Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1926, Page 1

\WEATHER. (. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Increasing cloudiness and cooler to- night, followed by showers tomorrow. Temperature—Highest, 85, at 1:30 p.m. vesterday: lowest, 63, at 7 a.m. toda Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 ch ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Star” every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” s . rrier system covers Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,417. Entered post office, DEATH TOLL NOW 400 IN MIAMI STORM ZONE; PENSACOLA HARD HIT 5,.000 Reported Hurt; 50 Miss- ing in East Florida—Mobile Escapes Injury. No. clays matter 50.000.000 1S ESTIMATED DAMAGE; NEW ORLEANS MAY FEEL BLOW| Relief Gains Momentum and Water System Partially Restored—Hurri- me Spending lis Fury. By 1 el Prioes PIRMINGIHAN, Ala., September 21.—Word communicated hiere through emploves of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad to- day zaid there had heen heavy property damage at Pensacola, with probable loss of life. T'his was theifirst word received from this city since communi- | cation was cut off there yesterday morning. Ihe 1. & N. roundhouse and freight depot were demolished, they said. and the dacks were in ruins. Ihese reports, meager and incomplete, said the property dam- could not he estimated at this time. The railroad was torn up by washouts between Bay Minnette and Flomaton and will re- quire two days to repair the damage. The Escambia River and Little Escambia Creek have washed out bridges and tracks for miles. Much of the trackage was under many feet of water. NOT CERTAIN ABOUT LOSS OF LIFE. o The railroad men in the district were not.certain as to loss of Tife. but they reported “terrible conditions.” he city of Pensacola was ravaged by a hurri a velocity of more than 100 miles an hour report said “many were injured, was not known. A survey. ane that reached but the nature of the MIAMI ZO Having left a trail of dea ida. the tropical hurri Frulay night had passed over Pensacola and Mobile today and was converging on New Orleans after striking a number of southern Alabama towns. \s relief workers penetrated into the debris on the cast coast of Florida the death list there continued to mount steadily. servitive estimates placed the dead at. 400 and the injured at 5,000. Ihe known dead at noon stood at 388 and the known injured at 1,332, hut many of the rescue workers thought the list of dead might reach 700 when wrecked buildings had been cleared and final word had come from the isolated sections in the verglades. PENSACOLA IS STILL ISOLATED. 2 FATALITIES 400. Feveri ret in touch with Pen- sacola. wh wind there waord from erty ama; efforts were being made to h has heen isolated for 1 reached Pensacola—a fragmentar wlio message—said prop- e was heavy, but that there had been no loss of life. Mahile, cut off irom communication for several hours, was heard from today, word coming that it had suffered no serious damage. Othe Alibama towns were not so fortunate, however, reports trickling of loss of life at both Jackson and Bay Minnette. the Florida west coast, hitherto thought to have escaped persons drowned in the Gulf off Fort Myers. Two 3 and the others were sailors from a fishing craft. v huildin the west coast toward Pensacola was estimated at more while that 1o citrus fruits was placed at close to $10.000.000. buildings converted into temporary hospitals, despite their lack roofs and windows, Tee, milk and drinking water shipped from nearby cities and a large amount of foodstuffs already taken in by train, the Miami district seemed fairly well taken care of. Latest word from Moorehaven was \hat there were 61 known dead at that place, with 125 missing. Out of the tragedy at thiy place has come the v of a_community without a bu ind. Built on muck land, the 16 rold town h 1 must be way for hurial. Refugees steadily pouring out of the stricken district crossed points at Jacksonville and elsewhere with hun dreds hound for the storm area. These included, b fes relief worl tinemen and railroad men early nearby through howled its Florida, way with and . began to i oreied and rescue in M Miam Coral Gables, Hollywood Lauderdale. Moorchaven or infand towns were g Hialeah stutement issued at Jack- £ of Aluver Dammers A the damaze there P of Caral G was not Woarnine wits g was v seek were re- who had not been heard from the hurricane struck the east zone since, ust. With the stricken district martial law, however, tho: 1o gel on the scene of the damage to look for relatives were confronted with the difficulty of obtaining per mits. Lauderdale chsonville, asking w children and fond sup as under w the with large 1 rvapidly nd other aress Miami Continues to Identify Its Dead and Give Aid to Hundreds of Injured 21 (P 000 injured fay ing In front in blazing red the s the Red Cross. Scarcely a city or town in the storm «ped the death toll left in the September dead and nate placed 1 as the wrea wake of the hurricane. Gr wis done | ami and Hollywood ity are known to ha cecurred at e Haven: Dania re ed 14 dead: Fort Lauderdale, 1 Homestead, located in the Redland district, 40 miles south of Miami. 