Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Fair tonight; Bureau Forecast.) tomorrow increasing <cloudiness; probably showers tomorrow night; rot much change in tem Temperature—Hi ture. peral ighest, 89, at 2:30 p.n. yesterday; lowest, 67, at 7 a.m. to- day. Full report on page 11. Foen \ ¢ WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Sfar. service. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,351 Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 I No. 30817. post office. Entered as second class matter Washington, B 0. G WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1928 —SIX ' HURRICANE AND TWISTERS KILL MANY IN ANTILLES, NEW ENGLAND AND WEST 11 Kr;:s;; Dead in S. Dakota and Nebraska. SCHOOLS RAZED; PUPILS INJURED Electrical Storms and High Wind in * Northeast Area. Assoctated Press. "’C‘;’;XCAEB. September 14.—Two ! tornadoes, wiping out lives and smashing buildings and homes, | had left portions of Nebraska and South Dakota virtually in ruins today. Eleven persons were known to pe dead. The town of Davis, S. Dak., a community of 250 peo- ple, was a mass of wreckage. More than 100 were injured, many ' seriously, from twisters that cut two separate strips of destruction late yesterday. Both storms traveled northeast, crippling communications, so that only meager reports had come from many outlying sections early today. X Four Schools Crumble. Four country schools filled with pupils crumbled fn the path of the Nebraska rtorm, which began near Bancroit and continued into lowa, taking five lives. A special train of doctors from Sioux City, Iows, left to care for more 80 injured More than 20 houses and the Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha Raliroad depot in Dakota Ciiy, Nebr., were wrecked or Injured persons filled a biown awav. two homes in hospital, hotel and Walthill, Nebr. The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. EBdward Kunzie was carried half a mile from their farm near Winnebago. Nebr,, and was found dead in a haystack. Village Swept Away. six were killed in the storm which began near 'Yankton, S. Dak., and con- | tinued beyond Davis, 40 miles northeast | of Yankton. farm buildings and | ‘hundreds of stk stroyed in the mile-wide swath of the storm, which ended a-proleaged heat wave. A score were injured in the vil- lags of Davis, which was almost totally gwept away. Ameng the known dead ar Andrew Larson, schoolboy, 2! Nebr. Mary Irma Bel hill, Nebr. Phyllis Stuart, school teacher, near ¢ Winnebago, Nebr. Helen Graham, Homer, Nebr. Son of Ralph Norris at Winnebago, Netr. An unidentified farmer at Bancroft, Nebr, ‘Three-month-old daughter of R. RKunzie, farmer, near Winnebago, Nebr. James Foley, 56, of Yankton. Oscar Haugen, 36, farmer. Mildred Sylliaasen, 11. TEACHER IS HEROINE. e: t Walthill, 1t, schoolgirl, at Walt- school teacher, near Plays Piano as Storm Hits, Saving Many Children. DAKOTA CITY. Nebr., September 14 P).—A suryey of the tornado-swept greas of northeastern Nebraska and southeastern South ‘Dakota revealed a death toll of 11, scores injured, some of whom are expected to die, and prop- erty damage estimated at more .than $1,000,000. % One tornado started about 7 miles southeast of Pender, Nebr, and left 6 dead and destruction for 50 miles north- ward to Dakota City. The South Da- kota twister, which also killed 5 per- sons, swept through Walshtown Town- ship, 15 miles northeast of Yankton. and continued northeastward. nearly wiping out the town of Davis, S. Dak, where 2 were killed and 50 injured. Special Train Sent. Ruins were being searched volunteer workers, who also bul live stock and arranged to care for the destitute. Late last night the Burling- ton Railroad dispatched a special train to Walthill, Nebr., doctors and nurses aboard. 3 Walthill, a little Indian town, and one of the hardest hit by the tormado, today was taxed to the utmost in gor its injured, whieh included many schiool children. The hospital was filled to overflowing, and the Fuller Hotel and two nearby residences were pressed in service as emergency hospitals. Twenty-six children were in the La- ‘mere School, 5 miles from Walthill, wnen the twister struck and crushed it like so much matchwood. None of them escaped without injuries, and Mary Irma Belt, 9, was crushed to death. Beveral others may die Had it not been for the heroic efforts of the teacher, Miss Phyllis Stewart, and Eugene O. Keyscr, 34, a farmer, whose sons attend the school. the num- ber of dead, it is believed, would have ‘been larger. Teacher Plays Piano. Together they organized the 26 chil- dren into a compact group. Miss Stew- aart instructed the children to join hands and drop to the floor. This they did and she sat down to the piano and played a popular tune. As she struck tornado struck the today by ried dead COMEDIAN ARRESTED. ‘W. C. Fields Charge;\;flth Cruelty to Canaries. NEW YORK, September 14 (#).