Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) - Fair and somewhat warmer today; temorrow fincreasing cloudiness. Temperature—Highest, 68, at noon. Lowest, 63, at 10 p.m. Full report on page 7. No. HURRICANE KILLS 75 IN MIAMI, DEVASTATING '$100,000,000 Entered as second class matter 1,122— No. post office, Washington, D. C. 30,091. 2,000 Buiidingsfi D;estroyed, City Docks Swept Away, Meager Radio Reports Say. EVERY VESSEL IN BIG HARBOR SUNK BY 100-MILE WINDSTORM Troops, Food and Medical Supplies Called For; Makeshift Broadcasting Stations Set Up. By the Awsociated Prass. Seventy-five known dead in Miami and property loss that probably will run into the hundreds of millions was the toll of the storm that lashed the East Coast on Friday and swept across the lower half of the State Saturday All lines of direct communication with the storm-stricken por- tion of the State are down and no direct word has been received since about noon Saturday when passengers on trains from West Palm Beach brought stories of terrific destruction there and fur- ther south. : . Trains from the stricken area are delaved hours and only brief wireless communications with Miami through a makeshift ar- rangement late last night told of the destruction wrought to the largest city in South Florida. 8 All South Florida shipping is suffering from the ravage of the 100-mile-hour winds that swept many small boats up on the coast and beached them. EVERY BOAT IN HARBOR REPORTED SUNK. At Miami, the one wireless report said that every bhoat in the harbor was sunk. Last direct communication with hurricape area reported immense seas sweeping in from the Atlantic with the causeway between Miami and Miami Beach three feet beneath the crest of hreakers. The Postal Telegraph Co. reported 80 miles of telegraph poles down and their service paralyzed. The hurricane sweeping across the peninsula in the vicinity of Tampa unroofed houses and leveled trees. Unusually high tides swept many craft in the Tampa harbor inland leaving them stranded. | Bradentown, Sarasota, Fort Myer and small villages in the vicinity were hard hit, but extent of the damage will be unknown until communica- tion is re-established. The Mississippi and Louisiana coasts, but a few weeks ago swept by a lashing-hurricane, are preparing for another blow today, as the Florida hurricane is sweeping that way, weather bureau advices say. All shipping n lge gulf has been warned and smaller vessels are seek- ing shelter. Larger vessels were still sailing on schedule yesterday. WORST STORM IN HISTORY. NEW ORLEANS, Séptember 19 ®).—The following message was re- PROPERTY, eeived hére early this morning by the tropical radio station from Miami: iami is in ruins after worst known dead. Property damage, $100,000,000. More than 2. stroyed, including bank building and “City docks completely destroved ! r ing steamship Nohab, formerly owned by ex-Kaiser of Germany. medical supplies and troops needed The message was sent from a makeshift radio station in Miami after the six 450-foot towers of the tropical radio station there had been blown down. The message was in- tended for the steamship Siboney, the closest vessel to Miami, but was icked up by the tropical station at Mobile and relayed to New Orleans. The Siboney was requested to broad- cast the news of the disaster. The local station said that the mesa- =age was received at Mobile about 11:30 p.m. last night. Officials at the station are of the opinion that the blow hit Miami Friday night or early vesterday morning, since they have beeh unable to establish connection with their station there since Friday midnight. Gulf Dwellers Warned. Tarnings were sent out by tele hone early this morning from the ocal weather bureau to dwellers on the shores of Lake Pontcharrain and along the Eaat Louisiana Coast, as the hurricane which swept Florida appeared to be heading inte the GG Coast. Storm warnings along the coast were ordered changed to hurri- cans warnings. Weather forecasters =aid that hurricane probably would strike the Gulf Coast hetween Appalachicola, Fla., and Burrwood. La. some time this afternoon or tonight The warning issued here safd that every precaution should he taken against destructive winds, The Miami Tribune Rullding, re. ported in wireless messages to the Tropical Radio station at New Orleans ar having been destroved by hurri cane, was A cement structure rein the forced by steel, and regarded as one | of the more substantial of the build. | of the Palm