal year for the reason that the yield of the new tax bill could not be accurately estimated until the first returns were received next March 15 under its new income tax schedules When the tax bill waa approved feat winter the treasury estimated it would produce 531 25 ON ON for the present fiscal year This would be 5360 416 666 per month if collections for all months were equal INSULL FAMILY ASKING REFUND Files Suit Before Federal Government Board MATTER OF TAXES Scale of Former Magnate's Living Revealed in Item of Charity Gifts 1 Washington Oct Calmly defying efforts bjr the government to tfadite fromr Greece Samuel Insult former utilities magnate and members of his family today fifed suit before the board of tax appeals for refunds and a redetermination of deficiency assessments involving 5230750 The stately gray-haired man who once possessed one of the largest fortunes in America is living now on a small income He refused to surrender hia passport or return to Chicago to face chargee growing out of the collapse of the Laurence Graves an attorney field the suit today on behalf of InsuU hia wife Margaret and hia son Samuel Jr also abroad now Hie action disputes a tax assessment of 5156951 against the elder Inaull who claims a refund of 521160 is due him Mrs Inaull is contesting a deficiency assessment of 517239 and asks for a refund of 53805 son asked for a refund of 58048 while disputing a deficiency assessment of 523549 The disputed taxes it was said were levied on 1 535 050 in profits made by the three members of the Inaull family through the safe of coma mon stock in the Inaull utilities enterprises in 1930 Counsel for Instill maintained that the waa erroneously treated aa net by the government The scale on which the utilities magnate lived when amassing hia gigantic fortune waa revealed by Graves when he declared that in 1930 Tnsnli alone had contributed 5365438 to various charities I ROBBERS RANSACK HOME OF ACTRESS Loa Angeles Oct Two men binding a servant ransacked the hone of Heiane Costello motion picture actress late today and escaped Miss Costello returning to the home in the fashionable West Los Angeles district shortly afterward told officers the loss would approximate $30-0N Miaa Costello ia the sister of Dolores Costello Barrymore wife of the actor John Barrymore The servant Playto Ismael told police the men had trussed him up with picture wire and taped hia mouth He said the robbers took jewelry clothing and furs PRICE' RAISED New York Oct 28-(AP)-The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Sinclair-Refining company today announced an increase of one cent a gallon in gasoline pricey effective tomorrow The advance will be operative lit North Carolina end South Care-line in addition to a number of other states Sinclair today advanced 1 the price of mrgo gasoline one cent a gallon at Gulf porta The new quotation la five and one-half cents WOMEN VOTERS CALLED TO ARMS Mrs Roosevelt Sounds Note of Victory CHANGE PREDICTED Democratic Nominee Loyally Supported by Wife and Son in Indiana Invasion Indianapolis Ind Oct Mrs Franklin Roosevelt placed before women voters of Indiana today a prediction of a for the better after November She did not mention her husband! name as she spoke briefly before state party workers but left no doubt aa to the sincerity of her purpose is enough for one member of the family to speak in a campaign like this" she declared I wish to say that after November 8 I believe this country will see a change for the While Mrs Roosevelt was speaking to county and district chairmen and hundreds of others that packed tiie Riley roan of Hotel Clay pool her son James Roosevelt was addressing young Democrats and her husband was conferring with Democratic leaders in a nearby room Mia Roosevelt wore a printed chiffon dime and a corsage of purple orchids She smiled frequently and spoke forcefully She commented that aha waa an old campaigner She again gave prediction of a victory for her husband when she mid are not so much afraid of a change as men aometimee say they are" She urged women voters to accept their shire of responsibility in teh campaign now have their place In politics with she said is up to them to fulfill that responsibility After her talk Mrs Roosevelt shook hands wife least several thousand it never tires aha hastened to add "I make it a practice to shake their hands not let them hake mine so I never become James Rooaeyelt set forth a three-point program as he urged permanent organization of young voters Democratic party" he declared a program embodying constructive measures to cure the present economic situation alleviation of misery and privation and advancement of progressive governmental program to prevent recurrence of further depressions" He denied Republican charges that Democrats no fitting leader acquainted with governmental matters" by citing his record aa a tote legislator in New York assistant secretary of the navy and aa governor of New York Mrs Roosevelt