Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1936, Page 22

SIX MEN ISOLATED BY STORM RETURN Fishing Party Safe After Be- ing Trapped on Island 36 Hours. Bv the Associated Press. CRISFIELD, Md,, September 19.— Bix men missing from here during the hurricane yesterday returned safely today and gave a first-hand account of the storm that held them on & marshy island for 36 hours. Snow fell during the storm, one said. The men were among nine persons rescued in this area. The other three were the crew of a freight boat that sank in Virginia waters. Persons who reached here from Tangier and Smith Islands said there [ was no unusual storm damage there. A number of fishing boats belonging to the islanders were sunk, however. Go on Fishing Trip. Marvin Purnell, a fishing guide, took five persons with him in his boat when he left here Thursday. They were Willlam Hoffman, Tony Sterling, Ralph Landon and Charies Landon of Crisfield and Edward Schaller of Greensburg, Pa. “We had been in Rock Hole fishing for rock when the awful storm came up,” Purnell said. “We left our boat anchored in Rock Hole and made our way across the marsh to a lonely crab shanty and thought the situa- tion over. We attempted to get back to the boat, but found we couldn't get back. There was no way of a block inland. A section of the boardwalk at Ocean City, Md., wrecked by the hurricane. YHE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. leaving. There was a raging snow- storm. We couldn't see our hands before us, “The storm continued to be so bad | that it wore in two the anchor rope | which was holding our boat. As luck would have it, it was flood tide and our boat was carried on to the other side of the shore instead of into open water, FFTY HOMELESS ATOCEANCITY. D Hurricane Wreckage Shows Damage Is Nearly $250,000. Stayed in Crab Shanty. “We stayed in the crab shanty un- til this morning, when the weather had cleared, then got two small crab- bing skiffs and paddled our way across the Annamessex River to Cris- fleld. We really had a thrilling expe- Tience.” Albert Spalding Pays $27,500 For Noted Stradivarius Violin The other three men rescued were Christopher Nelson, John Messick and George Lawson, all of Crisfleld. They had left here to go to a North Caro- lina port when they were caught in the storm. The three men were forced to abandon their boat at 4 a.m. yester- day and a passing boat picked them up at 2 pm. Milk (Continued From Page B-1.) By the Associated Press. - . OCEAN CITY, Md., September 19. The hurricane rendered 50 persons homeless here and did damage of nearly a quarter of a million dollars, a survey of the storm-lashed town | showed today. | Mayor W. Thomas Elliott said the damage to city property would amount to $50,000. The boardwalk suffered the greatest damage, he said. It was! completely destroyed from Fifth street to Fourteenth street. The section from Division street to Fifth street may have to be replaced, he added. Elliott, proprietor of & commercial fish business, said the loss to the three | | fish dealers would amount to more | for milk delivered by each producer | than $100,000. Twelve fish ponds, | ‘l:‘ e':ce;]ae?: l;uAb-se}chT;m_s. l'c.crt;::r | which cost about $8.000 each, were - A A, ea lairy destroyed, he said. These were ar- is assured of an equitable share of | rangements of nets and piles offshore, “l_;:w m;fi:;:“?;iu & producers'n-‘d the heavy sea whipped them to | pieces. for class 1 milk will be $2.82 per hun- dred pounds, This will vary upward CIP? m‘r ',r hum:‘ o’("i:.‘:.mut sccording to the butterfat content of | o 04 axtimated the damage to boats the milk and District Health Depart- | unich take out sport fshermen at ting of producers’ farms. Bmett T $20,000. Three of them were de- To Study Market. stroyed. These were L. J. Bunting's Aplin, whom the ':44 A A ducnbegi Evelyn, Dodd Sl:m.sur'n Dodjim, and 88 an appointee of “great experience,” | Curley Matison's Mousie. A boat lt-‘li.ldydevgeh hwj;]l m ltéenci;:‘x;l !:1 i ; i ow;ed byJFrcmk Parker wl: damlget:i. -8 whic 'amiliarize | Harry J. Cropper, a contractor an the problems of this milk market. Hej member of the city council, said the has just arrived and has established | loss to houses and hotels would Albert Spalding, famous American violinist, has just pur- chased the “Artot” Stradivarius for $27,500, the highest price since the depression and one of the best of any time. The violin has an iron-clad pedigree from 1722. en office in the South Building of the Agriculture Department. His head- quarters probably will be transferred to an office downtown at a later date. Aplin was born in Putney, Vt. in 1903, and is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Vermont, with BS. and MS. degrees in agriculture. He was reared