Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER " Showers and warmer Weather Bureau Forecast.) tonight; to- morgow partly cloudy and colder. : Temperature—Highest, 57, at noon today: lowest, 35, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. T Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 0. 3 QUAKES TERRIFY SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER GOASTECITIES office, Wa post 30,124, | 1 | Residents Flee Into Streets as Large Buildings Sway From Severe Shocks. WINDOWS ARE SHATTE RED BUT DAMAGE IS SLIGHT Temblors Felt 257 Miles South of Metropolis—O0akland, San Jose and Stockton Hit. Br the Acsociated Pre SAN FRANCISCO, Octcher 22.— Three vinlent earthguakes rocked the central coast counties of California this morning just an hour apart. The first shock was at 436 a.m. and lasted about 20 seconds. The second was a* 36 am. and was much sharper, hut lasted only about 15 seconds. The ! third, a lighter one. came at §:42. No ' injuries and no serious damage had been reported. The center of the shocks appeared to bhe hetween San Francisco and | Monterey Bay. The tremors were felt | as ffar south as San Luis Chispo, | approximately 0 miles from San Francisco, and as far north as Napa, 50 miles from here. They were also ! felt at Stockton, 90 miles east and | eouth In San Francisco. Oakland and San | Jose, the largest cities affected, large | buildings swayed like trees. driving | people inta the streets and parks for | safety. Hotel 'guests were shaken | from their slumbers and those who | did not rush to the streets gathered | scantily clad in the lobbies. i Other Citles Hit. i Other cities reporting the tremors | are. Salinas, severe shock, or_serious damage. ; Santa Cruz, shocks swayed build- | fngs and broke window i San Jose, rocked buildings and broke windows. H Oakland. hoth #hook buildings, Stockton, shock not severs. Palo Alto, shocks violent but injuries and no serious damage ported. Sacramento, s&hocks not felt newspaper offices and if occurred eerious. The quake appeared to move in a! north-south direction, along the old fault which caused the trouble in the quake of 1806. Biz Buildings Damaged. | At the Palace Hotel, one of the largest hostelries in the city, plate; glase windows were broken, plaster fell from ceilings and small cracks appeared in the lobby floor. At the new Bulletin Building. where the Associated Press offices are located, clocks were stopped, molten type metal was shaken from ! the pots in the stereotying room and ' furniture jiggled around The clock of the big Union Ferry ! Fuilding was jarred back nearly five| minutes as one freak of the disturb- | ance. hut it kept right on going, and | transtay commuters. looking up at its | hig round face. were amazed to find | themselves getting to work supposedly | five minutes earlier. Many of them ' had not felt the shakes | Santa Cruz, 60 miles to the south. reported clight damage to the Casa no injuries | shocks violently no re- | at! not | Fntered as second class matte shington, D. C. WASHINGTON My Journey to America By Her Majesty the Queen of Rumania Written Exclusively for The Star and Other Members of the North American Newspaper Alliance. NOTE: The following is the second of a series of articles written personally by Queen Marie on the subject of her visit to America. These articles 1will be published in Washington exclusively in The Star. Subsequent articles will give her impressions of America. ' IL—THE TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE. BIG good-b. what flowers! A long day in the train and finally the arrival at Cherbourg, official reception, band. authorities, children with flowers, the French and American admirais. Alas, it was raining. A magnificent tea table had been prepared for us in the station, and to the sound of music we drank tea and champagne while we made polite conversation. _ Before leaving for the Leviathan we had still a quiet hour in the train, which we used for writing last messages to those left behind—there arc some that hnd it very hard to see us embark for so distant a country. . Oh! but the wonderful impression of stepping upon that magnificent ship! It lay before us in the night, a floating city of light, a fairy city into which we stepped from out of night, wind and rain. Dazed and Amazed by Liner. At the gangway stood Uomdr. Hartley with a wonderful smile of greeting, and all along the different decks his officers, stewards and per- sonnel were standing in long lines upon the red carpets. No military re- view could have shown more magnificent order. We were full of emo- tion on both sides. It was the first stepping upon American ground and we felt it thus . Quite dazed and amazed by all