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GRAFZEPPELIN IS
RESTING TODAY IN
Throngs l ined All Available
Space to (ict a Glimpse of
Biggest Airship
PASSENGERS WILL NOT
TALK ABOUT TIU: TRIP
They Had Been Forced to Sign
Agreement That They Would j
Not Talk About the Flight For
Plight Days.
Bv \Y. W. CHAPLIN,
Assoeiated Press Staff Writer ;
Lakehurst, N. J., Oct. It!. (7P) The j
largest airship ever built, its silver i
envelope containing inflammable hy¬
drogen, was berthed today at the
United States naval air .station after
completing the longest commercial
flight from Europe. Three other dir¬
igibles, inflated with non-inflammable
helium, huddled in the 'hangar close
besid" the Graf Zeppelin. prohibited,
AT,, .king was sternly
and in certain places no one was allow
ed except with rubber soled shoes,
lest so small a thing as a spark from
a nailed heel cause disaster.
The mighty Graf Zeppelin which
floated up from the Zeppelin works
at Friedrichshafen last Thursday
morning with a crew of forty men
and a passenger list of HO, landed
here at 5:38 p. m. yesterday, after
playing tag with the elements over a
zig zag course estimated at 6,300
miles requirii 4 ' 111 hours, 38. It was
berthed at 3 a. m .this morning after
spending most of the night attached
to a mooring mast.
The other dirigibles in the hangar
were ihe Los Angeles and two com
paiatively tiny non rigid blimps.
The Graf Zeppelin arrived as day
was dropping away into the dusk
just four years to a day after the
arrival of the navy Los Angeles
irom the same starting point.
As the great dirigible crossed the
boundary of the air station and dip
ped toward the flying field the crowd
of approximately 5,000 broke into a
spontaneous cheer.
The skyship moved slowly and
most silently with muted motors to a
position almost above the
mooring mast.
Then with a roar like the trampling
of celestial cavalry- and the strength
of 2,700 horses represented in the
five engines swung in goldolas, the
motors were cut wide open and the
ship was driven toward the earth.
Lines were dropped and caught by
the waiting hands of more than 500
sailors.
As the dirigible settled on American
soil the enthusiasm of the crowd broke
all bounds and police lines went down
with a rush.
State police were momentarily help
less but they struggled hard to re
store order, and many a blow was,
struck before the crowd was at last
pushed back safely from the explosive:
wanderer of the vneharted highways
of the sky. , :
sent** ^ hen and the ship touched grinned earth excitedly; pas
crew
from the windows as they thought of
restaurant dinners and the pleasant
footing oi solid ground. But they
were due fo rdisappointment. Cus¬
toms inspection and difficulty in hand¬
ling the crowds resulted in the pas¬
sengers being held practically incom¬
municado for hours, fir^t in their
cabins and later in that part of the
hangar turned over to their customs
service. Not until late at night was
(Continued on Page 5.)
FOUR OF ZEPPELIN’S CREW
PROVED REAL HEROES IN
MAKING REPAIRS IN STORM
(By Associated Press.)
Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J.,
Oct. 16.—Today’s dawn furnished the
first full opportunity to examine the
transatlantic dirigible Graf Zeppelin’s
storm (Mmage, and it became appar¬
ent in what danger the sixty occupants
of the ship must have been, until
speedy and courageous repairs held
disaster in check.
The wind, having gained a foothold
by bi caking a small window in the
bottom of the port fin, ripped off a
piece of fabric about fifty by twenty
i'jt- feet, which left a gaping hole di¬
rectly into* the great 3,700.000 cubic
foot bag containing the fuel and lift¬
ing gas.
Crude methods were employed out
over midocean to effect improvised re¬
pairs. Beds were stripped of their
blankets to stuff the hole through
which the wind might have reached
to wreak terrible havoc.
Four of the crew, including the
youthful son climbed of the pilot, Dr. Hugh
Eckener. out over the fin’s
duralumin girders, the tatters of the
ripped cotton fabric heavy with metal
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
Dr. F\ <l N. Lornne, nationally t'ara
our eye specialist, has been stricken
with a heart affliction am! pneumonia
''** home in Niles, Mich,
Petition is Presented in United
States Court in Atlanta, Al¬
leging That the Organization
is Now Insolvent.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Oct. Hi. -A receiver had
been asked today for the Ku Klux
Klan in a petition presented in United
States district court here, alleging
that expenditures <d money by high
officials of the organization had caused
it to become insolvent.
