The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1933, Page 1

. Gover _ TENTATIVE PLAN IS North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper SSTABLISHED 1873 UNDER SCRUTINY BY GROUP AT CAPITOL Officials Believe Consumer Would Have to Pay Cent a Quart More SEE BLANKET AGREEMENT Separate Codes For Milk Sheds Would Be Adjusted to Meet Conditions ‘Washington, Aug. 23—(?)—The gov- ernment is about to fix the price paid for milk that is set on nearly every doorsill or porch in the country. ‘The plan so far is just tenta- tive as to details and is being written by farm administration officials and dairymen. At most, the officials feel, the result should be an average in- crease in cost to the consumer of one cent & quart. For the country as a whole, there would be a central blanket agreement, covering all fluid milk and outlining policies and fair trade practices. Codes then would be drawn for each milk shed, each area producing and con- suming its own milk. These would fix the farm, wholesale and retail prices of milk. If a majority of fluid milk producers and handlers accepted the blanket ‘agreement, it and its supplementary codes would be effective on all. Individual areas, however, which held price adjustments necessary be- cause of special conditions, would be allowed appeals. If their appeals were convincing, the prices could be changed. Also included in the plan is the idea of limiting to 5 or 6 cents the dif- ference between what the cow owner gets for his milk and what the drink- er pays for it, thus restricting the middieman’s profit, the “spread.” ‘There is, likewise, a plan for con- trolling the amount of milk produced and sold. i 2 This would permit local commit- tees to fix total production in milk shed areas, allocating that total among various herds. The farm administration is striv- ing to have this plan ready within two ‘weeks. REPORTS SAY WHEAT PRODUCTION ON $00 FAR BELOW NORMAL Emmons Hardest Hit of Coun-| ties on Local Division, Cross Asserts Wheat yields along the Soo Line will be less than half of the usual average, according to estimates com- piled by B. G. Cross, superintendent of the Bismarck division. .The aver- age for the division is normally 16,- 000,000 bushels and in 1927 the pro- auction run over 21,000,000 bushes. It is estimated that the production this year will average between five snd one-half to six million bushels. The wheat is exceptionally heavy this year running from 58 to 63 pounds to the bushel and the protein content is exceptionally high, elevato: managers report. The best crops so far reported are around Makoti, Parshall, Ryder, Van ook and Sanish. Wheat along the Sanish branch is running from 6 to 16 bushels although there are fields that run as low as four pounds, ae Yoorest crop along the division Emmons county where it is estimated that the yield will be about one bushel per acre. . Flax will average from four to five bushels per acre, with barley running about seven and oats from 11 bushels up. The rye crop is poor averaging from two bushels per acre up. All small grain crops are spotted the same as wheat. as 4 a ‘Threshil ls qui ral north Bismare xk. Yes around Wilton will probably avreage five to seven bushels per acre. The yields from Wilton to ‘Max fluctuate from four bushels to nine, though some fields report yields of 10 bushels and over. The major- ity, however, is under six bushels. Marrying Justices Adopt Private Code Crown Point, Ind. Aug. 23.—(>)— Cupid moved over Wednesday to make room for the NRA blue eagle as the three “marrying justices” of this Gretna Green adopted a code of their own and went on a six-hour day. Only one justice in the future will be available at any time for wedding purposes. The squires will alternate in working the night shift, said Jus- tice Howard Kemp. RUM RUNNER SENTENCED Fargo, N. D., Aug. 23.—(#)—Henry Grieger of Hunter, N. D., arrested last week on a liquor charge, pleaded guil- ty in Cass county court Tuesday and ‘was sentenced to serve 90 days in jai! and pey @. $200 fine or serve 50 addi- tional days. Se meee eer Bes sar Toa THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1933 She Flew Back Carole Lombard, screen actress, is shown above as she arrived in | Los Angeles by airplane four hours after winning her divorce de- cree from William Powell in Carson City, Nev. mother, Mrs. E. K. Peters, and Roscoe Turner, famous speed pilot, who brought Carole home—single. | Home to Mother With her are her | MURDER DISCLOSED WITH DISCOVERY OF | OHIO EDITOR'S BODY Officials Seek Information on Newspaperman’s Disap- pearance and Death Coshocton, O., Aug. 23.