Wnttlh rntiyniehl VOL. XUI. NO. 28. Associated Press Leased Wire.
ST. CLOUD, MONDAY, OCTOBER ,29, 1928. SIXTEEN PAGES PRtCE THREE CENTS TIAFFIE DEAD mil 39 TWO WINONA MEN How New England Received Gov. Smith 43,000,000 Voters Ready To Cast Ballots Nov. 6th DEAD AS 3 AUTOS ZEPPELIN SOARS BACK ON COURSE TO GERMAN PORT Republicans Make 2500 Talks to Northwest Chicago, Oct.
29. (AP) More than 2,500 Republican campaign speeches have been delivered since October 1, in 28 western and southern states, it was announced today by Congressman Walter H. Newton, director of the speakers' bureau of the Republican national committee. The pin-markea map in Mr. Newton's office indicates that the speech-making has been concentrated In Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Dakotas and Nebraska.
Greater clusters of pins have been added within the past few day to Wisconsin and Greatest Increase Shown in Women's Registrations-New York City Records Million Gain Solid South Increases Noted. (Copyrighted 1928, By The Associated Press.) "Washington, Oct. 29. (AP) Voting booths in city and town, village and hamlet, will open their doors a- week from tomorrow to the greatest army of qualified voters in the history of the United States approximately How many of these men and women who have registered their intention to cast their ballots actually do so is a matter of conjecture, but election experts have figured the number as high as 38,000,000. Iq, 1924.
the total vote for president was 29,091,417. The more conservative observers place the 1928 vote lower-around with women playing a major part in the selection of the next presi- dent of the United States. Large Gains Noted. As no governmental agency has ever undertaken the task of determining the number of qualified voters in advance of an election, the Associated Press, through its correspondents, has tabulated the number of potential vot ers in every state. This list shows enormous gains everywhere in the larger cities Above Some of the thousands who thronged the streets of Worcester, when Governor; Smith drove thru that city, on his recent New England tour.
Below Providence, Rhode Island, turned out in full force to give Gov. Smith a real greeting as he rode thru the streets of that city. He is shown in the picture below, riding in the first automobile, waving to the crowds, who showered him with paper confetti. HOOVER TO P.LAH:; 4 SPEECHES FOR CAMPAIGN CLOSE New York' native, state of GovernorHThree MOW AddreSSeS TV Jin3 111 COLLIDE ON ROAD Two Duluth Youths Drown When) Wave Tips Over Boat on Rice Lake. 20 KIlBeSTn OHIO Grade Crossing! Accidents Take Heavy Toll in East era States.
By Associated Press The death-toll resulting from auto accidents, the past weekend has increased to 39 and an equal number were reported suffering from Injuries. Twenty, persons were killed la Ohio Sunday as the result of automobile and grade' crossing, accidents. Among the list were five persons who died In an automobile crash at a street intersection in, Cleveland. The other deaths were reported from, state points. Seven persons were killed at Hanover, when an automobile stalled on a grade crossing and was hit by a train, In a similar accident near Seward, a family of five was wpied out.
At Sioux City, three persons were killed In an auto-train crash. St Paul Family Involved. 111., reported the death of. an infant 'daughter of a St. Paul family when the In which the Minnesota people travelling, overturned.
Two Winona, men were in-ctantly killed in an automobile crash at presbach. near Winona. Three others were hurt in the smash-up. Georee Whetson, 20, Plaza, S. died, last night six hours after his skull was fractured in an auto accident near Parshall.
Two Are Drowded. Duluth Oct. 29. (AP) After clinging to a dead tree for almost an hour following the overturning ot their boat at Rice Lake, ten miles north ot here, two young men were drowned and a third saved himself by swimming to shore today Tbe party was hunting ducks. The dead are Erllng Griden, 20 year old and Harold Hestrom, 19 years old, botn of Duluth.
Theodore Peterson, 22, was the man saved. The boat was capsized by a large wave. The three youths clung to a dead tree iu the water for about 60 minutes. Fearful that the would become exhausted and lose their grasp on the tree, they decided to swim to shore. Griden and Hestrom became exhausted shortly after they set out for shore and drowned.