leache: The build- | West Palm Beach early today and pas- ings in downtown Miami. ing was located on Southeast First street, three blocks from the water front and a Half bleck from the Flor- ida East Coast Railway station. Reports that a bank huilding had been destroyed disclosed that tre. mendous damage was done In the heart of thé busineas and financial distr ‘Thé two largest hanks in Miami are lacated on Flagler street. several blocks from the water front and pro tected by other bufldings FLORIDA COASTS SWEPT. Many Cities Flooded, Railroads Washed Out, Ships Sunk. KEY WEST, Fla.. Septembear 18 (). ~—The devastating fury of the tropical storm wi ceast this morning has transformed Mfami Beach and Mjami into a deso- lated Venice. with sireets inundated. buildings wracked, light and power gone and untold property damage. Word recefved here tonight from the devastated area said the entire cltv of Miami Beach is flooded with 3 feet of er. Many buildings were hlown down-by the 90.mile-an-hour gale, which paralyzed all the light and power systems. Miami proper is believed 1o have suffered considerable damage also. The causeway two cities was y the inrushing waters during the storm. Raliroad Washed Out. Rallroads were Rard hit. A wash out of the tracks at Jewflsh. at the extreme southern end of the main land, was reported. and it is heliaved thfe will cause a long delav in the operatien of trains ‘The radio station at Jupiter re reived a message relaved tn the Coest hurricane in history of country, 70 000 buildings de- Miami Tribune. and all boats in harbor sunk, inclu- Food, | | reporting the rescue of the crew of | the “schooner San Pierre Miquelon, | which was said to be afire and sinking slowly. The position was given as | Tatituds 25 north, longitude 73 de: erees 37 minutes west. The sea gale was accompanied by a 100-mile wind, the radio message sald. The radin statlon at Hialeah wae silen’. At Key West the wind reached 2 veloclty of 55 miles an hour, but no damage was done. JACKSONVILLE. Fla., September |18 (). —The battercd half of a schooner, the “Carson of Nassau, N. P." was found tonight' beached on Talhot Island, two and one-half miles off Mayport. There were no signs of | life ‘aboard PALM BEACH IS SWEPT. | Hurricane Passes Over Everglades to Gulf at 100-Mile Rate. JACKSONVILLE., Fla., September IR () —The West Indian hurricane, which heat a path across the southern tip of Florida today, passed into the Gulf of Mexico tonight after ham- ring at the seaports of iha West Coast. Tt left a toll of devastation im- posaible 1o be de‘ermined untii m ion is re-established. Its locity varied from 30 to 100 miles an honr. Isolating Miami and West Palm Beach from the outside world early today, the storm turned inward across the great stretch of Everglades, piled | up the waters of Lake Okeechohee and raged through Tampa, Fort My- ers and West Coast cities Storm passengers who reached Avon Park late toduy from West Palm Beach on the first train to emerge irom the hurricane district described the storm as the worst in the history The train left sengers could give little detail of the damage there but united in saying it had been “a terrible” hlow. They confirmed telephone reports that the wind reached a velocity of 100 miles an hour and that the weather bureau at West Palm Beac¢h expected the hur- ricane to swing inland between there and Miami. Last reports from Miami Beach, which is separated from Mtamli by a canseway, said it was inundated to a depth of three feet. and that windows In the telegraph office had been shat tered by the gale. Six fest of water surged over the canseway conneeting | the city, and the telegrapi company's | employes. marooned In their bhuild. | ing. had no wire communications with 1|" meneral he WASHINGTON, Diver Walks Mile Across Bottom of River in 50 Minutes By the Amociated Press “ NORFOLK, Va., September 18.