Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1930, Page 5

3 SECOND HURRICANE " THREATENS INDIES ““Tropical Storm May Strike Jamaica or Haiti Tomorrow. (Continued From First Page.) “/"are sent here from San Juan and Ha- ** vana. ‘The task of cleaning the city's streets ©f all their debris is proving impossible. There is not an automobile or truck or ‘wagon in the country which was not damaged. Two possible sources of supply for the trucks are under consideration, one at Port au Prince, Haiti, where United States Marines have a number of trucks, and the other from Portotiroc, where . 20 street cleaning trucks are available. Good Water Is Needed. One of the principal needs is good drinking water. Work is beginning in re-establishing the power house and in reconstruction of the water line. Rise of the Ozama River prevents ocean-going vessels from sailil into the inlet and relief ships are unloaded in the harbor. The pflnclgll relief ship in the harbor is the steamship Catherine from San Juan. ‘The German ship Midas signaled from offshore during the night that it had 50 tons of provisions from Porto Rico aboard as well as electricians who would help restore the city’s power plant. The ship said that additional medical supplies are en route, both by ship and by plane, expected tomorrow. Dr. Barrios, medical inspector from Porto Rico, yesterday began the con- struction of a tent hospital near the residential mansion. It is designed to ke care of 1,000 patients, the first of whom probably will be admitted today. RAINS SWELL OZAMA RIVER. “Flow of 15 Miles Per Hour Blocks Boats at Mouth. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, September rains 1 and made travel through the hurricane zane in the interior of Santo Domingo all but impossible today. The Ozama’s flow has increased to 15 mlies an hour, effectually preventing boats from en- tering its mouth. Airplanes today formed virtually the only mode of travel into the area. Re- lief work went forward today as éner- getically as possible under such circum- stances. Pathetic Survivors Watch Sky. ‘The ulation pathetically watched the urrm of each plane at the Santo Domingo field, hailing sach as angels of mercy alighting from the sky amid & scene of great misery. Aviation reconnaisance has shown that the hurricane after razing Santo Domingo City traveled northwest, de- everything in its path in an area 25 to 40 miles wide for a distance of_about 50 miles. ‘When the hurricane hit the side of the mountains, rising almost perpendic- in its path, the storm actually the south slope of the moun- there and hurtled into the only the high ts in & Souree ranges upon Rich Valley Areas Spared. g east of Santiago within “the area of the storm were wiped cut for a distance of 15 to 20 miles. Relief work organized in Santiago, the metropolis of Northern Santo Do- mingo, today was greatly hampered by the condition of roads and rivers. The forwarding of food to the stricken area | 0 was almost tied up. Relief work at Santo Domingo City, according to Col. R. M. Putts, senior American officer at Haiti, in charge of the air transport service, was progress- ing as fast as possible. It was admitted frankly today that the situation was grave. Boats, in order to enter the harbor, had to develop a speed of more than 15 miles an_hour in order to combat the current. Small ‘boats were seen attempting to land provisions at the foot of a 50-foot cliff near which lies the hulk of the old United States ship Memphis, wn ashore by a tidal wave in_August, 1916. Comdr. Johnson of the Medical Corps has been operating tirelessly. He per- formed 51 amputations the first night he reached Santo Domino, SERUMS ARE RUSHED TO CITY. Red Cross Official Leaves Miami by Plane to Survey Needs. MIAMI, Fla, September 8 (#).— Ernest J. Swift, assistant director of insular and foreign operations for the American Red Cross, left here by air- plane today to investigate relief needs in_storm-stricken Santo Domingo. He will co-operate with other American officials already on the scene of the disaster. The plane left here at 6:30 am. (E 8. T). Also on the plane was a shipment of 165 pounds of serums for use by medical authorities at Santo Domingo. The serums are tetanus, gas gangrene and anaerobi antitoxin. A shipment of 100 pounds of medical and drug sup- plies donated for emergency use by Miami merchants was on the plane. The girplane, owned by Pan-Ameri- can Airways, is scheduled to arrive in Santo Domingo tomorrow. MEXICO GIVES $25,000. Government Cables Contribution to Re- lief Fund. MEXICO CITY, September 8 (#).