Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1928, Page 2

a w» MARCH COMPOSED | . AT CANP RITCHE, D. C. Citizen Soldiers Hear Tune Played for First Time. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staft Correspondent of The Star CAMP ALBERT RITCHIE, Cascade. | Md. August 17.—When the troops cf| the National Guard of the District of Columbia, taking their annual period | of field training here. rned out of bunks early today at the birth qother day of hard work, they heard played for the first time a new ction, composed in this will take its place with| music produced by gton bands and orchestras 2 the bugler had completed his the 121st Engineers Band pla) for the reveille march. nd words were produced of Col. John W. Oeh- ag the regiment, who | he was anxious to have some | for the District's citi- neers —a piece which while on the march usiastic when he heard Coolness Rewarded | { CALVIN E. MILL Star Staff Photo. {DRIVER OF STRANDED BUS IS REWARDED ! Nineteen Sodality Union Members Present §20 Gold Piece to C. E. Millen, usic tigation ¢ he has been besieged by offi- for copies of the words, | were written by Capt. William sen of Company F. and he is Dlans to have it produced in| oo e 0 that every officer and man | I appre 1 e to memorize the words. | ness, coolness and cou to have the troops sing | rooned with them night near s before they leave CIP. | Tounshend. Md.. during the storm last e - 19 young woman members of * Mever Goldman, leader of e nqénmznzfif L it has pleas- | the Sodality Union of Washington yes- - presented Calvin E. Millen, v catchy swing, which, the officers ington Railway & Electric Co. bus e. will serve to keep the men n » & long marc] r, with a $20 gold piece. The pres- er turning out of thelr MOWTE | entation was made at Millen's home, the members °d< ‘o find | 1314 Trinidad avenue northeast, by into the lowlands Miss Grace Irene Kelly, corresponding secretary of the union, and Miss Alma his ag “cheerful- while ma- ation of and acres of | THE EVENING WOMAN FILES SUIT AGAINST GAPTLYON iClaims Southern Cross Flyer | Married Her When Already ‘ Wed—Asks Annulment. | By ihe Assoclated Press SAN FRANCISCO, August 17— Mrs. Exma Meler Lyon has filed suit | here seeking annulment of her marriage to Capt. Harry W. Lyon, Jr., navigator of the monoplane Southern Cross on its | epoch-making flight to Australia | She charges that at the time of the | marriage, June 5, 1920, Capt. Lyon was | legally marricd to another woman. Records at the San Francisco Mar. riage License Bureau show a license w |issued_January 4, 1920, to Harry Lyon, |2 master mariner, and Erma Dyer Meier, a divorcee. Lyon said it was his | first marriage. The name of his father | was given as Henry Lyon. DENIES 1I& 1S HUSFAND. Capt. Lyon Says He Knows San i Francisco Woman. | ‘ BOSTON, August 17 (#).—Capt. Harry | | W. Lyon, jr.. transpacific fiyer, denied | | nere today that he was the husband of | | Mrs. Erma Meir Lyon, who was re- | ported in dispatches from San Francis- co as having brought suit for annul-| | ment of her marriage to Capt. Lyon.| | The aviator was here on his way to his | | home in Paris Hill, Me,, where his wife, . Mrs. Jane Lyon, and his mother are awaiting him. Lyon said that he knew the San Fran- | | cisco woman, but that his wife was Mrs. | Jane Lyon of Paris Hill. He sald he| would send word to his counsel in Los | Angeles to take any necessary action in | the proceedings | | “I cannot understand why that wom- |an should take such a step.” Lyon said. | “She knows I am married.” torrential wr:‘tln | ited the area last night e | rains ceased during the night, | . skies indicated a cool day for| ard work ahead, and at 7 o'clock | attalions went out into the low | to build field fortifications. for | lost & day vesterday because of the s of Jupiter Pluvius. ; George J. Allen, camp sanitary lete inspection to- | 1l the men had | Ma). omcer, made & complets o ascertain tha bad | - piete changes of clothing, so they | from the garments made operations in the sur- rshlands. d shift y tht Happ and Miss Minnie Mahler. Miss | Kelly announced today that the union | WIFE IN MAINE UNNERVED. also would send a letter commending | 2 filien to his employers | Mrs. Jane Lyon Says She Knows Noth- ing of Woman. The young women were all passengers in a bus driven by Millen which became stranded when two bridges were washed | PARIS HILL, Me., August 17 (®).