Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Pair tonight and tm:wrmw; not much change in temperature. Temperatures—Highest, 91, at 2:30 v;:: yesterday; lowest, 62, at 6:30 a.m. t y. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 No. 31,537. post office, Entered as second class matter Washington. D. C. WASHINGTON, D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930—-FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. #*# “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 105,978 (P) Means Associated Press. TWO CEN 300 DEAD, 900 HURT IN SANTO DOMINGO CITY RAZED BY 160-MILE HURRICANE; FOOD GONE, BANDITS RIFLE RUINS; MAY STRIKE IN FLORIDA TOMORROW Scenes of Horror Unequaled in Island Are Reported as Wind Levels All Structures. LUNATIC ASYLUM FREED INMATES IS DESTROYED, ADD TO TERROR Surrounding Districts Are Flattened by Storm, Which Crushes Bridges and Destroys Communication Lines. By the Associated Press. Three hundred persons were reported dead and nine hundred in- jured today in the wreckage left in Santo Domingo by a hurricane which swept westward along the 24 hours. The capital of the Dominican population, was laid waste by the storm. Not until midday was com- munication restored with the stricken city, when All-American Cables improvised a station in the island horror began to reach the world. Trail .of Ruin Is Left. / The wind mounted to 160 miles an hour during the climax of the hurricane. Leaving a trail of ruin, and almost. sinking the Porto Rico Line steamship Coamo, the storm lashed its way toward Cuba and the Florida Straits, but, latest advices said, swerved sharply northward, apparently passing out to the west. Every agency of the United States Government today was bent toward gauging the extent of the calamity, and preparing for what- ever relief measures might have to be taken. Weather Bureaus around the storm area watched closely for new developments. Red Cross headquarters stood ready to use its facili- ties. The Navy Department awaited messages which would incidate the role it might play. 20 Dead on Island. Advices from Kingston, Jamaica, this forenoon said that 20 veeri kifled and great dama persons had 2 of Dominica, West Indies, by the minica radio station was demolish island destroyed. Aristocratic Quarter Razed. SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, September 4 (#).—The City of Santo Domingo, most ancient settlement of the white man in the New World, was almost destroyed by a hurricane that swept over the eastern end of the Island of Haiti yesterday. g The hurricane struck Santo Domingo at 2 p.m., and blew for four hours, Houses in the aristocratic quarter were razed to their foundations. Dwellings of the poor simply disappeared on the wings of a wind-estimated to be blowing around 150 miles an hour. Scenes of Horror Scenes whose horror its passage. The entire army was called out. The communications systems of the republic were totall news came from the rest of the country, but capital, bridges were wrecked and roads were rendered impassable. lines simply vanished. The plant of the newspaper La Santo Domingo, was destroyed. Despite available opportunity sent a story of the disaster to the New York offices. Lunatic Asylum Destroyed. A building adjoining La Opinion’s plant crumbled before the wind. Three of its 15 occupants perished. The lunatic asylum was destroyed wild through the city streets, adding to the horror of the disorder and confusion 4 7 finally recaptured by soldiers and police. everywhere. They were Districts Are Officials and newspapers appealed all charitable organizations in the United States. Hunger began TTnere have been many robberies. The districts of Nueva Villa, Duarte and San Carlos destroyed, scarce a wreck of a wall left standing. effects today. ‘There were several reports of the ter- rific destruction visited upon Santo Domingo before communication with that end of the island ceased yesterday afternoon. At 3:30 pm. a message received at S8an Juan said a wind of 150 miles an hour was lifting roofs off of houses, with all communication and power lines rapidly going down. All communication with the island republic ceased as the hurricane devel- oped yesterday. The All-America Cables Co. said its service was interrupted with- out warning. Although it operates a submarine cable, the company’s land station is above ground and exposed. Radio service to the island was inter- | rupted a little later and the Pan- American Airways lost the use of its private wireless. Pan-American Airways reported that all planes bound north and south were safe, their schedules all having been suspended with first news of the hurri- cane. TAIL END HITS HAITL Mountains Fend Off Greatest Sken;lh! of Storm. | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Septem- | ber 4 (P.