Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1936, Page 2

A—2 ww THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1936. HURRICANE FORCE BARELY FELT HERE Highest Wind Velocity . 42 Miles an Hour, With Av- erage About 22. Bearing eut the forecaster’s predic- tions that only the fringe of the Atlantic coast hurricane would touch here, the Capital yesterday experienced little more than a “dusting off.” While the center of the hurricane was ripping up the seaboard, the only effects felt in this area were occasional gusts and some change in temperature The highest wind velocity recorded during the afternoon was 42 miles per hour, hut the average winds were much lower—around 22. The wind reached its peak at 3:10 pm., and about 20 minutes later the barometer fell to 29.78. This reading is somewhat lower than normal for Washington, but is far from an alarming level. Overcast skies and the winds kept | the temperature from reaching 70 during the afternoon. At 4 pm, usually the warmest time of day, the reading was 67. At 9 pm. the| temperature jumped two points to| 69, the maximum for the day. While the winds had subsided con- | siderably today, the temperature was | still down. It was 63 at 6 am. and 65 at 8 am. Fair weather was forecast for this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow, with little change in temperature expected. LA FOLLETTE QUITS | CAMPAIGNS PROBE. Senator Frazier Appointed on Committee in Place of Wisconsinite. By tne Assoclated Press. | Senator La Follette, Progressive, of Wisconsin resigned vesterday from the special Senate committee investigat- ing campaign expenditures, and Sen- ator Frazier, Republican, of North Dakota was appointed in his place. La Follette telegraphed his resigna- tion to Vice President Garner's office, with the explanation that he had been | named chairman of the National Pro- | gressive Conference supporting Presl-" dent Roosevelt and could no longer | serve on the Investigating Committee. | The appointment of Frazier was an- nounced by Senator Lonergan, Dem- | crat of Connecticut, committee chair- | man, on the authorization of the Vice | President. Lonergan wired other members of the committee to meet here Septem- ber 28 to consider reports of com- mittee investigators from Pennsyl- vania, Michigan and Maine. Other committee members are Sen- stors Schwellenbach, Democrat, of | | fore having come in contact with so Washington Wayside Tales | Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. TIP, MPLOYES of a large hotel on Sixteenth street-are getting a tremendous lift from the news that “several hundred dollars left by foreign delegates to the World Power Conference will be distributed to them in &’ day or so. Hardly a bellhop or waiter around the place received a piece of change from the European- notables during their week's sojourn, but they curbed their collective indignation and gave exceptionally fine service anyway, ac- cording to Robert Dove, manager. Every departing visitor, however, left a sum equal to 10 per tent of his bill with .the cashier upon checking out, after the European manner. Bell- hops and executives alike were not familar Wwith the get-the-service- then-tip system, it seems, never be- many foreigners at once. Lord and Lady Falmouth of Eng- land, who have spent a good deal of time in the United States, not only tipped American style but left 10 per cent too. They told Mr. Dove | that all the delegates commented on the fine service and courteous treat- ment received. Considering the cir- | cumstances the hotel is bursting with | KEARNEY IS NAMED VEW. COMMANDER Da}ly Patrietic Services in Public Schools Urged " by Group. By the Associated Press. DENVER, September 19.—Veterans of Foreign Wars elected a new com- mander yesterday and adopted a reso- lution urging patriotic services be held daily in public schools. Bernard W. Kearney, Gloversville, N. Y., senior vice commander, was elected commander to succeed James E. Van Zandt of Altoona, Pa., who declined suggestions of again seeking the office after three successive terms. Buffalo, N. Y:, was selected for the 1937 encampment. ‘W. D. Wynne, Akron, Ohio, was elected junior vice commander, a post considered a “stepping stone” to the office of commander. ¢ Silent on Teachers’ Oath. For the first time in the recent his- tory of the V. F. W. the delegates failed to recommend that all school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the American flag and Constitution. John O. McNamara of Florida, chairman of the Committee on Americanism, said the policy of the veterans was well-known and it Was unnecessary to reiterate it. ‘The convention unanimously adopted & resolution asking the Government to withdraw its diplomatic recognition of Russia. Other resolutions approved by the encampment included: A universal conscription law to be enacted by Congress as a preventive of