—(4)—Bound and weighed down with a hammer, a Plow-point and lead slugé, the body of Fred 5. Wallace, 61, missing news- paper publisher, was found in the Muskingum river two miles from here last night. Dr. F. W. Craig, county coroner, im- mediately took charge of the body. He withheld his verdict, while prose- cutor Russell E. Lyons began‘a study of the publisher's digappearance three days ago and the circumstances of his death. Wallace, editor of the Coshocton Tribune, was last seen alive when he left the news- Paper office early Sunday morning, apparently to walk to his home, one block away. For two days his family feared he had suffered a lapse of memory due to an illness for which he bad been lunder treatment. Tuesday his son asked authorities to make a state- wide search for his father. ‘Two young men camping along the river found the body on the edge of the stream. The head bore cuts over the right eye and the right ear. His ankles were bound with baling wire, a plow-point was fastened to his clothing, dnd a hammer had been stuck in his belt. Employes at the Coshocton Tribune office reported findnig Wallace's bill- fold and other valuables there and this caused officials to ponder the pos- sibility of suicide. Smith Asks Support For Roosevelt Plan New York, Aug. 23.—(P)—Alfred E. Smith is in favor of full cooperation by the country in President Roose- velt’s NRA program. He sald in a speech Tuesday night that if the plan cannot, in the na- ture of things, accomplish the Millen- ium, “it has unquestionably resulted to date in the increasing of wages in many callings and in the employ- ment of a large number of those who had become, or wera about to become, through no fault of their own, public charges.” i “This accomplishment alone,” he said, “entitles the plan to further trial and full cooperation.” . - Thieves Ask Ransom For 16 Oil Paintings Montreal, Aug. 23.— (4) —Sixteen oil paintings, stolen from the Watson Art Gallery and valued at $15,000, were held for $10,000 ransom Wed- nesday by thieves who threatened to cut them to bits and return them thus to the owners, the Art Associa- tion of Montreal. “If you do not want to play cards our way, you can inform yaur police to go and find them for vou,” said cials. who was publisher and; a note received by association offi- | ‘SGIENCE RALLIES 10° - INTENSIFY FIGHT ON | | SLBBPING SICKNESS Government Entomologist Rush-| ed to Kansas City As Epidemic Spreads St. Louis, Aug. 23.—()—Science | rallied Wednesday to an intensified | fight against sleeping sickness, mys- | terious malady which has killed 19) persons and attacked 182 others in | St. Louis and vicinity. | A government expert rushed here} i from Washington and went to work in lan attempt to determine if insects | spread the disease. Meanwhile, as/ three deaths in the last 24 hours| jSwelled the fatality list here to 19,| the disease broke out in five other) mid-western communities. Deaths from this virus disease, which science knows so little about, ;have been reported at Wichita, Kas.,| ‘Kansas City, Kas. and Warrensburg, |Mo., while the illnesses of patients at | Maryville, Mo., and Muskogee, Okla., | nave been diagnosed as encephalitis. The United States public health service, recognizing the outbreak as the largest “ever reported in the | world in any one given place,” has) dispatched a third scientific expert! here, ! Dr. L. L. Williams, Jr., medical entomologist, joined Dr. J. P. Leake | and Dr. Charles Armstrong, public health physicians whq are aiding local | authorities in an effort to find a/ cause, carrier, preventive or cure for the disease, Reporting to headquarters in Wash- ington that he felt sure the spread of the disease was not due to water, but that he wasn’t certain he could ex- dude insects as a cause, Dr. Leake asked for Dr. Williams, whose special- ty is insects as disseminators of dis- ease. Local Banks to Begin | NRA Schedule Monday Announcement that they will begin operations under the NRA bank code next Monday was made Wednesday by Bismarck'’s financial institutions. At the same time they announced a change in banking hours, effective at the same time. Instead of opening at 10 and closing at 3:30, as now is the custom.on every week-day except Sat- urday, the banks will open at 9:30 and close at 3. Saturday hours of 10 to 12 are unchanged. \ The new schedule is necessary, bankers said, to give bookkeepers time to finish their work in 40 hours, the new maximum working week. The total hours of banking service are not changed, it was pointed out. Banks affected by the new time are the First National Bank, Dakota Na- tional Bank and Trust company and the Bank of North Dakota. CAUSE FOR SUSPICION | Topeka Kas., Au3. 23.—(?)—The al-| leged refusal of Tom B. Boyd, state| treasurer, to allow National bank ex-| aminers access to his records was |deseribed by a bank examiner Wed- nesday as one of the “suspicious” ac- | tions leading to iny and) { publ SARGENT COUNTY TO BE TEST CASE FOR PUBLIC WORKS BODY Doyle Would Put Farmers and Teams to Work on Feeder Highway Construction SITUATION HELD CRITICAL First Complete Crop Failure in 40 Years Will Put Many on Relief Rolls Devils Lake, N. D., Aug. 23—(P)}— The state board of public works has enosen the case of Sargent county, requesting the building of 100 miles of feeder roads, for a test of the proce- dure necessary to get work projects under way to put farmers and their teams on payrolls, 8. J. Doyle, chair- man of the board, announced Wed- nesday. Sargent county this year has the first. practically complete