the light and beauty of the titan ves- sel, we were led to our own apartments, full of flowers and every possible comfort. It looked so home.ike, so welcoming, that tears all but came into my eyes! It was an enchanted life on this marvelous ship, where every one, from the smallest steward upward, seemed to have taken us up into their hearts, making us fee! beyond words happy and welcome. . We loved every bit of our time aboard. Each thing was a delightful discovery, interest, joy. We were fed on delicious American dishes, every day ferent, i ' at the Paris station, friends, officials, family, and i something dif- which the kindly steward, Robertson. specially attached to us, served us with the care of a loving father for his children. We swam in a | wonderful pool of salt water, mysteriously green like a grotto, where the water was as rough or as smooth as the sea outside. We paced the end- less promenade, which gave us splendid exercise. We met pleasant people and interesting artists. \We took our meals at Comdr. Hartley's table in the vast dining room; every day the menu was specialiy printed with the names of those who lunch with us. In the evening we had a “movie” and afterward my chiidren danced. % Calls. Her Journey Marvelous. There was only one sad side to all this, the thought that this enchanted life must come to an end. We knew that we would Step from the ship to | a shore where we were being expected with wonderiul hospitality, but we could not help getting sentimentally attached to the floating home which made us so happy. 1 loved my apartment., my great big beautiful. bed specially installed for me, I loved the swishing sound of t%e sea, the gentle cradling of the waves.. Only the first day it pitched a good deal and made some of cur retinue very sick, but ever since that day even the sky and sea have joined to make our journey a marvel. . (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) MARIE AGAIN SEES' 'VARE CHANCES PUT |which the late Senator Spencer, Re-|is viewed from an impartial stand publican, Missouri, was chairman, had | point. i agreed unanimously on the recommen- | The Adams family in Colorado is an J . ,|dation that Senator Magfleld re‘ain iy g, (, Its promifmence runs dack Nine Hours’ Strenuous Activ- ity in Philadelphia Wearies Royal Visitor. G. 0. P. Declared Alarmed by Revolt in Pennsylvania Over “Slush” Issue. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 22.—Queen Marie of Rumania and her party ar- rived in New York from Philadelphia this forenoon and immediately pro- ceded to the Hotel Ambassador for a few hours’ rest before starting out on another day of activities. . Royal sleep had been short. as the Queen and her party had not boarded her special train until 1:30 a.m., after the round of festivities at Philadel- BY Special Dispatch to The Star. PITTSBURGH, Pa., October Leaders of western Pennsylvania forces opposed to the Vare candidacy for the United States Senate are in possession of facts indicating that Republican hopes of victory are far less real than pretended. The facts seem to disclose, on the contrary, a state of alarm in the G. O. P. high command. They reveal that Vare's FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | Toal Rav Hotel, a big resor: <tructure, {Phia. The Queen was not awakened and a few cracked walls and stopped | elocks Santa Cruz Hardest Hit. First reports were that the damage would reach $25.000 there. but this was helieved to he exaggerated. It appeared to be the most severely i €haken of the towns in the earth-| Quake zene | A freak of the disturbance was that manv Western Union clocks stopped At 436 am. the time of the first . &hock, and some were started again | by later shocks. i Lower Market made land. appeared to most here. The Lincoln Hotel. nea the towering Southern Pacific affice building, appeared to he a few inches ont of plumb. Plaster fell in the Seahoard National Bank. and on Madison street near the watar front there were a few cracked walls In the main business district a long erack appeared in one of the eolumns of the Crocker First National Bank. Chinese Rush to Streets.. Chinatown. Portsmouth Square quickly with excited Chinese, many matherse holding babes in arms, garish silk kimonos mixing with the more severe Occidental boudoir attire. Some frightened houseboiders scam pered into Golden Gate Park, one of the largest mn the country. while in the various souares. pariicularly in the downtown district, there were un usnal and oxeted collections of early morninz visitors $a Al street, which is on suffer the n which suffered apparently did todav's temhlors i wiid rumors were in circula- tlon over the State about today's shocks One of them was that the: 16 story Pacific Gas and Electric Building here had heen turned around. S far as conld be ascertained no damage was done that building. which is of modern quake and fire proof construction . 