Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1933, Page 3

TEXAS STORM TOLL NOW STANDS AT 24 Army Ambulances Sent Into Remote Parts. of Wind- swept Area. A regiment of the United States Army under command of Col. L. Bre- took over emergency hos- from Houston, San Antonio, Christi, and other points. The unit, Col. Brechemin said, was. pre- pared for any conpingency. Col. Brechemin advised city and ccunty authorities on sanitation and warnings were issued against drinking any water not known to be absolutely pure. The Army medical unit ben': emergency supplies were distributed to the thousands of refugees in the valley. LIST OF STORM DEAD. Red Cross Makes Compilation of Vic- tims of Texas Burricane. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 7 UP)—The following is the official Red Cross death list in the tropical storm which struck South Texas Monday and Tuesday: Bill Duncan, Harlingen. Two unidentified Americans of Har- Ningen. Mrs. John Kuscera, 30, Rio Hondo. R. B. Dykes, 20, Rio Hondo. Marie Atkinson, 6, Rio Hondo. Antonio Garcia, 7, Rio Hondo. A child named Kennedy, 7, Rio Hondo. Four unidentified Mexicans, Rio -((.3‘1‘:!. Maxon, 28, Los Fresnos. Olivio , 19 months, San Be- Crus Rodrigues, 50, San Benito. Mrs. Tillie Rigdon, 67, near Har- triclo Garcla, Matamoros. Jesus Contreras. Matamoros. REPORTER DESCRIBES STORM. News Writer Drove Into Stricken Rio Valley During Destructive Blow. BY FRED DYE. Associated Press Staff Writer. MCALLEN, Tex., September 7 (P)—I have checked the entire storm area of the Lower Rio Grande Valley from 75 miles north of McAllen to 70 miles east, and the marvelous thing is that the rricane killed no more per- did. dam- long as the hurricane swept apparently straight inland, westerly, over Browns- | streets. ville. While a Government expert estimated that 90 per cent of the citrus fruit crop in the Harlingen area had been de- stroyed, other valley business men were willing to raise the estimate the full 10 per cent possible. To my inexperienced eye it seemed that the valley's chief in- dustry was destroyed for one year at least. Drove During Storm. the valley 'J.\.lesd.lyal;h ity. I ymacd that a gigantic clock in Brownsville had heen stopped at 10:20, the hour the hurricane hit that south- erly city Monday night. At Edinburg a similar clock had been blown to feces with the hands stopped at 11:20, fndluun: the hurricane moved across country at 60 miles an hour. At Falfurrias the full force of the back half of the storm began to blow, and 1t was necessary at times to halt with the rear of the automobile facing the wind, which blew at as much as 75 miles and hw';h Once I l‘a.lld‘w m‘:!e refuge against the west wall of a rail- road underpass to prevent being blown hway. It was impossible nglon against the wind. ite trees were torn up by their roots and threshed about and sign- boards and visible flimsy shacks were down. > After about two hours the wind died down and I was able to make my way to Edinburg, where I found lights, te! BPECIAL NOTICES. LIR. A. Schmid said today that.investi- lo- | gators, so far, WARNING TO THE rgnuc—w: DO NOT ve “agents or emploves selling couon ks, CARMACK DRYCLEANING CO. P. ._Macl A g A ating and WASwashing. ETading, 105 3 g an ng, 3 2nd sodaing. GISSON, ME. 1450, 0° - WITNESSES _AUTO ACCIDENT TO LADY, Dight August 10th K nesr st Flesd Mr. OOE. Dlstrict’ 2353. 7° WITNESSES ACCIDENT PEDESTRIAN T eamonlle a2 106h and Euclld sia on Fri- ight. September 10 o'clock. kindly TO_$7.850. Owner of 1929 Calvert st. n.w. has 1l her 12-room, mod: 0T | smuggling into the Dallas County jail hor! me sl brick residerice. 8 bed rooms, 2 baths. as_heater. for this Bryant SAC) L this unusual bargain at once. perty clear. H. H. CARTER. 306 Investment Bidg. ROOF WORK t nature capably performed practical 2n" Us Tor estimai KOONS Zaerse ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Directly on the Ocean Front THE LOW FALL RATES BECOME EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 5th ber and October Are DE!‘:M.(II at the Seashore Ocesn Bathing and All Outdeor Sperts t_Thel: WALTER 1. BUZBY, Ine. DAY RIALS MELUBES Speciol Woelly. Aks Eviopenn Fion Cep. 300. & ‘Colton Manor O ot SURF BATHING FROM HOTEL AT'NG ADDITIONAL CHABGE OCEAN CITY, N. J. COLONIAL & &= == Totel Fmeline &r s worey ave mea: ~COLONIAL BEACH HC B OTEL T PPER: A grapefruit grove south of Vero Beach, PFla, is shown as it appeared, virtually denuded after passage of the tropical storm that battered parts of coastal and interior Florida with damage estimated above $1,- 000,000. Lower: This picture gives some idea of the terrific damage done at Gardehas, Cuba, by the storm tidal wave, estimated unofficially at $5,000,000. and its accompanying 10-foot FIRST LADY BOOSS WOMAN'S PAY FIGHT Sland loi:‘Equality Principles Giving: Impetus to Cause, Says Bureau Chief. By the Associated Press. Strongly backed by Mrs. Pranklin D. ‘| Roosevelt, women willing to work for EE2 N TRAL ADOPTION i) F T z%ié%? gty “The reau addressed a “necessity of establishing the same min- imum wage rates for men and women.” It added: “Since 37.5 per cent of all factory operatives are women, it is apparent that to set wage rates for them that are sub-standard, the recovery is held back just that much.” VICTIM OF HUNGER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS Man Is Under Care of Doctors at Montgomery Hospital—Found by Motorist. By A Btaff Correspondent of The Star. SANDY SPRING, Md., September 7.