Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1931, Page 3

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WANTED RETURN LOADS From New From PHILADELPHIA * From CLEVELAND To AUGUSTA, GA. To PITTSBURGH Regular weekly service for part ioads to and from Washington. Baitimore, Philadel- phia_and New York hii STATES STORAGE CO. INC 10th Bt. N.W. Met. 1845, | By the Associated Press. MANAGUA DEATHS REACH 3,000 TOTAL iTroops Kept Busy Excavat- i ing Bodies From Ruins as Tremors Continue. (Continued From First Page.) | | fatal, Some, too old to undergo neces- | sary operations, amputations, and the | like, are almost certain to d.c of their | injuries. The patients are of all races and | both sexes. Some have broken legs and arms, some fractured skulls and others internal injuries The Marine doctors | are greatly handicapped by lack of op- | erating rooms and are doing their work | in_tents. Lieut. Comdr. Hatfield, during the | night organized a corps of doctors and surgeons for vaccinations against | typhoid. A blankst vaccination order |has been issued covering all resi dents of the city who cannot show proper previous inoculation. Supplies by Airplane. Seven physicians have been assigned to the work and it is believed that 10,000 persons, willing or no, will be vaccinated. There are sufficient sup- plies on hand for the first hours of the work and others are expected by air- plane from Panama. A water supply today still was the city'’s most serious immediate problem, which may be solved by bringing in pumping machinery from Granada. There probably will be enough food for the emergency perfod, with addi- tional supplies arriving by plane and the U. S. S. Rochester, which is coming to Corinto from Balboa. Supplies reaching Corinto c: brought by railroad to within B miles of Managua, where the quake broke the rail lines. Hundreds of Managuans have walked the 8 miles to reach the railroad in order to secure transportation to livable quarters until Managua can be cleaned up and rebuilt. Practically nowhere in the city was there a building left standing which was fit for habitation. Two of the city’s three banks are total ruins. In one of these, the Anglo-South American Bank, a half million dollars in gold reposed, but the walls were left by the quake in such dangerous condition that no one has ventured inside. Radio Operators Busy. It was thought for a while that the | bank would have to be dynamited to break the path of the blaze which ate out the interior of the National Palace, across the street, after its walls had been knocked down by the tremors, but & change in direction of the wind altered the situation. Managua is still without communica- tions save that afforded by the Tropical Radio form its power plant 3 miles outside the city. The operators there have worked nnstintingly without sleep for more than 36 hours, handling many thousands of words of press matter. An employe of the Pan American Airways, who was in a dowrtown Managua office at the time of the tremors, described them as quick shocks | and not undulatory in character. Far from coming in waves, they impressed him like the rattle of a machine gun. Houses fell in heaps about him while the shocks were still taking place. There have been no additions to the toll of four American dead and about a score injured in varying degrees. Fire Difficult Task. Fighting the terrible fire which came on the heels of the earthquake was a hand-to-hand job. Many of the Ma- rines, striding into the flames, suffered | loss of their shoes, which were burned | off their feet, but they stayed on the job. In an effort to check the march of the flames they started blasting, but it was hard work, for the flimsy houses of stick and adobe burned like tinder. Once it seemed that the unpo&sxble! had been accomplished. Then the| flames licked up the walls of a store- house where drums of gasoline were | piled. The stuff explcded, hurling blaz- ing brands over the area nearby and | starting the fire afresh. E Late yesterday afternoon the National | Palace, where the Nicaraguan Congress | sits and where the government records are kept, caught fire after every one had thought it was safe. ‘The palace was only & pile of wreck- age lfler the earthquake, but the de- bris roared into a blaze, fanned by a stiff wind. Market Hardest Hit. Prom the market place in the middle of the city 150 bodies have been taken. This was where the blow fell heaviest. As in most Latin cities, the house- | wives