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WEATHER.
<O. 8 W, *tivr 44ure»u Forec»*t.f
Fair tonight and tomorrow: not much
change in temperature
Temperature—Highest. 73, at noon to
day: lowest. 57. at 1 p.rn yesterday.
Full report on page 9
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and IS
V ’hi ~C”» Entered second class matter
a\ o. •>' .<( post office Washington. It <’
STORM-SWEPT D. C.
SUFFERS HEAVILY
FROM RECORD RAIN
Streets Washed Out and
Homes Are Flooded by j
8.67-Inch Fall.
MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA
RAKED BY 8-HOUR STORM '
T-il End of Florida Hurricane
C lines Away Bridges and Ma
roons Hundreds of Motorists.
A . :n-‘oririen and storm-vonry Na
tion.-.'. Capital today began taking stock
cf ts carnage it has suffered in two i
cSavs of the heaviest rain ever experi
enced in the history of this section of
th country Hundreds of flooded homes
w shed out roads and bridges, shattered
eomr.v.micatjcn systems and hundreds
oi stalled and abandoned automobiles
figured in the storm toll.
At least 10 bridges and culverts on
Uearbv highways were washed away, j
leaving impassable gaps in some of the,
principal highways leading out of this i
city to the South. At other places the ;
It ds are under water or are so badly
cv up as to b? nearly impassable.
Fair Heather in Sight.
Ah wire of flood conditions on the {
F nac River and th? assurance of no j
tror rein in th? immediate future came !
frem the Weather Bureau as th? most
cheering news of the day. Fair weather
tonignt and tomorrow, with not much ;
change in temperature, was the forecast
cf It Hanson Weightman. th? official |
fprenster, this morning.
Th' 40-hour rainfall which ended at |
p o'c'ock last night sets a record for :
all time in this locality, with a total |
of 8.67 inches of solid water. The 24- '
hour period of Saturday night and Sun
day. when the storm was at its height,
sh? tiered all records with a fall of 6 64
inches. The greatest previous 24-hour j
rainfall occurred 30 years ago to the j
day. on August 12. 1898. when there j
was a fall of 496 inches. The heaviest 1
previous 24-hour rain in this section of ;
the country fell in Alexandria. Va.. and •
v:c:~ y Stint-ember 2. 1922. when 5.16 1
inch’s was recorded dring an eight- j
fccur storm.
No Flood Danger.
R E. Spencer, acting head of the j
V," her Bureau's division of river and j
Core, declared there is no danger of !
s flood in the Potomac River, as com- j <
parativeiy little rain fell in the river’s I
headwaters The reading this morning ;,
at Key Bridge gauge in Georgetown |
•howed that the water is only 1.2 feet!
above the average mean low tide, which. ‘ i
•ccorelm? so Mr. Spencer, is "very low.” j
A*. Harpers Ferry the river is only ,
4 f' : above normal, which is of no |
tev-ortance as a flood factor. The j,
W -r?r Bureau does not feel any con- t
ccr.i until the Harpers Ferry’ readings ;
reach 19 or 12 feet above normal. In ,
th: Shenandoah Valley reports show ;
tiisi but i to 2 inches of rail fell j 1
and at Riverton, Va., the gauge showed j,
a reading of 3 feet yesterday morn- j,
ing. since when the nver has not risen : ,
appreciably
Sixty motorists, marooned at Malta- i [
w man Swamp were brought to Wash- ■
tngwn early today in busses. The j
Tr.c’orists abandoned their cars, crossed
the swamp on an improvised foot bridge I
and entered the busses.
The sto-m which wreaked so much
d'-mrg: in this city and its immediate j
v.ar.uy was the tail-end of the hur- -,
T can which ravaged the coast of Flor- 1 ‘
Ida It- «t week It appeared to have j ,
spent its force in this vicinity, as towns j \
* tv* miles to the west report nothing I:
more than normal rainstorms.
Nearby Localities.
The lower Potomac River Valley and •
eo Maryland suffered severely, i
He; ■ carnage to crops throughout the !
storm area is reported Watercraft on
the :. r ai d Chesapeake Bay were
damaged or blown ashore. Two men
*> a coal barge were reported missing.
F ur bridges in southern Maryland 1
v re washed away or inundated
s. d roads were considerably dam- i
s: ■ c Harry B Willar. jr.. assist
s chief engineer of the Maryland :
riii" Roads Commission said today!
impossible at present to give art
rstprato on the damage, but crews are I
a " ork and interruptions to traffic
f •r. veil be removed
Th? bridge on the Marlboro road ju t
*
ed ;-nd two other bridges ln prince i
4.'' oi f - County, one over Mattawoman ■
Creek sod toe other on the Allen :
T. " road are inundated and damage !
cannot be estimated until the water 1
subsides Another bridge on the south
ern Maryland road, in Charles County,
also is under water and is believed to ,
b» seriously damaged
31 Street Washouts.
There were 31 street washouts in the
a*.re'* of the District, three of them so
sen ~ , as v block traffic The Wash
ington -Ba I»imore boulevard still was .