on a dairy farm, operated a dairy farm in 1930 aad was employed by the United States Tariff Com- mission in 1926-27 as field enumerator in studies of dairy production costs in the United States and competing countries. He was county agent for Addison County, Vt., 1927-30, and extension economist at the Uaiversity of Vermont, October, 1931, to Novem- ber, 1933. His service as assistant ad- ministrator of the Boston milk mar- keting agreement was from 1933 to 1936. LEWIS CHALLENGES VANDENBERG CHARGE Invites Michigan Senator to De- bate Constitutional Interest of Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 19. — Sen- ator J. Hamilton Lewis, veteran Illi- nois Democrat, today challenged his Republican colleague from Michigan, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, to a Joint debate on this subject: “Resolved, That there has been no measure passed under the direction of the President and the present ad- ministration that was knowingly un- constitutional or intended to be an unconstitutional measure.” ‘The bearded Lewis issued copies of ® letter which he sald he had dis- patched to the Michigan Senator. He Tefered to speeches Vandenberg de- livered before the Union League Club and a Constitution day gathering here and added: I note the charge that the admin- istration, through President Roosevelt and through Congress, has passed measures that ‘violated the very fun- damentals of constitutional gévern- ment'—indeed violating the Constitu- tion purposely. “I charge that the measures in gen- eral referred to by you as invalid were those you yourself supported by vote. In many instances by amend- ment fittingly written by you and tendered to the Senate and passed by the vote of the Senate in pursuit of your advocacy. “I beg to say that the only measure that in your words ‘violated the fun- damentals of business and the Con- stitution,’ to wit, the price-fixing megsure, was one of your creation in behalf of the interests of the State of Michigan.” Vandenberg May Acoept. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, September <19 ()—Senator Arthur H. Vanden- +berg of Michigan tonight urged Sen- ‘ator J. Hamilton Lewis to “prepare <his facts.” When advised of the Illi- -nols Senator’s challenge for & debate, +Vandenberg said he was all booked up -on speaking engagements until the .Jast week in October. ‘Whether he will accept Lewis’ chal- he declined to say, preferring t until he receives the Lewis containing the debate offer. amount to about $50,000. This in- | cludes the injury to foundations, fur- | niture and roofs. Chief Boatswain's Mate William Massey of the Coast Guard said the damage to the Coast Guard station would cost about $400 | to repair. Hugh A. Cropper, who | operates a poultry farm near here, | said that 10,000 of his chickens were | | drowned. | The 50 homeless persons were most- |ly fishermen who lived along the | beach of Sinepuxent Bay, opposite | Ocean City. The Red Cross, the city and volunteers are caring for these. All persons reported missing were acqounted for and Mayor Elliott said it was definiiely established the storm had caused no loss of life in this area. Inlet Not Damaged. E. J. Monaghan, resident engineer for the War Departmnet, said the storm had not damaged the inlet, which was cut by a storm in 1933 and later improved for purposes of navi- gation. J. N. Byrd said that a new type of road being constructed around the harbor had not been harmed, al- though it had been under water all day. Roads Commission engineers saf the bridge from the mainland to the city was undamaged. About 150 men from a nearby Civil- fan Conservation Corps camp were clearing sand and debris from the streets. Light service was restored last night and telephone and tele- graph lines restored. Sections of the boardwalk were wrenched from supporting piles and jammed against buildings or carried through connecting streets almost to Baltimore street. Residents of the town busied them- selves digging their autos out of the sand and taking rowboats out of the streets. The cars were buried to the running boards in the sand swept in- land by the heavy seas. Rowboats which had been used for navigation through the flooded streets were moored to telephone poles and hy- drants. Front porches, where they remained in place, were littered with soaked be- longings brought into the open to dry. Water had filled the cellars and crept into first floors. A few roofs, ripped off by the force of the wind, rested in the sand-choked streets. The larger hotels at the north end of town suf- fered little damage except from water which filled cellars with sand. :vvvvvvvvvvv. » SAVE 20% OR MORE | ON FUEL THIS YEAR ¢ Cracks around the doors and win- ‘ dows of cold alr in by Chamberlin Weather Strips will ‘ stop those drafts forever and save or more on fuel bille every 4 For full information and free ptive booklet, telephome National 3635. er write Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 932 New York Ave. N.W. CHAmMBERLIN WEATHER STRIPS » 14 » 14 14 14 4 14 ) By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 19— Stradivarius violins are “moving” once more. Albert Spalding, famous native violinist, has just bought one. | Spalding paid $27,500 for the “Artot” Strad, certainly the highest price since the 1929 deluge, and no mean price for any time. It was not that Spalding lacked violins—his famous Guarnerius Del- gesu, hitherto the favorite of his col- lection, is an instrument to make con- noisseurs water at the mouth. But the “Artot” Strad is something more. Spalding has just sailed for a con- cert tour of Europe, and will gscape the inevitabie deluge of letters from people who also have Strads for sale. ‘These people write by the hundreds, deluded by the fact that many thou- sands of copies have been made for | cheap sale, each carefully marked | inside “Antonius Stradivarius, Facle- bat, A.D. 1723" or some other likely date. Virtually every authentic Stradi- varius which has survived is not only known, but pedigreed. The instrument Spalding has bought is a case in point. It was made in 1722, and for many years was owned by Artot, the once famous violinist. Later it came into the possession of Fal- con de Rinuccini, one of the in- credibly numerous first prize winners at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1842 the Lafont family of France bought the “Artot,” and it was in their possession up to the time it CH —Copywright, A. P. Wirephoto. was added to & musical concern's collection. Spalding bought it from this company. EX-LIQUOR OFFICIAL HELD FOR MURDER Fatal Shooting of Woman in Ho- tel Room Laid to Suspended Officer. Bv the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, September 19.— Police gathering additional evidence in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Ernestine (June) Roebuck Montgomery, 34, to- day charged Almon Bogardus, 63, suspended head of the Cincinnati of- fice of the State Liquor Enforcement Division, with her death. Bogardus was served with a war- rant charging murder in the hotel room where Mrs. Montgomery was found mortally wounded Thursday. He quickly arranged for his release on $7,500 bond, reiterating his pre- vious statement that Mrs. Montgom- ery shot herself and that he had not quarreled with her. Bogardus repeated his statement that Mrs. Montgomery came -to his room Thursday morning saying she was tired and wished to sleep. While he was in the bath room, Bogardus said, Mrs. Montgomery took his pis- tol from a dresser drawer and shot- herself. C., SEPTEMBER 20, Some of the wreckage was carried more than —Star Staff Photo. DUCK DEPRESSION Depletion of Wild Fowl| Remedied by Restricted Kill, Survey Says. By the Associated Press. The Biological Survey yesterday re- ported the duck depression is on the mend. Drastic depletion of the duck, which led the Government to step in and impose conserving limits on shooters last year, has been remedied sub- | stantially by restricted kill and a good | | breeding season this year, survey | | officials said. They said there was no way to tell | just how great the percentage of in- | crease in the waterfowl was, but that | it could be put down as “substantial” because of the greater number which | escaped slaughter last year to return it.o their breeding grounds in the Spring. This year's Middle Western drought was discounted by survey officials as a depleting factor in the current supply of the fowl, inasmuch as 75 to 80 per cent of the ducks are hatched north of the wheat belt in this country and Canada. Drought in Canada since 1929, how- ever, and overshooting in this country were the principal causes of the duck depression, which led the Biological Survey to clamp restrictions on the yearly kill in this country. The one-month duck shooting season this yvear opens as early as October 10 in some States, and in others on November 1 and Novem- ber 25. NEW MAIL SERVICE Special D'spatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 19.—An additional outgoing mail in the evening now is available to patrons of the Hyattsville Post Office, it is announced by Egbert F. Tingley, acting postmaster. The new dispatch in- cludes mail to all points, that is de- posited at the post office by 6:30 p.m. The added service was arranged through the co-operation of Smith W. Purdum of Hyattsville, Fourth Assist- ant Postmaster General. Bee Swarm Alights On Team of Horses And Two are Hurt By the Associated Press, PAYSON, Utah, September 19.