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. Cieba, 3. 4 { i “TOWNER PUTS BAN I ON MILITARY RULE Porto Rico Governor Says Move Is Not Necessary. Citizens Protest. Bs the Associated Precs. SAN JUAN., Porto Rico, September 18—The United States destroyer Gilmer, bearing Henry M. Baker, national relief disaster director of the Red Cross, afd five assistants, | arrived at San Juan shortly after nhoon today. Mr. Baker at once went to the office of Gov. Horace Towner to con= fer with him on relief measures. The relief director met a mission from the Virgin Islands and assured the members that he would visit | there as soon as possible after mak- ing a relief survey of Porto Rico. Br the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, September 18.—Despite the insistence of citizens | that martial law affords the quickest | and most effective means for alleviating distress and inaugurating proper sani- tary measures to overcome the effect |s of last week’s hurricane, Gov. Horace | Towner today advised Washington that he did not believe the situation called for so drastic a measure. The citizens complain that while San Juan still has last Thursday’s garbage | and later accumulations in the streets, | and all available man power is needed for sanitary measure as well as for clearing ronds in the interior, large | forces of convict laborers today con- | tinue to lay sod in the new public | park here and to repair the damaged | wall of the governor's palace. Further check of the storm ravages ghowed that the estimated property damage of $100.000,000 was not ex- aggerated. A retabulation of the list of dead and injured was started. with no indication that the total of 1,000 killed would be diminished. Many Homes Razed. The greatest property loss, he said, would be in the Puerta de Terria dis- trict, in the flats between San Juan and Santurce. There the thousands of thatched homes of peasants and workers were destroyed. “T never saw such a wind,” he said. “It blew at its greatest force without stopping for two and a half hours.” He deseribed the coffee crop as one of the biggest in the isiand’s history, with the berries just ripening. *“This crop is a total loss he said. “I should place it at not less than $10,000,000, although most of the planters were protected by insurance under loans granted by the Federal land banks. “While the planters themselves may be partly reimbursed, the loss of the woffee plantations means that betwcen 200,000 and 300.000 peasants, who de- pended upon picking coffee berries, will be out of employment until Jan- vary, when they will have the cane reaping to fall back upon. “It is these people who will have to be looked after; assistance in rebuilding of their homes, as well as food.” The broker estimated that 90 per cent of the fruit and shade trees on the island were destroyed and that fhe homes of 70 per cent of the 800,000 peasants were wrecked. Hotel Roof Blown Off. H. Reuter of Clifton, N. J., who was in the Palace Hotel in San Juan when the hurricane howled down upon the city, said the roof- of the five-story hotel was blown off in parts and fell crashing into the street. { N. Bicberman, a member of the New k manufacturing firm of Bieberman & Co., another passenger, said the wind smashed in all the windows of the Con- dado Vanderbilt Hotel, racing_through the rooms and corridors. The 25 guests, he said, found refuge in the barber shop and manager’'s office. Latest reports of the number of dead in the hurricane from only 28 of Porto Rico’s 77 towns place the fatalities at more than 300, with all the details even from these places still incomplete. Little has yet been heard from the vast | mass of the rural population, from which | the actual figures may never be re-| ceived. | The towns thus far reporting dead are | as follows: Ciales, 3; Junctos, 1; Tru- jiloalto, 1 1; Aibonito, 18; Juanadiaz. 1; Ponce, 5; Maunabo, 2} Camuy, 1; Toaalta, 4; Fajardo, 4; Dorado, 1: Vegabaja, 5; Naguabo, 10; Gurabo, 3; Utuado, 12; Humacao, 50; Hatillo, 2; Viequez, 1; Guayama, 60; Cayey, 50; Las Piedras, 5; Arecibo, 15; Aguadilla, 10: Comerio, 29; Barranquin- tas, 8, and Coamo, 9. J. v GALE "4 IN AIR FORCES PLANE DOWN | Mail Pilot Lands in South Caro- lina After Rising 4,000 Feet to Avoid Storm. By the Associated Press. | ANDERSON, S. C., September 18— Running into a terrific windstorm high | in the air, Dick Merrill, northbound mail | pilot on ‘the Atlanta-to-Richmond air | mail route, landed safely here shortly | after 11 o'clock last night, after he had | made two efforts to negotiate the storm | which he encountered in the vicinity of Williamston, a few miles beyond here. Merrill said he expected to continue his flight as soon as the weather cleared, | but that if he were delayed too long, | pants. | drove there. WEST PALM BEACH CALLED SHAMBLES {Man and Wife Tell of Terror- Stricken City as Hurri- cane Raged. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September | 18.—Mr. and Mrs. John W. Muskoft, jr., were back in Jacksonville today after watching the storm that bore down on West Palm Beach, wrecking buildings and homes and wounding their occu- Beach _Sunday afternoon and the Muskoffs reached Jacksonville last night after a_drive over miles of debris- littered highways. “The town,” said Mr. Muskoff, a young Jacksonville attorney, “was one mass of debris. The streets were so littered as to make them almost im- | passable. i “We were driving up from Miami and reached West Palm Beach shortly after | noon. A brisk wind was blowing. Sud- through the sky. I looked around for the most secure hotel I could find and When_we got out of the car we could not walk against the wind. Tiles Blown Off Roof. “As we entered the hotel there were others already there. The crowd | about, looking outdoors. By this time a drenching rain had set in.| There could be heard crashes and rum- blings. The tiles on our hotel roof | clanked off to the pavement at irregu- | lar_intervals. | “The fir storm struck about 4 or | 4:30 in the afternoon. It must have lasted a couple of hours. . Then there was a lull of an hour or so and it came again. The second storm seemed to be the worst of the two. The first wind | was from the north and the second | from the south. “I would estimate that nearly 20 per cent of the houses in West Palm Beach were wrecked or damaged. Many buildings were wrecked, but the bigger and more substantial buildings stood, of course, although many windows were blown out. “A string of furniture stores on North Poinsettia street were hard hit. “The man where I put my car said it was the only storage garage of any size to withstand the storm. And the walls of this building—the service ga- rage—were only partly there. “So vicious was the wind it snapped off coconut palms—you know how tough they are supposed to be? ‘Wind Whips Rain. “The high wind whipped the rain into places it would not have gone ordinarily. and this must have added to the discomfort as well as to the damage. “I saw a number of people Wwith cuts ! and bruises and one or two with broken limbs. It was a rather gruesome sight, people with their heads tied up, and so on. I don't know whether there were any deaths. I asked the police chief and he said he didn't see how the town could have escaped without some deaths. “Some of the injured were taken to our hotel and others of the wounded to other buildings, including the court- heuse. “The crowds were as a whole orderly, although some of them appeared a little excited. They stood about in the cor- ridors of the buildings. Some of the youngsters were crying. There were no lights, no water and no gas. Drinking water was scarce until the Americen | Legion men found some. The Legion also_distributed blankets. “The roads were littered much of the way out of West Palm Beach for a dis- tance of about 45 miles up as far as Stuart; after that we did not see much storm damage. “Not much was heard of Palm Beach, as it is across some water and tele- phone lines were down.” STORM IS SWEEPING NORTH; GEORGIA AND CAROLINAS ARE HIT (Continued from First Page.) Brunswick News that a 55-mile wind had carried away electrie light wires and left the place in darkness. At the time the barometer was reported at 29.20 and still falling. Savannah reported early today that rain had been falling steadily since 8 o'clock the preceding morning. | A report from the Savannah News last night said the city had felt the force of a 40 to 50 mile gale, which uprooted trees and broke some plate | glass windows. The rainfall up to 8 o'clock last night was recorded at 2.52 inches. The barometer at 9:30 p.m. was 2950, a drop of 13 points in an hour and a half. All shipping remained inside the harbor. Heavy seas were running. The Atlanta Weather Bureau said at 8 am. central standard time, that the | center of the storm apparently was | central this morning along the coast | between Savannah, Ga., and Charles- | ton, S. C. Wires to Charleston, S. C., were re- | ported interrupted. | The advisory storm warning issued by the Washington Weather Bureau last | night said the storm was between | Cedar Keys and Jacksonville, Fla., but nearer Jacksonville, and recurving toward the norht and northeast. The i bureau predicted that the storm's cen- ter within 12 hours would likely pass| near Savannah. 