REAT rejoicing among the Demo-
crats, and corresponding dismay
in the Republican camps. Maine, nor-
mally & rock-ribbed Republican state,
has gone Democratle,
and everyone is quot-
ing the adage:
“As 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. Nor
did the Hoover forces
attempt to minimize
its importance,
For the first time
in 18 years Maine chose a Democrat
for governor, He is Louis J. Brann,
mayor of Lewiston, whose plurality
over Burleigh Martin was nearly 1,400,
The out
of three victors be-
ing Edward C. Moran, Jr., Rockland
surance agent who twice ran for
governor, and John G, Utterback, an
automobile dealer who was re
form mayor of Bangor. Congressman
Carroll L 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 Malne
imposes need for renewed and strong-
er effort that the people may fully un.
derstand the issues at We
have known all along that, owing to
the ravages of the world depression,
our fight is a hard one: but we have
a strong case and a right cause. Our
task is to acquaint every man and
woman in the country with the facts
and issues which confront the na
“We are greatly disappointed,
mitted Vice President Curtis “But It
will only make us work harder,
and we will carry Novem-
ber.”
Demoeratic Chairman Farley grinned
exultantly as he sald he was impa-
tiently awaiting a Republican expla.
nation of the Democratic victory in
Maine,
“The Democrats do not concede a
single state,” he added. *] think It
must be admitted by Mr. Hoover's sup-
porters that in this particular
monwealth the Democratic prospects
were no better, to put it mil lly, than
in the least promising (from our point
of view) of the
Maine was no harder
ssion tha
old
Roosevelt.
Louis J.
Brann
elected two
the
Democrats also
congressmen
once
ta
stake.
y
the
Maine in
Com-
so-called doubtful
hit by
n the rest of
had no more
states,
the depre
country and
resent the
the
MARIES held in various
Mich-
were
g the week. In
M. Brucker, Repub
renomination and
Walcott and Person
Democrats
for governor,
Moses of New
Hampshire and Porter Dale of Ver
mont were renominated by the Repub-
licans, as was Senator BE. D. Smith by
the Democrats of South Carolina, Cole
Jlease being rejected. In Louisiana
Representative John IL. Overton,
friend of Senator Huey Long, defeat.
ed Senator Broussard who sought re-
nomination,
P H
lien l, €% won
Representatives
also were victors The
named W., A. Comstock
Senators George [1
N R. HOOVER poked a stk into
a hornet’'s nest when he made
public the report of Attorney General
William D. Mitchell on the bonus army
and the regrettable
incident of its oust.
ing from Washington.
Mitchell said his in
vestigators found that
most of the B. E. F.
members were hon
est, earnest and law
abiding, but that per.
haps a quarter of
them were eriminals,
many were radicals,
many were arrant
fakers, and the worst
were among those
who were evicted by
troops with tear gas and flames.
The attorney general defended the
manner of eviction and the conduct
of the troops used, and the Presi.
dent sald: “This report should cor
rect the many misstatements of fact
88 to this incident with which the
country has been flooded.”
But many newspapers and individ.
uals, hotly discussing the report, de
clared it was mislending generally
and absolutely false in certain vital
parts; and it 1s a question whether
it did not still further alienate a con
siderable part of the body of war
veterans from support of the admin.
Istration. Of course, it was one of
the major topics of talk among the
members of the American Legion
when they assembled In Portland.
Of greater Importance to the Le
glonnaires than this affair was the
demand for immediate cash payment
of the bonus. The resolution calling
Att'y Gen.
Mitchell
for this was adopted by a vote of 1,167
to 109 after a noisy debate. The dele-
gates thus disregarded the warnings
of President Hoover and General
Hines, director of the veterans bu-
reau, that the payment would cost the
treasury between two and two and
one-half billion dollars and impose an
futolerable 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 debts and favored ade-
quate national Chicago was
selected for the 1033 convention, and
Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, WwW.
Va., was elected national commander,
defense,
OW the problem of intergovern.
mental debts may best be solved
is the puzzling question that is now
being considered by a new organiza.
tion of business lead
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
chalrmen include Hen.
ry A. Wallace, farm
paper publisher of
Des Moines: Dr.
Nicholas Murray But-
ler, president of Co-
lumbia university: James AL 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.