—Haiti today felt the tail | end of the hurricane that vesterday almost completely wrecked Sanio Do- mingo, at the other side of the island. Heavy rain fell here and the wind blew violently, but the hurricane, fended ! excesded anything witnessed here in 10 years followed President Rafael Trujillo took personal charge Greater Antilles during the last Republic, a city of nearly 50,000 city, by which first details of the to sea and sparing lands further caused to the little island C: bean hurricane. The ed and almost everything on the Follow Passage. of the relief work. disrupted. No in the neighborhood of tne ‘Telegraph %I.nlnn, Associal Press member -in members of its staff at the first and those inmates escaping death ran Wiped Out. for aid to the American press and to to show its were completely off by the high mountains dividing the Dominican republic from Haiti, passed further North. WIND REACHES BAHAMAS. Barometer at Watling Island Stands at 29. MIAMI, Fla, September 4 (B).— ‘Tropical radio here reported today that a message been received from San Salvador, on Watling Island, Bahamas, saying & wind of 19 to 24 miles an hour was blowing from East by South there this morning and that the barom- eter reading as 29.98. ‘Watling Island is on the Southeast- ern fringe of the Bahamas. PLANE REPORTS ON DAMAGE. MIAMI, Fla., September 4 (#).—R. 8. Dunton, operating manager of Pan- American Airways here, said that a plane dispatched today from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Santo Domingo City to set up emergency radio equipments and to ascertain the damage from the West Indies hurricane, landed at Santo Do- mingo at 9:40 am., E. S. T, and re- ported from the air that the city was badly wrecked. “As soon as we learn the extent of damage, we will offer all of our facilities | and equipment to the government of Haitl,” Dunton said. All buildings of Pan-American Air- | “(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) DESOLATION IN SANTO DOMINGO DESCRIBED BY BY ERNEST NICHOLS, Special Correspondent of the Assoclated AZUA, Dominican Republic, Sep- tember 4.—Santo Domingo City today lay desolate from a hurricane that swept over the Dominican Republic yesterday. It is in urgent need of med- jcal supplies and water. Almost the entire city is sald to have been destroyed. ‘The hurricane hit it early in the aft- ernoon. Its - greatest violence was felt from about 2:30 p.m,, after blowing for four hours, it moved northwest diagonally ocross the country, cutting a wide swathe of destruction. Damage is es- timated in millions of dollars, but no accurate’ total can yet be formed. 1 arrived 20 miles south of here by WRITER IN AREA | automobile today, after leaving Port- au-Prince, Haiti, last night. I con- tinued by horseback and am pyshing |on to Santo Domingo City. On my journey I found as I entered the stricken area that roads had been destroyed, telegraph wires blown down and gardens and country estates wrecked. ‘The floods resulting from the hurri- cane washed out many houses. People in some places were reported to have taken refuge on improvised rafts. Azua 'is near the south coast of the Dominican Republic and about 55 miles west by south of Santo Domingo City. | & third The gale that struck Santo Domingo ibbean Sea yesterday entered the Monday, passing morth of Martinique and touching Dominica, where it caused widespread damage. RED CROSS CABLES CASH FOR RELIEF $15,000 Sent to Santo Do- mingo as Emergency Appropriation. By the Associated Press. The Red Cross acted immediately to- day to aid the suffering in Santo Do- mingo on receipt of a plea from Presi- dent Rafael L. Trujillo of the Domini- can Republic. Fifteen thousand dollars was cabled to American Minister Curtis as “an in- itial appropriation for the emergency.” Capt. Antonio Silva, manager of the Porto Rican Chapter of the Red Cross, was ordered to go by air from San Juan to the scene of devastation. Report Expected Today. He can cover the distance in one hour and a half. A report from him is expected late today. He is to make a survey and take charge of first relief