Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1931, Page 5

*% A—S | persons in Managua, with the number | increasing constantly. | “Hospita - : MARINES FEEDING it e it First Photographs of Managua Quake Disaster 7,000 IN MANAGUA &350 S = B SEeds Col. Sultan reported. “One train load L - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MANAGUA RELIEF ~ FAMILIES DEPART D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1931 PUSHED BY NAVY f ! Planes and Ships Dispatched | Two Hundred Are Taken to to Stricken Zone With Supplies. The Navy Department has moved swiftly to alleviate distress in the, Managua earthquake, and the record of messages and orders shows prompt Tesponse to the call for aid from the | stricken Central American capital, The hour of the earthquake is piaced at 11:10 am., Eastern standard time, | on Tuesday. About 11:30 o'clock the ! Navy Department received news from President Hoover that the Associated | Press had reported a major disaster at | Managua. By noon the department asked Rear Admiral Arthur St. Clair Smith, commander of the Special Serv- ios Squadron, until recently on duty in Washington with the General Board, for information on the extent of the disaster and about 12:19 o'clock he had | notified the department that he was | un;]ble to reach Managua by radio or | cable. Get Report From Panama. ! By 12:30 o'clock, little over an hour | after the earthquake had occurred, the | Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Ernest Lee Jahncke, had placed the facilitics of the service at the disposal of the American Red Cross. By 1:12 p.m. the Navy Department had received an offi- cial ‘message from Rear Admiral Noble E. Irwin, commandant in the Canal Zone, saying that in conjunction with the reported destruction of Managua the U. S. S. Salinas was available to transport emergency supplies. The customary means of communica- tion between Managua and Washington is by radio from the Nicaraguan capital to San Juan del Sur and cable from southern city of the republic. There | is also another channel of communi- | cation, from the Navy's radio station at Managua, which communicates with that at Balboa in the Canal Zone, which in turn communicates Wwith ‘Washingten. Informed of Supplies. Col. Frederic L. Bradman, command- ing the 2d Brigade of Marines at Ma- nagua, filed an official message about 1:10 pm., Nicaraguan time, which was 12 the hands of naval officials here aoout 5:39 p.m., Eastern standard time, being delayed in transit, informing the Navy Department and Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the United £fates Marine Corps, that he had di- 1acted the issuance of medicines, pro- visions, suppiles and stores to aid the eiricken civilian population of Ma- nagua. He estimated that there were 19 days' provisions for all purposes on hand and added that when the full knowledge of needs was known he would submit further requests. Meanwhile as Col. Bradman and his aldes were surveying the stricken city and lending speeay assistance, the far- flung naval organization was busy con- verging relief men and supplies on quake-torn Managua. Medical Officers Arrive. Two planes, dispatched with medical officers of the Navy and Hospital Corps- men, from the Canal Zone, arrived on April 1 with needed medical supplies at Managua. The airplane carrier U. 8. 8. Lexington, which had been in ma- neuvers in the Caribbean, was directed to proceed to the Atlantic Coast port of Bluefields, and as she was nearing that city five planes were shot off that wvessel, The quintet of aircraft con- tained four Navy medical officers and three Hospital Corpsmen, with medical supplies, and they, too, arrived at Mana- gua on the afternoon of April 1. The two planes from Panama brought 200 pounds of relief medical stores, while the five planes from the Lexington brought 400 pounds of medical equip- ment. Serums were carried for the in- jured and for inoculations against the possibility of a typhoid epidemic, be- cause of the| curtafled water supply. The Lexington left Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, about 5 o'clock on March 31, and was on her way to Bluefields in short order. Additional planes were to be catapulted off her decks for Managua with supplies later. The flagship of the Special Service Squadron, the U. S. 8. Rochester, by April 1 had left Balboa, the Pacific port 8t the Canal Zone, for Corinto, the sea- ort of Managua, where she was due his morning, with medical personnel and operating