war, drafting wealth and industry on the same basis as man power. A demand that the United States | | adopt a strict and permanent neutral- | ity policy. A recommendation that the Civilian Conservation Corps be made into a permanent organization. Mrs. Mooney Elected. pride these days. Mrs. Gladys Mooney, Detroit, was * % % & elected national president of the TORIES. Women's Auxiliary, succeeding Mrs. Washingtonians, it would seem, do not like overstatement. | That was indicated by their patronage yesterday of a newsboy Winifred D. Toussaint, Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. Laurie Schertle, Oakland, Calif,, was chosen senior vice presi- | 2 | dent. Mrs. Grace W. Davis, Kansas at Tweljth and the Avenue who | 9eNt g was merely shouting “papers” in | CItY. Mo, was re-elected treasurer, and Mrs. Anna Mae Lochner, St. preference to a competitor on the same corner who cried his wares in the sensational terms: 1 “Hurricane! Everybody dead, or dying.” * ok ox % FALL HATS. 'HE problem of headgear for wear on airplane carrier decks is one which has caused headaches :n the Navy Department. At last, the problem has reached the | stage of experiments, Ten new base bali caps have been purchased nndf Petersburg, Fla., was elected junior vice president. Scott P. Squyers of Oklahoma City, junior vice commander, was elected to Kearney's vacated senior post, thus putting him in line for the com- mander’s office, according to V. F. W. custom. Among those named to the National Council were Edward K. Inman and Stanley R. Fuller, Washington, D. C. Woman Observes 99th Birthday in Q Street Home Miss Kate Thomas, descendant of a famous Maryland family, today was celebrating her 99th birthday in com- pany with several nieces at her home, 2921 Q street. Until eight years ago Miss Thomas, who is the oldest living D. A. R. char- ter member of the Maj. William Thomas Chapter, lived at Cremona, & Georgian house built by her father in 1818, on the Patuxent River in St. Marys County. The D. A. R. chap- ter was named for her grarndfather, distinguished in the Revolution, as well as in the Colonial wars. She also is a descendant of Robert Brooke, a famed Marylander. Today Miss Thomas had the cus- tomary cake, “but not with 99 candles on it.” Sp;lin (Continued From Pirst Page.) leg wounds from the Fascist streams of steel. White beams from Government spotlights illuminated the scene of devastation during the mght-loml barrage, but Government officers walted in vain for the appearance of an insurgent white flag to signal | surrender. All survivors except the defending machine gunners, among the aelr-; imprisoned Fascists were believed to have fled to the underground cellars. | Only 20 women and children were | rescued by the Socialist assailants. | Militiamen who took part inthe | attack brought back graphic descrip- tions of the situation inside the wrecked fortress. | “As soon as I got over the ruined walls,” related Cabrera, “I saw four priests with beards down to their | waists pointing a machine gun in my | direction. “I threw one of my hand grenades, | | and—well, they won't say mass any | more.” Emilio Vargas, another militiaman, | said he jumped out of the way of a Fascist hand bomb so quickly he fell through a manhole into the under- ground food storeroom of the self- made prisoners. ! “They had piles and piles of rich foods there,” Vargas asserted. “There were wines and liqueurs, too. | “So 1 broke open a package of biscuits and opened a bottle of cham- pagne to celebrate my find. Then, | with the help of some other govern- | ment soldiers, we carried the entire | store out a door where fortunately | the Rebel (Fascist) fire couldn't reach us.” Magtaz Mubru Beramar, the only Moor known to be fighting with the | government forces, declared he found a quantity of laundry left to dry in one of the cellars which later was half wrecked by shells. | “The Fascists must have run out | of soap,” he asserted, “for the linen | | was still very dirty.” | | high water, were moored to hydrants OCEANCITY FINDS DAMAGE $100.000 One Reported Drowned and Half Dozen Others Missing After Hurricane, BY the Assoctated Press, OCEAN CITY, Md., September 19. —Maryland’s sole seaport and largest ocean-side Summer resort surveyed storm damage today expected to ap- proximate $100,000, left in the wake of a roaring tropical.hurricane. After a night spent without lights, other than candles and improvised lanterns, the 2,000 residents awoke to streets littered with debris and sand, smashed wihdows, roofless houses, sunken boats and a boardwalk one- fourth destroyed. The beach was badly eroded and most of the stone jetty at the inlet formed in the 1933 storm had sunk below the surrounding sand. Boats shared the streets with auto- mobiles and piles of driftwood. Autos which had been caught in the flood stood imbedded in sand up to their wheels. Row boats, used