Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. 10, 8. Weather Bureau ¥urecart) w:‘:l‘:t‘w?&nlt u:s u\morrc:'w; ctgde{ with lowet Tature abou 38 degrees. e Temperature—Highest, 58, at 3:30 pm. yesterday: lowest, 50. at 6 am. [ today. Full report on page 9. | Late N. Y. Marke| ts, Pages 14 and 15 Ch WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. “From Press. to Home Within the Hour” | The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,706 are printed, Entered as sec post office. Washington, - BRITISH FLYERS OVERDUE WITH NO WORD OF PLANE RECEIVED IN 30 HOURS 1' ( | | ! 30,633. 2 Ships Unable to Find Trace of Hinchliffe. . WAS DUE IN U. S, THIS AFTERNOU Weather May Have Concealed Plane Flying High. the Associated Press. = S‘I.‘. JOHNS. Newfoundland, March 14.—Unconfirmed reports were re- ceived today that several residents * of Brigus had heard the drone of an airplane between 6 and 7 o'clock ond class matter D, C. Right: Hon. Elsie Mackay, reported this morning. | States. HALIFAX, Novo Scotia, March 14— | A radip message received at the gov- . ernment wireless station here from Cape Race, Newfoundland. at Eastern standard time. today. *St. John's reports nothing of plane since leaving.” At 10:30 am., Eastern standard time, there was still no word from the Hinch- liffe plane. The weather continued good with the northwest wind increas- _ing somewhat. Associated Press. "N‘;.W YO‘RK, March 14.—Public -goncern manifested itself todey as the hours passed without word from the black and gold monoplane Endeavour, which took the air in England yester- day to try the uncrossed western air passage of the Atlantic, but aviators| still believed at noon that there 'IS; ty of hope. w:lliwuch freely acknowledging that the absence of any report of the plane| was disheartening, they computed that | weather conditions might have 30 down progress that ‘the plane would not reach land until early aft- ernoon, and that after sighting land 3t mmtxpoastbklarfl:eyhmwwn- tinge without being sighted if it were mm;&twmmuua by Capt. Wal- eved to have on | made | He formally asked the - the | ernment to supervise the election, and Since the Endeavour took off at 3:40 sm. Eastern stzndard time, yesterday, | no positive word of her was heard. In Ireland a plane was seen fiying| westwazd, but it was not definitely iden- tified as Hincnliffes. Off the Irish coast & steamer saw & plane, but it was P z . the great| Liners slong clrcle course umrftd that they saw of the plane scheduled to fl’! them, end one ship told of & encountering. —u;nvor has a biack fuselage. wings the fuseisge is pal hon either side is painted & ck with the letter *on wireiese l"lul #t 7 am, Eastern time, today that he had seen no sign of the plane. The vessel is due in New York about MMonday, end today in the mid-Atlantic 1ound visibility good, with & light wind from n‘u’i north-northw est. eariier the White Btar llnnl A Cedric, 500 miles out of New York and somewhat south of the probable fight route, bad not seen the ‘upluu and was running into & north gale. Lest reports from Newfoundland were of clear weather, but with snow deep on landing felds, Along the New England and Long Isiand cosst, how- ever, there wir fog snd & threst of ain. o> Could Aveld Only Blorms. Capt. Hinchiiffe swod & “ressonshle chance” of wyoiding the only known slorm on bis route from England o America, Dr. Jumes ¥Kimball of the United Blates Weather Bureau here paid 100eY, This storm, which Dassed New York Baturday night es rain squells, was es- imeted by Dr. Kimbsll o be east of #t. John's, Newfoundisnd, in the viein- ity of the Grand Benks. “No high winds are known 1o have been caused by the depression” he ssid, “and if Capt. Hinchlite kept o the north of Bt John's he stond & ressonable chance | TR of svoidiog 1" The grestest danger, he pointed out, wus thal the rain or suow squells, if encountered, would, with the below- freering Lemperaiure, form \ce on the Dlene. “The fight has been shrouded in mys- tery since e inception. ‘The fiyer's des- Nustdon was thought W be elther New Yore or Philsdeiphis, where the Eve- | ning Bulletin has offered a $25,000 prive Tor the first westwisrd flight wcross Lhe Atlntie ending in Wist ety Ships Watch for Plane, Bevera) ships were on Cept. Hinch- Flitle's youte, und the fishing fleet off Grand Baoks wus soked o keep u ||, p_logknut 1o the plune, which may (Goallousd cu Page 2, Columu 1) CHAMORRO MAKING WASHINGTO SEA AND SKIES HIDE THEIR FATE to have masqueraded as a male pilot in | order to accompany Capt. Walter Hinchliffe, left, on his hop to the United ‘Wide World Photos. | TROUBLEFORL . General New Threat in Nica-| ragua as Election Plan Is Defeated. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Gen. Chamorro, the man generally credited with the overthrow of legally elected government in Nicaragua, and who has himself been declared ineligi- ble for election as President, has as- sumed a position that threatens more trouble for the United States. Por it was Gen. Chamorro who by his | domination of the Conservative party pravented the Nicaraguan House of Deputies from adopting the legisla- tion whereby the coming elections are to be supervised by the United States. The pendulum has swung back and forth .in, Nicaragua, with the United States Governmen} accused last year of favoring the Comservative government and now charged with favoring the Liberals, The official explanation here is that as long as one side thinks It has a chance of winning at the polls the de- mand is for & fair election supervised by the American Marines and as soon as it becomes apparent that the other side would .win, /then no American supervision is destred and the hope is that physcial force and intimidation will carry the-day at the polis. Barred by United States. Gen. Chamorro had himself chosen resident, after the revolution which he tigated. But the American Govern- ment refused recognition. Adolfo Diaz, the present president, was-a com- promise decided on for the intervening period until new elections could be held. American 50 did the Liberals under Gen. Mon- cada, who agreed to lay down their arms if assured a fair election. The American Government considers itself bound by that agreement, which was negotiated by Henry L. Stimson, per- sonal representative of President Cool- idge. ‘The Senate foreign relations committee refused Lo approve A request that American forces bs withdrawn from Nicaragua, contending that the agreement should be carried out. Gen. Chamorro came to Washington recently the hope of appeasing the American Government, but was told he could not expect recognition as it was one of the cardinal principles of the treaty between Central American coun- tries that any man leading & revolution should himself not be eligible for elec- tion, Planned to Make Trouble. Bo Gen. Chamorro left here deter- mined to make trouble. His domination of & few men in the Nicaragusn House of Deputies was sufficient 1o defeat the proposed_electoral bill by & vote of 23 10 17. The American Government had hoped for legislation thoroughly in ac- cord with constitutional practice in Nicaragua, but In the absence of that will proceed to carry out the agreement (Continued o Page 3, Column 8.) PARK POLICE PAY BILL | Measure Providing $100 Yearly Increase Now Goes to House. An incresse of $100 & year in the sulary of members of the park police | force was provided In & bill pussed by the Benate this efiernoon. Action by the House will be riecessary Benator Capper of Kansas, chairmun of the District committee, exsplained the purpose of the bill 18 o bring the salary schedule of the park police up 10 the level with the Metropolitan police When the present salarles were fixed b 1924, the park police were given 8100 DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF SINGLAIR BONDS Upham’s Secretary Says He Saw No Evidence of Hays’ Deal. By the Associated Press. After a tame session today the Sen- ate Teapot Dome committee turned its quest for- the Continental Trading Co.'s Liberty bonds toward Chicago, where its next meeting will be held tomor- row morning at 10:30 o'clock. A. V. Leonard, secretary to the late Fred”W. Upham, treasurer of the Re- publican national committee, today's lone witness, testified that he knew nothing of Sinclair Liberty bonds sent to Upham by Will H. Hays, who was chairman of the committee during the A second witness expected today fall- ed to show up. The. had 1s- sued a subpoena for tgomery Clothier” of Philadelphis, t it de- veloped that there was no such per- son in Philadelphia. - Norbeck Will Go, It was announced today that Senator | Bratton, Democrat, New Mexico, would | be unable to accompany Chafrman Nye to Chicago. - Senator Norbeck, Republi- can, South Dakota, will go in his place. While Nye and Norbeck are journe: ing toward Chicago, Robert W. Ste: chairman of the board of the Stan Oil Co. of Indiana, will be en route to Washington to