1 Clewiston, 11: oral Gable: Shores, Little Ttiver and Hialeah, out- Iving suburbs of Miami, had a com- bined death toll of 45, while a score of cities along the coast from Deer- field on the north to Florida City on south reported scattering casual- ties ing from 1 to 7 Martial law. established Sunday in Miami, Hollywood and other cities in the storm-torn area. continued in ef nal Guardsmen the streets. A number of ve reported to have been shot Hialeah, a suburb of Miami Two cities were without water for 48 hours vesterday, and today thou- sands stood in line for medicines bread, water and fuel, doled out small portions from the first stores of relief supplies to arrive from the northward. Hollywood, located 17 miles north of Miami, was said to present the most pitiful scene in the hurricane area Scantily clad children cried for their parents. while great (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) 3 which Flor PErsOns were pday’s hurics h of e d refu dies 1o out oftheway pl more inju and more to homes and busi- mated at nea ny held that the o ns uproote th sid teways and club added firms by the ¢ 1 would double “aved roads lopn also had to b - as well Joss to busine t <torm dumage 4 water calities suffered but most of them ha ted service today Relief work was under where. and at Miami Feach active headaua lished 10 collect momey and other Medicines by the truckloud | e rushed over the torn highways en the two cities. Physic mn.n.l | ana ! at of the eat dam- resumed systems | way every West Palm ers were estab. w geone and nurses sped through the nullitary Jines in official cars bear- The employes had not been able to | th and destruction in southern Flor-| ne which swept in from the Bahamas last | Con-| more than 24 hours after the |’ ¢ velocity of 100 miles an hour. The last| and public utilities wrought by the hurricane as | with | ers and | ing word of loved ones in the danger | e seeking | atest havoe | Miami | in | WASHINGTON, D. VIVID HURRICANE STORIES TOLD HERE BY EYE-WITNESSES Hotel Guests Crowded in Foyer All Night, With Build- ing Rocking in Storm. BIG BOATS SWEPT INLAND; CONCRETE HURLED ABOUT Refugees at Union Station Describe Terror and Destruction by Wind and Flood. | i | The llay: to come’ through cane area, reached §30 this morning. bringing {men and women who had witnes {and ed the IFlorida hur They left Miami at 10 p.m. Sunday. was “explained that, with marti law in force, it was dificult to leave the Florida city and only those who could obtain special permits from the | military authorities were permitteg to | {board the train when it passed through from Key West. All told much the same story of destruction an expressed fears that the death toll would be greatly in- creased when final reports are in Among the passengers was Ber- ard M. Degheri, attorney, of Jersey ICity, and his sister, Mrs. Edward | O'Toole. They were gue: the | Leamington Fotel, near the Miami water front. H Worse Than Degheri, who wear: for wounds received du War, he and h spent Saturday night in srner of the | hotel foyer. He said it was a worse | experience than he had ever known under shell fire in France. Before midnight Saturday, he said { the wind had blown in the windows {of their rooms and they went to the fover with the other guests, The doors were nailed with spikes (o resist the gale. ! erashed through the skylights whole building rocked and the believed it would sh in at moment. hortly after midnight, he said, was a lull in the storm. but it a the Un It | [ | i rance. H silver s the World iste | 1 i heavy imbe the | there Water: | against | The hotel stands just ahove tie I { Palm Gardens, one of the show pl of Miami, which was several :feat {under water and filled with wreckage { from buildings and craft blown { from the 1 | Degheri told of a eabaret troupe of ) persons who found themselves i pped in a building near th hotel {and on the point of collapsing. They | | set out for the hotel, it were unable {to make the trip and lay throughout ! {the storm flat on their faces, with ’n ng timbers falling around them. | None was injured. Publisher Tells of Disaster. Among the tr: P. Artman, publ Citizen, in | i in passengers was