— out between T. B. and Waldorf while | Mrs, Jane Lyon, wife of Capt. Harry they were returning to Washington Sat- | w_Lyon, jr.. apparently was unnerved urday night from a church picnic at ! here today when informed that a Mrs. Bryantown. Md. Millen started across | Erma Meier Lyon had filed suit in San | the second bridge, but, finding the water | prancisco seeking annulment of her | too high for his engine to clear, backed | marriage on June 5, 1920, to Capt. Lyon. ; | | | | | e ks [ SwELE The Darty | nothing of the woman or the circum- | was then stranded nearly 15 hours, { finally being rescued by | Washington. |PARTY TO EXPLORE MYSTERY CANYON IN NORTH COLORADO __(Continued from First Page) > men went to Fort Hum- < Jast year with only one outfit here was considerable illness after 3 ot wet, he insisted that each man take at least one change of clothing So far only four men have been con- to the infirmary, and they are only slight col grs: dmugm Jeave camp today was the special demolition outfit, organ- fzed by Lieut. George FHarbin, regi- i mental plans and training officer. It pany. who is to specialize in the — Bandiing of explosives, and who 18 being | yampa River gorge, of strange “whis trained to give instructions to hispering bottomless 'caverns” and of This detail will be present at every| ™ gyrveyors for the United States Gov- @emolition demonstration, and when 8| arnment, working only from the rim periicular company is assigned to the ¢ the canyon, have partly substantiated will give the instructions in the placing | * Byt still the grim e remains un- o aiing GIf of the CHATgs o TNT.| v e i geey ceiailing the amount of explosive t0| " our exmedition will attempt the pas- the precautions to be taken. | hope to bring out a record of scenic —— ‘wé“d:l: and k) mt ’nflbmvn- skinned race of prel cliff-dwei!- SMITH WORKS HARD AS ALBANY AWAITS Raus Inte Grand Canyen. We will leave Denver tomorrow by special train for the end of the rail- i | trucks will take “us‘ 1ourmbo!u(lnd Pirst Page. | equipment, 80 miles farther west, to (Cantinued from L !Ely Park, in Moffat County, where the | from Wyoming, joins the Yampa Ri gD e e Ty | and the waters enter abruptly Into the turn” by the publication of White's| Yampa Canyon. retracted of the charges. junction of the Yampa River with \L\rt e At ‘Bitlys advisers are | Green, at the Colorado-Utah line. Th known to favor him making his countet | BPV 1) IUF L0 Ny Cugh the Grand answer to all critics of his public rec- | Canvon of Arizona. vary | mysteries of the canyon starts it will cr{urcmfl‘m e Y?:frk cc:{x smi?}:‘plt:hxi have as complete and stanch equip- not indicated just how far his rejoinder | ment as has ever been used in any ex- . show! v| Two boats, built after what is gen- ey D O e T legitiative | erally known as the -Grand Canyon ubjects. however, has been interpreted | pattern”—a design that was' evolved by his counter charge all embrasive. ;x;nxlhl:k.fni;‘:\i four of us on our plunge 5 RS The boats are built of yellow cypress, BLAIR DENIES GIRL | vent the shipping of water in the | rapids. There is a metal airtight com- afioat, and a similar metal tank in the OF WORK CONDITIONS | sterntnis iatter compartment has a S | ment will be stored to keep it gry. Will Explore Gorges. was transferred to the office of the, lowed to drift down the river with the narcotic agent in charge at New York | swift current, they are equipped with City. On April 30, 1927, she resigned cars and a sweep to be used in keeping application :u umlmeh? Nozgnberr' | Rl‘ln:i }nmth, l:he river is believed to be 23, 1927, to the stenographic section of | filled for miles. the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the The airtight compartments forward ously employed. She served continu-!has been perfected for chaining the ously in the income tax unit from the | cameras to either deck, 50 the photog- date of her reinstatement until the date | rapher on the leading hoat can take was employed in the stenographic sec- ' through bad water. ton not to exceed 6 weeks, the re-! Camp equipment of unusual lightness, ainder of the time she either was on | durability and imperviousness to water consists of one man from each