4 ‘This warning said: “Intensity of storm considerably less than when it reached the southeast Florida coast.” CHARLESTON ISOLATED, 50-Mile Wind Kicks Up Tremendous | the mail would be dispatched by train The fiver was unable to say whether he | would make another effort last night to reach Spartanburg, S. C., or would wait | until daylight. | Merrill reported that the storm appar- | ently was a considerable distance above | the earth. He said he rose 4.000 feet in | an effort to get above it, but was un- | successful. The disturbance was de- | £cribed by the fiver as “about the worst | weather” he had ever encountered. | The fiver was two hours behind sched- | ule when he landed. GEN. DRUM WILL HEAD, PORTO RICAN RELIEF Ordered to Take Charge of Work for Army in Aid of Hurri- cane Sufferers, By ihe Associated Press NEW YORK. September 18.-—Brig. Gen. Hugh A. Drum. commander of the 1st Division, was ordered to Porto Rico today to take charge of the hurricane relief work for the Army. He will sall tomorrow on the U. S. S. Bridge. The Bridge is being loaded at_the Brooklyn Navy Yard with Red Cross fnod, and shelter supplies. Three Red Cross workers and two doctors will sail on the Bridge. In addition, two Red Cross workers are to leave Thursday Sea in Harbor. CHARLOTTE, N. C. September 18 | ().—The South Carolina Coast from Charleston to the Georgia border today was cut off from communication by wire as a result of a heavy storm that swept up the South Atlantic Coast last night. The last word received from Charles- ton was shortly after 3 o'clock this morning when a report was received here that the wind was blowing 50 miles and hour and kicking up a tre- mendous sea. The Coast Guard at Charleston was prepared to go to the assistance of vessels at sea and several | ships had taken refuge in the Cooper and Ashley Rivers. - o Telephone and telegraph companies this morning reported all wires out tp Charleston, Beaufort, Georgetown and | Parris Island. | SAVANNAH CUT OFF. Radio o Charlotte Are Down. CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 18.— A message signed by “Abram, Asso- ciated Press, Savannah,” sent by Sta- ys Al Wires | tion 4FJ, operated by T. J. Roberts, 243 | Abercorn street, Savannah, was re- ceived here today. It read: “Savannah cut off by telephone and telegraph outside world. Heavy rain- fall and gale winds last night, but small damage. “No deaths or injured. Barom- cter stiil falling and higher winds ex- pected. Georgians deeply _concerned over safety of Florida relatives. Lack of wire facilities causing extreme anx iety. Please relay this Lo the Associated on the Porto Rico Line steamer San Lorenzo for San Juan. Gen. Drum’s stafl will include Col. Edward A. G corps area judge advocate; First Lieut. Robert B. Hutch- ins. aide, an Engineer officer, a chauf- &uwr and stenngrapher, ~ . Filty-cight air ‘liners, carrying 342 passengers, arrived or departed from the airport at Croydon, England, in one day recently. ‘The storm struck West Palm | denly a roof of a building went salling | W et Ay A, T AN THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON. D. by P east from an altitude of 1,200 feel. C.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, T928." WEST INDIES ISLE SETS TOLL AT 300 Guadeloupe Town Devastat- ed—28 Drowned in Tidal Wave. By the Associated Press. | PARIS, September 18.—The fury of | the tropical hurricane which swept the | West Indies on Thursday is estimated | by the governor of Guadeloupe, French West Indies, to have taken a toll of 300 | lives there. In a report to the minister ;o( colonies he said 235 bodies had al- ready been recovered. | It was feared that when the full toll | became known, however, it would mount | beyond the 300 mark. The governor, | when he sent his estimate, had just ar- {rived at Pointe & Pirte, the chief own of Guadeloupe. He reported that 60 {were dead in Pointe A Pitre, which | contains nearly one-fifth of the total | population of 230,000 of the island, and | that the town had been devastated and |the suburbs completely - wiped out. | When the wreckage is cleared away, the jdeaths may be found to be greater than | estimated by the governor on his first Communications Cut. Many villages also have not vet been reached by courier and all other com- munications have been silent. It was believed today that these villages suf- fered greatly from the hurricane with the rest of the island. i A tidal wave struck Bourg, e Twently-eight persons were ing 1t. —Underwood Photo. trapped View of West Palm Beach, lookin SAN JUAN WASOLD N PLERINS TIHE Governor’s Palace Built 250 Years Before White House Was Started. Hurricane-swept San Juan, Porto Rico, was a settlement half a century be- fore St. Augustine, Fla., the oldest town in the United States, came into being. A full century before the Pilgrims land- ed at Plymouth Rock it began to take on the semblance of a city. “More than two and a_half centurles before the United States began to build the White House in Washington, Spain started the construction of the Casa Blanca, the governor's palace” sqys the National Geographic Society, in de- scribing the city. Ponce de Leon’s Port. “It was