— Inaugurating & new form of com- petitive water “spérts,” Klass Everts, local deep-sea diver, this afternoon walked across the bot- tom of the Elizabeth River be- tween Portsmouth and Norfolk, covering the distance of a fraction over a mile in 30 minutes. The ! “hike” was a preliminary to Everts' attempt to walk across the bottom of Hampton Roads be- tween Sewells Point and Old Point, a distance of 7 milles, next month, He encountered considerable mud and difficulty in elimbing the steep sides of the channel cuts, some of them to a depth of 45 feet, but finished apparently untired. Everts has challenged any diver to outwalk him in the proposed trip across Hampton Roads. . WORLDCOURY | RESERATIONS W PONERS APROVA Full Equality With- Members of Council Recommended by Subcommittee. By the Assoctated Prese. GENEVA, September 18. — All rights enjoved by nations holding seats in the Council of the League of Nations in connection with re- | quests for advisory opinions from the World Court of justice will be extended to the United States, if that country decides to adhere to the court, Such was the decision tonight of the committee of fourteen of the World Court delegate conference which reached an agreement to ac- | cept all the American reservations | as interpretative of the protocol. This agreement will be submitted in the middle of next week to the plenary conference and if the com- mittee's decision is ratified the United States will be informed that the nations signatory to the World Cowrt do not know whether requests | for advisory opinions require a unan- imous or a majority vote of the League Council. View of Fifth Reservation. The text of the fifth American res- ervation seems to lndlca:.;hm ::e' United States proce on the | theory that u::‘n%mlty ‘is required. | © plenary conferénce will point out | e United Siates that In any event whether unanimity or a ma- jortty vote s found to be the pro- | cedure, the United States will have | the same rights as members of the ! League Council. i This means that the conference | would find itself unable to give prac- | tical satisfaction to the United States it it is found that Advisory opinions | can be requestad by a majority vote of the Council, because in that casean ! opinion could be asked of the court! regardless of an American veto. The committee of fourteen isagreed that nations should reply individually to the United States and also decided ' that to give constitutional effect to, the accepiance of the American reser- vations, such acceptance should be emhodied in a protocol i b The present plan is that each state forward to Washington a draft of such a protocol identical in terms, and | it this draft satisfies the United States | a_ conference can be held later in which the protocol will be formally | adopted. It is apparent that if the draft of | the protocol does not satisfy the| United States, American adherence to the World Court will be imperiled, | but the delegates and the jurists here , seem to think that the United States | will be satisfied with the status of | equality with members of the League | Couneil. The sum and substance of the daci- | sion of the committee of fourteen is that the signatories are willing to grant the United Sates all privileges held by members of the League Coun cll, but do not feel authorized to do more than that. Would Hasten to Arms Parley. Declaring that this is the psycho- logical moment for hastening the dis- armament conference of the League ot Nations, Paul Roncour of France introduced a resolution before the as- ‘s disarmament commision this evening urging that all prepara- tory studies he ended if possible this year or early next vear to allow of world-wide conference be- fore the next meeting of the assembly of the League of Nations. M. Boncour urged that such a con- ference should declare an armament holiday for a certain period of yvears. | the scale of disarmament to be based on the present state of preparedness in the various nations. After the ex (ontinued on Page 6, Column 5.) e McMaster's Condition Favorable. YANKTON, S, Dak.. September 18 (®).—United States Senator W. H. cMaster, who underwént an opera- on here this morning for appendi- citls, fs “coming along fine so far," Dr. S. M. Hohf said tonight. The Senator had been troubled several vears, and after a slight attack a few Miami. days ago decided to have the opera- tion. | | :];dge. 75. to Try Bread anc{ Water Diet This Week to Determine Its Cruclty: Br the Associated Press i HARLINGTON, Nebr. September | 15.