Hizing practical opinion™ on the
international debts question.
A. P. Sloan, Jr.
PRESIDENT HOOVER started
the week well by calling on
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 judget Roop “to
make every »ffort to secure a reduc
tion of at least $300,000.000 In the
estimates of the
next year from the appropriations
made for the current year, and
co-operation of the responsible
ministrative officers is
achieve this end. A
be accompli
off
the
the
appropriations for
the
ad.
iry to
can
reduction of con-
which
necess
part of this
shed in
activities
struction, been
so greatly
few years as an aid to employ:
From administration sources it was
learned the
budget reduction might be
O06 O00,
Just
department
speeded up during the past
President hoped the to.
£800...
ling his age to
heads, the President an.
nounced that the government would
go ahead with that portion of
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
he program by the amglint of slight
ly less than $200,000.00
On Tuesday the War department,
to advance the government's employ-
ment relief efforts, approved a great
construction program that calls for
the expenditure of $41.577.260 on flood
control and rivers and harbors proj
ects. The department expects these
activities will provide work for 25.
000 persons now jobless.
before sen mes
the
HOUGH supported by only one
fifteenth of the reichstag, the gOV
ernment of Chancellor Von Papen of
Germany remains In power, for it has
the backing of Presi-
dent Von Hindenburg
who seems to agree
with the chancellor
that parliamentary
government {in the
reich Is a failure
When the reichstag
met Monday Von Pa.
pen tried to read the
command for its dis.
solution given him
by the president, but
Herman Goering, the
Nazi president of the
parliament, refused to recognize him
until after a vote of non-confidence in
the government had been moved by a
Nazi and carried by an overwhelming
majority.
Von Papen walked out, leaving the
decree of dissolution on Goering's
desk. That gentleman announced it
was not valid since the reichstag had
already overthrown the cabinet. Later
he admitted that both the dissolntion
and the vote of non-confidence were
legal, after being rebuked by thie pres.
Ident for his action. Government off}.
clals sald there would be new elec.
tions within sixty days, according to
the constitution, but the Deutsches
Zeitung, mouthpiece of the govern.
ment, sald: “There will be no new
elections—no decision on a date of
election Is expected in the near future.”
THE CENTRE
8 WAS foreeast a week ngo,
France rejected the German de
mand for 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 the proposal before it could
be granted. Chancellor Von Papen
thereupon announced that German
delegates would not attend further ses
sions of the disarmament conference,
which reassembled Wednesday.
ROM Riga comes the interesting
statement that Josef Stalin, die-
tator of Soviet Russia, has lost his
influence and before long will be re
placed as secretary
of the Communist
party-—the only office
he holds—by M, L
Kaganovich. This lat-
ter man, however, is
a devoted disciple of
Klemm E. Voroshilov,
commander of the
Soviet armies, so (t
is taken for granted
that will
thereafter direct the
policies of the Com
munist party and of
the nation.
Stalin's reign, it is sald, 1s being
brought to a close because of fallure of
the five-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 the of the
dictator is sald to be Moscow's hope
to obtain American recognition by a
radical change of internal policy. Va
roshilov is anxious to obtain America
Voroshiloy
K. E. Voro-
shilov
for fall
as an ally against Japan, whose plans,
Russians fear, threaten Siberia.
N ANCHOUKUO, the
4 state up by Japan in Man-
huria, Is now a full fledged nation
“independent™
set
or Japan gave it recognition by sign.
£ & protocol Thursday at Chang.
hun, which ecity was renamed
Hsinching, meaning “New (
There was great relole ng In
and a display of intense
in Chinese
f
apital”
Tokyo
resentment
cities,
ther
week, A
Col. Arturo
served
HILE
revolution
nilitary eliqr
tex,
notice on
ist Presi
narrowly escaped and
the
air wander,
Davila, the
former
Carlos Social
} and ambassa
dor to Washington, that unless he re
the Presidential palace would
bombed or attacked by troops
The clique already had forced the
resignation of the and the
es of the air corps gath.
action.
Davila gracefully stepped down
and out, saying he would leave Chile
and probably would seek a job in
Journalism in some other eo untry,
fern
signed
be
cabinet,
men and p
ered at
So
ready for
Santiago
ATHERED in Sioux City for the
g the needs
of the fa #8, governors and other
represents west.
ern states outline : IPODORE federal
pp
deer
¥
:
kKep
eral
several it was believed
FO
the “Flying Family.” mad up of
Mr. and Mra, George IL Hi iinson,
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 Angmnagealik
®y the British trawler Lord Talbot.
