Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1935, Page 3

MARYLAND FLOOD DISRUPTS TRAFFIC Northeast Section of State Is Hit by Rushing Waters. By the Associated Press. HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., July 9.— Rains that reached cloudburst pro- portions sent streams in Northeast Maryland flooding over their banks to- day, washing cut a section of the Penn- | sylvania Railroad tracks, carrying away a highway bridge, disrupting traffic on highways and flooding more than 300 houses in Havre De Grace and Elkton. Lilly Run, in Havre De Grace, and Bwan Creek, nearby, bverflowed their banks. The Philadelphia road was covered with nearly 5 feet of rushing water, stranding a dozen motorists, including two heavily laden trucks. ‘The motorists were reported in no danger, as the water was receding. Elk River Rises. In Elkton the Elk River rose steadily under the influence of the downpour Houses in the city along the river | bank had 3 feet of water in them. | State police were on the Philadel- phia road, diverting southbound traf- fic through Bear Hills, away from the flooded section of that highway. Other State troopers were sending north- bound traffic through Perryville, over | United States Route 1. The railroad bed was weakened at | Swan Creek, it was reported, when 2 feet of water swept over the tracks and weakened them so that all traffic between Baltimore and Wilmington on the Pennsylvania was halted for three bours. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Temple Road Crossing was under water. A concrete watch house was | overturned there. | Bridge Swept Away. ‘ Nathan Smith, chief engineer of the State Roads Commission, said a bridge was carried away on Route 462 between Aberdeen and Walkers Cor- ner. Its supports were weakened by the rushing water, he said, until the structure collapsed. The rains .that caused the floods | were reported to have been two cloud- bursts that swept the section early | today. In the Havre de Grace section the first of the torrential downpours wccurred about 1 am. | Before this excess water could be carried away another cloudburst swepc the section at 4 am. Streams were unable to carry it Storm Hits Virginia. Several rains and electrical storms that swept over the Gld Dominion Bunday night and yesterday damaged an electrical plant at Narrows to the extent of cver $100.000 and flooded basements and cellars of business houses and private residences at Har- Fisonburg. Mrs. Nora Kellman Dollar, 20-year- old mother, of Tazewell Count; struck and killed by lightning as she nursed her child. The infant, knocked unconscious by the bolt, will recover. Today the 80,000-kilowatt station of the Glen Lyon plant of the Appa- lachian Electric Co. at Narrows was | out of commission as a result of a | clgudburst early Sunday night that caused damage estimated at between $100,000 and $150,000. Workmen were busy clearing away the debris. | State Highway No. 8 was opened | to one-way traffic only today in cer- | tain places as a result of the cloud- | burst and the westbound roadbed of | the Norfolk & Western was made un- safe. At Harrisonburg the heaviest rain- | fall in the memory of the oldest in- habitants sent water into basements of houses bordering on Blacks Run. Page County had more cause to re- Joice because of heavy Jul which were fairly common over a large part of Virginia. The town of Luray received its first rain in two months. Harrisonburg reported a miniature municipal flood as the result of more than an inch of rainfall over that ¢ity in an hour and a half. BROADCASTERS WEIGH MUSIC ROYALTY PLAN Philip G. Loucks of Capital Sug- gests Payments at Convention. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, July 9. —Off-stage controversy behind the love ditties crooned over the radio | was before the National Association ©f Broadcasters today. ‘The issue, royalty payments on copyrighted music, was thrust directly before the convention in a report by Philip G. Loucks of Washington managing director of the Broadcast- ers’ Association, favoring a “per piece” or “measured service plan” of pay- ment to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. The musicians’ organization pre- Viously rejected Loucks' proposals. Steps toward the formation of a rewspaper-owned section of the asso- ciation were taken by 42 stations of that class. ————— 8! AL NOTICES. STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. The annual meeting of the stockholders ©f the Northeast Masonic Temple Associa. tion. Inc. will be held Monday. July 15th, 1935, at’ Eight p.m. in the Northeast Masonic Temple Eighth and F sts. n.e.. for the transaction of such business as may lecally come before it. and for the election ©f five directors whose terms expire . There will be a meeting of the directors Ammediately following. JOHN A. MOYER. President. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE- holders of the Northeast Building Associa- tion will be held Thursday. July 18. 1035, at 7 o'clock pm. at the office of said Northeast Building Association. 2010 Rhode Island ave. n.e. for the purpose of elect- ing directors for the ensuing year and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. SCHUYLER S. SYMONS: Secretary. _ “Measured Service” BE HB! tion—Essex, 1927 motor No. for yepairs and storage. ENGELFERG BAT- TERY & SERVICE. 