lin’d* r water at Bl&den&burg this morn- i
in* ' rathe fording the gap
ir- .roay night rpproximately 120 j
pf t torn were rescued by policemen and j
firemen from flooded houses ln the ‘
Congo- H'-ight; area and a’ Fifty-see
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MRS. WARDMAN HURT 1
AS AUTO OVERTURNS
v ■ ■. automobile ; Kidded and
I>. o': r.'-a; V/inch'-ater Va yes- -
’hey v er« returning to
V.’.... nngton from Hot Bprings. Va.,
■.. Harry Wardman suffered a frac
t ; of try- right leg cut* and bruises
while her husband. Capital real estate
fjjierator. escaped injury.
’ The accident occurred about 2 miles
out of Winchester on the Staunton
road The machine driven by the lam- 1
jly chauffeur go' out of control in the
he a.*-’ rain, kidded off the road and
turned over when it struck a pile of
Mi Waidrnan c-xtnca’ed himself from
th- v. re< c.*d *ar and t arried ms wilt- to
i f,. roadside There tn stopped a ma
-4 » v uit-h v<e going to Winchester
fit r d d the occupants to tak-
T. the General Hospi«»l.
V, , ,u!o(U Was kept at the Los
p, o'.'-might sod brought back to
V, : , t. o 1 this morning, in a private
* , ■•mo Si;► wa.:- accompanied on
iM by he- husband and Di JC C
fc is of the Winchester Hospital.
!-- - *< f>* U> Emergency Hospital
vlb- . !.« .nbuianc* reached this thy
325 MAROONED WEEK-ENDERS
BROUGHT TO CAPITAL BY BOAT
Worst Storm in 43 Years.
Captain of Baltimore
Steamer Says.
Water-Front Resorts Dam
aged—Fishing Party
Rescued.
The stormiest passage in his 43 years
of service on the Potomac River was
‘ reported by Capt. H. A. Bohannon of
the steamship Dorchester, of the Balti
| more & Virginia Line, when he docked
I here at 8:15 o’clock this morning. Small
wharves along the river were wrecked
| and at many points motor boats and
fishing boats were driven ashore. Capt.
Bohannon reported.
Capt Bohannon picked up a party of
officials of the Potomac Electric Power
Co. after their motor boat had been
driven ashore on the Virginia side of
the Potomac bejow Pmcy Point Satur
day afternoon and took them to Piney
Point, near where their Summer camp
is located.
At Colonial Beach. Capt. Boharvion
reported, many Washingtonians were
i stranded when the storm put their
automobiles out of commission or be
: cause they were afraid to try the return
I trip over the storm-swept roads,
j "I loaded the Dorchester to the limit
i of its passenger capacity, which Is 400,”
Capt. Bohannon said, “and then was
WOMAN IS RESCUED
FROM CAR IN CREEK
Army Officers Carry Flood
Victim Through Raging
Waters.
The thrilling rescue during the height
| of Saturday night's storm of an uncon
; scious woman from an automobile,
stranded in the rushing waters of Mat- j
tawoman Creek, on the southern Mary- ;
land highway near Waldorf, Md., formed
one of the outstanding incidents of the 1
storm there, following the washing out
of the Mattawoman Creek bridge.
The woman, whose name was not
learned by her rescuers, lives in the
Clifton Terrace Apartments here. She 1
was brought here yesterday morning,
after having been unconscious most of
the previous night as a result of her
experience
She drove her car. a large sedan, into
the water in a frantic effort to get
through and the car stalled in 5 feet
of water The woman screamed for
help as the waters tore savagely at the
machine, and finally fainted and col
lapsed on the seat, with her body half
submerged.
A few' moments later a party return
ing to Washington from a fishing trip j
to Kopels Point. Md., arrived at the j
scene. In the party were Maj. George
J Newgarden, jr., of Raleigh, N. C.. son !
of Maj. George J. Newgarden. 1633'
Massachusetts avenue: Maj. Paul New- I
garden of Oklahoma and William j
Brooks of Bethesda. Md., and their
wives.
Ties Rope to Abutment.
Maj. George Newgarden obtained a
rope and tied it to the ruined abutment |
of the bridge. The three men. with
arms interlocked, held to the rope and I
struggled toward the car, inch by inch. |
They fought against the raging water j
for many minutes before they reached
the machine and made the rope fast.
Their clothing was tom and Maj, j
George Newgarden, first to reach the
machine, lost his watch and valuables.
The unconscious woman, they found,
was a heavy burden and they got her
out of ti e car with difficulty. Her dress
was torn to shreds by the water and
floating debris as they struggled toward
the bank with her.
The still unconscious woman was car
ried to a nearby farmhouse, where she
was given first aid treatment. She did j
not regain consciousness until early '
Sunday morning.
