The Washington Post
July 1, 1928

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VELL BROWN a embrance of for r shall there be f things that are that shall come e . ns the campaign “IT will have to go y at the end of the ‘and I will go with ~ 7 o rises to the sugges- arly start for the most uguration in the history on’s Capital. All aboard Fourth. addest hing iii that date iemplating the many friends al have to march forth. ' e © e . Republicans are the first and offer their hands to @ wast throng storms the State at Albany. The greatest ratic vote getter since Andy on begins getting votes. xican-American affairs are re- to be like one of Flo Zieg- 1928 chorines— in better shape ever. ork judge stops the Blue- athon at Madison Square after twenty days. What whirling Dervishes think anyhow, a Democratic na- nvention? « > . . Dbregon is the only -candi- President of Mexico in the today and troops are the polls to see that there beating—among the rifles. o > o George directs the maneuvers muir squadron by radio, it be- first time a British monarch accomplished anything without g wires. * « > * White House hopes blasted, Reed will not return to the Sen- hen his term expires, and will o be content with a place in alongside Benton, Clay and ter, instead of Tyler e. + . > 7 jie Democrats who have pre- and all for a rump convention y to be held at Richmond irpose of nominating a dry doubtless will heed the of Carter Glass rather ANXIETY FOR ITAL CREW i$ INGREASED BY MELTING FLOES Fields Are Breaking Up: Radio Says That Plane Landing Is Feasible. FINNISH AERO TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH FEAT Icebreaker to Reach Scene of the Italia Disaster by To- - morrow, Is Word. Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, P.). —Today, the start of the sixth week since Gen. Umberto Nobile and his polar expedition in the dirigible Italla crashed on the ice off Northeast Land, saw weather conditions not only halt- ing the efforts of rescuers, but in- creasing the peril of the six refugees whose location is known. Another day passed also without news of the nine missing members of the June 30 (A. | Italia’s crew or of the party of six which Roald Amundsen organized for search and rescue work in a French | naval seaplane. Only One Man Rescued. Throughout the more than two score days since the disaster, the efforts of aviators and mariners, backed by the | resources of five governments, have | failed to effect a rescue except in the case of Gen. Nobile himself. His re- turn from the ice was nullified, so far as numbers of imperiled men was con- | cerned, by the marooning of his res- cuer, Lieut. Einar-Paal Lundborg, Swedish flier There was anxiety here tonight for | the safety of Lieut. Lundborg and the | five explorers at the camp from which | Nobile was rescued. The Arctic sum- mer is affecting the ice fields and the floes are moving under the influence | of wind and current. The fields are be- | ginning to break up and there is ap- prehension lest the big floe on which Nobile’s tent was pitched disintegrate (Copyright, 1928, by Associated Press.) Finnish Plane May Land. Rome, June 30 (A.P.).—The Stefan! | news agency quoting an official com- —————— ee ——— 2» Heflin. Prudent South- will recall that when their lit, and placed two tickets field, in 1860, twenty-four | assed before that party again Democrat in the White House. barty of Jefferson, Jackson, | and and Wilson can survive i! is defeated by a Northern put it is doomed should he be by a Southern State, and | ne Democratic p party has been d by intolerance it will be ‘ered, too lute, that the Eight- isn’t the only amendment for there cay be a Volstead act. 1 your step, Dixie! 10p Mouzon, of the Methodist cipal Church South, wmination of Gov. Smith has cinitated “the greatest Liem with which the people of ca have ever been confront- Has PY of the institution of human yy, and the problem of saving ijpion ? says that moral the good Bishop ever ¥ a . s qivane, the Mexican drug is sweeping the United States, ‘d to be clairing thousands of n The terrible stuff is re- ‘cdito be almost as devastating ass of beer. LiSmith Democrats in Iowa bolt dd the first of the rump con- s. The corn belt is almost as bas the cawn belt. 4 ndsen and the lost members Nobile expedition are still ped in the impenetrable si- sf the polar ice. Here is a subject for the