be arraigned tomorrow in the District Supreme Court on charges growing out of his refusal to answer questions of the oll committee regarding the Continental bonds. Stewart's. arraljgnment had been 'set for Priday, but was advanced today at his request. Starting with his testimony that he knew nothing of any Liberty bonds which Hays sent to Upham, Leonard amplified: “I do not know anything about such bonds. He simply did not | discnss it with me.” Corroborates Hipsley. Leonard corroborated the testimony given recently by Irl G. Hipsley that| Upham destroyed all of the Republican party financial records from 1918 to 1922, Inclusive, except for the index cards which showed the aames of thc contributors to the party fund. “Did Mr. Upham have any corre- spondence with any one concerning Liberty bonds?” asked Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, “No, he did not.” Leonard replied, Explaining that Upham had kept the party records for more than the 15 months required by law, Leonard said there was no reason for the former treasurer to pay 850 a monith storage eharges on them “Did Mr. Upham have any corre- spondence ahout the leasing of Teapot Dome, or any of the ofl reserves?” Walsh asked. e did not,” Leonard replied, “Did Mr. Upham not write to Attor- ney General Daugherty or Postmuster General New, protesting against the lease of Teapot Dome to Mr. Sinclair?” “He Did Not." “He did not, so far as 1 know." “Who would have taken such | letrer?” o1 would” Leonard sald he knew Btewart “How well do you know him?" Walsh asked “Only casunlly,” the witness replied "Whs there any coriespondence ve- lating 1o Col. Blewsrts desire to lease | Teupol Dome?” | Non ** Ate you certain?” Yex, alr” { After Walsh verted (o the $60,000 in Sinclair Liberty bonds Hays sent ‘o Upham, Leonard sald that i Upham ny bonds, he kept them in his fety deposit box in a Ohleago & year less then the Metropolilan force because the Government was supply- ing uniforms only to the park oMiocers Bince that tme Congress passed An- other law giving the Metropolitan ice en extra sllowsnce for upiforn without muln'o’l corresponding change ies Ei—rc VMarslml M(ifiascs 3y the Assoiatent Piese CHICAGO, March 14.-- After more Lhan 30 years without missing & big fire Marshal Michuel Corrigan was uishle last night to yespond W the frel 6-11 wlarm In Chicago's history-—-en slirm which sent more than & third of the city's fire-fghting equipment into the l “Fie butiding st 113 Bouth Welis slresl, houslng seversl concerns, wey “Apparently there was consiierable wu;y about the matter,” Walsh ob- serye “1 don't know anything sbout 1" Leonard sald F Jaeonard said he vecalled seeing Up- [ d on Page 9, Oolumn 2) Fir:t Big Blaze In More Than 30 Yecars in Chicago (deshioyed with an estimaled loss of | 8600.000. Al surtace and elevaled cars converging 1 the loop had Lo be 1 routed durlng the five hiours required to conquer the blage Corrigen, 11 at & hospilal, pleaded with Miw Corrigan (o lel him ko “Just @i hour” hie begged, Tl come Fight bick - honest mliul Five Marshal Corvigan misged the . } D. O, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1928—FIFTY PAGES. MAJ. HESSE DENIES “DRINKING HABITS" - TOHOUSE PROBERS Police Head, Facing Blanton, Refutes Charges of Lax Law Enforcement. PRECINCT CHIEF ADMITS USE OF LIQUOR IN HOME 'I.cgisl:lm' Says Superintendent's “Mannerisms” Show Influ- ence of Rum. Facing his accuser, Representative Blanton of Texas, before a large audi- ence in the caucus room of the House Office Building, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, today denied Blanton’s charges that he had “drinking habits” and that he had been lax in en- forcing laws against gamblers and boot- leggers. His denial was followed by an ad- mission by Capt. Charles H. Bremer- had drunk liquor in his home, but that it had been prescribed for him when he was “feeling bad.” Bremerman vigor- ously denied charges of several previous witnesses that he had obstructed law enforcement In his precinct. Maj. Hesse, his face flushed, listened intently while Blanton recounted to the Gibson investigating committee “numer- ous” instances when he sald he had detected the odor of liquor on the po- lice superintendent’s breath. The Texan described “mennerisms” which, he de- clared, showed plainly that Hesse was :imdrr the influence of liquor while on uty. Asks Fair Hearing. Hesse, taking the stand in response to an invitation of Blanton to “ask me questions,” satd