do their shopping in the morning at the Central Market. They were there when the first shock came. Most of the bodies were crushed be- | yond recognition. At the National Penitentiary every | prisoner, exce&t & few who were in the | yard, was ki A hundred bodies have been taken out of the wreckage. Afrplanes from the Coco Solo Air Sta- tion at Cristobal arrived yesterday aft- ernoon, each bringing 300 pounds of medical supplies and physicians. Capt. A. D. Ber ardt, commanding officer at Coco Solo, came with them, then went back immediately for more supplies. PLANE CARRIER AT GRAYTOWN. | Lexington Standing By Ready to Send | Further Relief to Managua. The Navy Department was informed | today that the aircraft carrier Lexing- ton was standing by at Graytown, also called San Juan del Norte, ready to launch additional planes with relief for Managua if necessary. Five planes carrying Navy doctors | | city, and it was expected this number |ants, serums and medical supplies was |to reach Managua tonight. ‘Amefican Colonel Reports Shocks Quake Victim MRS. JOSEPH D. MURRAY, JR., Wife of a Marine Corps major, who was killed in the earthquake which destroyed Managua, capital of Nicaragua. Maj. and Mrs. Murray were formerly resi- dents of Concord, Mass. Maj. Murray has been stationed in Nlclrlgul since 1927. —A. P. Photo. of large portions of the native popula- tion to Leon and other cities. While nearly all buildings used by American forces were so badly damaged as to be uninhabitable, Admiral Irwin said, newly erected barracks at the Cempo de Marte escaped serious dam- age and were being used. At the aviation camp, 3 miles from Managua, barracks and hangars were intact. No American planes were dam- aged. Headquarters of the 2d Marin Brigade was severely damaged, but all important records were safely removed. Admiral Irwin’s review of the situa- tion was dispatched from Balboa four hours after a shorter message reporting new severe shocks at Managua. This was interpreted here as indicat- ing that the new tremors had not seri- ously impeded relief work. Admiral Ir- win, however, noted that the radio sta- tion of the Pan-American Airways at Managua was closed from 8:10 p.m. when the fresh quakes occurred, until 11 pm. Asks for Six Nurses. Minister Hanna, recommended today to the State Department that six Red Cross nurses be rushed to Managua to care for women victims. The Minister reported relief forces | were directing their efforts toward re- storing a regular water supply, cut off by the quake. The Marine brigade fed 4,000 people yesterday on Laloma Fleld south of the would increase steadily until the refu- gees had been evacuated to nearby towns. SENDING RELIEF PLANE. San Antonio to Dispatch 600 Pounds of Medical Supplies to Managua. SAN ANTONIO, April 2 (#).—An air- I plane carrying 600 pounds of disinfect- | to leave San Antonio today for Ma- nagua, Nicaragua. Barney Root, pilot, said he expected to reach Mexico City this evening and Manegua Priday. Gen. Andreu Almazan of Mexico, who is in San Antonio, has telegraphed in- structions to permit the passage of the plane without delay. The flight was Ananced by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. LEAVES TO MAKE SURVEY. Red Cross Official En Route to Ma- | nagua From Miami by Plane. MIAMI, Fla., April 2 (7).—Ernest J. Swift, American Red Cross official, left here today by airplane for Managua, | Nicaragus, to conduct a relief survey of the stricken_city. He went from here to Havana, where the plane, a regular passenger ship of Pan-American Airways, will pick up 100 pounds of medical supplies to be sent fhe people of Managua by the Cuban government. Flying from Havana to Cozumel, the | plane will take a route down the west coast of Central America to Managua, picking up other Medical supplies en route. 1t was scheduled to leave Miami on & regular passenger run at 2:45 p.m., but its time was advanced to enable Swift KING SENDS CONDOLENCES. LONDON, April 2 (#).—King George today sent the following message to President Moncada of Nicaragua: “I have learned with deep distress of the terrible disaster which has befallen | the City of Managua and ask you, Mr. President, to accept my most sincere sympathy and condolences.” OFFICER SAYS CANAL | ROUTE UNDAMAGED Did Not Reach as Far South | as Waterway Site. By the Associated Press. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 3.