to traverse the streets during the worst of the and telephcae poles. Houses Are Damaged. Huge sections were torn from me‘ boardwalk and had lodged at the en-| trances to intersecting streets. Where | the boardwalk was left in place the | breaking waves had twisted it into hills and hollows. The houses on Wicomico street were most badly damaged. The gabled roof of one, 35 feet square, was torn away and flung 50 feet away. /Porches hung | loose and twisted and other houses were leaning shapelessly on their| foundations. Most of the hotels es-| caped unharmed, except that thmr; cellars were filled with sand. i State Roads Commission engineers | tested the bridge connecting with the | mainland to make sure it had suf- fered no damage. | Throughout the night, after the water had receded from the avenues, Coast Guardsmen and volunteer fire- men worked to restore a semblance of order. Mayor W. T. Elliott, who yesterday estimated the damage would range between $75.000 and $100,000, postponed a more definite estimate today until he had received reports | from various relief agencies. One Reported Drowned. One man was reported drowned here and a half-dozen others were missing in nearby sections as a result of the 65-mile-an-hour wind and roaring seas yesterday. Two Pocomoke City men, reported{ missing after they went surf fishing, called their families to report that they were safe at a Coast Guard sta- tion. Marvin Purnell of Crisfield, who put | out on a fishing trip, returned home safely. | Diva of the Market Shown in these two poses is Mrs. Mary Witte, fish and prod- uce dealer of Stroudsburg. Pa., who will try out for grand opera. Giacoma Bourg, jamed maestro, heard her sing and said he had discovered a natural singing genius. her husband in the upper picture. —Copyright, A Mrs. Witte is shown with Storm found safe aboard the Hallowell. A Maritime Exchange ob- server rescued another, and three more reached shore after a six-hour battle with house-high waves. The steamer Long Island surren- dered to the tropical-born tempest coal barge For the most of the day the resort | yesterday. Washington; Minton, Democrat, of | now are under test to determine their | Indiana, and Austin, Republican, of | suitability, either in the original or in Vermont. | modified state. One cap was tested in Louis R. Glavis, chief investigator |a 50-knot slip-stream and ‘“proved for the committee, has been studying | very satisfactory, not blowing-off, and expenditures in the recent Michigan | the visor did not bend,” it is reported primaries, after Lonergan said he re- | with just a bit of a triumphant tone. ceived reports that parties and can- | didates in that State had collected $3,000,000 for campaign purposes. . Landon (Continued From First Page.) products,” Gregory contended the | “Government must take some part, | exercise some direction, in controlling production.” Before leaving, the nom- | inee dropped behind for a personal | discussion with Gregory, who favors a long-range program of a national | land use program and encouragement | of the use of farm products in in- | dustry. | W. A. Cochel, weekly Kansas City | Btar, asserted: “Our own farms will absorb our surpluses. “I have been raising corn on a Kansas farm for 20 years and have never had as much surplus as I would like.” Other views at a glance: A. W. Ricker, Farmers’ Union Her- | ald, St. Paul: “We were burning our | corn in 1930. Next Winter we will | press for crop insurance legislation.” | Clarence Roberts, Farmers' Stock- | man, Oklahoma City: “I want to tell Mr. Cochel there is at least one crop the farmers cannot absorb and that is cotton. If we lose our cotton mar- ket the cotton farmer is going to com- pete with your farmers, growing corn, wheat, beef and so forth.” Absurdity of Some Policies. ‘Tom Leadley, Nebraska Farmer, Lincoln, of which Sam R. McKelvie, former Farm Board member, is editor: “We've learned we can't control the weather, which emphasizes the ab- surdity of some of the Triple A pol- icies. The problem is to control sur- | pluses, but not to the point of scarcity. We can do this by co- operation, orderly marketing and some Government aid.” Elmer Peterson, Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines: “I feel sure that Secretary Wallace himself wants to get away from regimentation. He would like a substitute in the shape of a long-range land-use program, but his hands are tied by politics.” Frank Ridgway, farm editor of the Chicago Tribune: “I'm doubtful if Washington will ever do anything successful for the farmer.” B. Kirk Rankin. Southern Agricul- turist, Nashville, Tenn.: “Rural elec- trification is one of the greatest farm problems. Another tragedy of the farm is the farmers who cannot hope ever to become owners of their own farms. The Bankhead-James farm tenant bill is being rewritten and will be an early major issue next session.” James