Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1927, Page 41

STAR, WASHINGTON, . D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1927. 41 WALCOTT SEES HALT SCARED TOURISTS FLEE COLUMBIA FLIGHT PLAN. IN clv". sERvIcE FROM EARTHQUAKE ZONE Levine’s Iom;yhno Scheduled for R Thousands, Panic Stricken on Trip to Far East. Progress Blocked by Politicians Black Sea Coast, Crowding All m.‘fi"'li‘) {:'a ?fi:’!.:.“:'f.’{.ués...’fl;xfii‘.: and System Ignored in Transportation Craft. States, He Says. THE EVENING injured. Slighter shocks were still eo':'llnllln‘ in the region, the advices said. Dispatches from Yalta said that thousands of panic-stricken excursion- ists are crowding the railways, steam- ers and motor cars in order to escape from Crimea, and telegraph wires are being worked intensively with mes sages. A prominent Moscow engineer named Andrievski, with his son, was reported to have perished ia the quake. > employes chosen for political reasons, Mr. Walcott declared, and with Kan- sas retired “into the jungle of po- litical appointments,” there are now only nine States with civi' service commissions. Robert Catherwood, vice president of the National Civil Service Reform League of Chicags, also said that politics had nullified civil service post office appointments. “The net result is" wood said. “tha* among the four great nowers of the world, we have by far the most expensive and inefficient post- al service of all”. SEISMOGRAPH NEEDLE NOTES Movement on Foot MOST DISTANT EARTH SHOCKS |To Erect Monument strument by completely circling the TO Jesse . James | earth. Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. Comdr. Heck, Geodetic Sur-| Many Tremors Never Announced. T “Most of the earth, tremors never KANSAS CITY.—A movement vey Official, and Stafi | 1." Comdr. Heck de- pag heen started to erect a monu- Trace Temblors to Source. |tor the quake ment to Jesse James, famous spot when the dis- | P pat .| was a la Details Become Known. |t ‘fihout atr s Bt | Loa. Avig ldn't be worth while, |of the ocean d Missouri bandit, in Mount Oli- on at the bottom the calenlatiol Columbia to the Far East will be started at the earliest possible mo- ment, Capt. W. G. Hincheliffe day told the newspaper men after a talk with Charles A. Levine, owner S of the plane. Conditions _bel avors pt. Cherchez la Femme. Hincheliffe added, fn.or?'n?xrx:r:)t]»';én n(:lax"h'l territory which has. been shaken by | From the Boston Transcript. even hop off from Cranwell tomorrow earthquakes in the past few days,| Adam blamed his downfall on an |MOTning. causing death and injury in MANY!apnle o they teach, but when today districts. i Late reports from Yalta say that 13| he Eoes astray, he's apt to blame n peach persons have been led there a er 3090 i 3003 o 0 3003 o s 0o 0 o T30 e 3o B e L B B B @ RS < OUR SERVICE IS NOT MERELY A MATTER OF PLACING THAT MUCH- ABUSED WORD ON THE PRINTED PAGE, BUT IS IMPRINTED ON THE MINDS OF OUR HUNDREDS OF OIL FUEL CUSTOMERS AS “Service That Satisfies” IT IS THE RESULT OF SEVEN YEARS’' EXPERIENCE BY AN ORGANIZA- TION SPECIALIZING IN OIL FUEL SER VICE—NOT AS A “SIDE-LINE.” PIONEERS TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR SERVICE SUNDAY SERVICE AND ROUTE SERVICE In Oil Fuel Distribution te Homes in Washington and Vicinity Mr. Cather-| BY the Associated Press, MOSCOW, 4 Russia, September 15. | —Thousands of panic-stricken tour- ists along the Black Sea coast yester- day were crowding all means of trans- portation in order to escape from the ‘By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., September 15.— Civil service progress in the United he opinion of sident_of the e Commis- hefore the rvice commissions . Bobbies of TLondon who direct traffic have adopted white slickers with white bands on the sleeves for| wear during fogs so that their signals shown to be in one| ths where it can| e never be Once in a while a| vet Cemetery, at Kearney, Mo. Disastrous Quake in China 5 o it has been announced by John a a sudden dropping shock, | Noted Here Months Before | SRR of the James family, it is , will finance the proposed monument. having more have their < & 3 % Br the Associated Pres Within a few hours after delicate setsmograph needles at a score of sta- | tions over the Western Hemisphere | began signaling an earthquake May 23, the Coast and Geodetic Sur\'n‘ announced from Washington that the | shock was a serious one, and located its incidence somewhere in the Kansu | Two long months e e " % o% o0 % XIXTEXD ' Green —RIGID —Tempered t armor- plase hardness. Will not shade even under D2 9. 0 o® %' region’ of China after that announcement the actual ) 3 news began to trickle in from that ) i - 4 isolated section of China, reporting | ) & Makes 1! > that 100,000 lives had been lost in the disaster. i | 3. It has now become a matter of every day routine for Comdr. N. H.| .{ Heck, the survey’s chief of seismologi- cal study, and his staff to Jocate with precision the spot affected by e: h-; quakes, even when the disturbance, as in this case, is 10,000 miles a from their quiet chart room. rated by oceans, mountain ranges and %% ont 0 ¢ wetch-vpuing. Phne, e palat; o g2 (ground fine 1 shade s any angle. Loved Pt x4 by smographers. Blue—BLUNT—As impeoved sb & o | point. Thie ot make ¢ broed lia. Mey d | e held is wny position. Liked by repid 3 ‘wreare. 2, XEIXTX DX continents. 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