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\ or = in_temperature ‘Temperature day: lowest. 73, at THER. Burean Forecast ) showers tonight: to- oudy: not much change gentle variable winds ~Highest, 82. at noon to- 6 a.m. today. Full report no page 9 Wa nd class matte shington, D. C. ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ing Star, The only ev service. Saturday's Circul Sunday’s Circulation, 103,321 ening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news lation, 91,166 WA SHINGTON, D, O, MONDAY, AUGUST o7 1928—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. » P) Means Assoc d Pro TWO CENTS. KELLOGG TREATY SIGNED ~ IN PARIS BY 15 NATIONS; - EUROPE REMAINS ARMED Names Affixed * at Impressive Meeting. MOVIE CAMERAS FILM CEREMONY Stresemann Takes| Pen First. Secre- tarv Follows. ciation of wa af rnoon 15 nations Str . the G minister, was the fir to the historic document. attaching signature at 3:45 pm. (9:45 am. East- | ern standard time). | Secretary of State Kellogg was the second to sign the treaty and Foreign tinister Benes of Czechoslovakia affixed | the fifteenth and final signature at 3:55 | pm | his | | Unites World for Peace. By the pact the 15 countrigs nounced war an instrument national polics With its signing all the peoples of the world were invited to join in a great | effort to achieve permanent univers: peace. Soviet Ru: being asked to take part through the ¥French government. Dr. Stresemann rose sWwaight to his | re- | of | | | Briand Tells How He Sowed the Seed That Grew to Be a Treaty BY ARISTIDE BRI PARIS, Au heen a vear d a message conveyed throngh the Associated Press, 1 let fall this fragile germ of a sugzestion sufficiently discreet, anticipating nothing more than the spon- tancous sympathy of the Amer- ican people. History already what care was taken to safeguard the seed and make it grow. I know how much one may expect from the qualities of the Amer- ican soil. which vields a hundred- fold for the grain confided to it. The harvest has not deceived my hopes. 1 have never doubted for a single instant that the American people only awaited their heur to manifest in a new form the natural attachment they have always had for the cause of peace. 1 felicitate myself today that this brilliant manifestation permits us to measure how much unselfishness Franco-American friendship ean bring to the world. The two great nations, faithful to the same traditions of liberal- ism, acting together for peace today as they did in other days for liberty, find themselves closely united in the same aspiration, in the birth of all great movements of human spirit. testified to THREE NATIONS JOIN U. 3. ARMS STAND 'Western Forces | Greater Than in 1913. 3.000.000 MEN | ARE IN SERVICE Distrust and Fear ill Grip Con- tinent. By the Associated Pres PARIS, August -Consummation of the Kellogg-Briand war renuncia- tion treaty finds Western Europe, with the cxception of Giermany, more heavily armed than in 1913. | Upwards of 3,000,000 men are in ac- | tual military service, and, as it happens at this season, many hundreds of thou- sands have been called to the colors |for training. Swift practice mobiliza- |tions are in progress, and trial war maneuvers are under way throughout | Europe. Greater Than Ever. In artillery, in stores of munitions, in chemicals and in works for making | gases, in aircraft, in tanks, in all the | complicated apparatus of destruction the nations have a striking power im- mensely superior to that of 1913. Thi is especially true of the powers, | Kentucky Governor Names Baby, Two, Colonel on Staff | Editor’s Son Joins Junk Men and Jockeys in | mpson’s “Army.” By Consolidated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 27.—Mem- bers of the vast army of Kentucky col- onels, which now includes four humor- ists, two junk dealers, nine jockeys, fifty insurance men, twelve newspaper men, two novelists, seven cigar clerks and one soldier, are rather amazed at the latest addition to the ranks made by Gov. Flem D. Sampson's appointment of George A. Joplin, II1, a 2-year-old baby, as one of their number. Col. Joplin, himself, had little to say on the matter, but felt sure that his father, George A. Joplin, II, editor of the Somerset Journal, would consider the objections of the other three Ken- tuckians in Kentucky who are not colo- nels as evidence only of their envy. Commissions Women. DEFICITIS SEEN. -~ INU. S, BUDGET l | President’s Hopes for Bal- | ance Seem Doomed in Face JAPANESE CHERRY TREES DYING AS RESULT OF RECENT RAINS | Many: Grant's Pools Formed on Hains Point Drown Drainage Plan Is