Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1935, Page 3

SECOND SHIP HITS REEF NEAR DIXIE Danish Vessel's Top Masts Broken 0ff—Crew_Be- lieved Safe. A second vessel is ashore in the Florida hurricane area, the steamship Leise Maersk, according to dispatches received at Coast Guard headquarters here. This ship, belonging to the Isbrand- stem Moller Co. of New York, was said to have drifted ashore in the hurrricane inside of Alligator Reef | and was standing on coral sand bot- tqn. Both topmasts were reported broken, with considerable other dam- age to the vessel, but the crew was £aid to be safe. She is a ship out of Denmark, of 3,000 gross tons, as compared to the 8,000 gross tonnage of the Dixie, the first ship to be stranded in the storm. The Dixie is ashore 20 miles north of the Danish vessel. Guard Ships on Job. | Additional Coast Guard ships were ordered out of the Norfolk division and from Mississippi Coast Guard stations today to assist in the relief | work. The lives of fishermen in at least | 40 small fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico were believed to have been | saved by a new system of warning | given them by a Coast Guard am- phibian plane flying out of St. Peters-i‘ burg. Piloted by Lieut. Watson A. Burton | of the Coast Guard, this plane cov-| ered a wide area in the Gulf along the prospective path of the oncoming hurricane and spotted at least 40 of the small boats. According to a signal svstem whlch had been communicated to all flsher- men by mail in advance, the pilot | dropped from his plane near each boat | or group of boats a small wooden block flying a yellow pennant as an emer- gency warning that a hurricane was on the way and for those boats to | scurry for shore. They were all re-i ported to have made the coast sn(ely; before the hurricane struck. Cutters Standing By. Early this afternoon Coast Guard ‘headquarters announced that two cut- | ters, the Saukee and the Carrabassett, were standing by the Dixie and other | vessels. including the powerful new 165-foot patrol boat Pandora, were speeding to the rescue. Coast Guard planes, including the huge Aying hospital ship, Arcturys were surveying the storm area, but Qoast Guarg officials said the weather probably was .too rough for them to land. These planes, however, carry all kinds of warning devices. radio and food supplies and are of great value in reconnaissance work. Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) even a rough estimate of how far he | 1s going in reducing the personnel of | these agencies, but he made it plain he is going to demand something sub- stantial. He made this evident when, in a reply to a question, he recallea that when the N. R. A. was dealt its death blow, there were 4,900 emplcyes on his rolls and that a short time afterward this number had been cut to 3.300. He said even this does not | suit him and that further reductions must be made in the personnel of that sgency. The director of the budget will care- | fully check all rolls of employes, ana the salary of each, and by January 1! he will decide how many are necessary. Praises H. 0. L. C. Mr. Roosevet! went on to explain that as these various emergency agencies get into the management stage there will be consolidations for the purpose of saving money and to promote efficiency. He added that the cost of managing some of these agencies, especially those which have been operating a so-called credit busi- ness, should not run much higher than the operating costs of private concerns in similar business. He said private mortgage concerns operate on & certain percentage of profit and he feels that these Government agencies soon will be able to do the same. | The President apparently was not inclined to engage in a detailed sum- mary of what agencies he considered most responsible for improved eco-; nomic conditions, but he did call at- | tention to the contribution of the H. O. L. C. He pointed out that 1,000,000 homes had been saved from foreclosure; that more than a mil- lion farms had been saved to the owners and that 7,000 banks had been rescued. Besides this, the President pointed with pride to the reduction in credit rates. He recalled that bor-| Towing costs have been reduced to an average of 2 per cent. 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"Atiantic 6700 Peaches, Grages, Apples, AT QUA y | making sure before hand that he {,", when he saw the somber look in the ‘| “You can have it,” he said. New Contagious Disease Ward Opened BUDGET HEARING This Changing World Nye May Find Bigger Stench in Ethiopian Oil Situation Than Ever Existed in Teapot Dome. Mosul Deals Recalled. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. ENATOR NYE is proposing to stick his nose into the inter- national oil deals of the Amer- | ican oil companies as soon a< | his committee can get the necessary funds for a thorough investigation. | Oil is likely to smell stronger than pow- der. and it is probable that by the time he gets through with his new investi- gation the Teapot Dome affair will be only & childish joke compared with the mysterious Ethiopian concessions. More wires are pulled and more intrigues are hatched in the struggle for oil minerals than in the efforts of the ammunition manufacturers to place their wares in countries which want to fight. The oil brotherhood is | stronger than the ammunition fra- ternity. * % *x X The mysterious Mr. Rickett—suave, | well dressed and soft spoken—came | upon the international stage some 15 years ago, when he was the ernnd; boy of the London oil interests in | Mosul. At that time he was none | too friendly to the American intekests. But things have changed. The Mosul oil concession was orig- | inally given to an Armenian oy the name of Gulbenkian—today one of | the richest men in Europe, an lrt‘ patron in Paris. Gulbenkian used to loan money to the Red Sultan