New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1930, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN HERALD Pages 11 to 18 NEW B — — RITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1930. Correspondents Find Difficulty’ Getting Facts In Area'Stricken By Earthquakes and Confusion Newspapermen Take Own Food When Visiting Cit- ies Facing Hunger Be- cause of Lack of Com- munications. The following Story tells how the news of the Italian earth ke was gathered and filed by United Press correspondents in the face of the greatest diffieulties, givige American nefvspapers an accurate story of the great disaster in record time. The speed with which the news was gath- ered is an ini@resting comparison with the Messina earthquake in 1908, when it ava more than a week be- fore the extent of the disaster was even vaguely ®nown Rome, which has July (UP)~The zone suffered in the Italian earthquake is in the midst of a mountain region, where protlems of nsportation of provisions and re- lief supplies are difficult Thomas B. Morgan, United Pre: manager for Italy with headquarte in Rome, who was the first corres pondent to reach the stricken made his head are arters in -the town of Benevento, the best available cen- | < ter of communication. Irom there | he traversed the earthquake zone by wiotor car. The distance between Benevento Ariano is 25 miles whjle Villano- va i3 Jocated on a secondary road miles from the main road. Virtually all of the towns in the region are #ituated on mountain tops, a relic of the medieval custom of ldcating towns high up in the mountains to render defense easier. None of the towns which have suffered severely is on the main na- tional highway except Ariano. Towns - mall roads which with heavy grades up the mountains, from the heights of which one can see for miles around try correspondent found the peasants of these mountain top vil- lages faced the greatest Mifficulty in procuring supplies. They had to trave}. great distances to reach cen- ters where provisions could be pur- chased Peasants Need Food When Morgan reached Montecalvo he first heard the cry for more bread and came to realize the posi- tion of the inhabitants, who' had to descend the mountain and then as- cend another before they could reach a center of supply. The nearest towns where provi- sio) e available in the earthquake zone are Benevento or Avellino and all of the stricken area is at lea miles’ distant from them. The ma- jority of Yhe towns are ordinamily out of touch with centers ation except for occasional abitants The town of Zungoli is 10 from the main road and the trip to it is usually made by motor, bus rting from Avellino and callfng ngoli. The whole area the its is rough and primitive, pe ts living almost entirely from the fields. isolation of such towns as Villanova, Zungoli and Montecalvo prevented authorities from knowing the exact situation i arlier. Personal visit by offi- was necessary before they fully nderstood the gravity of the situa- miles ts of their This normal When the United epondent reached that 4 already learned could be bought tr ried his own food with car from Benevento ravels In left Rome W morning, realized gravity of Lt quake disaster. Arriving at he Yhired a car and drove to th of age in Naples. Re- turning to the telegraph office t cabled his story and caught the Xt train for Benevento. Arriving at Benevento ned the extent of the damage re, forwarded his news and left by automobile for Ariano where ke arrived at 4 p. m. There he in- spected the ruins, worming his way through streets filled “with debris | and then proceeded to Villanova, 10 miles distant where he was the first newspaperman to discover that the dead would be counted by thou- sands, getting the news to American | afternoon papers of Wednesday. IMspecting the ruins of Villanova, Morgan climbed over debris in dan- ger any minute from falling wails or collapsing floors. Often he was warned by carabineers but he climb- ed to the highest point in the town from which he could view the sur- rounding region. urning to Ariano. he tried to telegraph a story from there but the temporary post office in tho public square already was swarmed with messages and he continued back to Benevento, whence he sent his story to the Rome office of the United Pre Inspects Encampments During the flight he inspected the | encampments where the population | was sleeping out of doors, and ths | following morning resumed his tour | of the stricken region. Meanwhile, Edward A. Storer, one