L. <her the Key West | who said he helieved he w the first to send out news of the dis- | aster. Mr. Artman became alarmed at the isolation of Miami and sent out {a skeleton report picked up from ragglers between Key West and Miami, by wi through Havana | te urday afternoon | He boarded the Havana limited out {of Key West shortly after sending the repori and as the train progres | north, he said, he found the dis: was much_worse than he hagd thought | ble. Evervwhere along the track wrec of villages and farm- | Passing through South Miami | the tricks were under water “Kven then.” said Mr. Artman, "I} did not realize how bad the tragedy was until 1 tried to get off the train at Miami. ¥ stepped on the platform | | and at once a revolver was aimed at | me by one of the military guards. | | However, the sheriff of Dade County, with whom 1 am acquainted, was the station and 1 was able to ta with him for a few minutes, Worse | pos: w | han Reported. “In my estimation the disaster i even we than has been re I beliege the damage will run to at | least a half-billion doll It is dif ficult to conceive of a city so badly | wrecked as Miami seemed 1o he. 1| | was unable to et out ‘in the streets, ' but there was debris evervwhere, so far as 1 could see. Right in the middle of Flagler street there was a | big launch, stranded. Fortur v, Key West escaped en- | tively. 1f such a wind ever hit us | there would be no city lef ! “This is by far the worst Florida storm that [ remember. and the only| very serious or has struck in| the vicinity of Mia SFrom my few minutes of conversation * with the | sheriff 1 judge that the people ther ave showing a fine spirit, and th tt will not be long until they will start to rebufld.” Anottrer From Palm Beach. Another passenger thony, veteran \West ant. He said | m Beach seemed 1o be ap the | very northern estremity of the hur- | ane and we had venry little re l‘ nage in comparison with the towns south of us, although would have been a The worse dam small. cheap dwelling houses. The | roofs of these were: torn and twisted | until they looked for all the world | | like_feathers on a frizzied chicken |do not think the more substa | buildings were seriously injured i {my own store, for instance. None of | |the plateslass wingows was broken. | But it must be refembered that we ' {old-timers in Flori had some warn- | | . An-| Beach ! was B, Palm and the | th i he wind started Thursday | kept increasing in violer until | final blow. . Anybody acqnainted w Florida knows that such a steady, in- | creasing wind is a sign of trouble. 1| took the precagition to have the win- | dows of my store heavily padded and | |1 had my beat taken from the harbor | land sent way up the canal out of | harm’s way. 1 think most others did | | the same. “It must be remembered that | damage at Miami was wrought not by the he wind alone, but by the com- bined weight of wind and water. With the wind hurling tons of water against the | Wontinued on Page 4, Column 3.) |issued in Common Pl | Pennsylv | Ira | was prepared to cover | £1.000,000 if necessary | sage of M i be con .. | under Amer 18 Soldiers at Fort Sill Held for Arson In $2.000,000 Fire Losses During 2 Yearsi C., TUESDAY, WITH REGRETFUL SEPTEMBER 1926—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. a1, ¥ RELUCTANCE ACCOMMODATING AL, KEARNS ATTACHES ‘DEMPSEY'S PURSE Court Names Rickard Garni- shee, Fixing $600,000 Bail to Secure Assets. | By the Assaciated T PHILADELPHIA, September 21.— An attachment for Jack Dempsey’s share of the purse when he fight Gene Tunney Thursday night w s Court tod; of counsel for Jack v's former manager. Tex Rickard was named a - nishee and the bail to secure Demp- sev's ets was fixed at $600,000. Kearns is suing for money alleged be due him under the terms of his former contract with the he: champton, covering the t the request Kearns. Demps 10 last | three yes Granting of the attachment. which came as a_surprise move. took place in Common Pleas Court 5 while Rickard’s attornevs were i uing in Common Pleas Court No. 4 against the issi of an injunction re- straining Rickard from paying Demp- sey and Tunney any money in ad- vanee of the fight, in violation of the nin law. This action was axpayer and nting Kearn; the “taxpaye started ket holder, Motion todi and ticket holder's” action, made by J. Williams of Rickard's counsel, was denied by the three judges hear: ing the case and argument proceeded ton the injunction suit Through a surety company Rickard bonds up to to prevent any stion from with the fight. Alled s suit, said that he had not advanced the fighters any money out of the receipts of the cominz hout ind had no such intention. John R. K. Secott. counsel for who ohtained the attachmen in Court No. 5, then announced tHat he withdrew the suit. PASSAGE OF TROOPS THROUGH U. S. ASKED court interfering holdir to testify upon Mexico- Seeks Permission to Send Troops Across Border in In- dian Campaign. By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, September 21.