said she would accompany her husband until Sunday Then she will fly back to New You must get beck to school" she explained Election night the Roosevelt family would be at its headquarters in New York City Mrs Roosevelt aaid COAL INDUSTRY SERVED NOTICE BY ROOSEVELT Aboard Roosevelt Special Terre Haute Ind Oct Governor Franklin Roosevelt told several thousand persona who crowded about the rear platform of his train at Terr Haute tonight that he expected the federal government would have to exert a stabilizing influence in the coal industry After relating that he had found mines idle in West Virginia Ohio and Pennsylvania the Democratic presidential candidate said am not going to Appoint a lot of commissions whn I come to Washington but I am going to undertake to get the coal industry stabilized and not have just a lot of VALLEE RUMORS DENIED New York Oct Close ascodatea of Rudy Yaltee the singer today denied vigorously rumors that he had been kidnaped month age and released after payment of ransom One of Vallee'a attorneys who declined to permit hia name to be used denounced the report aa "wholly unfounded and not based on the slightest mid sold they had originated months ago In Breed way night club dittos JOHN RASKOB GIVES TO CHEST Donates Handsomely to Democratic Funds WORD OF FARLEY Slash in Party Debt Announced at Same Time by Manager New Yak Oct 20-(AP)-John Raskob whose admiration toe Smith fed him to take command of the 1928 Democratic campaign has contributed 325 ON to the Rooaevelt-Garner war cheat it waa announced today Raskob James A Farley who succeeded him as national chairman and others interested in Democratic finances held' what they called a luncheon" in a New Yak skyscraper before the announcement wti made Farley in disclosing the Raskob gift explained the celebration was over the financial He made known that since the present campaign had begun the national committee had paid off $1000N of the 5300000 owed to New Yak bank aa part of the 1928 campaign deficit That slash of the party debt was made in four instalments he explained as a result of at headauarten" going along on balanced he added with a chuckle running the cheapest winning campaign in history owe anybody a quarter for this campaign We have paid cash In Actual Money After the luncheon campaign feeders at headquarters discussed the possibility of Raskob' i who hod not appeared in the political spotlight since the Chicago convention now making a speech on behalf of Rooaevelt Htey declared that as a successful business man he would be a logical person to reply to Henry address on behalf of President Hoover Raskob himself had nothing at all to say aa he left the luncheon are still up there and win tell -you all about it" he remarked aa he rode down on an elevator Farley made dear that Raskob a donation was in actual money fa the Roosevelt-Gamer campaign and not the writing off of some of the 5120000 the national committee still owed nun ti 1928 Smith in Huddle iskab has told the committee this NO need not be repaid until urgent expenses are cared for bile Farley Raskob and the other ferces were at the luncheon Smith in hit office ten floors above and conferred over the cam-pi with the mayors of Chicago Jersey City tiring the day Charles Edison son he late inventor and president of naa A Edison Inoustrics issued Vest Orange J- a tetter to all si on managers regarding the non-tisan attitude of tiie company iter he said in reply to ques-a that he personally did not care Eorimit himself on the candidacy GOOD DEED REWARDED Erwin Itea Oct Good deeds sown years ago raced back on wings to help Sidney Patton Cllnchfield railroad con- duet or leg had to be amputated He thought of boy whom he had put through school and who had since become a prominent physician Dr George Callahan of Waukegan III A call waa sent fa Doctor Callahan who was' reached oa a hunting trip at Log Cabin Cole He flew bark to Chicago then to Knoxville and Erwin to win a race against death in Row Before Great Crowd Thursday BOTH TOUCHDOWNS COME IN LAST HALF Recovery of a Touched Punt by Willard Brings First Marker Pass Clary to McDougall Makes Second BY JOHN A MONTGOMERY Coming nearer the form they have been waking toward since the opening of the seeson a powerful Carolina team beat back a stubbornly dr-1 tensive Ctemson eleven at the State Fair grounds yesterday 14 to in South Carolina's paramount sports spectacle Thirteen thousand a more spectators including Governor Ibra Blackwood tha presidents o9 the competing institutions both student bodies and a crowd strictly representative of the Palmetto state gathered in the historic wooden bowl fa the renewal id gridiron rivalry between the Tiger and the Gamecock Sitting in boxes behind their respective teams were players of 1902 who recalled another Carolina victory over Ctemson 30 years ago They had a right to be proud of the showing of their 1932 successors fa the Ben-gals staged a valiant fight against odds and the Roosters came up