3olden Gate Park, one of the largest in the country, was the refuge of hundreds within a few minutes after the first shock Felt Far From City. The Pacific Telephone and graph Co. reported that the quakes | were felt in virtually’ every town up | and down the coast in California and for 100 or more miles inland Gas. light and water services were not interrupted anywhere available re. | ports showed | Police and fire stations and news. | in not until the train neared New York. She was served a typical Yankee break- fast, including the buckwheat cales for which she has developed a real | taste. She proved to he a quick dresser, and was ready. swathed in moleskin coat and wearing a purple toque, tn step from her car into the waMing limousine as thes “Royal Rumanian™ pulled into the Baltimore and . Ohio terminal. PRINCE LATE TO BANQUET. Dress Suit Was Missing and Queen Goes in Without Him. PHILADELIHIA, October 22 (). — Prince Nicolas of Rumania almost at tended banquet last night in drese clothes as invisible as those told of by Hans Andersen in the tale of “The Emperor's New Clothes."” A mix-up in the handling of the roval bagzage as it was taken from the special train here vesterday after- noon caused the prince at 7:30 to find himself late for dinner and sans dress clothes. There was consternation among the roval valets, and a desfl lock on the ieception committee, backers apparently consider his de- feat so dangerous a possibility that arrangements are in progress to avert it at all costs. To that end. orders have gone out that no chances are to be taken. Vare managers in western Pennsylvania have their tongues in their cheeks when they whoop it up for the Ph delphia boss—insist, for publication, that it's all over but the shouting. They talk about electing Vare by “perhaps the biggest majority a United States Senator ever in Pennsylvania.” That is what the, are saying. What they are privately thinking is something entirely different. It can be summarized in a phrase—they are genuinely anxious over the dimen sions of the silent-protest vote piling up against issue. G. 0. P. Working Vigorously. Under cover of an externally apathetic campaign in Alleghen County and adjacent western regions the Republican organization is there. fore working tooth-and-nail. with wind of what there has never been a more intensive which did not wish to ge in to dinner without the prince. . The Queen insisted the prince he momentarily excused and led in the | procession without her son at 20 min- utes to 8. Shortly afterward Lieut, | Cel. Vincent A. Carroll heard himself | bheing paged and, hastened out, to! teern that he had n elected to sup- | ply the mi.ing suit Baggage Ju Located. Just then in a flurry of valets the missing baggage was brought in. Thanks, awtully. old chap.” or words | to that effect murmured the prince to double in figure. He enter °d the dining room in some wifusion and cxplained to his moth two seats away, with great solemnity, Princess 1leana. in 'rhv manner of sis. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. effort to line up the G. O. P. It is on the man-to-man, woman-to- woman and house-to-house plan. B election day every potential Vare vot- er is to be located and labeled. On November 2, according to the appo- sition’s information. there will be on duty in the tens of thousands of voting precincts throughout Pennsylvania, not merely an army, but several arm) corps of watchers. Apparently they will overwhelmingly outnumber the ' brigades of watchers who.did duty at the primary election on May I8. Observers in Pittsburgh declare no [off-vear in history has ever seen the like of the Republican preparations now under way. The presidential elec- tion of 1924 wasn't a “marker,” by comparison. As the “Jim" Reed pri- mary inquiry revealed to a horrified (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) 5, Tele | Telephone Operators Keep Calm at Post- In Quake, But Admit They Are Scare By the Aseociated Press SAN FRANCISCO, October Through the ear with such things soon got suspicious, owever, and jumped up from chairs hquake shocks which | and got away from objects that could | moved. and it paper offices were besieged by tele- ,.,.ied San Francisco this mornl_n, fall or be thrown about. .The swaying | Watson's testimony in his room. phone inquiries from frightened resi- | ;4 elephone operators of the Pacific soon turned into jerks and taen sub. | dents. Wwho were told to go to parks Telaphone & Telegraph Co. remained | sided gently for a