Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, with probable light rains this afternoon and tonight; tomorrow gener- strong northerly winds this afternoon. Temperatures—Highest, 82, 12:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 67, a.m. today. Full report on page A-17, ally fair Closing New York Markets, Page 16 No. 33,743. 5 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936—FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. %% ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sar The only evening in Washington wit] Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. () Means Associated Press, aper the Yesterday’s Circulation, 134,050 (Some returns not yet recetved.) TWO CENTS. FIVE STATES FEEL FURY OF HURRICANE OCEAN CITY, MD., IS CUT OFF AS WAVES SURGE OVER SPAN; D. C. TO GET HIGH WIND AND RAIN Man Believed Drowned, With Two Others Missing—Section of Boardwalk Swept Away. ‘,VIRGIN IA AND NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITIES ARE ISOLATED 400 on Ocracoke Island Find Refuge at Light House—Hampton Roads Cities Hard Hit. BULLETIN. Apparently striking northward for an assault on New | Jersey and New York, the Atlantic hurricane shortly after 1 | p.m. today had lost none of its intensity, the Weather Bu- reau announced. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) NORFOLK, Va. September 18.—One thousand miles of the Atlantic Coast was slashed savagely today by the winds of a hur- ricane whirling along the shores of seven States. Communications were wrecked on the coast in North and South Carolina and there was no way to determine immediately how great the losses in life and property might be, Two men were listed dead in early reports. The area hit by the storm disturbances included not only the Carolinas, but Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York. Full gale warnings were posted all the way from here to Maine. The first place hard hit in Maryland was Ocean City, which was cut off from the mainland by repeated walls of water. With dozens of small communities isolated, with communica- tions sundered, with great waves flooding across coastal areas, no one could determine accurately property might be. how great the loss in lives and Northeast gales, signalizing the approach of the hurricane’s dead center, drove water across the only highway bridge con- necting Ocean City with the mainland. Surging waters washed away the United States engineer’s office on the inlet. Waves swept away 150 feet of the board walk and battered down three amusement stands. About a hundred cars were stalled on the causeway, the south end of which was reported washing out. Water covered the Ocean City-Berlin road for a mile. One Man Believed Drowned. The Coast Guard said one man was believed drowned. Two others were missing. Two more narrowly escaped death when their house collapsed. Tom Robbins, 50-year-old clammer, was believed dead. Living in a shack 3 miles from here, he was guarding a clamming bed for an Ocean City sea food company. Today there was no sign of Robbins or his shack. Five feet of water covered its site. L. T. Somers, 42, garage owner, and Jack Callahan, 45, clothing store, owner, both of Pocomoke City, were missing. It was possible & Coast Guard craft had picked them up. The storm caught the fishing boat in which they set out on the bay. A vicious storm raged in the Tan-< gier Sound area, lashing Crisfield and Smith, Tangier and Deal Islands. Falling poles put electric service out of commission at Deal Island. The schools were closed there because rain water rose high in the streets. All Dorchester County schools were closed. Wind and rain whipped the entire | i i E | Eastern Air Lines Ship, lower Eastern Shore. Telephone toll lines went down in the area from Onancock, Va, to Cape Charles, Va. Those that remained open were held for emergency service. At Salisbury the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. received a re- port from a Cape Charles, Va., em- ploye that wind had unroofed several buildings there. The report said a church steeple toppled into the street and residents were evacuating a hotel because of the “condition of its roof.” Mrs. Margaret Lewis, Red Cross emergency relief director for the Eastern Share, was prepared to direct (See HURRICANE, Page A-2.) ——— HIGH WINDS SWEEP NORTH BEACH AREA More Than Score of Small Boats Sunk—Summer Visitors Leave. B & Staft Correspondent ot Tne Star. NORTH BEACH, Md., September 18.