— Weakened by lack of food and ex- haustion, John Thomas Shackelfcrd, 26, who told police he is unemployed and has no home, was under care of physi- cians at Montgomery County General Hcepital here today. Shackelford was found lying uncon- scious near the electric railway tracks —A. P. Photo. on Howard avenue at Kens last phones and water had been cut off and residents either were immured in flood- ed homes or were wading in knee-deep Highways Blocked. Progress from Edinburg was hampered by miles of telephone poles and lines being blown across the roads leading h the valley. Bit by bit the numerous towns along the highway were reached, and the lerlnun effort to establish a death list, ‘n{ ?roeeeded At Laferia, a small town in the citrus umi damage was en- I ved there could be totality. fairly took under’from one to four feet of surface water, Harlingen presented an incom- ble picture of destruction. At least per cent of the thriving city of 10,000 population lay in wet, twisted ruins. There the first name went on the . Three had been killed in Harlingen, the check showed, and others had been killed in Rio Hondo, nearby. There also were 48 inj being treated in the emergency hospital in the best hotel in town. With the hurricane having passed by a few hours, the spirit of the “children of the sun- shine” remained as buoyant as the wreckage that floated in their city. INVESTIGATORS AT LOSS IN BAILEY JAIL BREAK Unedble to Ascertain Who Was Re- sponsible for Smuggling in of Pistol and Saw. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., September 7.—Sheriff had been unable to ascertaln who was responsible for the pistol and hack saw blades with which Harvey Bailey, notorious gun- man and ex-convict, effected an escape Monday. Bailey, under indictment in the kid- naping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City ofl man, was recaptured at Ard- more and rushed to Oklahoma City for safe keeping. “If we could just ind one man who ever owned the pistol we'd have some- eriff Schmid. Balley occupied was as the only development today. ured | Rings, and the “But they don’t mean much now,” But physicians recognize the. importance of toilet tissue in relation to fem- inine health and hygiene Nudist Camp Raid Nets 19, In -luding Paren}s of 2 Girls|commi Michigan Police Make Charges, Revealing Pro- prietors’ Names Only. By the Associated Press. raid by Sheriff Fred W. Miller on & nudist colony 10 miles west of here resulted yesterday in the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Fred of Kalamazoo, said by the sheriff to have operated camp. / se’v’:enwen other warrants were fs- sued, charging indecent exposure, the same charges preferred against the persons named were gdered by prosecutor Welborne S. Luna at the camp were from Ann 3 Kalamazoo and Chicago, but the names were not revealed pending service of the warrants. The officers said that when they ar- rived at the camp, known as the Sun- shine Sports League, & e of hand ball was in progress while other occu- pants of the camp .were bathing in Swan Creek. all nude. The campers were said to have been married couples for the most part. The Rings’ two daughters, 7 and 17 years old, were also at the camp. BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS TO MEET National Organization fo Open Three-Day Session Here on timize thousands among matters to be discussed at the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Bureaus, Inc., Ry ! prominent res mwm life and important papers deal- with the various aspects of the buresus’ work will be presented by au- INNOCENT this. L v WWEN are aboul strong when fact, the 1~Ablor‘buu. A. P. W. Soft has practically a puncture- i necessary to f Co., Albany, N. Y. A TOILET TISSUE FOR WOMEN the | ferteller, 16-year-old high school boy, led ington night by an unidenified Washington motorist and rushed here for uummd t by the Kensington fire rescue squa ‘The man rallied sufficiently this thorities on many subjects during the three-day convention. merning afldlhm mfimellmm!tu&m that he ast after for miles along the hlchnyl:wm from Pennsylvania to reach ‘Washington. He said that he had lived on seanty &-m{m and had been weakened by lack Shackelford told attaches at the hos- pital that he has a sister, Miss Susie Shackelford, living in Birmingham. COMMUTES SENTENCE act, both of which have a direct bear- ing on problems ‘dealt with by Better Business Bureaus. Government officials, representing the National Recovery Ad- Commisson, ave scheduled 1o speak o , are luled to on these subjects. ek Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, District Commissioner, will welcome the dele- gates Monday. Boy, 16, Is Electrocuted. ‘TECUMSEH, Okla., September 7 (#): —The lawn mowing job of Marion Tef- the hold-up slaying of Lonnie G. Rus- sell, filling station operator of Ashe- ville. Langley’s execution had been set for Friday. It also was made known that Lang- ley will be the subject of “an exhaus- to his death here yesterday. Working on the lawn of W. F. Stilley, the boy was electrocuted when he pushed the mower against a wire fence. Investi- gation revealed an electric power line = an innocent Human Trait Creates Quacks, |Ashevile: It is & universal human trait to fol- low short cuts to health and - i i D Yo L s , throughout the ages. Baltic Sea Tideless. The Baltic Sea, into which flows more than 200 fresh-water streams, is tideless. et I | e Y Y] i il !HI Wouldn’t You Rather Buy THIS WEEK and Save SALE PRICES ON LIFETIME FURNITURE WILL BE WITHDRAWN SATURDAY AT 6 P.M. OPEN ALL DAY SATURDAY MAYER & CO. 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