from the city of San Juan that the adventurous Ponce de Leon set sail, like another Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, for the fulfillment of his charming, if boyish, dream of finding the Fountain of Youth, which we all recall, resulted in the discovery of the southernmost United States, Flo- rida.” The society depicted the Island of Porto Rico as rectangular in shape, with an area a third less than that of Con- necticut, a length of 100 miles, an average width of 30 miles and 160 miles of coast line. It has a population of 1,300,000. Transportation Varied. “Transportation methods here differ widely from those in the States,” the description continued. *“The automo- bile and the motor truck carry most of the passengers and freight. The only railroad of any consequence skirts the northern, western and southern shores from San Juan to Guayama, but its traffic is limited mainly to goods ship- ped in bulk. In the interior, the ox cart finds some of the byroads passable, but the pack pony must be relied on beyond the main highways. “Traveling around the rim of the island, or crossing in divers places from north to south, and through the center from east to west, one finds Old World ways and nineteenth century travel strangely associated with New World customs and twentieth century trans- portation. “Creaking ox carts and antiquated victorias vie with noisy motor cycles, ever-present ‘flivvers,’ luxurious motor cars and lumbering trucks.” FLORIDA HURRICANE KILLS 38; PROPERTY LOSSES MOUNTING Page.) __ (Continued_from 1 night indicated that the waters of the lake had been raised high above nor- mal level by the storm. Injured persons at Belleglade mum- bered at least 30, Dixon and Mebker told officials at Lake Worth. The town has a normal population of 500. They sald that waters of the lake had flowed into the town. Accompanied by Dr. J. Tierson and nurses, Dixon and Meeker left Lake Worth last night for Belleglade to care for the injured. Another rescue party was_prepared to go to the scene if needed. From Pahokee, on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee, some distance north of Beileglade, came reports that some persons had drowned when waters from the lake overflowed the settlement. Fifty persons were reported injured. This _information was brought to Miami by James U. Grant. At least 10 bodies of persons who lost their lives in the flood had been recovered. Mr. Grant said the countryside for miles on either side was inundated from the waters of the lake, He reported that among those known to have died at Pahokee was Mrs. | Andrew Smith, who was torn from her | husband's grasp as they attempted to | make their way from their flooded home to a place of safety. Mr. Grant said that the water in Pelican Bay, pushed away from the town during the first half of the storm, | was swept back in increased volume when the second phase of the gale hit, blowing off the lake from the southeast. He said he witnessed the first phase of the storm from the Park View Hotel, a frame building. When the second phase of the storm struck, Grant sald, this hotel was destroyed. He and 19 companions, all, with one exception, women and children, sought shelter in a house, which broke from its founda- tion and floated in the flood waters of Pelican River. He said that water in the room came up to his chest. A bed was supported on chairs and the women placed on the bed, while a hole was cut |in the ceiling and small children were vassed through to save them. Grant said that the schoolhouse was being used to house at least 500 refugees and injured. A physician reached the town before he left, Grant said. Canal Point, three and a half miles | north of Pahokee was isolated, the Canal Point highway being under water. Grant said that in company with his | | son, Vincent, and Seth Perkins, also of Miami, he d through to Miami. In some places the water came over the running board of their automobile. He urged immediate relief measures and said the residents were badly in aeed of assistance, ¥ WEST INDIAN HURRICANE SOURCE TRACED NEAR AFRICAN COAST Devastating Twisters, Starting as Warm Air Eddies, Gather Force From Tem- perature and Pressure Changes. The birthplaces of West Indian hurricanes, such as that which has Jjust devastated Porto Rico, other islands and Florida, and how and where they blow, the the subjects of a bulletin from the National Geographic Society. “Most of the so-called West Indian hurricanes come into existence over the warm seas, somewhere between the West Indies and the coast of Africa,” says the bulletin. “They are probably gentle little eddies of air at first, but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure, until they become gigantic whirls sucking air to- ward their central vortices like gar- gantuan vacuum cleaners. “The observer