—The foreign office announces that it has requested permission of the United ates Government to allow the pas. cican troops across United States territory in the campaign against the rebellious Yaqui Indians the movement «f Mexican s American border terri tory has been permitted in the past measure of assistance to the Mexi- can government in dealfng with revo- Intionary outhreaks. there is no estab- lished American policy in that regard sumably the present request from Mexico City for such permission will ered on its own merit vious instances where Mexi ave traveled by rail pre- cautions have been taken to see that there was no debarkation en route The troep trains in eve case were n military escort While troops a In pr san troops in | Americans, Aiding Nicaragua, Drop Bombs on Rebels By the Associated Press MANA ber 21. STAND AT GENEVA ’Fresident Coolidge Without Sympathy for Proposal to Modify Terms. cun, Septem and Lee Mason, tached to the have dropped dynamite hombs on rebel positions on Halfway Key. up the riyer from Bluefields. It is believed the rebels have evacuated the ey, controlling the main channel he tween El Bluff, the customs station on the Atlantic, and Bluefields The revolutionists have received two tanks, for use against the garrisonaat 1 Bluff. POLICEMAN KILS - WA NEGRD WOMAN President Coolidze does not see how the fifih reservation, dealing with ad- | visory apinions, ate when agreeing to Americ#n ad- | herence to the World Court, can be | modified or changed, it was made | el 1 the White House Neither does the President sympathize ny proposal to modify the fifth ion or any of the other four ions. ation President of the attitude of toward suggested from @ committee of World member nations meeting in for the modification of the | fifth reservation adopted by the Sen- |ate was interpreted here as | that the American reservations must | he accepted as they are if the United | States is now to hecome a member | of the World Court. American of the delega 2 with regar Shoots Self After Slaying | Wife of S. H. Dudley. ; Theater Owner. Protects Interests. The propos: mittec in Gene: e com- to the Mrs. Desdemona Barnett Dudley, years old, colored, wife of Sherman | | H. Dudley, wealthy owner of a string of colored theate and tme here, was shot to death this morning by Policeman Georgze 8. Day 2 Col- | phe fifth reservation, it was pointed ored, N precinct, who then | aut hy a sman for the Pre turned the gun on himself, inflicting | dent today, o a wound that is likely to prove fa . tion of American interests. The According to the story told polic ment in this reservation is cle: bhad leen paying attention to | Was said, and specifies that the United Mrs. budley during recent es- | States shall tr ment from her hushand, and,|!he granting | following a reconciliation, he called at [ by the World ¢ the Dudley apartment, 1316 U street, | Nations on any this morning and reproached her. | United States Mrs. Dudley was shot four times, an interest. | and_died -while she was being taken |reservation, | to Freedmen's Hospital out. which Davis, who lives at States merely has the same right as street, used his 38-caliher members of the League of Natio tol, and after shoc “ouneil in regard to passing upon re- | put the pistol to h < for advisory opinions from the bullet through his left temple. He Court. was taken to Freedmen's Ho where it was said his condition is crit- ical. He has been force six Court Sherman H. Dudley Dudley for dispatches, was that the United States should have equal rights with mem- bers of the League of Nati oun- cil when it comes sing upon re- auests for advis opinions of the | World Court for the League Davis ( an advisory opinion urt to the ague of matter in which the or claims to have There is nothing in the it was further pointed urged that the United 635 1 polic Dudley, nd sent a President Opposes Change. at the White resident doe It was made | Ho: too, that the {not believe he has the power t change or modify in any way the American reservations, adopted by the Senate. He is oppesed to varying the I ons or their intent. ady strong opposition to the of the delegate committee in ieneva with regard to the fifth fon has been expressed hy Willis of Ohio, one of the le the fight for the World Court Winter, ATTACKS ON ITALIANS REGRETTED BY FRANCE Paris Will Punish Corsicans Who Made Rome's Ships Hoist Flag of Republic. By