R. Moore, Ohio Farm Bureau News, Columbus, recommended “more enabling legisiation for farm co-op- eratives.” Bert” Wermuth, Michigan farmer, Detroit: “The Canadian reciprocal tariff pact is considered a prime issue by Michigan farm leaders.” Aides of the nominee said no def- Inite date has béen set for his pro- Jected meeting with former President Herbert Hoover, now traveling west- ward after a New York visit, Before | President Roosevelt’s Des Moines Drought Conference, Landon talked with Hoover on the telephone and later said he “hoped” to see him on his way back to California from an Eastern business trip. ST T Turkish Exposition. Turkey will hold an internationdl exposition of coal-burning equipment at Ankara, beginning .January 16, 1937, the present plan including ex- hibits of equipment found most adequate for use in Turkey at fairs to be held at various ts in the 1 { Some of the caps will be modified to | incorporate a neck shade. Others will | sprout chin straps and ear protectors. ! Other types of headgear also will be | tested. In fact, it was explained, an ' has been given the 50-knot test, but, | alas, failed to meet the rigid Navy| | specification—"they must stay on.”| Even a chin strap proved of no avail. * % * x MRS., MISS. The announcement of the en- gagement of Miss Atha Gullion, daughter of Col. Allen W. Gullion, U. S. A. and Mrs. Gullion, has caused her friends some wonder- ment as to how her wedding in- vitations will read for she was christened “MissAtha” and has answered to that name all her life. As is frequently the custom in the South, her grandmother, after whom she was named, was ad- dressed as “MissAtha” by the en- tire countryside and it was in- tended to use the given name of Atha. The minister, however, had always addressed her grandmother as “MissAtha” and without hesi- tation used that appellation in the christening services. * x x % SPEED. '‘RAFFIC officers work 5o fast now that they are arresting people 15 days ahead of time. So says 8. 8. Shank, 2507 Fairlawn avenue, who paid $3 the other day for an overtime parking ticket that was dated Sep- tember 30 but put on his car Sep- tember 15. Shank parked his roadster on Ninth street, just south of E street. Traffic Officer J. P. Comiskey signed the ticket. It was dated September 30. The ticket was timed 9:05 a.m. the violation listed as “parked, 8 to 9:30 am.” “I told them I hadn’t even violated the law yet, because the ticket was 15 days ahead,” said Shank. “And, I hadn’t been there but a few minutes. ‘They made me pay the $3 anyhow.” *x x x WAY OUT. AN OFFICE boy in a downtown building was called upon the other day to establish contact between his boss and a visiting gentleman, obviously of Spanish or South Amer- ican extraction, judging by his accent and mannerisms. The visitor prefaced his four-word name with “Senor” and inte; in it the usual number of “dels” and “ys.” The office boy nodded vaguely and called his boss to announce the visitor, Storm Summary Rescue of 34 Leaves 8 Feared Drowned off Cape May. | By the Associated Press. NEW JERSEY.—Thirty-four saved, eight feared drowned as steamer Long Island sinks off Cape May. Three die result of storm. Coast Guardsmen stand by to aid freighter Ida Hay Atwater, aground on Delaware Break- water. Eight missing on leaky fish- ing schooner Caspian en route to Portsmouth, Va. Two rescued after harrowing night drifting at sea in| small cabin cruiser. Eight thousand . P. A. workers ready to aid in re- habilitation on coast. Crops seriously damaged. Roads blocked. Many small | “elephant hunter” creation already | boats destroyed. NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. —Fifty-two Negroes aboard drifting barges rescued in Albemarle Sound. Three colored W. P. A. workers missing at Coinjock, N. C. Communications with isolated seétions restored. No loss of life reported, but property damage heavy. MARYLAND—One man reported drowned, six missing near Ocean City. Rehabilitation efforts begun. Ocean City damage estimated at $100,000. DELAWARE.—Floods feared from torrential rains. Roads opened to iso- lated coast towns. Vessels ready to put out to sea from shelters. VIRGINIA.—Fourteen persons res- cued from two house boats on Eliza- beih River. Damage to city property in Norfolk estimated at $20,000. No loss of life reported, although numerous rescues effected by Coast Guardsmen off Virginia Capes. PENNSYLVANIA.—Three dead as result of storm in Philadelphia. MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNEC- TICUT.—Steamer Berkshire with 131 children aboard, en route to Phila- delphia, anchored at Cape Cod Canal to “ride out the blow.” Ferry services from Bridgeport, Conn., to Port Jeffer- son, Long Island, canceled. Coast Guard ready for eventualities. RHODE ISLAND.—One man injured as falling limb wrecks car at Provi- dence. at nearly 3 inches. Electric service interrupted in many towns. & NEW YORK.