New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1926, Page 1

1 5 News of the World ‘AT8IQVT 93BIS 121309UL By Associated Press ‘uuo)) ‘pioj3Ivyy “daq 3Ap K¢ W BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 13’469 ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, Sept. 18th .. —_————— 1 PRICE THREE CENTS CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES 600 TO 1500 ARE REPORTED DEAD, LOSS MAY BE 200 MILLIONS, WHEN | URRICANE SWEEPS OVER FLORIDA | DEWEY NAMED FOR SHERIFF DESPITE SPIRITED BATTLE BY NEW BRITAIN DELEGATES h;;umbe;}tf ot NEW BRITAIN FOLKS ouse, astonbury N HURME AREA Candidate, Who is Supported by Local yyyy Reidents of This ity G.0.P. I Visiting Devastated Region Ingratitude Toward ‘Hard-?FRIENDS SHOW ANXIETY ware City’ and Failure| - . Lack of Communication With Miami to Keep Promise to Re- and Adjoining Districts Add to tire Cited Against Him. Suspense—Mother and Five Chil- ectal to the Herald.) Hartford, Sept. 20 — A spirited drive to ride Sheriff FEdward W. Dewey out of office for alleged in- | | | l dren Not Heard From. | Optimism mingled with anslety is felt by New Britain residents who have friends and relatives in Flori- da who have 1 especlally those titude toward the City of New g loved ones in the storm s RBritain, in his refusal to appoint | former Police Chict William J. Raw-| Many New Britain people, th lings of that city as one of his de- |number being variously estimat putics, fell 12 votes short of success | from 50 to 100 have vis Miami oday at the pepublican county con- vieinity d th ¢ vention in this city. | Most of these have return but Dewey overcame the opposition | some of them still are there. In some s friends have not yet heard of return home of the travels cdless anxiety Is felt for the in New re of which 1} been built up Rritain, Glastonbury and e defeated Eugene M. Hou stonbury, 61 to 39 votes. people who are in their homes. Insinuation that Dewey did not| Mr. and Mrs, John T. Baker of “play with House, and an in-| 490 East strcet are concerned over of ingratitude in his deal- | the f: th the city of New Brita era high spots in a vigorous of their oris, a ste vifad prothers Ce mad who Miss Rackl nt to Miami has not been heard storm and efforts to nomination of Ho nry Hunt of Glaston! rom since attributed the sheriffis election two | got ynto touch with her have been vears ago to the efforts put forth in [ ir o? Ol ¥'s behalt the Hardware | : Ione Eavronnd ity ) *aulson 4 Sm Credits Victory to New Britain X o g e Declaring that Dewey entered New 1 Mrs. David Paul- Britain a loser by more than 1,600 e iraed votes on the basis of his L P e Db ORca s elewhere in ¥ ord county, 5 mair been heard claimed the rep an organiz = in New Bri “ i ey en and Mrs. Charles Yessin of | And v n e , Hartf 1 avenu nxinosly oHEie : \ r word from their son, Har vas asked to appoint as one of hig|*Wallng W L ] deputies one of the ablest men in ok that city, and a gentleman. But, 5 for so 1son unknown to t ty . 4 P ew Britain, n to t appointed some yublican or- ganization. That W e gragituc splayed to the organization that 1 night and day to elect him,’ speaker shouted. ppointme that ol Lckson- 1 that gram that the trio w out of the storm area, a Racklific Not so cheering is the surrounding Mr, and M and five children of this city, are located in Miami. Mrs. Wolf the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. deputy lican ve ex-Chie vho was Britain to lings named had failed. Koplowitz of 38 Dewey strec Hunt was the man who nominated | ¥Friends of Edmund J. Cooga Dewey for office four years ago. At | clerk the post office here, w that time, he told the convention,|had gone to Miami to work, ¢ House wi w from the race at|pressed rn this morning unt the request of Sheriff Dewey and the t the high cost of st torney’s office , and went had driven Mr. Coo through the county helping D Kk to New Brit and h This, Hunt declared terests of the republican part Dewey Promised to Retire George W. Corbin end Continuirg, the House spokesman |daughter, Mrs. Richard Pinches, are sald visiting in Florida .Althou “The republican party of Line land and out of the st of McKinley, or Roosevelt 1)rs. Pinches was known Coolidge was never bu ited Miami last week. promises or unfulfilied pledges. planned to return to Deland Jriday has advanced by ‘fair play.’ No word has been received by “I agk you if this is fair play:|relatives from Edward 1. McEnro Although it was not announc formerly of this c vas 1 unde 4 his residénce at M House was to be a candid st b that he wonld not be opposed by Mr. | Roly Dewey. I was present when that un- | ek derstanding was reached. - Under-1i (ulirornia tand me, House was not promised | are MeEnroe the nomination, but he was assured e would not be opposed by Dewey. In the month of August, while Mr. House was about his duties in the county building, he was injured. He |00 Arrests, Record for was taken to the Hartford hospital ('“‘~, I\Iudc in “CCk-End mi Beach, Mr. McEnroe and their reached Miami R after having spent th summer formerly owned a (Continucd on Page 15.) vhere he lay unconsclous for sever- e e al days. While he lay there in t o L L hospit unconseious, D¢ TR ke L ; 1, nounced himself a candidate for the ce be- tween 11:45 a. m. § 10 o'clock la tlons in the city bad, however, as t V| dic for the tivities would have showr offi “Was t at ‘fair play?’ Tn the spirit of ‘fair play’ I ask that you nom- inate Eugene W. House of G bury who has served the tow efficient police officer and the coun- ty as an efficient county officer. total of arrests not in excess The nomination of Sherfff Dewey| ©0f a normal period but for made by Col. William C.] rald on a Spanish hotel on ney of Manchester. Lafayette street, where ar- | re made shor Sexton Clerk of Convention. v ly after | Robert A. Griffing of Hartford,| 1 a. m. Sunday, and seven | chairman of the county committec, [ more in the same place when | opened the convention at 11:13 Ofii Feency went to the | o'clock. Bromage, former place last evening investigat- chict of police of Enfleld, was elect-[ ing another case, only to find | ed chairman, and Attorney Michael| an alleged gambling game in | A. #exton, chairman of the New| full swing. Britain delegation, was elected as The offenses for which the clerk. record number of arrc New Britain and Bristol voted| made are listed by the solidly for House; Plainville and| as follows Southington cast their lot with Dew- Drunkenness, &; motor vehi- ey; Newington went for House, and| cle law violations, 9; assault Berlin split, giving a vote to each and breach New Diritain delegates were: M. A.| proper conduc Sexton, Mre, A. G. Crusberg, Claude| gambling house J. Leroux, Willlam J. Rawlings, Mrs. gambling trespa ing, 2; evading jitney fare, 1. Total, 56. s were police | | frequenting keeping house, (Continued on Page 13) andling letters in the lo- [« who now has | residents of the coast made prepars STORM SWEEPS ON OVER PENSACOLA ‘Gale Attains Velocity of Hun- dred Miles an Howr as it Rages Onward SOME OF FIERCE STORM | Weather Bureau Sends Out Addi- | tlonal Warnings—Tourists Flecing | | From Path of Storm by Train And | | Automobiles — (‘mnmunl.nmmJ With Stricken Arcas Hampered, ' Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 20 (P—| A radio message from Warrior | service boat tw north of Mobile said that communication with Mobi |been lost t and that the s rapidly gaining in N the river ithern Bell Telephone ph con reported lines out to Mobile from the no Rain v Pensacola Hit | Jacksonville, Fla., A hurricane riding a n hour swept into Pr ter 11 o'clock ta Bell Telephone cor ed by Pensac Storm Waraings 7] m. center moving inland close to Per 1 Mot At the S o'clock t Pensacola 29.10 inches; t said the a shor |barometer lwina one hundred miles The weather bur storm was central at 8 a. m., ce south of Pensacola, Il nter will move finland this noon, the report sa the storm will advance northward over Al ma and extreme eastern Mis- idly diminishing