to expectations presaging a rise to loftier heights this season Scores In Second Half Both touchdowns were made In the second half The first occurred in the third period when Henry Willard hawk-eyed llankman with the speed of an antelope covered one of Grayson Wolf a long punts and fell on it across tha goal line after the ball had touched the person of Gene Willi-mon Tiger safety men The second came in the final period when Earle Clary shot a swift pass to Alii McDougall fa six yards and a touchdown Wolf kicked from placement for both extra points The first counter came aa the result of a so-called break but actually it was the alert play of Willard a Spartanburg boy that waa rewarded by hia first score fa the Garnet and Black He covered every punt expertly and speedily giving the secondary little time for substantial rr turns Wolfs punting waa one of chief defensive weapons and it turned into a battle axe on offense in the first scoring play It waa third down with four to go and the ball waa on Carolina's 41 He dropped back in punt formation and booted the pigskin deep into Ctemson territory Willard waa down the field like a shot Hie ball bounded toward the goal and Willi mon and Willard went after it It was bouncing a yard away from the final line when Willard started to pounce on it Willimon attempted to block him out and aa he did came in contact with the baU which rolled across the chalk mark There waa a scramble of the two players both of them 15 yards from the nearest player of either team and Willard covered the ball There was a moment of suspense then Referee Hutchins announced that it waa a touchdown The punt 1 had traveled from toe to destitution 61 yards Players Rewarded Even as Willard was rewarded fa his fine play by making a touchdown another player whose blocking unexcelled tackling and general all round splendid work received his recompense in scoring his first counter in inter-collegiate football Allie McDougall played hard He was in every play both on offense and defense and it was his work at the line that prevented any Clemson runner from breaking into the clear He received a Mg ovation when he left the battle fete in the final period battered smiling and near exhaustion McDougall carried the ball only once in scrimmage but he had the hona of making the touchdown when be received Clary's pass at the goal line and plunged desperately to push a Clemson tackier a few inches over the last mark It was fitting that Clary widely renowned as a ball carrier converted into a new starring role should send winging on its way the toss that counted for the touchdown It was a new and more versatile (Contiued on Page 16 Column X) KIDDIES HAVE TURN Every School Child and Teacher Admitted Free on Friday TODAY AT TIIE FAIR School Day and Commercial Traveler Day A Gates open All public school children admitted free A Midway opens 10:30 A Band concert- broadcast all ova the grounds 11KW A Horse show 2 JO Circus acts and Ba-sile'i band in front of grandstand 2:30 Livestock premiums paid Football Sumter high vs New Brookland-Cayce high Release of all livestock Admission reduced to 25 cents 8:00 Winter Garden Revue in front of grandstand 11:00 Buildings dose 12:00 Gates close Hum twinn breeders of Despair Depression and Unemployment may talk through the state forma may be sold for taxes and starvation prices may be received fa form products the pantry may be just about empty and the old car stored in the bam they will come to the State fair on nevertheless and while some may attend not knowing just how they ere going to get the gasoline to travel back hone they attend anyhow and forget for a little while all about tight money and think bank balances They came yesterday thousands of them with smiles on their faces nearly but not quite filled the greet football stadium climbed mto the tops- of trees overlooking the field perched on the crose arms of telephone poles strained their eyas through cracks in the determined to see somehow a other the greet game of the yea in South Carolina sport annate NBut the 150N inside the football field were not all other thousands milled about the exhibition buildings thronged the cattle boras and the poultry pigeon and rabbit house made the gay midway a place of merriment and llity To make an estimate of the thousands present at the fair yesterday with any sort of an approach to accuracy would be well night impossible and until late in tha night officiate of the fair were busy up" They did not cere to make an estimate until this work was completed The Football Game The football game just as a game waa not so thrilling though it was well played with Carolina decidedly the ouperior The Ctemson Tiger fought desperately-thawed reel at times hut the cries of some of tha Ctemson supporters clam could not be obeyed for the Gamecock simply refused to be The score 14 to 0 for Carolina gives a fairly true Index of the strength of the competing elevens So warm was it that hundreds were in their