second or two. This if the buildings they were in Were not | a¢ their posts and kept calm. They |was followed by a rocking-chair move. substantial l The Pacific Telephone and Tele | {i "o nd rocured information for the | fro. perhaps not as much as they ap. | move him. graph Co.’'s building, tallest structure | ygseociated Press and made long-dis- | peared to be moving. but enough to | was over 100, and when Senator Re-d | in the city and rising 400 feet into! the air. was virtually unaffected. A preliminary examination by the huild- ing superintendent revealed that one pane of plass had heen ecracked. ‘It ! i= 27 stories and in the downtown | distriet. : Weatber Bureau officiale said they (Continued enh Paxe 2, Culumrl 5.) gave alarmed inquirers cheerful ad- tance connections as though nothing | d happened | Aren’t vou giris afraid?’ one op- erator was asked “I1l say we are “but we're sticking. | The first shock was peculiar. Tt started gradually, ntly swaving desks and tables. Old:timers familiar was the reply, | ment in which buildings waved to and au e e wild scrambles for stairwa; The second shock did business right from the start, rapidly in a lateral movement. and Radio Programs—Page 38 recetved | Vare on the slush fund Insiders | going on assermw; chaking buildings | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 99 A FRIDAY, OCTOBER WATSON, FROM BED INHOSPITAL, DENIES KLAN PAGT CHARGE Never Promised Support ‘by Order for Any Action, Says Indiana Senator. GIVES HIS TESTIMONY TO CHAIRMAN J. A. REED Probe Conducted Into Alleged Po- litical Domination of State by Secret Body. By the Aceociated Prass. INDIANAPOLIS, October 22.—Em phatic denial that he had ever had any understanding with the local or na- tional officers of the Ku Klux Klan was made today by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, before the Sen- ate campaign funds committee. Senator Watson was questioned in his room at the Methodist Hospital, where he is slowly recovering from i Injuries received in an automobile ac- cident about two weeks ago. 1926—FIFTY-FO [L_R ¢ Foening Star. The Star's every cit Yesterday's (#) Means Associated “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers v block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Circulation, 100,445 TWO CENTS. Pres: PAGE WITH Youh e &% ¥ Now \ ¢/ e Campaioh |NVESTIGATING | “T never had any understanding with local or national officers of the | e ST DEMOCRATIC HOPES GAN N COLORARO or any action of mine, | son told Senator James A. Reed. Dem- | ocrat, Missouri. the committee chair- Nominees for Governor and Senator Have Bright Pros- pects of Success. | | {man. who has been digging Intol | charges of Klam political dnmlnanunl {in Indiana. ! Denjes Emmons’ | The Indiana Senator denied spe-| cifically the testimony of Hush D. Emmons, a former Klan official. that | he had “got to" Senator Moses in nhe! (harge. election contest case of Senator May- field. Democrat, Texas. and they had | {arranged to seat the Texas Senator. | He stated that Senator Moses was not now, and never had heen, a mem- | ber of the Senate privileges and elec | tions committee which considered the | Mayfleld case. Therefore. any state-| Damocrats nominated State Senator ment that he had sought Senator | Willlam H. (“Billy’) Adams for gov Moses’ support was without any fcun- | ernor and former Gov. William dation. | Sweet for United States Senator, the: Senator Watson further told Sena- | picked a ticket that teams well in thi; tor Reed that he had looked up the|gtate, a ticket with which they are records in the Mavfield contest and |confident of victory, a ticket whose |had found that the subcommittee, of | anances are bright when the situation BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staft Correspondent of The Star DEXNVER, October 22.—When the his’ seat, and that the Senate had’ | | several generations in the history of beste ) "“‘_fm':l"”:’:‘pp‘;.“i}l‘&‘:“ a record | o grate, Probably. if they cared for !'such things in Colorado, it could trace Talked With Zumbrunn. ! its lineage back to the original Adams, Adverting to Emmons’ _testimony “Billy” Adams. as he is known to the that he had talked with William F.|entire State, is a character so unlike Zumbrunn, countel for the Klan, |the usual politician that he hecomes |2baut the Mayfield case, Senator WaL' | nicue He is a rancher, with herds floon oaid be I fae e reculetl. 