Hampered. | Considering that 166 colonels, two ad- | mirals, two vicz admirals and one en- | voy extraordinary have been commis- sioned since Gov. Sampson entered the executive mansion, it can readily be seen | that the civilian population is being | rapidly depleted. It is becoming a common thing for legislators who have | taken the right way on certain measure: | to wake up some morning and find their sons have been honored with a com- mission from the governor, A number of women are included in the list for the last few months, as well as comparatively senile children of 12 to 20 years of age. Surrounded by women and children, the Kentucky colonel has become the butt of jokesters, even more so than during the World War when he en- tered the Army with the burden of his honorary colonelcy. Kentuckians, noted for their court- liness and gentlemanly manners, can- not refuse to be honored by the gov- ernor, even though they might prefer not to be. The latest way out of the difficulty is to suggest politely that a position in the as yet uncrowded Ken- tucky navy will be more acceptable than a colonelcy. ENGINEERS STUDY FAILURE OF SEWER SYSTEM N STORM Additional Relief Basins to Be Installed to Remedy Conditions. CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATIONS TO APPEAL TO CONGRESS Will Urge Increase in Funds for Northeast—$9,500,000 Declared Needed. Engineers of the District sewer de- | partment began an extensive. survey to- day of the vast storm water sewer system with a view to correcting the conditions responsible for the floods in | various sections that followed the tor- | rential downpour Saturday night. | At tae same time an enlarged force |0t sewer department workmen was | cleaning out the Piney Branch trunk | sewer, which became clogged with dirt, sand and gravel, washed into it from the drains east of Fifth street, and caused the flood in the territory around Fifth and Seventh and Hamilton and Ingraham streets. i | Study Cause of Failure. One hundred and sixty-four automatic gauges were placed in the trunk sewers |in the areas where flooded conditions were reported, to determine whether the failure of the sewers to carry off the water was due to tie lack of a sufiicient | number of catch basins, or whether the sewers themseives are inadequate. In either case, it was announced at the sewer departments, steps will be taken | to remedy the conditions by the installa- | large and small, lately allied in the war. | 1 | Both Parties Play. I tion of additional catch basins or relief The central powers are compulsorily | 11 height. He was quite pale. but | sewers, such as was done recently at Between 25 and 50 of the Japanese | pected that between 25 and 50 of the walked with firm step around the big | table to the inside of the horseshoe and seated himself at a small table | ‘where the treaty, with all the seals affixed, was laying. He wrote his signa ture quickly with Secretary Kellogg's pen dipped in the inkstand which | served for the signing of the first| Franco-American treaty negotiated by Benjamin Franklin Takes 10 Minutes. I The German foreign minister blinked | Japan, Britain and Italy 'F‘a- vor “Pitiless Publicity”” at Geneva Parley. By the Associated Press GENEVA, August 27.—Japan, Great in the brilliant lights that shone upon | Britain and Italy today announced their his‘éace. whe? he hx% signed, ;:em e | adherence to the doctrine of the United amid more applause and returne: S | States that \“pitiless publicity” should | t. The: ign Minister Briand e i 2 w4 | - e B | b wiven 16 e ottt 22 well nod, Secretary Kellogg went to the treaty ‘table and signed. The others |as the private manufacture of arms. disarmed under peace treaty limita- tions, but the victorious and non-com- | batant powers, excluding -Serbia and | R.(ussg‘;\é have added to their armaments of 1913. Great Britain and Ireland, which just prior to the war had 406,000 men under arms, now have troops totaling 408,000; France, whose troops before the war numbered 646,000, has added | 20,000 to this figure: Italy, whose 1918 army consisted of 274,000 men, now has | 347,000 men under arms; Belgium has | increased its army from 47,000 to 79,000, and Greece from 25,000 to 66,000. Ru- fore the war, mania has an army of 205,000, com- | pared with 103,000 maintained there be- {000 are given by Government estima- of Higher Expense. By the Associated Press President Coolidge’s hope for a bal- anced budget on June 30, 1929, appar- ently faces disappointment, and the Government, for the first time since the war, formally is forecasting a Treasury deficit. As set forth in