—Torrential rains and 75-mile gale strike city, causing much property damage. Airplane sought by Fire Island Coast Guardsmen after flares sighted at night and pilot be- lieved lost. Numerous boats on Long Island smashed by huge waves. CANADA.—Storm warnings hoisted for maritime provinces as gales con- tinue sweep northeastward. “King Canoes” to Be Built. Seven great “king canoes” like those that took the Maoris to New Zealand in the fourteenth century, are to be built by Maoris for the New Zealand centenary celebrations in 1940. “What's his name?” asked the boss. The office boy pondered a minute, sidied a quick glance toward the vis- itor, and made a futile stab at the name, adding, “But I think ‘Mr. Senor’ would be all right.” . . Night Final Delivered by Carrier Anywhere i Base Ball Scores, Race Results, Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. evet it is; youll find it in Th @ -Full Sports n the City . Complete Market News of the What- e Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c a month. Call National 5000 and 3ervice will start at once. Rainfall estimated unofficially | | The constant reverberations of gov- ernment shell fire brought broken tiles and window panes crashing into the streets throughout the barrage. | Total damage to Toledo since the civil war began was estimated by | City Councillor Perez Chicano in the | neighborhood of 50.000.000 pesetas (approximately $6.500.000) “not in- cluding wreckage of the Alcazar.” “The southeast tower of the Alcazar shot bodily upwards like an arrow for 90 feet when the Socialist mines were | exploded.” he said. “and burst with a shower of granite boulders which left very few surrounding Troofs undamaged.” Thousands of residents of Toledo stumbled along rock-strewn streets and alleys to see the freak result of the blast—a 5-ton truck which was blown from the Alcazar courtyard to | fall upside down in the patio of a house a quarter of a mile away. Socialist commanders expressed satisfaction over the campaign against the Fascists and at the same time regret over the “terrible decision” which they made before they ordered | the tons of T N T touched off. E “Now we are really moving along,” | remarked Gen. Jose Asensio, com- | mander of all government forces in | Central Spain. | “We may wipe out the Fascists tomorrow or the next day or in a | week’s time, but we certainly shall | wipe them out.” Gen. Asensio, after a conference with Lieut. Col. Luis Barcelo, Toledo further dynamiting of the -fortress, relying instead on the artillery fire to | prepare the way for an infantry charge. Barcelo was himself wounded in the leg by an insurgent machine gun bullet. SYNDICALIST DEMAND REJECTED | (Copyright, 1936, oy the Associated Press.) | was cut off from the mainland. At ~ Flag Sighted on Barge. one time 5 feet of water covered| Discovery of the 33 men came after the causeway leading to nearbv Ber- Capt. Harry M. Derrickson. head of | lin, sole means of communication the Lewes Coast Guard, sighted an with the shore. American flag flying from the coal | Last night a single telephone circuit | PATEe. anchored 2 miles off shore. | kept workers on the mainland in| _AS he piloted his boat nearer he [mmury commander, was reported to | | have abandoned temporarily plans for | touch with residents here. The line was jammed with calls, most of them outgoing to friends and relatives of | Summer residents. Each call was | forced to await its turn. | Between 3 pm, at low tide. and | high tide at 9 o'clock last night, the Coast Guardsmen and firemen man- | aged to clear wrecked shanties and | boats from the causeway and restore travel lanes for automobiles. Choked With Sand. Baltimore street. Ocean City's prin- cipal business thoroughfare, was choked with a litter of variegated debris swept inland from the ocean | front and boardwalk a block away. | and in the basements of water front | hotels. Mayor Elliott said the principal cost would be for cleaning out streets and repairing the boardwalk. Most of the north end of the boardwalk was dam- aged to such an extent that it will have to be replaced, observers said. At least three deep-sea fishing boats, valued at between $5,000 and $6,000, were destroyed or missing from their moorings in Sinepuxent Bay, on the resort’s leeward side. A | score of fishermen's shanties were shed away, as were the offices of Mayor Elliott and the Davis & Lynch Fish Co. In nearby Berlin, trees were up- rooted, power line poles knocked down and all gas and electricity cut off dur- ing the night, G-Men (Continued From First Page.) | MADRID, September 19.