com-| ecmrades. great cataracts and whirlpools. work. the specialist from that command | thege reports. be used for each purpose, and ltrnsinu‘fl'e of the Yampa River canyon. We | ers actually inhabited this region. NOTIFICATION FETE| | road at Craig, Colo. From there motor the reply would be made public shortly, | Little Snake River, flowing southward cablegram from Europe denying he had| The goal of our expedition is the ©Tensive against White a comp; d, including the Rev. John Roach' When our cxpedition to solve the The fact that he has gone so | ploration party in the West by some as meaning that he will make ' parties descending the Colorado River | and have unusually high sides, to pre- K”-LED SELF BECAUSE | partment in the bow to keep the craft hatch where our photographic equip- _(Continued from Pirst Page.) | quest.” emphasized the statement, “she| Wwhile the boats will mostly be al- from that position and on her OWn. them away from rocks in the rapids, same office in which she had been previ- | and aft are decked over, and a device of her death. During this period she | pictures of the second boat plunging ave of absence or was assigned to has been provided Food supplies suffi- firemen from | euditing section No Record of Complaint. - ef inquiry does not disclose that Miss Sherlock ever complained to any of being too strenuous for her, or that the noise of the typewriters was dis- Friends and relatives of Miss | have advised that the early tracting Sherlock iife of this young lady was such ihat sne had been sheltered more or I from general contact with the public 5 | cient to last four men for a month will | be carried. The distance to be covered | is approximately 80 miles, but there are | tnnumerable deep side canyons that are | rumored to contain prehistoric Indian er superiors about her work | cliff dwellings, and all of these gorges will be explored (Copyright. 1926. by North American News- paper Alilance.) the result that she was very re-| d and diffident, which disposition, | made it difficult for her o It also has been Bherlock had been e easily hat Miss ith for a nd tha hea onsiderable perfod | t she had consulted in | % up to the time of her | na the been entire siightest hout w extent tha developed | inquiry which | ¢l lock committed suicide as a ult of her employment in the section of the income tax ¢ practice of large busines pughout th ranches of the Governmen! 1gton to segregate their steno phic help in a single unit. This, of performance of the work of the organ. zation and within our bureau it lessen: annoyance 1o persons who may be en country and 81 f urse, tends 1o greater efficlency in the | | - gaged on auditing or other work of a aifficult nature requiring concentration. | d gene: the se and 1 the employes. reneral system of segregation of steno praphic employes has been approvd by mvestigations by experts employes at bureau some such organizations room fo) rovement in the manner of conduct ich sections, but if conducted h oper manner they have heen foun bhe satisfactory.” | Tressury Department officials hay vegret over the deat IAite Bleriock te ber famiy. tive 1n te 1] ! lly has proved satistactory to The Bureau of Efficiency after exhaus- d | Undoubtedly there 1s | d | | Mrs. +| declaring that the cliek of typewrite | graphie subsection of the income ta is Mes. Clara Pratt Jones, supervisor stances of the case. Lyon's father, Rear | Admiral Henry W. Lyon, is ill, she said, | and she indicated that the news might | react unfavorably on his condition. She ! would not talk further. | A celebration in honor of his home- | coming awaited Capt. Lyon here tomor- row when he arrives with Mr. Keith Miller of Australia and Capt. W. N. Laneaster of England, with whom he is planning a transatlantic flight next | year. Capt. Lyon's mother, it was learned, planned to meet her son in| Portland when he arrives in that city | tonight. Mrs. Jane Lyon was married to Capt. Harry W. Lyon, jr. on May 20, 1919, | Walter S. Gray, South Paris attorney, | said today. He declared there was no question as to the legality of the con- tract. | Mrs. Harry W. Lyon, mother of the{ | navigator, sald today that the Califor- | nia woman had approached her a few weeks ago in California, “demanding | | recognition and seeking financial as- | sistance from