the annual report of Director of the Budget Lord, the figure on the red letter side is expected to be $94,279,346 for the fiscal year 1929, The reason for the deficit, which, if {materialized, will displace a once-ex- {pected surplus of more than $252,000,- tors as greater expense due to expanded activities of bureau: and a prospective | cherry trees on Hains Point are ex- pected to be a total loss and nearly 200 are in serious danger as the result of flood conditions on the point. Brown and withered, the Springtime show place of the Capital presents a forlorn appearance, the trees in some cases standing in two feet of water, with shore birds feeding in ponds about them. Every effort to drain off the water that is “drowning” the trees is being made, but the high level of the river and the recent torrential rains have left trees now affected will die. He adds, however, that crowded conditions in some places will permit of transpianting some of the trees to take the place of those that are lost, so that the general effect will be only partially impaired. Col. Grant and his department's horticultural expert, Charles Henlock, have been over the ground and care- fully inspected the affected trees. In many cases where the leaves have been lost or are brown and withered the wood does not seem to be in danger of permanent rot. Workmen today were busily digging drains in attempts to get rid of the wa- ter, but conditions hamper them. The pleasant pastime of signing col- | onel’s commissions is not confined to one party. While Gov. Sampson creat- ed 143 colonels during 180 days i office, Lieut. Gov. James A. Breathitt, Demaocrat, commissioned 23 colonels, 2 admirals and 2 vice admirals during the 8 days Gov. Sampson was on vaca- tion. It is understood that Sampson | and Breathitt have agreed that “a colonel a day will keep defeat away. Senator William A. Perry, who ac- | Seventeenth and L streets and Thir- teenth and Holmead streets, two locali- ties that previously were flooded after each heavy rainfall. Particular attention will be given to the need of additional sewers to take care of an admittedly bad situation in the Northeast boundary section. Imme- diate steps are to be taken, however, to remedy the condition at the low point on Connnecticut avenue, just south of cepted the governor's chair for only | Albemarle street, where surface water, one day, used the opportunity to make | Fushing down from an undeveloped area Edwin Watson Taylor, son of a noted above, washed out the sidewalk on the whisky _distiller, admiral of the Ken- | ¢ast side and buried the car tracks un- tucky River. Admiral Taylor capital- | der water. Five additional catch basins izes this commission and time by run- | 8¢ to be installed at this point and im- ning Camp Restawhile, a few miles mediately above it to intercept this sur- States non- tant in ti ! non-combatant in the great Giirease in° revedite; | Trees May Be Raised. face drainage. followed in a steady procession, each | taking an average of 40 seconds so! that the signatures were completed in 10 minutes. After Foreign Minister Hymans had | signed for Belgium and M. Briand for FPrance, Lord Cushen’g‘un“ acting Bg:g: secretary of o1 ai A signed In fi'fl‘fimdm of Great Britain. He was followed by Premier Mackenzie King of Canada, Alexander , member of the executive council, for the common- wealth of Australia; Sir Christopher Parr, New Zealand high commissioner, for New Zealand: Jacobus Smit, South commissioner, for South This stand developed at the opening session of a commission which will frame a draft convention for the con- | trol of the private manufacture of im- plements of war. It is interpreted as meaning that all the great powers are ready to publish information concerning the manufacture of arms and muni- tions, whether that manufacture takes place in government arsenals or else- where, when the arms are for use of | governments. Goal of Years. Count Bernstorfl, former war have felt impelled to add to their military establishments. Switzerland, which had a so-called active militia before the war of 28,000, now has 170,- 000, owing to an improved organization. Denmatk has increased its increased her forces from 26,500 officers and voluntarily enlisted men to 28,500. German Army Smaller. The phrase “Western Europe” has been used for the reason that Europe, peace strength from 14,000 in 1913 to 33,000, Holland from 26,000 to 29,999, . from 98,000 to 224,000, has n 0 g an 3 e | erman | taken as a whole, has about 1,000,000 Irish FPree State. Lord Cushendun | gmbassador to the United States, | fewer men under