The projected flight of the Hutchin.
sons over Greenland and Ieeland was
not approved by the Danish govern
ment, and the taking of the children
has been severely criticized,
ECEIVERS for the Insull Utility
Investments, Ine., report to Fed.
eral Judge Lindley in Chicago that
the concern is hopelessly insolvent,
Its nssets being $27.473.304 and its
Habilities $253 9084.341. Aside from
the $148,000,000 which 51.478 persons
Invested In the stock of the corpora-
tion and lost, there still remains a
deficit of $78,474,403.
That apparently wipes out the pur.
chasers of $580645,028 of debenture
bonds In the company, with still a
deficit of nearly $£20,000.000. That Is
nearly half of what the bankers
loaned the corporation.
Foun years ago John D. Rockefel.
ler, Jr., conceived the idea of re
storing the old town of Williamsburg,
Va., to the conditions of colonial days.
The first step in the project, the
restoration of the historie Raleigh
tavern, has been completed, and the
structure, rebuilt on the original site
and furnished in the style In vogue
150 years ago, was opened to the pub.
lic on Friday. This one item has
cost more than $200,000 of the £5,000,
000 Mr, Rockefeller has contributed
for the entire work.
Close by the tavern, which is sit.
uated on the Duke of Gloucester
street, is the old Colonial Capitol
bullding, another of the structure
which has been Included In the reg.
toration plan and which Is now nean
Ing compietion,
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CENTRE HALL. PA.
The Barcarolle
By MARY SCHUMANN
© by McClure Newspaper Byundicats,
WNU Bervice
Susie heard music coming from one
the last flight with slow footsteps
She was late tonight and would bare
ly have time to get ready for Bart
who was going to take her to dinner.
The door of the apartment was im-
perceptibly open, Ardis must be home,
people standing in the living room did
not hear her; Bart with his arms
around Ardis, kissing her cheek, mur.
muring something,
him, smiling silkily.
Susie turned her back to them and
began taking off her rubbers. When
she them again Ardis was sit
ting in a chalr and Bart was lighting
& cigarette with studied nonchalance.
“Hello, everybody,” sald Susie with
an innocent smile, She went into the
and hung up her raincoat.
Twotiming her, were they? Ardis
older, nore clever . » . It
fair!
Ardis came in.
stopped,
“Take him!
with him to dinner! 1 can't be both
ered. I've a good book I'll enjoy more
I was getting fed up anyhow!
faced
bedroom
wis
wnsn't
“Susie , + .” she
"”
snid Susle. “Go on out
scram!”
“Oh, don’t be that way!” said Ardis
io on
petulantly, “It hadn't been going on—
it just happened.”
Susie shook her
g 1 tell youl™
sie cooked herself a chop on the
wo-burner gas plate, made some toast
', and set It on a tray which
table begide the
head. “Go on—I'm
arried to a
HILO GONE ACTORS
@ was playing Wag-
Probably that
1 who had moved
* door of the apart
posite was open and she could
] of a grand plano, but not
the
week
He san playing
herself on the steps of
his very
$0 he would not hear her. The
while she was still in
the stalrwus beside door
softly
A young with
hair,
wns
nan
and a
before
dark eves
standing
you'd
in a comfort
y for you?
I was here¥
nerha rn
perhaps
“1 happened look out and saw the
] f a dress and a pretty foot!”
ited her on a cushioned chalr
* piano and pulled up a foot
Now, lovely child
Prose; tis
hat bet
you
tart
son
he
vas better lookin i
ich better bred. Some one
id trust to be a good friend
wouldn't let you Even Ardis
her dark flirtatious eves—he
would see through Ardis!
“T'l knock at your door sometime
when you are playing, and If you want
company, let me in" She got up to
£0. They stood there, lingering, smil.
ing at each other.
“Susie, I haven't spoken fifty words
to you, and known you only an hour,
but I don't have to tell you-—you must
know it—that you are something rare
and lovely?”