—Residents of this area became in- creasingly uneasy today as high winds swept through here and neighboring bayside resorts. More than a score of small boats were sunk in the choppy waters of the Chesapeake, although no deaths or injuries were reported. All the damaged craft were moored close to shore when the storm struck following _ warnings from the Weather Bureau yesterday afternoon. Many Washiongtonians, vacationing here through the end of the Summer, were leaving the area. One 35-foot pleasure boat, owned by William E. Green, 1527 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Washington, was tossed on the beach. Green estimated damage at about $100. Total damage to other craft here will approximate $3,000, native declared. Year-around residents fear a shift in the winds from northeast to south- east, Such a change, they say, would % bring s rise in the bay and flood the entire area, as it did three years ago. Numerous trees have been uprooted and shingles have been torn from several houses bordering the beach. ‘The present direction of the has kept the bay at low tide levels. - New York-Miami Plane Sets Record On Southern Trip Aided by Storm, on Flight. By the Assoclated Press. MIAMI, Fla., September 17.—East- ern Air Lines reported today the coastal storm helped its southbound plane from New York to clip two hours and 18 minutes from its scheduled flying time. The plane arrived here at 5:37 a.m., making the trip in 6 hours 12 minutes. It flew from New York to Raleigh in 2 hours, 5 minutes, averaging about 212 miles an hour. The storm center off shore at that time caused a tail wind from the North along the plane’s course, TITULESCU’S CONDITION CONTINUES TO BE GRAVE By tne Associated Press. GENEVA, September 18.—The Ru- manian delegation to the League of Nations today confirmed reports that physicians, treating the statesman, Nicholas Titulescu, at Saint Morits for a serious illness, are trying to determine whether he was deliber- ately poisoned. ‘The former foreign minister, ousted in a recent cabinet shake-up, has had two blood transfusions and his life still is in danger, the Rumanians said. 3 Ocracoke Lighthouse, N. C., a sea beacon since 1798, where 400 residents of Ocracoke Is- land found refuge when 9-foot tide swept over island. FATE OF HUNDREDS IN STORM SOUGHT {Many Along Coast Are Iso- lated—Nine-Foot Tide Sweeps Island. BY the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, N. C., September 18.—High seas and disrupted com- munications shrouded the fate of hundreds of residents of the North Carolina Sound country today after & tropical hurricane which was reported to have attained a force of 90 miles an hour at some points. ‘Telephone lines were down through- out a vast area, and wind still whipped the waters of the sounds to prevent communication by boat. All points with which contact could be estab- lished, however, reported no loss of life. Fear for the lives of approximately 400 inhabitants of Ocracoke Island, oi: the Atlantic banks northeast of Beau- fort, was dissipated this morning when the Coast Guard wireless there, after being silent for hours, Yeported none were washed away by a 9-foot tide which completely inundated the com- paratively tiny sandspit during the night. Heavy Damage Reported. However, damage was reported heavy except at the highly-located lighthouse, 138-year-old haven for the inhabitants, last night. Coast Guardsmen at Morehead City, which received the report this morning, said the island ordinarily was only 5 or 6 feet above high tide. There is no town of any importance, the community being composed of scat- tered fishing families. ‘The Morehead City Station also had a report of heavy damage, but no loss of life, at Hatteras, fishing community near the famous cape. Coast Guardsmen there were quoted as saying their station, of lighter con- struction and more e than most structures in the settlement, was intact. Mante) and the rest of Roanoke Is- land remained isolated. The Coast Guard Wadio there was out of com- mission. The fate of a score of mainland communities which usually feel the full force of such storms was likewise in doubt. All except the farthest inland sections of 10 counties were cut off from outside communication. There was no word from Swan Quar- ter and other towns just across Core and Pamlico Sounds from Ocracoke. Elizabeth City, town of 10,000 people, was isolated, and telephone companies accepted calls subject to hours of delay into Hertford, Columbis, Ply- mouth, Camden and other communi- ties of considerable size in the area. 14 Rescued From Houseboats By Coast Guard at Norfolk By the Associated Press. 