—W. C. Fields, the comedian, was out on bail today on a charge of cruelty to animals in connection with his use of canaries in a current Broadway show. He was arrested last night The arrest was made on complaint of two agents of the Humane Society bf New York. Fields in his act re- moves & canary from the false beard ©f another comedian. The agents as- rert that the birds, when released, bump their heads against scenery and that |t Whis has caused four of them to dis were de- | [Many Dead, Disease] ; Threatens, San Juan | Educator Reports The Associated Press today received the following dispatch from Thomas E Benner, chaxcellor of the University of Porio Rico. It is an evewitness ac- count of the damage in San Juan and the immediate vicinity from the hurri- cane, which hit the island yesterdas, and ‘it inaicates the need of relief sufferers from the storm. BY THOMAS E. BENNER, Chancellor of the University of Porto Rico. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Septem- ber 14.—It is impossible as yet to | appraise fully the damage caused by | yesterday's hurricane. All communi- cations are paralyzed. The entire is- land has suffered terribly. I have personally seen the damage within 2 7-mile radius of San Juan. In this area hospitals are unroofed and -at least 80 per cent of the families are without shelter. Famine and disease threaten them. The water supply of San Juan and the surrounding towns has been interrupted. Building material stocks in the is- land are insufficient to replace 5 per cent of the roofs that have been de- stroyed. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) RACE “TIP” PROBE | ior | | |Calls Said to Be Made by | Jockey to Hornsby and M- Craw Under Scrutiny. By the Assoclated Press CHICAGO, September 14— A tele- | phone company’s bill to Jockey.C. E. | Allen for long distance calls, includ- | ing calls to Rogers Hornsby, manager | of the Boston Braves, and Johnry Mc- } Graw, manager of the New York Giants | today precipitated & “race tipping” in- | vestigation by the Tlinois Turt Asso- | ciation, | ~The Tribune said the assnciation, of ‘»which Stuyvesant Peabody is president | will scek to determine if there has been | any organized broadcasting of iaferma- [tion and just what that information was. A {m‘.simllg of t.h; teleuh;na «om- s letter 1o Allen brought the names fimuby and ‘McGraw into the mat- ter. The letter, addressed o Allen at the Arlington Park race rack, re- | quested that he make paywment of $550.07 “for telephone service furnished | your wife, Cal ne E. Alien, over { telephone Lincoln 5313, i1 a ‘ashion- |able North Side apartment hotei. | “Practically all of this bill" the let- |ter said, “is for toll cails made to various cities throughout iiw country | during the months of June and July of | this year, calling among ul.ly:rs Regers | | Hornshy and John McGraw.’ Denies Living There. Allen, asked about it, safd he wes not married and that he nad nevet Hv. ed at the hotel where the calls made. Clerks at the hote! said a MY and Mrs. C. Allen had 1esided there during July and August, but that there was no resemblance between ‘C. Allen™ and Jockey Allen. An itemized bill for the 1oll charges showed that a call was mane to Bosion July 27, three days after Hornsby's ball club had returned to the home | grounds after a swing through the West. Most of the calls for which the phone company seeks to collect were| made in the week July 21-28, the bill for that week alone being #477.90. A review of races for that week made by the Tribune showed that Allen roGe only one winner in that time. In the seventh race, July 23, he brouzht Tur- quoise home in front at odds of 8 to 1 He rode a dozen losers during the | period. : ‘When the phone company bill was | received Allen turned it ovef to a friend to take up with the company. “I know | nothing about these calls, and that's alt | there is to it,”” he was quoted as saying. | Hornsby Sued by “Bookie.” | Last year Hornsby was sued for $92 - 1000 by a bookmaker, who claimed Hornsby owed that sum in connection with race track deals. | K. M. Landis, commissioner of base | ball, was asked if there was any rule of | organized base ball forbidding players to wager on horse races. “We had a discussion of that at a base ball meeting at French Lick,” he said. I don’t care to talk about Look it up in your rule books.” Hornsby, star second baseman and one of the leading hitters of base ball records, went to Boston from the New York Giants. McGraw at present is in | to | the thick of a fight for the National League pennant, the Giants being only a game and a half out of first place. Col. Matt Winn, one of the leaders 17 race track affairs in Chicago, is asso- ciated with Peabody in the investigation started today. | MORNSBY AND McGRAW DENY. Both Sey They Do Not Know Jockey | in Race Inguiry. BOSTON, September 14 (4).