Evening Star Newspaper, August 26, 1928, Page 2

> L] . - WASHTIRGTOX, D. (., AUGUST 2 1928-PART ¥ MONTH MAY PROVE CAPITAL'S WETTEST August of 1906 Similar to Present Period With Floods and Heat. th second Recalls Cloudburst orse and bugey were wash bridge and a ma drowned. Suburban r place ¥y e e was 100 and August temperature reached 103 shade an 4 the weather c Star republished ou! of February 1 feelings of the sweite Plague of Fleas. Rain began fai the following day ¥ the tem:perature fell 20 degree gust 12 brought a cloudbu liamsport. Md. and rains here. Av gled with flood water rainfall of between 4 24 hours The Star gue of feas result of the hot gust 15 the ra after a On Au- stopped and there was o death from follow'ng day toere were local showers. which continued on the follow when there was a break wave ‘There were for the next few there was a in six hours, and the temperat 21 tent showers ugust 2. 21 de- r ssable. v there were many wash- ouis and fallen trees ridges were washed out all d the District n August 27 it was recor s Star that the total ramnfall month had been 12.70 reached here and in t ast nigh gust 29 and rains the following da On August 31 The Star told of floods | in Virginia, especially at Petersburg which was badly damaged. Bridges sgain were washed out and railroad| service delayed Flood Menace Grows. The files of The Star for August 1875, tells of floods and heavy rains here and throughsut the country. . On | August 3 of that year the Potomac River was reported to have risen 3 feet and $ inches at Harpers Ferry in 24 hours and the following day it had risen 4 feet more and was 813 feet above the Jow-water mark. “No danger need be anticipated in Washintgon from this 1t was stated uring the tfollowing caused considerable concel here d throughout the country. On August 17 the files show the following The present Summer seems to keep up its strange and unnatural record 1o the last. Yesterday we had a suc- cession of seripus storms in the Gty the rain which fell during one of them amounting to a perfect torrent. Even the street cars were nearly washed off the tracks This was followed on August 25 by the following. under the head. “St Swithin a Watery Humbug In con- nection with the moisture of the past 40 davs it is interesting to note the fact that the St. Swithin proverb has been now scientifically investigated and completely exploded CAPITAL DRENCHED AS FREAKISH RAIN SWEEPS OVER CITY Tise.” days fleod: (Continued from Pirst Page 201 Rhode s stomobile assumed com He from stalled marooned The ram washed » opened Nort tracks vay Dakot Slide Blocks Street Wamen Carried Out end On e store rerl by pluggin the front door, uga lapped 10 & deptn The basement of wss fonded $600 wa the chi st which { more The 0000 Wwas sugmenle | " STEPHENSON CONFERS. Believed Discussing Coolidge Ap ed th d Top: Where the rain ca <ome places was around five fe the best of the situation Center: An automob Below: Another scene in flo park nhes 10 e 4 tomobile trects Homes Flooded p of packay big high-slupg patro ecinel plowed thiough imped oul and rushed mated (hat more vied persons were « W snfet n‘ Bix- Lo thels homes by the patrol crew. Pex- by the water unid finally‘he pushed (easing greatest damage p. caught in_the rush of ded Rhode Isla 1 CHAMBERLAN NOTE L BRANDED FORGERY =3 Kellogg's Failure to Visit Eng- | Jand Viewed as Rap at Anglo-French Pact. penl With Lawye MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. August 25 ().—D. C. Stephenson spent today in conferences with attorneys, presumabls in regard to his proposed appeal 10| President Coblidge for a 90-day parole | from his life sentence for mur- der. Announcement of intention to ask a presidential parole from | Indiana State penitentiary was made | in Gar by Robert Moore, attorney who declared Stephenson’s constiti- tional rights have been denied him Among thote who were granted vate interviews with former hat | dragon was Felix Blankenbaker ney of Terre Haute 10 GATHER HERE Tenth Anniversary of Found- ing of Capital District to Be Observed. o | hi; r Klan attor- August 25.