in- | e warnings remain | 0od, to rtlic distan The for sippi with rat ity. Hurrica dsplayed from Apalachcola, Fla. pt. 20 (P — Al ith P were made to com- he city by radio from tennae at the locas ged by the high | t out of comm.s- | nsacola has tempor: Tocation of City { sacola is located on Pensacola. | v, a body of water 12 miles lonz 1 four miles wide. Pensacola Ty is into the Gulf of Mextco, Th- info the Gulf is de- ed by Fort Pickens on the west | nd of Santa Rosa felind. Tort Bar- mainland, north of 3 On t inland one t of Fort Barancas lies the consist. ow entrar aneas is on on and Wool the navy vard wi ¢ approximately A westward h Tloric vastation ar «trike Pensa- [cota across om the oL N the | had 5 in the last | 1t Oper: 7 ng 1 + (e | troopers guarding the city have th — orlg le man was too exhausted | Although not protected hy an |situation well in a. 12 8 2 e ¥ x | i s Iabagnc: 1L the ety is pro- | | Numerous Connecticut People in Storm Swept Areas— Pl et LB D). teeted from inta Rosa | Red ss Ready | % 4 % e ST ; it suffere ere 5 bl Th Y i et gton, 20 (P Hartford Insurance Company Officials Awaiting | out the storm swept e consiaerable height | nation-wide relief machinery c e | T g T3 { og | v BL R el e e reRie Details of Damage With Keen Interest. West Coast Fscapes [sbovo. the wators « e GRS west coast of Florida, ale | Six Towns Cut Off [the thousands oo in the grip of a 75 to 90- 3 ey Fla., S 20 (P—| homeless in th e ke b o n ale for seyeral hours Satur- Efforta te communicate by telephone i palatial resi R g day afternoon, escaped with com- 1 with six towns northwest and near m a score of sources Its|Alfred Mitchell, of sl & has paratively sl damage and ne 1 Pensacola reported to be Inethe new ily marshalled forces sped to |er-in-law of United TR A% o iimaze e 2 e ‘rr":.;vnrh-ll‘l‘v Tred mile hour | the rae | st of Casualties path of a hundred:mile an t e of the While | jram Bingham, on Tirickwell ave- | property oy say wires at the ag: gale, were unavailing up to late this| other of its units at were | s (RS ) i e et e Mi ,‘, Known dead, 194; known forenoo T ¢ company of-|preparing supplies to be shippc HH“] fami, w ally de : R g : I red, 75; &-:vnlx\ injured, 250, 4 HEIRA eenos t wire trcuble|to the devastated Miami are. [& “l; 11 s il Jl T gents in A 3 . ”\I[’\ ,'3’,‘1‘ lulw‘ i vr‘m;\\ 1a~;s‘. 4, 12 was acute in i 1 for ton came quickly (|0 '”jl ]" m‘ ‘\j “‘”1"‘ "“ or Jacksonville have not trar 0 l“. 1 Bes .1' \n]‘m;:“:‘.;r,wmi; ST 20 (P | o i John W. Martin of | i} o rominent New London resi-|mMitted information of in nce. |six feet of water rushed over the [injured, 20; estimated serlously fng obile i, < orlde, A phone message | . | Wind storm insurance app wuseway el T8 R weather burean here reported at M6 YelalE b eceaitive wanelon dente was reported to have been | el S Rl Rt xx‘nwl\ ‘Ju.nll\ i n_m..‘],_g“y nm:_ i 7:20 o'clock that the wind veloclty) at Tallahassee had made an urgent | d¢stroved. There are a great many | (€60 M0 85 RO, 08 8 PEO rle bent in the R i e . ached one hundred miles an |, e | New Londoners residing in the Lt 5 REaLas o C . L ted dead, 200; known seriously had reached one hundr ppeal for help. He au a latorm. went. aven! from Swhom ol o lines do not apply to acct the 14 story Meyer Kiser | jnjured, %0; estimated seriously ine hour at Pensacola National Red Cross headquarter g ‘r r;]”vmmw'mmv whi are caused by what " Another Miaml |jured, 100. Homeless 3,000 Tourists Tlecing ""]"“ 1'“(”"” complete ch of b it Bt |in law is termed “an act of God.” |structure, the Miami Daily Nev 17 Mlywood_Known' dead, 80siacs ourists L | all relief work. ST Most of the companies here have | build damage to its | timated deac VR BN New Orleans, La., Sept. 20 ®—| Complying with his request | Ensurance ‘OMicers; Auxlous 1.\,, bidiNessl initiies va tated | celebrated tower. Birines 15 i ) ,k.’