Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1926, Page 4

4 EYs SHP NEN AVAT “CIyde Line Reports S. S. Cherokee Could Not Have ! Been in Path of Hurricane. IBr the Associated Press NEW YORK. September 20.—Steam- ship companfes today awaited word from at least eight vessels unreport- e since the tropical hurricane swept Florida. It {8 is not definitely known ithat all the ships were storm area, and it is assumed b ‘ping men that vessels which were un- affected would not consider it neces- sary to notify their officials. The Clyde Line, operating between New York and Miami, today denied that the steamship Cherokee, with a full complement of passengers, W within the storm area. The Cherokee left New York Saturday and is not due in Miaml until noon tomorrow. Freighters Belleved Hit. The Munson Line had received no word from any of dts vessels. It was thought two freighters may have felt the force of the hurricane. The Dollar Line steamship President Harrison left Brooklyn Thursday company officials said it was doubtful if ahe was far enough south when the storm struck to be in danger. No_direct_information had reached the Florida East Coast Railroad office here today. Officlals said they had ment the chief of their telephone foree 10 supervise repairing of broken wires Meager information _indicated thnt sbout 25 miles of railroad telephone lines had been destroyed in the vicin ity of Miami. Girder Wrecks Wire Office. A huge girder fell through the roof «f the Western Union Building In Miami, but no casualties were suf- tered, officfals said. \Water poured through the roof, causing heavy dam- age to equipment. A. F. Nielson, president of the Southern Dairies, Incorporated, said he was informed that company’s plant at Palm Beach suffered no damage, and that damage to the Miami plant was approximately $5,000 The New York headquarters of the Red Cross has been authorized to re ceive subscriptions for relief work. Canadian Vessels Safe. MONTREAL. Quebec, September 20 P).—All Canadian government mer- chant marine vessels on the West In- dian and South American routes es- caped the hurricane which swept the Florida coast over the week end, (ien- eral Manager R. B. Teakle said toc ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md. September 20 (Speciall.—To enable the patrons and other friends of the public school at Bethesda to meet the new supervising rincipal, Prof. Thomas W. Pyie, and become better acqualnted with the other 17 members of the faculty, an fnformal reception was held the school Saturday evening. It was ar- ranged by the school trustees, E. C. Bosworth, chatrman; Mrs. H ane Lewis and Oliver O. Kuhn, and was largely attended. | Following a pro- gram by pupils #f the school. which included the school vell, marches, ¢songs, one of them in the nature of a welcome to the new principal, and other features, Prof. Pyle outlined the program of school work for the year, told of the aims, methods and als, especially of the junior high school department, and urged co- operation on the part of the patrons and others. In point of attendance the Bethesda school, with 550 puplls, is the second largest school in the county, the Rockville High School, with an enrollment of approximately standing first. The annual report of Welles Meriam, town clerk and treasurer, shows that during the fiscal vear which ended June 30, it required $5,678.14 to run the town of Kensington. Of this amount $1,694.63 was expended on roads and streets, $1,605.68 for street lighting, $1,200 for salaries, $256.25 for fire department and $85.13 for trash collection, while $936.45 went into the contingent fund. The re- ceipts of the town during the year aggregated 07.73, a8 follows miscellaneous, $1.- penalties und costs, $104.86, and trash collections, $85.93 Work on Wisconsin Avenue. The work of widening Wisconsin avenue from the District of Columbia line through Bethesda to the weotion of the Rockville and town pikes, @ distance of & mile and n fifth, is under way. The work of clearing the right of way is about completed, and the grading will be started within the next few days. The work Is expected to be completed be- fore really cold weather sets in. The cost, including the widening of the bridge over the Paltimore and Ohio Rallroad at Retheeda, will be some- thing lnss than $50,000 be widened 25 feet on the east The county commissioners are deavoring to have the W and Rockville Electric Railway o, remove its trolley poles from the cen | ter of the road and pluace them on the | tracks | sides and bring the railway down to grade. The milway company has not, it is understood. given much encouragement along that line as yet, but those interested are hopeful that it