equipment. MANAGUA BY PLANE Corinto—Husbands Con- tinue Relief Work. (Continued From First Page.) outbreak of looting. While doing ex- cellent work, the National Guard does | not command the respect of the native | population as much as “the Devil Dogs.” | Government officials insist that Ma- nagua will be rebuilt, but today it ap- peared that the capital would be | ! moved, at least temporarily, to Masaya, | | Iccated about half way between Ma- nagua and Granada. It was believed | that if moved to Leon, the Liberal | stronghold, or Granada, Conservative fort, it would cause discontent. It was | understood that the National Bank of | Nicaragua would be removed to Gra- | nada today. The blaze in Managua, which has | never been completely under control since the earthquake Tuesday forenoon, shifted by a change in the wind during the nigkt s> that the entire northwest- ern sextion of the city was threatened Food Brought by Planes. A large amount of food has been brought here by airplanes from Pana- ma, Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica, and it is believed there is suffi- | cient here to care for immediate needs Vaccination and innoculation against | smallpox, tetanus and typhoid is pro- | ceeding. Marine Corps and naval | Medical Corps officers are treating the injured. It was estimated that 150 emergency operations were carried out yesterday, the work frequently being interrupted by new quakes. Only chem- ical sterilization was possible. As bodies are recovered from the ruins estimates of the death toll are | being revised upward. Col. F. L. Brad- man, in charge of emergency work, now | reckons the number of dead at about | 2,000. Other estimates on the totals | run as high as 5,000 dead. The bodies are being buried in some instances, but | in others being taken to a large fissure outside the city and burned Hanna Aids in Rescue. Last night the work of recovering the bodies of the dead continued by the light of the flames burning relent- lessly in the ruins. Blackened and charred beyond rec- ognition, they were lifted out of the | debris, loaded into trucks, which car- ried them to the burial place l.nd‘ emergency crematory outside the city. | Matthew E. Hanna, the United States Minister, worked under pressure all day | doing what he could to help. | “Nicaragua must have help,” he sald, “and it seems to me quite natural to assume that such help will come from the United States. I hope my Government will find a way.” He said it was not clear now whether the plans to withdraw 500 | Marines by June 1 could be carried out, but he disclosed that no Marines | would be taken away by the Army | transport Chaumont this week as had been planned. ‘There are about 600 Marines in are marching in from the hills. Also National Guard, excellent trained by the Marines. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, U. 8. M. C. and loyalty of his men for the part today and buried with full military honors. Lieut. Comdr. Hugo P. A Baske and Mrs. Joseph D. Murray, wife of a major of Marines, also have DESTRUCTION OF NICARAGUAN CAPITAL COMPLETE. Pog. < »* X P Top photo, flown from Managua to Atlanta, Ga., and from there trans- Managua and several hundred more | mipted by telephone to New York, shows the ruins of the prison at Managua, there are about 600 of the Nicaragaan | Which crashed upon 300 c-nvicts, crushing them to death, when the earthquake soldiers | last Tuesday swept the city. —Wide World Telephoto. Middle photo shows wrecked buildings and debris-filled streets after the who holds the rank of general in the | gisastrous earth . quake struck Managua, causing 2,000 deaths and property dam- national guard, praised the courage |, . estimated at $70,000,000. The picture, one of the first to reach New York, m;}’hhlwkenrm the rescue work. | was telephotoed from Atlanta. From Managua the pictures were taken to e body of James Dickey, chief | Havana, where they were picked up by a specially chartered plane and carried quartermaster's clerk, was recovered |y, aMiami. A fast land plane rushed them to Atlanta. —A. P. Telephoto. The bottom picture shows the destruction wrought by the quake. —Wide World Telephoto. been buried. BUENOS AIRES SHAKEN. ‘Earthquake Thbrows Inhabitants Into | Panic; Several Injured. | BUENOS AIRES, April 3 (#)—A vio- | lent earthquake felt during the night in | Tucuman Province threw inhabitants into panic. Skveral sustained minor in- juries when hurrying out of their shel- | ters, but no deaths were reported. | The