the Associated Pre ROME. September clear { a member of the police howed” today that filed suit against | lute divorce on | 3 of “th . The petition | amed Davis as corespondent, Friends of the Dudleys today said tha the petitioner had dropped his action and a reconciliation had heen effected. Police said that the policeman been friendly with Mrs. Dudley for some time following the divorc bs ders in in the Senate last STATE CLER;(; 6N DUTY EIGHT HOURS EACH DAY Special Dispateh to The RICHMOND, Va., Septemher 21. Under orders from the governor all | attaches of the State departments ave getting to work at 8:30 in the morning | and are compelled to stick to their tasks till 5 oclock in the afternoon The governor gave the emploves half an hour off during the Summer for Saturdays, but that has been revoked and they now work to 12:30 o'clock. '| crowds attacked the Italian « There has been a good deal of pro- [and oblized testing among the yomng women bhe- | bor to hoist the French fax. use of the long hours, but the go The communication says the French ernor stadns yEovernment has ordered a severe in- the people of Virginia are demanding | vestigation and exemplary punish- that the people on the pay roil of the | ment of those guilty. State: sha < ast § hours a day. | : T State shall work at least $hoursa day. | yy.500ches at the time of the Bastia .- The French Mussolini its regret at the recent in- cidents at Bastia, Cors By the Associated Press. FORT SILL. Okla., September 21.— Ovigin of fires which in the last two years have destroved more than $£2.000,000 worth of Government prop- erty here is helieved to have been solved with the arrest of 18 private soldiers of the Fort Sill garrison on charges of incendiarism. Several of the men were members of the post fire department. The men were arrested yvesterday following a report by J. L. Fallon, World War veteran and secret serv- ice operative, who was assigned here last January in connection with & Fedelal investigation when authori- numbers _ of | buildings it was almost_impossible to | ties were unable to determine the origin of 15 fires over a twoyear 3 L | trcuble said the disorders were in_re- for Fascist outrages against residents of Leghorn and BUSINESS DISTRICT BURNS |22 Stores and 5 Houses Destroyed at 0il City, La. OIL CITY, La., September 21 (#).— Fire which broke out early today in a |'poolraom here dostroyed 214 hlocks Government stores, officers’ stores and canteens we: period. barracks destroyed. Arrest and confinement of the men is thought to have been speeded when | Fallon told officers he had learned of plans to burn two hotels at Lawton. Qkla.. near here. The Fort Sill fire- 3 e would have besn called to firht | estimated at $750,000. the Lawton blazes. |, Twenty-two busine Several of the prisoners @onfessed ; burned, only the Oil City Bank Build to participation in the firing of build- | ing, of brick construction. remaining ings, officers who questioned them |on the West side of the town. Fifteen declared. Officers said the investiga- | residences were destroved. tion would continue and that more —_—— — Bus Goes Off Cliff, Five Die. arrests were expected. . allon conducted his investigation | by enlisting as a private and being| RANCAGUA, Chile, September 21 Every | (#).—Five employes of the Braden building at Fort Sill was marked for | Copper Co. were killed and four in- houses were assigned with those arrested. destruction by the arson ring, Fallon | jurec last evening when an auto bus reported. went over a 230-foot cliff. s RESERVATION MUST adopted by the Sen- | today. | notice | fifth reservation, as reported in press | ave the power to prevent | American adherence to | government has conveved to Premier | |in the business district, causing loss | ) Me: Driver Disregards Boulevard “Stop,’ Permit Suspended 2 d by As- . Mol- A new sistant T plan was affic Director ler today in an effort to break up the practice of matorists who de- liberately fail to observe the new stop signs erected at intersectoms along arterial and boulevard high ways. Instead of arresting a driver whom he observed pass a sign without stopping Col. Mol ler suspended his driver's permit for five days. “I believe that by suspending the permits of the motorists who ig- nore the stop signs for a few days.” said Col. Moller. will bring about the observance of the signs quicker than an arrest and a small fine. Those whom 1 cateh crossing a houlevard hefore ® halting_will their permits suspended temporarily.” COOLIDGE FAVORS REASONABLE RENTS FORU. S, WORKERS Reported Interested in Secur- ing Moderate Charges. Hoover Stresses Need. A definite indication of the interest | of President ®oolidge in the proposal to