—Spanish | Socialists and Communists turned | down flatly today a syndicalist ulti- | matum to reorganize the government into Regional Committees independent of the Madrid administration. The Socialists, in their refusal fo | consider the proposal, declared “those | pushing such a demand should be | regarded as traitors.” The Communists asserted “we can- not allow duality of power to exist.” (The ultimatum, following a grant of syndicalist military assistance to | the Madrid ' Soclalist-Communist re- gime, called for decentralization of the government to give workers a direct share in public affairs and com- pulsory conscription of all able-bodied men in the country.) ““There is only one single point in our program,” the Socialist leaders | affirmed, “and that is to win & vic- tory. “Only after obtaining victory shall we be allowed to defend the political and social programs of the yarious groups composing the left popular front.” The war ministry announced offi- cially these developments in the civil war between the government and the Fascist insurgents. Government flyers severely punished Fascists in the Santa Olalla and Tala- vera sectors west of Madrid where Socialists and insurgents engaged in skirmishes. Socialist artillery. Attacking Fascists were reported to that shootings by G-men in the Dil- linger case were not justified). 11,153 Convictions Cited. During the same three years, Hoover asserted, his men arrested many thousands of law violators without firing a shot and brought about the conviction of 11,153 of them, of which 330 were kidnapers and extortionists, 726 white slavers and 152 bank robbers. The F. B. I. director also assailed “ill-advised, politically tainted and extravagant clemency,” charging that many States, instead of modeling their parole system after the Federal Parole Board, are freeing prisoners “to prey upon honest citizens.” “So many dangerous criminals who have no right whatever to freedom,” he said, “are being turned loose that public sentiment necessarily is out- raged against the parole system, when in truth it is not the system which is at fault, but the derelictions of those who administer it.” Hoover said crime is costing America $15,000,000 each year, that 3,500,000 persons commit 1,500,000 crimes each year, and that the “crime army” includes 700,000 boys and girls. Parents Are Criticized. In stressing the large number of persons under 21 in crime, Hoover criticized lack of discipline in the home and the tendency of parents to pay more attention to pleasures than .|t parental responsibilities. Golf and bridge, he said, must come in for a share .of the blame. “Subversive” influences are finding | Sand lay 2 feet deep in some streets | t Ronda in Ma- | fertile ground among the youth of e o masatlt ly [ #e'Mation. for thelf seeds’ of wnreet infantry, avistion and ar- | he declared r forces of the government. commanders asserted their | & % daily report ot “No boy or girl,” he said, “will be mmmmmmmnm recruit to subversive activities | North Carolina’s 200 miles of coast occupied two new strategic posi- | 8gainst our traditions if he or she|and in other Eastern States was not near Peguerinos in the mountain | has been correctly reared and taught | considered so heavy as in the hurri- by responsible parents that America | cane of 1933. . was greeted by the tired and hungry men. who had spent 24 hours on the rough waters without food or water. | Capt. Derrickson made arrange- | ments for the transfer of the men to | Lewes. | Among those rescued was Capt. Wil- liam Bertrand. pilot of the ill-fated schooner. Capt. Romey George. the schooner’s master, was not aboard the barge, Derrickson said. Those who struggled to shore ves- | mar. 30, of Foxwell, Va., and Harry McQuillan, 21, colored. of Wilmington, N. C.. and his cousin Richard, 26, also of Wilmington. how the ship developed a leak. how its cargo of fish shifted and how the | 150-foot craft turned over near the | Overfalls Lightship, 8 miles off shore. Bad Weather Caused Accident. “That was the worst storm I ever | ¢* said Bertrand, who has been a ' | seagoing man for 30 years. “The bad weather caused the accident.” Three Pennsylvania deaths were limited to the Philadelphia area. Phillip Terrell, 24, was electrocuted | ' as he picked up a wire blown down in a surburban community. Romola Colozza. 60, was killed by a car which skidded on & storm- swept highway. An unidentified man about 50 years | of age died of injuries suffered when | he walked into the path of a trolley in the rain. | George R. Zorn of Baltimore lost | his life when his 40-foot cruiser | crashed on the rocks off Longport, N. J. His pilot, William Lieber of Port Washington, N. Y., swam 2 miles to shore for aid, but Coast Guardsmen | were unable to save Zorn. Eight men aboard the fishing schooner Caspian, leaking when it left | port at Cold Spring Harbor yesterday, were unreported. while seven persons were missing in Maryland. The Merchants & Miners steamer Berkshire, bound for Philadelphia with 131 children aboard, anchored at the western entrance of Cape Cod Canal to ride out the blow. The chil- dren were returning to Bancroft