activities. Silva bore much of the responsibility in disaster relief provided by the Red Cross, in his own country after the 1928 hurricane disaster. It was found at that ‘time that it was impractical to send in relief commodities, For this reason, officials decided -today to send the cash, Silva will be in charge of obtaining relief supplies from nearest available sources. He was ordered to place himself at the disposal of Ameri- can Minister Curtis. Curtis relayed the request from Presi- dent Trujillo. Red Cross officials head- ed by Chairman Payne already were in conference when the State Department word arrived. Mr, Curtis cabled the storm had caused “widespread destruction” to the Dominican capital and its suburbs. ‘While he had not recelved reports from the interior, ne sald the loss of life there so far appeared small. President Hoover was kept appraised of the reports of devastation. YANKEES LEADING NATS, 2-1, IN THIRD Lazzeri's Triple in First, With‘ Two on Base, Helps Home Club. Line-up. WASHINGTON, ez, 2b. Ruth, i Gehrig, 1b. 3b. Bluese, 3b. Spencer, c. Hadley. p. Johnson, ' p. ‘Umpires—Messrs. Guthrie, Hildebrand and Moriarty. BY JOHN B. KELLER. NEW YORK, September 4.—Lazzeri's triple with two on and two down in the first inning sent the Yankees off to an early lead over the Nationals in the second game of the series here today. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Myer flled to H. Rice. E. Rice doubled to right. Manush walked. As Cronin took a third strike, E. Rice and Manush advanced, Rice being safe at third when Lazzeri drop- ped Dickey's throw. Judge walked, fill- ing the bases. Harris walked, forcing in E. Rice. Bluege was called out on strikes. One run. * NEW YORK—Combs singled to cen- ter, and took second when E. Rice fum- bled the ball. Lary walked. Ruth took strike. Gehrig struck out. Lazzeri tripled to right center, scoring Combs and Lary. H. Rice walked. Dickey fouled to Bluege, who made a nice catch against the left field boxes. ‘Two runs. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Spencer fanned. Hadley fanned. Chapman tossed out Myer. No runs. NEW YORK—Chapman bunted down the third base line for a single. John- son lined to Myer, who threw to Judge, doubling Chapman at first. Combs grounded to Judge. No runs. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON — E. Rice walked. Manush lined to H. Rice. Cronin was called out on strikes. E. Rice stole sec- ond, Johnson throwing to oehnr. whose peg to Lary was late. Judge ff to Ruth in short right. No runs. NEW YORK-—Lary fouled to Spencer. Blow Threatens Coastal U. S. if Course Holds. CUBA IN PATH, EXPERT WARNS Mitchell Plots Route on Maps, Showing Danger. With hopes and fears of thou- sands of hurricane-threatened once again, Charles L. Mitchell, lo- cal weather forecaster, and the Government’s tropical storm ex- pert, bent anxiously over his maps today and plotted a sinister course for the latest Hurricane. It wvas a thin, red pencil line which the noted meteorologist traced painstakingly across a map of the West Indian section, but its almost bee-line path, end- ing abruptly near the extreme northeast tip of Haiti, pointed ominously toward Southern Flor- ida. Danger for Cuba and Florida. Just how much the terriffic storm, already with a grave toll, may deviate to one side or an- other in the next day or so, even a hurricane expert cannot guess. If the center of the whirling blow keeps to its present course, however, real danger looms for Cuba and Florida. Mitchell turned away from his telegrams and maps long enough today to issue a warning that the hurricane “probably” will move west-northwestward in the next 24 or 36 hours, “near the Northern coast of Cuba and toward the Florida Straits.” “Although the disturbance has crossed the mountainous region,” the forecaster sald, “it is still likely of hurricane in- tensity.” Due Tomorrow Night. At the present rate of progress of the storm’s vortex it should reach Florida possibly late tomorrow night, providing, of course, the path does not change materially, he declared. Mitchell estimated the present veloc- ity of the winds at in excess of a hun- dred miles an hour. One report yes- terday from the affected area gave a velocity of 136 miles an hour. An- other message reported destruction of @ radio tower “built to withstand winds of 150 miles an hour.” ‘The future course of present storm, it was pointed out, depends on the effect which may