—Rogers Hornsby, manager of the Boston | Braves, and John MeGraw, manager of | | the New York Giants, both denied today {that they knew C. E. Allen, Chicago theirs in a race track investigation by the Ilinois Turf Assoclation. When shown a dispatch from Chicago | concerning the investigation. the out- | come of a telephone companv’s attempt, ""(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) _ 'BELIEVED HEAVY apparently the victim of the full | fury of the tempest. | Houses in Ruins; Wind Blows 100 Miles { heavy. The freighter Helen pulled its Jockey, whose name was linked with j; Porte Rlc:) Hit, Blast Sweeps On to Haiti. SHIPPING LOSSES Toll of Life in West Indies Unknown. San Juan Dark. By the Asscciated Press. NEW YORK, September 14.-- The tropical islands of the West Indies were raked today by a dev- astating hurricane that caused steadily increasing destruction to property ashore, damage to ships at sea and death of an unde-| termined number of people. Reports from the zone of dc- struction were incomplete, bul they were enough to show that the storm was of unusual fury, a whirling blast that would leave a wide wake of desolation. Porto Rico, largest of the bodies ! of land in the storm’s path, was The winds, | veering madly in the usual style of these storms as the air currents rush toward the moving vortez, reached 134 miles an hour. Then ! the wind gauge 2t San Juan broke, but the wind increased and some | estimates placed its greatest raie as around 159 miles an hour. . Few Withstand Blast. Few structures can withstand pres-! sure of that degree and 80 per cent| of the houses around San Juan gave| way. Hospitals ‘and other substantial buildings were unroofed, trees were up- rooted and coffee, banana and coconut plantations were destroyed. An appeal for help was sent, to the | Associated Press by Thomas E. Bennet, | gh':x-ecuw of the Upiversity of Porto Before the blow reactisd Porto Rico it struck the Virgin Islands, another out- | lying possession of the United States. It also caused much damage in Martin- ique and in the twin island of Haiti and Santo Domingo. to the French Cable Co. office here from Cape Haitién, the northernmost tip of the island, said that the hur- cicane was rapidly aproaching that point and that it had wfi over La Romana, a_Dominican town the south coast | of the island. All telephonic communi cation across the island had been in- terrupted, a condition which prevailed in other places which had experienced ‘the fury of the elements, Cable Service Hampered. Interrupted cable communications | with Porto Rico prevented the New ! York & Porto Rico Line offices from | receiving direct advices, up to noon.l on the damage caused by yesterday's big blow. It was thought, however, that the San Lorenzo, one of the line’s ships which was scheduled to leave San Juan {orlNew York yesterday, was still in | port. ‘The Bull Line, operating a direct service to Porto Rico, had several ves- sels in the vicinity of th2 storm, and only one had been accounted for early today. This was the Edith, a freighter, which left New York on September 1. She was driven ashore yesterday at San Juan. Word of the accident was re- ceived today in a garbled message. An antenna on the Radio Corporation | of America’s sending station at San | Juan was blown down yesterday, inter- | rupting the dispatch of messages from that city to New York. Communication from here to Jan Juan, however, was | not aected. | LOSS PUT AT $2,000,000. an Hour for Six Hours. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, September 14 (#).—One vessel was on the rocks today, shipping was disrupted, houses were in ruins and other buildings were without roofs 2s the result of a tropical hurricane. It was estimated that the damage in | San Juan and vicinity would run as high as $2,000,000. Transportation and communications were disrupted. Th2 loss of life and injuries were undeter- mined. The hurricane reached its greatest | intensity at 2:30 o'clock yesterduy after- noon. For six hours the wind was cal- culated by the Weather Bureau to have blown at an average of 100 miles en hour, with occasional squalls at 150 | miles an hour. Anemometer Blown Away. The anemometer at the bureau rez- istered 132 miles an hour before being carried away by the force of the wind Shipping losses were believed to be anchor and drifted on the rocks at the | entrance of the harbor. Two sailing ves- sels appeared from the shore to be sink~"| ng. ‘The city was plunged in darkness and transportation halted. Communication with other. parts of the island was cut off and it was thought that days would be required before it was restored. " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) i | By the Assoclated Press. TOKIO, September 14.