—County Judge W. F. Bryant, 75- vearold foe of liquor law violators | In Cedar County, will begin a self- imposed five-day diet on bread and water next Monday morning to “de- termine once and for all if such a diet 1s cruel and inhuman.” he said today Rye bread wili be the judge’s only ater. At the end of he bread and water the jurist said. he would de. clde whether he would extend sen- tence five days longer. | | o | bread and water sentences on hoot- | leggers all that time. i When the recent Tekamah bread | and water sentences of Roy Carson | and Thomas Nelson. who lost an ap- peal to the State Supreme Court to void the diet came up, Judge Bryant said he was surprised they should attract any notice, as “it is 2 method of intensifying imprisonment."” Judge Bryant advocates the whip- Ding post to “annihilate hootleggers.” County 'Physician H. W. Benson| teday announced that a physical ex- amiration of Thomas Nelson, 50-yea: 0jd Craig farmer. liquor law violator, | had revealed that he weuld not be ' harmed by 20.day stretches In Burt D. C, PROMPT APPROVAL . { of Washington, which has been under | consideration by Congress for the last | | have far-sightediy worked for the de- | { with estimates of cost. iy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION SUNDAY ' MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, OF MOUNT VERNON BOULEVARD IS SEEN Congress Expected to Vote $1,000,000 to Start Work in Spring. TOTAL ESTIMATED COST- IS SET NEAR $7,000,000! Three Routes Staked Out, But 14- Mile Stretch Along River Favored by Fine Arts Body. BY WILL P. KENNEDY The most magnificent stretch of highway in the world. through a sec-| tion replete with historic {andmarks. | glving Washington the first of its| monumental entrances. is expected to be authorized by Congress promptly after it meets In December with an appropriation of about a million dol lars to begin work on the project next Spring. To complete the work will cost from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. This is the projected Mount Vernon Boulevard to connect the City of 1926. —112 PAGES. — HE)ME AGAIN. 60 cents and service wi e UP) Means Assecial Washington with the home and tomb 40 vears, advocated by each successive President, heads of all the great pa- triotic organizations and by all who | 1elopment and beautification of the National Capital. At last this long contemplated me- VON ELM GAPTURES purpose and be a notable monument| Playing at Dizzy Pace, He reached a definite stage, where the Stuns GO" World by Beat‘ ing Atlantan, 2 and 1. actual work of construction may sonn| be expected. Congress instructed the | Rurean of Public Roads to make a! survey of the region between Wash-| ington and Mount Vernon and to make recommendations on the route, | This report Br the Associated Press. will be ready for Congress when it| SHORT HILLS, N. J., September meets early in December. '"'"d! Len | 18.—The monarch of golf was toppled e Ut e e iiaters ‘are|from his amateur throne today by :I:\v figuring up the prospective . flaxen-haired George Von Elm of Los costs. Congress has shown a dis-| Angeles in one of the most stunning position to authorize this important upsets of links history. national project. 7 | 'Bobby Jones beaten—the words Plan Bicentennial Observation. | flashed out over rolling Baltusrol late this afternoon to an almost unbeliev- " irect- ed‘:nh:u‘r.n.r:fl:i!;r‘lo:fDl‘l‘::;?::s.‘hnd— 1ing sport world. Defeat for the mas- ed by the President, to draft “plans for the comprehensive observance of that greatest of all historial events, the bicentennial of the birthday of | ter shot-maker from Atlanta at the hands of a player he had twice over- whelmed in prévious matches: seemed too incredible to recelve. But Von | and which is to be ready for use be. ! tal. but beyond Mount Vernon the ¢XPlosion of a bhoiler. ' HUSBAND KILLS DOCTOR. |struck on the head by a shotgun. | Tribuna says Erance wishes to | Mre. Overall, then went home to kill | her and himself but his shotgun failed | Uniess she George Washington,” in 1932. This commission i ected to approve the building of what is planned to be the world's finest boulevard. The act of Congress creating this United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary ot the Birth of George Washington directs |\ i0 "6 e ‘oraan n and 1. it ;"tph:‘r: ‘B(r‘o:n::;:tz:\lalo?e ;‘:‘:’9} Playing at a dizzy pace which had Arin and ofelal spokesmen for the | the champion one down at the end of Fine Arts Commission have let it be { the morning round. YVon Elm com- known' that they will enthusiastically Pleted his conquest with a card approve any sufciently pretentious | Which showed one stroke over even plans for a memorial boulevard. In|fours. This was enough in ftself to fact, the chairman of the Fine Aftsoverthrow a great champlon. But Commission, = Charles Moore, than | the story of Bobby's defeat hegan whom there is no person alive better | Iong before they stepped to the Arst posted on the life ‘of Washington | tee before a and the historic spots in the