tremor was most violent in Salta, Chemists Inspect Factories. Hospital Ship on Way. Uncle Sam’s hospital ship, the U. B 8. Relief, with full equipment of relief medicines and dressings aboard, is steaming toward Corinto, from near Lower California, and she is expected to reach the Nicaraguan port late Sat- urday night or early Sunday morning. She was dispatched at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the earthquake, after she had transferred the majority of her patients to the battleships of the Battle Fleet. The naval transport U. 8. S. Chau- mont is due at Corinto this morning and has received orders from Admiral Smith to be ready to evacuate all the American women and children of Ma- nagua, totaling about 175, to the Canal | Zone, or if necessary, further. The U. S. 5. Salinas is at Balboa, | 1aden with 68 tons of rations, ready to sail 55 soon as the real needs of Ma- | nagua are known. Also at Balboa are the U. S. S. Sacramento, Asheville and Fulton, “standing by” for orders to sail The Salinas, which is an oil tanker, was | Joaded with stores and equipment the v of the earthquake | he hospital ship Relief has aboard | undred portable cots, complete e and other portable equipment for setting up a fleld hosgital, including | several tons of medical and surgical | supplies. Tetanus antitoxin and other | biological materials for preventing epi- demic diseases that usually follow in the wake of disasters are likewise aboard this vessel. | Dies From Psittacosis. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 3 (P).—A month ago Dr. John M. Sattler was bitten on the hand by a love imported from South America terday he died. His physician said psittacosis, or parrot fever, was the cause. Open Till 2:30 Saturdays Do Your Repair Work Over the Week End Buy at Hechinger’s and Save Money 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE- 15™8& H Sts. N.E. OWNTOWN-6% &C Sts. SW. RIGHTWOOD-5925Ga Ave.N.W INDIANAPOLIS, April 3 (#).—Inspec- | tion trips to several of the city’s leading | industrial plants composed the program | today for delegaets to the eighty-first | meeting of the ' American Chemical | g, ypo Agsociated Press. Boclety. The five-day session ended today. Nearly 2,000 delegates attended. | being Nicaragua's capital” adding that |a flibustering expedition, led by Wil- |liam Walker in 1858, united contesting factions. | Compromise Reached. “Managua, an insignificant village,” a bulletin from the soclety said, “was made the compromise capital. The sole | reason for the selection of Managua | was that it was midway between the but ro reports of damages were received. Century-0ld Rivals Likely to two rival towns” Both the other cities were founded | in 1523. Leon leads in population and manufacturing, but Granada is per- haps the wealthiest city in Nicaragua. Be Considered Unless Managua Is Rebuilt. | Leon is on the raiiroad which con- nects Managua and Granada with | Corinto, the country's principal seaport. 1t is like many cities in Latin America, The rival cities of Leon and G with low houses, covered with red tile on and Granada | 1O fobblestone streets. Tt cathe- The society has a membership of more Pprobably will be considered for Nic- 4ra) is one of the show places of the than 18 000. Indinr; Aflnirl Head Weds. aragua’s next Capital if ruined Managua country, and fertile fields lie around it. iy is not rebutlt. Granada is the terminus of the rail- Minister Sacasa of Nicaragua had re- | road. During Spanish Colonial days ceived no direct information on the boats from the Caribbean went up the OTTAWA, April 3 (#).—The marriage proposal to relocate the capital when San Juan River and across Lake Nic- of Miss Desiree Elise Aylen and Dr. he said that of necessity the question aragua directly to the city's docks Duncan Campbell Scott, poet and super- must be considered with a careful study Its accessibility has made it an im- intendent general of Indian affairs for of all factors, including political ones. portant trading center, but pirates sev- the Dominion, was announced today. The National Geographic Soclety de- | eral times sacked and burned the town The bride is the daughter of Mr. and scribed Leon and Granada as “cen-|Its principal trade is in coffee, sugar Mrs. Henry Aylen of Ottawa City. 53 DOWN All You Need Choose Any Piano In the Store . .. Drastic PRICE Reductions Remember! After this GREATEST STIEFF SALE, these prices and terms are positively withdrawn. 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