--Char; letter from Austen LONDON hington and Baltimore K Slubs, co-founders of the Capital Kiwanis district, will be hosts to rep- M. Brimd on the | resentatives from the 46 other clubs the district at a special Juncheon meet- ng in commemoration of the tenth an- | niversary of the founding of the Capi- {tal district, in the Washington Hotel denied that any district organized, now membership of more than 3,000 in Del- had ever been ex total of 48 clubs, with a aware, Maryland, Virginia and the Dis- triet of Columbia The Washington and Baltimore Kiwanis Clubs organized the district at a joint meeting in Baltimore August 29, 1918, They were the only two clubs in the Capital district at that | time. Wednesday's purported sir Char question treaty is a forgery office today offictall uch communication berlain to of the changed At first papermen applicd for official comment it was state was grave doubt as fo it but that in the absence no official denial was pos- when a large group of news the alleged Iett there ticity on that authel the sible » Press and Public Are Asked to Aid in Search for Atlanta Man. handec actual text of lanation that correspondent foreign office the jetter, with the had not been published and wouli be published without evidence wuthenticity. The foreign office requested time fo the document, and » following statement The copy of the ietter i been shown to the foreign tate officially that the letter must | Southern Baptist Convention orgery. No communication ha The board that Mr. Carne been made by Sir Austen Cham reasurer umably left ALl Briand even motcely i August 15 for Raleig C, and del ed not been heard of The st Ago o t ment poinied out that the board was | (i ooy wpprehensive that some misfortune Other n Mr. Carnes, b told members of hi family Kiwanis Club: Robert st 35, He telephoned his ch | ital district, and J. Dandall Caton, at 5:30° o'clock that afternoon of Alexandria, past dis his wife that he had to go t ernational trustee That was the last heard of :d Moses, president of When, on August 20, he had not on Kiwanis Club, and Wilb urned to Atlanta to attend to import- prestdent of the ant business matters, his wife became b, will take turns presidin apprehensive and tried to locate him | A program of music will be furnishe through the Citizens’ Bank at eigh. | b 'the Hotel Mayflower Orchestra which he had expected to visit in that | - ymmediately following the city. When officials at that bank said | posts and their guests v Mr. Carnes had not béen there, calls | port Myer. where thes were placed to the Statler Hotel in Bos- | Gavalry and Artillery dr ton and the Pennsylvania Hotel and | courtesy of Col. Guy V. Chase nal Bank New York, | manding officer here where Carnes was expected to v Kiwanis International on personal bi after his Raleigh | cubs of the Capital Kiw trip. Later were placed to per- egral parts, consists sor Washington and | 1700 clubs, with New Orleans Mr. Carnes, as proram to be in charge of Harry G. Kimball and G. Frank Young, chairmen of interclub re- lations of the Washington and Balti- more Kiwanis Clubs, respectively. E. Karr, past president of nis Club and past president anis International. will be the 1 speaker His subject will be not of fmm 5 ATLANTA. Ga s and_public asked today ip a home mission board ‘ater tion gave h locat question office, | from of the s rie C ant Fit den a sene G loc berluin t sense » N b ince th n ict will be the w ling of tal dis speaker president of Sees U. S. Aroused. was founded fanfare of publicity John J of the Kellogg peace oniy one jarring note is heard That, however, is a severe jar. It takes the form of a remarkable dispatch to | the London Times from its Washingtoa | correspondent to which the Times gives | ts largest headlines This well informed and cautiol <crver declares that all evidenee able in Washington points the that Kellogg's decisions not to d the Anglo-French naval agreement in Europe and not to come to London are in “direct relation. that in the back ground lie defi instructions from President Coolidge The dispatch concludes that “it is stonishing that little or no speculation ipon the subject has appeared in the press What the Times' representative con- veys is that the United States is angry at the secret Anglo-French agreement ind is showing its displeasure by the Secretary of State’s pointed cancellation ns to visit London, and in this h emely close contact dian Premier, his refer- the Canadian war effort and to Ireland but not to England nent in London. N over th IR pact in In the ning Paris, and leigl tell Kime ir g. motor ar of more president of the Phoenix Realty Co. and an official of a textile mill in Griffin, has large hold- here. He is a member of several 1bs and fraternal organizations. Members of the family could offer no