Training School from Summer camps | in Maine. Winds buffeted the Iroquois of the Clyde-Mallory Line, with approxi- mately 400 passengers from all sec- tions of Connecticut. It started from New -Haven harbor late yesterday to Bar Harbor and Nova Scotia via New York. Freighter Rups Aground. A 400-ton freighter, the Ida Hay Atwater, went aground on the Dela- | ware breakwater and sent out distress | signals, The Cape May Coast Guard wirelessed two cutters offshore to at- | tempt to aid the crew. The ship plies | between Norfolk and New England | ports. The disturbance, first reported in the South Atlantic by a steamer Sep- tember 12, became more intense as it swerved northeastward and struck Cape Hatteras to begin a capricious | movement up the East Coast. The Virginia Capes and the coasts of Delaware, Maryland and New Jer- sey were struck in turn, the winds reaching velocity of 100 miles an hour at. spots in the storm’s path. ‘The steamer El Almirante cf the Southern Pacific Lines, which devel- oped engine trouble near the hurri- cane's center when it approached ras, was in tow of the cutter Modoc, which went to the rescue after the Coest Guard received dis- terday were Capt. George's son Del- | The three told graphic stories of | i | who were on two barges that broke loose from their moorings, were found safe in the inland waterway. Center Misses Metropolis. The storm, after lashing the Jer- sey Coast, seemed headed for the densely populated New York and Long Island sections. but a high pres- sure area moving in from the Great Lakes caused it to veer eastward and its center passed some 100 miles out from the metropolis. New York was raked by a 75-mile gale that caused considerable prop- erty damage when the storm was at | its height. New Jersey’s 125-mile coast line, scene of the heaviest toll of lives from the devastating blow, withstood renewed assaults of piling tides and high winds, the backlash of the dis- turbance, with additional property damage today. Fears were held for the safety of residents on Long Beach, a 23-mile resort area over which waves rolled from open sea to bay in storms of recent years. Unreported commu- nities there included Harvey Cedars, Surf City, Beach Haven and Barne- | gat City with its famous and peren- nially-threatened Barnegat Light house. Inland Jersey sections were not entirely spared. Roads along the coast were flooded by abnormal tides. Trees, heavy rains and debris affected other routes. Two men were adrift in a 40-foot cruiser in Raritan Bay near Keans- burg, and a Coast Guard power life- boat that set out from Sandy Hook to aid them had not returned several hours afterward. Works Progress Administration em- ployes, Coast Guardsmen and Red Cross workers aided in rescue work and were prepared for emergencies contingent upon rehabilitation. Pier Washed Away. Numerous small craft disabled off Jersey were brought to safety by Coast Guardsmen. A 250-foot section of the Cape May fishing pier was washed away. Train service was dis- rupted along the coast. Coast Guards began an exhaustive search of the Delaware Bay area for & yacht, which sent out an S O S| during the storm. Four Coast Guard boats were en- gaged in the search for the yacht Ripple which was reported early today to have flashed the distress signal. Its position at the time was not known, nor was the number | aboard. Floods were feared in reaches of Delaware as a result of torrential rains. Crops suffered heavily from the blow as well as from the excess water, Bethany Beach, Del., directly on the ocean, bore the brunt of the disturb- ance and reports in Wilmington in- dicated the Coast Guard had ordered evacuation of the population. Eighteen vessels took refuge behind the Delaware breakwater at Lewes and small craft hugged their piers. Two dozen families were reported marooned at Lewes Beach as water filled the streets.’ A quirk of northwest winds, whip- INCINNATI, September 19. table game, which, I am tol possible. that they req (where there Alice Longworth. mous sums are taken right out of the Roosevelt record, which must have made it easy for the game maker. This game may serve to make the country laugh while its wealth is being dissipated by politicians, (Coprrisht, 1936.) low-lying | The National Scene BY ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH. .—I have just been playing a new 4 rivaling that of monopoly, which it much resembles, It is called “boondoggling,” and, of course, the object of each player is to waste his funds as fast as The game interests me, not only as a pastime, but as an evidence of the way people are think- ing about the New Deal. The various ways of squandering money represented on the playing board are so well known to the American people There are such enterprises as beautifying the insane, teaching mountaineers to write poetry, stopping malaria in Westchester County, N. Y. and the Passamaquoddy Dam foolishness. All these weird schemes for getting rid of enor- NORFOLK STORM - DAMAGE $20,000 Residents Return to Homes in Exposed Virginia Communities. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va. September 19.— Owners of waterfront property here and at nearby beach resorts began adding up storm damage today in the wake of a tropical hurricane sweeping to sea. High tides and higher winds lashed at the Virginia Capes area yesterday, inflicting minor damage over a wide front, but with no recorded loss of life. With no official or semi-official es- timate of damage available, bay point residents took comfort from assur- ances by Norfolk City Manager Thompson that the damage to city property probably would not exceed $20,000—approximately one-third of the toll exacted by the 1933 storm, which swept the same area Water drained from flooded streets here yesterday afternoon, and resie dents of evacuated Willoughby, Vire ginia Beach, Cape Henry and other exposed points began moving back | into their homes today Linemen were at work re-establish= |ing communications with Eastern | Shore communities which had been cut off during the blow. Police, firemen, Coast Guardsmen and members of National Guard units | here all helped in the rescue and evacuation work during the worst of | yesterday's disturbance. | Ocean View was isolated, with some homes dangerously near the water | vesterday. At Dam Neck five families were taken from their homes, 'FAIRFAX ROAD PROJECT | SEEMS TO BE BLOCKED | Special Dispatch to The Star. MCcLEAN, Va., September 19.—Efforts | of local citizens to have the State Highway Commission take the aban- doned right-of-way of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad into the State secondary road system yesterc appeared definitely blocked for th time being, with announcement by ! State road body that the question cen- | not be considered until next May In a letter to County Clerk Jol Whalen yesterday. H. G. Shirley, ¢ man of the State Highway Commissi said that because of the fact all all tions have been made and the bud | approved, additions to the seco: | system cannot be considered until then ping in at 30 to 40 miles an h caused abnormally low water at Ba timore, in upper Chesapeake Bay. V eran seamen described the water the lowest in years and estimated it 5 to 7 feet below normal | Steamer departures were canceled and ferry services suspended. Man® vessels were left high and dry and ex | pensive yachts keeled over in the mud | as winds drove the water out. | Ocean City Lashed 12 Hours. | Ocean City, Md, cut off by & 65- mile wind that lashed the resort {o 12 hours, re-established communica- | tion through an unsteady telephor | line. Workmen sought to clear the | debris-littered causeway, route to the mainland. Mayor Thomas Elliott estimated Ocean City damage in excess of $75.000, while three deep-sea fishing | boats valued at $5.000 each were re- ported missing. Small boats were | bashed against the causeway and de- | stroyed. Elizabeth City. N. C.. on the edge of the harried morth banks section. reported battered store fronts and a few houses pounded by falling trees as the big item in its list of loss. The town of 10,000 population and the neighboring community of Manteo, which also came through compara- tively unscathed, were isolated for 18 hours in the swirling fury of a gale that touched a 90-mile velocity. Farmers were the heaviest losers. The damage to the soy bean crop | was placed at 40 per cent and the loss in the cora fields at 20 per cent. | The bombardment of the waves sheared away 35 feet of beach at the | Bags Head Coast Guard station and washed out a stretch of the highway | from Manteo to Currituck and Nor- | folk, Va. | Nine-Foot Tide Sweeps Island. ‘To the south, from Beaufort, N. C., came similar reports: A few wrecked buildings, severc crop damage and no loss of life. A | nine-foot tide swept across Ocracoke Island, a dog-leg link in the Atlantic banks. but the Coast Guard reported the 400 inhabitants found shelter in the 138-year-old lighthouse and es- | caped unharmed. Virginia likewise came through the | wrath of the hurricane with losses far | below those of the disastrous 1933 blow. The damage to city propert in Norfolk was estimated at $20.00¢ —one-third of the 1933 figure—with |losses of individual property owner. also relatively small. Only three cottages appeared dam aged at Willoughby, on an expose peninsula, which had been evacuate as the storm approached. Breeches buoys injected a dramati | note into the saving of 14 person: | including six children, from tw the only houseboats on the Elizabeth River ir Virginia. Coast Guardsmen, rowin: through water-filled streets, carried 83 persons to a V. F. W. home at Ocean View. 1d, threatens to achieve a popularity uire no explanation to any player. has never been a case of malaria),