Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 5

THE EVENING 1929.. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, MAY 2 FIGHT DI SDHURT | INARKANSAS GALES Tornadoes Strike in Both sides of State Within | 1 For Impaired Vision —conutan - Eye Ph ysician Gold Band | | | | | Gold Bag i BUTTER COFFEE -53; -39¢ RESH FISH THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL FILLET | BUCK | ROE | BOSTON HAD OC SH AD SH AD MACKEREL 17c 19¢ 25 230 EERERERELLYINEELRIRRR TR RN AR bl el LIBBY’S | ROCK CREEK | Cream of Nut BROOM Sllgar e | GINGER ALE | OLEO 59c |151e |c- 15¢ 135 25¢ = “fi\\\‘\“\mfi“fi‘\‘fi“‘\\‘“ ARRRAREENNNN Highest Quality MEATS | Gock SHOULDERs 1> 22C ROAST Skinless L 30 c Sight is one of the a Few Hours. most important factors & o WHEATLEY, Ark.. May 2 —Eight per- | sons were killed and more than a score | injured with property damage estimated | at from $250.000 to $300,000 as a result | of the tornado which struck this section last night. it was learned today. Of the injured several are in & serous | condition. FORT SMITH HIT FIRST. in accident prevention. WE DO NOT *PRESCRIBE" GLASSES WE MAKE THEM | o | | SOOI RO G ROR BUGRURRGOR Red Cross b “Workers Rushed Into I b o Stricken Towns. | - ’ | || | LITTLE ROCK, Ark.May 2 (®.—The| | Y] | | second series of tornadoes in Arkansas | 2N . — in less than a month today took a :oll | == O F’Tl CIAN | of at least six dead and probably 50 in- | 918 Fifteenth Street e !i]unlvd with property damage running | pa i| !high. WASHINGTON Striking a few hours apart in both | east and west parts of the State iate yesterday and last night, the tornadocs | so completely demoralized communica- tion systems that full reports of tne | | number of dead and injured was not | obtainable early today. The six known dead were at Brlnklev‘ iand Wheatley. a few miles apart, in | Northeast Arkansas. Three of them | \ were white per: Mrs. Dave Edwards | and two daughters, and three unidenti- | { fied colored persons. | 20 Injured at Dagmar. | More than 20 were injured in |LAL] | section, some v. _Reports from | | Dagmar, southwest of Brinkley, were | that 20 sons were injured there. | 2O/ Established 1899 RN R N R R R R R Whitmore X Cnmpanv 1225 F Street at 13th g injured. The number of dead was expected be increased by a thorough survey of | the section around Wheatley. Red Cross | workers, sent in on a special Rock Island train, were on the scene, | Red Cross workers from Newport went by special train to Daghar to| | ascertain the storm situation there, { The first tornado struck at Fort Smith in midafternoon. Five were in- | jured in the city and seven hurt at| Sand Prairie, a small town near there. | Considerable property ~damage was | il caused. The Brinkley and Wheatley storm hit at 6:30 o'clock. | GOING-OUT-OF BUSINESS SALE Remaining Stock of Fine Quality Scene at the Marine Barracks yesterday when Sergt. Oliver M. Schriver of the Marine Corps retired after more than 30 years sel In the photo, left to right, are Capt. Stewart B, O'Neill, Capt. lor Branson of the Marine Band and Sergt. Schriver. _—Star Staff Photo. Home-Dressed AUGE POWER OF GERM- D. E. Whitehurst, Rock Island sta- TOOLS TO G PORK 5 2 dna e sponchios | KILLING DROPS SHOWN CHEMISTS e e e feww ot G tp s ol b Newly Formulated Rules GiVC HOPC Of Short Cuts to Cures by Slaying strike in the neighborhood of Wheat- - Bacteria Internal]y. ley. Whitehurst rushed to the station |+ and organized a relief train, which went to Wheatley and brought back some of i ilhc injured. Cut Path 200 Yards Wide. AND WEDDING RINGS A staft correspandcnt Df the Assocla(- Now 2: O% Less WEDDING GIFTS 209 to 50% d that the path of the tornado was REDUCED S clearly visible from the railroad tracks southwest of Brinkley. As ss. |__“He may use the rules” said Dr. Cutting a path ‘about 200 yards wide, . Ohio, May 2—The | Kamm, “as a” means of plotting a field it leveled telephone poles and trees, he | chemist’s hope of a short cut to curing | to locate a desirable region in which said. . It. apparently hit first south of | gisease by finding chemicals that may |to search for compounds that might De Valls Bluff, in the vicinity of Dag-1pe taken internally to kill bacteria | have practical medicinal value. He may mar, moved northeast toward Brinkley, | without injuring the patient was given | find something not previously made. passing_through the outskirts of that “The important partsis that as yet town, then east to Wheatley, where It|gociety today. | we have made very little progress in de- turned directly north. Many of the| "¢ was in a set of new formulated | stroying bagteria within ne bodv. We | injured were from the section north of | ryles that show how to calculate ac- | have means of déstroying them in test ‘Wheatley. curately the toxic and the germ-killing | tubes and in cultures outside the body, ! . — powe:’s or';‘l:ousml:ds of germlc‘lda‘l (;uml- ?utflthese m-modsd olrun‘ are not ef- 68-M||_E GAI.E WHIPS pounds. e rules are a set of tools | fective upon a patien -OVER NORTH TEXAS | which shorten somewhat the staggering| “The hope in the field of medical task of men, who search through fields | chemistry is to find ‘a specific germicide | {of test tubes for the now unknown for each one of the bacterial diseases, ! e . 