— The government today cabled the Mexican Minister at Santo Domingo | 59,000 pesos (about $25,000) contribu- tion to the relief fund. President Ortiz Rublo also cabled President General Trujillo his condolences. SPECIAL HONOR PLEDGED TO COSTE AND BELLONTE $Paris-New York,” New Composi- tion, to Be Sung Them at Dinner Tonight. A new march, “Paris-New York,™ composed in commemoration of the re- cent transatlantic flight, will be sung by Suzanne d'Astoria-Jackowska, French prima donna, at a dinner of the Board ©of Trade tonight in the Willard Hotel in honor of France’s most noted fiyers. Maj. Dieudonne Coste and Lieut. Maurice Bellonte, honored by the new air, are old friends of the singer. Mlle, d'Astoria-Jackowska came to this country several weeks ago after completing an en&geumenz abroad with the Monte Carlo ra Co. She was on hand to greet the fiyers on their arrival in New York, having promised Coste more than three years ago that she would be present to welcome him when he made a Paris-New York flight. She was accompanied to New York by her friend, Miss Paulette Parent, of 2017 O street. Miss Parent, well known i | Air view of the city of Santo Domingo, where the hurricane demolished over 9,000 homes and buildings and killed close to 4,000. before the inhabitants had cleared debris away and started to bury and burn the dead to prevent FEAR OF EPIDEMIC REPORTED TO U.S. Marine Officers Advise Red Cross of Need for Tents and Supplies. ‘There is danger of an epidemic break- ing out in Santo Domingo as & result of the hurricane, Marine Corps officers reported to the American Red Cross in a cablegram last night. The cablegram said: “Intend to send field hospital. Dredge sunk in channel. River in flood. Asama Bridge boats cannot penetrate river. down and roads cut from Azua to capital. City practically isolated ex- cept by air. Apparently no immediate alteration of conditions possible. Food and Water Shortage. “Great water and food shortage. Various estimates of killed 1,000 to 2,500. Wounded 5,000 to 10,000. “Great danger of epidemic. Army functioning well and in mfleu con- trol. No disorder. Othe people seemed dazed and do not fully appreci- “Sending six planes wi aid and stores today. One plane re- mained Santo Domingo for communi- cation. Short wave radio communication between flying flelds. Marine Corps planes first to effect landings on field. Other planes now coming in. “No reliable information in regard to outlying districts in path of storm. General outlook for situation increas- ingly serious.” Medical Aid Arrives. At the same time Capt. Antonio Silva, manager of the Red Cross Chapter of Porto Rico, directing relief operations in Santo Domingo, cabled national headquarters: “‘Medical germnel from Porto Rico arrived with medical supplies, some clothing, a few supplies, landing with great difficulty. Dr. Fernos immediately Visited President and minister of health offering services, which were accepted, and units started to work Sunday morning. “Tentage enough for 3,000 landed, also cots and blankets, all to be turned over to Dominican government. Food and additional clothing arriving Sun- day aboard steamship Catherine from Porto Rico. As soon as available will be distributed. Shelter Greatest Need. “I saw pergonally the executives of the Dominican Red Cross and gave them American Red Cross plans for disaster relief, which they are following now. Minister Curtis has formed relief committee which is functioning. “Porto Rican engineers, together with Dominican government engineers, are repairing the water system and water be available within few days. I am ad- vised greatest need now tentage, cots, blankets.” ——e RETAIL STORE CHANGES PLANNED IN U. S. SURVEY By the Associated Press. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States is attempting to increase interest in rearrangement of retail stores. John H. Heiney of the Chamber of Commerce staff is preparing a pam- phlet on the subject, which will be is- sued in a few weeks. “The profitable store,” Heiney said to- day, “makes its first appeal to the con- sumer on the simple fundamental - ciple of appearance, lighting and-clean- liness; next, the consumer’s desire to see and handle goods for sale is inex- pensively met through modern arrange- ment of stock and equipment. “Correct store arrangement increases the volume of business and decreases |l1perlling costs. This has been proven to the satisfaction of specialists in store modernization through the thousands of cases of remodeling at costs of $200 to $300 per. store. To sustain itself, however, the retailer must improve his buying, control systems and of raise the level of his own efficlency.” ARMY BUYS PLANES Four Cargo Craft and 24 Engines Ordered by Department. Contracts for four tri-motofed Ford cargo planes and for 24 Pratt & Whit- ney Wasp engines, at an aggregate cost of ‘more than $280,000 were announced today by the War Department. A ‘contract with the Detroit Aircraft in local musical circles, was so thrilled bg_uae spectacular accomplishment that she com “Paris-New York.” The words were written by Mile. d’Astoria- Corporation for a fast, single-enginer | Detroit Lockheed transport plane cost- ing $16,637 also was announced. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930. SR s i :nh Dominge city’s waterfront after the hurricane had spent its RUINS WROUGHT BY DEATH-DEALING WIND IN SANTO DOMINGO This picture was taken S R SRR R A tri-motored airplane smashed by the wind at the Pan-American airport on the island. —Associated Press photos sent by a specially chartered plane. MAN IS HELD MISTAKE OF NATURE BY BRITISH ANTHROPOLOGY HEAD Tell Science Association Cromagnon Specimen Might Today Be Skilled Mechanic or Able Bishop. By the Associated Press. BRISTOL, England, September 6.