in the path of a hurri- cane can hardly believe that these destructive winds are swirls. He sees the effects of and feels a straight blast of air moving at great speed, overturn- ing ships, trees and buildings. If he watches long enough he will see this destructive blast almost completely reverse its direction. Center Is Slow. “These winds are created by the pumping force of the central swirl, and while the center itself may be moving across country at the leisurely rate of eight or ten miles an hour, the winds rushing inward from all di- rections to disappear up the ‘spout’ reach terrific speed. The usual maxi- mum speed is 100 miles an hour. The fact that the hurricane at San Juan blew at a rate of 132 and perhaps 150 miles an hour stamps this storm as of extraordinary violence. “The routes followed by West Indian hurricanes in general are similar, but the storms differ much in their detailed paths. They are born in the region of the trade winds. All of them first move westward, as the trade winds move, and most of them later turn northward. “Many hurricanes make their turn northward well east of Porto Rico. A good many others strike-south of that island as well as southward of Haiti and Cuba. But there have been all too frequent occasions when the storms have driven straight across Porto Rico or its island neighbors. 'SAYS SOVIET BODY there and perished. ‘The island dependencies were also hard hit. On the island of Muarie Galante, which has a population of 20,- 000, almost all houses collapsed, with a resulting toll of human lives. The island of Desirade reported similar damages and suffering among its 1,600 popula- Robinson to Leave Florida; Appeals For Red Cross Aid By the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sep- tember 18.—After inspection of the destruction wrought in this section by the hurricane and the issuance of an appeal to the American Red Cross to take relief steps, Senator Joe Rob- inson arranged last night to leave here in time to fulfill his speaking engagement in Atlanta, Ga.. tonight. The Democratic vice presidential nominee expects to continue his cam- paign tour without interruption. It was said by members of his party that Mr Robinson had canceled his engagement at Miami last night be- cause of a desire to render any as- sistance possible to the hurricane sufferers. LEEWARD ISLANDS DEATH TOLL RISES 44Reported Dead and 50 In- jured—Property Losses Run High. B the Associated Press. ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands, Septem- ber 18.—The hurricane death list in the Leeward Islands mounted last night as reports trickled in from the small bits of land devastated by the storm. Nevis Island reported 13 dead and St Kitts six, in addition to the 25 dead and 50 injured earlier reported from Montserrat. Antigua suffered no loss of life, so far as known. although the country tion, with two dead. Plantations Wrecked. Plantations were wrecked. Buildings and factories were destroyed ond un- roofed. Rum distilleries were severely damaged as well as homes. Apparently Martinique did not suffer as heavily as Guadeloupe. The governor of that colony reported three men drowned when a tidal wave swamped a score of small boats. A few houses were wrecked and crops and highways suf- i d has repeatedly suffered in vary- = - fered. ing degree from these destructive storms. “The latest West Indian hurricane, like most of these mid-season storms, apparently originated east of the easternmost islands of the West Indies. It struck about midway of the Lesser Antilles, causing damage in the French island of Martinique, and probably in the neighboring British island of Dom- inica and the French Guadeloupe. It was then reported in the Virgin Islands, dependencies of the United States. Only a few hours later its full force struck San Juan, at the eastern tip of Porto Rico.” Great Britain's possessions in the West Indies also were hit by the gale, the Leeward Islands reporting a death toll of 44. Montserrat reported 25 dead and 50 injured. Medical stores, food and cloth- ing were being sent there from Antigua, which reported no loss of life. On St. Kitts (St. Christophers) six persons perished. At Basse Terre on that island the property damage was estimated at $500,000. Thirteen dead were reported from Nevis. The sea front at Dominca was hrm{}ly damaged, but there was no loss of life. MIAMI AIDS CITIES DAMAGED BY STORM Mayor Sewell Emphasizes That No Loss Has Been Suffered in Vicinity. By the Assoclated Press. NEW_YORK, September 18.