he had no questions to propound, but that he wished to deny absolutely the charges made by Blan- ton and to demand a full and fair hearing before any authorized body, where he would have the right to present witnesses in his own defense. He declared his police record “spoke for itself” as to whether he had been diligent in enforcing the law. Sensational testimony involving al- leged efforts of Capt. Bremerman to prevent his men from rigidly enforc- ing gambling and liquor laws In his gm:um was given the committee by olicemen Altus Moore, W. E. Lawson and . T. B. T. Morrow, formerly mem- bers of Capt, Bremarman's command. Bremerman took the stand to deny these allegations and filed with the com- mittee & statement .howlnf his precinct had made 631 arrests in the past year in _such cases. During the- course of the hearing Blanton declared he intended to see lhw w-;mguwn police lorun ull el " an criti- cized the nmnlla m for “interfering in the efforts of Con- ress” to bring about a reform in the Jice Departmient, Hits Trade Officials. Blanton declared that “the Board of Trade members of the entertainment committee, who drank with Maj. Hess., don't think that a Congressman has Anyirlgm to meddle in Washington's airs.” A suggestion of ntative Ham- mer of North Carolina, that cerlain testimony given the committee .znvlo\u- Iy by Inspector Albert J. Headley, and E’urponm: to blame the district at- rmey’'s office for failure to prosecute certain bootleggers, be turned over to the Senate committee considering the nomination of Maj. Peyton Gordon for the District Supreme Court created a stir, Blanton said it would be “useless” b? try to stop Gordon's appointment, bé- cause “the bar assoclation is behind him,” and he sald, further, that he did not think the House should interfere in matters pending before the Senate Chairman Gibson of Vermont sald he would give a transcript of Headley's tes- timony to the District Commissioners. Blanton interjected: “Don't give the testimony to that McQuade grand jury.” Again Accuses Hesse. Blanton, in beginning his recital of occasions on which he had found Maj. Hesse “smelling of liquor,” declared that all of the times he had visited the police superintendent in his office at the District Building there had been but two occasions when he did not de- tect the odor of whisky. “I have noticed a certain pecullarity About Maj. Hesse when he Is drinking,” Blanton sald. “He has a habit of point- ing his finger and shaking It, like this.” Mr. Hammer, noting Blanton's dem- onstration, remarked that the gesture teemed 1o be a natural one and he did not think it proved anything. “One time when I went to Ma). Hesse to sce him about bootlegging and book- making establishments, which were Aourishing in the District, and about re- mru that these establishments were ing tipped off and that thelr owners were ullotted to get off with small fines and reopen right away, I saw that Ma), Hesse had been drinking,” Blanton ase serted, Blanton detatled half-a-dozen other Visits to Hesse's office during which he “found him to have been drinking." ‘Sald It Was Medicine." “I discussed there things with mem- bers of (he committee,” Blanton sald, “und T went to Ma), Hesse and talked frankly with him about what people saying. He told me ft was medi- o that T smelled, and I told him 1 wAs old enough to know when a man had heen drinking, I told him I had been Informed he had been drinking In the Number Ten Club, and he stop- r'fl doing that, and 1 appreciate that, told him he was under the influence of Mquor right then,” Hianton related a conversation with Chal garding Hes habits.” 1e “(Continued on Page 2, Column 8. LINDY ARRIVES HERE. Appears Buddenly at Bolling Fleld on Becret Misslon, Col. Charles A Lindbergh appeared suddenly and without warning In the sky over Bolling Fleld today und landed 10 minutes before noon on his third mysterious viait 1o Washington In the !n-ll two weeks, ‘Phirly minutes Inter he had disappedred, Heo was Jast soen heading oltyward, 15 wrrival was Antounced by the War - Degartinent, L nothing “was known there of the purpose of his Al He came here from Coatesville, man, of the fourth precinct, that he | Trade | incre: CAPITAL GROWING NEAR 600,000 MARK Will Have Population of 552,- 000 by July 1, Census Figures Indicate. With an estimated present popula- tion of more than a half million, Wash- ington will be reaching toward the 600.