arms, Th: German then signed again for India. Count | over the commission. The Manzoni signed for Italy, Count Uchida | for Japan, Foreign Mini for Poland,and Foreign Minister Benes | for Czechoslovakia. | Take Movies Brilliant calcium lights cast glare on the scene as motion picture ma- chines ground and cameras clicked. were rushes of photographers to get their plates out to waiting mes- | sengers who sped by motor cycle to | the air flelds to send them to Bcrlm.f London and other European capitals. | Within a few minutes after the| treaty was sign were sent w0 representatives all over the world to esent to 47 states invitations to ad- g:rv 1o the pact. Twenty-four of these | were sent from the Paris embassy and | 23 were to be sent from the State De- | partment at Washington. The invita- tions had previously been mailed and telegraphed to all the points affected #0 that they might have the document ready when word was wired that the treaty was signed. ‘This procedure haying become known, | several countries, without awaiting the | formal iavitation, already have American diplomatic | tele- | graphed to Secretary Kellogg in Paris | their acreptance. The first of these came soom after the Secretary arrived 2nd the others have been trickling in | ever since. { Ule Kellogg's Pen. The treaty, which was spread on table inside the horseshoe, bore | wax wafers, each marked with the scal of a signer. The foreign office had he s might be s e Secretar: usted to one of | of the foreign office for pen which was pre- | by the municipality of 1 end ram the | seal purpose ted to h “FBK document used for all the vas well applauded w nd there > M. Bri Immediate ended, M. E Jowed room ¥ entered den W b secre for y filed out of the y which the: hour 1 ann hand of the after oon.” ‘There were :m a number of mann "’ The logg Wes there was diality subdy no question about Farly Crowds Gather ther ng the the Qua arrival foreign Crowds began W ¢ river embankmentven front Diorsay st noon o witness of the plenipotentiarie smce Shortl pumber ¢ and th the ister Zaleski | | Btate presided United States was represented by Hugh . Wilson, American minister to Switzerland. For several years the league has been struggling with this problem and has vention. In view of the difficuities en- countered, some delegates favored either dropping the matter, or at least post- poning it until such time as is held a general international conference for the reduction of all agreements. But the last League Assembly adpoted it attached to the adoption of a conven- tion on private manufacture, a conven-~ tion which would especially have the ef-| fect of putting countries on a basis of equality, irrespective of whether they manufactured arms. The Assembly expressed its conviction that the establishment of a convention for supervision of private manuf.cture an arms is of the highest importance. For Vhole Field. From the standpoint of the United States, no convention would be com- plete unless the whole field of produc- tion of arms, both governmental and private, were to be submitted to what the American delegatioen in 1927 called the “same degree of pitiless publicity.” The American delegation told the commission at that time that the United States is powerless to prescribe or en- force a prohibition upon private manu- | facture which takes place under the jurisdiction of the States of the Ameri can Union. This 15 duc to the policy of rights with which Washington cannot interfere, the ‘Americans pointed out. A complete draft of the conven- tion s expected to be ready for sub- mission to the fourthcoming meeting of the League Assembly within a few months DAWES HAS BIRTHDAY. Vice President, 63 Today, Not Sure He Will Have Cake. CHICAGO, August 27 () - ident Charles G. Dawes today ob- xty-third birthday anni- ring for work as usual offices in the Central Trust Co.'s ¢ expected a birthday cake for din- sald, but was not sure about The Vice President returned ay from s hunting trip in Colo- New Mexico and expects o for the Summer Beman Dawes, at ’ Midnighr “Ghost Singer” of Cemet Proves to Be Youth SCRANTON. of the Catholic been no singing tonight Residents had told the police that o the last several nights whout mid night the ghost inger with rich the tomb- August 27-The st singer” of 8t metery in South ved und there will Mine i police d publicity regarding manufacture of | Vice | army has shrunk from 809,000 to 100,- 000. Russia and the state§ carved from her have about 900,000 now instead of 1,200,000 as in 1913. Austria and states | taken from her have 190,000 instead of | 424,000 in 1913. Bulgaria