shirt sleeves throughout the game The aun shone warm and Might from a sky flecked at times with and really it waa baseball weather The victory was a sweet morsel to the thousands of Gamecock supporters fa Tiger meet has not been the regular diet at these annual Ctemscn-Carolina indeed the Gamecock has often supplied the nourishment Between the halves the bands of the two institutions both nattily clad paraded up and down the field diepensing stirring music the governa of the state the presidents of the two institutions and the president of the State fair moved from the one side of the field to the other as is (Continued on Page Column 3) The State Offers a Booklet on Window Curfaining Curtains are sue of the principal items in the outlay for household textiles To curtain the windows of even a five-room house calls fa bout yards of material and rvery few years curtains must be replaced Since the attractiveness sf a house depends In large meas-ere oa the success of the curtains this booklet waa prepared as a (ulde for the home maker la electing making and hanging curtains suitable for the average home Fill out and maQ this coupon Inclosing four cents In coin fa service and postage and you will receive a copy of WINDOW CURTAINING The Slate Information Bureau Frederic Ilaskla Director Washington I inclose herewith FOUR CENTS In coin (carefully wrapped) for ropy of the booklet an WINDOW CURTAINING Kamo Street City State POLICIES OF PARTY OUTLINED BRIEFLY Victory for Democratic State Ticket Stressed by National Standard-Bearer Optimistic as to Result in November for Self and Gamer Indianapolis Oct Franklin Roosevelt today told a cheering throng that wedged into every inch of the four blocks of apace surrounding Monument circle that he had observed no fear on the part of busi-new aa ha had outlined his governmental program and he felt certain people of this country are not going to be deceived by During a seven-hour atop in Indianapolis the Democratic presidential candidate ntade two talks and witnessed a parade of several thousand persona bearing banners denouncing the administration and calling far election of the Democratic ticket i Fran this city he went to Terre Haute for a brief stop before he swept on to carry his campaign into the border state of Missouri His speech from the balcony of the English hotel here- in almost the same spot from which Allred Smith spoke in 1828 was heard by one of the largest crowds that had seen the candidate since he started his active campaign far election Estimates of the crowd by police officials varied from SO ON to 75000 and even more Men and women stood closely packed in the wide circle wedged tightly into every vantage spot afforded by the war memorial manument peaked1 by its statue of Miss Indiana After paying tribute to the characr ter of the Democratic state ticket in Indiana and urging its election Mi Roosevelt swung into a recital of various proposals for business railroads governmental economy public utilities and for dealing with the tariff Business Unafraid have described theaq policies in the course of days and weeks of continuous travel over this he aid I unfolded these policies I observed no fear or hesitation on the part of buainea I did on the other hand observe- aa I set forth sound policies for conservation and protection and development quickening along the channels of trade so long sluggish with a diminished flow of their eeential life blood these policies were unfolded the nation stood by and watched the unfolding drama of political contest without fear without trepidation and without uneasiness And that is the reason that I know that the Democratic ticket is gang to be elected in November these principles came to be more widely accepted by the feeders of thought in agriculture in business in labor in commerce in finance the temper of the country changed Economic and social life waa stirred with the return of hope public grew sharply aware that the defeat of the present admin- Continued on Page 2 Column 1) BANDITS RELEASE BRITISH SUBJECTS Newchwanr Manchuria Oct (AP) Mrs Kenneth Pawley and Charles Cockran English subjects who were kidnaped 44 days ago by Chinese bandits arrived in New-chwang today under an escort of Man-chukuo and Japanese soldiers The handed them over to the Japanese authorities at Panshan about 40 miles north of hoe Mrs Pawley waa taken straight to the hospital operated here by her father Doctor Phillips a missionary suffering from fatigue She also waa feverish from a severe cold and expected to be forced to remain in the hospital two or three-weeks The release of the two prisoners was effected by Captain Kawahito of the Japanese gendarmerie assisted by a Japanese patriotic association called the Seigidan The ransom waa 130-000 yen (about 332500) 250 pounds of opium and a supply of winter clothing nib waa for short ot the extravagant demands in money watches guns and ammunition originally made by the kidnapers Foster in second plaos with 