suggestion as to what might have be- come of Mr. Carnes, and his wife ¥ confined to bed with a nervous attac GIRL DIES IN CRASH Canada The first tion was formed in Detroit in 1915 The Kiwanis clubs have specialize c e ton Kiwanis Club having been especiall his visit are arousing quiet com to - direction. Following the example set | washington and Baltimore Clubs in forming a Kiwanis district ather clubs soon followed suit NUN DENIES GUILT OF SELF OR CHURCH ernment by situation is seri- Press Helps Go As always, when a ously embarrassing the British govern- ment, the press is almost unan helping the authorities by silenc v | accepting the explanation put forwa How much longer the muzzle can be | | kept on is doubtful and it would not be OF ROLLER COASTER g u % S illness, if Premicr Baldwin e | Eighteen Hurt When Car Jumps | shortly from his holiday in France to o deai with the naval situation personally 1‘ Track in Indianapolis—Brakes Sir Austin, it is said, is planning fo | leave England the middie of next week | Are Blamed for a tour which will earry him to California on a visit It 15 believed that he will leave Liverpool next Thurs- day His wife and two children will accompany him (Copsrisht ANTI-WAR PACT OPEN FOR ALL COUNTRIES TO SIGN, KELLOGG SAYS First (Continued _from Pirst Page.) to assume all and to nothing. for myself. e bility denial. “But,” she added, the first time as the result of appeal | by my mother, the Assoclated Press INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. August One person was killed and 18 injured, one seriously. when a three-car roller coaster at the Riverside Amusement Park failed to stop at the end of the run, jumped the track in a wooden tunnel 3 feet from tho ground and plunged through the wails of the structure Nellie White, 17. died in Hospital of internal injuries Jerry Jones, manager of the amuse- ment device, stated that he had sent Joe Gusler. who assists him in operat- ing the brakes look for a o which had been reported lost said he sot the first brake Gusler ordi operates, but when the the brake failed to hold and was relcased as the cars sped by They continued into the tunnel for a second time at high speed, and two of the cars jumped the track at the third turn in the tunnel All of the victims were thrown fr | their s through the wooden timbers of the tunnel wall make 10283 against me of which T am not guilty Referring to charges, that the City inent politicians _and were discussed, she said “I never heard any complete conver Page.) sations in my house. (Continued from o abou to my zoing hey him that European peace is impo: so long as Germany must tolerate for- clgn troops on its soil Even the newspapers which other- wise have bitterly opposed Herr Strese- mann recognize he is facing a situ- ation fraught with grave responsi and express the hope that he may re- turn with tangible results. REDS CRITICIZE TREATY. Litvinoff Says Pact Will Not Solve Dis- armament Problems. MOSCOW, August 25 (#).--The Kel- )gg pact for the outlawry of war can- not solve the problems of disarmament which “indeed can only be solved by a UTAH DEMOCRATS R RS NAME SENATOR KING foreign affairs, declared in a note ad- | dressed today to the chatrman the preliminary commission of the Geneva Disarmament Conference "The note, which requested information as to why the commission had delayed calling a conference for di sston of the Soviet delegation's alternate plan | for partin! disarmament. intimated that the Russian_government had no desire to sign the Kellogg pact It is impossible,” the note ignore the public declarations initiators of the Kelloge pact ing the absence of inter-dependence een the past and disarmament At any rate, the declarations of the pact’s ponsors again emphasize that its sien- ing cannot solve the problems of dis armament, which, indeed, can only be | solved by a guarantee of peace and afety The Russian proposals for partial dis- irmament, supplementary to the orlg nal plan for complete reduction of all | ocratic candidat He promijsed that armies and navies ¢ presented (o [1f elected ov. Smith would $olve the the preliminary commission March 23 |problem of agriculture and would bring hbore (i | They were distributed to the various | an “era of prosperity to th n b e | members. but” discussion was postponed | such as has never been experienced with ht indefinitely before ame expense | ' Nithin was | PLANNING within wa nuns, in and out were talking they said. “Many people came to my house, received them all, considering only theis souls without of the room wher: that I never Il who came near to me. My brotherly love. I never asked any came valuntarily my home told me thev were going rent a house to establish a center the Association of Catholic Youths The nun said her own history been that of an idealist As a girl” she said. thing. a wealthy tion and luxuries enter a convent. I never had sweetheart for boys did not like 1 did not enter the convent because of a love affair but for the love of God. I isolated myself from the and found in the convent a very exall ed life until January. 