1783 Fla. ave. n.w. § WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than myselt after July 10. 1935. K. B. 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Columbia Planograph Co., 80 L St. N.E. Metropolitan 4801, | at $1.000,000. | block demolished. | monsburg, Broad Acres, Green, Sidney, | before midnight. | to do a thing to help them.” | when the flood descended on him. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1935. Where Torrential Downpour Took Heavy Toll of Life and Property | Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. ' Upper left: View at Hornell, N. Y., showing residents using a make= shift raft to reach their mail boxes. Upper right: Automobiles wrecked when they plunged into a cave-in photographers, like the mails, must at Woodstock, N. Y. Lower: News go through. This shows cameramen passing through swirling waters in the heart of the stricken area. PACT WITH SWEDE EFFECTIVE AUG. 5 Reductions in Tariffs to Take Place Under Trade Treaty. By the Associated Press. August 5 was sct yesterday by Presi- |34TH YEAR ON FORCE | | Police Inspector Celebrates by i to Welfare Board ' Meeting at Occoquan. Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, assist- | ant superintendent of police, today | began his thirty-fourth year as a member of the police force. He cele- brated the day by attending a Board of Public Welfare gathering at Occo- quan, Va. Inspector Burke, native of this city, became a member of the force July Going IS BEGUN BY BURKE| VIRGINIA VETERANS ELECT SEDDINGER Spanish War Group Backs Passage of Two Bills in Legislature. By Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9.—The United Spanish War Veterans of Vir- ginia brought their twenty-seventh annual convention to & close here today with the unanimous election of Willlam A. Seddinger ‘of Norfolk as department commander, and selection of Lynchburg as the 1936 convention city. Seddinger, former senior vice com- mander of the department, succeeds George W. Cummings of Richmond as head of the Virginia veterans. Two resolutions asking for the pas- sage of bills by the next Virginia Assembly, one to authorize appropri- ate observance of February 15, date of the sinking of the battleship Maine, as “Maine day,” and another to en- franchise indigent Spanish War Vet- erans unable to pay poll taxes, were adopted. Ask American-Born Teachers. Another motion calling for the ex- clusion of teachers from Virginia pub- lic schools and colleges who are not American-born or who are not nat- convention. In addressing the session today, William Orthman of Chicago, national marshal, urged deportation of all aliens from the United States and patriotic training in public schools as steps to combat communism. Other officers elected to head the Virginia department for the 1935-36 year were B. E. Brown of Petersburg, senior vice commander; Charles B. Emmons of Alexandria, junior vice commander, and E. L. Hawkins of Lynchburg, department marshal. 300 at Annual Banquet. Approximately 300 delegates and suxiliary members attended the an- nual banquet held at the George Mason Hotel last night. William M. | King of Alexandria acted as toast- uralized citizens, was approved by the | A3 staff; Miss Mamie D. Schmidt of ‘Washington, past national president of the auxiliary; William Orthman, national marshal; Mrs. Agnes V. Rooney of Norfolk, department suxil- {ary president, and Comdr. George W. Cummings. The department auxiliary will close its annual session this afternoon with election of officers and the selection of a city for next year's convention. Petersburg is expected to get the con- vention bid. EETELET UNIFORM ATTACK ON DRUGS URGED Hull, in Message to Parley, Says Similar Laws in All States Are Necessity. By the Associated Press. A message stressing. the necessity for enactment by all the States of the uniform narcotics drug law was sent today by Secretary of State Hull to the World Narcotic Defense Asso- ciation meeting in New York. Asserting that the United States Government, committed by interna- tional agreement to limit the manu- facture, sale, distribution and use of narcotic drugs exclusively to medical and scientific purposes, had enacted all possible legislation on the subject. Hull said that only 24 States have followed suit. Constitutional limitations, he added, make it imperative that the individual States carry on the fight by enact- |ing uniform laws to put “teeth” in | legislation to control traffic in nar- ’icotlu. | Turn your old trinkets, jewelry and watches into MONEY at— A.Kahn Jne. master. The program included addresses by Mayor E. G. Davison of this city, Arthur P. Orme, national chief of | dent Roosevelt as the date the Swed- | 9. 