secure apartments for Government workers at a moderate rental came today at the first White louse con- ference with newspaper men. A spokesman for the President declared that although the Chief Executive has no information ncerning apartment houses where Federal workers might rent rooms for § per raom per month, he 1s naturally interested in securing reasonable rentals for those in the Federal employ. At the same time Secretary Hoover, {in his first public statement after an extended Western trip, said the need of the apartment houses for Govern- ment workers here has been definitely established by the replies to the que; tionnaires sent through the Govern- | ment bureaus in Washington more than a month and a half a Will Make No Announcement. Mr. Hoover again refused to divulge the name of the person or persons who made the original proposal some weeks ago to finance the apartment | house constructi Today he alluded i to the sponsor the plan in the i plural sense, while previous indi tions have’ been that one person was | behind the scheme. lle declined to | explain 'his reason for the change. e original dnnouncement sald that an of standing in the commu- had le the proposal to con- the apartment houses to rent fat 81 ) a room a month. To in {quirers who solicited more informa | tion he said he would not be pinned lown to a reason for the change from the singular to the plural Mr. Hoove id that when the pro. tion ha been thoro Iy dis sedd with the spons for the scheme and a de ion made to go head with the construction it will be done without dr ti and without any public announcement. “I jd sed to have any dramatic | this,” he id. “When w to move we will go ahead without an; ment.”" $24 a Room Indicated. id that 7. naires have been received ing that Government emp (average between $24 a month | per room. “There is no quest | the need for the apartment cor tion. now “The need been established Told that one large | has recently reduced its renta id that if the Federal ho | scheme has had that effect alone, some- | thing has been done. | The greatest demand indicated by the replies to the questionnaire, Mr. | Hoover saidas has been for two-room {apartments, althouzh the inquiri ,asked for information on apartments of from one to six room ‘The name of a prominent realtor of | Washington, who has frequently heen mentioned in connection with the Government apartment scheme, was { brought up again today to Mr. Hoover {"The Commerce Secretary ded the uestion, however, and refused to an- swer leading questions. Mr. Hoover indicated that the Gov rnment has no actual financial in | terest in the propos pnstruction does it foster the scheme except i manner that will bring relief to | Government workers | “We have simply been asked to as- | certain whether or not there is a need for apartments at mo e rental, and have established need,” he said. f His statement that’ when the time comes to move the construction work will he undertaken without dramatic was taken to mean that the name of the sponsor or sponsors may not b made public for some time. He would | nity | struet all indicat- pay an he said lished."” “the used has. been estab- “| “CHUTE” JUMPER KILLED. | 1 - . | Photograph Service Private's Safe- ty Device Fails to Open. MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y.. Septem ber 21 (P).—Private Charles (. Turner of Auburn, as killed today when his parachute failed to open |after making a practice jump from ian airy e at a height of 1,500 feet, | Tunner was a member of the | eighth protographic section of the 1A\r'n_\'v ne plane was piloted by { Lieut. Wilson. At a prearranged sig- nal Turner leaped from the plane with the parachute. It failed to iopen and Turner was instantly | killed. Wood Probes Hawaiian Labor. | MANILA. September 21 Rober Duckworth-Ford, member |of Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood's staff, | will depart tomorrow on the President | Taft for Hawaii to investigate Filipino !labor there. Conflicting reports re- | garding _alleged activities of labor leaders in exploiting Filipinos caused jov. Wood to send a representative to investigate. l;adio Programs—P;‘ge;éfi s Associated Press. TWO CENTS. TWO FLYERS KILLED INCRASH OF FONCK PLANE TAKING OFF Charles Clavier, Radio Man, and Jacob Islamoff, Me- chanic, Die in Flames. FRENCH ACE AND CURTIN, NAVY AVIATOR, ESCAPE Wreck Caused by Buckling of Wheel on Landing Gear in At- tempted Flight. and. Septem- Two men lost their lives this morning when the transatl plane of ¢ nek e flames in an attempt to take off on a 5.600-mile non-stop flicht, to Paris The: were Charles Clavier, French radi> operator, and Jacob Islamoff Russian mechanic. They wera trapped in the elosed