— ‘The theory that man is : mistake of nature was advanced here night before 1;,“ by D}; H. 8. Harrison, head of the anthropelogy section of the British As- soclation for the Advancement of Science, in his presidential address be- fore the body. . Harrison was at & Joss to under- ceased to be an 8. Harrison, head of the ' “and he found himself ding and inventing luxuries. In producin, d cunning big-brained animal hands, nature overshot her mark and we are struggling. with the conse- uences. “The brain of the later paleolithic man appears to have been like our own in all essentials and a cromagnon man might today become a skilled mechanic or an able bishop.” amug:me'gamwmem- to_receive % money. tee are | was four -cents s week - pocket DRY TRIAL IN THIRD DAY Hearing on Conspiracy Involves Former Prohibition Officials. SEATTLE, September 8 (#).— Trial of the prohibition conspiracy case against Roy C. Lyle, former Federal prohibition administrator, and three of nections with li confined to a plot to tra) HOOVER RECEIVES FRENCHMEN TODAY Coste and Bellonte Have Full Schedule on Visit to Capital. (Continued From Third Pa quietly for a moment in their open cockpits, looking out over the crowd, before rising to shed their fiying clothes, They looked fresh and were quite calm, despite the tumult of ap- plause and the rush of the crowd toward them. Then they rose in their seats and pulled off their helmets and goggles. Coste wore a white scarf, which he pulled off. They disclosed dark blue suits which would have been appro- priate for an afternoon stroll on their own Parisian boulevards. As they stood looking down, preparatory to climbing out, Jules Henry, sweeping his hand upward toward them in a wide arc, his face beaming happily, introduced IMr. Akerson, who, he explained, represent- ed President Hoover. Greeted by Akerson. Akerson smiled a welcome and spoke one, too, but it was lost in the roar of the crowd. Ooste smiled in response and said: “I am grateful that the President has sent you to greet me. Please return to him my greetings and express my ap- preciation.” Even then the flyers were unable to leave their plane. They held an im- promptu reception from the cockpits in which they flew for 37 hours in crossing the Atlantic and in which they had previously spent many hours on other flights which have caused their names to_ring around the world. Most of the members of the official welcoming delegation thrust hands u to them. Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps, followed Mr. Akerson and Herbert Hoover, jr., was behind Gen. l"gcham in a line that was beginning to form. ‘When the fiyers finally were able to climb out they were surrounded closely by a group of officials and diplomats, among them Clarence M. Young, As- sistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics; Pierre del Boal of the State Department, Prince de Ligne, the Ambassador, and Rear Admiral wi A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. “Bellonte Has Red Hair!” The Army Band, which had been playing at intervals before the Question Mark appeared, struck ulfi the stirring measures of “The Marseillaise.” Coste and Bellonte stiffened to attention. Hats were swept off and the right hands of Army and Navy officers and men went to salute. Before the strains of the French national anthem had finally stilled the clamor of the crowds, how- ever, the voice of a woman spectator was heard cryl in surprise, “Why, Bellonte has red Ll Bellonte's fair complexion was burned to a vivid red, while Coste, with his black hair, has been burned to a dark olive brown. While the band played the crowd remained quiet, but when the last chord died the mass of humanity surged once more toward the plane while soldiers struggled to hold a clear space around the })lne. A small group of excited Frenchmen worked themselves close to Coste and Bellonte and. between shouts of “Vive la Prance!” called out to their country- men in French. Coste and to them and shouted in reply before they found themselves in an- other semi-circle. This time it was the phoTphm. Coste shrugged his shoulders as an extra heavy charge of flashlight powder boomed and the smoke curled u‘p under the overhanging scarlet wing of his plane, With difficulty soldiers and police cleared a path for a White House car, which was driven close to the plane. Coste, Bellonte, Akerson, M. Henry and Capt. Charles R. Train, naval aide, climbed in and started through cheer- ing crowds to the French embassy. An Army crew, under direction of [ br Lovs thw the Costioba Bellonte | bul Lieut. Louis M. Merrick, operations of- ficer at Bolling Fleld, took charge of the French plane and began wheeling it into a hangar. A large part of the crowd remained, still looking for Lind- bergh. Continued in Rain, ‘The skies had been threatening all afternoon and rain began to fall heav- ily as the White House car, the fiyers, with its top down, near the Capitol. It was stopped on the Capitol plaza, but Coste and Bellonte refused to have the top put up, and the ride was continued in the rain. At the Prench embassy they found a crowd extending a block in both direc- tions awaiting them. The aviators went into the building without pausing, but immediately reappeared on a second- story balcony overlooking Sixteenth street. 