prayers this th- geod people of America. . = > * battles are fought in Mexico eve of the elections, and it from an American, at this . of the proceedings, to throw -ty look across the Rio Grande. | man re aiticed young John dge a job didn’t seem to realize is the vacation season. _ - a. eS . bs ot Joyce is writing her diary. is likely to forget the names | jances if she doesn’t jot ‘ent? very day. . ~ - * are already indications that cedent for the campaign » under way against Smith Wr Thave to go back to the mpaign against Cleveland. - + 2 * inisters and members,” odist Bishop Mouzon, “we foing to be frightened by of the politician that and vstate must be kept y aD ' Article VI, clause 3, of mstitution of the United 's * = dness, swith Mr. Hoover ign from S street ‘i “nthe wemmner Capital. That happens to be the |munique from the Citta di Milano says | four planes, two large Italian hydro- airplanes, a Swedish hydroairplane and a small Finnish plane equipped with skis, are to make an attempt to fly in the region of the Italia’s survivors |near Foyn Island tonight. Fog has 'fted, the wind has veered to the }southeast and the temperature has llowered so as to make landing of the | gee plane feasible, it is said. | A radio communication from the | stranded group near Foyn Island to the Citta di Milano, the dispatch adds. says that conditions there are most propitious. for a landing The three hydroairplanes will escort the Finnish plane to its destination and will drop more food and- supplies to the men on the ice. In the event the conventional signal is given indi- cating continued favorable landing conditions the Finnish plane will at- tempt a landing, the three hydro- | | | | Special to airplanes continuing their search for other members of the crew. A later wireless message from the Citta de Milano said the position of the castaways has improved as the easterly drift of the ice has ceased. The base ship also reported that a CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 7. COURTNEY'S SEA HOP NOW SET FOR TODAY “Whale” Seaplane. Repaired at Azores After Trip From Portugal. Horta, Island of Fayal, Azores, June 30 (A.P.).—The transatlantic flight of Capt. Frank T. Courtney, British avia- tor, will be .esumed from here tomor- row, if reports as to weather conditions in the vicinity of Halifax are favor- able. The big “Whale” seaplane in which Capt. Courtney is piloting three others from Portugal to America, was all pre- pared for the take-off tonight. Condi- tions here tonight were of the finest. 'The sea was calm and there was a slight north breeze. Sergt. Frank Pierce, mechanic, fitted into the dynamo the little piece of brass which he had fashioned to take the place of a broken part. The crew, includin. E. W. Gilmour. h\radio operator, were entertained at din- ner tonight at the mess of the Com- mercial Cables. Jugoslavian Cabinet Refuses to Resign Belgrade, Jugoslavia, June 30 (A.P.) After an all-night sitting, the cabinet has decided not to resign although the Croatian peasants’ party has demanded that it do so as an outgrowth of the recent shooting in parliament when Stefan Daditch, the peasant leader was wounded and his nephew, Paul! Raditch. was killed. Members of the governmeht party in- sist that the present ministry must re- main in power to maintain order and security until] some solution for the present difficulties is found enabling it to’ retire without sears tact public Index to Today’s Issue. Pages. MAIN SECTION. ' 1—Anxiety for Nobile Crew Increases. Gayety at Inaugural Is Urged. Hoover to Make His Base Here. Smith Plans Whirlwind Campaign. Mexico Battles on Ballot Eve. 2—July Fourth Fetes Planned, Capital Boys Win Model Tests. Legion Men Awarded Medals. 3—Balloons Start in World Contest, 4 Yachts Race to Spain. 4—Cheering Throngs Greet Smith. Virginia Democratic Victory Looms. 4-5—Political News and Sidelights. 5—Foreign Editors Approve Smith. James A. Reed to Quit Senate. 6—Educators Assail Utilities’ Acts. 8—Optimistic on U. S.-Mexico Status. 9—Schools Open Summer Classes. 10—Machines Cut Census Cost. ll—Center Activities Fixed. 12—News of Flying World. 13—Noted Hatmaker Dies. Vital Statistics. \ 14——-Takoma Arranges July 4 Fete. Chess and Weather. 14-15-16—Finance. 17 to 22—Sports. 23—In the Electrical World. 24—Fashions of Capital Women SOCIETY 1-—-Editorials. 2—Letters to the Editor 3-4-5-6-7-8-12—Soclety. 