Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 25

SCIENTIFIC GROUP PLANS STORMS HIT SOUTH 70 exeLoe os WITH ONE FATALITY s, s s Organized in New York. | By the Associated Press. 'S CABINET Toexetone Lost worLo GANDHI'S CABINE 1 SI.ATE IS PASSEI] | cittor o the Arkunsie Gasette Sled | bl ot of 15 months for thelr ol S35 Tornado Kills Alabama Child and Hail Routes Horses, Iniuring Soldiers. By the Associated Press. A child was killed, & man was seri- ously injured and several others were | less serfously hurt in a series of tor-| hail and rain storms that struck | widely scattered sections of the South yesterday. Considerable damage was done by | hail in the Georgia peach belt. | The 5-year-old daughter of Horace Huller was killed when a tornado_de- molished her home at Elba, Ala. Mrs Huller was seriously injured. Debris from the house was scattered over a wide area. Horses Stampede. One member of a Field Artillery unit moving from Fort Bragg, N. C., to Fort Benning, Ga., was seriously hurt at| Talbotton, Ga., when a sudden hall-| storm caused the horses to stampede. The man was thrown from a gun car- riage, and the wheels of the truck passed over his head. Seven or eight others in the troop were less seriously hurt. No names were available. High winds demolished a score of houses at Mulberry, near Wintgr Ha- ven, Fla, and a severe storm Was re- ported at Indian Head, Fla. Several persons were reported bruised at Mulberry, but there were no serious injuries. Many houses at Winter Ha- ven were damaged. Hail in Peach Region. At Thomaston, Ga., a severe hail- storm covered the ground with hail- stones, banked at places as deep as 12 inches. Thomaston is in the heart of the peach-growing area, containing 800,000 trees, and fear was expressed | that great damage had been done to the orchards. Old Fort McRae, standing at the en- | trance of the harbor at Pensacola, Fla., was pounded by high seas and winds | of gale force and threatened to tumble into the Gulf of Mexico. The fort is not garrisoned. RAINS FLOOD NORTHWEST. Three Die as Rivers Rise—Idaho Train Marooned by Torrent. SEATTLE, Wash., April 1 (®)—Two days of rain in three Pacific Northwest States had claimed probably three lives today, injured one man, hampered train service, played havoc with highways | and forced farmers from their homes. The Weather Bureau could promise no | immediate relief. Oscar F. Olson, 42, of Sealrocks, | Oreg., and Rex Brown, Perry, Oreg, were missing after their boat had cap- sized in the swollen Willamette River. | Four other men in the boat were res- cued. | Philip Fox, 73, of Walla Walla, Wash., drowned while attempting to protect his barn from rising waters. Uncon- firmed reports said three Walla Walla Tesidents were missing. Unoccupied_ houses and several bridges about Walla Whila floated away. Sand bags were placed to protect stores and ! homes. Streets were covered with about 2 feet of water. | Torrential rains in North Central Idaho crippled railway service. A pas- senger train was marooned between | Julisetta and Kendrick. A log jam | crushed a railrcad bridge and threat- | ened 18 others over Orofino Creek, | North of Orofino, Idaho. In Oregon, gaie-driven rains caused the isolation of Tillamook, Pacific City, Brictenbush and Detroit. Summer cabins at Brightwood and Arrawahhah were breaking up. A landslide at Hoquiam, Wash., de- stroyed a garage. d NEW YORK, Aprtl 1.—The frontiers | Calcutta Mayor Advocates| Washington as Round-Table ! of “the lost world” of Southern Ven- ezucla, where gold and perhaps even | diamonds may be found, will be pushed | back by an expedition being organized here. | Equipped with three planes, the party | | hopes to spread out over 40,000 square | By the Associated Press miles of the unexplored uplands be- | tween Mount Roraima and Mount | Duida on the headwaters of the Rio Caroni. The expedition is a purely sclentific | one, organized under the auspices of the American Geographical Society, Lae American Museum of Natural History and the New York Botanical Gardens. No commercial development of any | mineral resources discovered is con- templated, but leaders of the explora- ton suggested their plonesring might lead to the development of a mining industry by others. | BUS VICTIMS BURIED HOLLY, Colo,, April 1. (#).—The five pupils and the driver who froze to de when a school bus stalled in huge sno drifts near Towner, Colo., last wee were buried yesterday. Gov. W. H. Adams sent flowers, which were dropped over the runeral proces- sion by airplanes. The 15 pupils, who survived the two davs and a night on the bus are recov- ring, | your thought ™IE EVENING Meeting Place. KARACHI, India, April 1.—Mahatma | Gandhi, Indian Nationalist leader, today | scored another sweeping victory in thg) All-India National Congress, which is in | | convention here, when he succeeded in | putting through his entire slate of can- | didates for the new working committee | | or Natfonalist cabinet. A small number of insurgents pro- tested against what they termed com- | plete domination of the congress by Gandhi, who listened to their denunci- ation with his face wreathed in smile: There are 10 Hindus in the new cab- | inet, four Moslems and one Parsee. Convening of the second round table | conference in Washington, D. C., was advocated yesterday by Subhas Bose, tremist H mayor of Calcutta “In the American Capital, where the h | famous international disarmament was | held,” he said, “we would find an at- mosphere of impartiality and sympathy | conducive to our success, especially as your tutelary masters would find there historic precedents for one great nation granting freedom to another.” Mahatma Gandhi smiled and replied: “I am afraid your wish is father to India would be good, | T = N £ % Weddii 5 ) Za tionery o/ : a/z‘s[ inction S~ e Fashions change in engraving just as 1l1cy do in bridal gowns. Let us show you the latest sly!es for the invitation and announcement T -—-stylcs that are in many cases exclusive with us. )’ou will be surprise({ at the moderate prices quoted for the quality offered. ‘Brew®D nyrm/er.; ana(/fi‘a troners 611-12th St. N.w. 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