Morgan’s assistants in the Romc also had'left for the strick- He pushed great devas- His way was by disrupted Press corr region no supplics | and he car, him in ne his Auto® on the first when hs carth- Naples Morgan tr n ine a scene da n he ascer- t at of bureau. en regions Wednesday through to Melfi, tation frequently blocked raflway lines and highw but ne reached Melfi on Thursday and got | out the first direct story from there | by telephone to Rome. Other regular correspondents at | various towns in the stricken re- | | Robert H Baird is re | ticns concerning him. T | roadside in Columt lice recovered | gion communicated their news eith- |er to Morgan at Benevento or to {the Rome bureau, where Franci Rea had remained in charge of the stafl. While Morgan filed much| matter direct to New ¥York via \A. ples, the greater bulk bf the earth- quake story was assembled handled through Rome by Rea and !'his assistants. REPUBLIGANS MAY | LEAVE JOB VACANT | Pomion/o[ 0Id Guard Unfavor- able to Fess-Lucas Washington, July 26 strenuous objections are leaders to the nator Simeon D. ceed Claudius H man of ¥ mittee, it is believed likel may be permitted to for the present Although the proposed Ies: combination being discussed favorably today by nearly all of President Hoover's closest friends nd advisers, some senators of the so-called old guard are declining to endorse this ticket The idea of the temporarily at raised . by plan to have Fess of Ohio suc- Huston the post n vacant was Hoover least, group is to make cky chair- tional executive com- corresponding tq that Shouse in the demo- tion such an now missioner, would be form the more Loth posts, while chiefly in and Lucas of Kent man of the nittee, ¢ organiz I'nder Lucas arrangement, revenue com- expected to per- rduous duties of ess would act capacity. {dered ar being dis- cussed in connection with the chair- manship, but thus far they have not med the proportions of serious contenders for the position. Hustor ed that he will resign on n the party's executive eets to choose his suc- well as to perform other tties inter an advisor; Others Cor Numerous others s o Augy committee 1 cessor a routine d Among those mgntioned id tor David Baird of New Jersey a week-end guest of Mr. Hoove the president's Rapidan, Va. camp iring from the to nake way for Dwight W. the republics in New senate senatorial candidate He has fili- young guard move- republican senators acy for the dvocated t ibers of this group. Nearly all the republican leaders in congress have been or are being ntfoned possibilities in party lcaders’ discussions of Huston's suc- cessor. new and i chair- v som Moses“Objects The chief ot to the Fess- T.uca ticket nator (:-‘0\'»‘ Moses of New being followed some (s Har in B i 1d he con- when the executive com- the champions of the rrangement indicate t the post remain v do not want another fi ranks at this tim here is no act chairman this year in this connection sional election cam hands of the two congre pa and there to be done to sta troversy niittee Fess-Luca meets, They the i al need for it is @ointed out The congre gn is in ssional cam not t of n committees 1ch ing ra and appr for campaign could be handl Nutt and other off committee Most of the party leade ed now that Hustor about to resign. thus yielding to a demand for his resignation that began afte the senate lobhy committee is remai purpo: 1 by Tre ials of the re are s revela s are not concerned much about his successor. Velicka Bound Over For Carrying W eapon Walter Velicka of 1 Ann street, this city, was bound over to the September term of superior court for Tolland county late r- day afternoon after a hearing in Columbia town court on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon. He was wounded in the leg, below the knee, by a bullet from a 25 caliber pistol which he was cleaning on the rlicr in the Joseph's day, and was treated at St hospital, Willimantic. The Willimantic that Velicka, accompanied by Ar- mand Lamontagife of 250 Washing- ton street, and Venico Garofano of | 150 Smith street, this city, en to Columbia and the shooting occurred while they were stalled on acdount of engine trouble. Velicka threw the revolver away but the po- it. His companions were held temporarily on suspicion. police learned WOMEN SIT IN STREETS Caleutta, July 26 (P—In the United States they sit in trees but in India it is the street. Sixty women civil disobedience volunteers were refused permission to parade yesterday afternoon Thereupon they