instead of tly | found it no easy matter to reach agree- | 60000 is limited to 20,000. i iy | ment upon the terms of a draft con- | Why these armaments? That is a question thrusting up in parliaments when budgets are debated, at Geneva always, in periodical litera- | ture frequently. The comprehensive re- | ply is the widespread distrust, sus- | picion, fear that pervade the councils of | governments, Peace engagements of ed telegraphic messages @ resolution reaffirming the importance| much formality have been adopted by | European powers at Genoa in 1922, at ! Geneva in 1924, at Locarno in 1925, and now, the most solemn of all per- | haps, the Briand-Kellogg convention of 11928. The distrust of the present is an inheritance of the past, the survival of tradition and the habits of thought deeply fixed by the trnlmns of the elderly statesmen in command of pub- lic_business | Each country has its specific reasons adequate to itself even if unexpressed |or not much talked about. There are the Italo-Jugoslav differences. Ru- | mania has her Bessarablan question. Poland, with 242,000 men under arms, |has_her doubts of Russia, her fears | of Germany on account of the Danzig corridor, her open dispute with Lithu- ‘The “Little Entente"—Czecho- Jugoslavia and Rumania— ave their contentions with Hungary over the minority question. France Explains Armaments. | The armaments of France, easily the most powerful country on the continent, require some explanation, the French feel. Prevailing thought in the higher | political level is that France more than any other power 15 responsible for peace in is to say, the mainte sides that, it i5 felt here that the en | gagements of France are such that there can hardly be a war_anywhere gurope without affecting French in- She has military alllances with felgium and Poland. France also has limited alliances with Rumania and one or two other Balkan states There s the delicate Italo-French situation. Almost anything that one might say on this subject would be con- Lrov by a competent authority in Rome or in Paris. Nevertheless, a sit ation doe xist that gives son ern on this of the fronti ineidents alor southern the frontier year were viewed as a disagreeable hint of a certain unrest in Ialy in respect to France. The newspapey of the two countries en- gage from time to time and on both sides s driven = ontinued on Page 4, Column 8.) ery Warbling for Friends estimuted that more than 7,000 person: gathered around the cemetery, but the inger did not appear | 14 @ young man describing him- | self a5 Joseph Slamper told the authori- | ties that he was the “ghost.” He said | he had been singing nightly for friends {In a feld just outside the cemetery and expre that he had alarmed persons \elghborhood Afier veprimanding the young man the police told him to try his volee it aver the mountain and not around s the cemetery wn the future, in polemics, | “the bit- Taxes Fall Off. ‘The trend toward fulfillment of one side of the situation—decrease in rev- enue—was atteste® to last night in a report of the Internal Revenue Bureau, made public at the same time Director ~“dfeted the deficit. This report disclosed that tax collections in the fiscal -ear ending June 30, 1928 were less by $75,147,597 than in the preceding year. On December 5, 1927, the Budget Bu- reau estimated that the cost of operat- ing the Government from July 1, 1927, to June 30. 1928, would be, in roun figures, $3,557,000,000. A revision of the figures on June 30, however, boosted this figure to $3,801,000,000, an increase approaching a quarter of a billion dollars. On the other hand, the estimate of tax collections on June 30 was less by nearly $102,000,000 than on December 5. ‘The first item to prove disappointing was customs receipts whereby $15,000,- 000 less was anticipated on June 30 than in December. Likewise, internal revenue receipts were cdt by $115,500,- 000, but this combined heavy falling off ‘was balanced by an increase in expected revenue from miscellaneous taxes, boosted by $28,500,000. All But $6,500,000. At the beginning of the recent session of Congress, President Coolidge sub- mitted a budget calling for appropria- tions totaling in round figufe: $3,505,- 000,000, a total subsequently increased to $3,560,000,000 by supplemental es- ! timates. Congress appropriated all but | $6,500,000 of the latter figure. Specifically the bigger outlays of money as disclosed by the new estimates of Director Lord are an increase of $137,109,000 in general expenditures, $44,700,000 in postal deficiency, $10,000 for the Panama Canal, 27,300,000 for the Shipping Board, $13,000,000 for the Government life insurance fund, and $25,500,000 for the alien property funds. Last June, in a speech before the business organizatiom of the Govern- ment, the President referred to the difference between the June and December estimates, and said that he hoped, by careful pruning, the Govern- ment departments would be able to make a surplus out of what looked like an impending deficit. TRAIN ROEBE}{S' LooT FOUND IN MICHIGAN | Woman Discovers Bag of Express Money Orders and Checks Under Tree. By the Assoclated Press ADRIAN, Mich., August 27.