crop failure in more than 40 years, The situation was described Monday afternoon to the public works board by the board of county commissioners of Sargent county. They estimated that during the coming winter, in a county with a total population of 9,- 000 from 600 to 1,000 families must be given relief administered on a desti- tution basis. “We would rather pay our unem- ployed wages on a payroll than give them groceries on a relief roll,” said Chairman Ober Wyum of the board. Seventeen townships and two villages have joined in preparing a road im- provement program covering 100 miles ef county road. There is both re- grading and graveling. The estimated cost is about $100,000. The construc- tion would be under supervision of a state or federal engineer. Would Employ Farmers We would load gravel in trucks by and and use farmers’ trucks and teams to haul it. We have had ex- perience with this type of constrfuc- tion. The cost is little more than if the work were done with modern machines. The specifications for our roads were laid out by a Fargo engi- neer, We have built a good deal of road that way. We take care of main- tenance after roads are built. Our work plan provides employment and Pays wages. “We would like to borrow the money from the federal government under terms of the emergency relief (Continued on page four) WISCONSIN PLOTTER SLAIN BY OFFICERS \Suspect in Kidnaping Killed By Barrage Fired From Road- side Ambush, Rhinelander, Wis., Aug. 23.—()— A trap laid by officers for plotters who attempted to extort $5,000 from a wealthy hotel owner Wednesday counted its bag at one suspect killed and another in jail here. Robert Rogers, 44, was shot to death by members of a sheriff's posse late Tuesday when he attempted to pick up a package containing $5,000 left on a highway near here. John Stokie, 38, his companion, was cap- tured. The two men drove their automo- bile directly into the ambuscade pre- pared by officers after a letter de- manding the money from George Goodreau, wealthy Mercer, Wis., ho- tel owner, had been intercepted. Goodreau, after receiving threats of death if he did not meet the demands, told Sheriff John Farmen of Oneida county. With Postal Inspector T. V. Kinney, assisting, authorities of Iowa and On- edia counties summoned a posse and strung the men, armed with rifles, revolvers, and one machine gun, over a half. mile stretch of the highway near the designated spot. Shortly after, a car with two men drove up. Rogers got out and as he went for the money package two shots were fired from the roadside wounding him fatally. Stokie crawled under the car but was hauled out, pleading for mercy. Renville County to Vote on Bond Issue Mohall, N. D., Aug. 23.—(?)—Ren- ville county will decide at a special election Sept. 22 whether $40,000 bonds shall be issued for construc- tion of a new courthouse here. At a meeting here Tuesday, the board of county commissioners de- cided to submit the question to the voters, The war memorial fund of $26,000 wuld be used to assist in financing construction of the proposed new building, estimated cost of which is $90,000. It is hoped that most of the re- maining cost of the building, about $84,000, will be met through a grant by ¢! works act. ' |S. O. S. Sounds Over nment Ma | Gandhi Is Released | From Indian Prison | Poona, India, Aug. 23.—(?)—The Mahatma Gandhi broke his fast, which was in its eighth day, shortly after he had been uncon- ditionally released from custody by the government Wednesday. The frail nationalist leader was in his fast in protest against the government's refusal to grant him privileges to carry on his cam- Paign in behalf of the untouch- able class. Because he steadily was grow- ing weaker, he was removed to the civil hospital, recently from Yer- oda jail, where he had been serv- ing a one-year sentence for civil disobedience. It was reported previously that should his illness become critical he would be released, as would any prisoner under the same con- ditions. SMALL SHOPKEEPERS | | ARE CHARGED WITH DISTURBING TRADE Chicago Says Merchants With) Small Investments Are Undermining Business Washington, Aug. 23.—(4)—Flailing again into the heap of reaail problems in an effort to thresh out a com- Petitive agreement that would fit the retail stores of the land, the recovery administration received a charge Wednesday that the small storekeep- ers were furnishing a bad competi- tive influence. A. Lincoln Wisler, representing a Chicago retail association, said mer- chants with investments of $400 or less were undermining business in every neighborhood. He said there ‘were 425,000 of these. Other testimony called for the same working hours for stores selling the ;Same types of merchandise. Drug stores that handle a variegated as- sortment of hardware or clothing were |particularly assailed. They are seek- ing longer working hours than the 44 {set in the retail code. Asks 30-Rour Week A 30-hour week was called for by I, Teetlebaum of the New York Re- tail Furniture association. He said the business that would be gained through re-empioyment and greater