be produced by two high-pressure areas existing over the lunltfied States and over the North At- antic. High Pressure Holds Hope. “Those high-pressure areas may meet and tend to push the hurricane back in its efforts to follow the usual hurri- cane path curving away from Cuba and Florida to the northeast,” Mitchell ex- plained. “Apparently the high pressure already is making itself feit, for the path of the disturbance today shows no tendency to curve northward. The forecaster had plotted and re- plotted the hurricane's path since it was first hinted at in a routine report received Monday from the radio station at Roseau, Dominica, in the Windward Island group. The first report told merely of a rapidly falling barometer and made no mention of winds, but it was enough to warrant issuance by Mitchell of a warning that a disturb- ance of unknown intensity was looming. Second Report Bares “Low.” A few hours later a second report was received from Roseau, in which a barometer reading of 29.24 inches was given—a dangerous “low.” Since then other reports of winds of varying in- tensity and barometer readings of low degree have filtered in to the govern- ment's “hurricane headquarters” at Twenty-tourth and M streets. The reports indicate that the total area covered by the furiously revolving body of wind does not exceed a hundred miles or so. Of course, a much 'args area than that is affected by strong winds, but the 75-mile minimum pe- culiar to a hurricane probably is con- fined within a small area, Mitchell pointed out. Because of the limited area, fore- casting the probable future effects of a hurricane is a_difficult task. The (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) BLAST LAID TO STRIKE CRIPPLES LICHT PLANT Providence, - Ky., Plunged Into Darkness When Poles Are Wrecked. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, Ky. September 4.— Electric light poles at Coiltown, two miles from here, were blasted last night, crippling the Providence lighting s than an hour. The d; mitings were the latest of a series be- lieved arising from labor troubles in the Webster County coal flelds. . Four blasts were heard about 9 o'clock, and Providence was plunged into darkpess. Linemen for the Ken- tucky Utilities Co. went to the scene and restrung the wires. No one was injured by the blasts. Webster County officers found no clues to who set them off. The Artero Coal Ruth doubled off the left-fleld - stand wall. Hadley out Geh! Ruth Its population is given Tflun as 4 Press, All (Copyright, 1930. hy Assoc Tights reserv taking third. Lazzeri went out ¥ay. No runs is located at Cofltown. | Radio Ptomlz on qu C4 persons thrust upon his shoulders | ICOSTE FLIES SOUTH MEYER IS EXPECTED 10 BE GOVERNOR OF RESERVE BOARD Resignation of Platt Would Pave Way for Him to Suc- ceed Roy A. Young. Eugene Meyer, jr., former commis- sioner of the Federal Farm Loan Board and prominent in many other Govern- ment activitles, will Be appointed by President Hoover as governor of the Federal Reserve Board, it was learned in authoritative administration circles today. Mr. Meyer's appointment awaits, how- ever, formal announcement of the resig- nation of Edmund.Platt, vice governor of the board, who, it is understood, has accepted a position with a large and important firm with headquarters in New York, the name of which was not disclosed. Platt Acting Governor. Platt has been acting governot of the board since the resignation of Gov. Roy A. Young of Minneapolis, who left to become the governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. President Hoover has been unable to name Mr. Meyer in his place because Mr. Platt represents the board from the New York district, from where Mr. Meyer also comes, but Platt’s resignation would clear the way for appointment of Meyer. Mr. Platt was not in Washington to- day and was said to be on vacation in Connecticut and could not be reached for further details of his new -position nor the date of his expected resignation. Meyer, who is to head the Federal Reserve Board, has served under both Democratic and Republican Presidents. He was born in Los Angeles in 1875, at- tended school at the University of Cali- fornia and was graduated from Yale in 1895. ;le was in business in New York City when first appointed to a Govern- ment post during the war. He served in various capacities, including positions with the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. He was with