5. Snow, Hail, Sleet and Rain Fall in Panhandle—Farmhands In- jured in Tornado. =T AR S S S S RN SRR AR R SRR R RS AR R R A RRN AN S Y b, INEERERRERNRENEN 3 compounds that may be effective. | such as searlet fever, measles and septi- The rules were presented by Dr. Oli- | cemia. For such ills we now have ver Kamm of Parke, Davis & Co. of | serums, but as yet no chemical agents Detroit, and his assistant, A. L. Ra that will end the infection. We really lins. There are seven of them, all in-|depend upon nature to develop its own volving chemical formulas, affecting | cure. alcohols and phenols. The phenols are “The hope of the research worker is a group of compounds of which car-|to locate the exceptional compound bolic acld is a familiar example. Dr.|that will destroy the disease-producing Kamm said that thousands of alcohols | bacteria and yet have only a slight! and phenols exist, or may be produced, | deleteriov; effect upon the tissues of Home-Dressed | PHILLIPS’ Sz Ib. 4Qc o 30c AMERICAN BEAUTY Lb. 34c MONTE . ROAST LOFFLER’S %4 Ib. 35¢ F RESH AUTH'S &2 b, 49c Fountain Brand g BACON .. .Lb. PEACHES = 19¢ w. 33¢ FAUNCE'S *uzIb. 35¢ H AM AUTH’S e HAMS 39¢ DEL Watches, Silverware / Gold and Platinum Jewelry '~ Glassware, Novelties Costume Jewelry, Etec. 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DALLAS, Tex., May 2.—Texas weather moderated today after disturbances in almost every section of the State. Northern points were whipped by a | 68-mile gale yesterday and a series of minor tornadoes swept about the Arkansas line. Snow, hall, sleet dnd rain fell generally in the Panhandle. Several colored farm hands were re- ported injured in Smith County by &/ tornado. Street car service in Dallas was in- terrupted when the metal roof of & was hurtled through the air to smsh' down power and telephone lines, Win- dows were blown in, signs, papers and | sand filled the air, and small sheds were razed. Borger reported a half hour of snow and intermittent showers. Amarillo was hit by gusts of sleet, slight rains and a bitter north wind. Reports said_ Athens, Henderson, Malakoff and Franston were hit by tornadoes. ~Communication lines were severed and reports of damage were not avalable, |GRAF ZEPPEL.IN ON SHORT FLIGHT OVER AUSTRIA | Giant Dirigible Carrying Notables on Journey From Friedrichshafen to Vienna and Back. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, May 2.—The Graf Zeppelin flew over Vienna at 9:15 a.m., four hours and five minutes after lenving Fried- | richshaten, Germany, on a short Aus- | trian cruise. FRIEDRICHSCHAFEN, Germany, May | 2 (#).—The Graf Zeppelin, giant Ger- man dirigible, took off at'5:10 a.m.-on |a trip which was to take it over Vienna |and back. | Among’ the dirigible's 22 passengers were Dr. Hans Schurff, Austrian min- ister of trade and traffic; Count Schwein von Krosigj, representatives of the | Wurtemburg government and various ifederal ministers and the Japanese ‘maval attache, Capt. Katchira. Dr. Hugo Eckener was in command. |ACTRESS LOVES COUNT, " BUT REFUSES TO WED .Miss Bankhead and De Bosdart | Agree Not to Marry, Stage Star Announces. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 2.—The Daily Express today quoted Miss Tallulah Bankhead, actress, as saying she still loved Count Anthony de Bosdart. Cancellation by mutual consent of their four-month-old engagement has been announced. “Tony is a perfect darling,” Miss Bankhead told the Express. “I adore him and I honestly believe he adores me. We have no quarrels, but we real- ized things had become impossible be- cause he has his work and I have mine. ‘We have' been scparated so much, and when lovers are separated things are not the same.” Miss ' Bankhead admitted she had been annoyed by people gossiping and predicting that they would not be mar- ried. “Until recenfly we had every in- tention of marrying. I was all the more determined to go through with it be- cause people were saying we were not suited. 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House's Weather permitting, the Spring festival of Neighborhood House, | 470 N street southwest, will get under way this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with | presentation of the operetta ‘“Peter Rabbit” in the garden. There also will be a number of specialty dances by the | children of the neighborhoed and other features the affair, The festival will last through Satur- day, when the principal event, be held late in the afternoon. A cession, with all the children of Nelih- borhood House taking part, will be held || in connection with the coronation cere- || monies, with the Marine Band furnish- ing music. * - The pageant is under direction of | Mrs. Clara D. Neligh, chairman of the general committee in charge of ar- rangements and head resident of Neigh- borhood House. Hostesses today are Mrs. Wilbur J. Carr, Mrs. Charles J. Bell, Mrs, John Jay O'Connor and Mrs. Porter Dale; on Friday, Mrs, George C. Thurpe. Mrs. Joseph M. tSoddard, Mrs. Ellen A. Vin- | ton and Mrs. Clrtoll L. Beedy. 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