purchasing power would meet the added costs of operation. Recovery officials also were set to dig into a code for the women’s dress industry, newly drafted in New York by Grover Whalen, the arbiter who brought together warring factions in | that trade to compose a strike. Also under consideration was an en- terprise of Administrator Hugh 8. Johnson to loosen, through the fed- eral reserve and the Reconstruction Corporation, the commercial bank credit necessary to finance higher overhead which factories, plants and stores are assuming under NRA com- pacts. Fresh credit has not yet be- come available, he saic Tuesday, but he is confident that a break will |be made, |, Overnight, the administration acted | to keep local blue eagle drive commit- |tees from assuming authority to re- move blue eagle posters from win- dows of merchants violating terms of the voluntary agreement. No Local Authority Thomas 8. Hammond, director fj the campaign, issued a statement that | local groups have not the power but) are invited to try to get the violator to mend his ways voluntarily. If he refuses, the question must be referred to Washington. Hammond also denounced persecu- tion of merchants who operate their stores long hours, pointing out that local agreements to limit store hours are contrary to the NRA purpose, which is to make more employment by cutting workers’ hours and hiring more people to round out the remain- ing time. The retail store issue uppermost as nearings were reconvened on the agreement embracing all but food and drug dealers, was the need for work- ing out hour and wage levels to pro- tect, on a competitive basis, small es- tablishments both in outlying areas of big cities and in lesser communities. The union question had been orought to such a pass by the bitum- inous coal and automobile codes, with their open shop formulas, that John- son promised an early statement to clarify just what may and may not be said in industrial pacts beyond the mandatory reservation to labor of a right to free organizations for collec- tive bargaining. Two Are Accused of Drunkenness in Air Los Angeles, Aug. 23.—()—Ronald Wilson and Corinna Marlowe, actress, were booked on charges of drunken- ness after an airplane accident here Tuesday. ~ Their plane went through a series} jof contortions over a thickly popu-/ jlated residental district and finally | struck the top of a telephone pole,| landing in the street wheels up. When| spectators arrived at the scene they| found Wilson and Miss Marlowe cas- jually adjusting their helmets. Police The Weather Somewhat unsettled tonight and Thursday; little change in temp, PRICE FIVE CENTS Wild Sea y Fix National Milk Price MUNICIPAL LEADERS ADOPT PROGRAM T0 HELP IN RECOVERY Meeting Here Discusses Means| of Promoting Water Con- servation in State MANY PROJECTS LISTE D| Cities Told Best Bet Is To Pro-| mote Welfare of Sur- | rounding Countryside A unified state program for coop- erating with the national recovery ad- ministration was outlined at a meet- ing here Tuesday of representatives of chambers of commerce, commercial clubs, and the Greater North Dakota association. Means of bringing hundreds of worthy water conservation projects before the state advisory toard of the public works administration were dis- cussed by representatives of munici- palities. It was conceded that some cities had outgrown their equipment in school and public buildings and that the public works program afforded an excellent opportunity for replacing such facilities, Commercial secretaries took the position, however, that cities not in dire need of public buildings should attempt to produce water conserva- tion and utilization projects within their trade territories which would enable them to share adequately in the program. Lists of potential conservation and utilization projects within the state were presented, the length of the lists indicating an almost unlimited field for this type of development within the state. Testifying in behalf of North Da- kota’s urgent need for water were sev- eral engineers, including E. F. Chand- ler and H. E. Simpson, both of the state university; state engineer R. E. Kennedy, and A. D. McKinnon of the civilian conservation corps. Water Comes First Speakers said water projects should be given every consideration . where they could be made self-liquidating from special agsessments upon bene- fitted property owners; could assure definite earning power annually, or contribute to flood control or assure self-sustaining farming operations where agriculture has suffered re- peatedly from drought in recent years; could show little if any an- nual upkeep costs; and where con- struction would entail maximum la- bor or minimum material require- ments. “After all,” said M. O. Ryan, secre- tary of the Greater North Dakota as- sociation, “70 per cent of the public works loans must eventually be re- paid, and except in cases where cer- tain public buildings are sorely need- ed, as is true in Bismarck, Grand Forks, Fargo, Dickinson and other cities, no community should assume tax burdens that cannot be easily