the War Industries Board and the National Committee on War Savings. President Woodrow Wilson made him director of the War Pinance Corpora- tion, which position was later changed in name to that of managing director. When that organization formally was concluded, Mr. Meyer became commis- sioner of the Federal Farm Loan Board, this appointment being made May 10, 1927. He resigned this position last year to return to his business interests in New York. Served in Congress. Mr. Platt, who is to retire from the board, for years yas a teacher and journalist. His residence is Poughkeep- sie, N. Y., from which he was elected to Congress, serving from the Sixty- third to the Sixty-sixth Congress. As a member of the House he became chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, but left the House by resignation to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board. He was first appointed to fill an unexpired term, be- ginning his service early in 1920, and is now serving a term of 10 years, which he was reappointed, and which would not expire until 1938. The resignation of Mr. Platt would leave two vacancies on the board. With Meyer assuming the chairman- ship the other appointee would have to come from the Minneapolis district, which had been represented by Young. The Federal Reserve act stipulates that no more than one member of the Federal Reserve Board shall be from the same Federal Reserve district. GUM SHOE ROBBER SENDS FOUR MEN TO HOSPITAL By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 4.—Four men, all owners of small shops, were in Re- celving - Hospital today, each with severe wounds in the head, victims, police say, of a “gum shoe slugger,” whasl is proi assaults and robs without being seen or heard. Each of the men was found un- conscious on the floor of his shop, his pockets turned inside out and his cash drawer looted. Each told the police he remembered nothing of what happened. This serles of robberies, whi prompted special police activities, started Monday. The fourth victim was taken to the hospital last night. He is Zelik Kardal, who has a clothing store on Brush street. Previously Simon-Diamond, Lawrence Goldberg and Max Goldberg had suf- fered similar attacks. Man Says Woman Proposed Marriage, In Answer to Suit Declares Agreement Off When Prospective Bride Introduced Son. Edward E. Brown, 42, lawyer con- *| nected with one of the Government de- partments and resid! at 1134 elfth street, today flled a plea in defense of a sult for $10,000 damages instituted against him in the District Supreme Court, August 19, by Norma L. Chet- ham, 42, 519 Third street, for alleged breach of promise to marry. The plea, filed through attorneys Fred B. Rhodes and Cooper B. Rhodes, is rded as the shortest ever made in & ach of promise case. Brown says he met the plaintiff for the first time Monday, July 28, 1930, that on Thursday, July 31, he “ac- cepted her proposal of marriage, her assurance that she had never been married; that on Friday, August 1, he consented to her request that a mar- riage license be secured, and that the marriage _took piace on Saturday, Au- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) o HOOVER SPEECHES HELD SIGNIFICANT Viewed as Opening of Cam- paign to Return Party to Power in Congress. By the Associated Press. Viewed generally as the opening of President Hoover's campaign for return of his party to power in Congress in the Fall and for his own re-election | two years hence, his acceptance of in- vitations to make four addresses early | In October was widely speculated upon today in the Capital. Marking as it does a sharp departure from the policy followed by his prede- cessor in office, the program of four major speeches in six days, which was announced late yesterday, also will be one of the most ambitious efforts of Mr. Hoover upon the platform. Not only will the quartet of addresses take him to three widely separated States, but it will permit him to gain contact with the people of several others as he passes through. Also the speeches will take the Chief Executive before three of the most powerful civil groups in_the Nation. It has been generally accepted that all of his addresses are to be appropri- ate to the occasion which might mean that before the American Bankers' As- sociation at Cleveland on October 2 he would talk on_finances and business, DINNER TO FEATURE GELEBRATION HERE FOR FRENCH PILOTS Reception for Coste and Bel- lonte