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WEATHER.
10. •. Weather Bureau Poracaat.)
Increasing cloudiness tonight and to
morrow; possibly showers tomorrow; not
much change in temperature.
Temperatures—Highest. 76, at 4:30 p.m.
ysterday; lowest, 57, at 6 am. today.
Pull report on page 9.
Ctoring N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14415
No. 31,542.
iBIG FORCE GUARDS
■ARGENTINA CAPITAL
P 1 DIE IN IIS;
I WOVEN IS JAILED
■ precautions by Uriburu Bring
flj Prophecies of More Fight
ing—Ex-President Is Held
U Incommunicado.
I PRINCIPAL FOLLOWERS
Mi ARE ORDERED ARRESTED
■ Filing, Blamed on Misunderstand
g|| j jngs by Government, but Skep
■' ticism Is Voiced in Some Quar
■ l ters—s6 Wounded During En
■' counters —15 Held for Execution
t
■ the Associated Press.
!| BUENOS AIRES, September 9.
ffl Buenos Aires presented a tranquil
■ ttpparence on the surface this
9 morning after a wild night of
9 bloodshed, rioting and shooting,
9 In which seven were killed and 56
9 wounded, but an ominous air at
-9 tended the heavy concentration
9 cf troops in the capital.
H Some observers prophesied fur
-9 ther fighting and pointed out the
9 extraordinary preparations in
9 progress by the government of
9 Provisional President Jose Evar
-9 lsto Uriburu.
f: Soldiers and sailors were pick
■ ieted at strategic points on the
9 streets. Hipolito Irigoyen, sick
I End overthrown President of Ar
il gentina, who has hitherto been
9 accorded virtual liberty within the
9 country, was ordered arrested and
9 held incommunicado. His prin
-9 cipal followers were also ordered
9 arrested.
g An imposing display of military
■ strength, cavalry, infantry, guns and
■ airplanes, was made by the provisional
9 government in the city.
Planes Patrol City.
|| All military airplanes available flew
■ in formation over the principal points
■ of the city, the Avenida de Mayo, the
|i Plaza de Mayo and the Government
9 House.
ft Cavalry units in full war equipment,
9 With rations as if for a heavy campaign.
■ » ere concentrated at the city’s principal
■ railroad station. It was rumored they
■ anight be entrained for the provinces.
IS News from the country was scanty.
B On orders of the provisional govern-
U tnent, detachments of sailors were land-
II rd from the fleet of 13 ships in the
H harbor at dawn. With soldiers and
9 police, they proceeded to clear the
9 streets of pedestrians. All transporta
■ tion and communication systems were
9 seized by government authorities and
■ placed under strict control.
■ The ministry of war in a statement
■ declared that “in the city there are cer-
M tainiy many elements stiU partisans of
9 the former government."
15 Held for Execution.
If Municipal police were posted in force
9 at their regular positions. About 15
9 persons were being held for summary
9 execution this morning, charged with
9 looting.
9 The finest quarters of the city showed
■ the effects of last night's firing. The
9 Plaza de Mayo and the streets and
9 squares between the Government House
9 and the central post office presented a
9 scene of destruction.
If Windows were broken, street lamps
9 smashed and buildings pockmarked by
I bullets.
if The government’s version of the Ar
il mg, attributing it to a series of extraor
-9 dinary misunderstandings at a time of
9 tense alertness and rumors of counter
9 revolution, was not accepted in all
I quarters.
Uriburu Takes Oath.
| Last night’s events came shortly
9 After 100 000 civilians and soldiers gath
-9 ered in the Plaza de Mayo and heard
9 provisional President Uriburu take the
9 oath of office. There were no mani
-9 lestations of opposition to the revolu
| tion ary regime then. When_Oen:_Urt
-9 *” (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
I [TWO FORCE MANAGER
TO OPEN COMPANY SAFE
if Cleveland Robbe— Escape With
9 $11,588 After Kidnaping Man as
I He Leaves Woman’s House.
9 E hi* Afsoclated Press
| CLEVELAND, September 9.—Two
9 robbers kidnaped Edward Kells, 23,
9 department manager of the Telling
-9 C lie Cernon Co., forced him to open
H the company’s safe and escaped with
9 511,588 early today.
| ’fells told police he was about to go
9 h me after visiting at the home of a
B young woman friend when the robbers
9 helled him and ordered him to drive to
9 the company's headquarters.