Capt. Lyon.” | “She even went so far as to declare | | that my son had promised to help her.” Mrs. Lyon sald. “He has never so prom- | jsed. and there is no reason why he should.” “Miss Meler is not now and never | was the wife of Capt. Lyon,” she con- | | cluded. | CURTIS WILL BEGIN CAMPAIGN DAY AFTER HIS NOTIFICATION| the bus off a few minutes before the | “Mrs Jane Lyon declared she knew | | | (Continued_from_First_Page) ter, Mrs. Leona Curtis Knight of Provi- | | dence, who cast a vote for her father | for President at the Republican con- | vention and was one of those to second | his nomination for Vice President. From Rhode Island he will go to| | Syracuse, N. Y., speaking at the State | fair there on August 28. Maine and | | Massachusetts will be visited before he | | turns “southward for Kentucky, and | | probably Tennessee.’ Beyond that he | | has no plans, but he has given the word | | to party chieftains mapping out the campaign offensive that he is “I don’t mind campaignin Curtis says. “Seven and eight speeches | a day from the middle of September to | election day is a regular diet for me. I have done that about Kansas, traveling | by automobile, many a campaign.” | Meanwhile, he is enjoying the hand- shaking and visits of old friends here at home, as he awaits the notification cxercises to be held tomorrow at 5 p.m. on the Statenouse grounds. Smiling and happy, he rocks away on his front porch, with his sister and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. R. Colvin, as neigh- | bors, friends and Kansans, ail of whom | he seems to know, call by to say hello. STAR REPORTED ENGAGED Mary Garden Rumored Betrothed to Young French Author. PARIS, August 17 (#).—A report that Mary Garden and Plerre Plessis, a young Prench journalist and author, are en- gaged has reached Paris. The story that has reached here was that the engagement was announced at a dinner on the yacht on which they |are guests, attended by Duke Decars {and Henri Desgranges, the latter an editor of a theatrical newspaper. STENOGRAPHIC “POOL” WHICH BROU in the “pool” had driven her insane. T unit of the Illllrnlllevtn‘? Department. | the air about half way down the 3,300~ | on his second trip around the world | Cramer had arranged a set of hourly | Green Bay and Lake Michigan, into the | history of the local office as patrons STAR, WASHIN D. (. FRIDAY. AUGUST 17, 1928 ° — N Abave: Last night's rain eaused the already swollen Eastern Branch of the Potomac to inundate the Defense Highway at Bladensburg for the second time The bus in the pictuse was stalled and the Prince Georges rescue squad was called on to rescue ifs eight passengers. Motorists who tried to cross the flooded area generally accepted the ready assistance of 3 State highway in a week Below: Another view of the Defense Highway. " |COMEDY MIXED WITH PATHOS truck to puil them out. R AIN DELAYS FLYERS’ TAKE-OFF ON SECOND LAP OF JOURNEY _(Continued from First Page.) word with his mother, shook the hand | of his brother William, who has been | acting as mechanic for the Greater Rockford, and climbed in behind Has- | sell. i Takes Air Easily. The engine had bsen warming up for more than half an hour. Hassell gunned” it and swung into position on the end of the runway. The plane | , athered speed quickly and, tail up, flew | down the fleld. As Hassell pulled it into | foot runway it rose rapidly. They cir- cled toward the hills that were their | nemesis three weeks ago, flipped a wing impudently at them and circled back | across the field. The lighter load was giving much more maneuverability. Hassell swung around the fleld in a | complete circle, with Cramer leaning out a window waving a last farewell. ‘Then the plane started north at an al- | titude of about 1,000 feet. ‘The Greater Rookford carried a spe- cial experimental radio set made by the Burgess Battery Co. of Madison, which also made sets to be used by Byrd on his Antartic expedition and McCarroll code signals to mark the progress of the plane, and these came in regularly, tell- ing the position of the plane by 100- mile stages across Lower Wisconsin, out the Door County peninsula between northern peninsular of Michigan, and then across Lake Superior into Ontario. The Burgess laboratories and local amateurs reported that the signals were coming in with great