The petition, presented yesterday to
Judge Samuel li. Sibley, of the federal
court, who ordered it lilod, charged
that Hiram VV. Evan.;, imperial wizard
of the order, and other officials, had
spent klan funds i:i opposing the cun
didaey of Governor Alfred E. Smith,
of New York, Democratic nominee for
president, because of his religion,
It was alleged that the organizn
tion had become insolvent although
it. had collected $100,000,000 from its
members which, the petition said,
"was greatly in excess of the amount
necessary to pay Hr, lawful and neces
r.ary expenses.”
Violation of Georgia law opposing
contributions by a corporation or its
officers of corporate funds for cam¬
paign expenses or for political pur¬
poses, in an election or primary held
in this state, was charged.
Evans, in Washington yesterday,
declined to comment on the petition,
presented by T. Rice, who identi
f !C( ) himself as a member of the organ
Nation.
Another man named as defendant in
the petition, James A. Comer, of Little
R„ck, grand dragon of the Arkansas
realm and a member of the “ hoard of
directors” of the klan, said the organ
; za tion was solvent, was not in poli
t ; (s> ani ] “though unalterably opposed
to Alfred 10. Smith," had not spent
nlf ,ney for political purposes.
lt! addition to Evans and Comer, W.
Zmnmhrun, the Knights of the Ku
Klllx Klan, and the American building
were named as defendants in equity,
________________
TO SPEAK IN PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia, Oct. 1.0 CP).....Governor
Smith, of New York, will come to
Philadelphia on October 27 and speak
in the arena in West Philadelphia.
When word was received here today
to this effect arrangements for the
mass meeting were at once sot in
motion.
paste, whipping about them as they
worked in wind and rain. These mod¬
ern sailors whose element is the air
instead of the sea did a job up there on
their precarious perch 1,500 feet above
the -roaring waves that would have
done credit to any old salt reefing a
sail in a sudden blow off the Horn.
It was the notable uvrk of those
four men which enabled the wireless
'■all for assistance from navy v« ssels,
sent out when the fin first tore, to
be cancelled within ten minutes.
Eight blankets were stripped from
the nearest berths and roughly sewed
together to make a temporary wall,
and with this flimsy protection against
the roaring elements that had already
driven the ship more than 1,000 miles
from its course, the journey was com¬
pleted.
One glance at that wound in the
ship's side gave observers from the
ground today full explanation of the
reason for the dirigible's slow pro¬
gress from the time of its accident.
Navy crews wheeled extension lad¬
ders alongside the dirigible today and
work on permanent repairs started.
BRUNSWICK, GA., TUESDAY, OCT. 16, 1928.
Petersburg, Va., Oct. 10.—Virgin
ians applauded Senator Curl is, the Re¬
publican vice presidential nominee, in
an attack here today on the prohibi¬
tion and immigration views of Gover¬
nor Alfred E. Smlh, Democratic pres¬
idential candidate.
Senator Cuitis declared that “pro¬
hibition was never an issue until the
Democratic candidate declared against
the law.”
“What has lie done to enforce the
law as governor of New York?” Cur¬
tis asked. "Not one single thing.”
“What lias lie done to disobey the
law?” Senator Curtis queried. “He
signed the law passed bv the New
Yoik legislature wiping out the pro¬
hibition enforcement statute.
“The man insults the law abiding
citizens of our country when, he says
in his speech of acceptance that mem¬
bers of the juries cannot he trusted to
decide prohibition cases.
“If you want the law enforced, elect
a man who is in sympathy with the
laws of our country. 1 am opposed to
any state going into the whisky busi¬
ness.”
The audience repeatedly cheered as
Curtis rigorously attacked the Demo
i i alic nominee. The armory hull was
not tilled for the meeting, although a
large crowd stood on the outside to
hear the speech over amplifiers.