090 hnning, it/ thousands, 18 64 Vears | ®OF My recollection is that he came to]0ld: lean and wizened. He owns an | | oo T e ot W acron™E i1, | automobile. He doee 60 miles a da: {"One wah about a recess of the com:|in saddle without turning a halr J : Solety S “he: es ti o b calves ! mittee. to which he was strenuously | When it comes time to brand caftec | ;m.iectinm saying that it nukhlnr;‘ut l'"fhlmvlf “He wants to make sure the | be. 1 took the matter up with the ihimsell. elties & | | subcommittee, and counsel for May. | *iimals are properiy handied. - | fleld’s opponents said they would have !, OF ¢ NHIC Oy OO ocrat | other witnesses to be heard, and they | \jways, he has dominated the Senate | overruled the proposition that the case | even when it has been Republican in ! be_closed at that particular time.” | L S et |~ Zumbrunn was chief counsel for Numbers. Far 30 sears he reter b | Senator Mavfield in the election con- | 17e94eEE 8 PFon T PCHAE GGidtation | i test and his motion that the hearing | ., 14 he enacted. His honesfy and | be closed was made publicly before | {ndapendence are recognized by his po- the subcommittee in that capacity. | ijtical enemies. who look upon him as i x s ¥ !a personal friend. and that is the Secoml Mol et . secret of his leadership. Senator Watson went n to say ¢ the b May Get Republican Aid. that the second time Zumbrunn vis- ! ited him was to confer with respect! qpaie are thousands of Republicans to having the privileges and elections | ;, pe state who will find it dificult | | subcommittee. of which Senator |yn vote againet “Billy” Adams. The Watson was a member, hear certain::yhernatorial nominee of the Demo- {other witnesses in the Mayfield case. cpats is the brother of Alva Adams, i "1 cannot recall the detai the | one time Governor of Colorado and ! | | Indiana Senator added. “but I think | pecognized as her foremost citizen and he saw all members of the subcom | the uncle of former United States Sen mittee at that time. These were the lator Alva B. Adams. | lonly times I had any private confer-i 4.0 dams the Republicans 3 ; | Against Adams the Republica ences with Zumbrunn about that|p,ce nominated Oliver H. Shoup, who case. has twice before been elected gov- "1t was charged before vour 4-nm~‘},‘::m.v Tn 1820 the Non-partisan { mittee, Senator, at Chicago, that Dr.|eague descended upon Colorado and Bvans and Mr. Zumbrunn made alcaptured the Democratic organization deal with me by which T was to re-|mych as the Ku Klux Klan dominated ceive {\llnv;‘sl\(;np«r! in l"!dl:nfl_r;f St:h i the Ilspuhlu" n mz‘al;]h:alk{_nné\\pnr\(mnn ator Mayfiel were seated. at is M. Collins, 2 artl {absolutely and unqualifiedly false. 1! was the Democratic nominee never had any understanding to that ! or in that vear, and Shoup effect nor any kind of understanding | ran against him and was elected. jabout the Mayfield case. I never had many of the Democrats deserting to any conference with Dr. Evans (im-!the Republicans because of their op parial wizard of the Klan) about the position to the league. | | Mayfield case as I now recall. His friends insist that Shoup gave | i . the State an excellent business ad- ; H:“" Met Dr. ‘7‘“:1"" . ministration; that he called a_special “I met Evans several times. I as- | session of the Legislature for the !sume that practically all Senators met ratification of the eighteenth amend. | him as he was actively moving about ment; that he put through a treaty | {in Washington. But 1 do not recall | with Nebraska which settled the long {that he spoke to me about the May- A o o o and bitter litigation over the waters | !field case, and Zumbrunn did so only of the South Platte River I privately on the two occasions I men | | tioned. i, Groups Favoring Adams. i Senator Watson recalleds that at g Hdreiaatie ot {the Republican national convention ; Billy Adams has the indorsement of |lat (Clevelana"in. 1924 iwherena wan [ S8, Iivestock Interetin, B8 BeSL LIS a candidate for the vice presidential "1‘ °r5°";‘k Is Tegarded as a conserva- { nomination. it was_stated publicly ; tions. e % 7 e fiklies tew | that he was a Ku Klux Klan candi- | ! e these 1ast ol an et date “hecause of the Mayfleld case.” SPeeches and those S ““1 hastened to dencunce that asmMinutes. Adams. while never a pro-. | speedil o8 T vould.” he added. “After, | nounced dry and inclined to oppose liaale e A e« el | the eighteenth amendment in the past, | wands (L e e o L ® has satisfied the Anti-Saloon League ! that he is for law enforcement and out in a statement of his own which he said it was a fabrication.” | (hat A% (5 0L M O LS Tary and | has a dry record. When the | eighteenth amendment was ratified | by the Colorado Legislature, Billy | Adams was not there to vote, but it was because he was in a darkened i room. where he had been for weeks ! threatened with the loss of his sight Reed Takes Testimony. ! Only Senator Reed, Senator Watson and the official stenographer were | present. Senator Watson vesterday jappealed