The Newgarden party spent the night,
with other stranded motorists, at the
farmhouse of Mrs. Otto Schwein, who
worked throughout the night making
coffee and sandwiches for the occupants
! of approximately 60 automobiles which
| were marooned there.
Partially Repair Bridge.
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the
; two officers found a passable back road
and a partially wrecked bridge over
Mattawoman Creek some distance above
the main highway With planks they
partially repaired the bridge ana suc
ceeded in getting their car across. The
three women would not trust themselves
to the frail bridge and waded the
stream. The party returned to Wash
ington at about noon yesterday.
Mr and Mrs. Forrest Stieg of Lyon
Village Va wer among motorists re
turning fr<-m southern Maryland beach
; resorts who were confronted with
washed-out bridges and floods. They
were one of several parties which final
ly succeeded in reaching Washington
v« sterday afternoon, after seven and
onp-half hours on the road
j The Stiegs and some friends fled from
Piney Point yesterday morning after a
uight spent in wondering if their hotel
■would be blown down or washed a wav.
i They set out for Washington at. 9
o'clock and had not gone many miles
before they learned of difficulties ahead.
forced t*> detour onto a narrow road
because the mam highway was blocked
near Waldorf the Stiegs and half a
dozen other Washington motoring par
ties proceeded 8 miles through the
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Court Takes Custody of Five Children
From Moth er Held for Bootlepfgincf!
fl* trie AM>oc)*te<f Prch*
PITTSBURG Pa August 13
Carrying out his threat to deprive liquor -
ailing parents of their children Police
Magistrate A U Brandon today ordered
five children of Mrs, Magdalene Bu h- 1
jerene. 40 taken into the custory of
tire Juvenile Court Mrs. Buchcrene i
< harged v.irh violating tin* prohibition
jlau. was field m *I,OOO hall,
The woman e arrest was brought i
atrou* try Anna bmokovsch/i'J, who said j
m SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
> '
( APT. H. V. BOHANNON.
Star staff Photo ;
compelled leave behind many who
, were clamoring for passage.”
Tire Dorchester left Baltimore at j
4 :30 p.m. Saturday on its regular week !
lend trip to this city, Capt Bohannon
i said.
"We*ran info the storm on Chesa
peake Bay Saturday evening," the i
veteran river man said. "Wo had no I
especial difficulty, though it was the j
worst storm I ever have seen in these I
waters. I had 75 Washington-bound 1
passengers aboard and practically all
of them were spasick."
There was a heavy sea running, I
strong winds and the rain was falling |
in such sheets that all landmarks and 1
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1 ARE RESCUED
DURING COAST GALE
Shipping and Crops Badly
i Damaged as Wind Reaches |
70-Mile Velocity.
- .j
By the Associated Press,
PHILADELPHIA. August 13.—One |
man is missing and nearly 100 other
| persons W’ere rescued during the north
; east storm which abated early today
after lashing the coast from Virginia
| Capes to Sandy Hook.
The missing man is Otto Godfrey, a
member of the crew of the tug Radiant, j
! who was swept away when the tug
sank in Delaware Bay near Odessa. Del..
I yesterday. He wore a life belt and it is j
hoped he has been picked up. His -
brother Frank, chief engineer of the I
. tug. was believed to have drowned, but
; loda >’ he turned up in Odessa. Eight :
members of the tug crew and a pas- (
senger were rescued after battling with j
the waves for some time.
British Steamer Floated.
The British tramp steamer Athclbach.
which was blown aground off Ship John j
, Light at the Delaware Capes, was fioat
j cd today with the high tide and the as
; sistance of two tugs.
The coal-laden barge Irwin, which
| was tohiK towed by the tug Prudence
from Norfolk to New York with two
other barges, sank off Sea Isle City, N. 1
J. Her crew was taken aboard the Pru- I
dcnce and landed here todav. The ’
Prudence abandoned the barge Horace
Alyn with 12 feet of water in her hold
| after taking off her crewy but safely
brought to port the third barge, the
: Winsor.
The tug T J Hooper abandoned two
j her tow of three barges off Herford
Inlet, N. J.. and sought shelter at the
Delaware Breakwater Today the tug'
I went out to pick them up The barges I
were the Mahant and Smith and Pcrrv |
No. 2. They were in ballast. The i
third barge, which was brought to the i
breakwater, was the E. R. Haggott. ,
Thrills Accompany Rescue.
j The rescue of the crew of the j
sunken tug Radiant was not without ,
thrills.
After clinging to a spar for two
t hours in the heavy seas Karl Kluge, a
member of the crew’, was rescued by
men who' lowered a boat from the
Black Diamond steamer Innoka.
Kluge said that when it became ap
parent that the tug would not weather
i the storm all but the captain, the stew*
I aid and the one passenger donned
! life preservers and started for shore
| The other three took to a lifeboat.
Kluge clung to a spar for two hours
until .picked up by a boat from the
Innoka. Rather than take a chance
on smashing the boat against the side
of the ship in the rough seas his res
cuers rowed to shore. On the way
they picked up William Dunlap, who
was swimming about in the bay.