will finally agree to do The Montgomery County Civic Federation s co-operating with the commission ars in their efforts to have the com pany make these changes. The funeral of Rev. Fillmore W Shriner, retired Methodist minister, who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Cornelia Benson, near Neeles- wille, this county, aged T8 years, took placs vestenday from the Methodist Church at Clarksburg, the pastor of the church, Rev. Dr. Nelson, conduct- ing the services. Burial was in the @emetery newr the church Dr. Shriner had been il a long while of a complication of diseases and bis death was not unexpected. He was a widowe: d leaves no children. many years he was connected W the Balitmore Conference of Methodist | Episcopal Church South, and was pas tor of numerous churches within the conference district. He was placed on the retired list a number of years ago. The fifty-third annual conference of the Free Methodist Church of the New York district, comprising about fifty churches in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbla, West Virginia, New York. Pennsylvania and other places, adjourned last evening after baving been In session in the Rockville Free Methodist Church since last Wed- nesday afternoon. Large congrega- tlons attended the closing services. which included a love feast and preaching services in the morning. a Sunday school rally and missionary meeting In the afternoon and a preaching service at night. The ser mon of the morning was delivered by Bishop Walter E. Sellew of James- town, N. Y., who was in charge of the conference; the principal address at the missionary meeting was by Dr . A. Backenstoe, returned mission- ary from China, and the evening ser mon was by Rev. E. A. Tapper of Chicago, secretary of the Iilinois Con- terence of the Free Methodist Church. it was decided to hold the next annual onference in Washington. = e Princess Tarhata of the Philippi former University of lilinois girl, is one of the first Moro girls to dare the ’ £ultan’s wrath by bobbing her hair. » within the | ; ship- | The road will | '600 TO 1,300 ARE DEAD IN MIAML; | | 25000 INJURED: LOSS. $200.000.000 WORD OF 8 BOATS, [ ‘n!uijulsxl from First Page.) It provides that no prices may be charged in excess of those prevailing 1 Fla. Southeast Florid 1 violent hurr Friday night and S day had an_ esti list of more than 1,000 and property dam- age in excess of $125,000.000, with indications that the toll would mount higher when daylight made a more complete check possible. The “playground of America” was metamorphosed into ne of deso- lation over a wide ary Pleasur resorts were turned into tempe ) morgues and hospitals, and trains bearing physicians and nurses were arriving in the storm-torn section from many directions. Ilouses and office bulldings were crowded refugees, Tales of severe suffe ships were recounted by messages riving here. Many persons search- ed the ruins of their homes for lost members of their families. while others anxlously sought relatives and triends in hospitals and morgues Drinking Water Rationed. Water was knee deep in the streets of Miami and Miami Beac! I pub- lie utilities were disabled, and - rants were d. Drinking was served in half portions. appeals for food, water and were answered hy special r that were dispatched to area. s The death toll in the Miami vicin ity was placed at S04 by Jerry I Owen, general superintendent of the Florida East Coast Radl of which BEACH, Sep- ash- hours to- | still ing and hard the storm Hollywood and 184 in ifialeah. OF estimates listed 100 dead at Fort derdale and a_similar number at Moore Haven, 15 miles northwest of Miami, where the waters of Lake Okeechobee « whipped over the dikes, flooding the city to . depth of 13 to 15 feet In some ] Forty of those reported drowned were women and children, and unconfidmed re- ports sald the road leading to Clewis- & strewn with bodies. was believed town w Clewistown away washed Yachts Tossed Ashore. The force of the winds and waves at Miami tossed yachts and larger Vvessels ashore in Royal Palm Park, where they remained high and dry when the water receded, C. F. Hafley, Ridgeway, Colo.. said Most of the wooden structures in fihe city. he said, have been blown down or unroofed. large concrete and steel bufldings have been twisted it thelr base. P lly every piece of plate glags in the city was broken Many of the killed and injured at Miami were hit by flying roofing from the damaged huildings. Sam Smith <t Coast Pullman con- ductor, sald Heavy galvanized fron sheeting of roofings were flylng about the city like scraps of paper, and ‘err wrapped around trees. Smithiyre- the county ported. Several sections = causeway across