8 breeches buoy and s lifeboat, today rescued 14 persons from two endan- gered houseboats on the storm-swept Elizabeth River. A lifeline was shot aboard one craft flying distress signals at the 8t. Helena base and three men and three women brought ashore. Even while this rescue was under way Guardsmen noticed similar sig- nals from a houseboat 200 yards far- ther up stream. A lifeboat was put out and & man, his wife and six chil- dren brought ashore. [Velocity of 30 to40M.P. H. Due Here. CITY ON CAPES’ STORM EDGE Driving Showers to Subside by Tomorrow. Washington and its environs will feel only slight effects from the hur- ricane, the Weather Bureau reported today. Winds are expected to reach a velocity between 30 and 40 miles an hour during the late afternoon. Shortly before noon, the Weather Bureau here reported the winds were averaging 21 miles an hour and that one “gust” registered 35 miles an hour. Heavy rains are not expected, but the forecast calls for “probable light rains” during the afternoon and night. The winds will be northerly during the afternoon, but at night will shift to northeast. They are expected to subside by tomorrow morning. Basing his forecast on telegraphed reports from the Virginia capes at 8 am., Forecaster Charles Mitchell said he believes the Capital too far inland to be seriously affected by the storm. Earlier predictions, made on 2 am. reports, were that the winds here probably would reach as high as 40 or 50 miles an hour. Maryland Harder Hit. Meanwhile, conditions in Southern Maryland appearéd less favorable. ‘Telephone wires were down in- St. Mary's County, between the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers, and nothing had been heard from that section at 10 a.m. From Calvert County, came reports of high wind at 9:30. No damage had been reported, however, and rains did not accompany the winds. Despite reassuring reports for this section, authorities were prepared for any unexpected developments. In & special order to precinct com- manders, Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown issued instructions that all of- ficers off duty were to keep themselves available in case of an emergency. Commercial and service air flelds were prepared for any eventuality. At Bolling Field and Naval Air Sta- tion the progress of the storm was watched closely, and ground crews ‘were ready to put all planes in hangars and place them on blocks in case of high water. Schedules of airlines running up and down the Atlantic Coast were dis- rupted, but ships headed north and west out of Washington were going out on time this morning. Eastern Airlines canceled all flights from Washington Airport. Because of unfavorable winds last (See STORM, Page A-2) HASTINGS ACCEPTS G.0.P. RENOMINATION Shall Have No Unkind Words About Opponents, Senator Declares. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., September 18. —The Journal-Every Evening today quoted United States Senator Daniel O. Hastings as saying he will accept the Republican renomination to the Senate. ‘The Senator announced last Spring he would not be a candidate for re- electio, but the recent regular Re- publican State Convention renom- inated him while he was in E The Journal-Every Evening quotes the Senator as saying that “I shall make no half-hearted campaign. ® * * I shall have no unkind words to say about my opponents. I shall, however, endeavor to arouse the people of this State to the im of electing the Republican ticket.” A group of Republicans who an- nounced their dissatisfaction with the ticket nominated by the regular con- vention held a convention last week and placed an independent Repub- lican ticket in the field. HALF-HOLIDAY SET FOR U. S. WORKERS Roosevelt Orders Time Of for G. A. RB. Parade Next assisted - mwdflemu%tm (See ). INDUSTRY OFFERE GIFTS “YARDSTICK' Urged to Base Chest Dona- tions on Proportion of Community Taxes. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Proposed as a broad basis for estab- lishing a “yardstick” of corporate contributions to community chests and private charities, Donaldson Brown, chairman of the Finance Committee of the General Motors Corp., suggest- ed to the Conference of Mobilization for Human Needs that industry’s con- tribution to community chest budgets should be in the same proportion as industry’s taxes to total taxes of each community. Brown's presentation of this for- mula, which is now being tested by his corporation, was made at a gen- eral meeting of the conference, after which the group resolved itself into sections for detailed consideration of this plan and others as they might be applied to different classifications of industry. Specifying that his suggestion was directed primarily at the manufac- turing group, Brown himself led dele- gates from that group in detailed con- sideration of the formula. At the same time, Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Cor- poration, was discussing the question in the utility fleld, and M. W. Clem- ents, president of the Pennsylvania Ralilroad, was leading a group of rail- road executives. A fourth section was considering application of some such plan to the chain-store fleld, Plan Is Summarized. Briefly, the General Motors plan follows: “1. As applying to those employers conducting factory operations within the community, & preliminary quota should be established by applying to the total community chest budget that percentage which the aggregate local taxes payable by these employers are of the total local taxes payable by the entire community. “3. The distribution of this prelim- inary quota among the various em- ployers should be in the same propor- tions as the factory employment of the several employers bears to the total factory output of all these em- ployers. “3. In order to facilitate judgment on the part of each employer as to the extent to which his preliminary quota is subject to discount in the light of appraisal of the various ac- tivities embraced in the community (See HUMAN NEEDS, Page A-4) WARD TO DEMAND MICHIGAN RECHECK Notifies Governor as Result of Close Vote in Senate Race Against Brown. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, September 18.—Louis B. Ward, former Washington represent- notified Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald to- day that he would demand a recount of votes cast for United States Sen- ate aspirants in the Michigan Demo- cratic primary. On the basis of incomplete returns, Hitler Amnesty Frees 500,000 Nazi Offenders Critics of Government, Clergymen and Others Are Included. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, September 18 —More than & half million Germans have been freed from entanglements in Nazi law by Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler's birth- day amnesty, an official communique announced today. The vast majority of the cases, the announcement said, were prisoners convicted and sentenced to “minor” punishments, those whose penalties (See AMNESTY, Page A-3.) STEEL WORKERS PRESENT DEMIANDS Want Right to Share in Hiring and Firing of Employes. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, September 18.—Em- ploye representatives of the Carnegie- Illinois Steel Corp.'s sheet and tin mills have asked the management to give them the right to share in the hiring and firing of workers, it was disclosed today. The group also requested a general wage increase, ranging from 8 to 25 per cent; longer vacations with pay and increased pension rates. Thirty-six representatives, claiming to act in behalf of 26,000 men, laid their petition before mill superintend- ents at a three-day executive confer- ence which has just adjourned, Increase Held Impossible, ‘Their requests came only & few days after President Benjamin F. Fairless’ announcement that the company would be unable to grant s wage increase at the present time without “jeop- ardizing the business.” The employe group asked a flat increase of $1 a day for all workers receiving more than $5 a day and an increase for lower-paid workers to bring their wage up to the $5 mini- mum. On this basis, the umount asked would be approximately 25 per cent for the lower-paid workers and about 8 per cent for those making $12.50 a day. Pension Rates Asked. ‘The representatives asked that pen- sion rates be raised from $12 to $60 s month, minimum, and $100 & month, maximum. The action is the third by employe representatives since Fairless gave them the company’s position in & general letter last Saturday. Earlier, representatives of the 10,- 000 workers at the Homestead, Pa. plant demanded a flat $1.10 a day increase and a $5 & day minimum. At the same time they criticized the management’s conduct of collective bargaining negotiations. At Youngstown, Ohio, employes of the company proposed that stock- owning employes be represented at the next stockholders’ meeting in an effort to obtain higher pay. \\- \ A\ WOMANFOUND ¢ BEATEN T0 DEATH Mrs. Florence Goodwin, U. S. Employe, Believed Slain After Arising. Her head smashed by blows from a blunt instrument, the nude body of Mrs. Florence D. Goodwin, 43-year-old Government worker, was found early today lying across the bed in her Toom at 1102 Sixteenth street. She apparently had been the vic- tim of a criminal assault. Mrs. Goodwin, believed to be the proprietor of the rooming house at the BSixteenth street address, was found by a roomer, Mrs. Alphonzo Phillips. Mrs. Goodwin was lying on a cot, in the rear of the second floor, with a pillow over her head. Later, police found a blood-stained furnace shaker — presumably the weapon used by her assailant—in the furnace. The shaker was taken to police headquarters for examination by fingerprint experts. Three Questioned. After examining the body, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald exp: the opinion she had been struck four times. Three occupants of the house—Mrs. Phillips, Chase and one other person, whose name could not be learned immediately — were questioned by police. Formerly employed at the Veterans’ Administration and the Navy De- partment, Mrs. Goodwin had been working up to the time of her death as a typist in the Treasury Depart- ment. Priends in the Treasury Pro- curement Division, where she was sta- tioned, said he was at work yesterday. Body Still Warm. Mrs. Goodwin's body was still warm when she was discovered and blood was running from the wounds on her head. This led police to believe she was killed shortly after arising. When she failed to put in an ap- pearance at her usual time this morn- ing, the houseboy, Carl Chase, col- ored, 