to Be Biggest Since Lindbergh’s Return. - ‘Wash: today was planning the biggest celebration since Col. Lind- bergh's_memorable return from Paris in 1927 to do honor to Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, intrepid French fiyers, who on Tuesday made the first complete east-west passage of the Atlantic by plane and who will ar- rive in the Capital Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock to receive the official plau- dits of the Nation. President Hoover will welcome them Monday. Col. Lindbergh will be on hand and "all Washington is to turn out to show the admiration of the Capital for the first fiyers to make the dangerous ocean dash by plane. Probably the biggest event of the two- day visit of the Frenchmen will be the dinner being arranged for them in the ball room of the Willard Hotel Monday by the Washington Board of Trade. Guests at Dinner. Capt. Coste and Bellonte will be the guests of honor, and the invited guests will include President Hoover, Col. Lindbergh, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Assistant ~ Secretary of the Navy for Aviation David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation F. Trubee Davison, Col. Clarence Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aviation: Gen. Pershing, Maj. Gen. James E. PFechet, chief of the Army Air Corps; Tps 'Rear Admiral Willlam A. MofTett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics; the District Commissioners, officials of the Diplomatic Corps and Washington business and professional men and women, More than 4,000 invitations. have been sent out for the dinner and more than 1,000 of those invited are expected to attend the affair. * Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, Amer- | Pre ican “ace of aces,”. during the World War, today accepted an invitation to make one of the s es. Another will be made by a high Government official, probably Secretary of War Hurley. Samuel J. Prescott of the Board of Trade has been made chairman of the special committee in charge of the ban- quet. With him will work W. W. Everett and Lawrence E. Williams, Plans Completed Last Night. Plans for the banquet were completed last night at a conference between Board of Trade officials and Jules Henry, charge d’affaires of the French embassy. President Hoover will be host at the White House Monday afternoon at a luncheon for the French fiyers. The Frenchmen will spend Sunday evening at the French embassy, where elaborate lans. are being made for their enter- (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 4.—The old Jokes about lazy folks who work merely by drawing their breath today became the latest reality of scientific develop- ments to reduce man's physical toil. An electric light, which can be blown out with the same small puff that ex- tinguishes a match, was placed on ex- hibition at the Westinghouse Lighting Institute here. Its secret is a new kind of electric switch, the “breath relay,” for which mised many useful applications It can be set to turn either on or off It gives a man a third “hand” for some kinds of mechanical operations and a substitute for hands in cases where he wishes to avold direct touch. The latter purpose was the object of ich | the inventor, Dr. E. E. Free, New York consulting engineer. But when the device was perfected by the Westing- house Co. it proved to be unexpectedly reliable and not greatly subject to op- eration by vagrant breezes. The company says it can be used for safety def§ices and for extending the operator's g of automobiles, air- JUST A MERE PUFF OF BREATH' AND OUT GOES ELECTRIC LIGHT Such Procedure Might Have Been'a Joke Once, but It’s Serious Business Nowadays. planes, scientific apparatus, punch- and other machines in which ds and feet are busy. It also can be made to actuate devices that open service doors of restaurants, and to operate the carriages of typewriters and billing machines. It is even claimed that the breath device can be made to turn the pages of sheet music. For extinguishing the lights a person blows into a trim little funnel, which resembles the mouthpiece of a tele- . The breath strikes phosphor oI inpart sirikes o lirge Surace and st a sur} a is thereby amplified sufficiently to make a regular “contact.” tion of the springs at the bottom of the funnel protects them from being af- fected by ordinary air currents. Thed:wy il,o!-:‘lt l. 