—Here’s what happened when & swarm of bees, hunting a new home, alighted on a team of horses. The horses plunged into an aviary of 75 hives. Rancher David Bona, attempting to halt the runaways, was badly stung. Arthur Bona, 22, caught under the wagon, was bruised, but escaped the bees by diving into & canal. One of the horses was stung so severely it may die. Want A BETTER SPARK PLUG? 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In a year dedicated to pan-Ameri- canism, Germany has moved ahead of the United States ss the leading source of exports to Brazil, a nation which has been one of the chief American markets, an unpublished Department of Commerce report dis- closed yesterday. The value of the goods taken from this country by Brazil has declined by more than half from 1926 to the present. Ralph W, Ackerman, United States commercial attache at Rio de Janeiro, airmailed the department an 80-page memorandum on “The Changing Character of American Exports to in which he made this ob- servation: “Until 1934, the United States was the unchallenged leading supplier of Brazil's requirements, Great Britain nominally ranking second and Ger- many third. During 1934 and 1935, Germany improved its position sub- stantially. “PFigures on the first three months of 1936 disclose that the value of German sales to Brazil were within 1 per cent of the American sales and it is believed that figures for the first six months of the present year will show that Germany is now Brazil's leading supplier.” Prediction Is Upheld. Latest figures, unavailable when rman sent his report, uphold his prediction. Yesterday'’s news bulletin of the American Brazilian Associa- tion shows imports from Germany for the first half of 1936 amounted in value to 3,223,451 British gold pounds, compared with the United States’ 3,216,682 pounds. This costly inroad by Germany, made possible, according to Ackerman, by German industrial and shipping subeidies and by Germany's refusal to admit imports which are not equally balanced by exports, was re- vealed just a month before repre- sentatives of North, South and Cen- tral American countries are to gather in Buenos Aires to effect a closer unity among the peaples of the West- ern Hemisphere. “Especially important in improving the position of Germany has been the effect of the indirect subsidies through foreign exchange manipulation, that is, the use of the so-called ‘aski’ mark,” said George Wythe, chief of the Latin American section of the Bu- reau of Foreign and Domestic Com- merce. Brazin took $95.499,000 worth of United States goods in 1926, when it | was buying extensively as a result of heavy international borrowing, and only $43,617,614 worth in 1935. Acker- man attributes much of this swift de- cline in position to Brazl's vigorous domestic development policy, waged with high tariffs and subsidies to home industries and for diversification of agriculture. This internal expansion resulted from the disturbance of international markets at the end of the 1920s, which proved a serious blow to a country 20 dependent on export crops as Bra- | zil. But despite this domestic indus- trialization, the second Republic of America still requires many commodi- ties from abroad. The result is a struggle among industrial exporters, with Germany not the only benefici- ary. Ackerman pointed out: “Japanese participation in the Bra- zillan market is rapidly expanding, and, with the improvement in the steamship service made necessary by growing shipments of Brazilian prod- ucts, further impetus will be given to this movement.” Wythe commented that there has been some recession in Japanese trade in recent months, attributable to Japan's disposition to sell abroad with- out buying abroad. Now, however, the eastern empire is increasing the amount of its imports from South America. Course of Experts. Ackerman traces the course of American exports to Brazl of indi- Leaving Spain ALFRED F. NUFER, Commercial attache in charge of the Commerce Departe ment’s Trade Promotion Bu- reau at Madrid, and one of several Americans reported to have left the Spanish capi- tal to return to the United States aboard the cruiser Quincy. Nufer announced he was closing his bureau because of the perilous situation. —A. P. Photo. vidual commodities from 1926 to 1935, with an occasional reference to the first few months of the current year, and in almost every instance, except agricultural equipment and automo- tive vehicles and accessories, the com- petition of Germany is cited. The attache’s resume reports: Iron and steel—“This year Amer- ican steel concerns have lost to the Germans many attractive orders for steel sheets and plates, galvanized sheets, barbed wire, steel tubes, rails and accessories. Exemplifing the se- verity of the competition, during 1934 Poland secured & number of large rafl orders