900 block of W street, became alarmed and notified one of the room- ers, who found the body. Friends sald Mrs. Goodwin had been estranged from her husband for about eight years. He is believed to be on the West Coast. Coming here from Detroit, Mrs. Goodwin had been in the Government service about 18 years. Served in War Department. Her first job was in the War De- partment, taking a position there on October 21, 1918. At various times since she has worked in the Veterans Administration, Navy Department and the Commerce and Agriculture De- partments. She went over to the Department in 1931. Friends said she attended Lansing Business College at Lansing, Mich. Dr. 8. Feldman, pharmacist in a drug store next to the rooming house, said Mrs. Goodwin was in his estab- lishment about 7 o'clock last night. So far as could be'learned, this was the last time she was seen alive by her friends. Dr. Edward Gookin, a physician liv- ing across Sixteenth street, told police he saw a light on the second floor front of the rooming house about 6:30 this morning. Mrs. Goodwin's room was at the rear of the house. Parking Lots and Garages Ordered Under Regulations Licensing and regulation of parking ‘Where the area is 4,000 square feet or less the fee will be $10; between 4,000 and 16,000 square feet, $15; ‘where the area is in excess of 16,000 ALCAZAR BLASTED BYLOYALISTS; 1,700 REBELS HOLD FORT N HARD BATTLE Ton of TNT Wrecks Tower. Government Troops Storm Ruins, but Meet Hail of Machine Gun Fire. HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT RAGES AFTER BLAST, Full Conscription Policy Is De- manded of Madrid Regime by Syndicalists in New Ultima. tum—Recruits From Catalonia Go to Toledo Area. BACKGROUND— Catalonia, the four-province dis- trict which administers its own governmental afiairs, was success- Jul weeks ago in driving Fascists from its terqwry, Now, as Spanish civil war enters ils minth week, Catalan assistance to the Madrid administration unites the Syndical ists and Socialists in @ concerted drive against the insurgent Fascists, BULLETIN. (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, September 18.— A tremendous blast from two huge mines ripped Toledo's crumbling Alcazar to pieces today, and, gov- ernment authorities estimated, killed or maimed more than half of the building’s 1,700 Fascist de- fenders, (Copyright, 1036, by the Associated Press.) MADRID, September 18.—The Fase cists of Toledo’s Alcazar withstood the tremendous expiosion of a ton of TNT today and, from the cellars of the ruined castle, manned machine guns to hold off charging government militiamen. Even as the government carried out the first part of its “terrible decision” to blow up the Alcazar, powerful syn= dicalists in Madrid, in an eight-point program which they declared was the only effective means of crushing fas- | cism, demanded conscription of all able-bodied men and sweeping admin- istration reforms. ‘The first of three great mines, laid under the turreted Toledo castle where 1,700 men, women and children have withstood shell fire for two months, exploded with a terrific roar at 6:15 am. today. Most of the southwest tower and the west facade crashed down in an avalanche of rock and masonry, and government troops stormed the ruins to plant the flag of the republic and rained hand grenades at the passages leading to the cellars. Machine Gun Fire. Prom the underground vauits, vie | cious machine gun fire answered the c E The initial blast, one of three laid as the result of the governments “terrible decision” to blow up the Ale cazar and its self-imprisoned defend- ers following their final refusal to surrender, enabled government troops to occupy surface buildings of the old castle, but, apparently, did not shake the Fascists from their grim determination to die rather than give up. Government commanders, with hand-to-hand fighting raging in the ruins six hours after the blast, ex- pressed confidence the Fascists’ doom was sealed. They planned a bayonet charge late in the day, if possible; otherwise, they sald, explosion of the two remaining mines would follow a final demand for release of the beleaguered women and children. Most of these were believed unhurt in the lowest cellars of the Alcazar. ‘There was no way of telling how many casualties the explosion had caused, however. Explosion of the first mine at Toledo and the Syndicalist ultimatum in Madrid coincided with new and strict regulations limiting the stay of fore eigners in Spain. These restrictions were decreed, of- ficials said, after it was learned that (See SPANISH, Page A-7.) Many Drown in Nile. CAIRO, Egypt, September 18 (#).— Forty-five Egyptian workmen, their wives and children were drowned to- day in the collision of their outing steamer with a sailing boat in the flooded river Nile. Readers’ Guide Page. Amusements Answers to Questions. Cross-word Puzzle. Death Notices Women’s L'eatures.......C-5-8