'The cheering continued with- out interruption, and three separate trips to the balcony were necessary to satisfy the spectators. The fiyers had been at the embassy only a little while, however, before they decided to go for a drive around the speedway and through Rock Creek Park, which had attarcted their attention and admiration while they were flying in over the city. Maj. Georges Thenault, French air attache and former commander of the Lafayette Escadrille, commented that Coste “was never tired.” In New York, he added, Coste was “ready to go” when others were seeking chairs and beds. Coste did the talking for the duo last night, while Bellonte stood quietly by. He said it has not yet been decided whether they will make a good-will tour around the United States. He added, however, that there was a possi- bilty they might go to Mexico City. Favors South Atlantic. Questioned about commercial trans- atlantic flying, Coste said he believed the South Atlantic offered more possi- bilities than the northern course, which they followed from Paris to New York. “Coming west across the North At- lantic,” he said, “we faced head winds nearly 90 per cent of the time. On the southern route the winds can be made to help both east and west, by flying low on the take off from either side and gaining altitude as the flight pro- gresses.” Coste said at the end of his inter- view that Frank Hawks, holder of the transcontinental speed record, had come from Chicago to New York yester- day to tell him he had not disparaged his crossing of the Atlantic in a land plane, as had been reported, but instead had hailed it as a worthwhile accom- plishment. Coste was asked how he felt about his success in conquering the difficult and hazardous westward passage of the Atlantic. “I feel no different,” he replied in[ some surprise. “We were so well pre- pared I was not surprised at our suc- cess. I was more surprised at the wel- come we received. Yes, and I like it,” he added. WIVES POSTPONE VISIT. Mesdames Coste and Bellonte Put Off Trip to U. S. Until October. PARIS, September 8 (#)—Mesdames Coste and Bellonte, wives of the trans- atlantic flyers, have postponed their departure for the United States until early in October. They had booked sailing on the liner Paris for Thursday. Advices from their husbands that they would be engaged in a long tour of American cities in the Question Mark, during which they could not be together, caused the postponement. NECKLINES COMPLEX PARIS (#)—Necklines have forgotten how to be simple at many of the dress- houses which will influence Win- Cape. collars have la ape. col ve ly , ta of nemn” remaine gn. e form of narrow collars which outlines necklines. More often than not the collar is con- fined to the front of the dress in mod- ified bib effect. Ignition Starts Car Fire. Fire caused by a faulty tion system caused damage estimated at ap- proximately $75 to the machine of Ray Crampton of 4104 Canal road this morning. No. 5 Engine Company ex- tinguished the blaze, which started as Crampton was preparing to leave his home for work. #a¥ A-S STATE FUNCTIONS AWAITING FIDAG Names of Polish Delegates Announced by Peyser, Entertainment Head. With the European delegates to the Fidac Congress scheduled to arrive in this country next Monday, pre] for the opening of the inf veterans' conclave are rapidly completion . Numerous state functions, receptions and entertainments are on the tenta- tive program drawn up by the Wash- ington PFidac Congress Committee, headed by Julius I. Peyser. ‘The fore! delegates, among whom are some of the leading military fig- ures, statesmen and scholars of Europe, will spend three days in New York be- fore coming here September 18 for the plenary sessions of the annual congress. Official welcome by Mayor Walker's Re- ception Committee is to be the first step 1&?& a round of entertainment scheduled Te. Peyser today announced the complete list of Polish delegates who will attend the conclave. Heading the delegation it vice presi. The others include: Mme. Ludy‘fl-l.uknw- ska, member of the council of Upper Silesia; Gen. Romain Goreski, presi- dent of the Bank of National Economy; four members of the Polish Parliament, Antoni Snopeynski, Jan Karkoszka, An- toni Pajak and M. Koscialkowski; Casi. mir_ Smogorzewski, author-journalis M. Pochmarski, professor of the Acad. emy of Carcovie; G. Ryskiewicz, R. Kocur and R. S ki, Representing the Polish women who served in the World War will come Mme. Ludyga Pelczynska, Mme. Julle Mazaraka and Lieut. Marie Zaleska. PUPPY OUSTS BABY Bus-Top Rider Sees Dog Sitting in High Chair at Dinner. NEW YORK (N.AN.A.)—A'IK m in ‘Washington Heights, where , in other districts, sre be appreciated as rider saw througl an window a bull oc- cupm‘ baby’s high chair at Iw party. (Copyright, 1930.) war “Health Palm” Goes to Forgers. NEW YORK Se ber 8 =" healthiest men inm;mflm l-l’emf G and bootleggers. The National - condi- icy Committee tions in the New Jersey State Prison found that in for th{e;mynxls nl physical ess forgers led with 88.8 rr cent; bootl came next with 85.7. J KRIE Storage—Packing Moving For 30 years Prestdent SRCRTIIE of Krieg’s is NOW in business at 904 10th St. N.W. Call District 9115 IPRUDENTIAL BUILDING ASS’N 1331 G St. NW. 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