9 Thry forced him to open the safe,
9 bhndfolded him. and fled after ordering
9 lum to give then 10 minutes’ start.
■ The robbery was conducted so quietly
9 that it was unnoticed either by the
9 watchman or a crowd which gathered
9 in front of the place after an auto
mobile accident.
I ANGORANS ROUT KURDS
9 Turks Successful in Conflict With
I < Rebels in Ararat Area.
H ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 9 UP).
9 —The government today announced
9j that the Angora offensive against Kur-
S dish rebels in the Mount Ararat region
9 had developed successfully and that the
back of the resistance had been broken
1H According to the report, the Kurdi
are retiring in a southeasterly direction
g, loilowed by Turkish forces, which have
H occupied strategic positions.
Hi , Operations in the zone adjoining the
H Irak frontiers will be commenced soon
I £*dio Programs on Page C-4
Entered as second class matter
noat office. Washington, D. C.
'“SOLID RUBBER” MAY RESULT!
1 FROM CRYSTALS PRODUCED HERE;
, Enormous Possibilities for
Obtaining Product in New
| Form Seen.
Achievement Is Announced by
Dr. Burgess at Farm
Science Meeting.
Production of rubber crystals, a sci
entific achievement of vast importance,
was announced by Dr. George K. Bur
gess, director of the Bureau of Stand
ards, before the Inter-American Con
ference on Agriculture, Forestry and
Animal Industry meeting at the Pan-
American Union this morning.
At the same time Dr. Buigess told
the agricultural delegates, some of
whom represent the greatest rubber
producing areas in the world, that the
bureau chemists have a sample of rub
ber supposedly produced from crude pe
troleum by the extraction of certain
hydrocarbons in an American industrial
laboratory.
The crystalline rubber, he said, was
produced under the direction of Dr.
E. W. Washburn, head of the Bureau of
Standards chemical laboratory, and
opens up enormous but unpredictable
possibilities for science and industry.
Up to the present, he said, rubber has
GIRL SEES FATHER.
MANGLED BY CAR
Head of School in West Vir
ginia Is Badly Injured by
Trolley Here.
Helen Furbee's "happiest Summer”
came to a tragic end today when the
10-year-old girl saw her father knocked
down by a street car and terribly
mangled at New York avenue and
Elevent street, just as they were pre
paring to return to their home in Alum
Bridge, W. Va.
The father was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where physicians expressed
the belief that it would be necessary to
amputate his left arm and leg. Helen,
still suffering from the shock of the
scene she had witnessed, fainted when
she heard this news. Restoratives were
administered, and later she was taken
to the home of her uncle, Dr. Arnold
Hall, Forest Glen, Md.
The father, Leonard Furbee, was prin
cipal of the Alum Bridge High Sehoffir
although he was but 32 years old.
Helen is his only child.
Came Here for Visit.
When school ended last Spring, he
and Mrs. Furbee decided to send Helen
to Washington for a visit with the Halls.
It was a trip long anticipated, and
Helen came to Washington filled with
excitement. During the Summer she
had a delightful time, playing with
youthful friends in Forest Glen and
visiting fascinating places in the city.
But it was getting around toward
school time and the parents decided it
was time for Helen to come nome, so
yesterday Mr. Furbee drove down for
her.
“This has been the happiest Summer
of my life,” Helen told Mr. Hall, as she
and her father started back to West
Virginia yesterday morning.
The father, however, became ill on
the trip back and he stopped in Win
chester, Va., to consult a physician.
He was told that he had appendicitis
and an immediate operation was neces
sary. Reluctantly they turned around
and drove back to Washington.
Operation Unnecessary.
When they arrived here last night
Mr. Furbee went to another physician.
This time he was told that he did not
have appendicitis and that there was
no reason why he should not go on
back home. This was welcome news
and the father and daughter Joyfully
planned to get an early start on their
trip today.
They spent last night at a hotel and
left this morning a little after 7 o'clock
to get their car.
They were walking up Eleventh
street and at New York avenue they
stopped in a safety zone to let traffic
pass. Mr. Furbee was holding Helen’s
hand.