environ- of 10.000 this morning. ment of Mount Vernon, has recently | It began on Wednesday with a ter- over the ground, followed the jrific battle hetween two Jones—Bobby stakes of the Bureau of Public Roads and Dick—the first of three nerve- survey, and s in closest touch with |wracking matches through which the every phase of the project. champion was compelled to pass in his Elm had come to the slopes of the pic- turesque New Jersey course to prove that the age of golfing miracles has not vet passed, and in two of the most dazzling rounds ever played, he finally conquered the young Georgian on the Of the three routes staked out one | defense of the crown. Then came a is entirely new and skirts the river as | bitter duel with Chick Evans, won closely as possible, so as to afford the | by the titleholder at 3 and 2. and best possible scenic as well as his-| ~ (Continucd on Page 5, Golumn 2. torical treat. This route is ubnfit | i N miles longer than the others, making | . A total distance of about 13 miles. and DEBRIS BURIES FIREMEN; will cost considerably more than the | others on account of a number of deep | 2 KILLED, 4 BADLY.HURT fills that must be made. le this ’:!‘ s 2 the route that now seems likely to be | = determined upon and will have the | 200,000 Bakery Blaze at Philadel- AupRotH ot tl’: I:‘“e.:::: (T“mm'::!mn'! phln Causes Injurle! to lon Bridge 'erminus. Adtingy b ! Score of Others. All of the three tentative routes staked out start from the new $14,. | BS the Associated Prees B 750,000 Arlington Memorial Bridge,| PHILADELPHIA, September 18.— which ls in process. of construction .., fremen were killed, four were in- fore the 1932 celepration. | jured. perhaps fatally, and a score of On the Virginia side this bridge has 'others were hurt when fighting a fire % crose axis exit along Columbia 1% At the Friehofer Rakeries, northeast and, the western end fo connect wi y the Lee Highway and the proposed Philadelphia. tonight. % y . boulevard along the canal leading to Those killed wate h“":-'kn"bf Cumberland, which is to be the high. ‘ones and ,mean(‘~ Bl way into Washington from the west. | Company No. 0. Charles Lindsay. The eastern end of the cross axis of | Fdmund O‘Brain. James Miller and the bridge will lsad into the Mount | James Keelan, ali firemen. were seri- Vernon Boulevard. The entire boule. ' 2UslY injured and taken to a hospital. vard to Mount Vernon is to be made *:fh:h:’fl:flw:; :‘.‘,fi:;',:: :on:r‘\‘”a‘l“lel a most attrgctive portal to the Capi- | THE Han kere road will eytend as 'a great highway |buried under tons of debris and burn- - : Ty | In& timbers. . CONMANAIEIHAGefeCoNE The cause of the fire was not de- =9 termined. First estimatés placed the damage at $200,000. Gt Man Also Strikes Wife With Bhot-i ON TANGIER PROPOSED gun, Charging Attenticns. | McMINNVILLE, Tenn., September | ny the Associated Press 18 UP).—Dr. A. B. Ramsay, a phy-| ROME, September 18.—Considerable siclan, was shot and killed today as interest is again shown ia the Tangier he sat in his automobile in front of a | question, and it is thought probable garage and Mrs. A. J. Overall was|an international conference must be serlously injured “iater by being |held for a_definite settiement. La m he woman's husband, ‘insurance |the discussions to as few participants :x:m. surrendered to police, who a“.:Ill possible, while England favors a nounced that he declared he km-dih‘:fi::]\?:‘:zgv“::"f:""’:'p.fl:lp‘?r: S the physician hecaise of attentions 10 isrnational conference over TAngier s sure she would be al- lowed equal rights with all other par- | ticipants.” to fire when pointed at Mrs. Overall. EAT ‘BREAD OF ADVERSITY'| TRAIN KILLS MINISTER. rensh Slent UORE aNOT Thin{ PETERSBURG, Va., September 13 Good Variety, Too. | UP).—A grade crossing near Dewitt, PARIS, September 13 (#).