1927, when police closed it. I moved it | nuns tinued our religious even more fervor th The mother superior hing considered,” ived good treatment in est on charges of complicity ‘in assassination of President-Elect gon. She sald that she had not mistreated in any way and that guards had been “good fellows.™ There is no question.” she conelud of reconciling acts of viok the teachings of the Catholic church and the teachings of Christ because the Catholic church has nothing to do with this affair church has absolutely no responsibility farmers | {or the a violence. As for the vicinity of Fifth and Ingraham streets. Iere the water Photo of the residents who took to their bathing suits and made shows som ¢ nue at First street od again cnjoyed th waters down Rhode Island av 1 avenue. Here the neighborl bathin, “I had ever family, social . & P 1 abandoned all te LOGAN, Utah, August 25 The national Democratic ticket, headed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, was indorsed and the election of a Demo- cratic Coneress urged by Utah Demo- crats in their State conventinn here today. The platform demarded that the prohibition amendment be ¢en a fair trial United Senator William H King was nominated by acclamation to succeed himself Dr. J. H. Paul of the University of Utah was named in a second district | q convention to oppose E. O. Leatherwood Republican incumbent, for election to Congres Complete vention i S King address pleaded farmers and wage second The 5240 By ng tide automobile The climbed the cliev h i iighorad the cella cubic_feet mall sewer cellar carried i on d many and_ the mbed up nders and ¥ Motor C. Policeman 12 claims the distine oliceman Swims. 240 occupant, clad in bathir cttied down to whal i to b ali-night task of pu: remaining one and one-haif feet t at the same time kecping ting objects of personal oug escape through The man's wife, on the looked at her lawn with one he pret- Rone cle ap: practices ever before.” said she had said, “to States by th regard- be- wimm 50 1o strec ushed from A bathing suit and that uddy swirl. announc ar door the f porch above o arful eye 1 woled her harmony ruled the con- Rone w ning in an impassioned for support of the earners for the Dem- od with nborl nott deluge erned He iy Da a 1 SF B awnd swishing he found nto their hom 1all v offeriy ing ind ascertained frons the cecup spened naster of energy w t WS Were o o door and Hto me hg i renr e nd aft d strength opened. The water than 4 personal . the muddy v onee promptl; Ke FOR CELEBRATION HERE ater came down | door croy L Fitth olicen Rone his strug to g He didn moment e the v and i n the cellar e A paint housed seve bucket flonting about ad spilled 1 th ne tumbled that was floated atop bench of and thick onto a larg bmerged. water, Rone carch of istance much 1 vour asked @ nearby ocenpant ter, T don't know was the tep last night a ma were i tont of I brooms. shovel off th had been niles an he an ) telling he street rtieular appeared acant dentified as Second nd Ingraham. It carried witl 4 pounds of mud and wher cwers were able to Hamilton and Sixth streets ad. " The ired and ¢ mud mad Rone sald aren that Third uld Hamil- | « Having re cked the ther H Tndeed tric motor vd the and that urplu went in necded and cary denice ' treet betw - in wa v )e n aoked lke i country conerete m I'm ob there ) look b ity thetr nd it i auto resld Seeks Table Leaves, thic lett o mud tha communit by and | sdew wirling which due to | Al publie- | thought from the 15 nob yet: built he precautio piited resident v fortnight ago bt have floating up, was pit SN swamped with to frtcenth 1" week that witl ident downpour did i celley ment b telling e of last aid compired the 1 1 see ehie man Rone { the premise well T stumbled e and that wa Rone came o the rescie of the oecupent of 5240 