“Well be home in just a few hours,”
he said. “Are you glad?”
Before she could reply he had been
hurled to the street beneath the wheels
of the eastbound street car of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
Somehow —Helen couldn’t explain it—
her father had stepped in front of the
car without seeing it.
Victim Remains Conscious.
With an arm and leg almost severed,
he was placed In a taxicab. She joined
him, and together they were rushed
' to the hospital.
The father was conscious and in ag
ony. His suffering was too much for
the child to bear and she collapsed on
learning at the hospital that he prob
i ably would lose the arm and leg.
Word was sent to Alum Bridge that
the principal would not be there for
1 the opening of the high school Mon
-1 day and the mother was notified. Helen
5 was taken to Dr. Hall's home until her
’ mother can come for her.
Police of the first precinct were ln
’ vestigating the accident. They said the
‘ car was in charge of Motorman Willie
O. Sauls and Conductor Charles W.
[ Alder. *
i
MESSAGE FROM MISSING SHIP
PROVES PRANK OF SMALL BOY
11 Note Set Afloat in Tin Can Was Thought From Vessel
I Lost in 1901.
d
n Br the Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., September
9.—A boy with a taste for sea stories
l«j assumed responsibility today for a note
n m a tin can found floating in the water
e here Saturday that was believed to have
been a distress message from the crew
e of the mystery ship Commodore of
i. Philadelphia, that disappeared 30 years
! M. Raplium, jr„ old,
I said that on Later day he 7 wrote the i
She tfoenina J&Ltf.
WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEK 9, 1930—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. **
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DR. GEORGE K. BURGESS.
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l
been an amorphous substance, on the
borderline between a solid and a liquid,
and its industrial uses have been rather
specific. Obtaining of rubber crystals,
if the work can be extended, would
mean “solid rubber.” The achievement
is somewhat similar. Dr. Burgess said,
to previous achievements of Bureau of
Standard chemists in obtaining certain
rare sugars In crystalline form, thus
(Continued o Page 2, Column 8.)
FIRE OF U.S. BOAT
ROUTS RED FORCES
American and British War
ships Silence Communists
on Chinese River.
Br the Associated Press.
HANKOW, China, September 9.—Two
foreign gunboats repulsed Communist
attacks at nearby points on the Yangtze
River yesterday, inflicting heavy damage
on their adversaries. Dispatches said
neither of the foreign gunboats suffered
casualties.
The warships involved were the Amer
ican gunboat Tutuila and the British
gunboat Ladybird.
A loving Communist band fired upon
the Tutuila with machine guns and
trench mortars about 80 miles above
Yochow, Hunan Province. The war
ships answered with 3-Inch rifles and
machine guns. The bandits were dis
lodged from their position along the
river bank; their mortara were destroyed.
Dispatches failed to state whether any
Reds were killed or wounded.
. Bvithb BUWMS Red Raider. ,
The Ladybird met an attack by the
Communist raider Shasi near the city
of Shasi, Hupeh Province, with a heavy
barrage from her 6-tach guns. Quickly
silencing the Red vessel’s guns, the
Ladybird fired upon the river banks,
raking Communist strongholds outside
the city.
Naval dispatches said the Ladybird, in
addition to inflicting heavy damage upon
the Communist raider, prevented the
Reds from re-entering the city of Shasi,
a portion ot which they pillaged and
burned Friday.
Expect Trouble From I,HI.
Serious trouble was expected by au
thorities from a band of 6,000 former
government troops who declared their
independence and were pillaging villages
near Ichang, Hupeh. The soldiers, whose
commanding officer was held prisoner
by Nationalist authorities at Ichang,
were reported to have killed many vil
lagers and to have tossed their bodies
into the Yangtze.
FATE OF AMERICANS IN DOUBT.
%
Four Reported to Be Safe on Japanese
Vessel.
Br the Associated Press.
The capture by Communist forces of
Shasi, a city in Hupeh Province, China,
reported to the State Department late
yesterday, left in doubt the fate of
American citizens known to have re
sided there.
Four Americans were reported safe
aboard Japanese vessels, but their iden
tity was not disclosed. Whether more
were in the city at the time it fell to
the invaders on September 5 could not
be ascertained. Department records
list as Shansi residents Rev. and Mrs.