retired. Stability of all business is vitally affected by financial sound- ness of local taxing districts.” “ Frank Vogel, chief highway com- missioner, and J. C. Taylor, state di- rector of reemployment, outlined the construction and relief employment ‘plans of the federal government. The meeting was called in Bismarck by W. P. Chestnut, Fargo, and C. E. Arnold, Mandan, president and secr- retary, respectively, of the North Da- kota Association of Commercial Club Secretaries. Brandon Team Looks Like Northern Champ St. Paul, Aug. 23—(#)—The Bran- don team of the Northern League drew closer to the second half cham- pionship Monday night when it de- feated Winnipeg, 7 to 2, to increase its lead to 3% games. The two clubs clash in a double- header today. Each team had nine- teen games remaining on the schedule and of these nine are inter-city ser- jes. Crookston drew even with East Grand Forks for third place when it beat the Colts, 8 to 6, in seven innings, while Superior won from Moorhead- Fargo, 10-2. Lindy Says Northern Airway Is Feasible Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 23.—(7)— Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh be- lieves it will be technically possible to establish a North Atlantic air route to Europe within two years. With good planes and experienced pilots, he said, flights will be prac- tical under any weather conditions, but there is a question whether the route would be financially feasible at present. Copenhagen, Aug. 23.—(4)—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife landed this evening at Tveraa in the Faroe Islands, completing a flight from Iceland. ‘REDS’ ACTIVE IN CUBA called the “Black Maria.” | During its gyrations the plane nar- | jhouse, spectators said. Havana, Aug. 23.—(P)—Reports of further Communistic activities in eastern Cube were watched with in- federal government under the|rowly missed plunging into a school/ creasing concern Wednesday by gov-|in case of doubt on any phase of the fornment officials. main features of the federal highway | OO Gets Federal Post PERRY R. BENNER Fargo, N. D., Aug. 23.—(4)—Perry R. Benner, Dickinson, Democratic candidate for commissioner of insur- ance in the last state election, has received his commission as deputy collector of internal revenue under H. H. Perry, collector, and will be in charge of the Bismarck office of the revenue department, it was announced here Monday. He succeeds James Gronna, who was checked out on Aug. 15. This is the first change in the pérsonnel of the internal revenue department since Perry took over the office. Benner, born at Miles City, Mont., May 30, 1905, was the youngest can- didate for public office in the last election. He was defeated by 8. A. Olsness, For many years Benner was a resi- dent of Mandan, where his father, John D. Benner, now is employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad. For some years he has been owner and operator of the Dickinson, N. D., den- tal laboratory. He is a member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias lodges. HOOVER DECLINES T0 APPEAR BEFORE DETROIT PROBERS Former President Says He Can Shed No New Light on Michigan Banks Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 23.—(7)—, Having announced that his knowledge of the Detroit-banking situation last winter would not warrant his going there now to appear before investi- gators of the financial collapse in the Michigan city, former President Her- bert Hoover retired Wednesday to the privacy of his Stanford University campus home. | Hoover had been requested by Prosecutor Harry 8. Toy of Detroit to appear as a witness at the investiga- tion there into the closing of the First National Bank-Detroit and the Guar- dian National Bank of Commerce. Press dispatches telling of the re-| quest were shown to the former presi- dent, who Tuesday sent a telegram in reply, explaining his position. | Seeks Government Data | The information sought by the De- troit investigator concerned the atti-| tude of administrative agencies of the federal government toward the two closed Detroit banks previous to March 4, 1933, during the Hoover in- cumbency, Toy suggested the former president might laave in his possession “certain facts” that might render his testimony as a witness “highly sig- nificant and essential to a thorough and true presentation of the reason underlying closing of Detroit's banks.” “I have no objection to furnishing such information which I properly can,” Hoover replied, “but such in- formation as I can give is only gen- eral and is mostly second hand, and is insufficient to warrant a journey to Detroit.” He suggested the invesitgators ap- proach the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the federal reserve and treasury officials at Washington, where, he said, he was certain infor- mation could be obtained. As to administrative action on the (Continued on page four) [That You May Know the Truth The Tribune today prints a full- Page advertisement at the request of the National Re- covery Adminis- tration, giving of- ficial answers to various questions which have been asked of General Hugh S. Johnson and his aides, It is glad to donate this space as a further contribu- tion to this great national effort and| in order that its readers may have ac- curate and authentic information on this important movement. Tribune readers are urged to save OTHER SHIPS RUSH TO STRICKEN LINER OFF VIRGINIA COAST 37 Passengers and Large Crew Endangered as Mountain- ous Waves Hit Craft DECK HOUSE WASHED AWAY East Lashed By Disturbance as Winds From North’ and South Converge New York, Aug. 23.