Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 23

ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930 * PRESS IS THANKED T~ American Papers Helped Stem Fatalities. By the Associated Press In a letter to the Associated Press the Dominican government yesterday expressed gratitude to the press asso- ciations and newspapers of the United States for bringing aid swiftly to the island after the hurricane there three weeks ago. Persio C. Franco, charge d'affaires of the Dominican legation, said he had been officially directed to thank the American press for displaying upon its when the wind had wreaked such havoc it left the “Dominicans powerless to save the survivors.” Due in great part to the activity of the news agencies newspapers in disseminating and publishing complete news of the catastrophe with extraordi nary rapidity and in prominent first- page columns” Franco wrote, “the whole world immediately learned the gravity of the situation and realized the ibility of greater loss of life n the city if relief were not sent quick- 1y and generous “And this relief came. country and from tries came ph From _this neighboring coun- nurses and‘ex- pert relief worke: airplanes and boats of es description. _bringing medical supplies, food, blankets.” NOVA SCOTIAN MINERS FOUND IN GREAT NEED Department of Labor Representa- tive Expresses Wish Govern- ment Will Offer Relief. TRURO, Nova Scotia. September 24 (P)—Thomas W. Martin, Eastern rep- resentative of the federal department of labor, after an investigation into unem- ployment conditions among coal mine workers at Sydney mines, said he had found whole families existing on one loaf of bread as a day's food supply. He said he found a miner with only half & turnip for sustenance. Martin sald conditions in Breton were much worse than he had expected to find them and suggested that the churches of this city make ef- forts to give aid. He said 250 miners marched to the town hall at Sydney mines Saturday and pleaded for assist- ance for their families and Mayor Dwyer told them he hoped the federal -r:ld provincial governments would offer fef. Rise in Price of Stamps Foreseen. SANTO DOMINGO, September 24 (@) —Evidently the price of some stamps will go up. The government is recalling issues containing the picture of Horaclo Vasquez, who was forced to resirn as President last February FORHURRICANEAID .. Dominican Government Says front pages the need for aid at a time | clothing and | Cape | HIP IN TWO, ning By the Associated Press. NORTH SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Sep- tember 24 —8ix survivors who !ou?g | hunger and storm in an open boat for 72 hours brought back vesterday the | story of a tragedy of the North Atlartic which claimed 10 lives. | _ A bolt of lightning struck the schooner | Carranza last Thursday night, splitting |1t in two. It sank almost immediatel carrying down with it the captain passengers and the cook. So § did the riven ship go down that there was hardly time for three passengers and three members of the crew scra | ble into a dory. They could see two | passengers emerge from the ship’s com- panionway just before the waters closed over the vessel. From the position where the Carranza | sank, about 20 miles west of Scatari | Island. off the coast of Cape Breton, the survivors drifted withoutr fcod or water and with only two light oars until Sunday night, when a sailor WITH TEN DYING | aboard the schooner Vinigette heard | their cries. They were then about 75 were lowered and they were taken | aboard, haggard from exposure and weak from hunger. | _ The Carranza, a Newfoundland vessel, | put out from North Sydney Tuesday | With her 11 passenwers and 180 tons of coal for Burin, Newfoundland. Most of the crew and vassengers were in the cabin that night when a sudden electric storm by ‘Tha lightning _bolt | struck with a crash. The ship filled within a few seconds. | Al who perished were from New- | foundland. Capt. Joshua Matthews, 33, of Grand Bank, went down with the ship, s did the cook. John Robhett, 17, of Push Through. The passengers who died were Thomas White of Fortune Bay and Samuel Moulton, Stephen Grandy, Frank Legge, Joseph Grandy, Joseph ' Newport, Archie Adams and John C. Cluett, all of Garnish, 'DISTRICT ATTORNEY \ERRONEOUSLY QUOTED | George E. Q. Johnson Did Not De-| clare Prohibition Laws “Root | of Lawlessness.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 24.—The Asso- ciated Press corrects its recent report of a statement made by George E. Q. Johnson, United States district attorney, before the Chicago Church Federation, |in which Mr. Johnson was erroneously | | quoted as saying that the prohivition | 1aws “were the root of lawlessness and | | corruption.” Mr. Johnson enumerated e\ldl'm'esr of corruption, as the operation (f slot | { machines, open =aloons and violstions | of the dry laws, gambling and vice. He | | sald, “No cne can successfully argue but that the violation of the prohibition law has been the svurce «f the greatest income to the gangs. But if we are to| sit idly by and alibi in this jnanner | | while the monster of organized crime | is growing in leaps and bounds, we are | going to see ‘he foundations of gov- ernment crumble more and more.” PLAN FOR THIRD PARTY SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 24 (A).—A movement was under way here today for the organization of a third party to place in nomination a candidate for Congress in the second district. At a mass mecting last night a pro- posed plank calling for Government cussed by speakers. Among the speak- ers was Dr. Elmer I Goshen, minister of the First Congregational Church, ment was named the Liberty Subscribe Today It costs only about 11 cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Sunday morn- ing. Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately. The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. PILES—Itch—Discomfort R R Bogota in Rotary Tangle. BOGOTA, Colombia, September 24 () —There is quite a controversy over . a proposal for the Rotary Club to or- ganize an auxiliary for {he fire depart- ment. For 400 years, up till five years | ago, Bogota did very well without a fire | | department. There has been one fire | in five years. All the houses are of stone or brick. | Doctors R quickly respond Bs to the new wonder everywhere recommend them. $1.00 per package Containing 12 treatments AtYourNeighborhood Druggist Torb, Inc., Allentown, Pa. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE manufacture and sale of liquor was dis- | | | CALLED BY HUGHES SURVIVORS TELL HOW BOLT CUT |JUDGES’ CONFERENCE S BlOW Left Little Tlme o Get Federal Circuit Jurists Will leet' to Boats—Six Drift 72 Hours in Open. Here October 1 to Discuss Business Status. By the Aasociated Press. Chief Justice Hughes has called a | conference of Federal circuit judges to | meet here October 1 to discuss the con- t | miles west of St. Pierre, Miquelon. Boats | dition of business in Federal Courts | throughout the country. | 'These meetings, arranged annually by the late Chief Justice Taft, have | done much to remove the congestion in | Federal Courts and bring business more | | nearly up-to-date. | _Attorney General Mitchell will pre- sent to the conference suggestions from | the Government viewpoint. Former | Attorney General George W. Wicker- sham. now at the head of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission, may give ;the conference an outline of what the commission has learned. be represented at the meeting. Reports will be presented of the condition of the dockets in each district as well as in each Circuit Court. ‘The conference will continue three days and result in ‘recommendations to expedite the cases which are pouring in upon the Federal Courts. | Roanoke, Va Each of the 10 Federal circuits will | TN BACK HOME CURSION Visit the Folks at Home Saturday, October 4th REDUCED ROUND-TRIP FARES From Washington, D. C. 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