Senator Curtis declared Governor
Smith, in his appeal to the census of
LS!)I) as a basis for restricted immigra¬
tion was threatening a breakdown in
liie immigration law. lie said that
this law was supported by Democrats
as well as Republicans and declared
that “Governor Smith is the first can¬
didate wlio has tried to overcome the
plat form on which he was nominated
and disregard (lie votes of his >wn
party to put over his ‘own pet
schemes.’”
PRUSSIAN OFFICIAL STARTLED
BY THEIR BEHAVIOR AT ZEP¬
PELIN LANDING
(By Associated Press.)
Berlin, Oct. 1(5. A scathing criti¬
cism of the behavior of the “Ameri¬
can police” in tile landing of the Graf
Zeppelin at Lakehursl, is contained
in an interview with Albert Grzesin
ski, Prussian minister of the interior
and a passenger on the Zeppelin, made
public here today. like those wit¬
“Had occurrences I
nessed taken place in Prussia, these
police officials would have been fired
the very same day,” he was quoted
as saying. “On leaving the airship
which the passengers were permitted
to do only after hours of waiting, they
had to their surprise to go through
several unpleasant experiences. They
were surrounded by a cordon of police
and led into the customs building as
though they had intended to smuggle.
In so doing the American police show¬
ed manncis which necessarily amazed
the passengers. Several times they
were yanked and frequently pushed
in fact one of them was struck in
the face by a fist. Among those thus
treated was also General Consul Gen¬
eral Pewinski.”
Grzesinski both as the former police
chief of Berlin and as the present head
of the entire Prussian police force, is
considered an authority on police mat¬
ters.
ENGLAND HEARD
BIG CELEBRATION
ON ZEP ARRIVAL
(By Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 16. Newspapers to¬
day said that the broadcast from
Lakehurst, N. J., of the arrival of the
Graf Zeppe- n was Ihe clearest radio
relay that had been heard in England
although atmospheric c o n d i t i o n s
drowned out the announcer’s story be¬
fore the ah bin was moored.
Hundred: of thousand of British
listener -in heard the drone of the dir¬
igible engines,, the cheers of fr>e crowd
end a hand playing “Die Wacht Am
Rhein.”
GALLS ON PRESIDENT
Washington. Oct. 16. GPi—-Lady
Nancy A.tor, British member of par¬
liament, called upon President Coo
Hdge at the White House today.
j
Miss Eleanor Branson, above,
daughter of Mrs. K. L. ranson, of
Washington, 1). < ., a charming mem¬
ber of the younger set in the na¬
tion’s capital, has entered Goucher
College, in Baltimore, Md.
They Were Not Aware of What
Had Happened When Zeppe¬
lin’s Horizontal Stabilizer Was
Damaged.
(By Associated Press.)
Lakehurst, N. Oct. 16. Passen¬
gers aboard the Graf Zeppelin started
on their air voyage with the same or
less flurry than do steamer patrons
and so the trip continued. Passen
gi rs were confined to quarters many
times smaller than those of an ocean
liner, but their days aloft yet were
spent in much the same fashion -with
simple entertainments in luxurious
surroundings, and perhaps in occasion¬
al peril from which officers shield
them.
While passengers sat in the com¬
parative safety and comfort of their
cabin, four members of the crew, in¬
cluding Knute Eckener, 21, son of l)r.
Hugo Eckener, skipper of Liie air liner,
undertook the task of climbing out to
the tail of the ship in a wind and rain
squall to repair a horizontal stabilizer.
Not once from the time of their de¬
parture at 2 o’clock Thursday morning
were the passengers so worried about
the storms Eckener encountered that
a “little drink” didn’t fix them up, he
said.
Jn the squall that struck the craft
Friday, and caused damage that
brought a request for a ship convoy,
the passengers were held in ignor¬
ance of any real damage. Dr. Eckener
said that if repairs had not been made
quickly the fabric from both sides of
the fin would have hern ripped ofl by
the wind with the probable result that
tho Zeppelin would have been out of
control.
The passengers denied they suffer¬
ed from air sickness throughout the
trip, although a petty officer of the
crew declared that during the worst
of the squalls which struck them in
mid ocean, the Zeppelin pitched so
that her nose described arcs of 150
meters.
The apparently was no shortage of
food, the Graf Zeppelin arriving at
Lakehurst with it slarder equipped for
weeks, of further cruising.