to Senator Reed to hold hear- inge in Indianapolis because of the s ! Indiana Senator's inability té go to, Adams represents the conservativ | Chicago. Senator Reed arrived here end of the Democratic ticket 4nd this morning and immediately went to | Sweet the progressive end. Some of ! the hospital. | the conservative Democrats who will | Arrancements had been made tojvote for Adams will not vote for| I hear Senator Watson's testimony in|Sweet and may even oppose him. | | the sunrcom. but after the Miscourian , John Barnett, the Democratic na- | had called on Senator Watson he de- | ticnal committeeman. millionaire, is icided that the latter could not be | “off” Sweet, for example. He sup- s arranged to take ported Paul P. Prosser in the Demo- [eratic primaries this vear. ' But When he called Senator Watson, Sweet people fizure the only harm Senator Reed was informed that the | Barnett's failure to support Sweet cenior Indiana Senator’s condition was | actively is to be found in his failure to such that it would not be safe to|contribute largely to t campaign Senator Watson's pulse | funds. Ranger Issue Is Raised. [t e s e his chief witnes: | that has been put forward by Demo- Several other witnesses are under|crats against Shoup. They charge subpoena. but Senator Reed is hope- | that while governor he permitted the ful that he can conclude the inquiry Raeng:rs.l or slmT Constabulary. tonight so he can.return to Kansas|operate in a lawless manner. [ gwhtre he has a speaking en-|Republicans. on the other hand, de- . gagement tomorry' (Continued on Page 2, Column §. A ! reached the hospital ke found two doc tors and a nurse in attendanee upon | Berliner, Bandits Get $1.500 From Forty Guests In New York Club By tne Associated Press. NEW YORK. October 22.—Six bandits early today lined up 40 guests in the Biarritz, a night club on West Fifty-fourth street, and robbed them of cash and jewelry estimated at $1.500 One of the bandits stood guard at the door with an automatic vife while his companions collect- ed the valuables. He fired a shot into the ceiling before running to the street with the others to escape in a taxicab. One of the girl entertainers of the club was knoeked unconscio: when .she became ‘faint and sta gered out of the line-up. Rober Culbertson, manager, was struck with a rifle butt and knocked down as the bandits entered. The cash rezister was robbed of $400. the remainder of the loot cothing from the guests and at- tendants. AIRMEN SEE GRANT T0 PUSH PORT HERE [Park Commission’s Execu- tive Officer Displays Inter- est in Temporary Field. With the view of obtaining a_site including and adjoining Hoover Field at the south end of Highway Bridge, for a_temporary municipal airport. un til the projected airdome below Gravelly Point is available for use in about five vears, the airport commit-| tee of the District Chapter, National Aeronautic _Association. called on Lieut. Col. U. §. Grant, 3d, executive officer_of the National Capital Park and Planning Commision. today to urge his co-operation in its plans. Col. Grant was told that ground ad joining Hoover Field, if acquired by the Park and Planning Commission, could serve as a temporary airport. and upon completion of the fillin project below Gravelly Point. it could rvevert into a park area. The com mission’s executive officer displaved much interest in the project. but inti mated that the present policy was to confine purchases for park and play ground developments to the District of Columbia. The committee explained that part of the Arlington Experimental Farm owned by the Department of Agr culture, Hoover Field itself and pos sibly the horseshow ground could be acquired from their respective own ars for this purpose. Accompanying the committee were two represent atives of the Philadelphia Rapid Tran- sit Alr Service, which holds a lease on Hoover Field for the operation of its intercity air line. It was indicated the matter .would be gonme into further with the Park Commission. The committee calling on Col. Grant w repre commereiz aviatlon: John Victory of the na tional advisory committee: for aero. nautics; Ernest L. Jones of the De partment of Commerce Aeronautics Bureau and Allen M. Smythe, a Naval Reserve aviator. Ex-President’s Son Dead. PARIS, October 22 (#).