Peterson was successful iu reaching the shore and summoned aid. Two Dead Near Winona. Dresbach Oct 29. (AP) Two Winona. men were killed and three other persons injured, two serlously: When three automobiles collided one mile, south of here late last night The dead are: Houghton Bertelson, 40, and George Sletz, botfi of Winona.
Henry Carlson of Winona received serious cuts about the face, but is expected to recover. Mrs. Andrew Passell ot Lacrosse, and a man whos9 name was not learned, were the others injured.1 Mrs. Passell's injuries are not serious. The Bertelson car was traveling toward Winona; while two other machines were approaching from the opposite direction.
Bertelson automobile struck a car driven by Mrs. Elsie C'layburn of Tomah. The men's machine swerved around and crashed into a car driven by Andrew Passell of LaCrosse, causing Dertelson's car to be thrown into a ditch. in it the nominee will give an extend-. ed exposition of his farm relief program and the manner in which he believes it would operate to ameliorate conditions in the great farming sections.
Weather Minnesota typstly flr tonight nd Tuesday; slowly rising temperature. Additional weather in "I Bee by Tk Times. Giant Craft Slips Away at Midnight, Bound For Fatherland Again. 61 PASSENGERS ABOARD Order to Start Comes at Mid night, After Long Weath er Delays. Berlin, Oct.
29. (AP) The representative of the Lokal Anzeiger aboard the Graf Zeppelin today wirelessed his newspaper that a 17 year old American youth was discovered on the air liner as a stowaway at six o'clock this morning. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. Oct. 29.
(AP) The German dirigible, Graf Zeppelin, imprisoned for days by contrary winds, heaved off Its bonds early today and headed back through the moonlight skies for its borne port at Friedrichshafen, Germany, whence it came October 15. It left at 1:54 a. m. With three score men and one woman aboard, the greatest airship that ever flew the skies was dragged, tail first, from the hangar not long after midnight and then, seeming suddenly to acquire a life of its own, it lifted proudly against the moon and strode away on its journey across the seas. Departure Delayed.
Ail day yesterday departure of the Zeppelin on Its return flight had remained in doubt. Zero hour for the ground crew of sailors who have been in constant attendance on the great ship since Its arrival from Europe two weeks ago today was first set for five o'clock iu the afternoon and then advanced to midnight. But even then no one seemed really to believe that the ship would leave. But midnight came and action followed with breathless The passengers were bundled aboard, chatting feverishly and grinning with something of desperation in their smiles. The ground crew, more than 300 sailors trained to such events by frequent handling of the Los Angeles, marched to their posts and grasped the air monster as unceremoniously as a mother pushes a baby carriage.
The great east doors of the hangar ground open on their tracks and the night wafted into the hangar with its invitation of limitless space' to be traversed by those who dare. Huge Ship Move! Out. An officer barked a tenia command, the great ship stirred through its whole length of 778 feet, its 111 tons of weight seemed to heave and rise. It was like a giant sighing at the thought ot activity expected of him, activity that cannot be postponed. Out of the hangar the sailors walked the Graf Zeppelin.
At 1:30 the Zeppelin was clear of the hangar, and so bad passed one of the most perilous moments of any flight. For one of the greatest dangers Is the possibility of some errant gust of wind pushing the ship against the hangar walls and ripping it3 silver flanks against the steel bulkheads. Out in the night the Zeppelin was a great black monster with a fin of silver down its back where the moon struck. It twisted toward the north and moved ponderously, under the sailors' expert guidance, to a hollow far enough from the hangar so that there would be no danger of being blown against the towering steel structure. "And then: "Weigh ship," an officer bellowed.
Craft Rises Easily. The ground crew released its many handed hold. The Graf Zeppelin, a giant waking from a deep sleep, lifted its bead slowly-, as though sniffing the relish of the morning air, and then a roar of five great engines split the night. Propelled by those engines, the Graf Zeppelin shot upward toward the moon, and circled majestically overhead. Once in the air all its sluggishness seemed to have vanished, from an ungainly brute such as burrowed In mud and wallowed across the wastes in time before man was known, it had suddenly become a fair thing, light and graceful and utterly scornful of the human help which had been so needful to it on the ground.