\‘,orn ";mu;‘o’ 4§ Flecing bef the approaching|crt . Parker, head of the | Hartford, 0 (A — Insur-| Wotidn o Shile e |in ) 18 ik Mnniuro , 300, storm, hundreds of New . Orlean®| crosg unit in Atlanta, Ga., was di- | g . EEETIIRT te glass as woll as fire insur-| THRE w;sl\\nAdond [} residents left the resbrt cities of the | rected to ship six car loads o Mississippl coats last night for &/ plies at once to Miami and to pre here, par haven in their homes While non-residents left the eft tions for the blow, belleved headed (fontinued on Page 3) . AND ALSO MOBILE. BIRMINGEAN ALSO GETS | Special Trains Carrying Nurses, i < st Reports Conflict ¥ ad bui A Yo Tte ter| Conflicting reports were received AT resceinontion orf 2 . Moorehaven and Clewiston, , Hollywood. vod well above | 4 chase d 5 il S e e st R T suth and west shores of : 4 5 P. Pool, Hollywood. i s 1 quantities. Okeechobee. Refugees reach- Florida will be offered by € 20 e moll \ down or ing Sebring said that only the brick | when a special traln with doet Teui do: BNl vood b glass «11 i e Sl came through the gale u d supplies will spe s S Moo 5 | ; \ \d that wreckage was n 1 supplies will speed to- I(. w]‘m,,i 1%1:‘ Force of Wind Awful 1 the SUreets, | irewn over a wide area. They said ward the southern s this af of Mrs. Moore, Danl | GtAne i e oad without a 3 : SRS : i i JERET ; Sonindiuanans Sx D. m. Both | the Mavflower hotel at Moorehaven noon. Officials of the Tllinois Cen ful. Outside our windows we could Deach are withe | ¥as turned completely around and y tral cooperating with the CI e o o trees TRt : hign | that numerous small ‘buildings | New Britain Chapter, American Red Cross, Accepts Contributions For Florida Relief SP EBTAT”RS TELL ) jUntold Thousands Homeless and Injured May |n HARROWING TALES | Total 50,000 — Miami, West Palm Beach, Contributions for the relief of hu ing recelved by the New Brit are be- 1 Cross. n I Curtis L. Sheldon, chairman of t} received the follow | a o A ""_2,’.”;,“‘” i []l_‘ AWHJ[ l] AMAGE* Hollywoed and Other Noted Winter Social v S o W o | | Centers Devastated — Roads Strewn With e oo | Hummicane Slices Top Floors Bodies — Troops Called Out to Aid Salvage by Leon A tre Trust Co. All money contribu to Washington. in for t | aster — Heavy Concrete Benches Partial List of Dead and Injured Wkt ») I"oll Chicago’s Health Commis- Blown Through Air As If They Were Bits of Paper, sion in Charge of One Organization on Way— Nation-wide Relief Ma-/ chinery of American Red Cross Functioning— <" on, Mia wrz, Mi . Miami Watts, Hialea Roberts, Miaml y | blown down acros rison, Miami. i ,T‘\‘ i teidgl) Governor Phones Appeal for Help. | From Brick Buildings as Work as Red Cross Rushes Relief. iI Cut by Razor e e | i The first news dispatch received direct from the storm | P | shattered city of Miami since the district estimated the dead at NEWSPAPERMEN BATTLE ]"‘t“"l‘l“.' ””‘t' il‘}“i 1[-'-‘"”»1 These figures did not include the | TO E W ((\_\:1(1 ies a . tr1.L Laud (’ld‘"le, .\\hm(j 100 were reported dead, 5 % or at Moorehaven 75 miles northwest of Miami, where huge DOCtOTS and Sllpplles Speedl"g ‘[ ELEMENTS G T NE S‘\‘:u\us from Lake Okeechobee took a heavy human toll. ol 0 t A '(I S ff . Fl 0d | Climb for Miles Through Mud and | Untold (hmr:nml.l\‘)n\‘\")o(:g i18:31~-{?v(:x]:'::1(11(‘1(!‘10 injured were es- n 0 1 u ererS lfl Orl a | Wreckage to Get to Scene of Dis- | timated at 25,000 to 50,000, —_— [ - - Continuing its path of devastation, the tropical hurricane that struck the Florida east coast Friday night, crossed the everglades and roared out into the Gulf of Mexico, today was striking at Pensacola, according to meager advices received just before that city was isolated from communication advices . | from Pensacola, at the extreme northwest tip of Florida, said t|a 100-mile gale was blowing this morning and the barometer - | reading was Hal Damage Mounts to Millions Two staff correspondents of The Associated Press, arriving in Miami by airplane, estimated the damage in that section at 0,000,000, making the total property toll of the tropical on | storm perhaps $200,000.000. Two hundred children, separated