—Formal cere- monies in connection with the betrothal ot Prince Chichibu, heir apparent, to Setsuko Matsudaira, daughter of the former Japanese Ambassador to Wash- ington, were begun here today with an exchange of gifts, in accordance with age-old customs. The formal marriage will be celetzated on September 28. ‘The prince's gifts were he residence of Se Viscount of |Miss Matsudaira Receives Wedding Gifts From Her Prince in Age-Old Ceremonies! ‘They included a classical style kimono, a cypress wood fan, a freshly caught ”i:: bream and a cask of sake or rice wine. In return Viscount Matsudaira sent an ancient sword and also a sea bream and sake to the prince. Setsuko Matsudaira was adopted. by Viscount Matsudaira to comply with court regulations, according to wh no imperial prince may wed the daugh- ter of a commoner. Her father, Tsuneo Matsudaira, is not of noble rank, | er Stage Sensational Battle. | 9-up at the end of the first-18 holes of | | other semi-final Phil Perkins, British | out to the , 75 yards away. He stopped. ML from the cup. Voigt “with the birdie 3 to 4 for Perkins. |a good recovery. After a good drive, TY-TWO PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. VOIGT IS 1 DOWN; JONES NOW 11 UP Perkins and ex-Capital Play- | Champion Sceres 70. By the Assi:isted Doog BRAEBURN COUNTRY CLUB, NEWTON, Mass., September 14. — Bobby Jones, national amatéur golf champion, entered the final round of the national championship by de- feating Phillips Finlay, young Har- vard sophomore, 13 up, 12 to play, )fl\:‘rel today in their 36-hole semi- al. By the Associated Press. BRAEBURN COUNTRY CLUB, New- ton, Mass., September 14.—Bobby Jones, continuing his triumphant march in defense of the national amateur golf championship, ~ overwhelmed ~ Phillips Pinlay, Harvard sophomore, and stood their semi-final match today. In the title holder, was 1 up on George Voigt of New York after a sensational battie to the half-way mark. Jones, playing his second round in as many days m 40, 2 under par, smoth- ered the youthful Finlay after a few preliminaries. The champion was 5 up | at the turn and nearly doubled his gin on th2 way home. Voigt Evens Match. Perkins and Voigt started out on their second 18 holes with the British cham- plon leading by 1 up. He drove into a trap on the ninsteenth but made a great was just on with his pitch. They holed and halved in par 4. " Voigt's drive at the twentieth was in rough and trecs to the left. He came out well on the green, a shot as sensa- tional as that of Perkins from the trap on the first hole, Perkins made a poor pitch to the back of the green, leaving Voigt inside, 10 feet from the cup. Voigt dropped the putt to square the match Voigt's second landed in a bunker to the left of the twenty-first green. He was cut far past the pin. Perkins well on in 2 putted dead for his 4, while Voigt just missed his 4 and Perkins was again 1 up when he holed his. Jones Becomes 11 Up. Starting the second round 9 up, Bobby Jones laced a 250-yard drive down the middle while Phillip Finlay’s ball trick- led into a trap to the left. The champion pitched dead, sank a three-footer for a birdie 3 and became 10 up. Finlay's explosion shot want wide of the green, but he chipped back for his par 4. Jones again outdrove Finlay on the twentieth, by 15 yards. Phil pitched into the trap fronting the green, while Bob hoisted to the back of the carpet. Fin- lay, out neatly, just missed a six-footer. Jones got his par 4, and became 11 up with 16 to go. Jones Halves First Hole. Jones and Finlay halved the first hole of their semi-final match with par 4s. Finlay took the lead on the second hole, getting a par 4 to Jones’ 5. Finlay pulled his tee shot into the rough at the second and was left a difficult shot to the green. He made Bob put his second in a trap. Jones came from the sand to the green and took two putts for a 5 to. go one down when Finlay also took two putts for a 4 Jones evened the r=atch on the third hole by getting a par 4 to Finlay's 5. At the fourth Finlay’s tee shot land- ed in a trap to the left. Jones was on the fairway. Finlay could only get out. Jones sent his ‘second 10 feet from the pin. Finlay was still off the green with his third. Finlay conceded the hole and Jones was 1 up. Jones Becomes 5 Up. Jones was in the rough from the tee at the long fifth, while Finlay was just on the fairway. Bob’s second was in a clump of trees. Finlay's second was also in