cabin of the huge three motored biplane. Capt. Fonck, the French ace in com mand of the flight, and Licut. Law rence W. Curtin, 1. §. N., American lnnornaln pilot, leaped to safety be. {fore the plane burst into flames Jgor Sfkorsky, Russian designer and builder of the plane, could not be located immediately after the tragedy. He was reported to have bewsed in tears last night that the fliht he postponed becanse of @ cross windg that endangered the take-off. & Sikorsky Is Overcome. Mr. Sikorsky, overcome by the { tragedy, left the fleld and sought the seclusion of his home at Mineola. The bodies, badly were re- moved from the debris three hours after the crash, following a visit by the coroner, and taken to an under- taking establishment. The ruins were scarcely cooled be fore souvenir seekers descended upon them, picking up rivets, scraps of wing covering and other igments. mployes of the Sike Co. sal- aged a few parts. A shift in the wind was 1 some the officials preser collapse of a wheel, which as the direct cause of the Bad Place in Field. Residents declared several planes had come to grief in the same hollow on previous occasions. The taking-off runway comes to an abrupt end a* hollow, and unless sufficient speed been attained to rise at this point achine must drop over the brink. The $-35, witnesses agree, never rose from the ground, but crashed into the hollow at a speed or 60 or more miles an_hour. As news of the tragedy spread, a | solid line of antomobiles bearing thou | sands of curious poured onto the field. | An s made to take off | last . but had to be post- | poned because of a gasoline leakage discovered at the last minute. After- ward Paristan friends of Capt. Fonck med by for the given am not | 0 question- | . L runway this | give no indication of when construc- | tion work might begin, even though | )| | urzed him to make the flight for the | honor of France, even at the risk of jdeath. | The ¢ h was caused by the buc- g 0 1 wheel on an extra landi gear that was to have heen dropp linto the ocean as soon the pline ! ot under way. “I knew the wheel said Fonck, “but I nor rise.” Lieut. Curtain safd: “The plane was ven full power, aceelornted slowly, ching a ground speed of 63 miles. Three-quarters of the lensth of the t seemed that the outhoard wheel collapsed earrving ¢ the left lower rudder Tried to Land N “The plane veored to < impossible to he 1 nd over the brink at the way at a speed When passing | Fonck 1 feet It hi could A crashed.” ither stop | | ari ve | ially. the lof! d it again o the plane d of the t i course w run miles Capt over the brink yrmal landir tling down ed to me that ollapsed when the | led on the right win were apparently ruptured, of the fact that live over the still ! whe nks w down | pipe.” The plane burst into flames an in- stant after the two pilots | it. Heavy clouds of black smok ed upward, and the nearly 1,000 spec tators crowded forward. An airplane ng overhead sounded a fire siren, nd telephone calls brought the West bury Fire De rtment within 10 min- utes, They used small fire extinguish- ers on the flames, but these futile. The no w in the middle of the field, said it would have been us v gasoline fire. They gallons of gasoline in the Plane Heavily Loaded. The plane weighed more than I8, 000 poun loaded at the ke-off. There was a low hanging mist and a light north wind, but no rain. The plane was taking off toward the west An hour earlier Carl F. Schory chairman of the contest commiittee of the National Aeronautical Association, had sealed the gasoline tanks and the harograph as a check at the end of the flight on whether the plane had taken on more fuel or landed during | the vo | Approximately 1,000 { gathered to watch the start of what wax to have been an epic vovage. | When the plane crashed the crowd | rushed forward, but could not get | within 50 yards of the plane. ~The | grass was ‘burned back for 50 feet around it. Women screamed and fainted, and one soldier, said to have been shell- | shocked, went into hysteric: | The 'fire raged for more than an | hour afterward, and it was impossible to rescue the bodies of the trapped { airmen. Clavier had a wife and three | children waiting to welcome him in | Paris. in | | | and firemen s fizht were 2,300 anks persons had nothier Attempt Pla Officials of the Sikorsky Aerial En- ! gineering Corporation, builders of the plane, exonerated all _participants from blame, and indicated another at- tempt would be made at a non-stop flight. W. A. Bacr | vice president and gen- eral manager, and L. A. Shoumatoff, secret and treasurer, signed a statement that said _ *“The Sikorsky Co. is most extr (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) s