9—Art and Books. 10—Women’s Clubs; Parent-Teachers. 11-12—Veteran and Service Notes. AMUSEMENTS—AUTOMOBILES. 2-3-4—-Stage and Screen 4—In the Realm of Music. 5—Radio News and Programs 6-7-8—Automobiles. 9-10—Fraternal Organizations. |10—-Notes of D. A. R REAL ESTATE—CLASSIFIED ADV i—The Washington Realtor. 2-3—Real Estate News 4-5-6-7—Classified Advertisements. 7—Work’s Pointer on Bridge. AND EDITORIAL. AND ‘BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ SECTIONS. LEVIATHAN ROBBERY TALE HELD BRITISH PROPAGANDA Home Office and Scotland) | traversed Yard Accused by Commo- gore Cunningham. Sed ‘LOOTING ON SHIP DENIED The Washington Post. New York, June 30.—Out of a smoke | screen of reticence that hung over the United States liner Leviathan |arrived today from Europe, emerged an A. Cunningham that the giant liner’s mails had been looted of $500,000. Moreover, the first officer of the United States Lines indignantly at- tributed the half-million dollar reports from London to Scotland Yard propa- ganda, inspired by the British home office to discredit American shipping. While three postal inspectors, led by |Chief Charles H. Clarahan, were shooing | reporters away from rooms, the mall Cunningham expressed himself frankly on the bridge. Instead of $500,000, he put the loss at $9,300 and charged the plundering took place in England under the eyes of. Scotland Yard. “The statement States mail strong that was robbed the aboard this CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. COLUMN 4 Young Portia Pleads For Lives of 22 Men Moscow, June 30 (A.P.).—Courtroom spectators wept today when Lydia Ros- enblum, a pretty 27-year-old Portia. abandoned legal technicalities for the law of humanity and asked “justice tempered with mercy” in the Judgment of the Donetz engineer conspirators, The speech was a reply to the six- hour harrangue of Prosecutor Krilenco yesterday, when he asked for death sentences against 22 of the prisoners Miss Rosenblum stirred the court and brought tears to many eyes with an account of her clients’ pleading to live | which civic and | reviewed by | stand | military | of the country, | the historic when it | | the historic United | IMAUGURAL GAYETY OF PREWAR TIMES UAGED BY LEADERD Capital Business Men Unite in Proposals for Next March. HOPE TO REPRODUCE M’KINLEY CEREMONY) a Brilliant Ball, Gay Pageantry and Parade Suggested; Help to City Seen. With the candidates nominated and | the presidential campaign about to get into full swing, Washington's thoughts are traveling forward to conditions which will prevail here next March 4 when either Herbert Alfred E. Smith will be inaugurated as Presi- Hoover or | dent. Will the pomp and ceremony of the | tradition which prevailed until Wilson's second inaugural will the simplicity hold be confined again sway, or Capital to became This business which after the war? is the question leaders are | considering. ROTOGRAVURE, COMICS, MAGAZINE | Judging from statements made yes terday by many persons prominent in local there is a decided wish that affairs, the pageantry and circumstance which formerly ruled on tnaugural day | shall return to its own. Prior to the Harding had the inauguration 1 been invariable custom mark the induction into office of anew); _ ,, | wecretary civic | ' ibiti for hours | n vion be | Mr. | for President with a grand military, and patriotic Pennsylvania the new President the White organizations parade, which avenue to from A Famous all iilitary of the at House from parts including the and naval cadets formed part The parade was the evening procession. merrymaking, inaugural ball. and in Attracted Thousands Here. These festivities and the general gala attitude of the city attracted thou- ‘sands of citizens from all parts of the explosive denial by. Commodore Harold | not only to participate in the but to witness as event of the transfer administration The country, merrymaking, well the elaborate ceremonies have been dropped recent- ly and the extensive parade and ball abandoned President Harding's ration was followed by dent vGoolldge Now, it is pointed out, conditions have changed and it is fitting that the Nation again install its Chief Executive proper ceremony and pomp W. W. Everett, of Trade declared: “I am heartily in favor of the old-time inauguration, there are no two sides to the ques- tion, and I would very much like to see it come back. It not only helps Washingtoh from a public standpoint, simple however, CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 2. Man Killed, 9 Hurt In Kansas Storm Galena, Kans., June 30 (A.P.).