Biscayne Bay, one 1 links with Miami, away, and f the two principa inder undermined. of are completely swept much of the remal Houseboat Swept to Sea. A small houseboat, anchored a short distance south of Cocoanut Grove, with a man and his small son aboard. Wwas seen to break its moorings and sweep helplessly toward Cape Flori- da and the open sea. No trace has been found of eithel Mr. and Mrs. John Ney with Mr. and_ Mrs. Henry Cambridge, Ma: occupying same house at Miaml Beach, were Swept out of their home by rising t the height of the storm. curvived by clinging to floating wreckage while the Cotters disappeared in the high water. * A large dredge, anchored alongside the channel to the sea, was wrecked With 14 men aboard. Seven swam to the causeway, while the others were lost, it was reported. A’ small schooner was wrecked a short distance north of Fort Lauder- dule. One man of the crew gained shore, while a companion perished just before reaching safety. The sur- Vivor said he had left another aboard with both arms and his back broken, but was too exhausted to give details. Bread Only Food Available. At Tollywood, reports say, only bread and water are available for food, while bread lines ar reported at sev- o] places in Miami. e §iicials in Miami have posted | orders outlining relief measures and warning would-be profiteers. Committoes have been named to | handle the sttuation in food, buflding materdal, city relief, s: nitation, the ice supply and other necessities. Hbarding of supplies by merchants or individuals was banned after a Survey revealed a 30-day supply of | food and water. Miami Beach was placed under the | same regulations Barracks to Be Buil Fort Lauderdale city officials planned immediate erection of bar- racks to house hundreds of refugees who have arrived. Blankets and cots were placed in remaining protected office buildings. Auxiliary hospitals \were maintained in various downtown ! structures, with all available physi- ans and nurses to care for the in- ing patients. South of Miami, in th nitles of Homestead, Naranja, Peters, Goulds. Kendall, Perrine and Black Point. hardly a home or store escaped. The large citrus crop. a chief source of revenue, was drowned out. with a loss of more than half the trees. in { addition to the year's output. Seven Looting Suspects Held. Looting broke out in the negro sec- tions of Miami last night. Seven sus- pects were arrested. Three hundred pectal policemen were sworn in for Voluntary duty and martial law was | Srdered. . At Hollywood 200 special officers were added to the patrol force. Cutting a path from Miami north to | Fort Lauderdale, the hurricane at- {ained a velocity of 120 miles an hour, leaving wreckage in its wake. It roared across the Everglades ana passed into the Gulf of Mexico. with only slightly diminished intensity. The west coast was not damaged serfously. Fort Myers bore the brunt of the storm on the west coast. There public utilitles were put out of commission and they were isolated for several hours. At St. Petersburg several thousand | trees were uprooted and water flooded the outlying districts of Tampa. striking the vast expanse of Lake Okeechobee on its sweep from the east coast, the storm hurled enormous waves against the little city of Moore Haven, where D. J. W. Mitchell, a Sebring physician, estimated that at least 100 persons had been drowned. Drainage Dam Wrecked. Residents were forced to the top of buildings. he said. and 23 persons were drowned when a two-story frame structure gollapsed. He declared ihe drainage dam built around the town at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars was wrecked and the country- side flooded. Only the brick business blocks and & schoolhouse were on thetr original foundations, Dr. Mitch- an, together Cotter of the in : little commu- 1 | | | with | e 500 were in the city of Miami, 250 inj ' THE EVENING September 18, the day following the storm. Violators will suffer confiaca- tion of their supplies, a heavy fine !and imprisonment. Desolation Spread Over Large Area. Tuming “Playground“ Into Wilderness ell gald, and shells of small houses had floated blocks from thelr original | positions. |~ Responding to urgent appeals for 300 troops “as quickly as possible” m the sheriff at Miami, Gov. John W. Martin dispatched several com- panies and hospital units of National CGuardsmen to the scene. The Pullman Co. made fts entire resources of equipment available, and the American Red Cross offered its full facilities. Funds for storm suf- ferers were heing, raised in the sister cities of Florida and all Red Cross chapters in large Southern cities were calied on to rush supplies. Second Blast More Terrific. The tropical