who refused to hi did the nelghbor ) which had cellars | {th water to the four-foot level | tugged and pushed and pried cellar door, matehing hi against the prespire set up hat hedge 1 Hand's Death Augi asked. pointing to o the 1 W 6240 wround font Fift ome i " Prabe Farm HAMILTON Pallce ure inve Ernest Sulmon near Mount Hope, Ontario, killed by the prongs of a pitchiork thrown at his back. Information gathered by the | police indicated the fork was thrown by | an 11-year-old boy, Jean Dermanucl. a | visitor at the farm from Wesleyville, Pa., | whom Salmion was sald Lo have been the death | farm hand | Ontari tiguting 19, a Policemur eal name both of ! filled | Roug At the strength who are arvanging the ob Ieft to right: Koe Fulker Claude W. Owen, Harry G, ' Tnsert: Radford Moxes, president of the Washington Kiwanis Club, with past prosidents, sery of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the organization in this area. Front row won, ¥ Adams, John 1. Boobar and Clande H. Woodward. Back row, lefl to right. Kimball, Gen. Antonfigtephan, Mark Lamsburgh and William 5. Quinter. rowth and Development of Ki- | Hoo- | Washington of | which is heavily rmor of the Cap- . | delegations brou trict governor and | Si the Biltmore d | Frank Hague of luncheon to will witness a 1 through the Henry, com- which the s district are than a membership of more | past police an than 100,000 in the United States and Kiwanis organiza- 4| boy in the welfare and care of the crippled and underprivileged child, the Washing- | active in this work, many score of chil- dren having been treated free under its the | them away and won Kiwanis IN OBREGON DEATH responsi- no “I am talking for brother and attorney who pleaded with me to deny the charges she had frequently been present ‘at meetings in her own home when plots against prom- the government | I do not know what the boys who gathered there talked ! ference of the da; because 1 was so busy attending going to my chapel and heard thought of their pelitics. | My purpose was to bring near to God theme i | Was to remove hatred and to establish one 0 come to my house and all who came The boys who came to | to for had posi- a me world the with my to a private house where we con- with that re- jail since her he Obre- been her ¢ | can: had The my- elf. it matters nothing what happens KIWANIS CLUBS (NEW JERSEY CROWD ~ WILDOVER SMITH | Break Lines at Seagirt Rally to Climb on Auto and Shake His Hand. he Associated Press CAMP MOORE, Seagirt, N. acclaimed by hers who had trooped in from all parts of New Jersey for a monster Democratic rally, Gov. Smi was given an ovation here today that would have warmed the of any presidential nominee He was cheered to t most manhandled by admirers as the brushed past police barriers. And was assured by party leaders that Jer- cv would be his on election day The Democratic nominee came this National Guard camp, where New Jersey maintains a Summer home for its governor, for the double purpose of attending the rallv and reviewing the troops. Happy. but tired, he returned | a few hours later to nearbv Spring Lake, where he is spending the week end. 3., Au thou- heart h echo and al- he Crowd Put at 100,000. More than 50 special trains had con- verged on Sea Girt, swelling the throng that arrived by automobil | of the crowd’s size ran 1 100,000 to well above that of those in charge declared mo 00,000 were here. Many of those who were taking a day’s outing had come from Jersey City Democratic, Newark Flizabeth and other cities. Most of the ght bands, and “East was heard on all sides | *'Leaving the new Monmouth Hotel at Sprink Lake, two miles away, eatly in the afternoon. Gov. Smith mofored to the camp with his old friend, Willlam | F. Kenney of New York. and Mayor I Jersey City. a State political power. a vice chairman of the Demorcatic national committee and on of the governor’s closest political ailie With a squad of State troopers blaz- ing the way on motor cycles, the gov- ernor's car had clear sailing until it reached the edge of the camp. ‘Then it was engulfed by a pushing, shouting crowd. It siowed down and finally came to a halt as the throng swept d National Guardsmen. from while some than de, West Side” Crowd Goes Wild. At times nearly a score of men and s. shaking off the restraining hands of police, were hanging onto the gov- ernor’s automobile, reaching to shake his hand or thump him on the back. They were on the running boards, on