—WIll- lam Hydecap, 25, was killed and nine persons injured here today when wa- ter-logged baled hay stored in the lofi caused the collapse of a _ two-story building, which had been fired by lightning two hours earlier. Ferrall Ryan suffered internal injuries. Most of those injured were attempt- ing to remove the 50 bales of hay, after the building’s roof had been burned off allowing rain to soak the contents. The fire was under control when the wails caved in. Bankers Abroad Alarmed After $750,000 Swindle Clever Band Fleeces British, Belgian and French Institutions on Forged Credit Letters. Scotland Yard’s Aid Sought. Lonion, June 30 (A.P.).—British and continental banking circles, thirsting for justice, have called on Scotland Yard and the Belgian and French po- lice for the swift capture of a clever gang of swindlers who have mulcted $750,000 in recent days. Not since the famous Bidwell gang came to London from America, 65 years ago, and induced the Bank of England to part with 500,000 for forged bills of exchange, have the bankers been so alarmea ~ The present swindlers began their activities in London only recently. Within the last few days several banks in West London were presented with forged letters of credit on _ large amounts; all of which they honored, except in one instance. This incident almost resulted in the capture of the cheaters in a similar manner as. the Bidwell quartet, who were arrested when they presented an undated letter of credit for $125,000. . - ; Security. British, Belgian and French banks of} The banker told the member of this examined the $50,000 bill of exchange, but the swindler failed to appear. At other banks, however, they were eml- nently successful and reaped a harvest of $300,000 in London alone. When things got too hot for them in England they chartered an airplane at Croydon and fiew to Brussels, where they: fleeced the Belgian banks in & similar manner to the sum of $100,000. Chief Constable Wensley, of Scot- land Yard, believes that a member of the criminal organization is employed in an Italian bank, where the drafts are supposedly issued on London banks. The British authorities describe one oi the criminals as a native of Brazil! or some other South Americar coun- try, and is believed to be an interna- tional crook who has been convicted of similar frauds in France and Amer- ica. His name and description have been telegraphed to the Belgian po- lice who replied he was seen in Brussels’ soon after the arrival of the Croydon airplane Close watch is being kept at all continental and English cities, sea- modern gang to return later while he pee oe airdromes. the | precedent ' ’ o'clock, ithe first to | | probably followed by | hy | ver | do not favor the repeal of the eight- , ment. of | that of Presi- | subject , ever, | | hibition should | with | preparing HOOVER WILL MAKE Ho HEADQUARTERS IN NATIONAL CAPITAL On mee ee we eee To Return Soon After Notification Address in California. ‘SPEECH WILL PLEDGE | LAW ENFORCEMENT ‘Work Departs for Brule to | Submit His Resignation to Coolidge Tomorrow. Washington will be Herbert Hoover's base of operations in the presidential campaign, it was learned yesterday. He will spend most of the campaign period at his S street home here, leaving oc- casionally to make a speech in some other city. This mornl: | publican nominee, | probably will attend at the Friends | street northwest the Re- is a Quaker, religious services Meeting House, 1809 I He will spend the re- mainder of the day in relaxation. Yesterday Mr. ment iw at 11 o'clock, who Hoover left the Depart- shortly before 2 to home, of Commerce and, gotng his con- tinued work on the speech he Is to de- liver when he is formally notified of his nomination as the Republican standard bearer This ceremony will take place week of August at Calif will Discuss Prohibition. One of ance the whi i} the understood points in speech ol accept is to be receiving particular attention from the that It was will is dealing with sald , make a pros | that | vigorous plea} in 1 particularly the yesterday Hoover law enforcement he speech, the Vol- | mentioning eighteenth amendment