of Turkey, Abdul | Hamid. Being a subject of his red majesty, he never dared to ask for the return of the loans because he considered his head more valuable than money. But one day, after the | amount “advanced” to the Sultan reached the respectable sum of $1,- 000,000, he called on his majesty, was in a good mood. R After kissing the Sultan’s slipper— as was the habit in Turkey in those days—Gulbenkian said: “Your ma- jesty, I have had the privilege and the honor of advancing you a paltry want it back,” he,hastened to say Sultan’s eye, “but, being an Armenian, I would like a piece of land as far away from Constantinople as pos- sible.” The Sultan smiled; he had more land than he knew what to do with. “And where shall that be?” “In Mosul, your majesty,” replied the ' Armenian. The request was granted and the richest oil field in the world passed thus into the hands of Gulbenkian, who, instead of mov- ing to Mosul, went to Paris, organ- ized an ofl company and became within a short time one of the rich- est men in Europe. EREE The American oil interests obtained from the Turkish government the same concessions, after Abdul Hamid was dethroned. A war between the American and the British oil inter- ests for the possession of those oil fields followed after the defeat of ‘Turkey in 1918, a war in which both the British and the American gov- ernments took & hand. The matter was settled by the American interests obtaining a 25 per cent share, and ever since the Dutch, the British and the American oil companies have been just like brothers. The oil markets of the world are now divided between these companies G ,‘25: it ica: gnd no important concession is ob-, | cialists” who on certain important oc- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,/ 1935. - A The new contagious disease ward at Gallinger Hospital, sald to be one of the best of its kind in the world, today was opened to its first patients. Above is a gen- eral view of the ward. Below: Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of the hospital, exhibits the new operating room equipment in the ward. He is showing a new Amer- ican-made operating light which throws a concentrated spot and also provides flood lighting with-' out shadows. The building was dedicated yesterday by Uniled States Surgeon Gen. Hugh 8. Cumming, who characterized it as “a monument of which we can’ be proud.” vsur Staft Phulul P e S e Joachin von Ribbentropp, Hitler's per- | sonal friend. | * x k¥ Eden made his diplomatic debut at the Disarmament Conference at Gen- eva as Capt. Eden. But such = title at a disarmament conference had too militaristic a smack and the “captain” was eventually dropped. He is the | smoothest of Britain's cabinet officers. | Every time the British government | concludes some deal such as the re- tained by one company without the other having a share in it * x ¥ X 1t is quite possible that for political reasons Haile Selassie should have granted a concession to a company | which on paper is 100 per cent Amer- ican. This would be necessary since the United States has no part in| the economic division of Ethiopia | between France, Italy and Great Britain as provided in the 1906 agree- | ment. But it would be safe to bet that if and when such a concession | materializes. the three leading world | oil companies will each have a finger | in the Ethiopian pie. * K ok ok Foreign governments maintain am- | bassadors merely for show and for menial jobs. The real diplomatic conversations are entrusted to “spe- casions leave London, Berlin or Rome with a brief case in hand and with & well-brushed top hat to talk impor- tant matters with the responsible au- thorities in Berlin, Paris or Rome. * x X % ‘The three men who have been in the limelight recently are Capt. Anthony Eden, the British minister for the League of Nations; Fulvio Suvich, the Italian undersecretary of state, and | a bill collector. cent naval agreement with Germany, which was so distasteful to the French, off goes Eden with his brief case well stocked wfth all kinds of balms and political narcotics intended to calm down the excitable Laval or Mussolini. Eden is a sentimentalist, modesty is his middle name, and he has a soft, pleasing voice. A short “guards mus- tache” hides a set of perfect teeth and a somewhat feline smile. *x X ¥ Von Ribbentropp 1s an ideal political salesman. Before indulging in diplo- matic negotiations he used to be a salesman for & leading champagne firm. His experience as a wine drummer | stood him in good stead. When he was kicked out of London through the | door he came back through the win- | dow. Ribbentropp has no false pride and ended by selling the British what | Hitler desired most—a naval agree- | ment. 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The schedule to be followed by the committee in turning out the supply bills will depend entirely on the Budget Bureau, which is now at work on the estimates of some of the Government establishments. D. C. Budget to Be Late. Last year the District budget was among the first considered due to several unusual situations. This year, however, it probably will be among the last. Ordinarily, the District budget, the smallest the committee has to consider, is sidetracked until nearings are completed on the esti- mates of the various Federal depart- ments. It s0 happened last year that the District budget was among the first received by the committee from the Buget Bureau. And it also happened | that the subcommittee, which handles the District bill, was one of the few that was organized. The other sub- committees, with the exception of the | one headed by Representative Wood- rum, Democrat, of Virginia, which | | considers the independent offices sup- ply bill, had to wait for Congress to convene in January to begin work be- cause of an incomplete personnel. This year, however, the subcom- mittees all are intact and will remain so throughout the session. And the Budget Bureau has indicated the[ budget parade will be led by some of the large Government departments. ‘The subcommittee, which will cor sider the 1937 District budget, will be | | composed of Represertatives Cannon, Missouri; Blanton, Texas, and Jacob- son, Towa, all Democrats, and Ditter Pennsylvania, Republican. A delay of a month or so In be- | ginning consideration of the District budget will not have any particular significance, because the appropria- | tions for the 1937 fiscal year will nor become available until next July 1.