Eckener said he was “somewhat
■tired” because he had hud only about
eight hours sleep since the Graf Zep¬
pelin left Friedrichshafen.
The success of officers and men of
the crew in keeping whatever worry
there might have been among them,
from the passengers was manifested
by their appearance and statements
upon their departure from the trans¬
atlantic air liner at Lakehurst.
Lieutenant Commander Charles E.
Rosendahl, captain of the United
State- navy’s Los Angeles, was the
only passenger who was aware of the
seriousness, of Friday’ accident. He
reoues.ted the navy department to fur¬
nish a navy destroyer, but cancelled
the request when repairs were effect¬
ed. So far as he knew the passengers
passed their time aloft as though they
were patrons of a stemaship liner.
There were the usual games, he said,
and promenades, though the latter
were not so long as they might be
aboard a steamer.
Fadv Grace Drummond Hay, British
i'.iji nal'-t. and only woman passenger
about th~ Graf, steeped from the air
hip as though she had enjoyed every
hour of the flight.
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK
\V;i-hhington, Oct. 16. (/P)—Presi¬
dent Coo!idee today accented an invi¬
tation to address the National Grange
which holds its 62nd annual meeting
in Washington November 1C. The
address will be broadcast.
N By I). HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press Staff Writer
Seda]i;i, Mo., Oct. 16. (A 1 )- In con¬
tinuation of Missouri's welcome to
Governor Alfred E. Smith, Hedalia
turned out several thousand of its cit¬
izens today a review a long automo¬
bile procession, led by the presidential
candidate, through the city’s principal
streets.
In a hot sun which heat down upon
his open car, the nominee was driven
through the crowd lined streets for
about an hour and back to his hotel,
where he intended to rest up for his
first Missouri speech tonight at the
I . state fair grounds. with
The Sedalia boys band, a base
drum taller than the average man,
! preceded the governor’s car and play
I ed time and time the “Sidewalks of
New York,” while the nominee sat on
the back of his car and waved his
j brown derby to those on the sidewalks
of M issouri.
j | The governor rode with Francis P.
Wilson, of Platte City, Democratic
! candidate for governor, and Charles
j YV. Hay, of St. Louis, Democratic sen¬
atorial nominee.
| Sedalia, Mu., Oct, 16. administra- Republican
; claims of economy in the
i tion of governmental affairs will he
[the target here tonight of Governor
[.Smith in launching his single speech
! campaign in this border state,
i In addressing an audience in the
huge livestock pavilion at the state
fair grounds a few miles from So'
! daiia, the Democratic presidential
nominee will take as his text a single
s: ntence in his acceptance speech in
which he asserted that the “claim id
I governmental economy .is as baseless
as tile claims that general business
prosperity exists and that it can exist
only under Republican administraton."
The speech will Do broadcasted over
a nation-wide radio chain beginning at.
o’clock, central time. The governor
worked lute on ihe speech last night
at the Terry hotel, his headquarters
here, hut he was not expected to be
able to complete it before noon today
at the earliest. A parade sol for the
forenoon, was the only formality in his
day’s program before (he speech.
Acclaimed in Missouri as on no oth¬
er occasion since.his campaign got un¬
der way late in August, Governor
Smith arrived here at 7:30 o’clock last
night after a tremendous ovation in
St. Louis and il.s neighboring Missouri
and southern Illinois cities. The re¬
ception seemed to him to have been
one continuous cheering multitude
from the time he reached Belleville,
Hi., early in the morning until he ar¬
rived at his hotel here last night.
The governor will leave here tomor¬
row morning for Chicago, where he
delivers on Friday night the seventh
speech of a campaign swing that
started out to be only a three speech
affair.
Encouraging reports on the presi¬
dential outlook, in this state were
made to tho New Yorker by Demo¬
cratic leaders during hi: flying visit
across Missouri.
Senator Harry B. Hawes, of St.
Louis; W. T. Kemper, of Kansas City,
national committeeman, and Charles
M. Hav, dry senatorial candidate, ail
of which came to Sedalia on the Smith
special, were jubilant over the gover¬
nor’s prospects, especially in St. Louis,
where the Rcnublicans normally show
great strength.