1902, and his early activities brought | ish-American veciprocal trade agree- | ment will become effective The pact is the fourth of its kind him numerous commendations. | He received promotions at irregular intervals before being appointed cap- | concluded under the aaministration’s | tain in the first precinct April 1, 1929, Flood (Continued From First Page.) temporarily homeless. State park so badly damaged it may be closed for season. Dozens of homes wrecked and county buildings. including jail, badly damaged. Property damage estimated Trumansburg—At least five dead. six houses carried away, business dis- trict flooded and one corner business | Oneonta—Twenty-five bridges wash- | ed out within few milés of city, traffic | shut off, communications lines ham- pered and damage estimated at $400,- 000 in city proper. Refugees in School. Binghamton—Two hundred refugees housed in “first ward” school house | and many more living temporarily with friends after being driven from 100 homes in Front street section. Field stations set up by relief agencies. Towns nearby seriously affected in- clude Chenango Bridge, Chenango | Forks, Whitney Point, Marathon, Nim- Oxford, parts of Susquehana, Pa.; Kirkwood. Owego and Newark Valley. The American Red Cross in Wash- ington sent three disaster relief work- ers to Hornell and Bath and an- nounced Washington headquarters would be stripped of office workers if | they were needed. A vivid descriptidn of the flood area was given by passengers of a train marooned for more than 18 hours near Bath. The 120 occupants of the train reached Buffalo just They had been taken to the relief train 9 miles from Bath by automobiles. Cattle Go Under. Paul Zappert of Cincinnati said he saw cattle battling desperately to combat the swirling waters and that many perished. “It was a pitiful sight,” he said. “There must have been at least 20 head that I saw go down. Farmers stood by on their porch tops unable Engineer Herman L. Harris of the relief train said: “In all my 25 years’ experience I've never seen such sights. We traveled 98 miles and got about 9 miles from Bath when we were forced to stop. Water was on every side of us. All | over the territory from Mount Morris | down everything was flooded. “Near where we finally stopped houses were washed from their foun- dations. Four feet of water, at least, covered the territory. Huge hay- stacks were pushed down to the far ends of farm lands and washed on top of each other.” Man Climbs Tree. Fireman Harold Hamilton saw a man climbing a tree to escape the flood waters. “He was climbing right up into the branches,” the fireman said. “The water seemed to be everywhere. The man apparently was caught flat-footed Frightened, he grabbed the limb of the tree and climbed up, and as the water rose he climbed higher. HMe was still climbing when I lost sight of him.” Resumption of train service on nearly all lines running through the | | flooded southern tier of New York State was expected today. Emergency crews were rushed to washout scenes to repair roadbeds. Three trains were still standing where they were halted by washouts, two at Corning, N. Y. and one at Ithaca, N. Y. Erie Has High Water. ‘The Erie Railroad reported its line from Buffalo to Hornell was in good condition, but there was high water | with a washout a Watkins, between the latter place and Susque- 1 hanna. The Buffalo dispatcher’s of. fice said it was expected a train would go through today. The Lehigh was trying to “dig out” at Ithaca, where a passenger train | was halted just west of the city. The | train will be left there. while atten- tion is focused on the main line be- | tween Sayre, Pa.; Geneva, N. Y., and | Buffalo, officials said | The Pennsylvania Railroad was ex- periencing trouble on its Williams- port, Pa.-Canandaigua, N. Y., branch N. V.| Service was being maintained to El- mira, N. Y., but it was impossible to | move trains beyond that point. TWO DIE IN MONTANA. Tornado and Cloudburst Strike Near Fort Peck Area. | GLASGOW, Mont., July 9 (£ —Two | persons were known dead today and | an undetermined number injured, sev- eral gravely, by a tornado and cloud- burst that swept Fort Peck area dur- | ing the night. The severity of the wind apparently was centered in the Knobhill com- | munity of Wheeler, about 6 miles northwest of the Fort Peck Dam, where the two were killed and perhaps | 20 persons were injured. | ‘The known dead: Mrs. Clifford Dashner of Wheeler, | killed in the collapse of a building. | An unidentified man, a cook in a| Wheeler resort. After five hours of picking through | the ruins of twisted buildings at | ‘Wheeler, New Deal, Square Deal, Park | Grove and other mushroom towns, | searchers said today they believed all the dead and more seriously injured | had been accounted for. SENATOR DAVIS' FATHER SUCCUMBS Pioneer, Who Encouraged Son's | Progress in Mill, Dies at 83 Years. By the Associated Press. SHARON, Pa., July 9.—David J. Davis, who emigrated to this country 58 years ago with his favorite son, worked with him in the blazing hot steel mills and saw him rise to a place of power in American politics, is dead. The son—United States Sen- ator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania— was en route to the family home today for the funeral. The elder Davis died at the age of 83 after a week’s illness in the com- munity he chose for his family upon arriving in 1877 with James from Tredgar, Wales. It was here that “Jim” Davis was given a start in life by his father. At the age of 11, young “Jim” left school and got & “real job"—for 50 cents a day in & nail fac- tory. It was not long before he was working side by side with his father in the mills. At 16, he became known as “Puddler Jim.” His father spent most of the