Continued on Pace SMITH LAUNCHES-CLOSING BATTLE IN BALLOT DRIVE Speaks Tonight in Baltimore Scheduled This Week. Governor Smith's, address tonight at be available at 8 p. m. '(St. Cloud time) over WCCO, Minneapolis radio station.
Wilmington, Oct. With four speeches ahead of him in the last week before election, Governor Smith today reached that stage of the presidential race which he predicted soon after his notification would be the turning point of the campaign. The Democratic presidential nominee is a ifirai believer in strong campaign finishes, having practiced it in bis gubernatorial battles on the theory that thousands wait until the final week to make up their minds which. way to vote. So tonight in Baltimore he will start down the home stretch of his Atlantic (Continued on Page Eight) ROBINSON READY TO CLOSE TOUR Will Make Four Speeches in Illinois in Effort to Swing That State.
Peoria, 111., Oct. 29. (AP)-Seriator Joe T. Robinson, Democratic vice presidential nominee, began the last week of his long campaign tour today. The final days of the longest campaign tour ever undertaken by a Democratic nominee found the senator prepared to carry the Jeffersonlan banner into four states before returning home to Little Rock to vote and await the election verdict.
Robinson has been in the solid south, unvisited by a nominee of his party since the Civil war, in the far west, and in the middle west where he has been making a strenuous bid for Republican and progressive votes. The Immediate job he has set for himself is to clinch votes In downstate Illinois, hoping that when the ballots are counted in that part of this important state, the ordinarily strong Republican majority will be cut to such an extent thatv it will be unable to overcome the Democratic' vote in Chica go, which managers of the Smith-Rob inson ticket are predicting. Work Thru Illinois. To this end, Senator Robinson has set himself in readiness to make four formal addresses in Illinois, to be supplemented by numerous appearances on the rear platform of his private car. Democratic leaders called out voters to hear Senator Robinson in Peoria this afternoon'.
Tonight he is to sneak in Springfield. Tuesday morning, he plans to leave for East St. Louis, de training-at Decatur for an afternoon ddreRf vast, mmmmmm j. .4 i 500 GATHER FOR DEMOCRATS MEET At EDEN valley Crowd Representing Northern Half of Meeker Applauds Two Smith Speeches. Five hundred persons gathered Friday evening in the Eden" Valley school auditorium where the All-Party Smith-Robinson club staged a political rally.
They heard talks by State Senator Charles A. Hausler and Mr. Nyberg, past chief commander of the American Legion, St. Paul. Both talks were enthusiastically received by the audience which represented people from every community iii the northern part of Meeker county.
J. B. Binsfeld, candidate for the legislature' from the second 46th legislative district, spoke to the gathering and gave an. instructive talk on the issues of this office in the present election. It.
T. O'Brien, president of the Ederi Valley club, presided at the gathering which he 'reported to be ene of the most enthusiastic held there in irany years. Montevideo Schools Are Opened After Epidemic Oct. 29. (AP) High school and junior high school students returned to their classes today after a week's "vacation" Imposed by city health authorities and school officials because of a threatened diphtheria epidemic.
Grade school, children will return school Tuesday and other bans on if i Tf4r Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic stand ard bearer, leads with 4,875,721, com pared with 3,256,319 persons who vot; ed in 1924. The city of New York stronghold of Democracy alone show ed a jump of. more than half a million. The old-line Republican State of Pennsylvania is second with 3,943,000 registrations, compared with 2,144,852 who voted four years ago.
Illinois is third, 3,260,000, compared with 067. Ohio is next with an estimated registration of 2,750,000, compared with 2,016,237 voters in 1924, while California, home state of Herbert Hoover, the Republican candidate, is fifth. The registration there is 816, compared with 1,281,778 who cast their ballots in 1921. South Shows Increase. A development, unusual in American politics, is the great increase in the registration in the Democratic "Solid South." For the first time in years the southern states are in the throes ot a spirited presidential campaign and reports from every state indicate voters will flock to the polls as never before.
Old-time political observers have had their eyes opened at the remarkable registration of women voters. While only a few states make an official attempt to tabulate the potential voters gs to sex, figures available are very nusual. Striking an average of the male and female registration, it is conservatively estimated that women will cast from 35 to 45 percent of the total vote in the larger cities. In the rural districts this percentage probably will not be so high. A few instances to indicate the general trend: Maryland reveals an increase of 72 per cent in the women registrants over 1924.
