Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1929, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1929. “MGENTINE QUAKE AKES TOLL OF 'Mo%e Than 100 Injured in| f ’Destruction of Two b Villages. § | i | BBy thiy Assoctated Press. | BUENOS AIRES, an/ Earth- ru-w yesterday in two /i agegitook a toll of 33 dead and more than 00 Injured. Fifteen persons were | Kill and 60 injured at Villa Atuel At Malvinas 18 were killed and @nmors#han 40 injured. ofe than half of Villa Atuel was Pridge4n the city collapsing. Not a house was left standing without some how of damage. Numerous homes were Hestroyed at Las Malvinas, while com- munications were disrupted throughout the area. The tremors continued except for brief interruptions from 5:45 am. to o am. stricken area. BUENOS AIRES, ntine vil- | Aid was rushed today to the May 31 () —A| old wave gripped the entire Argentine | today. At Ciudad Mendoza the tem- perature was 25 degrees Fahrenheit, three persons dying of the cold. Snow and freezing temperature were reported. from other sections of the republic, the snow falling in some places interfering | s with railroad uwm( LAMONT HEADS GROUP. ‘Will Preside Over Committee on Merchant Marine Problems. Secretary Lamont has been appointed | by President Hoover as chairman of a committee to deal with problems aris- ing under the merchant marine act in connection with the letting contracts over a 10-year period for transporta- tion of mail on ships. The President in making the appoint- ment said the law intended that the contracts for transporting mail should be used “in such fashion as to upbuild | and strengthen the merchant marine | both for the present and the future.” Cows Fed on Ticker Tape ‘While flying. over the barren lands of the Persian Gulf, Lady Maud Hoare, | the first woman to travel by air (mm England to India, saw many starved- | looking cows, she recently related. 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