hurricane, originating in the Dahamas, struck Miami and that section of the east coast Friday midnight and raged for nine hours. A brief lull about 8 o'clock Saturday morning decelved hundreds into ven- turing forth to salvage their belong- ings, only to be struck by a _more ific wind than the first. While virtually every bullding In Miami bore marks from the hurricane, the 18- story Meyer-Kiser Bank Buflding. re- cently completed at a cost of $1,000,- 000, was the only large structure seriously damaged. Its superstructure wis twisted 7 the Luilding would have to be r; The grandstands of the Miami Jockey Club and of the Miami Kennel Club were demolished. Shipping seelking haven in the Miami_harbor was hard hit, more than 150 small craft, including yachts nd pleasure boats. being lifted from the vater and splintered on the shore. ACOLA CUT OFF. Mobile Station Antennae Damaged by High Winds. MORBI LI Ala., September All communication with Pen: failed. Efforts were made to commu- nicate with the city by radio from Mobile, but the antennae at the local station was damaged by the high winds here and put out of commission temporarily. Pensacola is ated Bay, 4 body of water and 4 miles wide. tles into on Pensacola 12 miles long Pensacola Bay emp- he Gulf of Mexico. The nar- row entrance into the gulf is defended by Fort Pickens, on the west end of Santa Rosa Island, Fort Barrancas is on the mamland, north of Fort Pick- ens. On the mainland, one mile east of Fort aBrrancas lies the United States naval statlon, consisting of a navy yard, steel floating dry dock and marine barracks. Two villages, War- rington and Woolsey, are located near the navy vard, with a population of approximately 150. A hurricane driving north-north- west from the south Florida devast tion area would strike Pensacola across Pensacola Bay from the Gulf of Mexie Pensacola, the county seat of Escambia County, had a population of 05 In the last census. Although not protected by an elah- orate seawall, the city is protcted from the Gulf of Santa Rosa Bar. Its busi- s and residental districts have con- siderable height above the water's edge. LOSES TOUCH BY RAIDO. New Orleans Naval Station Hears Nothing From Pensacola. ORLEANS, September 20 —The United States naval radio station at Algiers said today that at 6 wm.. the time it had last communi- tion with the naval station at Pen- cola, Fla., the wind was blowing a -mile-an-hour gale and the barom eter was down to 29.05. Reports trom Mobile at 9 a.m. said the barometer there was at 20.96, with a 72-mil wind, and at Gulfport the barometer at 4 o'clock was 2 The wind stiil was north of east, with gusts reach- ing 50 miles an hour. There was a slight drizzle, with the western half of the sky clear, indicating that Gulf- port was on the western edge of the hurricane. Although the local naval station has a 30-minute working schedule with the Pensacola station, it had not heen in communication with that point since 6 o'clock, although at several times since then the Pensacola sta- | tion had been heard or: commerciul | wave lengths. ! Western Union wires connecting the | radio station at Pensacola with the | city are down, the local station said, | but they had no report of any fur- ther damage. 3 The naval station said that the cen- ter of the storm appeared 10 be pass: ing toward Mobile. ALL WIRES ARE DOWN. ! | i | Atlanta Hears Storm Is Headed Toward Burwood, La. ATLANTA, September 20 (#).—The devastating hurricane which raged across the lower part of Florida over the week end today was reported descending upon Pensacola, in the ex- treme northwest of the same State. A wind which was blowing at the rate of 80 miles an hour, attended by | a terrific downpour, was reported | from Pensacola early today. Wire | communication with Pensacoia was in- terrupted early this morning when the Assoclated Press circuit of the Western Unfon lines went out. The | | Western Union chief said that all | wires into Pensacola had been lost and | that communication between virtually all points between Montgomery and Mobile also had been severed. The storm apparently was headed toward Burwood, La. Whether its progress along the Gulf Coast will be marked with destruction equal to that which attended its disastrous trafl scross Florida was causing worry to thousands. Observers of the hurricane said {that it seemed to have caused its greatest damage when it doubled back on itselt and crossed its old trail. This is belleved to have been the case in Miami and vicinity, where reports estimate the greatest loss of {life and heaviest damage to property. Jacksonville Hears Nothing. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 20 (®)—Efforts to communicate by telephone with six towns northwest and near Pensacola, reported to be in |the new path of 100-mile-an-hour wind, were unavailing up to 10:45 a.m. today. Telephone company of- ficials reported that wire trouble was acute in the area. | GEORGIA OFFERS AID. Gov. Walker Asks Relief Officials to Suggest How State Can Help. ATLANTA, September 20 (#).—Gov. Clifford Walker, in a telegram to Gov. John W. Martin at Tallahassee, placed the resources of Georgia at his dis- posal in alleviating conditions in the storm-stricken area of Florida. Gov. Walker said: ““The people of Georgia extend their deepest sympa- thy to our stricken neighbors on the Florida coast. Please have the proper | | STAR, WASHINGTON, An aerial view of the City of Miami and the Bay of Biscayne to the right. to have completely destroyed the city, killing ene durinz the heay ane last July, showing the huge waves crashing ¢ ame scene was enacted during the heavy storm which pa FORT MYERS' TOLL PLACED AT EIGHT Six of Crew on Fishing Boat | Are Swept Overboard—Two Women Washed Intp Gulf. By the Associated Press. FORT MYERS, Fla., September 20. —The death toll in the Fort Myers a was brought to a probable eight, when Capt. Bolita of a Cuban fishing smack, cast upon Estero Island, reported that six members of his crew had been | swept overboard and lost off Capitva Island, A six-vearold cabin boy tled to a life buoy was washed ashore a few minutes after the captain report- ed land. * Both were cared for by residents of the island and brought to Fort Myers. The bodies of two women, Mrs. James A. McCool and a Miss Bradley, drowned at Punta Rassa late Satur- day, were recovered yesterday. They were washed into the gulf by a glant wave while trying to flee from their automobile which had become strand- ed in the flooded road. W. E. Bradley | and his wife, who were with them, were rescued. A rellef expedition was preparing to embark on a river steam- er for Moorehaven. Mayor Frank E. Kellow is in command. FOOD RUSHED TO SCENE. 75 Truckloads From West Palm Beach Hurried to Sufferers. WEST PALM BEACH, September 20 (P).—More than 75 truckloads of water, coffee, milk and bread have been sent into the storm-stricken area surrounding Miami since yesterday by West Palm Beach relief workers. Dispatches from Miaml say the troopers guarding the city have the situation well in hand. ORDERS FLOUR SUPPLY. Fort Lauderdale, Hurricane Area, to Receive 210 Barrels. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 20 (#).—Two hundred and ten barrels of flour will be sent to Fort Lauder- dale today aboard the Havana special of the Florida East Coast Railway, R. R. Voght, manager for a flour com- pany, announced in response to a telegram from Mayor J. W. Tidball of Fort Lauderdale. “We must have flour,” Mayor Tid- ball's message said. “Charges being guaranteed by city. Hartford Firms’ Losses Light. HARTFORD, Conn., September 20 (#).—Losses of insurance companies here in the Florida storm will be largely on winter homes there. Hart- ford insurance companies have made their rates for the KEast Coast of Florida so high that they did little business. Coast Guard Rushes Aid. HAVANA, September 20 (#).—The TUnited States Coast Guard cutters Saukee and Badgaduce left Key West for Miami last night. They carried National Guardsmen, Marines and adthorities advise as to what as- &1 sailors and supplies of medicine and food. An aerial view of tl MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1926. Hea he casino and beach at Miami Beach, torm which swept over the city late Saturday afternoon is reported 5 and causing $100,000,000 damage. er the causeway connecting M ssed over Miami Saturday. swept by the hurricane. | Miaml, soclety’s Winter city of pleasure, which was turned into a city of terror and suffering by the dev- astating fury of the tropical hurri- cane Saturday, first came to national attentfon with the completion of the Florida East Coast Railway by Henry M. Flagler. Flagler's Royal Palm Hotel became famous as the first meeting place in Miami of Northern society and wealth, Late dispatches from the stricken city told of the unroofing of this old struc- ture, which had retained its popular- | ity with Winter guests. The development of Miami Beach several years ago by Carl G. Fisher, Jndianapolis _sportsman, started the first rush of Winter tourists to Miami, and the city's popularity as a Wi ter resort has of late years threat- ened to oust Palm Beach as the lead- ing resort. Harbor Coastwise Terminal. Miami's harbor, located in Biscayne Bay, which separates the mainland from Miami Beach, and constructed at a cost of thousands of dollars, dur- terminal for coastwise steamship lines, a port of call for