Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1935, Page 22

§15000,000 FLOOD DAMAGE IN TEXAS Rains and Tornadoes Add to Dust Toll Losses in State. By the Assoclated Press. DALLAS, Tex, June 29.—Texans wanted rain three months ago to halt duststorm damages mounting into the millions of dollars. Rain come— and, it was estimated unofficially to- day, added $15,000,000 more losses to the dust toll. For the rains fell in cloudvursts, causing devastating floods. Destruc- tive electrical siorms accompanied them. They werz sugmented by tor- nadoes. Twenty-nine persons were killed or drowned. Relief Work Under Way. Relief and renabilitation work now are under way. In the hardest hit area, Central and Southwestern Texas, State relief officials are caring for 1,000 homeless families and offering sssistance to 6,130 other families. Flood control projects are being formulated for the Colorado River ter- ritory. That rampant river 'nflicted $2,500,000 damages at Austin aione. Property owners in the pecan- growying country of Llano County; counted their losses at $5,754,000 after flood waters of the Llano River sub- sided. J. B. Early, Siate maintenance en- gineer, is direcuing replacement of bridges and highways washed cut at & cost of more thar $2,000,000. Cloudbursts added between $3,000,- 000 and $4,000,000 to the total around Uvalde—home of Vice President John N. Garner—Del Ric, Leakey and Re- gan Wells, FOREIGN NATIONS HIT. s 2 e Cloudbursts, Quakes and Heat Spread Death and Destruction. Nature's dread manifestations spread death, destruction and terror in many parts of the globe yesterday. Wind and flood killed 71 in West Japan, stifling heat, tornadoes and thunderstorms ravaged Europe, the earth shook under Mexico and the Hawailan Islands and observers watched fearfully lest Mauna Loa, the famed Hawaiian volcano, become active. Japan’s richest industrial area, that eround the populous cities of Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe, suffered heavily in storm winds and raging floods that did damage estimated at $11,000,000 or more. It was the region’s second disaster in less than 10 months. A typhoon killed 2,500 there last year. Europe Is Stricken. Portugal, Italy, France and Ger- many all were visited by death in the shape of cloudbursts, electrical storms and record heat. An undetermined number of Portuguese died in winds and floods, which laid waste crops; ! nine Italians succumbed to sunstroke as suffocating west winds sent ther- mometers to record highs; three per- sons died at Nimes, France, where the thermometer climbed to 120 degrees Fahrenheit, while lightning killed six in East Prussia. The earthquake felt in Mexico eracked walls of houses. No casualties were reported. That | which gave the Hawaiians their worst shaking of years caused two slides in the firepit of Mauna Loa’s Kilauea crater, but observers peering anxiously into its depths could detect no sign of increased activity. GRAVE U. S. PROBLEM SEEN IN IDLE YOUTH| Holt Tells Young Democrats of North Carolina 2,500,000 ’34 Graduates Jobless. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, June 29.—Unem- ployment among young people was | termed one of the country’s gravest problems by Senator Holt, Democrat, of West Virginia in an address to- night before the Young Democratic Clubs of North Carolina. “When we realize that two and a half million boys and girls who gradu- ated from high schools and colleges last year are out of employment and 300,000 of them on relief and never have held jobs, we can realize the necessity of doing something to solve this problem,” Holt said. President Roosevelt's move in this direction was a good initial step, Holt | said. i The clubs earlier voted at their an- | hual convention to ask enactment of | laws “at the earliest possible time” for a State alcoholic control system. Proposals to request a special legisla- tive session for liquor legislation were thrown out. —_— iTWO MOVIE MEN KILLED Cameraman and Art Director Die in Air Crash. HOLLYWOOD, June 29 (#)— Charles Stumar, jr., ace cameraman, and Harrison Wylle, art director, both of Universal Studios, were killed to- night when Stumar’s airplane crashed in Triunfo Canyon, near here. Studio officials said the men were inspecting the “location” for a forthcoming movie air thriller when the plane fell. Stumar was 44 and Wylie 40, Human Race Really Growing Crazier, Capital Man Finds By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 29.— The human race really is crazier than it used to be, Dr. Gordon B. Hamilton, former neuropsychi- atrist at the Veterans’ Bureau in Washington, said today. He fir attending the California State Homeopathic Society Convention here. “In the past decade, and par- ticularly in the past five years” Dr. Hamilton said, “the general level of sanity has gone down. Conversely, cases of inferiority complex, melancholia, neuras- thenia and psychoneuroses have increased sharply.” He blamed the depression. Even dictators, in his estimation, are a result of mental state caused br world economic con- ditions. “It is a weakening of individuai minds to a mass level,” he said. But this apparent world-wide drift toward mass insanity, he sald, will' have no lasting effect and eventually will pass. Miss Grace Roper, daughter of the Secretary of Commerce, Daniel C. Roper, with Dr. Frank Bohn of Roper, where they will be married Monday afternoon.