sat down on the pavement at 5 p. m.. following out Mahatma Gandhi's preachment of non-resistance to the authorit and there they sat all night and | day The police stood by all the while, evidently more weary and uncom- fortable over the endurance contest than the women. \ ucas | Morrow as | had driv- | to- | ' Gobi Desert Expedition Hopes to Set Origin Of Man Millions of Years Before Known Date | ON RATES []R]]ERE[] and | (GR)—It | chair- | » republican national com- | By camel where previously proof man lived nd d bones as 5, o aa( ¥ New opening history of the Roy C can Mu edition esert Now York,_ Jul wholly man apn eum of 2 now en P— Hope of pter in the objective of drews-An al History ex- route to for the first time nce to arch for ma nings in that period of time the Pliocene, which 1,000,000 years ago n 5,000,0 Man has hee 000 Years i Peiping Wo! found so I A0 t there named a full gan more ended d b 10 years ago n traced ba and He RQeveloped 1 many scient 1an 1y sts are Ince Hit by Fish Hook While Tuggmg On me Los - Ralph Ince, motion picture actor and director, wore a bandage to- day because of the removal of a e in hook that pene- trated nearly inch thto his head h st an cived al compan- Ince line nly d the ame ik him force. —_—e . BROMLEY CANCELS FLIGHT T0 Tl]KYl] Will Sail t oJapau With Plane, * injury at sea |y Ince jons were snagged in seaws broke free he hook up an poken mem- | or | —p— s proposed okyo b bandonment of a flight romley’s plan s bein on Islands w enough g he could ta to carry soline lhim to the Japanese Robert Tddie Tokyo their turn h expect capital B. Wark, and his co-pilot Brown, who plan a ¥acoma- flight continued work on plane in Seattle hoping to re re and take off Sunday. They to in the some where over Alaska or th Islands, o) refue r utian New Heat Wave Lands [ In East U ne\pectedl\ 26 (UP)—A n from July ept in west today after states had enjoyved sevemal cooler weathe New York's day wds 99 other ditic the Atlantic seabeard report degrees or above. o | Two deaths attributed to the were recorded in the New area, and three persons were ated he the he ature heat Yo v\l.BLRT CANET DEAD (P—Albert Car ‘rench Tennis Fe night after a lor Paris, July 26 president of the cration, died last illne news of which reached | forenoon, cast { French tennis players in the Cup matches although they he had not long to live. | The Davis Cup banquet which the | Franch were giving tomiorrow to players of both countri newspapermen today M. Canet had been the Fre ation M. Canet's the public onl a gloom over death this Davis knew was ¢ pre neh He rin ve playe his prime The iron h lie ¢ Circle vable in the ) averages 55 to ore fields o #rely north of re among the world, as 70 per most val- the ore s —Can® Link Disputed cent of iromn. | Roy Chapman Andrews (inset) is per f giant clephant A mebeledon gright) and )y ago. (Copyright Américan Museum of iin Gobi 1 hopes to fi Natural History.) sure he must ve been extensively distributed long before earlier | corridor o for Two seasons ago mer’'s hunt in the that the | ¢ fou tural His- expeditions has been a gosl never was to find a lo- ust as the sum- et s long sought lo- G d the catio covered t f years ago. region of ition at that fossil bones old, with tists had . r not ever. Andrews cop- too early ! the the was s with the C 1elayed i start ) RADID ANNOUNGER INTERRED TODAY Buckley Honored by Associates f—-——-— Three Women Complete 1 Mar 1leis .Iungle Jour ne\ Cape Detroit neral of Ge political 2 or July 1d E Buckley, con of ’GRMN RH]UCTI[]NS Mexican Air Regiment Leader Mexico City, July o Lezama, coi regiment, two plar collided in the five deaths, w is morning by orders of the h staff pendin the accident the victims were om each plane. The play ndball on (P —Colonel nder of the s of which day and arrested Freight Cuts Put in Operation by Commission { yester 1 caused arly an investi- Washington gation of Ifour of o cision ordering eral reduction aviators fifth was et N indl rdinin (i@ p court below Colone vas issue terstate commie was worded avoid a clash court rul reductions. ‘While the grain inquiry resolution of ed special hool ion whet W : participating in 1adrons of, nine made cor in complia con consideratior al producers findings anr cifically noted 1 cut the schedt based ngt on the resolut on /the commission’s | powers of enforcing |sonable charges for Ordered to Probe Rate Hoch-Smith congressional ition hefore preme ot year, order Kel- the co g0 ) the revo- structure of n f T 4 € ted with a