Nearby States Damaged.
Along the Maryland coast the wind
reached a velocity of 70 miles an hour
diminishing ln intensity as it swept j
northward. The highest wind velocity
| reported along the New Jersey coast was i
4ft miles an hour Bridges were washed
out and crops heavily damaged in Mary
land, Delaware. Virginia, New Jersey
j and Pennsylvania,
The Dan River in Virginia was out
f its banks in places and the Potomac
River neared flood stage as its tribu-
I taries poured the accumulated waters of
tiie storm into the river.
The yacht of Representative Isaac
I Bachar&ch of Atlantic City, N. J , was
blown aground in Great Bay, the New
' i Jersey Representative and his party be
ing forced to wade across the flooded !
meadows for nearly a mile to safety, j
; In tin party, which included several
Women was Charles Grakelow of Pliila- |
di-lphia former grand exalted ruler
of the Elks, and Harry Bacharaeh, for- |
'Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) j
| h father had come home intoxicated
i after patronizin'* her place
What interests me about this case
j*s saving Util, children from the vicious
I environment of rum selling.” Magls
j irate .irandon said '"Officials of the
I Jewnile Court will take chatge of
■ these children and In every such ease
j that corn* before me 1 will take similar
I action w<* cannot afford to raise a
j generation of men and women whose
j childhood is •** be tainted b.\ the as
«>elation of bootleggers and all their
j lik.”
WASHINGTON. 1). C., MONDAY, A YOUNT 33, 1928-TinRTY IWGKS
FARM DELEGATION
REACHES ALBANY 10
CONFER WITH SMITH |
Fcek Heads Group Which Will j
Give Advice on Agricul
tural Problems.
WALSH AND DANIELS
DUE LATER IN WEEK
Nominee’s Acceptance Address Is
Nearly Completed—Calls Lend
ers for Conferences.
I
HY PAI L I HAI'PFBT.
Associated Press Stall Writer.
ALBANY. N. Y . August 13.—1 na I
j series of conferences that may have |
far-reaching political effects. Gov.
j Smith intends before the end of the
l week to discuss the agricultural situa
l tion here with a group of farm leaders
t and to talk over his presidential cam
paign with three men high in Dem
j erratic party councils—Senators Walsh
| of Montana and George of Georgia.
! and Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy under Woodrow Wilson.
: The farm delegation, headed by j
; George N. Peek of Illinois, who cast
his lot with Smith several days ago,
was in Albany today for its meeting
with the nominee. Daniels is due Wed
nesday. George Thursday, and Walsh
: Friday—all coming at the governor's
• invitation.
Prior to their call on the presidential
j nominee, the identity of ail the agri
: culturlsts who planned to sit in at the
' round table discussion today had not
j been disclosed, as arrangements had
1 been left to Peek and he had not nd
! vised the governor definitely who would :
! be with him.
May See Murphy.
Indirectly, however, the governor had
; been advised that, among those who
j would go over the farm problem with
| him were two of the leaders in the
i losing fight at the Republican national
j convention for a farm plank along the
! lines of the vetoed Me Nary-Haugen
I bill—Earl C. Smith of Illinois and
■ Frank W Murphy of Minnesota.
In addition, others expected to be on
I hand were William Hirth. publisher of
j the Missouri Farmer: W H. Sette, j
head of the Indiana Farm Bureau
j Federation. Chester C Davis, former j
[ commissioner of agriculture in Mon- j
tana: X. Caverno, president of the Mis- i
j souri Cotton Growers* Association: B. j
f W. Kilgore, head of the American Cot- |
i ton Growers' Exchange, and J. N
i Kehoe of Maysville. Ky„ who Is active j
m the Burley Tobacco Growers' As
i sociation.
As for the three party leaders the i
! nominee will see later in the week, all j
|at one time or another during tlie pre
: convention campaign were lined up
! against Smith. George, who is the;
! junior Senator from Georgia, had the |
i solid support of his home State drlc
i gallon at Houston, and also received
| votes for the presidential nomination
! from other States.
Walsh Quit Contest.
Walsh, with the support of William
G. McAdoo and many of his followers,
became a candidate for the Democratic
nomination, but the prosecutor of the
Senate oil inquiries, declaring that
Smith’s nomination appeared inevitable. ;
withdrew from the race after he had ;
; run third in the California primaries.
1 Like George and Walsh. Daniels is a
dry and worked for the nomination of
a dry at Houston, where as a member
of the platform committee, he aided in
the drawing up of the prohibition
plank He has declared that he would
work for Gov. Smith’s election.
It was indicated that Smith’s con
ference with the farm leaders had as
its purpose the lining up of support in j
the agricultural West and South and !
j the mapping out of an intensive cam- i
j paign in those sections rather than the I
i solicitation of suggestions for the nom- \
| hire's acceptance speech, which will be j
! delivered a week from Wednesday 1
i evening
Is Nearly Completed.