from their families, were wandering through the ruins of their homes in Miami, the newspapermen reported while the roads leading to West Palm with automobiles filled with refugees. tracks. W s be- Beach were crowded | President Issues v Roberts, Miaml, | “ e (" e -‘»"“ Tampa | Feq f“'. the )u.xl(}h of many clvxh!u_n were 111@\alont because [ Tisher, Miami [ iR et R EAT of lack of water, milk and proper sanitary conditions. Appeal to Public To Aid Suffere e | News Ts Lacking guarded the the hurricane’s toll in terdale, said to have been aviest sufforers. rsons were in- ami b, fiying debris nine hour storm, a lman conductor reported. He lywood onty said the wind tore heavy galvan- A wall of silence Brief, Graphic Items From the Storm Zone | 20 (P today ap- rican pe President pealed to ts to come to the 4 assistance of il By the Aswociated Press rers in the cretary Governor Ma sposal of S bachcs Blown Abcat br r being ized irori sheets from the roofs o¢ He in- ki | el e el buildi 4 carried them about Hagood Ee ot paper. were pick ply of food T neces- | | iR drinige ad lines have been formed in 3 nitted u has been | Miami and severe penalties fixed 3 ler army A sury army su | for hoard city is unde and profiteering. The martial law and no of city oflicia y was cut s to prey one is allowed on the strects at night of foodstuffs and s led to some unless on ur; business. one 1t wou re wrecked reaching Lakeland from id most of erald and Examiner are spc the train. to mak LA | A m Moore operate eme nerators. lay a mass of Funds for the relief of the in i aven, however, s jured and homeless thousands wer Rt e | A coast guard destroyer wag |the bulldings were standing. Esti- ¥ secured by appeals broadcast over| Gordon Brown, = he dam- | @ ashed aehore by the high waves |Males of the death toll in this sec- | local radio stations. Wit a few| Unidentified negro, Ojus, AU e TRat ne Nt ARtk 50 to 100, The | er first me . rs. Sarah Head, 86, Hc dnsiidioe L abanaed 3 sent out more tha had Roge tr liasa e i s were arrive fon today, of food and ent calls had been ead-and an appeal ment to handle 300 Fort Lauderdale. en pledged. newspaper expeets Dr. Herman N commissioner of ( placed in charge of By was a large Murlen Brown, 4, Hollywood. H. G. Luther, 45, Hollyw Unidentified negro, 50 doctors and nurses. i S blankets, food and scores of 1 J. J . 65, Miami I INOTIEln s g e More Shipping Damage 3 i 7 i T {, Miaml, still strong, [ W 1 o roof | daltlohal renott g sities will be 1 ot 3 L steene 10 gty itional reports today told of 1 along with meq | 1 dead, Hialeah. Awiivs dlying f£2 i m mage to shipping 4 e | ieaar cast coast. Several wk Loads of Tood Soide | oners were reported in dis- West Palm Beach, Sept (175 < e U ss and hundreds of small craft 1 piled up on the shore. ntificd man who swam sald he was a member of 3 than 75 truckloads o ater, milk and bread have heen railroac topped for ‘Two Palatial Homes of Senator Bingham’s Mother-In-Law Wrecked ./ 1 100 yarc g crew of a schooner wrecked Taleoit ar Fort Lauderdale. He left his e on board with both arms E a ne s back broken and a com- ches from 4 the swim per- Miami say the | who star e Peking American 8 TS were w York, Sept. 20 (—Officials [none of them seriously, nticipate [ gun boat Pigeon in- | day morning whi | i known seriously. injured, 50 to 100, estimated serious= when the |y injured, 150. Estimated homeless, s fired on Sun- | §00, passing the city | Ojus: woun THE WEATHER dlemands of the situation were insurance com 8 in Florida hurri New Britain and vicinity— Generally fale tonight and aples W, an -Known dead, 1; estimated #* ] to send more as soon fis the ! \ ‘ | (| legrams called together all of Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. | volving property damage, plate glass |of Hany on the Yangtzeo river, | dead, 6; estimated seriously injused, —_— & l — | according to rellable foreign tele- (Continued on Page Three) (Contlnued on Page Three) grams from Hankow. (Continued on Page 16§ juj