13469 votes and Upshaw in third with 11902 The ten new states reported in this compilation include: Florida Maryland Minnesota Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma Texas Virginia Washington and Wyomtag all voting fa Rooaevelt Hoover ia carrying the seven states of Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut and New Jersey Rooaevelt is ahead in all of the 41 other states On the basis of an electoral college division the- current balloting would give Rooaevelt 474 etectroel votes to Hoover's 47 The voting in New Yak state is closer than in any other state making tha outcome there doubtful at present Greatest Hope Declared to Lie in Co-operation on Part of Every Country and Government London Qct The world was in the grip of an economic disorder that rendera it helpless and there waa no solution in sight Montague Norman head of the bank of England said tonight in one of the few public speeches he had ever made He spoke at a banquet given the lord mayor of London at the mansion house with moat of London's distinguished bankers in attendance "The difficulties are so fast and so unlimmited that I approach the aub- Ject not only in ignorance but in lumility" Norman said is too great for me" "I wonder if there is anyone in the world who can really direct the affairs of the world or of his country with any assurance of the result his action will have? a year ago would have foreseen the position into Which we have drifted little by little? First we have been down then we have been up then down then up confused affairs of the world have brought about a- series of events and a general tendency which appears to me at this time as being outside the control of any man and any government and any country "I believe that if every country and every government could get together it would be different but we do not seem to be able to get together I have been driven to one conclusion must take for the moment a short view and we must plan far a long trip am willing to do my best whan it comes to the future 1 hope we may all see the approach of light at the end of the tunnel Some people already have been able to point out that light to us myself see it somewhat indistinctly But I admit that for the moment the way is not clean" BANDITS KILL HENDERSON Brother-in-Law Loses Life Mukden Manchuria Oct CAP) American citizen killed by bandits in the Hsinpin district has been identified as Lloyd Putnam Henderson 38 formerly of Seattle WasiL a Presbyterian missionary Mr Henderson working under the Northern Presbyterian church was a brother-in-law of the Rev Mc-Quilkin president of Columbia Bible college and visited him in Columbia about three years ago He married Mias Helen McQuilkin Ha was stationed at Hsinpin Manchuria The McQuijkins had received word yesterday of Mr death but no details On fact their telegram did not even say that he had been killed merely aaid he had passed away and that a letter would give further information The telegram came from New York based on a cablegram received there and so further informati or will likely be received within the next day or so HENRY FORD DECLARES HOARDING A MYTH Dearborn Mich Oct 20-CUP)-Henry Ford mid today that the American people were not hoarding their money because any money to The informal statement of the man who had made more automobiles than any other one manufacturer was by way of elaboration upon his campaign speech last night in favor of President Hoover's re-election He also explained why he had urged his employes to vote for the president Most of the country's money he said was in control of international bankers in New York bankers will keep the money until they find some place to invest profitably" he said "Just now it appears there isn't any Argentine Gauehos Strut Staff for Will Buenos Aires Oct 24-WeU had a great day today Saw the real Argentine gauchae do their stuff right out on one of the big estanctas We flew out to this big ranch This whole country is a landing field Had some of the American polo players along Thorn boios that you hear about 'rm throwing they urn for ostriches We chased ostriches all afettioon They are the fastest things I ever mw run I never got dose enough to one to even heller at him Got the boios tangled up around my own neck Them gauehos are sure wild the most fertile country 1 ever mw and has the most cattle and horses pet acre in the world Yours WILL ROGERS (Copyright 1132 for The State) Governor Roosevelt Buys Campaign Hat Despite Superstition Indianapolis Oct 20 Governor Roosevelt bought a campaign hat today in Indiana despite hia superstition This demands that he wear the same hat throughout the campaign White his automobile stood at the junction of two streets to permit him to review a procession of marchers calling for his election as president a vender came through the crowd selling hats emblazoned with the slogan for President" Passing 'down the line of automobiles crying hia wares the vender- came to Mr car Without