While (hat address was still incom
! plete today, it was nearly in final form, j
i and the governor was not expected to i
make any material changes in its I
language. He aims to have it in the j
hands of the printer by midweek, which J
would mean that it would be on its way !
to newspapers before lie talks things *
over with Daniels, George and Walsh, j
Although no engagements have be«n :
announced, it Is reported that Gov,
Smith, before he begins his speaking ]
tour, will Invite into conference others |
who were in the field against him for 1
the Democratic nomination- such men j
as Woollen of Indiana. Hitchcock of I
Nebraska, Hull of Tennessee and others, j
He already has met Reed of Missouri j
and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, both of
whom have promised to do what they i
! can to advance his cause in the eam
j paign.
ENGLISH RAILWAYS SAVE.
I Salary Cut for Workers Amounts
to $15,000,000 Yearly.
LONDON, August 13 A saving j
in labor costs to the railways of Eng
land amounting to about $15,000,000 an
nually is estimated to be the result of
the 2’ 3 per cent cut in salaries and
wages which has just been ratified by
! the unions.
While the reduction applies to all !
; classes of employes from managing dt- j
J rectors down through crossing guards, !
i many workers maintain that the\ are j
| undergoing a double .sacrifice They 1
I point out that by a policy of grouping
j the toads many important positions are j
I being abolished and that, the prospects ;
of promotion are thus lessened
Tiie reductions tu pay were under- j
taken to afford relief to the companies,
which have been undergoing a period of
severe financial depression.
j PUBLISHER FOR HOOVER.
-rimer* i.r V*
Two Democratic Papers in Okla
homa Support G. O, P
OKLAHOMA CITY. August 13 <4>i
E K Gaylord, publisher of the Daily
Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City
Times, two of tin largest Democratic
newspapers In the Stale, announced to
day that the papers would support. Her
bert Hoover for President instead of
GOv Alfred E Smith
The publisher said the newspapers
'‘will not join th Republican party, but
neither air they going, to join a liquor
movement."
recomputed
ENGINE 23 LEADS
IN SPEED CONTEST
Rates 6 2-5 Seconds in First
Group of Tests in
Cup Race.
f Dashing out of quarters in 6 2 s j
seconds, Engine Company No. 23.
on G street between Twenty-first
and Twenty-second streets, today red j
all other companies in the first group I
of tests for the speed championship of j
the District of Columbia and cups
donated by The Evening Star and the j
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- s
ciation.
The powerful engine roared over a
39-foot measured course without a miss, j
equaling the 1927 speed record set by '
' Engine Company No. 21. on Lanier
j place between Adams Mill and Ontario i
j roads, and coming within two-fifths of |
| a second of equaling the world record !
I of 6 seconds flat established by the j
| Lanier place company in 1926
Truck Company No, 14, on Connecti
i cut avenue near Porter street, winner
of last year's truck championship and
j the world record for trucks, is leadire
i other truck companies so far with a
| mark of 7’5 seconds Last year this
company made it in 6 seconds.
29 Companies Compete.
The 29 engine companies in the city
are competing for The Star Cup, two
legs of which are held by Engine Com
pany No. 21, bv reason of its victories
in 1927 and 1926. Three legs on the
cup will give a company permanent
possession of the cup. Engine Company
No. 23 already has one leg to its credit,
having won the 1925 championship.
Pvt. P. Talbott was in the driver’s
seat. Pvt. F W. Troup w-as at the crank
and Capt. W A. Bryarly was in eom
| mand when No. 23 Engine underwent
its test this morning before a special
committee composed of Battalion Chief
Thomas F. O'Connor. W W. Dean, fire
prevention engineer of the War De
partment. and a representative of The
Star Chief O'Connor and The Star
renresentative held stop-watches.
With the rear step of the apparatus
exactly 39 feet from the front door sill
and the driver and cranker stationed
14 feet away from their posts on the
vehicle Chief O’Connor signaled Capt.
L. T Woolard to pull the gong for the
the test signal "1-3.”
Full Speed.
With the first clang of the bell Pvt.
Talbott jumped into the driver’s seat
land Pvt. Troup leaped for the crank.
! In less time than it takes to tell it the
j giant motor was off in a roar of ex
' plosions and the big wagon was zip
| ping out of the building, full speed
| ahead.
Pvt P. C Pulaski was at the wheel
I of No. 14 truck when it made its ex
j cellent showing this morning. The i
truck has a self-starter. Sergt. W L
| Hurley was in command.
The truck companies arc competing
I for the Merchants and Manufacturers'
j Cup, one leg of which is held by No. 14,
No adavnee notice was given the com
| panics of the approach <>f the contest
i committee, beyond the foraml order is-
I sued last week by Fire Chief George
j. Watson. This was deviation of last
; year's plan, whereby a few minutes’ no- ;
j tice was given each company. It was 1
found that th? new plan appeared!
more equitable to all concerned.