~ 000 mark and will have passed the half- way point between 500,000 and 600,000 population on July 1, 1928. Estimates by the Census Bureau of the population of Washington on that date, based on the average growth in the years between 1910 and 1920, place the population of the city at 552,000 persons July 1. The lest - officlal ‘count, taken January, 1920, placed the population of the Capi- tal at 437,571, At the same time the bureau, in another provisional estimate, placed the ation of the United States on 1, 8t-120,013,000, an increase of 14 per cent over the 105,710,620 actual count on Jan 1, 1920 The mext Federal census best available returns on births, deaths, fon and emigration. Florida Grows Fastest. Florida, where the population was estimated to have increased about 48 D'Cll' cent b'w“nm‘,'?]fl:d 1:28. s;l;o‘\p:l} the greatest gal ugh a cent 'l‘:cruu'wu Indicated for Call- (crunll. and nearly 30 per cent gain for Michigan. The following table shows the actual census of 1020 by States and thelr esti- mated population for July 1 next, the estimates made by distributing the total increase of the United Stales upon the basis of the increase by States from 1910 to 1920, or, where there has been a State census. from 1920 to 1625, cxcept that where there was a decrease (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) EXTENSION GRANTED SINCLAIR BY COURT Additional 20 Days in Which to File Exceptions to Contempt Case. Justice Siddons of the District Su- preme Court hi anted an extension of 20 days to Ha F. 8inclair, Henry Mason Day, William J. Burns and W. Sherman Burns in which to file a pro- posed blll of exceptions, which forms the basis of their appeal to the District | Court of Appeals from their recent con- | vietion of contempt of court in ‘shadow- | ing the jury in the Fall-8inclalr eon- rucy case. w!r')‘-e' time for flling the bill of excep- tions would have explred Friday. Counsel for the respondents informed the court that by reason of the length of the stenographie record in the case it was imposible to prepare the excep- tions within the usual allowance of 20 days provided by the rules of court Counsel have 90 days from Februars 21 in which to get the records of the case into the appellate court, The men were sentenced February 21, Sinclalr was glven alx months in jall, Day 4 months, Willlam J, Burns, 16 days and W. Sherman Burns was fined 41,000, THOMAS B. HARVIS GETS departed in order the | de luxe special for ' AFRICAN FILMS By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, March 14.—George | Eastman, camera manufacturer of | Rochester, N. Y., and the Eastman | hunting party, en route home from the heart of Africa, were among passen- gers of a crowded de luxe train who narrowly escaped when fire swept two coaches, including their pullman. All the films which Mr. Eastman had made on his trip were destroyed. Mr. Eastman himself just escaped in his pajamas and members of his party similarly lost everything. On his arrival in Cairo aboard the train, which had come from Luxor, Mr. Eastman was wearing a cap, a blue pajama coat, trousers, which appar- ently had boen borrowed, and slippers. The other nuemu of his pm{ t::: elmilarly attir though some o! i “becn able” to get nlo borrowed suits. Al looked and hurrielly to get on the Uclayed Alexandria 1o catch the White Star liner Doric. Most of the passengers on the train were American tourists. The train was crowded and temporary couches were | placed in an ordinary first-class car- THREE MEET DEATH INTRAIN ACCIDENT Rail Empleyes and Mail Clerk Killed as Western Flyer Is Derailed. By the Associated Press. persons were killed, one seriously in- jured and several others shaken up and brulsed late last night when the No. 10 | LOS ANGELES, March 14.—Three | EASTMAN'S EXPEDITION LOSES AS TRAIN BURNS !Leader of Party and Othcr American Tourists Escape With Few Clothes When Egyptian Coaches Take Fire. |riage. It was here that the fire orig- inated and then spread rapidly to the adjoining sleeper in which the East- man party was traveling. The engineer of the train stopped it and this enabled the passengers to beat a hasty retreat through the windows in their sleeping garments. An American woman passenger said that the flames enveloped the corridor when the alarm was given and that the windows offered the only exit. The train was on & fairly steep embankment and the passengers bundled one another through the windows. In their precipie tate flight some of them cut hands, barked shins, sprained ankles and bruis- ed themselves, but these were the only mishaps recorded. So_short was the warning given of there was no time to films burned _included ife which he had frica. They repre- sented a serious loss, since the primary purpose_of the expedition was photo- (Continued on Page 5, Column 6.) FOUR-LINE BASIS RAIL PEAGE SEEN Loree Held Ready to Drop' Fifth System Idea—Action Predicted Friday. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, March 14.—The Bal-| timore Sun today said in yrighted | article by J. F. Essary, W ngton | correspondent, under a Philadelphia| Santa Fe passenger train, the Scout, was derailed at Yampai. Ariz. The engineer, Tom Cole, and Fire- man Bailey, both of Needles, Calif., and a mail clerk named Daugherty were the dead. dAuamer mail clerk was serfously injured. g Reports to the dispatcher’s office here sald the locomotive, baggage and mail turning _over, cars were deralled, shaking up the pas- Sengers. The derailment was believed on pre- liminary examination to have been caused by a broken rail. Relief and | wrecking trains were run to the scene from Needles, Calif., and Seligman, Arlz. Both tracks were blocked, which was expected to delav the arrivalghere to- day of the California Limited, crack transcontinental fiyer, about three hours. The hurtling locomotive tore down telegraph poles and lines, making dim- cult the dispatching of tnformation, 1,750,000 Jews in New York. NEW YORK, March 14 (®.—The Jewlsh j»aunlullon of New York City increased from 1,803,000 in 1916 to 1,750,000 In 1925, & survey of J the five boroughs just completed by the Bureau of Jewish Soclal Research shows. DRY JOB OF DOUTHITT’S Olfo Attorney, With Anti-Saloon League for 10 Years, Goes With Citizens' Association. for the I\n ) lerday fleld secretary of Citlgens’ Bervice Aasoolation, suos eedin ey N Douthitt, resigned; s thitt, who relinquished his ted, largely in view of the faot that he s now engaged in publication of the Cl; Nu}m ., wu’ elected to membership of the board o directors of the assoclation, and central headquarte) tion are to be moved from 1730 M atreet to the Bliss Bullding, where the league is looated, "The secretary of the assoola- tlon, however, will continue to mains taln his office on M atreet, A resolution was adopted by the board he “honeaty expresalng confidence tn | and Integrity” of Mal Edwl Hesse, superin e of who 15 under fire by Represeniative 3 Hol;ukeeprr Left $50,000. OHICAQO, March 14 (). ~Emma . & housekeeper, has boen left 30,000 eatate of the late John d Mather, who died Decomber 1927, In_ 8t Petersbuvg, Fla, It has been revealed with the fiing of the will for probate. ' CENSORED ADVERTISIN For the protection of The Star us of all advertisements, date line, that executives of the East-| ern railways have found the basis of a| compromise upon & four-party scheme of consolidation in their territory and| will consider it at what may be n- | clusive conference to be held Friday in New York. | These facts became known, the ar- cars plunged down an embankment, | ticle said, upon indisputable authority " ) = The coach and chalr | yesterday, when 1t also became Known | e mas shoe as the o that the major demands of the Penn- | sylvania Raflroad in the allocation of | the smaller lines have been met, and | this company s now ready to join in extinguishing the proposed Loree Afth| WO CEN 48 FLOOD DEATHG LISTED IN RECHECK; GOVERNOR STARTS PROBE OF DISASTER From 300 to 600 Residents of California Valley Yet to Be Accounted For — Mud 30 Feet Deep in Places. LOSS UP TO $30,000,0C0 PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE | Relief Work Relatively Small, as Few in Path of Water Escaped. Forebodings of Break in Dam Recalled — Engineer Defends Construction. By the Amociated Press. NEWHALL, Calif., March 14.—A list of bodies recovered in various to in the San Francisquito flood area posted at the sherifl's substation here this morning showed a total of 248. An exact check could not be made owing to chaotic conditions in the stricken region. Duplications probably had occurred in some places, while omissions were possible in others. The figures given for Piru, 61, were unofi- cial and were felt to be too high, but it was impossible to get into communi- cation with that town, isolated by mud and water, when the list was posted. The figures on the recovered bodies posted here follow: Oxnard. 