—Francisco de Leon de la Barra, 28-year-old son ! of former Provisional President de la | Barra of Mexico, died today after an operation for pleurisy. Furnishing the Home A new feature in the big Home and Garden Section of the Saturday edition of The Evening Star To be under the direction of Elizabeth Stetson and Gene- vieve Hendricks, who will conduct a Question and Arn- swers department for the bene- fit of Washington home- makers. Watch for It Tomorrow PUNISHMENT URGED FOR VOTE SLACKERS Lenroot Proposes Plan to Drive All Government Employes to Polls. Punishment for Federal employes in Waghinzton who fail to vote in future I national and State elections was a form of political reprisal advocated | by Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wis- consin at a Republican rally last {nicht at the New Willard Hotel. | The Wisconsin Senator, recently de- | feated for renomination, suggested a | | policy of demeriting any eligible voter |in the Government service who neg-| |lects to exercise his right of fran- | chise. Demerits for vote ‘“slacker: | he declared, should be mad: to show | jon the official rating of th> offending {employe. Senator Lenroot said he be |lieved that form of reprisal, without | severing employes from the Govern- ment service, would be drastic enough | to convince them of the desirability jof voting. | Would Keep Close Check. 1 | He explained it would be an easy| {matter for the Government to issue a | questionnaire to be placed in the| | hands of every man and woman in the | Government service. He added that the replies could be checked readily with the proper election officers of | th various In this manner. | | Senator said, the adminis-| | tration, whether Democratic or Ri | publican, would be in a position to! know the names of all slacker voters. |Belated Reports | formed. CUBAN HURRIGANE DEATHS PASS 650 AS DAMAGE GROWS Indicate Loss to Property Will Run Up to $100,000,000. TEN TOWNS IN RUINS; INJURED UNESTIMATED Extent of Loss in Provinces Dis tant From Havana Unknown. 6,500 Homeless. By the Assaciated P HAVANA, October 22.—Belated ad- | vices reaching Havana today indicated that more than 650 persons perished at various places in the provinces of Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio in the hurricane which struck the island Wednesday morn. ing. Ten municipalities were wiped out and 6,500 persons were rendered home- less. It is thought the material dam- age will reach nearly $100.000,000. Nc definite figures on the total number hurt on the island were available. In Havana alone it is estimated that 200 persons were killed and 1,600 in- Jjured and that houses of 3,200 fami- lies were destroyed. Coast Villages Destroyed. The two villages comprising the municipality of Batabano, on the south coast of the island, reported more than 300 dead and both towns destroyed. They were the first upon which the hurricane fell when it came out of the Caribbean Sea and across the Isle of Pines. Bejucal, lying midway between Havana and Batabano, had 30 fatal- ities. At Gabriel there were 11: cen- tral Fajaro, &: Guira del Melana, Camp Columbia, 8: Guanabacoa, 3: Matazanas City, 6, and Guines, 3. Few reports had been received to- day from the provinces of Matanzas, Santa Clara and Pinar del Rio, over which the storm passed. They were jcut off from communication because of wrecked lines and telephone and telegragh locked railroads and roads. The survivors in various districts, many of them seriously injured. were without food, medicine or water and frantic appeals were made for aid. Two rellef committees have been Nearly $100,000 already has been subscribed. Government and private trucks and automobiles have been put into service in_ efforts to reach interior villages. .In Havana all the homeless have been given food and shelter. Fifteen bodies have been taken out of Havana Harbor, bringinz the total number of known drowned here to 19. Officials believe that 30 or more persons possibly met death in the harbor when the heavy seas and the wind destroyed numerous craft A preliminary estimate of the mone- tary damage done to shipping is $5.000,000 The city is dark and deserted at night. No street cars are running, and the electric lights are out. Bringing word of the death toll at Batabano, three citizens made their way to Havana over wrecked roads, |piled with trees and other debris. They said all the survivors in Bata. bano and its sister town, Surgidiero de Batabano. and the town of San An. tonio de Los Banos were without med- icine or the necessities of life. Senator Lenroot said it would not he feasible to apply this rule at the coming election, mainly for lack of sufficient time. He stressed that 31 States permit eligible voters outside | the State to mail their ballots. There should be no excuse. he said, for Gov- |ernment_employes failing to exercise | their right of franchise. | The meeting. addressed by Senator | Lenroot was one of the largest politi- | cal rallies here in the present cam paign. It was arranged by the | League of Republican Organizations | | of the District for the purpese, ac- cording to Chairman Edgar C. Snyder, | of