—Wide World Photo. THE SUNDAY New York at the home of Secretal New Zeppelin Building Slowed, First Trip Expected in October 50 Passengers; 25 Freight and Crew of 40 to Be Carried on Initial Flight. The distinguished woman jour- nalist who describes here the mew Graf Zeppelin and the plans for crossing the Atlantic in the airship will make the trip in the giant dirigible. BY LADY GRACE DRUMMOND HAY. (Copyright. 1935, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, June 29.—The new Zeppelin LZ129 is expected to make its first trans-Atlantic flight from Friedrichshafen to Lake- hurst late in October, Dr. Hugo Eck- ener told me. The giant airship will carry 50 passengers and about 25 tons of mmil and freight. P The first American to make reser- vations was William B. Leeds, who was on the round-the-world flight of the Graf Zeppelin with us. He has reserved places for a party of four. The crew for the initial flight of the | new airship will number 40-odd. Th will be the first aircraft in history t transport nearly a hundred person: across the Atlantic. Dr. Eckener, who has just returned from the hospital after a six-week illness, explained to me the delay and the change in plans. Construction Behind. “I am sorry to have to tell you that construction of the new Zeppelin is between two and three months be- hind ‘expectations,” he said. “We have nearly 150 skilled workmen on it and are pushing the work as fast as is consistent with the high degree of thoroughness and perfection of detail | that is called for on this huge craft. {» “I have had a conference with Dr. Duerr, chief constructor; my son Knut, who is in charge of assembly and erection of the ship; Capt. Lehmann | and others, and we have come to the conclusion that the LZ129 can scarce- ly be completed before the end of September. Then there will be tests, beginning ewith short flights and end- ing with a long flight with govern- ernment technical experts aboard. Therefore it looks as if it will be October before we can start for Lake- hurst.” Dr. Eckener said the new Zeppelin would embody lessons and experience gained through all the previously con- structed airships and would be the strongest, fastest and most perfect dirigible ever built at Priedrichshafer. With her four 16-cylinder Daimler- Benz Diesel oil motors of 1,200 horse- power each, throttled down to 900 horsepower, the Zeppelin's cruising speed will be 80 or 81 miles per hour. Dr. Eckener reckons that the west- ward flight from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst and New York will be made in less than 60 hours, and that the eastward return flight will be made in 48 or 50 hours. Unconcerned Over Rivalry. Dr. Eckner is not much concerned about the apparent threatening rivalry and competition of the Sikorsky-Glenn Martin-Pan American clippers and the giant flying boats that are being de- veloped in France and England. “Speed is important, but safety, comfort, range and load capacity are even more 5o in transoceanic commer- cial air traffic,” said the doctor. “There is as yet no flying boat that has crossed the North Atlantic with passengers, mail and freight in a non-stop flight. Compare the 70 trans-Atlantic flights with passengers, mail and freight oe- tween Friedrichshafen and North and South America, with never a singie passenger injured.” Knut Eckner showed me over the new Zeppelin, pointing out many new features. Two hundred forty-eight meters long and 52 meters in diameter at the thickest part, it was so colossal that the hundred-odd workmen were lost in the'mass of spars and tremen- Tons of Mail and, ' dous ring girders. The four-motor | gondolas are as big as airplane fuse- lages. Not one is yet attached to th2 Zeppelin. A portion of the 28,000 square meters of fabric covering was in place. Asked Comparisons. More than seven years ago I had seen the Graf Zeppelin in the same stage of construction. Eagerly I ques- tioned Knut for comparisons. He told | ne they were following the general con- struction principles of the Graf Zep- | v‘pelm, which had proved so satisfac- | tory, but with added strength. Seven years have brought improve- ments in all materials—duraluminum | for spars and girders, fabric and dope which are more weather-resisting. An innovation is a close lacing of wire | and thread in the spaces of the metal | | framework, to which the fabric can be more firmly attached than on the Graf. The stern of the new Zeppelin— vhich, in the cases of the Akron and | | the Macon, proved the weakest part— | is strengthened by three extraordi- narily strong cruciform supports up- | holding the frame vertically and hori- | zontally. Joint Took 300 Hours. As 1 was examining the last ring | girder still to be attached, Knut called | my attention to a complicated joint [ where the fin enters the main struc- | | ture of the ship. “It took 300 working | { hours to assemble this joint,” he re- marked. | There will be seven or eight million rivets in the completed Zeppelin. The LZ129 will weigh 100 tons dead weight | and about 220 tons loaded. The lift- ing gas capacity will be 7,300,000 cu- }blc feet. The gas will be contained | | in 16 ballonets of synthetic goldbeat- | | ers’ skin, which proved to be more | gas-tight and considerably cheaper | than the real goldbeaters’ skin first |used on the Graf Zeppelin. Sixty | metric tons of oil for the Diesel mo- | tors will be carried in 25 oil tanks of two-and-a-half tons' capacity each. There will be 10 tons of water in tanks which, in case of emergency, can be emptied in 48 seconds. Knut explained a new scientifie navigation instrument, to replace the echologue in the navigation room, which might be called the “whistling altimeter.” This is an instrument that emits a shrill whistle, the echo of which returns from the ground or sea over which the Zeppelin is traveling and records the altitude in meters on a dial. It also operates through foy and tells the navigator how high the | airship is above sea or land. Powerful Electric Plant. An aid to night flying will be a 5,- 500,000 - candlepower searchlight, | which, directed downward, will enable the navigator to use the drift meter as well by night as by day. This Zep- pelin will have the most powerful elec- trical plant of any yet built into an airship. It will have s long-range wireless station for both long and short wave transmission. Experiments also will be made in two-way telephoning between the airship and steamers or land stations. ‘What most interested me were the passenger accommodations. On the Graf Zeppelin the passengers’ cabins and salons are in a gondola, with the bridge, navigation room, wireless sta- tion and kitchen underneath and placed outside the main structure of the bow. In the new airship the pas- senger quarters are in the interior of the body of the ship, well forward. There are 25 two-berth cabins, each equipped with running hot and cold water. Unlike the Graf Zeppelin, all are “inside” rooms, with no outside view. The cabins are in the center, with a social hall and a reading and STAR, HOUSING PROJECTS UP T0 ROOSEVELT President fo Decide on All Slum Clearance as Re- sult of Delays. By the Associated Press. The P. W. A. housing division rounded out two years today with but three Federal slum clearance projects under construction and two others under contract. dly because of the slowness, President Roosevelt is to pass on all future slum clearance projects. The slum clearance work was launched by Secretary Ickes, P. W. A. @dministrator, on a so-called limited dividend plan. Under this, money was loaned to seven private corporations for the construction of low cost housing projects. Hackett Made Assistant. After a year of the limited dividend projects, Robert D. Kohn, head of the housing division, resigned and Col. Horatlo B. Hackett took charge. A few months ago, Ickes promoted Hackett to be his assistant. A. R. Clas then was named housing director. ‘Under Hackett and Clas the division undertook Federal slum clearance projects, but encountered delay in acquiring sites. In a report to Ickes, on the fiscal year's work ending today, Director Clas said: “The housing division started at scratch on a totally new program for which we had no technical guides to follow. “For nearly a year it tried to do the job by interesting private initia- tive in housing by limited dividend corporations. * * * Seven limited dividend corporation housing projects were started. Then we entered the Federal program.” Progress information obtained from the housing division shows: That up to May 16, only $8,000,000 had been actually expended on Fed- eral projects, and $8,000,000 on limited dividend projects, although $1,913,000 was sent this week to Chicago to pay for a site. $110,000,000 Withdrawn. Of the original $150,000,000 allocat- ed from P. W. A. funds two years ago, $110,000,000 was withdrawn by Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, for direct relief last Winter. President Roosevelt this week ear- marked $249,860,000 from the $4,000,- 000,000 work-relief fund for the divi- sion. The division estimates that this, with the unexpended balance from the original allocation and that remain- ing from $10,971,000 allocated for lim- ited dividend projects, makes a total of around $294,000,000 available for | slum clearance work. Armed with the new money, the di- | vision plans to push for most of the | seventy-odd projects for approval by | President Roosevelt and Hopkins, hop- | ing to have them under way dunn“ 1936. The three Federal projects actually | under construction are in Atlanta, Ga., and Montgomery, Ala, Indianapolis Contract Let. Contracts have been let on a $3.