Tho demonstration in that city
seemed particularly to please the nom¬
inee.
He thought the reception was “very
enthusiastic” arid said it made him
feel “like I was at home.” He also
expressed himself as “entirely satis¬
fied” with the results of his tour
through the south and the border
states of Tennessee and Kentucky. '
The nominee made the prediction predict
that he would carry both Ohio arid
Pennsylvania in November.
The forecast as to these two Repub
lican bulwarks, came during the course
of questioning as to the nominee’s I
speech plans in Ohio. He said he had
no sneaking engagement in that state
either ( ,n this trio or on the final one
ID- would sneak in Pennsylvania, he
added, hut in which city he did not
know.
“What is the significance of elimi- '
nating Ohio from al! your itiner
aries? ” he was asked.
There is no particular significance
[he^ in it hut vou cannot go everywhere * ’ ”
nominee rephed.
Colonel Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana
University, Bloomington, Ind., elected
commander in-chicf of ihe American
Legion, r at its convention in Sail An
, tor! I exas. Ill succeeds . ... Edward ,
o,
Spafford, of New York.
Refuses to Interfere in What it
Termed “P u rely Political
Right” in School Superintend¬
ent Case.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Oct. 16. The state su¬
preme court today refused fo inter
fere to protect wind it termed a “pure¬
ly political rigid” ip an appeal arising
out of a contest of F post of county
school superintendent in Decatur
county.
The high tribunal affirmed the De¬
catur superior court in refusing to
enjoin the count:.' Democratic execu¬
tive committee from issuing a oerlili
cate of , ”.J t " lal !; l .,' ! ' , ^;
incumbent school superintendent, .. who !
(Ideated Andrew Avery, in a i mi ‘>lj
election by 38 votes. Opponents o :
Bowel* had alleged ini the appeal Ihal
he was a resident, ol Lainlindge, an j
independent school district, and that
Bower, as a res idea l ol the disi net, :
wa' ineligible to :.<*rve in the diiee. \
“Klectioiis belon**; 1<> the political i
branch of government and courts of!
equity will riot interfere to protect a
purel.v political ri^ht,” the supreme !
court i tiled.
MAN WHO CLAIMED |
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BAKER MILLIONS
GIVEN TEN YEARS |
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(By Associated Dress.)
Richmond, Va., Oct. 16. Bernard I'. ]
Chapayne, of Tieonderoga, New Y o k,
was charged wilii having obtained j
$J5,(K)0 and a promise of marriage
from Miss Lucille Fields, a Richmond!
girl, by posing as tho heir of the Bn- i
her chocolate millions and grandson
of J. I’. Morgan, was. sentenced to
ten years in the state penitentiary by j
a jury in Hustings could: here today,
it was the maximum punishment per- j
mitted by the law. t
Miss Fields was riot, present, but
her mother, Mrs. D. I’. Fields, and a
sister, Miss Susie Fields, testified for
the commonwealth. I
Champayne pleaded not guilty to
the indictment but was not represent
ed by 'counsel and offered no testi
mony to refute that presented by the
state.
RUMANIA’S BOY KING WILL
SOON ENTER SCHOOL LIFE,
SEVEN YEARS OLD OCT 25
(By Associated Press.)
Bucharest, Oct. 16. King Mihai, of
Rumania, will be seven years old on
October 25, and his mother, Prince:a
Helen, has decided that he must go to
school like any" other little boy of his
age.
But the princess is anxious that Mi ¬
hai shall not be pampered and spoiled
by private tutors. * So she lias created
nn entirely new and separate school,
to which every province in Rumania
will send a pupil.
In this way Mihai will rub elbows
with all classes of Rumanian children,
the poorest and humblest as well as
the wealthiest and mo: t aristocratic.
He will meet little brother and sister
Rumanians from B<s .arabia, Transyl
vania, and Bukovina, u> well a:- Hun
garian, German, Jewish, and other
children belonging to Rumania’s min
ority races.