—The | proposed route of the Nicaraguan Canal | was not _touched by Tuesday'’s earth- | quake, Col. Dan Sultan, who is in charge of investigations in regard to| and medical stores flew yesterday from the Lexington's deck while still 150 {miles at sea and reached Managua last ight The de: able to yer Sicard, which had been ep up with the Lexingto knots, from Guantanamo, rea Graytown early today. Graytown 200 miles from Managua. Dickey Death Confirmed. | Rear Admiral Nobel E. Irwin, com- 'c0. | manding the Canal Zone district, re- ported to the department that all fam- | ilies of American service men in Man- | 2gua were concentrated at the Campo de Marte, on the outskirts of the city. The American Minister and personnel of the legation were also encamped there. The admiral confirmed the death of | Chief Quartermaster Clerk James F. Dickey, hitherto reported missing in the ruins of the National Dickey’s wife lives in Vallejo, Calif Admiral Irwin said the Nicaraguan | rnment was considering evacuation is g0 "Flowers by Wi Roses,” Carnations, Sweet Cinerarias, Tulips, Hyacinths, play of seasonable cut flowers We invite you to come in A Spring Tonic National pxtal Prcss D Bt. N.W. Phone Natlonal 0650 Penitentiary. | EASTER GREETINGS Say Your Easter Greetings With Blaskistorie Flowers and all seasonable cut now:n—flydn.nnu Llly Plants, Floral greetings to “sut-of-town” Friends by Wire the canal for the United States, said yesterday. He reported there was no evidence the disturbance reached as far south as the com-mpmea route for the canal. | JOY AT BANK REOPENING! Whole Town Celebrates Opening of | Institution Closed Last Fall. WEAVERVILLE, N. C., April 2 ()— The whole town celebrated todsy as the Farmers and Traders Bank, which sus- pended business last November, re- opened. The mayor made s speech and the student bodies of the public schools | marched in & body to the bank for ex- | ercises held in the street before it. The bank suspended during s financial crisis precipitated in Western North Carolina by the failure of the Central | Bank & Trust Co., Asheville, re Everywhere" Peas, Tulips, Jonquils, Prezias Primroses. A wonderful dis- and blooming plants. and see the display. 1407 H Street National 4905 3 Doors West of 14th St. 1|given by Robinson tallled with that STAR, WASHINGTON. .- 6. LICENSE PLATES CLUE TO HOLD-UP Man Said to Have Bought| Tags Used in Drug Rob- bery Six Weeks Ago. A man who purchased District license plates six weeks ago, saying they were for & coupe, and ‘who gave his name as Frank Lutz, 1638 Sixteenth street, was sought today for questioning as to his possible connection with the daring daylight hold-up yesterday of two Peoples Drug Co. employes, who were robbed of a pay roll of more than $6,500. Police said the man was not known| at the Sixteenth street address. | The plates were the ones used on‘ the “big blue sedan” in which the bandit trio escaped, according to de- tectives who checked the plates after several witnesses had given the same number—T-2818. Offered $500 for Car. Another somewhat vague clue was offered last night, when George Rob- inson, colored, of Twelfth street, near T street, reported three men, believed to be the bandits, had approached him at New Jersey and Rhode Island ave- nues as he was waiting for a change | in traffic lights, and offered him $500 cash for his car. The man said one of the three pro- duced a roll of $50 bills from a black | grip and said he would pay $500 for| immediate delivery. The description of the three “small, well dressed” hold- up men who robbed the drug em- ployes within a few yards of the ware- house at First and Decatur streets northeast toward which they were walking with the pay roll. The automobile-plate clue was re- garded as important since as the sup- position that the robbery had been planned carefully is supported both by | the statements of drug warehouse em- ployes—that the men had been seen in the vicinity during the last two or three weeks—and by the purchase of the plates, which, it is thought, were bought especially for the “job.” Workers Held Up. The two workers, Edwin W. Edmon- ston, buyer, and Seymour Stouten- bourgh, assistant warehouse manager, had just returned from a downtown ! bank with the pay roll at about 11 o'clock yesterday morning, when the robbery ‘occurred. As they stepped from the automo- | bile into narrow Decatur street, which | runs beside the warehouse, the three men stepped from & doorway, and while | two held guns on the drug men, the | third took the money. All three then | Tan to a big blue