from different railways by underquoting American and other competitors, whereas during late 1935 and early in 1936 Polish mills were unable to meet German price com- petition.” Tin plate—“American manufac- turers were especially successful in improving their position against com- petition during 1933, 1934 and early| in 1935, but toward the end of the latter year sales were also affected | by the favored position of German manufacturers subsidized by the gov- CANADA'S EXPORTS 100, 5. INCREASE America’s Imports Top Sales to Northern Neighbor, Report Shows. By the Associated Press. The Agriculture Department reporte ed yesterday that Canada, with which this country entered into a reciprocal tariff-cutting agreement the first of this year, sold more goods to the United States in July than it bought here. United States imports from Canada for the month were valued at $30.- 715,000, an increase of $6,989,000 over July, 1935. Of this gain agricultural products accounted for $4,978,000 and other commodities, $2.011,000. Canadian imports from the United States were placed at $29,961,000, an increase of $2,837,000 compared with the same month last year. Of this gain farm products accounted for only $14,000, non-agricultural products, $2,« 823,000. Imports of Canadian farm products on which this country granted duty concessions gained 235 per cent in July over the previous year, while those of other Canadian farm products were up 89 per cent. Increases over July a year ago were reported in United States imports of Canadian cattle, cheddar cheese, poul- try, maple sugar, hay and horses. Ade vancing American prices, the depart« ment said, undoubtedly accounted for much of the total increase. The department added that Cana- dian purchases of United States farm | products on which duty concessions were made increased 48 per cent in July over the same month last year, while purchases of farm products on which the duty was unchanged dee clined 27 per cent. | These figures, the department econe omists wrote, indicated “the conces« sions secured from Canada have tend- ed to maintain the flow of the items 50 affecte: KREMLIN CALLS HALT | Warns Against Wholesale Dis- missals in “Purge.” MOSCOW, September 19 (#) —The Kremlin tonight ordered a halt to “vindictive excesses” in the Come munist party purge which follower the execution of 16 confessed plotters against the Stalin regime in August. Admitting that “house cleaning” in ernment, who, shipping through Dutch | and German ports, became a leading contender for the business.” | Dyestuffs—" While further expan- sion will undoubtedly occur in the Barzil market for dyestuffs, so long as German manufacturers are subsi- | dized by the German government, the | trade with the United States mn“ suffer.” Sale of Machinery. The same story is told by Acker- man for knitting mills equipment, | shoe machinery, and power driven ma- chinery for metal working plants, woodworking machinery, sugar mill | equipment. As for railway rolling | stock, the United States and Germany sold about an equal amount in 1926, | but in 1935 this country soid six loco- motives for $268,000 while Germany sold 52 locomotives for $1,146,000. | Belgium did the bulk of the small business in railway cars. America is still leader in airplanes aid airplane parts, although several European countries are offering in- struction in their schools to Brazilien fiyers, according to Ackerman. Most of the wheat trade has been los: to Argentina, with Brazil now a heavy manufacturer of its own America has lost to New Zealand, Canada and the Argentina in the fresh fruit market, but it is still the leader {in the more important field of elec- | trical equipment and accessories, with | the rapidly expanding radio market | leading the way in the latter fleld. | Other flelds in which the United States is still leader in Brazilian im- | ports are these: Mining machinery, highway main- | talnance equipment, typewriters, cash flour. | the outskirts may have resulted in the dismissal of some innocent Soviet citizens from their positions, govern- ment leaders warned subordinates honest vigilance was preferred to “re- venge and expulsions just to make & showing.” s registers, rubber goods, silk and rayon, sewing machines (but here again Ger | many is making rapid increases), mo« tion picture films, phonographs, weighe ing scales. “To maintain their markets In Brazil for products which are being shut out by the tariff protection policy | or which can only meet foreign com- | petition if manufactured or processed | within Brazil, some American manu- | facturers are also finding it advan- | tageous to resort to domestic manu- | facture of finishing,” Ackerman re- | lated. | | ADVERTISEMENT. 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