Other Results.
i Other results of today's tests f. 1- !
j low:
I No. 21 engine company, Lanier place, j
between Adams Mill and Ontario roads. |
Hi 4-5 seconds. Pvt. W W Snow, j
I driver; Pvt II T Davis, cranker, and
I Lieut. H. T. Davis in command.
1 No. 1 engine company, K street, be
tween Sixteenth and Sevententh streets, !
7 seconds. Pvt. L. 11. Smith, driver,
anl Lieut R. G. Anderson in command.
No. 2 eiigiiu company. Twelfth street,
between G and II streets. 8 4-5 seconds.
Pvt. W. Jeager driver; Pvt h a Streb,
j cranker. and Sergt. N S. Bradford in j
| ct nunand.
Rescue Squad No l. Twelfth .street, j
I between G and H streets, 9 1-5 seconds, 1
Pvt G E. Swords, driver, an t Sergt. O.
R Anderson in command
No. 14 Engine Company, Eighth street j
! between D and E streets, 9 2-5 seconds. I
j Pvt O C. Kramer, driver: Pvt F Lit- ;
i feral, cranker, and Lieut P H Bueh- 1
let in command
No, 9 Truck Company. Lanier place j
between Adams Mill and Ontario roads, j
10 seconds. Pvt. F Williams, driver; j
Pvt. H Beddoo, cranker, and Capt. C 1
C Fling in command.
No. 3 Engine Company, New Jersey
avenue between D and E streets, 10 4-5 j
seconds Pvt. E. B Smith, driver, and I
Lieut. C. G Harper in command
No. 3 Truck Company, Fourteenth and j
C streets 11 seconds Pvt J, R Gheen, ;
driver. Pvt H F Harding, ttUerman, j
and Lieut Frank Chinn in command
No Hi Engine Company, D street ;
near Twelfth street, 12 seconds. Pvt. i
H J Bieksler, driver, and Sergt. P A j
Davis in command
No 28 Engine Company, Connecticut
avenue and Porter street, 23 seconds.
Pvt 1 Hall, driver, and Capt. O W
Wells In command The motor of this
company failed to start properly.
Suction Draws Boy
Into Ten-Inch Pipe,
Pulls Him 40 Feet
Br the Associated Press.
RALEIGH. N. C., August 13— |
Carl Lucas. 13, today was in a has- I
pital here suffering from minor in-
I juries received when he jumped into j
j Pullen Park swimming pool just j
! after opening of the outlet, valve |
| and was sucked 40 feet through the j
10-inch drainage pipe,
i Bathers were warned to leave the I
! pool by Howard Howell, attendant, j
before he opened the valve, which is |
j at the distant end of the drainage
pipe. Young Lucas jumped in and
was immediately caught by the suc-
I tion Howell rushed back to the end
j of the pipe to turn off the water. 1
j When he got there Lucas’ feet were
! sticking out and he grasped them, I
> pulling the boy through. Hospital
; attendants said his injuries were not j
I serious.
SAILBOAT UPSETS;
4 BELIEVED DEAD
I
Coast Guardsmen Search fori
Bodies —One Youth
,
Rescued.
i
I By the Associa'ed Press.
WATCH HILL. R. 1.. August 13.
| Several Coast Guard boats were search
ing today for the bodies of four young
men believed to have been drowned
| last night when their 13-foot, sailboat I
I capsized. They are John Mcllvain of
; Philadelphia, Trowbridge Cottrell of
; Westerly. Jose H. Scales of Louisville,
! Ky . and Lloyd Bankson of Boston.
John Barry Colohan. jr.. of Chestnut
i Hill., Pa., rescued from the waters of
I the sound this morning by a fisherman. I
was the only one of the five youths
who sailed out of here yesterday who
:is known to have been saved. He is at j
the Westerly suffering from exposure.
Th*’ youths set sail on the boat owned
iby Mcllvain's father for a day on i
: Fishers Island They are known to I
' have reached the island safely and
to have spent the clay there, starting !
back after sundown. Somewhere in
Fishers Island Sound the boat cap
! sized, throwing the five into the water I
What happened after that is as yet
unknown.
At both the New London and Fish
ers Island Coast Guard stations re
i ports of cries being heard during the
' night were made this morning.
Young Cottrell is a son of Arthur
M Cottrell, a member of the firm of j
C. R. Cottrell, printing press manu
facturers.
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SIGNED KELLOGG TREATY
TO BE FORWARDED TO U.S.I
j
| Signatories Agree That Documents
Renouncing War Shall Be De
posited in Washington.
I By the Associated Press.
Agreement has been reached by the
nations participating as original signa
tories to the Kellogg treaty renouncing
| war that, the treaty and all instruments
i of ratification and adherence shall be
i deposited at Washington,
j Secretary Kellogg announced the;
agreement today, and as a result the
15 powers that will sign the treaty in
Parts August 27 will, in accordance
with its terms, send to Washington!
documents certifying ratification by
I their respective constitutional require
ments The treaty will not become ef
fective until these documents have been
deposited with the Washington gov
ernment
i When it goes into effect the treaty
■ automatically becomes open to nd
j herence or ratification by all the other i
j powers of the world. I
Doesn t Like 30 Days, Even If Suspended,
jSo Prisoner Goes to Jail for 15 Days
Because he didn't like the sound of I
| “30 days.” even if the judge said "sun- }
| pended" after it Mike Jordan, 424 !