and stead act Lom In his reply to Senator Borah’s ques- tionaire on prohibition, Sect declared, “I will say again that eenth amendment.” He is expected to reiterate this statement and to go fur- ther in demanding its militant enforce- His this sub- being forward to by Republicans here as likely to draw the} line may of the campaign declarations on ject are looked on what well become the primary issue Prior to Gov ic 5 Smith's emphatk laration the modification of to the Houston convention, to Secretary was planning take up How- pro- in his acceptance speech at that time minor it was thougnt would he A issue and therefore the Secretary Was not to go into it as fully as he \is now president of the Board The Republican formed yesterday candidate in- by Representative William E. Hull, of Dlinols, that Louis L. Emmerson, Republican candidate for Governor of lllinois, and several oth- ers in that State who supported Frank ©. Lowden, to give Hoover their full support in the coming cam- paign at was are ready This was considered important headquarters, as no word has come directly from Gov. Lowden position he will take. as to the Work LeAves for Brule. Chairman Hubert Work, of publican national committee, the Re- left here CONTINUED ON PAGE 6, COLUMN 4. FLOGGING OF GIRL, 19, LAID TO MINE HEAD ee ee es eee Another Man Held; Victim Took Name of Daughter, They Allege. Ala., June 30 (A.P.).—Ear!l West, a mine superin‘en.ent, and J. G. Tearford, both of Cedrom, Ala., were *nder arrest here today on charges that they flogged Ruby McCarley,’ 19-year- elc white girl, -hursday night, The men were arreste. on assault and battery charges sworn out by Miss Mc- Carley, who said one man threatened her with a pistol while the other beat her with a club. Ii was said at the circuit solicitor’s office here that the men were enraged because Miss McCarley attempted to enter a Carbon Hill (Ala.) hotel by im- personating Velma West, the mine sunerintendent’s daughter. The girl was ejected from the hotel, th solicitor said and went to Kansas, Ala.. where she registered at a_ hotel under the name of Velma West. West and Tearford are said to have followed her to Kansas and flogge her. Dance “Marathon” _ Stopped by Police New York, June 30 (A.P.).—The ‘dance marathon”-which has been in /progress at Madison Square Garden, .for 20 days was stopped by police at mid- night al, the completion of the 48lst hour. Nine couples were on the floor when police acted, under an order issued to- day by Supreme Court Justice Valente calling for cessation of the contest at The eighteen dancers were the sur- vivors of 91 couples who entered the contes: June 10 for a prize of $5,00u. Milton E. Crandall, the promoter, saia Jasper, Palo Alto, | dec- the | | Volstead law contained in his telegram the | WORK DEPARTS TO QUIT POST Secretary of the Interior Work, + Associated Press Photo. left, leaving for Brule to visit President Coolidge and hand in his resignation so that he may more take tional Committee, actively up his duties as chairman of the Republican Na- With him is Col, company him on the John H. trip. Carroll, who will ac- TWO BATTLES IN MEXICO UN EVE OF BALLOTING | | etary Hoo-| GALL DRAWN FOR A NEW DEMOGHATIC CONVENTION SMITH, WITH AIDS, TO PLAN WAL WIN CAMPAIGN MONDAY Governor ls to Leave Albany Tonight for Conference. WILL FIRE OPENING GUN ON THE-FOURTH. Two Speeches Planned for That Day; South and the West to Be Visited. Albany, N. Y., June 30 (A.P.).—The councils of war to determine the strate egy of the Democratic presidential campaign are to begin at once Gov, Alfred E. Smith will go to New York toe morrow and it was learned that he has appointments on Monday with persons whose advice on political matters he values highly. At these preliminary conferences the rough general plan of battle will be drawn up and all tndications are that they will call for a whirlwind campaign that wtll lead Smith and his running mate, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, from | coast to coast and from the Canadian | border down into the southernmost States. Gov. Smith himself has revealed little his plans, but che fact that he is going to New York on Sunday osten- s.ibly to keep two appointments on | Wednesday, indicates that there are | important matters to be discussed at once, even before his Fourth of July ap- | pointments i of Two New York Speeches. On the Fourth whe governor is to speak at Tammany Hall and in the evening from the steps of the city hall. Observers of the political situation are considering the possibility that one of these talks may be made the occasion | | of firing the first shots of the campaign. he governor and Senator Robinson 1| 700 Rebels Fight Off Troops} Session at Richmond August are both the “fighter type” and it is be- : for 26 Hours; Rail Lines Are Dynamited. MUNITIONS ABE SMUGGLED MOODY’S ‘ND (Special Mexico City active Cable Dispatch.) 