strength and pre- dicted that the plane would be heard here all the way to Greenland. Meantime the city tried to settle itself to its normal pursuits, but in vain. The streets before newspaper bulletins were crowded and the telephone companies reported one of the busiest days in the called” newspapers and the headquar- ters of the flight committee for latest | information Hassel and Cramer are both pilots of long_experience, Hassell started flying in 1913 and Cramer a short time later. Both were in the Army Air Service during the war. C ner I8 now on leave from his duties as an acronautical inspector for the Department of Com- merce. Copyrighted 192 ‘ada, Mexico, ope and the B k Times Co PROTEST in the United St ubs, South America, ritish Empire by th All rights reserved. GHT The first photograph made of the Internal Revenue D epariment's stenographie peol, which caused & protest by | varying in scope all the Margaret Hopkins Worrell, champion of Federal workers, when Dorothy R. Sherlock took her life, leaving & note he “pool” here ix known as the steno- Seated at the desk In the rear ~enter ~8lar Slafl Photo, IN GEORGIA FLOODED AREA jChildren Play in Water as Tide Recedes. prisoncrs pray for Stronger Current to Carry Walls Away. Special Dispatch to The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. MACON, Ga. August 17.—As trag- cdy has stalked the fertile valleys of south Georgia for the past 48 hours, so has comedy walked—and close at the clbow of the destroyer. The little city of Quitnam, tobacco market and cotton mill center, is en- tirely cut off from its neighbors, ex- cept by boat. Anything that will float is used to traverse what were once roads. One worker in the cotton mills who had just seen his little shack down by the Withlacoochee swept away la- conically remarked: “I never did like that place anyway. Now I kin move without the old lady | objectin”. Prisoners Pray. “Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink,” could very truthfully be said by the citizens of Milledgeville. Too much water in the streets and not enough under them in the water mains, which have burst from the floods. More than 5,000 inmates of the State Asylum for the Insane are on a water ration. Isolated from the main part of Milledgeville by the flood waters of the Oconee, the asylum tenants seemed not to be disturbed by the scarcity of visitors. Keepers report most of the charges accepting the matter with a philosophical calm. Not so the inmates of the State prison farm.. One guard reported that praying among the felons has material- ly increased. It is understood that the prayers are for more and bigger rains— perhaps a really disastrous flood of sufficient strength to undermine the gray walls and liberate the prisoners would constitute & parole “by act of BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band, at the Naval Hospital, 3 o'clock this afternoon. g March, “Our Legion on Parade," Pryor Overture, ‘ambour du Garde” Titl | Characteristic, “Japanese Patrol,” | Scharbau Excerpts from “The Jolly Musketeer," | Edwards | Waltz, “Wine, Women and Song.” 1Salocth)n ur Navy"... Intermezzo, “In Poppylan: Albers | Finale, “Anchors Aweigh," “The Star Spangled Banner." By the Community Center's Band, at | Towa_Circle, 7:30 o'clock tonight: | March, “Hostrausers". . ..Chambers 7, ““The Slver Glade"...... Skaggs | Oriental selectton, *“An Arabian Scout,” | Moulinex | Overture. “Princess of India”. .. . . King Vocal solo Barcarole from “Tales of Hoffman." Oftenbach | Selection, “The Prince of Pilsen”. Luders | Voeal solo. | One-step. “The Star Spangled Banner.” TOMORROW. | | By the United States Soldiers' Home | Ml{lury Band, at the bandstand, at §:30 o'cl March, “Fest Jubel”.. .Blankenberg | Overture, “Rienal’ . Wagner | Bolo for clarinet, “Almora”...Le Thiere | Excerpts from the musical comedy | "“The Belle of Bohemia". ... Englander | Fox trot, “Roses Remind Me of You," Burke | waitz, “Mid d'Amour"...... Waldteufel | Finale, “The Grand Duke “The Star Spangled Banner.” 1 ‘Thirty-five professions for women, ay from fash- l.