trouble. Jones cut through the leaves of a tree to reach the green. Phil missed a shot and reached the green from the rough in 4. His approach putt was short. Jones laid his putt dead, and the hole was a win for Jones at 5, to 6 for Finlay, Jones was 2 up. Jones was on the green at the short sixth in 1 and Pinlay on the edge. Fin- lay putted dead. Jones putted past thci cup, and the hole was halved at par 3./ Finlay drove in the rough at the| seventh, and was still in the rough with his second and third, and oves- ran 4, taking 5 to get on. Jones was short in 2, and his plteh, too, was short, | but Finll}‘; had no chance and con-| ceded the hole—Jones, 3 uj , Neither reached the 227-yard eighth from the tee. Jones placed his second five feet from the cup and Finlay miss- ed the green. Phil was still away in 3. Phil made a long putt for his 4, but went 4 down w] ‘Bob putted his putt for the par 3. Jones was on ninth 15 feet away 2, Column 7). 4+ | Prince of Wales Drives Golf Ball From Pyramid Top By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, September 14.— The Prince of Wales today drove a golf ball from the top of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, than which there is no bigger tee in the world. He acked a fine drive straight into the wind. The ball traveled without a hook or slice, but it came to earth, where, nobody knew. Other members of the prince’s party tried their luck, but his clout was the best. Having thus ichieved the chief purpose of his laborious ascent of th2 Pyramid, the prince registered the proper amount of astonishment when he was informed that the tee he had used contained 7,000,000 tons of stone and required the efforts of 100,000 men for 20 years to build it. WARDHAN LIS _ UGE BOND IS3UE $13,500,000 Will Be Placed! on Larger Properties of + Firm in City. Arrangements for bond issues totaling 513,500,000, to be placed on the ma- Jjority of the larger properties here of the Wardman Construction Co., the largest financial transaction involving privately-owned property in the Dis- trict, are h:elélghhmmplaud today, it was announced this morning by Ha Wardman, president of the mm.m As a preliminary to the unusual operation, approximately 300 invest- ment bankers from various sections cf the East and Middle West will arrive here tomorrow morning for a tour of inspection of the properties concerncd. The visiting brokers will meet at break- fast at the Carlton Hotel for a conier- ence, and at noon will be guests at the Vlvardmnn Park Hotel for a final ses- sion. The bond issues, it is announced, have been underwritten by the Halse: Stuart & Co., Hambleton & Co., A. B. Leach & Co., Inc.; Caldwell & Co., and William R. Compton Co., which will be hosts to the visiting bond company rep- resentatives. Full details of the financing opera- tion are to be made public at the con- ference meetings, but it is understood that there will be two issues, one of $11,000,000 and another of $2,500.000. The visiting bankers will come tc Washington in two groups, one from New York, the representatives of in- vestment houses in other Eastern cities. the other from Middle Western and Western cities. Included in the financing arrange- ments will be numbers of the larger and well known properties owned and constructed by the Wardman Co., which has properties which -house thousands of residents of the District. Properties Not Decided On. The exact list of the properties in- volved, however, has not yet been de- cided upon, it was said. The present financing operation is the result of plans of a number of months past, when appraisals were made on many of the properties on which it was proposed to base the bond issues. While it had been known around real estate circles for some time that a huge bond issue was under consid- eration, the great size of the operation was not known until today. The record for a bond issue on a single property here is believed held by the Mayflower | Hotel, which in the past year an- nounced the underwriting of issues to- | taling $9,900,000. JAPANESE ASSENT | 6.0.P. SEES FIGHT FOR NORTH DAKOTA Frazier and Nye Confer With Hoover Headquarters on Holding State. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Ways and means of holding North Dakota in line for the Republican na- tional ticket and for the re-election of Senator Frazier are the subject of con- ferences today between Republican leaders of that State now in Washing- ton and with national Hoover head- quarters. Both Senator Gerald P. Nye and Sen- | ator Frazier are here and had in con- | ference with them this morning the Republican national committeeman, Fred Graham and the Republican na- | tional committeewoman, Mrs.. Mix ¥ is 2 member of the ‘The situation in North Dakota, due to resentment among the farmers b2 cause of the failure of farm-relief legis- lation and alsa' to_the present low price of wheat, is not a little mixed. Senator Nye said that while he hoped the State would go for the Republicans, it must be classed as doubtful territory. He said, however, that Gov. Smith had his points of attack in North Dakota and that he thought in the end the farmers ot North Dakota would prefer ‘to turn to Hoover than to the Democratic nominee. Women Strong for Hoover. “The women in North Dakotd are strong for Mr. Hoover,” sald Senator Nye, “and where you may find a former Republican turning to Smith you ars more than likely to find a woman in the same house who will offset that vote by supporting the Republican ticket.” ‘The situation in North Dakota, how- ever, was made even more difficult to- day, according to Senator Nye, by the announcement of Lieut. Gov. Walter Maddock, who has always been a Re- publican, that he would stand for elec- tion as governor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Maddock is popular in the State, and he has been lieutenant gov- ernor for 8 or 10 years. He is serving as governor and has been since the deatn of Gov. Sorlie. Mr. Maddock is a Non- Partisan League progressive, lining up with that faction of the Republican party. Senators Embarrassed. Mr. Maddock's acceptance of the Democratic proposal that he run for governor has made the situation em- barrassing for both Senator i*:azier and Senator Nye. The Republican can- didate for governor is Lucien Shaffer, at present attorney general of North Da- kota, an “I. V. -member of the In- dependent Voters' Association, which has heen alligned for years against the Non-Partisan League. Both Senator Frazier and Senator Nye have been ac- tive in the Non-Partisan League and have had its support. Neither Senator Frazier nor Senator Nye wishes to support a Democratic candidate for governor. They are both on the Hoover bandwagon and will cam- paign in the State for the Republican national ticket. Senator Frazier is him- self running for re-election this year. It is not expected that either of the Senators will openly declare their sup- port for Maddock in the race. If Shaf- fer is elected governor this year, he is likely to seek and to win a second two years hence, and if he is successful, may be put forward by the stalwarts among the Republicans for the Senate against Senator Nye in 1932. Says Farmers Are Mad. “The farmers in North Dakota are mad, righteously so,” said Senator Nye today, “because of the failure of the Re- publican with farm relief legislation. Democrats are not in & position to cash T0 NAVAL PACT PLAN! 1 Agree in Principal, London Is In-‘i formed, Concerning Anglo- ! French Accord. By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 14.—The Brit- ish gevernmeént was informed today that Japan agrees to the principle of the proposed Anglo-French naval agree- | ment. The Japanese reply is under-| stood to be on the way to London i The foreign office again today inti- mated that if there is not a general agreement among the five powers inter- ested in the accord, it is hoped that there will at least be some construc- ! tive suggestion which will serve as a basis for forwarding the project of naval disarmament. . Besides Japan, the accord was sube- mitted to the United States and. Italy. in with Smith. As between Hoover and Smith, the farmers of North Dakota have more to hope for from Hoover than from the Democratic nominee.” There are indications, Senator Nye said, that a considerable vote may be cast in North Dakota for Norman (Continued on Page 2, Column 3. AR MEET THRONGS THRILLED ASLINDY STUNTS OVERFIEL Aero - Minded Californians Pack Stands, but Few Care for Races. ACROBATICS HOLD EYES OF CROWD IN FAR WEST Elaborate - Loud Speaker System Puts Show Spirit Into Ex- position Events. BY FREDERICK R. NEELY, Staft Correspondent of The Star. MINES FIELD, Los Angeles, Calif, September 14.—In this land of ham- burger sandwiches, bare-legged women and sunshine, the pecple love aviation. Attendance records for all previous | aeronautical meets have apparently been broken at this date, with the | largest crowd on hand yesterday after- noon, presumably to see Col. Charles A Lindbergh in the role of an Army Air Corps pursuit pilot, leading an element (a three-plane flight of single seaters) about the sky in formation loops, dives and other thrilling maneuvers. While the crowds were gathering yes- terday afternoon and as Washington was lighting its lights, newsboys went hawking through -the stands “Non- stop fiyers in crash—all about the ac- cident to famous fiyers, right here on the front page.” Races Mean Little. Out in front of the grandstand, at- tention