—Eating Dinwiddle county, about 20 miles the “bread of adversity,” a yellowish | from this eity, claimed two victim sodden loaf, a cempound of cornmeal, | within three hours this afternoon. rye, barley, potatoes and coarse wheat. | After T. lor Lee, R. F. D. car. en flour, is the most irksom item of the | rier, had been struck and seriously in. Frenchman's program of penitence. | jured by a northbound Seaboard Air Paying a higher price for this mixture | Line fast freight train shertly after 12 than for real bread does not make it|oclock, Rev. E. H. Powell, 54-year. more palatable. | old Methodist ministeér of McKenney, The deficlency of the hormegrown: Va. was fatally hurt at the same wheat crop is piaced at 500000 tons | crossing. Rev. Mr. Powell died while by the department of agriculture, but | being brought to thie city on the train this is regarded as far too »ptimistic | that struek his automobile. by independent experts, is in a serious condition in a 0! of whom Judge Bryant, on the bench for 14 | County jail on a ‘dist of bread and |estimate the deficiency at 32,000,000) Pittsburgh hospital but 18 expected to Guard from the steamer Westerwald, |vears, says he has Seen imposing | water. L tons, recover. record breaking throng | TODAY’S STAR. PART ONE—11 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Pages 34 and Radio News and Programs—Page 35. Boy Scout News—Page 37. Glrl Scouts—Page 37. PART TWO—16 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Soclety. Reviews of the New Books—Page 4. Around the City—Page 4. Clubwomen of the Nation—Page 4. Tales of Well Known Folk—Page 11. D. A. R. Activities—Page 1. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 12. News of the Clubs—Page 13. PART THREE—14 PAGES. Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages and 8. District National Guard—Page 9. Serial, Mysterious Sweetheart"— Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 10, Civillan Army News—Page 11. Veterans of the Great War—Page 12. Army and Fraternal PART FOUR—4 PAGES. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures, ‘The Rambler—Page 3. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Classified Advertising. Financial News—Pages 11 and 12. GRAPHIC SECTION—10 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—{ PAGES. Betty: Reg'lar Feilers; Mr. and Mrs,; Mutt and Jeff. THREE DIE ATTACKING FRENCH CONSULATE Many Fascists Are Wounded in Fights in Trieste as Result of Attack on Duce. By Cable to The Star and New York World. CHIASSO. Switzerland, September 18.—~Three Fascists are dead and sev- eral others wounded as the result of struggles between police and Fascists in Trieste before, during and after an attack on the French consulate there. The Fascists, especially the non- conformist section, have heen so threatening in their attitude toward France that it was feared it would be necessary to declare a state of siege in Trieste to prevent acts of hostility, which would place the Italian govern- ment in a serious international pre- dicament. The minister of the inte- rior and the secretary of the Fascist | party went to Trieste on orders from | Premier Mussolini to placate the | Fascists there. Serious trouble also is reported from Bologna, where hundreds: of opposi- tion adherents were rounded up be- | tween Sunday and Wednesday. The situation at Bologna was the subject of a conference hetween the premier, | minister of the interior and general- j1ssimo of the Fascist militia. The lat- i ter was authorized by Mussolini to | concentrate 5,000~ militiamen from neighboring localities in Bologna It is estimated that as a sequel to | the attempt to Kkill the premier last { week, 600 anarchists, among | ymany women, were arrested through- | \aut the country in the last few days. [ The refusal of the French Govern- ment to hand over Italian political | refugees greatly exasperated the Fas- | cisti, and this placed the premier in a very difficult position before his own followers. (Convrieht. 1924.1 . Makes Clean Sweep of Three| ' “{Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) CIGARETTE IV WINS PRESIOENT' CLP Heats in Potomac Regatta. One Record Broken. Traveling almost a mile a minute, L. Gordon Hammerlsey's $60,000 duralumin racer, Cigarette IV, proved the class of the fleld of speed boats | gathered here for the first running of the President's Cup race, when she flashed to the front yesterday in the second and third heats of the 45-mile race and carried off the $5,000 gold trophy, sponsored by President Cool- idge and placed in ecompetition by the Corinthian Yacht Club, which conducted the regatta. The long, cigar-shaped speedster, halling from the Celumbia Yacht Club of New York City, and one of the few all-metal racing beats in the world, répeated her feat of the day before by showing her heels to her competitors at the very start in each of the last two 15-mile trips around the 3-mile course. Once out in front, she had things to herself in each of the heats, leaving the remainder of the contesting craft to fight it out for second and third honers. Her av- erage speed in the second heat was 53.7 miles an hour, and in the final