Philadelphia shows an increase of 116 per cent, St Paul, 72 per cent, Duluth, 46 per cent, St. Louis 35 per cent and Kansas City 38 per cent. Politicians of years of experience, while frankly expressing amazement at the registration figures for the 1928 election, talk confidently for public consumption of the benefits which will come to their candidate. But there is no doubt that privately there has been a big question mark hovering over; the huge voters lists for the man agers of both parties. Many Issues Before Voters Various schools of thought give various explanations for the sudden rush to the registration counters.vOne clement says its prohibition.
Another f.ays it is the religious issue. Another says it's prosperity. Still others main-lain it is farm relief; water power; tariff, and a dozen other subjects which mlgbi affect various localities. And there are those who may contend that none of these are the issues that the fight is of personalities between Hoover and Smith. Major Address to Be Given Thursday Night ail St.
Louis, He Agrees. Washington, Oct. 29. (AP) Herbert Hoover is to make five more set addresses before his cause is submitted to the voters ot the country one week from tomorrow. of them will be crowded into a space of forty-eight hours during his flying trip back to his California home to vote, the fourth of these to be delivered at Pueblo, Colorado.
This city was added last night to his itinerary, necessitating a complete shift or schedule between St. Louis and Palo Alto. Instead of striking northwestward from St. Louis Friday night for Nebraska and Wyoming, the Republican presidential candidate will cross Missouri overnight, then pass through Kansas from east to west, and then across Colorado and go diagonally across Utah to Ogden. Invades Mountain Section.
The Pueblo speech will be delivered Saturday night from a platform in the public square just outside the railroad station and will be broadcast to the mountain states, as it will be the only address Hoover has delivered in those states since the opening of the campaign. While the special train will make a fifteen minutes' stop at Salt Lake City, there will be no speech thera as the nominee will adhere to his rule against political talks on the Sabbath day. Senator Reed Smoot and other Republican leaders of Utah will join him there and confer with him during the run to Ogden. The first address in the final drive of the campaign will be made in the public square at Cumberland, Maryland, Thursday night, three and half hours after the Republican standard bearer leaves Washington. The next will be made at Louisville, where the nominee will speadan hour and a halt Friday, and will participate in an extensive stieet procession be-iore speaking in front of the1 Jefferson county court house.
At St. Louis Thursday. Thursday night his special will stop at Keyser, West Virginia, Walter S. Hallahan, national committeeman, and other leaders of that state, greeting the nominee during a five minutes stop. The train will reach St.
Louis about 7:30 p. and rmeain until 11 p. with Hoover speaking forgone hour. TWO REPUBLICAN MEETINGS TO BE STAGED TONIGHT Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud to Hear Nelson and Senator From Orgeon, 8, 9 P.
Al. Republicans of Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud hold two. political rallies this evening, one at the Sauk Rapids high school and the other in the armory of this city. Both meetings begin at eight o'clock.
Arthur E. Nelson, the Republican candidate for U. S. Senator from Minnesota will speak at the local armory at eight o'clock and he is expected to again hurl questions at his opponent, Henrik Shipstead, who is running on the Farmer-Labor ticket. United States Senator Frederick Steiwer, of Oregon will be on the program at nine o'clock, and after that Mrs.
A. J. Chesley, who was with Hoover in Belgium will give a talk. The appearance of the first two speakers will be reversed at thu Sauk Rapids rally where the Oregon senator speaks at eight o'clock and Mr. Nelson at nine.
theatres in the city will be lifted this evening. Dr. J. C. Vazina ot Minneapolis, a representative ot tho State Board of Health, has been here for sev eral days diagnosing the cases of school, children.
He asserted there is no epidemic and no cause of alarm, only 11 cases of diphetheria, none serious, being found. The schools were closed last week after three deaths within two days in Montevideo and vicinity from diph theria. Chantilly, France Georges Sterns, one of the most celebrated of France jockeys, died, aged 41. from 8:30 p. m.
to 9:30 p. m. This will the major address of the trip and.