years in Sharon; living to see “Puddler Jim” rise to a place in the cabinet of three American Presi- dents, and to represent the Common- wealth in the Senate of the United States. Surviving, Besides James, are three other sons, Walter J. of Follansbee, W. Va.; David J. of Pittsburgh and William J. of Detroit; a daughter, Mrs. Hannah Jones, of Sharon; a brother, Samuel J. Davis of Philadelphia, and a sister, Mrs. John Williams of Muncie, Ind. e Airlines operating between Japan and Java are increasing their sched- ules. | | List of Dead Are Reported From Flood Area of New York. | ALBANY, N. Y, July 8 (# —The‘ following casualties were reported to- | day from the flood zones of Upstate New York: The dead: Mrs. Hazel Barrows, Lisle Mrs. Ralph Smith, Lisle. Mrs. Percy Hart, Hornell Dr. Robert B. Hartfield of Bing- bamton, drowned at Wilcox. Harold Chase, jr.. 6, of Bingham- ton, drowned at Green. | Glgria Chase, 11 months, sister of | Harold. | Mrs. Dora Wanesfield, 60, of Bing- | hamton, drowned at Green. Alice Loomis, 3, Chenango Falls. Rose Marie Loomis, 6, sister of Casnalties | Alice. Miss Alice Ferris, 20, of Interlaken, drowned near Buttermilk Falls. Lillian Girous, 45, Trumansburg. Joseph Leiffels, 60, Trumansburg. The three children, two girls and a boy, of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lan- | don, Trumansburg, drowned in camp near Perry City. John Solomon, 55, of Myers, and two sons, Nicholas, 13, and George, 17. Jack Isaacs, 14, Myers. George S. Tarbell, 66, Ithaca. Miss Harriett Ganung, 62, Watkins Glen “Miss Nicolena,” a nurse, of Wat- | kins Glen, drowned at Seneca Lake below Hector. Mary Graves Suits, 18 months, of ‘Watkins Glen, drowned with nurse. Helen Suits, 5, sister of Mary Graves Suits, drowned with nurse. John Stills, 20, Negro, Painted Post, N Y. Edward Fisk, Campbell, N. Y. Jacob Naronzy, 58, Pitcher, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robbins, South Oxford. Kenneth McWilliams, ford. Jacob Burkhardt of Sayre, Pa., Te- ported drowned at Waverly, N. Y. George Sargent, jr. of Sayre, Pa., reported drowned at Waverly, N. Y. An unidentified man and two women, apparently relatives, reported drowned in car at Tyrone, N. Y. Two unidentified men at Chenango Bridge, N. Y. The reported missing: An elderly couple at Bath. Jeanette Peasley, 4, Monterey. Thomas Murphy, 11, Johnson City. Paul Cromwell, 15, Johnson City. Unidentified man and woman. GARMENT WORKERS OUT NEW YORK, July 9 (#).—The In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union yesterday ordered top- page in the shops of the “inside” em- ployers, the Iadustrisl Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, pending official conelusion of regotia- tions for a new agreement in the in- dustry. The action affects about 20,000 em- ployes in nearly 500 snops. More than 2,000 members of the Cloak and Dress Drivers and Help- ers’ Union struck today over wage increase and a 45-hour-week demands. South Ox- Storm Batters Montevideo. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 9 (#). —Two persons died today and scores were injured in a violent hail and wind storm which struck the city for three minutes, damaging a number of buildings and disrupting traffic and sommunications. trade policy. Similar agreemen's with Cuba, Belgium and Haiti alreadv are operative. One with Brazil now Is before the Brazilian Congress for ap- proval. The chief concession granted Swed- en is the pledge to maintain Swedish wood pulp on the free list. Wood pulp constitutes two-thirds of Amer- ican imports from that country Sulphite Pulp Action Reserved. The agreement, hcowever, reserves action on mechanical wood pulp and bleached sulphite pLvip, which are furnished chiefly by Canada, and re- tains concessions cu them as a trad- ing lever to be u‘llized in the forth- coming Canadian-American trade agreement negotiation A duty reduction from 20 to 17!, cents per gross boxec on matches with uncolored stems in small boxes has stirred opposition from the Amer- ican match industry. The United States will permit the free importation cf bieached and un- bleached sulphaie wood pulp and Swedish health bread, and will re- duce the duty on sponge iron, muck bars, alloy steels, unfinished struc- tural steel, round wire, wrapping pa- per, paper board and strike-on-box matches. Sweden Cuts Duties. In return reduced duties in Sweden | will become effective ou American au- tomobile tires, cereal breakfast foods, | baking powder, pinearple preserves, canned fruits of various kinds, canned soup, canned pork and beans, tooth powder and paste, and shaving cream | and paste. Sweden will permit the Importa- | tion without duty ol salted salmon |and trout, grapefruit dried fruits, raisins, cotton seed and other oil cakes, raw phosphate, sulphur, resin, uncarded cotton, unwroughec ccpper and type-setting machines. The low-duty scason also will be extended on fresh apples and pears. GIRL'S DEATH BARES | and was given an inspectorship July 1, 1931, In addition to other assignments he had charge of the school for the in- | struction of rookie policemen and had since displayed an active part in the | instruction in law of policemen at | Columbus University. King Rewards Employes. 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