| Even though the District bill got an| early start last year, it was among| the last of the appropriation measures to clear the legislative hurdle, due to a protracted deadlock among House and Senate conferees over various items inserted by the Senate. Buchanan Enjoying Rest. 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Men Other Men Depended On SA | bring oyt 683 veterans in three re- Imost Nothing Left in Gale Area, Flyer Finds, Houses Flat, Boats Smashed, Train Hurled Off Tracks, Ripped Into Splinters. BY J. P. McKNIGHT. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MIAMI,, Fla., September 4.—I've just’ come back from flying over the stranded Morgan liner Dixie and the storm-lashed Florida Keys. The 8100-ton Dixie, 372 souls| sboard her, lies hard and fast on| French Key, headed south. From the air she looks to be all right, al- though she lists slightly to starboard. The passengers seem cheerful, un- worrled. Most are dressed in sport clothes. Lining the rails, they cheered and waved as we circled about them. Below Taverner to the Vaca Keys— in the region that bore the brunt of the tropical hurricane now sweeping along Florida’s northwest coast—al- most nothing made-made stands. Nothing is whole, undamaged. ‘They tell me here deaths in the area are estimated as high as several hundred. Houses Twisted to Pieces. Houses are twisted piles of match- wood. Boats are piled high on dry land, cracked, ttered and twisted. Of an 1l-car Florida East Coast special train sent into the keys to habilitation camps, only the locomo- | tive is left oh the rails. Eight passen- ger and baggage coaches lie coupled | together, on their side. Three box | cars have been carried many feet from | the track. . The veterans’ camps themselves are literally flat. The lumber that went | into building them is strewn askew, in piles of matchwood. Nothing stands erect. Horrors (Continued From First Page) feet high, where, with a bunch of other men, I huddled 20 or 30 minutes. | “When we found the water still rising we made our way to the rail- road track. Placing ourselves behind | the grade, we dug holes into the emh under the cross tles, 5o we would pro- tect our heads from the flying debris. This was the only way we could find | to keep our brains from being crushed out. We stayed on the railroad track | until 3 am., ss that was the only | point above water. Sick and Injured Aided. “At daybreak Tuesday we found a tank car full of water, which offered refuge from the wind, and a number of others built a fire and made coffee | for the sick and injured. There we remained until later in the afternoom, when we were rescued through the heroism of Buck Wright and several | others, who took us across Snake Creek in a rowboat, one at a time. We then were placed on trucks and brought to the mainland. “One of those killed in the col- lapse of the Snake Creek Hotel was Dr. E. C. Main, medical director of who lost his life before | Josepn Factsau, former Army avia- tor, timekeeper at camp 5, at & local | hospital with spine injuries, saw his wife, two daughters and two grand- children killed, after reaching camp 1 | seeking safety. He said he doubted | if any one at camp 5§ could have Homes Than Any Other Oil Burner in the World MAT] C. 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Clustered about its northern end, ready to start their task of mercy, | are several score automobiles and ambulances sent from Miami. | At Tavernier, town of perhaps 400 | persons, 12 or 15 houses still stand. | Most of these, however. have been blown off their foundations and car- ried great distances. All down the keys isolated frame | houses have been crushed. About them there is no sign of life. Whether those who lived in them are dead or whether they escaped safelf, it is impossible to tell. ter. “Upon hearing the storm warn- ing,” Factsau said, “I started out in an automobile from my home half way between camps 5 and 3 with my wife Frieda and two daughters, | Marie Madsen, 18, and Dorothy Ve ter, 16. We were accompanied by my two grandchildren. “After traveling through increasing winds and over wreckage strewn roads | for 18 miles on a flat tire, we reached 1 and were placed in a building with a lot of drunks who kept | {up a continual fuss wmtil quieted by | officers. We were assisted on the trip | by Mr. King, of King's Filling Station, | one of the few persons there who ex- | ercised any real judgment about the | approaching storm. “The building we were placed in at | survived, because of the lack of shel- | i | Camp No. 1 lasted only an hour.. I tried to make a human chain from the building to the railroad track to get all the women and children to safety, but T was washed out into the Gulf by & high wave. I swam back as quickly as I could and reached shore just as the hospital collapsed. I heard my wife calling my name, but I was not able to get to her in time, They were killed under the ruins. “R. Baker from Camp 5, who alio took refuge at Camp 1, was killed, Another woman that 1 know of at Camp 1, was killed, although I suc- ceded in rescuing her child from the waves. The survivors then took refuge behind the tank car until rescuers ar- rived.” Victims Badly Maimed. 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