recognizing the presidential nominee he asked the passengers in the car to buy a hat much ia Mr Roosevelt asked cents" replied the man Hie governor took the hat and gave tiie vender half a dollar Recently Governor Rooaevelt told members of hia party that hia one superstition was that we should wear the same hat throughout the campaign PRESIDENT WORKS HARD ON SPEECH Retires to Lincoln Study for While DETROIT TO HEAR Plans for Campaign Activities After Return Meanwhile Rounded Out Washington Oct Temporarily abandoning hia desk in the executive offices President Hoover today sequestered himself in the Lincoln study of tiie White House in preparation for hia departure tomorrow night on a swift campaign wing into three states Throughout the day the president cut hia ordinary visitors' list to a minimum Ha did however in the course of the drive to complete his Saturday speech in Detroit call in Secretaries Stimaon and Mills and Julius Klein assistant secretary of commerce The treasury chieftain reported he had discussed not only the president's address but also that delivered last night in Pittsburgh by Franklin Rooaevelt Of the Democratic nominee's statements there upon the bonus and the administration's fiscal policy Mills asserted: was similar to hia Topeka form speech and other great mystery (Continued os Page 2 Column 3) value of tiie fortress was long since lost economic value it never had yet Sumter remains one of tha great treasures not merely of Charleston a of South Carolina a of the South but of the American The monument was built through a bequest of 31N0N by the fete Andrew Murray Charleston philanthropist Maya Burnet Maybank accepted it on behalf of the city Four granddaughters of members of the Confederate garrison ufl veiled the 25-foot memorial which consists of a warria in tha attitude of defence before an allegorical female figure William Robert Greer (Cq) who waa a member of the Coifederate garrison at Sumter spoke briefly Johnson defended liberty although he said it may not always lead to happiness this day the politically sovereign American is an economic subject" he aaid millions of cases an economic serf chained to his treadmill enslaved by his machine" Defenders of Fort Sumter Memorialized at Charleston Roosevelt Leading Hoover In Literary Digest Poll Glassford Quits Post As Capital Police Head Charleston Oct 20-AP) On Charleston's battery within sight of Fort Sumter a monument in granite and bronze waa dedicated today as a memorial to the defenders of the fort during the Confederate war Three thousand persona attended the exercises including the cadet corpe of The Citadel Smith Carolina Military college Citadel cadets claimed they fired tiie first shot of the war fa the Confederacy Fort Sumter said General Johnson editorial writer of the Baltimore Evening Sun in the principal address remains an ideal of liberty" and houses and gold may be feat pomp and power may be lost ideals and the spirit to realize them may be lost but a great deed once done remains forever a part of the wealth of the nation that achieved Johnson said a deed waa accomplished on a little island in Charleston harbor where Sumter stands Hie military New Yak Oct Governor Franklin Rooaevelt of New York Democratic candidate for president feeds President Hoover by slightly more than three to two in latest returns of Hie Literary Digest poll announced todays With a total of 2617185 ballots received to date the returns stand: Roosevelt (Dem) 1473466 Hoover (Rep) 97X365 Thomas (Soc) 127235 A total of 170372 votes were cast fa candidates which the publication described aa including Thomas Foster of the Communist party arid Upshaw of the Prohibition Party 127 ON fed this group with Washington Oct The Washington police chief who differed with the administration on the bonus army quit hia port today after disagreement over changes he wished to make in hia farce In hia resignation accepted soon after it waa submitted Pelham Glassford retired brigadier general the District of Columbia commissioners had refused to give him a in choosing and assigning hia subordinates Superintendent of police only since last November Glassford was given the task of handling first the invasion of Washington by a group of self-styled hunger marchers then a large delegation headed by Father Cox Pittsburgh priest and finally the veteran! seeking cash payment of the bonus Hii rangy figure astride a motorcycle Glassford took charge of policemen who kept dose watch on the visitors and was praised fa tactful handling of tha first two groups Mai 9isagreemmt The bonus 'marchers however settled down on government property and remained even after congress had adjourned Fighting began July 28 as polio attempted to carry out orders to evacuate them from government property Before Glassford had effected a truce by a plea to take time out for lunch two veterans were fatally wounded The police (Continued on Page 2 Column 1).

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