she was clocked at 52.8 miles. Mrs. Hugh Dillman’s Horace was driven to runner-up honors in the| final by E. F. Ericson of Toronto when Miss Syndicate, Horace Dodgé's craft, broke her propeller shaft and was forced to retire from the race after leading for two laps. This gave the Dillman boat, which took a third and a fourth in the earlier heats, second place in the fight for the trophy. Greenwich Folly, winner of the Gold Cup this year, was third in the final and fourth in the second heat, getting third position when the points were totaled. Gets in Later Race. Miss Syndicate’s mishap put her out of the running for the principal trophy after she had taken two sec- ond places, but failed to keep har| from coming back later in the day lorl a special race of six miles in which she was piloted by Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell of New York agains€ Miss Okechobee, driven by Mrs. W. ! J. Connors. Mrs. Connors, who | previously had taken first honors in the Secretary of the Navy's Cup race, took her racer across the finish line a dozen lengths ahead of the Dodge boat and thereby won the first high-speed race in which women have competed against each other. | The race for the Secretary of the Naty trophy, in which Mrs. Connors, representing the Buffalo, N. Y., Launch Club, evened matte; with Ericson, who defeated her yesterday in the Potomac River championship, drew a select fleld that included, also Roy Keyes' Curtiss Wilgold of the Buffalo Launch Club, and Greenwich ; Folly of Greenwich, Conn. Curtiss Wilgold took the lead at the start and was ahead for two laps, but pulled up with a bent shaft, leaving the race to the other three. The win- ner's time for the 24-mile journey was 27 minutes 22 4.5 seconds, which figures down to an average speed of 52 miles and hour.. One Record Broken. One world record was broken. This was done in the Junior President's Cup race in which Lady Helen II of Detroit showed the way to a fast fleld of racers of the junior gold cup type. Piloted by Dick Locke., she covered the nine-mile course in 13 minutes, 4 seconds. averaging 41.32 miles and hour. Shes lowered her own time for the distance, having set | the record at 39.8 miles an hour at Detroit on Labor day. Both Lady Br the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 18. second deliberate wrecking of Louis-bound railroad passenger train within a week occurred at 11:40 o'clock last night when train No. 806 of the Frisco, known as the Mem- phian, Harvard, Ark. injured 7 Investigation disciosed, it was nounced from the office here of Pre: dent Kurn of the railroad, that a switching crew passed over the switch only 12 minutes before the passenger and found the switch set. to the ralircad's. usion Two trainmey were {Wreck Which Shook Up Marion Talley Second Deliberate One in a Week ran into an open s\itch at! Press. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” - The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at month. Telephone Main 5000 ill start immediately. FIVE CENTS. PRESIDENT BACK; GREETED BY HUGE CROWDS EN ROUTE Throngs Meet Train on Trip Through New York State in Daytime. MR. AND MRS. COOLIDGE APPEAR IN FINE HEALTH Special Makes Record Time Until Executive Orders Slower Pace at Philadelphia. By the Assoctated Press President and Mrs. Coolidge re- turned to the Capital just hefore 11 o'clock last night. after an allday trip by special train from their vaca- tion camp in the Adirondacks. They were met by Secrstary San- ders. who has been here for several days. and by Capt. Wilson Brown, fr., naval aide to the President, as well as White House attaches. who remained in Washington during the Summer. They drove immediately to the White Houee, which was lighted throughout. Record Time Made. The return trip from the more than two months' vacation was made over the New York Central and Pennsyl- vania raflroads on a special train, which made ord time until Phila- delphia was reached. Here orders were given by the President for the schedule to be slowed down so that he would not arrive in advance of 11 o'clock, the hour he originally had set for his return. Besides the Philadelphia stop only one other was made on the run down from Jersey City, that at Baltimore, where the two White House collf Prudence Prim and Rob Roy, almest were left behind. After dininz tonight. the President and Mrs. Coolidge had a motion pic- ture show in their observation car Several score persons were at the station to watch the arrival Pass Through Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, September 18 (®).