--An un- determined amount of travelers’ checks and express money orders stolen June 22 from an American Raflway Expre: car on a New York Central train near Blissfield in a hold-up has been recov- | | ¢ lcred, it became known here today. Mrs. Elizabeth Setzer found two bags under a tree on her farm, four miles ast of Blissfield, last week. They con- ied the travelers’ checks, money or- ders and other express car loot, ~Mrs zer turnod the bags and their cor over to the express e. The loss tn the hold-up of the train wak set at $20,000 by exj company and railroad officlals 40 HORSES DIE IN FIRE. 100 Saved From Flames That De stroyed Livery Stable. NEW YORK, August 21 (#) \ horses were burned to death and 100 were led to safety onrly today when { fire destroyed the Choen & Eagle livery I stable in the lower West Side, ‘The burned horses were on the sec- ond floor of the three-story building Men from a car barn across the street | led out the horses from the first floor Radio Programs—Page 28 RN cotar g A, -1 e messenger | ~Forty | the park officials practically helpless. Little Hope Seen. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, sees-little hope for those trees in low ground if the rains continue and said today that he ex- ONE DEAD, 2 PLAGES BOMBED N CHIGAGD Owner of Carnival Company Slain—Newspaper Plant and Saloon Wrecked. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 27.—Vacation is over for Chicago's bad men. Within a 24-hour period ended at 4 o'clock this morning they had thrown two bombs, one of which rocked the Loop, and shot a man dead. The man killed was Benjamin Ben- jamin, 33, owner and manager of the Standard Amusement Co., operating a carnival on the North Side. Robbers in an automobile stopped the machine in which Benjamin was riding and shot him down when they thought he in- tended to resist. They escaped with a pouch containing $724 in coin. Other receipts of the company had been taken to Benjamin's hotel a few minutes earlier. Newspaper Plant Bombed. The first bombing wrecked the front of the two-story brick plant in which is published the Star, at Chicago Helghts. Windows of the business dis- trict of the suburb were shattered for a block around. This bombing was at- tributed by King Williams, editor of the Star, o the newspaper's editorial warfare against gamblers. “Gangsters have climaxed a series of | lawless acts in the attempt to suppress publicity of underworld activities in Chicago Helghts,” Willlams said. “This latest outrage is characteristic of the utter disregard the criminal element has for law and order.” | The downtown Chicago bombing was | at 218-220 North Clark street, just out- | side the Loop and within a block of the | Hotel Sherman, many of whose guests | were aroused by the report. The build- ing bombed Is used as an employment agency on the second floor, the street floor it 1s occupied by a | saloon { A colored porter, West Carpenter, was the only person in the place when the explosion occurred. He was not hurt, He could give police little information concerning & possible motive. The front 1of the saloon was demolished, although the interlor escaped serfous damage, ‘The homb, which appeared to have been made of dynamite, tore ‘a hole in the floor and showered debris into the cellar. Witnesses who were in the lobby of the Hotel Martin across the street said there had been no automobile passing the place for several minutes before the explosion, which led the police to | | | | and concealed inside the saloon, the front door. near Woman Dies at Age of 108, LOUISVILLE, August 27 () —Mrs Mary Ann Jamison of New Albany, Ind, sald to be 108 years old, and known (o river men on the Ohlo for half o cen- tury as the keeper of a water front icoming house, died at the home ot triends here yesterday wor while on belleve that the bomb had been timed | | The high level of the river and the | consequent low level of some places on the point, coupled with the recent heavy rains, have left a condition that drains cannot adequately cope with. The ca- pillary action of the water at river level under the trees the ground soggy (Continued ige 2, Column 4 SAYSG.0.P. HIRED 3870 AT ELECTION | Pittsburgh Official Testifies Messengers and Watchers Were Paid $5 Each. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 27.—Testi- mony concerning the hiring of messen- gers and watchers by the Allegheny County Republican committee in the 1926 election was given today at the opening of the United States Senate's hearing here in the investigation of Willlam B. Wilson's contest of the elec- tion to the Senate of his Republican opponent, Willlam 8. Vare 8. J. Topley, clerk of courts and treasurer of the county Republican com~ mittee in 1926, was the witness. Coun- sel for Wilson, the Democratic candi- date for the Senate seat, brought from the witness statement that there were 5,640 messengers and 4,230 watch- ers employed by the Republican com- mittee. They were paid $5 each, the witness said. Voters' League Chief Gets $1,000. ‘The witness also testified that $1,000 | was paid Lawrencé Elvino, chairman of the Italian Voters' League. Topley sald | this sum was paid for the “dissemina- | tion of information” on November 22, 20 days after the 1926 election. Sums of $100 to $500 were paid to various employes at Republican headquarters for similar reasons, Topley testified. The witness said he did not know what, if any, information was disseminated by Elvino. Questioned as to the duties of the messengers employed, Topley said they brought persons to the polls to vote. He said the watchers were at the polls to see that ballots were cast legally. Frequent Clashes Mark Hearing. | Counsel for Wilson brought out that the messengery and watchers were re- | sponsible to the county Republican com- | mittee chairman | The examination of Topley was marked by frequent minor clashes be- tween counsel for Vare and Wilson Mr. Wilson was present af the hearing, conducted by the Senate subcommittee on privileges and elections, but Mr. Vare iwus unable to attend on account of ill- ness | | from the State Capital. i (Copyright. 1928.) NEW YORK VALLEY SWEPTBY FLOOD Two Drowned as 20-Foot! Wall of Water Engulfs Farms K on Rondout Creek. ELLENVILLE, N. Y., August 27 (#).— Ruin and devastation today spread throughout the Rondout Valley, in which a cloudburst yesterday unleashed a torrent ot water, 20 feet high, which smashed its way eastward toward the Hudson, drowning two men and taking a huge toll in property damage. Latest reports indicated that most of the valley dwellers and Summer resort guests escaped with their lives when the comparatively shallow Rondout Creek became a raging flood. Only two man motorists were known drowned when water swept over a road. Several were reported missing. The report is as yet unconfirmed by county authorities working ‘desperately as the water began to subside to reach villages marooned by the flood. Flee to Hills. As the fugitives fled to the hills be- fore the onrushing waters they saw and outbuildings carried away, tele- phene and telepgraph lines ecked, bridges shattered and highways wash- ed out. | _ Starting at the headwaters of the Rondout, the flood, swollen by steady rains and suddenly augmented by the cloudburst, poured through the valle; for its entire length, cutting off all communications with some villages and doing untold damage. Boys Caught in Camp. Twenty-six boys, ranging in age from 6 to 12 e marooned in Camp Henry on an island at Rosendale. Fire de- partments from surrounding and cities made several attempts to rescue them. Two boys were brought to safety, but attempts to reach the others proved futile. The Kingston Fire Department attempted to shoot a cable across to the island from the bank of the creek. Three hundred persons at the Lacka- wack Country Club, near Napanoch, were driven to high ground and marooned by the rising waters. In Napanoch, a village of approxi- mately 600, many houses were sur- rounded by water and the occupants had to flee. The State institution for mental defectives, in which 600 inmates are confined, was surrounded by water, [but it was understood that there was | no_danger. Barns and other outbulldings were Swept from their foundations and de- | posited on meadow lands. Horses, hogs, cattle and poultry were carried down stream. "Boss;. Gillis Hits- | By the Assoclated Press. NEWBURYPORT, Mass. Andrew J. (Bossy) Qillls, mayor of Newburyport, appeared in District Court again today. This time on the side of the law. The mayor, who was sentenced o pay a fine of $1,140 and to serve 330 days In jail for operating a gasoline station without a