- 025,000 project at Indianapolis and | Cedar Central at Cleveland, costing | $3,279,000. Other projects in various stages of | Ppreparation are in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Mont« gomery, Louisville, Boston, Milwaukee, Nashville and Washington, D. C. Ap- proximately 60 more have been recom- mended. With the opening July 1 of the Neighborhood Gardens Housing Corp. project in St. Louis, Secretary Ickes said six of the limited dividend proj- ects would be in operation. The sev- enth, the Boylan Realty Co. Develop- | ment at Raleigh, N. C,, is under con- struction. Homes and Boulevard Gardens, in New York City, the Euclid Housing Corp. project in Euclid, Ohio, the Juniata Park Housing Corp. development in Philadelphia and Alta Vista in Vir- ginia. Scot Trousers Too High. Edinburgh, Scotland. has found that | it is paying too much for trousers sup- plied to city institutions. Councilor | Adam Miller, who is also a tailor, de- | clares that the Joint Committee bought hospital suits for $4.80, and | then trousers for from $5.50 to $8.10 | a pair, which he declares are ultra- | fashionable prices. An investigation is being made. room on the other. Around the whole runs a small promenade with large windows set at an angle, through which the passengers can look out. There is a shower bath. Kitchen Below Passengers. The deck below the principal pas- senger deck contains the electric kitchen, crew’s mess hall and smok- ing room. An electric elevator from the kitchen to the dining room will facilitate service. The swinging doors of the smoking room are so designed that the room remains gas-proof. This new Zeppelin will use hydrogen until helium is available. A special two-ton apparatus will Le installed for obtaining water from the atmosphere at the anticipated rate of 100 gallons per hour. The chemical agent to be used is “gel” silicon di- oxide. Just as & steamer has lifeboats, so the new Zeppelin will carry inflatable rubber boats. Dr. Eckener said the United States Navy Department had placed the ! Lakehurst hangar at his disposal for writing room on one side and a dining & number of round-trip flights. Bay Geese Get a Break Not a new device used by gangsters in “rubbing out” their enemies but a gigantic 10-barreled blunderbuss, captured recently by Federal game protective sagents from & gang who had been using it for the ‘wholesale slaughter of wild geese at Smiths Island, in the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Photo shows special agent weapon, Others are the Hillside | MUCH WORK DUE ONSECURITY BILLS Conferees Tomorrow Will Weigh Senate Changes in U. S. Measure. (Continued From First Page.) to be followed by the District Com- mittee, since the District unemploy- ment bill is the one that has claimed most attention in the local security program. The House passed the lo- cal bill on the pool fund basis, and with requirements that go beyond the trend of laws in the six States that acted thus far. For instance, the House bill would raise the pay roll of a local employer above the 3 per cent national rate, up to as much as 5 per cent if his employment record was not stabilized, but without any corresponding reduction below 3 per cent when he shows a good record for giving steady employment. Also the WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 30, 1935—PART ONE. House bill imposes the 3 per cent tax in the District the first year, whereas the national plan contemplates step- ping up the tax from 1 per cent in 1936, to 2 per cent in 1937, and 3 per cent thereafter. The House bill further requires the District govern- ment to pay out of its general rev- enues an additional contribution toward the unemployment insurance fund, equal to 1 per cent of the pay rolls of the employers, or about $1,- 500,000 a year. All these differences in the House local bill were debated before the District Subcommittee last week. It is believed the local unemployment bill will be changed materially before it is reported to the Senate. Other Senate Changes. Conferees on the national bill also must pass on these additional Senate changes: The Russell amendment to have the Federal Government pay Federal aid old-age pensions for two years to needy persons in those States that have not yet enacted laws to match the Federal grants. Under the House bill the Federal grant would have been given only to match what a State pays to its needy aged, up to $15 a month, or a total of $30. The Senate Committee amendment, | including Federal aid for State pen- soed it. WITH THE =S = Super Freezer NO CASH DOWN This Electric Clock Bank i i i Frigidaire sions to the blind, which probably| will be agreed to without difficulty in| conference. | Amendments making the Social Se- | curity Board an adjunct of.the De- partment of Labor instead of an in-| to Be Sent Soom. dependent agency. The District Committee is expected| ROME, June 29 () —Premier to report out the local old-age and | Benito Mussolini's gift eirplane to blind pension bills with only such| Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, president of changes in definitions as are needed | China’s Military Affairs Commission, to make sure that the aged and the| will be identical with the one in blind in the District will receive the| which II Duce makes his political Federal grants to supplement their flights over Italian territory, it was District pensions. | learned today. 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