\urve_vnr. Are represented among the 1,401 members of the Carroll Club for Catholic Business Girls, New York. Then there is the story of the yvoung lawyer in East Macon who left his home and his family in his automobile only to return in a rowboat and rescue |two small daughters by lifting them through a second-story window. | And in all the towns the children | glory in the excitement and the nov- lelty of the rains and the floods. Mourns Lost Pig. One young member of a small to- bacco planter's farilly was brought into the safety of the higher ground in Quitman after his home near the river had been washed away. The little | all safe, but “Jackle. | had been carried aw: not to be consoled price all natives of the State. Between Quitman and Thomasville, on an in- undated section of track, a crack At- hours, marooned from both towns. Farmers and villagers rowed out to view the city folk who sat uncomfort- ably in the fine coaches with their heels a few inches above the water, As the water recedes the townspeople 80 back to their flats and bungalows and begin struggling with the problems of discontinued gas and light service | and scarcity of drinking. water. { To the farmers, the homecomin, | really a thing of uncertainty. Their | crops are almost a total loss in many | sections and they go back wondering | It any of their live stock will be safe To these who wander as spectators through these scenes there is much of comedy, but rightly enough. the “joke" | 1s not so easily seen by the victims. | (Copyrizht. 1928. by North A ber Alltance can New is 'SEVEN DAIRY FARMS’ PERMITS SUSPENDED Permits of seven dairy farms fur- nishing milk to Washington, located in | Fauquier County, Va. have been sus- | pended by Dr. Willlam C. Fowler, Dis- | trict health officer, It was made known Strauss | today upon the discovery of anthrax, | . “Tobani |8 dreaded scourge among live stock on | capolS (he Broad River, | the farms. No attempt was made by any of the Zimmermann | dairies to send milk into Washington | |today, Dr. Fowler announced. While he has not been officially notified, it is |the *understanding in the authorities have placed Fauquier Coun- ty under a rigid quarantine. Dr. Fowler did not attach particular ! danger to the possibility of the scourge being Introduced into Washingt | chap was mournful and questioning re- | | vealed that his brothers and sisters were | | Nor are the victims of nature's ca- | lantic Coast Line train lay for many | District | to be 1 [health office that the Virginia heaith | " poreser 08 Star Staff Photo. HEAVY RAINS BRING FLOOD CONDITIONS TO DISTRICT AGAIN (Continued from First Page.) State Highway Commission for fear the foundations hed been weakened | Last night's siorm put out of com- mission 330 telephones in this city, it| & Repair crews | — expected to have all the lines back in | A feeder line | was reported by the Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co. sarvice bafore nightfall. IVIRGINIA FLOODS TAKE TWO LIVES {Bus Driver and Passenger Swept From Bridge as Pole Crashes Near Buchanan. Special Dispatch to The S STAUNTON, Va., Augus | dreds of men searched Loo | between Buchanan and Sha | morning for the bodies of !a bus driver, and A. A. C | passenger, who were drowned when a Staunton-Roanoke b halted by a bridge washout in the m of a storm. Craft, whose home is said to have been at Springwood, Va.. was trying 1o aid Dove in finding a way through the water after an abutment of the bridge had given way They were swept into the swollen creek when a telephone pole crashed upon the bridge. An uniden fied man among the bus passengers d appeared, and it is not known whetk he has been saved. Four other pas- sengers—E. P, Turner of Bucha George Garrettson of Burlington Va., and Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Boyle New York saved themselves by remain- ing in the bus until the rain abated and assistance reached them. R. B. English of Washington, D. C passing the scene just a moment before the bridge abutment collapsed, wit- nessed the accident and attempted to | aid the stranded passengers. He was on his way to Washington from Appa chia, where he attended the State con- vention of the American Legion ROAD DAMA INSPECTED. Special Dispatch to T 2 FAIRPAX, Va. August 17.