permit, brought a complaint against Edward Coffin, who last week brought the complaints against Gillls, August 27— “bad boy" <2 RO 4 Back {Vith _Traffic Charge Against Man Who Complained Today the mayor charged Cofin with reckless driving and after hearing the testimony of two street laborers, Judge Nathaniel N. Jones fined Coffin $50 and then suspended the sentence for two_ years. “If that was me,” sald the mayor, “he wouldn't suspend the sentence two minutes.” Mayor Gillls has appealed his sen {Nnce and will be given a frial in } Superior Court at Salem next month. S\ their farms swept by the torrent, houses villages | Little Immediate Relief. Indications are that little immediate lief can be given to the area in the vicinity of Seventh and Hamilton streets which probably suffered more than any other section as & result of Saturday night's heavy rain. A. B. Black, acting sanitary engineer, pointed out that the flood there was caused by the clogging of the catch basins by dirt, sand and gravel washed down from the large un‘giveloped area northeast of that “The territory northeast of Seventh and Hamilton streets was recently filled in and graded and denuded of all vege- tation, and is therefor subject to heavy washings of sand and gravel,” said Mr. Black. “During a heavy storm this is converged to the low point at Seventh and Hamilton streets where a partial stoppage of the catch basins in that locality results. As soon as this section is developed and lateral branches of the main artery are extended into it to catch the water at higher elevations, the condition will be remedied. I am confident that the nine-inch - trunk sewer which serves that territory is fully capable of taking care of the storm water regardless of the amount of rain- fall. Of course the thing to do is to extend the lateral branches into that undeveloped territory sible, but it is difficult tions for the installat: und@v;loped sections. “Where storms demonstrate the it has been the policy of the S:‘::i department to insta]l additional catch basins to remedy the condition. It gauges on the trunk line show that the sewer has been overcharged, it has been the policy to request funds for the construction of relief sewers, This policy will be adhered to at this time Holds System Adequate. Maj. Donald A. Davison, acting En- gineer Commissioner, expressed lge‘l;fi lief that floods were not caused by the lack of storm water sewer facilities. The system is entirely adequate for What experience has shown the city of Washington may expect in the way of rainfall” he said. “The fact that less than 10 points suffered from floods from the lack of sewers is not proot that we have an inadequate system in general. It would require millions of dollars to install a system that would adequately care for the largest possible | downfall of rain and such a system has | not been installed, neither is it con. | templated in any municipality e sanitary engineer's o the situation well th hang ;.’5,",\-’3?;‘ one of the complaints that came to it Wil be immediately corrected. There are points in connection with the sur- face drainage, however, that will con. tnue to be inadequate to carry off 8 l4-inch ratnfall, but I do not con- strue them as weak points in our sewer ;z:le‘nxmi;l)"}:h 'm was built to ¢ S ex e i} foh n'Light excess In the normal raln Maj. l‘)n\'tgs«m pointe engineerin lepartment has ed number uf projects this euemfl“vxr“ .l-\A tending the sanitary system and (h combined system sewers which wii carry off storm waters, but in mo. instances these extensions will be in the outlying newly developed areas and are not desigued o correct any of ‘the -called weak spots i storm-wate: So-call n the storm-water to get appropria- fon of sewers in d out that the Citizens’ Groups May Act, The record raivs of this mo resuiting floods . many ;\:r‘u"‘l{ll ‘l‘l‘l‘: city are expected to lead to insistent demands fron citizens in sections Sub- &t;::n to ;c dn«;flmundx‘\mm that Con- ress provide additional funds f \\d;cqual:lufirr facilities. W Sy o veral cltizens' associations are - ning to take up the matter whmpl::u meetings are resumed. Residents of the section around Fifth and Ingraham and Fifth and Hamilton streets which has been flooded & number of times, are in- dignant over the failure to provide ade- 3;‘:\'-" drainage for that portion of the | | | | esidents of the Fifth and I streets area suffered hundreds of dol- lars' damage when the water rose to a depth of 6 feet in Fifth street, floodin; basements and depositing tons of mud‘. !sand and debris in back yards. Shrub- (Continued on Puge 8, Column 39 n