ocean-going freight- ers and the home berth of numerous small lines plying to and from the Bahama Islands and Cuba. Real es- tate activity in Florida in the last few years has seen the pouring of millions of dollars into developments, town- sites and subdivisions between Miamj and West Palm Beach. A notable example of the latter is the city of Hollywood, located 17 miles north of Miami, which in five years sprang from a mangrove swamp to a community of 15,000 inhabitants. Three modern hotels were erected, and public utilities, echools, dmmg- and gayed were & ing the Winter season has been a| Flagler‘s Royal Palm Hotel in Miami, Haven of Northern Society, Hit by Storm cluded in the building program, which cost millions of doHars. Hollywood, according to news re- ports, has been devastated, with but one building remalning intact. Dania, mentioned in news dispatches as hav- ing sustained heavy loss, is 2 miles north of Hollywood and within the corporate limits of the latter city. Fort Lauderdale, with a. population of 25,000, lies 26 miles north of Miami. Pompano, Del Ray, Delmato and Lake Worth, all mentioned In dis- patches from the stricken area as hav. ing suffered heavily from the hurri- cane, were resorts. Blood Reveals Sex. Blood can reveal sex, according to experiments conducted recently by Dr. Dewey G. Steele of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. Dr. Steele used the blood of cattle and found that when the blood serum is diluted a hundred times and then properly treated with chemicals, a few drops of methyl green dye can be introduced, turning the blood serum to green. if it came from females, and red. if it came from males. New Giant on Rails. A new type of freight locomotive has been designed which is said to be capable of hauling 125 cars of freight across the Rocky Mountains at the rate of 50 miles an hour. The engine is the first to have three cyl- Inders in combination with six pairs of drive wheels It is 102 feet long and weighs 782,000 pounds. It cost §105,000. It 1s 16 feet high, 7 feet wide, carries 15,000 gallons of water and consumes between ¢ and 7 tons of coal an hour, TWO DOCTORS READY FOR HOSPITAL STUDY Three Others Awaited for Work's Probe of Conditions at St. Elizabeth's. With only two members of the board of five hospital heads, named by Sec- retary Work to investigate conditions at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, on hand this morning, the start of the investi- gation was postponed until this after- | noon when it is expected the other members of the board will arrive. Otherwise Dr. H. W. Mitchell and Dr. A. H. Ruggles will start the in- vestigation alone, expecting to be joined by the others tomorrow. The investigation itself, ordered by Secretary Work, St. Elizabeth's is satisfactorily func- tioning in all departments as the Gov- ernment’s Hospital for the Insane. - s Goeben Still in Service, Now being refitted to serve as a flagship for the new Turkish Navy, the old German cruiser Goeben is still seeing service after its thrilling World War episodes. The Turkish Navy will use it in the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora. Under the direetion of German contractors the Turks are building a large modern drydock and naval base on the Gulf of Ismid, 25 miles from Constantinople. = One kind of a diplomat s a woman who can make a man believe he knows more than she does, says the Chicago Newf} I SCENES IN MIAMI, WRECKED BY TROPICAL HURRICANE. | is to determine if | D GROSS GHEES RUSHTOFLORDA Disaster Relief Director Baker Recalled From Flood Areas in West. | By the Assaciated Press. Natfon-wide relief machinery of th i.\l"l’rll‘. n Red Cross was at work t | day carrying ald and comfort to the thousands left injured and homeles< in the wake of the Florida hurricane | From a score of sources its hastily marshaled forces sped to the scene of | atsaster, while other of fts units | home were preparing supplies to | shipped to the devastated area | The call to action came quickly after Gov. John W. Martin, in a telephone message, had made an urgent appe for help. Iie authorized the Nation: Red Cross headquarters here to take complete charge of all relief work Supplies to Be Sent. ng with his request. Robort head of the Red Cross unit |in Atlanta, G, was directed to ship | six carlonds of supplies at once to Miami and to prepare to send mare as soon as the demands of the situation were known Telegrams called together all of the organization's units in larger Southery | eities, while James 1 ser, nationa! vice ¢k ha wed from Mont gome Atlanta to take pes sonal e work Offi 1s also indicated that probahi some time during the day an appe will be issied to the American publ! for