view to detedmi s used plying the lowest products of agricu T e for the accident adron bet the which per- to lunch tit held the grain a knew of rticipated mor artake in them from of the ool at and ap- possible “to cted by ning Iture whose Costa BUSINESS ESS 1) UUIET Wool Market Expects More Activity During August clargd or- sles were based il . Boston July (UP)—Bu pears to be m according to of local terday been quist he review sanl rently marking d that there Wil he fi will be n nter weight wo Prices is expecte However, to effect becomes % arket locally has ith only a small Prices ar nove shoes WMBC W slain ¥ to be held today gangsters Wec day, with mag- and former business associ- as pall-bearers. those selected to act 1dge k Murphy, of the re- corder’s court. Judges Lester S. Moll and Robert M. Toms, of the circuit urt, former Judge Charles S. Bart- nd W. W. Gedge, m of station WMBC ' Police Work On Case Detroit police to solve th istrate AT WATHINS WANTS BAMBERGER BABY Father Soorns Scientific Tests Enlisting Legal Aid- ager erime Wilcox ‘declared ing to give out tion on this case sla m Watki tly for tria)." Jack Kl ator who sat lobby of the La men mn-ywl «1d by poli a ma is to appéar before Judg today on t of habe Commissioner Wilcox bted= that ier be produced to sec s and his 1 motion satistied 5 beside pic uckley hotel i shot rial a toda ind o Two Women Quizzed vome con tion Th nol n One whose name wccording to leader e he ¢ erence with 1. said, | {hoy would ke Jetroit ad. A hou hody of ' joen advised to ¢ oup of Watkin I zot family police told her n this town is mped off sodw.”" Je ind actress who k was questioned d give th impor to be t inders ley, also cers said she co 11 information ements by Buckley have in extorting mo! bling place operator ers brought protests from lead- able organizations with radio announcer had co- tending aid to the aged d minent scier J howeve 2 talked i keep the Watkins. “I cox the rated in ¢ d unemploy Mrs. Carl B president of the of women's clubs, in an open 1 sfated that Buckley asked her to a im in distributing funds n WMBC following his ay over the radio for help for ® » poor. She said Buckley arranged ©d by 1 is to be paid directly to “Well. T don® m of club women who d them blood ited them got the ri clared — eliove Brings Fire to Station And Has It Extinguished Fred Weege of Piain oper- § a motorcycle sidecar ned by the Hanson Dry Clean of Plainville, pulled up in No. 4 fire 10 t isked that a sligh chine be extinguishe micals and in ger was past wiring caused chicken in Dw ailroad Ar crisp and smoke pour building caused an alarm to fire headquarters las \large crowd was attrac ene. There was no dan to the meal, ientists or Bamberger, 1damant. “Listen,” ver too and T know going to st « As for t} the exper Chamberain Detroit federa past ion he that the Buckl his activities to tro in recall the Mayo of campaign Bowles. Two Questions Involved are two questions th would like to ask,” she wrote. “Fi why if so many pecople suspe that Mr. Buckley was blackm and racketeering, did they not con while 1 was president of the ration, or since. or to any r who would tell either the p sident or myself and warn \ cooperation with him stove why, if he w ked | F the underworld x x X X place the result of been announcec FOR Ill ST RESU I1\ SE HERALD CLASSIFIED \Ds cause 1l “There ing front and ma- A h by did it tak the recall had after to he productiog EGYPTIANS WiLL DEFY AUTHORITY Non-Cooperation Plan Adopted by Natives Wholesaler: T in production etailers report Jewelry Has Drop 1e of busi ¥ sale jeweklry for 26.—(P—EgYD 1 a trick ian n orrow to slow goods andhi's In. men’s cloth to thay ment and spe- Arrested In Fatal Plane Crash — Overnight News Was I Hollywood W Cairo — oopera Mos and one army 8 and 7 . Canad to Gréen mocratic school, ow ( planes col on progr civili in the air. Sports 0—L¢ Crou nateur Ont.—Thompson an ope th 66 New England Rev. Arthur Lot tor of Grace church reported to have accepted ed Bishop-elect Henry ill as rector of T wife an‘ police 1n Joseph B annos es cqndidac, nomination for modification Elw for govers of pr H.—Charles nan of board ndustrial barbarous nies ¢ of treatment a nock canor tally obile t blasting Fitchb; Cook, 88 of Order women's Hi injured dow of Oxford cou nd escape Bl Whitford w 4 Five even year old Nope Valley, = sitting in auto- ed from road v roc operations , Mass senior past g irs. Melissa 1 grand matron n Star of Massa- A. 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