—The special train with the Presi. dent and Mrs. Coolidge aboard passed through West Philadelphia station to- night on the way to Washington. The train arrived at 8:14 daylight saving time, more than 40 minutes ahead of schedule, and departed 5 minutes later. The arrival of the presidential spe. cial was not known to the public and only a few railroad company employes and policeé were on the platform. Pas- sengers awaiting a train due at about the same time were held upstairs in the station until the special had passed through. The President and Mrs. Coolidge did not leave their chairs in the observa- tion car during the brief stop here GETS CONTINUED OVATION. President Spends Most of Trip on Platform Greeting Crowds. ON BOARD PRESIDENT COOL- IDGE'S SPECIAL TRAIN, RAVENA, N. Y., September 15 (#).—A continu- ous ovation was given President Cool- idge today by citizens of New York State as his special train passed from the -Adirendacks to the Mohawk and Hudson River Valley: in daylight hours, on its way to Washington. Returning from his vacation of more than 10 weeks in the North country, Mr. Coolidge found the sta- tion platforms and the tracks lined with people as he entered the more populous sections, and with Mrs. Cos idge he was kept on the rear platform of his observation car much of the time acknowledging the greetings. Mr. Coolidge never appeared in het- ter form. Refreshed by his outdoor life of the Summer, he was in excel. lent spirits as he sped toward Wash- ington, and with hat off and ready smile he threw his hand up repeatedly to the people who, upon spying him lifted their hats and. set up shouts of recognition. School Children Present. Mrs. Coolidge, too, enjoyed the ex- perience. and with the two White House collies, Rob Roy and Prudence Prim. on leash on the platform, chat ted with many at the stops as the President shook hands right and left Both she and the President paid spe- cial attention to the school children, who were seen at every station with i American flags in their hands. | Undertaken for the declared purpose | of giving the President an opportunity | t® sea the Mohawk and Hudson River Valleys by day, the trip was arranged with few scheduled stops, but in response to urgent requests. tele. graphed to the Summer White House, at Paul Smiths and the train en route, a score or more stations were selected for the train to run through at § miles an hour. This gave the resi- dents opportunity to set up a shout of greeting and the President and Mrs. Coolidge to wave their acknowledg- ments. At the larger cities, where 10.minute stops were made, city and county dele- gations hoarded the train to extend official welcomes while Republican clubs were prominently in evidence in the crowds which jammed about the observation car. Party Leaders Active. Republican party local isaders head #d many of the delegations and did not deny reports that they regarded the visit of the President to the State as of importance for its reaction upon the $tate in this, a congressional elec. tion year. For Mr. Coolidge, Lowever, it was said that in deciding to cross New York State by daylight he had in mind the sightseeing opportunities and the thought had not occurred to himn that any political significance would be attached to it. The popular demonstration began as that the switch was tampered with. The Sunshine Special of the Mis- souri Pacific was wrecked last Mon- day night at McGehee, Ark., killing the engineer and fireman and injuring 20 others. Investigation disclosed that angle bars had been removed. The locomotive of the Memphian | turned over, side-awiping cars stand- |ing on an adjacent track. The bag- gage car, mail car and one coach | were derailed. Engineer Curtis was bruised and Fireman Davenport ecalded. Miss Marion Talley of Kan- s cuy..‘ Metropelitan Grand Opera . al er passengers were shaken up, 3 el soon as the President and Mrs. Cool idge left White Pine Camp, and mo- tored early today 6 miles to the special train of six cars waiting at Gabriels. There they found Summer visitors and natives out in force and with many they shook hands in cordial farewell after one of the most pleasant vacations in their experience. Passing for 100 miles through the mountains and down to the lowlands, the President found groups of people at every station. He had gone to his drawing room when the train started, (Continued on Page 6, Cexum.gs‘f