funds to care for those made de titute in the storm. Whether this a) | peal will be made through President Cooltdge, honorary of th Red Cross, or another « been determined Director Baker Called From West Henry M. Baker, national direct. of disaster rellef. was recalled fron | work in the flooded areas in the WV and s hastening by fast train and |plane to the new scene of trou Resides, two officials from headau ters here are en route to aid in the mobilization of the reliof units, and Miss Pauline Marshall of Cleveland who assisted in_relief operations afte the to ado in Northern Ohio in 1921 again has been called Into servic While orders were being issued, peals began coming in from arganiz: tion workers In Florida elties told a ory of disaster and suffe reported on the work being done. asked for food, medical supplies clothes, doctors and nurses Officials as yet have not determine |upon the amount of money that w | be needed to care for those in dis tress, but it was thelr opinfon that a large amount probably would be re news from all quarters in must cope with sters of all time n continent he Compl: {one of the worst d on the North Ameri¢ FLORIDA BUSINESS MEN Miami's Mayor. Hollywood's Founder and Others Leave on Special Trains. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. September J. M Smoot, president of the Miami Jockes in New York, announced to. age to the Jockey Clubs Tiialeah would cause no postponement of the Winter racing schedule, Mr. Smoot will leave for Miami tonight on a special train with - group of friends and business men ving interests there. i rcome this and be urists by January property at n left New York early carrying Joseph W Young, founder of Hollywood: Frank | B. Shutts, publisher of the Miami Her Mayor Ed (. Rompf of Miami tilwell, publisher of the For News and members be to relieve the suffering families of Hollywood and to take steps to rebuild that portion of the city damaged by the hurricane, | FLY TO THE SUNNY SOUTH. With the first cool weather of the Fall go forth gay adventurers in search of a kindlier climate and warm | er quarters for the Winter son., | some of nomads beasts, | some are birds, and some are butter | fifes. Althou these are lly known s birds m! it is not gener ’flml butterflies as well grate with the seasons, sclentists | know of at least one species of but | terfly that flles to the war 1 | lands each F This spee | Monarch, according to ¢ | entomolgist at the Kansas | cultural Coliege at Manhatt | Bands of these beautiful each one a deep b black veins in their wings and a blac horder speckled with white do been seen recently winging thelr was steadily southward. Fach Fall the | Sarme phenomenon is observed. Why [ these insects leave the habits of their | kind and adopt the migratory instincts | of birds, or what makes one species | have this trait when all other kinds of butterflies do not, no one £ far been able to answer or explain s Mr. Dean. | " All that is known is that the ruler lof this particular butterfly trihe as sembles his_subjects as the first au thentic rustle of Winter reaches him | He forms them into companies, or columns, or wha er formation they ve, and orders the march (o the South. In the Spring the return trip is made and then one may eee bands | of roving butterflies whose wings are frayed as if they have battered against unkind winds of many states and countries. They seem tired and weary from their long journey and probable | adventures. What happens on that Winter jour ney no one kno Why they left or | why they returned science cannot ex | plain except that thelr wanderings | come with the season's changes and |are invariable and authentic indica tors of the weather that is to follow Thelr trall is marked with bent and broken branches where tens of thous ands of them have hung to a cluster while resting. They are the gypsies of the butterfly kingdom, the only wanderers of thelr kind. But the butterfly's cousins, the moths, have nomad species who are quite generally known throughout ti country. Most interesting and rare of these traveling moths is the Black Witch, a beautiful satin black creature with wing expanse of from 6 to 7 inches. This species of moths, as do all others, comes from the South, but never returns. It is always fiying northward nnd may be found in the uppermost part of Canada. The Black Witch comes from Mex ico and Central America each Spring. It is seldom captured, Prof Dean having one of the few perfect winged specimens In this country. An other species of moth—the cotton worm—is very common and is no ticed frequently in the Summer. This is & drab insect of similar nomadic habits to its more splendid relative, the Blach Witch, inseets