centered on -acrobatics and stunts. A couple of commercial races were staged, but nobody knew what they were for, what they were about, who was winning, who won, or why they ever were staged. The 1929 na- tional airplane stunt contest, as the air races have been dubbed by some who in the old days used to see thrill- ing competitions of this nature, 13 producing the desired result—people. People overran the four big grand- stands, they clung on the fences, they fought for bleacher seats, they were wild to see airplanes. Those who have the destiny of aviation in their hands, or think they have, at any rate, are gratified at the attendance. But, one cannot get blase California out on a half p . ‘There must be some in- ducement. And the producers of this affair, with true “show blood” running in their veins, have hit upon the myste- rious “it"—the same “it” that makes a c &uhr or :hmmu for the prom- Tn brief, this is how they did it: They got away from the idea that an air- contest—call lane it race if you want— gld to be spread out over several coun- ties to be worth while. So they erected a 10-mile triangular course with all ~(Continued on Page 3, Column 4) AT PORTABLES T0 AID CROWDED SCHOOLS Chevy Chase, Takoma, Wes- ley Heights and Petworth to Have Frame Units. Frame portable buildings will play their part in the relief of pupil con- gestion in Washington's public schools again this year, it became known at Franklin Administration Building today when Robert L. Haycock, assistant su- perintendent in charge of elementary education, eom?lefed plans for the open- ing Monday of portable groups in the District’s four “outposts” of the school system. Chevy Chase, Wesley Heights, Takoma and Petworth are those sections which will rely again on the portable buildings. Four of the frame buildings will be opened in Wesley Heights to re- lieve the congestion in Cleveland Park. Four will be opened on the site of the proposed B. W. Murch School, at Thir- ty-sixth and Ellicott streets: four at the Grant road site, two at the Broad Branch site, at Northampton and Thir- ty-third streets. In addition to these, rarnbla will be erected on the grounds immediately adjacent to several of the more congested schools in the four crowded areas. Probably the most acute situation in housing is at Chevy Chase, where nl ble buildings will be operated for: relief of the E. V. Brown School. Similarly serious cngestion will be met at Takoma Park, where two portables will be opened at so-called Kalmia road for the relief of the Takoma and the Manor Park sections, At Barnard School. The Barnard School, which through the erection of an 8-room addition only .recently became a 16-room unit, still will be overcrowded, and two portables will b2 opened at the Petworth School, in the neighborhood. Congestion in Pet- worth will be permanently relieved when the proposed addition to the Raymond School is erected, probably next year. The teaching personnel in Washing- ton’s rapidly growing school system was augmented today with the appointment of 25 Normal School graduates of last February and June classes. Although these young teachers assumed their duties today their names were not made public pending the approval of their (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. 1$1.000 Spent For Successful Wooing In Airplane Called Good Investment By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, September 14.— Herman A. Bitter, 38, wealthy superin- tendent of a plumbing company here, today said that he had spent $1,000 on an airplane trip to La Crosse, Ind., to woo Blanche Lawrence, 20, and bring her home and marry her. He said he' thought it a good investment, although narrowly escaped death once on trip. Miss La ce came here from her homs i ‘Crosse last April to care for Bitter's wife, her aunt, during a fatal illness. ' After the aunt’s death she returned home. Hearing that rivals for the girl's hand were pressing their suit, Bitter took a plane east September 3. He said the plane was forced down ncar Chappell, Nebr., and stopped ‘on the gls;' olml xl:ngnd-(no& precipice. Ar- ving rosse, the plane landed in & hay fleid. * b Bitter said he persuaded Miss Law- rence to accept him while en route. back west by airplane. o N CURTIS OFF ON TRI TOFARMIBELT AND DEBATABLESTATE Pays Farewell Call on Hoo- ver, Preparatory to 5,000- Mile Tour. PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WILL DEPART MONDAY Senator Carries Party Pledge of Agricultural Relief and Tariff Through Midwest. With a hearty handshake and a few words of encouragement and advice, Herbert Hoover today sent his running mate, Senator Curtis, on his way into the farm belt, prepared to ssek the winning of the West. The Republican vice