! Sixteenth street southeast, went to jail:
• for 15 days today
! Park Policeman H, A Bickford told j
Kludge Isaac U Hitt that on his way!
| home last night he found Jordan asleep i
on the sidewalk at Fifteenth and O
streets southeast and locked hlni up for
intoxication.
Mike told the court that he worked \
every day, but “sometimes made these !
mistakes ” »
“Well, ilitftou think you can let liquor j
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
(/P) Mean* Associated Press. r \ 'WO CENTS
HOOVER IS LIKELY
TO AMPLIFY VIEWS
Advisers Say Nominee Will
Explain Position in Com
ing Speeches.
BY JAMES L. WEST.
Associated Press Staff Writer.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Calif..
August 13.—Swinging into his campaign
' in earnest early in September. Herbert
j Hoover probably will expand upon sev
eral of the subjects treated in his ad
dress here Saturday accepting the Re
publican presidential nomination. They
j will include prohibition, farm relief.
! foreign affairs and the development of
i natural resources.
While the candidate has not disclosed
the line he will take in amplifying his
| declaration on the wet and dry ques
| tion. some of his confidential advisers
, have stated that he will make clear his
| position and that the searching investi
i gat ion he proposed in hi* speech will
[ extend to the subject of the Volstead
j act as well as the abuses which have
i surrounded its enforcement,
i These same advisers state specifically
i that Mr. Hoover has by no means
i closed the door on the modification of
the first enforcement act passed under
j the eighteenth amendment, if all of
the facts obtained by the investigating
commission points to this as a construc
tive method of carrying forward what
he has characterized as "a great social
and economic experiment."
Opposes Nullification.
■ In this connection, however, they
i emphasize what the standard bearer
said in his acceptance speech, that
modification to permit that which the
Constitution forbids is nullification,
which the American people will not
countenance.
Hoover's views as to farm relief are
to be amplified in the address he will
make at his birthplace, at West Branch.
lowa, on the evening of August 21.
and expectations are that he will ad
| vert to this subject upon more than one
occasion before the campaign ends in
November.
* In his next speech, to be delivered
at a homecoming celebration in Los
I Angeles next Friday afternoon, he will
> touch again upon development of water
resources and probably wil speak briefly
| regarding the Boulder Canyon Dam
I project, which he has indorsed and i
which is of vital importance to all the j
people in the southern portion of his I
home State In order to complete this j
address and the one he wil make at
West Branch the nominee has aban
doned the idea of making a motor trip j
to the California Sierras before leaving
here Thursday night for Washington
He may be able to get in one dav of ;
fishing, but most of his time will be
spent at work in his study.
Messages Four In.
Additional messages regarding his ac- 1
I eeptance address continued to pour
! into his home today, supplementing!
j the 200 or more he received Saturday i
night and yesterday. He has been grati- '
tied by the purport of the telegrams,
which came from Democrats as well a-
Republicans, and which have indicated
j to him that the speech of acceptance
was well received over the country gen
erally.
Thomas B Love, a Democratic leader |
oi Texas, who announced that he would j
i vote for Hoover, said: "I shall vote fori
you in November and only blunders j
can prevent you from carrying Texas, j
whose voice you have uttered tonight."
! Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas.!
Hoover's running mate, sent this tele
gram "I congratulate you on your
speech of acceptance. Best wishes."
| W. N Doak. vice president and legis
lative representative of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen, hailed the speech
vs "the political masterpiece of the ages,"
while Alexander Moore, American Am
bassador to Peru, cabled congratulations !
on a masterful address "
Senator James K. Watson of Indiana,
who bitterly fought Hoover in the pre- i
convention campaign, sent a telegram
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I alone If we give you 30 days and sus
| pend the execution of the sentence?"
"No. sir," said Mike. "I wish you
would let me go I work every day—— ”
Court attaches tried to explain what
the Judge meant, hut Mike kept saluting
j his honor, first with one hand, then!
! with the other, and refused to agree to
any thing that laid "30 days" in it.
Finally the court became Impatient i
land pronounced sentence of sls or 13
; days.
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Saturday's Circulation. PO.'.tO
Sunday’s ('imitation. 102.137
HOOVER CHALLENGE
10 SMITH IS SEEN
ON “NULLIFICATION”
Has Put to Governor Alterna
tive of Backing Dry Law
Repeal, Observers Say.