'l:hnd of Dr. Pree, objecting ingly utt! his hands on tus n-nms ngthfl’ persons, sl “Why don't you scientists give us something so that we don't have to touch things if we don't want to?” ‘“That's easy,” was Free's reply, “we could do it with just a puff of air.” 10 FINISH HOP T0 TEXAS FOR §25,000; WEATHER 13 IDEAL Take-off From New York De- layed an Hour as Special Device Is Built to Start Motor of Question Mark. BUSINESS MANAGER ALSO ON WAY TO DALLAS FIELD Bellonte Begs for Five More Min- utes’ Sleep Before Leaving Hotel, but Leader of Venture Speeds Aide for Start at 6:55 0'Clock This Morning. OWENSBORO, Ky., Septem- ber 4 (®.—Two airplanes, be- lieved to be the transatlantie Question Mark,” carrying Dieu~ donne Coste and Maurice Bel- lonte on an attempted New York-Dallas nonstop flight, and that of his manager, Rene Ra- cover, passed over here at 12:20 pm, C. 8. T, today. Owensboro is about 100 miles by air from Louisville and al- most on a direct route to Lit- tle Rock, ; By the Assuciated Press. VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., Sep- tember 4—Preceded by their busi- ness manager, Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte took off at 6:55 this morning for Dallas, Tex., to collect a $25,000 prize offered by William Easterwood. The big red Sesqui plane Ques- tion Mark, which made the first westward crossing of the North Atlantic from Paris to New York, circled once over the field, and then shot like a scarlet comet against the morning sky toward its Southern destination. Nine minutes before the tranatlantic plane took the air, another ship hopped off, with Rene Racover, Coste's Amer- ican representative, who planued to ats tend to the transatlantic fiyers’ busi- ness affairs in connection with collect- ing the Easterwood prize which was offered for the first flight from Paris to Dallas, with New York as the only intermediary stop. Delayed for An Hour. ‘The take-off of the French flyers for the Texas city was delayed an hour by the necessity of construc a special device for spinning the p: ler, which is set so high that it is very difficult for mechanics standing on the fmmd to start the engine. The device failed, but the motor was at last started by volun- teers, who risked their lives by leaping into the air to hang on the high pro- peller blades. Capt. Coste ted to make the Journey, to Dallas in between 12 and 15 hours.. He had 429 gallons of gasoline pumped into the ship before he left. The radio, which was in operation for all but the last few miles of the trans- atlantic journey, was still broken when today's flight began, but no difficulty Was emcted, as perfect flying weather vailed. ‘The fiyers arrived at the fleld about 3 o'clock this morning, having had less than 4 hours sleep. hen were awakened after their brief rest in a New York Hotel Coste immediately Jjumped from bed ready for the new ad- venture, but Bellonte was less to face the 'day with so little slumber. “Just let me have 5 minutes more sleep,” he begged when he was shaken into consciousness, but Coste, a strict disciplinarian, had him out of bed long before that period had elapsed. Get Down to Work. Once at the field fueling was imme- diately begun under Coste's supervision, and Bellonte immediately went to work upon maps of the route they are to cover. ‘When the fueling was completed and the plane first wheeled from the hangar newspaper photographers and sound reel men surrounded the ship and began taking Elclures of plane and crew. Coste, irked at the delay, kept shouting “vite, vite,” and finally succeeded " in getting his ship to the flying line. Then came the delay occasioned by the diffi- culty in starting the motor and when at last the inesburst into action and was sufficiently warmed to avoid all possible danger on the take-off, the fiyers lost not a moment in climbing into their famous ship and following their manager into the air. Coste announced before legving that the course as plotted by Bellonte would lie over Easton, Allentown and Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Steubenville, Ohio; Cincin- nati; Louisville; Little Rock and Green- ville, Tex. Racover planned to stop at Louisville for fuel and probably wait there for Coste to catch up to him, for the Red (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) PEIPING COLLEGE BOMBED PEIPING, China, September 4 (#)— A bomb explosion this wrecked the office of the Rockefeller Endowed The posi- ,,' the explosion. that the affair with a recent legal case. muv;’ of