30.—Rebels today, presidential tomorrow received notice desperate fight between “federal rebels yesterday at Carrillo near Colima, of Colima. he held a June were yesterday and of take department because the elections which place has of a and Moun- | tain, rebels, of whom there were 700 fortified position be- hind the rocks and sides of a canyon. The battle lasted 26 hours. Owing to superior armament and reinforcements coming to the federal troops, the reb- els retreated under cover of darkness, leaving than 70 dead and merous wounded on the battleiield. Heavy floods in the far-reaching low- lands over which the rebels retreated prevented active pursuit. The federal troops met and drove into the mountains a considerable party of CONTINUED ON strongly more nu- “PAGE 3, COLUMN 7. Col. Milling’s Plane Elmira, N. Y., June 30 (A.P.).—Col Thomas Dewitt Milling, chief of opera- tions for the United States Army Aair Service, escaped serious injury late to- cay when his airplane crashed on the side of a mountain near Leroy, Pa., about 70 miles south of here. Col Mill- ing was on his way to participate in an air meet at the Elmira airport Pine Camp, N. Y., June 30 (A.P.).— Lieut. Herman Leroy Von Lackum, 36. of the National Guard Air Service, was killed instantly, and his companion, Lieut. Joseph Hunter, was critically in- jured, when the plane in which they were fiying from New York to this camp, crashed today. Both lived in New York. JOHN THOMAS NAMED SENATOR FROM IDAHO Banker, Member of National Committee, Appointed to Gooding’s Post. Idaho, June 30 (A.P.).—John Thomas, banker and cattleman of Gooding, and Republican national committeeman for Idaho, was today ap- pointed United States senator to serve the unexpired term of the late Senator Frank R. Gooding. The appointment-of Mr. Thomas was announced by Gov. H.C Baldridge, fol- lowing conferences with politica) leaders from all parts of the State since Good. ing’s death last Sunday. Thomas’ selection marked the rise oc! the new senator aominee from his birthplace in a rock dugout on a Kan- sas farm to a seat in the Uniteo States Senate. . In 1920, when Gooding made nis sec- ond senatorial campalyn, Qis first in Boise, ;and led his party to victory He was that the prize money would be divided Sfate chairman until 1924, when he be- teams, i teeman, cameé national commit probably | Hits Mountain Side 1918 having been unsuccessful: [Thomas . was Named State RepuDlican chairman | i ' } j i 7 Asked; Tammany Made Target of Charges. IS SOUGHT) | Special to The Washington Post. | ' The war | | confined to the extreme drys, troops | | vention here ended w! capital of the State | ‘over Houston, June 30.— test within the Democratic the nomination of Gov for the Presidency, Texas, rhe party Alfred E. Smith of being threatens the con- proe- over instead to be extended. Hardly had ferences were being held question of in Houston the nominating an- |} otrer Democratic candidate } A manifesto and call were last night looking to a convention. of “national Jacksonian Democrats” to be held at Richmond, August 7. “he manifesto was quickly shown to a small number of leading Democrats wl? are known to be bitterly disap- | pointed over the nomination of Gov. Smith, along with his action in send- ing a telegram declaring for modlifica- tion of the prohibition law. The names of those prepared to back up the movement have not been given out, but it i declared that it has the support of*powerful Democrats in the South, The name of Gov. Moody, of Texas, is mentioned as one whom the CONTINUED ON PAGE 3, COLUMN 6 20. PLANES SEEKING MISSING MAIL FLIER Leslie H. Smith Not Seen; He Left Little Rock on Thursday Night. St. Louis, June 30 (A.P.).