sedan parked on O street, according to witnesses, and es- caped. ‘They had been seen about the place | at intervals for several weeks, it was said, although no importance was at- tached to this before the hold-up be- cause many strangers were in and out of the street in connection with | the construction of a sewer there. Police were given a wrong address over the radio and consequently, ar- rived on the scene after the bandits had escaped. Will Eogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—It's very seldom you find any good that comes out of the war. But I was talking to one of California’s sanest and most con- servative busi- ness men, Mr. | Robert C. Gillls. He remarked: “The only in- vestment that peowen sound during all this mess is the | Liberty bond. So the ol | three - minute speaker w a s telling the truth and didn't know it. But the tough part about it is everybody lost theirs by having to put 'em up as margins on things that “was supposed to be sound. | During the Coolidge cuckoo days ‘ they were considered the lowest form of investment. When you look back on things now you wonder why every one in America escaped the insane asylum during that time. Church Plans Play TO PRESENT BIBLICAL PLAY, “THE ROCK.” biblical play to be presented by the First Congregational Church tonight, tomorrow and Saturday nights, include (left to right): who portrays Adina, Simon Peter's wife; Robert S. Ball, as Ucal, the mer- Constance Lane, Deborah, mother of Adina, and Gail Whiton, who PLAYERS, under direction of Miss Nell Berghout, who will perform in chant; will play the part of Mary Magdalene. Pearl Strickland, —=Star Staff Photo. CITY WHICH MAY BE NICARAGUA CAPITAL ONCE RULED BY AMERICAN | Granada Captured in 1855 tune, and Little Band of 56 Men. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 2.—Granada, mentioned as the possible capital of | Nicaragua in case it is decided not to | | rebuild Managua, was the scene of one | | of the bellicose exploits of ‘William | Walker, swashbuckling adventurer from the United States, who kept Central America in an uproar in the middle of the last century. Walker, with a little band of serious | | fighters, captured Granada in 1855 and | held 1t almost two years | With 56 men in his filibustering ex- pedition, he had set sall for Nica- ragua May 4, 1855. One of the factions in internal dissension there had asked | him to take a hand—he already had something of a reputation by reason | of a previous adventure in Lower Cali- fornia—and his first operation was on Lake Nicaragua. There he seized a steamer of the Accessory Tmntlt Co., by Walker, Soldier of For-| an American organization dominated by Cornelius Vanderbilt. ‘With the ship he won Granada and became master of the country. Peace was proclaimed, and Walker, by virtue of his command over the army, was “the works.” President Pierce Tecog- | nized his government. Conspirators opposing Vanderbilt back | in the United States spoiled Walker's | game. They influenced him to seize | | property of the Accessory Transit Co. | in their behalf. detrbflt made allies of the Central American states, who didn't_like the interloper, and May 1, 1857, Walker surrendered to the United States Navy in order to avoid being | captured by his opponents. | He made several other attempts to set himself up as a Central American | ruler in subsequent years, but all of them failed. The last was in 1860, when Honduras was his object. That time he was executed. CHERRY BLOSSOMS OUT But Branch Bearing Blooms Is in Park Police Office. There are cherry blossoms already in bloom, despite the downpour of ‘reoent days and the colder weather, but they are located in the headquar- ters of the United States Park Police. When the horticulturists last week ! | were trimming out the dead wood from the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin |one of the sergeants brought in a | plece on which there were & few buds. | Officer C. H. Baesgen put the twigs in | a bottle of water in the hope that he | might be able to answer better the thousand and one calls that come in over the battery of telephones. Today the therry blossoms were in bloom on Originated Postal System. Hailed by many as the father of the modern postal system, the 100th anni- versary of Heinrich von Stephan was recently modestly celebrated in Ger- many. He came from very humble origin and rose to be director of the Royal Prussian Post. 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