—(P)—A wireless message intercepted by the coast guard vessels, the Upshur and the Carabasset, were alongside the liner Madison, in distress off the Virginia Capes. Other messages, picked up by Mac- kay radio at 11:30 a. m., and by the United States coast guard at 11:58 a. m., gave the position at 20 miles northeast of Chesapeake lightship, off the coast of Virginia, and said: “Housing breaking.” The first distress signal at 7 a. m., which was followed by five hours of silence, said that the entire forward deckhouse had been washed away. The coast guard intercepted an answer to the second SOS from the 8. S. Emilia, which did not give its Position. The Emilia reported itself on the way to give assistance. While the Madison did not give any details of its trouble, her posi- tion would indicate that it was at the converging point of two violent storms, one sweeping up the coast from the south, the other down from the northeast. The vessel had 37 passengers and @ crew of 50 to 60 aboard. Captain William Heath is in command. Officials of the Eastern Steamship Line, owners of the vessel, said the forward housing contained only apartments and nothing vital to the operation of the ship. The Madison left New York Tues- day for Norfolk, Va. Weather Observers Differ R. H. Weightman, weather bureau forecaster at Washington, said the disturbance was near “hurricane in- tensity” but that no winds had been reported to observers here as yet which would put {t in that category. At. the navy. department, however, officials of the bureau of aeronau- tics asserted that at 8 a. m., E. 8. T., the storm off the Virginia capes had reached “force 10—the most severe recording of a storm.” It was de- scribed as a “hurricane.” Caught between a raging north- easter and a tropical hurricane blow- ing up from Bermuda, the Atlantic seaboard found no respite from five days of storm and gale which al- ready have wrought death and de- struction over a wide area. Communication along the entire Maryland shore was cut off at an early hour. At Norfolk winds of 70 and 80 miles velocity, accompanied by heavy rain, marooned vacationists and flooded low-lying sections. Damage was estimated at more tha: $1,000,000. et” Schooner in Distress The North Carolina coast also was being pounded by mountainous waves and an unknown four-masted schooner wallowed helplessly off the shoals near Meneto while coast guard craft stood by unable to give any as- sistance. New Jersey, which received the brunt of the storms of the last four days, continued to be buffeted. The 300-foot municipal pier at Cape May was washed away and telephone and electric lines were torn down. The body of one of seven known | victims of Sunday’s storm washed up on the shore near Atlantic City. New York city missed the brunt of the gale promised for Tuesday, but. heavy rains continued. Along the coast the heaviest rain for August in many years was re- ported. Lines of communication in Vir- ginia and parts of Maryland were disrupted during the morning and no reports were available of the damage done. Communications Hampered The Indianapolis, anchored in Hampton Roads, reported to the navy department that the storm in that area had cut off all communication in the Norfolk, Virginia, district. Naval officials expressed consider- able apprenension that damage in the area may have been serious. The disturbance was first reported to the weather bureau last Thursday. It was then in the vicinity of the West Indies and was labeled as an- other of the series of tropical storms which begin there or in other South Sea areas in the late summer and early fall months. Advance warnings of the storm reached the capital early in the morning in a drenching rain and high wind. A large elm, opposite the white house on Pennsylvania avenue, was blown across the street. Another barely missed crashing down on a moving street car in front of the public library. Immediately after the Indianapolis made its report, Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations, instructed the vessel by wireless to get in touch with the Norfolk shore area “by any possible means” and report the extent of damage imme- diately. Naval officials said it was possible that the storm had abated sufficient- ly in the area to permit a landing party to go ashore from the cruiser. TOURNEY AGAIN DELAYED Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 23.—(P~ Continuing rain Wednesday ‘again this advertisement and to refer to it “Blue Eagle program. brought postponement of the wom- en's national tennis championship Program.