—Fliers and observers in twenty army and civilian airplanes and in the army airship C-52 from Scott Field, Ill., were searchng to- day between St. Louis and Little Rock Ark., for Leslie H. Smith, 25, crack aur mail pilot, who has been missing since he left the Arkansas capital Thursday night in an airplane tor St. Louis. Because of the possibility that Smith may have been injured in a forced landing and unable to drag himself to get help, the search wiil continue until dark, if necessary, and will cover every portion of the route over which he was passing. Hunter, Mo., 120 miles southwest of St. Louls, where a resident heard a plane passing at 8:40 o’clock Thursday night during a storm, is in a rugged. heavily timbered country in which it would be difficult to land a heavy plane such as the De Haviland which Smith flew, without crashing it. Population is sparse and communi- cation facilities are meager. Smith’s employer, the Robertson Air- craft Corporation, today offered a re- ward of $500 for information leading to his recovery. |51 Miners Killed By Fire in France| St. Etienne, France, June 30 (A-P.). Fifty-one ¢oal miners died today in a fire caused by. coal dust in a mine near the town of Roche la Moliere. Twenty men were taken from the dlazing sector almost suffocated by deadly fumes. of _— will live, we » s 1en informal con- | prepared | the political warfare started as soon as possible. paign is not expected to | Labor Day, lieved that both would welcome getting Although the férmal came- begin -until it seems likely that the ine casional skirmishes. It is widely conceded that the gene eral strategy of the campaign will be dictated by Gov. Smith, but there are countless details which he mus¢ first discuss with persons better ace quainted than he with national poll- tics. To date he has merely said that he will conduct the campaign as he hag condaicted those for State office. This means that he will fight day and night, meetings, and also that he will con- expects to do if elected rather than to charges against the the Republicans such as featured the keynote speech. Will Be Tireless Fight. Much depends on the choice of the chairman of the national committee to succeed Clem Shaver and this seems at the moment to be one of Gov. Smith’s principal problems, for it will be Smith who dictates the choice. It is generally believed that the man chosen will come from the West, but there seem to be half a dozen men on whom the choice might fall. Smith is known to be enthusiastic about the qualities of his running mate and is believed to have had @ good deal to do with his nomination. Smith and Robinson campaigned in New York together in 1920 for Cox and they have a mutual respect for each other, largeiy based on the ade- miration of one tireless fighter for another The details of the campaign are to be decided on, but one fact is certain, when it is over the coune try will have no doubt that it hag witnessed a campaign. “A typical Al Smith campaign” ig the expectation of those who have watched the governor wave five hotly contested battles for the executive toga—four of them resulting in suce cesses for his cause. Will still Avoid Personalities, aggressive program permitting the gove ernor to outline personally to the largest number of people he could reach the essential composition of his political philosophy; his views of effi- cient political economy, executive budgets, hours of labor and other oute standing issues in his own record at Albany. That the campaign would be completely free from personalities was confidently predicted. Gov. Smith is known to have definite ideas as to how his own part in the campaign should be played, and it is expected that these ideas will prevail without any attempted interference from his advisers. He indicated this to- day when he said: w‘l propose to talk to the American people in the same way i have done to the people of New York State. 1 propose to make the same kind of campaign for the Presidency as | have done for gove ernor.” Analyzed against iis past practice, this would mean the centering of his CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN a FOR 4 DELIGHTFUL VACATION—Western Nortn Carolina Mountains--Excellent Tourist Hotels. ding ponte ol Ask fox Summer Vacation saree train service. .Reduced It is believed that all : ea Railway way System. ty Oflice ce 1810 3 tervening time will witness at least oc- speaking at a great number. of- fine himself to statements of what he - They explained that this meant an ; ,