—F. vell Larkin, Fairfax County road en- gineer. is investigating reports today that last night's heavy rain caused much damage to roads. Yesterday he estimated the damage of the storms of Saturday night and Sunday at $6.000. | Most of this loss was in the lower par! of the county. In Mount Vernon dis- trict the Telegraph road from Leesburg pike w Pohick, River road from Hunt- ing Creek to Fort Hunt and Franchonia road were badly washed. Concrete abutments were washed out on several bridges, necessitating the use of dyna- mite w clear the channels of creeks. | Four Mount Vernon district bridges will have to be replaced. A bridge in Seminary lane in Falls Church district was washed away. DANVILLE AREA HIT. Special Dispatch to Tiie Sta DANVILLE, Va. August 17.—W spread damage resulted last night a today from a second rainstorm witk & week. Patrick County, which em- braces the watersheds of many gireams had a cloudburst, and rain rseaeds of 30 years were broken. Farm property telegraph and telephone lines and roads in Patrick, Franklin and Floyd Coun- ties have suffered. Business houses and homes in Bassett were partly inundated. Roads to Lovers Leap and Hillsville in P.mr;r\ck County were blocked by a land- siide. Smith River reached a 15-foot stage { and receded quickly. Mayo River was batween 17 and 20 feet. The road from Martinsville to Stuart is still cut off. Dan River is rising today, having reached 10 feet. Mails and railway service are affected. HOOVER VISITS SIX CITIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY _(Continued from First Page) boarding the tiin for the eastward of the Potomac Electric Power Co. was | journey. out for a short time last night at| There will be 10-minute stops 2* Silver Spring when water short-circuited | Psadena and San Bernardino tonight | the line. s repeated rains that additional rains may cause | of the city. Two Capital Traction Co. cars on the Takoma Park line were derailed last night by debris washed over the line. The cars were derailed at Third and Concord streets and Third and Sheridan | streets. Connecticut avenue again was | under water at Albemarle street, but | street car traffic was not halted and the | water subsided this morning. Co. escaped without storm tie-ups on any of its lines, though service on the Eleventh street and Mount Pleasant | lines was halted temporarily last night by mechanical breakdowns. “The American Automobile Associa- tion reported today that highways to southern Maryland are open today. | The washout at Mattawoman Creek on | the southern Maryland road has been | temporarily bridged. The only road | closed today was that from Riverside |to Hilltop, on which a bridge was | washed out. | city to Richmond is open | traffic, and the road from Richmond to | Raleigh was reopened today. The high- | way from Richmond to Danville still s closed and traffic is being rerouted | by way of Farmville, Lynchburg, Alta Vista and Halifax. | STORM TOLL 10 IN SOUTH. | ATLANTA, Ga. August 17 (#) Four Southeastern States counted 10 | dead and great property damage in the wake of storms and floods today. In the wake of receding waters, rail- | roads, telegraph and telephone compa- | nles were struggling to restore com- munication lines which were broken in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- lina and Georgia Property owners contemplated thou- sands of acres of wrecked farmland, de- |Stroyed and damaged homes and build- | ings, an | way damage. The rains and winds of | the last few days apparently had sub- sided. Probably the greatest menace obtain- in South Carolina, which is the drainage chan- {nel for the western edge of North Carolina as well, where a power dam burst near Union, S. C. Officials said | there was no dm)gvr to residents in the | valley. The Saluda River was declared Farther up the Broad, in North Caro- !ina, danger apparently had subsided. | In North Carolina the two great s tems of power dams on Catawba River are apparently holding safely the 45.- 000000000 cubic feet of water im- Heavy Rains Bring Strange Bird Species To Rest He re | The torrential rains of last Saturday and Sunday, although they caused a | | tremendous” amount “of damage, have | | thelr compensations for local | | lovers. Attracted by the pools of rain water standing on the Potomac Park goll course, many varleties of shore irds which have not been seen here in a number of years are visiting the Capital by the hundreds. Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant Friedemann | secretary of the Smithsonlan Institu- | ern Argentina tion, in charge of the New National| Museum, reported today that he has| counted ten species of sandpipers and | plovers in the Potomac Park pools, | among them a species of sandpiper | fon artist to bank teller and marine ' known as the dowitcher, which has not | pipers, "been seen in this city for & quarter of A eentury . on Migratory Flights regular migration to the South, are on thelr way from the *&r North, thou- sands of them making thelr Summer homes in the Arctic tundras. Ordi- narily these birds pass over Wash! ton without sto) n this vieinity Decause of lack of feedis Vit N ces. Their southerly migrations & mlvery MI"b in the year. some of beginning their long flights South in July. Some of the birds go as far South as south- Dr. Wetmore said that among the species he has seen in the Potomac Park flooded seotions during the st few days are the greater yellow s, the lesser yellow legs. palmated sand stilt - sandpipers, least sand- . petrel sandpipers, solitary sand- . killdeers and the semi-palmated pipers, pipers. ‘The conduits are so wet from it is feared serious trouble with power lines in many parts The Washington Railway & Electrie In Virginia the highway from this | to light, d unestimated bridge and high- | as the train moves toward the Arizona border. Leaving Palo Alto late last night | after nearly a month at his home on | the Stanford University campus, Hoover was given a rousing farewell by his fellow townsmen, and within less th: half an hour another large crowd had greeted him at San Jose. The nominee’s last day at the pla he elected for his notification of t | action of the Kansas City cor | was spent largely mn completing |copy of his West Branch address n | Tuesday evening, and writing |speech to be made today at | Angeles. Some slight alt jeach were made on the train candidate retired for the night. GREETED IN SAN JOSE. SAN JOSE, Calif. August 17 (¥ | Several thousand _San Joseans ! Herbert Hoover, Republican nomir |for the presidency, a rousing farew last night as his train made a 10 minut stop en route from Palo Alto to south- | ern California and the East. Mr. Hoover appeared on the rear | platform of his car with Mrs. Hoover. (his son Allan and Mark Requa, Cali- fornia Republican campaign leader. Hoover chatted genially with those in | the ‘front fringe of the crowd, joked | with the photographers, shook hands | with as many as could make their way fto him and appeared to theroug anjoy it all NEWSPAPE;‘S MISSING. Week's Edition Heights News Disappears. Eighteen thousand people Columbia Heights will lose their cop! |of the Columbia Heights News for this | week unless the papers, taken from a | garage in an alley between Fourteenth | and Fifteenth, Columbla road and Har- vard street today, are recovered A truck gathering old papers seen to pass through the alle is believed that the copies of the News were mistaken for trash and taken un- intentionally. . of the Columbia { pounded along the Catawba oo iThe dead are: Myrtle Young, 11, Hick- jory, N. C. drowned: Guy Young. 9 Hickory. N. C., drowned: Arvin Bly Hendersonville, N. C. drowned W. Jones, Ashley Heights County, N. C | tornado victim; unidentified man, Ash ley Heights, tornado victim; L. Marvel Simms, 50, Ariel, 8. C.. drowned. Ba lenger Hudson, Ariel, S. C. drow Jesse Dove, Roanoke, Va.. drown A Craft, Springwood, Va., drowned. 3 Miss Ethel Allen, Warrenton. \ dropped dead of fright while cross: Roanoke River bridge over flood TWO TRAINS MAROONED | Johu WINNSBORO, 8 C.. August ¥ | Several hundred passengers were ma rooned ail last night near Strothers, 33 | miles above Columbia, on the first and |second sections of Southern Rallway train No. 10, because of high water In ‘un Broad River. The ngers were being removed by auto this morning for transportation to Columbia. The train went through water up { the car steps last night at piaces, and {once several coaches dipped deeper as | & trestle over the floodwaters e { while the train was crossing it ere was no food and litde light on the first section last night ! After being stranded 24 ho Saluda, §. C.. the first section was ped again near Strothers. and th ineer pulled the train to high or the night. The second section was These shore birds, now making their | plover, in addition to the rare dowitoher, stranded three miles north. e,