stimulating interest in the coming | elections among the thousands of State voters resident here. | Praises Coolidge Regime. I Resides touching on the question of | voting, Senator Lenroot praised the | administration of President Coolfdge and the accomplishments of the Re publican Congress, referring particu- larly to tax reduction and the reduc- | tion of the public debt. { The Wisconsin Senator's conclud- | ing remarks were something in the | | nature of a swan song. He said he was taking his defeat at the polls in | a philosophical manner and that he | hoped to w for the success of others of his party who are candidates for the Senate and Ho | { That all is not bright and rosv for | { the Republican party in Maryland {this Fall was made plain by Repre- | centative Fred N. Zihlman. who candidate to succeed himself and was one of astrin of Republican didates in land to addcess night’s rally. The two others IMrs. William E. Chase of Riverdale, | candidate for clerk of the Court of | Appeals, and Mrs. Mary T. Stock of Be L candidate the State Senate. ho | last | were | a. | Appeal for Votes. 1 i | These three candidates made ap-| peals to the Maryland voters in Washington not to fail to cast their ballo for their next November. Edward Colladay, Republican i national committeeman for the Dis- trict. introduced the speakers. Oth.| ers who spoke were Samuel J. Pres cott. chairman of the Republican § committee, and A. E. Chaffee of Ne reading clerk of the House director of the veters' informa tion bureau at the local headquarters, 23 Fifteenth street Th entertainment program in- cluded songs by Mrs. Fred S. Pur-| | nell, soprano, wife of Representative | Purnell of Indiana; Fred East, bari.' tone, and William F. Raymond, tenor. | STORMS HIT PANAMA. | Crops in Interior Badly Damaged, Business Menaced. Is Report. BALBOA. Panama, October 22 (/) — i Recent violent storms have seriously damaged cros in the interior of the country. Rivers are out of their banks and communication is int rupted. The towns of Lavilla and Lo: Santos are menaced by flood waters. No loss of lif> has been reported. Property damage likely will be con- etderable. . IS | food | been able | the | makers i tory party’s candidates | Jail Inmates Return. Three citizens of the town of Guines also have reached Havana. They say they knew of only three persons killed there. Buildings partially razed in Guines included the jail. All the prisoners fled, but shortly afterward 20 returned and surrendered, saving they pre- ferred the jail to the terror of the storm. Trains running at a_speed not ex- ceeding greatly that of a walk have managed to creep into the city from the eastern section of the republic. Passengers on them reported floods as far east as Santa Clara Province. P. A Bonet, Cuban consul general o the Dominican Republic. who was passenger on one of the trains, said every village along the railway line. from Manaca in Santa Clara province westward, was seriously damaged The entire countryside, as far as he | was able to see on both sides of the track. was a wreck. Havana has a plentiful supply of and medicine, and thus far has without difficulty te take care of refugees. Sugar Factories Wrecked. Three large sugar factories in the outlying districts were hard hit by the storm. Central Occidente, a 150- vearold canegrinding plant, was wrecked. Central Fajaro was de- stroyed, with a loss of eight lives, and Central Toledo was badly damaged. At La Saludad 1.000 tobacco curing sheds were demolished. Amonz _the big industries here which suffered from the storm was Partages Cigar factory. which was destroved. It employved 900 cigar The Aguilaoro Cigar fac- also was destroved. The National Manufacturing Co. was damaged to the extent of $75,000, paper factory, $80.000, and the Tropical Brewery, $40,000. BAHAMA ISLANDS SAFE. Messages Indicate No Loss of Life or Damage. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Octo- her 22 (#)—The Bahama Islands, un- heard from since the West Indian hurricane disrupted wireless commu- nication Wednesday midnight, were in communication with Miamt by radio this merning. Fragmentary messages made no mention of loss of life or damage. Indications that the tropical storm visited the islands, however, were contained in wireless messages picked up today by the Palm Beach Radio Corporation from the steamship Muna-. mar of the Munson Line. The Munamar reported it was in by au Harbor when the hurricane veered from the lower east Florida coast. The steamship immediately put out to sea to ride out the gale. Americans Apparently Safe. No Americans had heen reported killed in the Cuban hurricane up to today, the American Red Crosz was informed by the Cuban Red ‘..