—Mayor E. G. Sewell of Miami announced to- day by telegram to J. P. Yober, the city’s publicity director, who is staying here, that Miami is doing everything humanly possible for the hurricane suf- ferers in its sister cities. Mayor Sewell said he wished to em- phasize that absolutely no damage had been done in or about Miami. Those who own Winter homes in the district, he said. need have no fear of returning to them, as in the history of the ‘Weather Bureau no storm of any in- tensity has ever occurred in the vicin- ity between November and August, Sep- tember and October being the tropical storm months, Hurricane Sidelights - RATIFIES PEACE PACT Moscow Paper Cites Resolution by Central Executive Committee, By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 18.—Tass, So- viet news agency, says that a resolution of the presidium of central executive committee, August 29, amounted to ratification by Russia of the Kellogg- Briand pact renouncing war. The news- paper Izvestia points out that the reso- lution was passed the same day that the Soviet government decided to join in the treaty. The resolution was passed by the presidium in the' interval between two sessions of the central executive com- mittee and according to the constitution such a resolution is an act substituting for the decision of the committee itself. Regarding _international treaties con- cluded by Russia as well as acts of ad- hesion, a resolution of the presidium is By the Associated Press. One of the freaks of the hurricane districts are still isolated. Many large buildings, including schools, the hos- pital and Government buildings, were seriously damaged, while hundreds of small homes of the poor were reduced to matchwood. This island rushed medical stores, food and clothing to Montserrat, where conditions were re- ported as very bad. Dominica was ancther island to re- port no loss of life, although communi- cations were not yet restored with the country districts. Its sea front was heavily damaged. On St. Kitts the property damage at Basse Terre alone was estimated at $500,000. The sea did more damage on St. Thomas than the wind. The water front with the newly constructed break- water was destroyed. The navy yard suffered heavily. Many barges sank and warehouses containing precious supplies were laid in ruins. SMITH ASKS AID FOR STORM VICTIMS Issues Appeal to People of New York—Wires Governor of Porto Rico. By the Associated Press. GOV. SMITH'S TRAIN, EN ROUTE TO OMAHA, September 18.—From his presidential campaign train as it crossed Indiana into Illinois last evening, Alfred E. Smith, as Governor of New York, ap- pealed to the people of his State to ren- der aid to the hurricane-stricken res dents of Porto Rico and Florida. He made his appeal in a formal statement, and at the same time dispatched tele- grams of sympathy to the Governors of Porto Rjeo and Florida and inquired what specific assistance was needed. The New York executive’s statement said that “a great calamity has befall- en the people of Porto Rico and also of our sister State of Florida. New York State has always been ready to alle- viate distress and misfortune. “I am issuing this appeal to the peo- ple of the State of New York to carry this noble tradition and to give every assistance possible to the Red Cross and other agencies engaged in relief work in those stricken areas PAYNE TO MAKE APPEAL. PASSENGERS TELL OF SAN JUAN LOSS Steamer Reaches New.York, Setting Out in Height of Storm. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 15.—Eye-wit- ness accounts of the hurricane at San Juan were brought here today by the captain and passengers on board the Porto Rico Line steamer San Lorenzo, The San Lorenzo was tied up to her pier in San Juan last Thursday and Friday, when the tropical storm struck that West Indian city in all its fury. “One could not see anything because of the density of the rain and the mist,” said Capt. Fred W. Folker. “I knew that the air was filled with flying objects, for we could hear them crash. The rain came so fiercely that it was ke hail, and as in all hurricanes it came down in regular waterfalls. Passengers Held Up. “We had taken on most of our carga but sailed without 100 of our passengers, as they were to have come from other island “cities and plantations and the roads to San Juan were virtually biocked with debris, or rendered impassable by pools of water. All service by wheels, trains, automobiles and street cars had stopped.” The storm broke Thursday at 3 am. n Juan, the captain said. He was 1 for the " for at Santo o City, his port of call before San Juan, he had b d. On n_warne tying up at the pier in S captain used 11 hawsers 11 more aft. In the strain of the wind only one of the hawsers broke. The storm grew in intensity until # reached its climax between 12 noon an§ 3 pm. Thursday, when the winds an] the rain began to subside. The Say Lorenzo was scheduled to sail thag afternoon, but delayed her departurs until Friday. “My barometer went down.” the cap- tain said. “from 29:60 at 10:30 a.m. to 28:85 at 3:15 p.m., which was the lowest T have even seen it.” Worst in History. The storm was the worst in the is« land's history, the passengers said. They estimated the coffee, orange, grapefruit and coconut trees and their fruit were 90 to 95 per cent destroyed. Mrs. Cora M. Ives of New York, who was in the Miami hurricane two years ago, said the Florida storm was a “Spring zephyr” compared with this one. Her dinner the day after the storm was a half slice of bread, a cup of tea and an egg. L. Sanchez-Morales, a Porto Rican on his way to attend Holy Cross College at Wercester, Mass., said an uprooted palm tree fell on his house and pre- vented the roof from blowing away. WEST PALM .B;EACH AID CALL IS PICKED UP Brooklyn Amateur Hears “QRR"” Message Sent Out From Station 4-AYB. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 18.—The Landmag’s S1O S. apparently coming from West Palm Beach, the heart of the Florida . hurricane district, was picked up today by Eric H. Palmer, jr.. operator of amateur radio station 2-ATZ in Brooklyn. The sending station gave its designa- tion as 4-AYB and after a series of QRR’s, the call for assistance of land Palmer said he tried to get the sta- tion back, but apparently he did not have enough power to raise it. Shortly it came back on the air of its own accord, however, and repeated its call for assistance. FORT MYERS ESCAPES. Florida Town Radios Hurrican: Passed to North. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Septembet 18 (#).—The City of Fort Myers, Fla, and Lee County were undamaged by the storm, a radio message from the an act of ratificatioh. In order to enforce fully the obliga- tions of Russia toward the pact, the ratification of the powers which signed it in Paris is now necessary. In Summer and Fall. “Since hurricanes are formed by the interaction of heat and atmospheric pressure, the Summer months and those of early Autumn, when the cumulative effects of the Summer sun are still to be felt, are naturally the periods of greatest hurricane occurence. Porto Rico has not experienced a hurricane in June during the past 40 years, as shown by a study by the United States Two Quakes Rock Smyrna. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18 (#).—Smyrna was visited by two more earthquakes today. The first was felt at 1 am. and the second nine hours Ve b Station WRC, and will use part of the e e Only e Niptae | o o NeFe: shvare, and caused | cane, was believed fo have suffered |time allotted to ~Voiers' Service, The | onechalf per cent. September, aud October; However, the | not m,"m'z,'m;md 8¢, but detalls have | severe losses in small shipping and |hook-up will be the same as for the |noon. - ~ : - " 2 stocks. regular oters’ Service” broadcast. cane stage. The Value of an Education in Dollars and Cents A recent survey indicates in dollars and cents the value of an education. It shows that the uneducated man earns an aver- age of $1,200 a year, a high school graduate, $2,200, while the college graduate reaches an average of $6,000 a year. We recommend to every. par- ent the establishment of a sav- ings fund with definite weekly or monthly deposits to insure the necessary education for their children. N A chart of weekly deposits will be mailed on request. The Washington Loan and Trust Company JOHN B, LARNER, President Main Office West End Office F and Ninth Sts. Seventeenth and G Sts. RESOURCES OVER EIGHTEEN MILLIONS was the blowing off of the spire of the Methodist Episcopal Church at West Palm Beach, which went into the air and came down point first through the church roof. ing up of a 100-foot fla,staff before the courthouse. The top of the stafl was jammed into the ground 10 feet Another and broken in two. Rum row, south of Bimini, which was blasted out of order by the 1926 hurri- EAOZ >R Z - Red Cross Chairman to Speak Over WRC Tonight. NEW YORK, September 18 (#).— John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, will speak to radio listeners at 7:45 o'clock tonight, Eastern daylight time, concerning the hurricane in_the Caribbean and Florida. He will speak from the National Broadcasting Co. offices in Washington, Pensacola naval was the break- storm. Sept. 18, 1928 9:00 AM Inquiry at the U. S. Weather Bureau indicates that Washing. ton will probably feel the effects of the Hurricane! Are You Protected by WINDSTORM INSURANCE? Consult Us for Rates Young & Simon Suite 340, Woodward Bldg. Telephone Main 5180 base, intercepted by the post station at Maxwell Field here last night at 7:27 o'clock, said. The message read: Myers and Lee County undamaged by Were on ex got as high as 50 m early this morning. No windows broken. No other damage. cut off account of wire Tampa this morning. “City of Ft. reme fringe and illes an hour wind No injuries. City trouble in Bumper fruit crop damaged less than one-half of Shifting this after- Weather never reached hurri- EOZ R Z -