Some one was coming up the stairs,
two at a time. As they came out of
the door they were confronted by
Bart, a Bart who was suddenly beefy
and overgrown. “Susie,” sald Bart, *1
want to explain what happened! 1
had to come back to sce you!"
She Introduced him to MacFarland
but he barely touched the outstretched
hand. Arthur MacFarland went into
his room and shut the door.
“I'm awfully tired, Bart. Did you
and Ardis have a good time?"
“We had a great row lover you, of
course
“That's too bad ™
“She had been making a play for
me right along, and when I got In
before you tonight—that--had Just
happened I
“1 see!” Susie was looking past
him, seeing another face
“I'm awfully sorry, Susie,” he stam.
mered,
“You don't need to be,” she mur-
mured. But when he wanted to go in
her door she shook her head.
Bart stopped. His face took on a
cynical look. “You were coming out
of his apartment! , . . Perhaps
you wanted to be alone tonight—were
glad to have us go out—so you could
be with him ™
A melody full of the flood of spring.
time, of bird song and high tender
skies, magical music that called to
every bit of soul and body, came from
Mac¥Farland’s room.
Susie smiled sweetly. “Yes, Bart,
that's exactly what I wanted! Good
night , . . lots of luck!”
down,
with
RA
«SCHOOLDAY
are now “on™
they are, especially
which take one
land o' fashion.
her realm are posi
ing that they depa
modes that have gon
There's the
stance,
er-skirted,
most of
centrating
riding most
tinguil
CORR,
too
in that
of the
shes this seas
suils
As to skirt 5 there Is no real.
ly radieal change For dastime nine
the ground s
with
afternoo:
the
occasion.
ed, instep
dressy
reaching to
formal
As to cole
honors is
that
every gra
Are
dye to a
and rad
Bott an “
salier:ng
v
2
iy
Ha
practica'’ as
DECREED FOR FALL
Fall suits will not have the
tailored finish of the
son. The short little
and snug double-breasted
last year will be replaced by lum!
Jack coats and fitted
| with less formal fastenings and wider
| sleeves,
strictis
suits of last sen
by Ithop
thodels
loosely
The hiplength and three-quarter
coats will be favored both for street
and sports wear. One of the new
| lumber-Jack models is fashioned of a
| feather tweed, and consists of a
| straight dress and Jacket. The dress
{| top and lining of she coat are of em
| broidered cashmere. The collar of the
| unusual coat buttons high about the
| throat. Broadcloth is used for a num
| ber of dress suits and velvet Is a fa.
vorite for restaurant dinine and in-
{ formal evening occasions
| Fur-Lined Cloth C
Seen in Early Showings
Furldined and furtrimmed eloth
| coats are featured in advance show.
| Ings of winter wraps They are
| warm without being bulky. and many
| women prefer them to the all-fur coat.
| particularly for town wear.
Fur will be used chiefly for trim.
| ming on winter evening wraps, rather
than for the entire wrap. Yokes, gil
ets, cape collars and shoulder effects
are usually of fur pelts, while the
wrap itself is fashioned of rich, heavy
velvet. One outstanding model of
creamy white velvet has full, deep-set
sleeves of dark brown sable,
Lovely Outfits Spoiled
Using Wrong Accessory
Even when one has selected the
ideal suit, dross or coat, there is still
the highly important and significant
item of such nccessories as the hat,
gloves, shoes, pocketbook. Many »
lovely outfit has been completely
#poiled by giving It the wrong type of
accessory, just ns by the same token,
many a frock has acquired a new lease
on life by being treated to grand and
harmonions complementary touches
Sa
“AS
CHIC CUFF BRIMS
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Fall millinery collections are large
Iy a matter of jaunty little chapeaux
made of velvet having sprightly turpe
back cuff brims which offer a pleasing
variation from the cap-fitting berets
whizh have been holding the center of
the stage for > long. Sketched at
the top is a smart little gob hat of
black velvet. It has the turned-back
cuff, with black cire ribbon drawn
across the front ending in a small
bow high on the left side. The other
sketch shows an ultra hat of raspberry
velvet. It is worn well down over the
forehead. White grosgrain ribbon
trims It with a tiny bow over the
right eye.
—
Waist-Length Wrap
Many of the collections this fall will
include the waist-length wrap that in
half Jacket, half cape, to be worn over
a cloth frock or coat.