i the fenders, on the rear tire carrier. and they held on until others pulled | their point of | vantage. Holding to a determination not deliver a speech in the open air, Smith kept waving an acknowledgment to cheers, smiling from ear to ear. When the Summer home of Gov. Moore was reached, a wedge was formed and he was pushed to the front porch. There | he was greeted by New Jersey's chief executive, Gov. Ritchie of Mary! Senator Edwards of this State, who Is {up for re-clection, and William L. Dill, the Democratic nominee for governor After luncheon and a chat with this group and other political leaders in the white-frame residence where Wood- row Wilson lived during part of his 11912 presidential campaign. Gov. Smith again was swept out into the shouting throng to make his way slowly in an automobile to the parade grounds. Just before Smith and his party left for the parade grounds which borders on the Atlantic, Mayor Hague gave out a formal statement in which he de- clared that “New Jersey is safe for Smith.” This was echoed later by Gov. Moore. Senator Edwards, and Mr. Dill, while Gov. Smith in his second press con- arranged chiefly for New Jersey newspapermen, said he di not consider this “a doubtful State. Moved by Warmth. | “I didn't require this demonstration said the presidential nominee. “New Jersey has elected three Democratic | governors in the last nine vears and is represented now in the Unitad States Senate by one of its former governors Jersey is a Democratic State.’ Gov. Smith asserted that he had been “greatly impressed by the enthusiasm warmth and. I might say. the affection displayed by the people of Jersey™” >ver since his arrival in the State yes- terday. - Interviewed by newspapermen, Gov Moore said the outlook i the State was wonderful” for Gov. Smith. Both Ed- wards and Dill predicted the Democrats would carry the State by at least 200.000 Hague, in his statement, declared Smith’s 'attitude on prohibition f | especially appeal to the voters of New Jersey.” forecast “an overwhelming ma- jority” for Smith, Edwards and Dill and said there was “not the slightest ause for worry This demonstration toda est in political history of this State. perhaps the greatest ever accorded candidate for public office any State in the Union.’ Hague asserted, “w not necessary to convince me of fact Never before party of New and harmonious as sentiment permeates entire State His candidacy for President of the United States is not only approved by | masses but by thousands of Rep; and independent voters.” When Gov. Smith arrived was shining brightly but by he reached the parads L | had become overcast,*and there w threat of rain. The crowd was roped back from the parade fi t the end of which Gov. Smith aute bile and mounted to t seat an_old-fashioned barouche, a bl and vellow vehicle drawn by four horses. Alongside him was the driver sporting & blue and vellow uniforn Behind were Governors Moore and Ritchie, Senator Edwards and Mr. Dill to s o 1 r 0 . the great and has Jersey it the Democratic been so united is today. Smith the the Reviews Cavaley Smith and thos the fleld amid | taking up a position . Three times the mounted ¢ passed in review at a trot and a fou time they came by at a fast gallop While he was waiting for the rey | to get under way V.- Smith looked | down at the cheering crowd from his front-seat perch in the barouche | inquired: “How do 1 Jook, on the lev Like the next Prefident of the United shouted one man whose Vo Id be heard above the others skilful handling by the driver | high pitehed cartiage averted ar | dent o the nomiinee As the vehicle proceeded fleld to take up Us position view cavaltyman's horse trightening the animals drawing governor's eari and causing them to swerve quickly to the right for about 25 feel. ‘The carriage, with the nomi | nee i the tront seat with the driver swayed for a time, but the driver soon | straightened it out and moved on as if nothing had happened with cheers Gov | civcled before review valrymen ow States, down Blast Frightens Crowd. | NEW YORK, August 35 (P —Ex. | plosion of a short-eircuited electrical | transformer in & drug store basement {in Upper HRioadway tonight started rumors of “another subway wreck.™ | Proximity of the store to a station of the Interborough Subway was responsi- | ble for the rumors. One woman in nearby motion pleture theater was slightly injured when patrons, alarmed by the blast, dashed for the exits, |