BORAH TO TAKE STUMP
IN EAST AND WEST
Democratic Acceptance Speech Ii
Awaited—Editors Acclaim
Stanford Address.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Herbert Hoover in his speech accept
ing the presidential nomination has
put up to Gov. Smith the alternati v e
of supporting repeal of the eighteenth
amendment or “nullification" of the
Constitution, in the interpretation of
j nullification given by the Republican
| nominee This is the view taken by
1 leading Republicans in Washington to
\ day-
Gov. Smith may. if he sees fit, de
clare for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, its modification, and, also,
for such modification of the dry laws,
without amending the Constitution, as
I in Mr. Hoover's eyes constitutes “nul
lification."
I The wets deny that the adoption of
the New York idea, as exemplified in
the referendum vote of the State and
approved by Gov. Smith, constitutes
nullification." The issue between the
management and the Re
pubuean management in this campaign
is li.tely to rest to a considerable extent
on the interpretation of “nullification."
Borah to Take Stum?.
Senator William E. Borah of Idaho
| it has been announced from Chicago!
I to take the stump for Mr. Hoover.
Senator Borah's position on the wet
> an d dry issue and "nullification" is that
of Mr. Hoover. The Senator manv
■! months ago in the Senate attacked the
; "nullification" plan of the New Yrrk
1 referendum, declaring that to permit
by law what is prohibited by the Cor.-
j stitution would undermine the funda
mental law of the land.
It is expected that Senator Borah
| will be called upon to address important
, | meetings in big centers of the East and
the West on this issue, probab'.v soon
j after Gov. Smith has made hi
i ance speech. He is perhaps t : . • most
forceful speaker the F.= -
!; will have in the campaign ‘ H' had
! much to do with writing of the prohi
{ mtlon plank in the Republican platform
! at Kansas City.
, Mr. Hoovers acceptance speech Is
praised today bv Republicans and
criticized by Democrats. Republican
leaders and many so-called Indepen
dents hail the speech es a great docu
ment. a discussion of issues m a states
j manlike and concise manner. The
Democrats, on the other hand, insist
that the speech is one of generalities.
1 i hat Mr. Hoover failed .o give any new
! program for farm relief and that he
i straddled to some extent the prohibi
! tion issue.
Smith Speech Awaited.
j Now that the H.over acceptance
j speech is out of the way. the address
j of Gov. Smith in Albany August 22 is
i awaited with keen interest He already
; has gone far along the road in his
discussion of prohibtion through his
telegram to the Houston convention
and his campaign manager has gone
ieven farther. It does not appear pos
| sible that Gov. Smith will soft pedal
this issue. He is courageous in dealing
| with public questions. Furthermore
; any attempt to soften his wet stand
| to placate Democratic drvs would have
| the effect of lessening his appeal to
the wet votes in the North and East,
i It was pointed out today by Repub
licans here that Gov. Smith, by turn
!mg down the "equalization fee" plan
; advocated by George N. Peek and
I other, farm leaders, has put himself
largely in the same position as Presi-
I dent Coolirige and Mr. Hoover on the
farm issue. It remains to be seen
1 whether the New York governor will
; advance any new ideas on agricultural
| relief in his acceptance speech. The
I Republicans say that he will be un
-1 able to convince the farmers he is anv
j more a friend of agriculture than Is
|Mr Hoover.
The Republican national committee
1 today made public telegrams it had re
j ceived from the editors of 15 farm maga
zines. living in 10 different States, prais
[mg Mr. Hoover's speech, particularly
i that part of it dealing with agriculture
The statement issued by the committee
| asserts that these telei rams “repudiate
| entirely the theory that the agricultur
ists of the country will give any serious
| thought to any Tammany-guided pro
; gram for rural relief."
Telegrams Listed.
Among the telegrams made public
were the following:
George Martin, Farm and Fireside
New Y’ork City: "Speaking personally
and not as the editor of Farm and Fire
side I wish to say that Mr Hoover's ac
: curate analysis in his address of accept
■ ance is indicative of his comprehensive
i understanding of the problems of ngri
j culture.
He recognises that agriculture con
i sists of a group of distinct industries
whose complex problems require separa-
I tion and different types of treatment
; This is in marked contrast to the view
point of those who would group all these
difficulties into one problem to be solved
by a single measure
. ' The proposal to bring about grea:
economies m distribution of farm prod
ucts leads into a promising field No
! doubt exists with those who have
! >tudied the subject that much costly
waste and duplication can bo removed
■ without greatly disturbing the system
experience has provided Whether fed
; “rally financed stabilization corpora
tions cast function effectively may be
a question. That they may be useful
for certain of the Important non-per
ishable crops is a possibility.
"The candidate's pledges for ade
quate tariff protection for agriculture
and for more economical transportation
through waterway development are ad
mirable More reassuring to agricul
ture than any specific statement in the
address is Mr Hoover's statement that
he considers the farm situation as the
foremost challenge to the next admin
istration and his promise that his own
masterful abilities shall be dedicated
to its improvement.
Racks Statesmanship.
Frank I Piatt. American Poultry
Journal Chicago I strongly Indorse
the constructive statesmanship evi
denced In Herbert Hoover's acceptance
speech. His reference to traditional
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