He will receive no favors or privi
leges, and will have to study his les
sons just as diligently as a child of
the humblest peasant. Princes i Helen
this is the surest way to impart
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THE WEATHER
Put-Hy cloud}. with local shmvvrs
in tlu- inwrinr luniu‘hl 0r Wed
nvsdzu'.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
VERNOR 'IN
HER SON’S BEHALF
Father of [toy and Walsh, His
Attorney, Appeared Before
Chief Executive Today
HE REFUSES TO GRANT
SLAV OE EXECUTION
Mother Contends Hickman is In¬
sane and Begs That His Pen¬
alty Be Reduced to Life Im¬
prisonment.
(By Associated Press.)
Sacramento. Calif.. Oct. Hi. Gov¬
ernor ('. C. Young, of California, re
Ill: .ed , , todayDo , , . inter , With ... I lie
er execu¬
tion of William Edward Hickman, . set .
for nex! Friday morning at Sari Quen¬
tin prison.
'l iie governor made this known af¬
ter conferences with Jerome Walsh,
of Kansas City, attorney for Hick¬
man, and Thomas Hickman, of El
I’also, father of the condemned youth.
San Francisco, Oct. 16. i/P) With
scarcely a shred of hope I hat they
would succeed, two defenders of Wil¬
liam Edward Hickman headed for
Sacramento today to make a final ap¬
peal to Governor G. O. Young, of
California, to save the murderer of
12-year-old Marian Parker, Los An¬
geles school girl, from the gallows.
Hickman is under sentence to die in
San Quentin prison Friday.
Thomas Ubdwnan, father of the con¬
demned youth, left Los Angeles last
night, for Sacramento. He arrived in
California yesterday from I'll Paso,
Texas, and it was expected that Je¬
rome K. Walsh, Kansas City attor¬
ney, who led defense forces at Hick¬
man’s trial, would join him at the
slate capital, coming from Washing
ton, ('T'j'npJ/'to"halt" I). (!., where i.iic"em'ution! lie failed in an at
The elder Hickman told reporters
ho intended to appeal for his son on
fhe ground of insanity.
Mt . an while. Hickman in San Quen
|j n }, ;ls busy dispatching letters
p „| it . ( . t .|,ief.s j„ the middle west
^ w pj ( .p he },as confessed to many
| mr ., lui . i( .,. j„ p.i20 and 11)27.
Reports oJ f roceipl of nearly a dozen
; . (U , K |,, U( .,„ |, y j„ Ohio, Texas,
Kansas and Missouri, have been re*
(1( .j V(M j
Mother Appeals
Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 16. (/!’) - A
from Mrs. Eva M. Hickman lo
Governor G. G. Young entreating him
to prevent the execution of her non,
William Edward Hickman, was made
public here today by Jerome K. Wat h,
of Kansas City, chief attorney for the
condemned youth.
Walsh in a written appeal to tho
governor for commutation of the
sentence declared his belief that Ilivk
man is insane-ami asserted that the
youth’s execution, set. for next Friday,
would lie “tantamount to both a state
and national disgrace.”
Mrs. Hickman’s letter read:
“If you can understand Die feeling
of a heartbroken mother please have
mercy on my poor son Edward and
not. let them kill him. This is break
ing my heart to see m.v boy killed, for
lie was not himself. Won’t you open
your iifs heart to my plea and give him
in prison? If you only show
m-rry only God will know the appro
eiation of my humble and broken
heart. My only prayer is please don’t
kill my boy, hut give him life.
(Signed ) “Edward’s mother, Mrs.
Eva M. Hickman.”
Walsh’s written appeal to the gov
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(Continued On Page 3)
1 idea of true democracy to the new
king.
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RADIO SPEAKERS
ON AIR TONIGHT
(By Associated Dress.)
New York, Oct. 6. Political sptak
er , on the radio tonight include:
Democratic:
Governor Alfred E. Smith from Se
daiia. Mo., at p. m., over WJZ and
coast-to-coast network ol National
Broadcasting Company,
Franklin D. Roosevelt from New
York, accepting the nomination tor
governor, at 7 p. m. .over WJZ; WGY,
Schenectady; WHAM, Rochester,
Augustus Thomas, playwright, at
11 P- m., over WABC and Columbia
broadcasting chain,
Republican: chairman
■ H* Hill, of New York
> state Hoovi t-Giutis campaign toiu
mittee, at 6 p. m„ over WEAK.