presidential nominee called at Hoover headquarters on Massachusetts avenue in company with Chairman Work of the Republican national committee. It was ostensibly just a farewell call, preparatory to em- barking later today on an ambitious campaign swing into the border States and the agricultural Midwest. Following closely the example set by the veteran Kansan, Hoover himself will start Monda; pushing normwli'dm:h:ozmfi‘c T&l—: wick of the Democratic nominee, Gov. Smith. Hoover’s tour will be but a two or three day affair, but that of Senator Curtis will last two weeks and will {Sxtend in a 5,000-mile circuit of 13 important States. To Carry Party Pledge. Into the vast farming hinterland Cur- tis will carry a pledge of sympathy and of aid from the Republican party. His series of 13 speeches will be woven around such themes as the protective tariff, farm relief proposals and de- velopment of waterway transportatio; for cheaper movement of farm products. His first stop will be at Lexington, Ky., tomorrow. This is territory on which the Republican strategists are looking with eager, hopeful eyes, and they have assigned to the vice dential nominee the task of swinging the State for Republicanism in Novem- ber. From there Curtis will head into the Northwest, invading Indiana, Hli- Dakot | nois, Iowa, South ta, Wyoming, Tdaho, Colorado, Nebraska, MimH uri and Oklulklx‘lnoml. loover was g things easfer to- day, having completed writing and re- vising his speech to be delivered Mon- g:z’ xlugm 'Lndugnk‘g'. J. He plans 0 exten ‘motor tri) New Jersey so a8 ¥ uumh and Trenton, as well as the dozen or so towns already included on his itinerary. The Newark address, calculated io appeal to the industrial East, will con- cern labor. In addition to this formal speech it is possible he will make sev- eral extemporaneous talks to crowds ex- pected to geet him in the New Jersey cities and towns. - Will Visit Edison. Hoover has changed his plans in an- | other respect—he will spend Monday night at the home of his friend, Thomas A. Edison, at East Orange. He will leave the Edison home early Tuesday for a motor trip to Jersey City, Hoboken, ‘Weehawken and other places in Hudson and Counties, before returning to Newark for luncheon with Senator Edge of New Jersey. | The candidate today abandoned hope of taking a fishing trip on Chesapeake Bay this week end, due to pressure of | business. “The closer I get to the fish, the more they vanish,” Hoover remarked to correspondents this morning. He may attempt to arrange a fishing ex- pedition upon his return from New Jersey next week. The Republican campaign over the air will get under way tonight, when | Chairman Work and other leaders will mulmt the clh-“w;: x(m:: of the cam- ign _over a of stations, includ- l.lltxd W;oMA;:.khel’v. The others h:cnbed- ule e are Secretary klin Fort of the national committee; Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, viee chairman in charge of woman's activities; Henry J. Allen, Gascoigne, publicity director, and Paul radio supervisor. Edward Martin and Gen. W. W. At. s, gave Hoover and. tog ers, gave Hoover head- quarters an opfinmm of the Pennsylvania situation today. Martin and Atterbury ooth declared Hoover and Curtis were the overwhelming choice of voters in the Keystone State. Fund Triumvirate Named. W. T. Galliher of this city, Albert G. Towers of Baltimore and Isaac J. Marcuse of Ricl will the Re- triumvirate in of and Virginia. n‘llw- will limit his setivities to his par- ticular district, however. Formal announcement of the selec~ tion of Mr. Galliher as finance chair« man for the District of Columbia was made yesterday afternoon by J. R. Nutt, treasurer of the Republican na- ional committee, in maki public & finance en for many of F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, denied in & statement last night that he had in- dorsed Hoover before the Houston con- by Attorney General Brummitt of North Carolina, Mr. McBride explained that following the Republican conventior: *._ gave out a statement saying that the Kansas City platform was satisfactory, but that the same statement pointed out that the drys were going to Hous- ton, and if the Democrats also adopted without favor to either side.” PROBE ITALIA FATE. Commission Appointed to Investi- gate Disaster. ROME, September 14 (#.—A com- mission has been named with Admiral Cagni as head to make a formal inquiry into the loss of the dirigible Italia and :‘l:e efforts to rescue missing members of T Crew. The dirigible was a unit of the Italian air fleet when Gen. Umberto Nobile took her into the Arctic on his polar expe- dition. Because of this fact the gov- ernment in will go into full i of the handling of the airship. Radio Programs—Pages 46 & ¢7 -