4; Ventura, 9; Fillmore, Newhall, 46; Piru, 61 (unofficial); Santa Paula, 36; Saticoy, 5; Moor Park, 40. Total, 248" The horror of the disaster reached new depths as rescue workers resumed their search through miles of saffron quagmire for from 300 to ‘600 of the residents of the little valley who were belleved to have perished in the flood, besides those already accounted for. Mud Stretches 65 Miles. Because the swath of mud and slime stretched for 65 miles through the peaceful mountain valleys and in sone’ Pplaces stood 30 feet deep, there was ¥ means of determining how many vi.- tims remained in the muddy graveyard which the escaping waters formed for the victims as they were picked up from Sherift 'zn:zlr f u:: mmm et B d",, . = ty, who snnounced the number of known and recovered dead eariy this morning after & checkup, refused to es- timate the humber of missing. timates which ranged from 300 to 600, made during a night of almost futile at- tempts to ascertain the extent of death and havoc, were allowed to stand as the second day of rescue work began. Damage Runs Into Millions. Attempts to determine from rural and telephone lists the number of pos- sible victims still unaccounted for wers shown to be useless when many bodies of victims were brought in whose names did not appear on these lists. Left behind by the gouging wall of water, from half a hile to a mile wide, sweeping 65 miles to the sea, were losses estimated at from $10.000,000 to $30.= 000,000. The City of Los Angeles, the heaviest individual sufferer., put its gross in the totally destroyed dam and the powerhouse below it at $3.000,000. The waters flattened scores of homes, | ranches, railroad lines and bridges, tore out wire systems, light and powez wires, gas mains, highways and briiges and wreaked inestimable loss in £l tened and silt buried orange and w assistant, nut orchards and other farm lands. Forebodings Are Recalied. Speculation on the cause of the breaking of the great dam covered a wide variety of theories. The post- mistress at Saugus, Mrs. A. K. Rumsey, declared that for 10 days ranchers Iving in the shadov of the dam had “talked of nothi.g else” but leaks under and through the structure. She said they fearfully discussed the possie dility of the very disaster which swept down in the blackness of night to wipe that fout their homes and families. A “major earth movement™ Was given as the opinion of Wililam Mulholiand. engineer of the great aquaduct tem, of which the dam was a | as appearing from a brief survey have been the ¢ trunk line and is ready to approve mr‘» turned from an compromise. The success of this new deal In the Eastern transportation territory. the article stated, so far as the railroads are concerned, depends only on the abandonment by L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson. of his roject for a fifth line from New York ‘estward. In Interest of Progress. Executives of the Pennsylvania, Bal- timore & Ohio, New Yorl ral and the Nickel Plate, upon whose present properties the new systems would be bullt, the article sald, are convinced | that Mr. Loree s now willing, in the | interest of peace and progress, to fore« £0 his schemeo and o co-operate in de- veloping & four-party plan which may be acceptable to the Government, ‘The compromise compreiends the following allocations, the article sald, A3 now agreed upon by all interests, save Mr. Laree: 1. The Norfolk & Western goes outs right to the Pennsylvania, and the Vir- “(Continped on Pa Colamn 5.3 e veaders and advertisers, the greatest care in the acceptance For years all untrue and misleading statements have been barred. Any complaint will be immediately investigated. | supplies was at a minimw a rent apparently scene, the Board of Engineers said that cause was the giving way of the moune tain on the western end of the da This was reported 10 have been wea ened, possibly win structure, seepage which softened the foundations, by & fault in the mouns or due to ralns and A plece of concrete from the dam was crumbled f the hand of Los geles County Supervisor Fred Bes He commented Wants Judgment Suspended. “Yes it came from the dam. but fudgment must not de passed until competent board of englieers has e ducted a searching Wvestigation a has e to Gov. Young Demand for relief work and wedid A ol ow persons i the path of Police officers. dents and Auny wove bodies fram other means of Lap; oy Young area from San wheve 300 AN undetel: the IA\III“ | veatigaity |State Lyainesr | aquir ¥ an Qov, Young Hyatt Wowd conduct thw Darkness Stops Seareh.