Elmer Zimmerman of Alton, 111., and
one child, and Miss Gertrude Simon of
Zachow, Wis. She was connected with
the Evangelical Lutheran Mission.
The report came to Washington from
the American consulate general at Han
kow and was based on information ob
tained from the Hankow Public Safety
Bureau. It told also of an unidentified
city observed in flames by an air mail
, pilot somewhere between Hwangshlh
! kong and Wusueh. The aviator reported
seeing bodies lying in the street.
RESIDENCE IS BOMBED
Republican Committeman and Fam
ily Are Jolted From Beds.
CHICAGO, September 9 (A*).—
■ Political enemies were blamed by John
■ S. Rybicki, Deneen Republican commit
i teeir.an in the twenty-first ward and
■ former president of the Building and
Loan League of Illinois, for the bombing
t today of the two-story store and apart
r ment building in which he lives on the
■ We?t Side.
l A black powder bomb exploded in the
r doorway of the store, jolting Rybicki,
his family and other residents of the
- building from their beds. Damage to
: the building was estimated at $1,500.
5 Rybicki told police he recently had
. received threats on account of his
1 political activities.
note purporting to be from the wrecked
ship Commodore, and sent it afloat in
a can which he found on the shores of
Tampa Bay.
Charles says he got the name Com
modore out of a library book, but did
not know that a ship of that name was
associated with a mystery of the sea.
April 6. 1901, the Commodore of
Philadelphia drifted out of Brooklyn
Harbor without a trace of skipper or
crew and no clue to tbeir fate was
ever found, * .
REGULARS IN LEAD
IN MONTGOMERY
PRIMARY ELECTION
Administration Forces Ahead
in Early Count of
Ballots.
ORGANIZATION MEN ALSO
WIN IN PRINCE GEORGES
Independents Go Down to Defeat
in Southern Maryland
Voting.
Complete victory for all organization
tickets in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties was indicated by re
turns of the voting in yesterday's
primary elections, received up to noon
today.
Although the Democratic organization
was challenged by six Independent can
didates in Prince Georges County, all
went down to defeat by decisive mar
gins. The Republican primary of the
county also resulted successfully for
candidates favored by that party’s po
litical machine. Tabulation of the en
tire Prince Georges vote was finished
early this morning.
Still Counting in Montgomery.
In Montgomery County, however,
election officials were still counting this
afternoon with the complete vote from
but half of the 24 precincts heard
from. A ballot listing 76 names and the
unprecedented number of persons who
visited the polls accounted for the delay.
Early returns, which included the
count from precincts calculated to cast
the strongest vote for the Progressive
or anti-organization faction of the
Democratic party, showed a considerable
majority for all organization candidates
with the exception of Robert G. Hil
ton of Rockville, who Is running against
Dr. Eugene Jones of Kensington, for
the State Senate. Report* from a dozen
precincts showed Dr. Jones, the incum
bent, but 215 votes behind his opponent.
The Republicans of Montgomery
County are not holding & primary elec
tion this year, having agreed on their
roster of candidates at a convention in
Kensington, August 1.
Vote Estimated at 12,500.
On a basis of returns already in, the
probable vote cast in the county is fig
ured to approximate 12,500. more than
5,000 greater than the former record
vote in the primaries.
With the two largest precinct* yet to
be heard from, election officials predict
that the count, for the county as a
whole will not be completed until late
this afternoon. Judges, clerks, watchers
and challengers have been hard at work
tabulating the ballots since 1 o’clock
yesterday evening.
The election was an unusually or
derly one with but two instances mar
ring the otherwise unchallenged con
duct of the election officers. One oc
curred last night when a watcher of
the progressives at the Takoma Park
firehouse questioned 29 ballots which
had been initialed by a clerk instead
of one of the judges. The challenge
was made by Verne Austin, who also
charged that approximately 100 ballots
were initialed by a single judge Instead
of being done by separate Judges as
signed to the work.
Miss Vivian Simpson, the only wom
an lawyer in Takoma Park, was called
in by Austin and asked for legal ad
vice. The discussion retarded the work
of the tabulators and Sergt. Earl H.
Burdine of the Montgomery County
police escorted both Miss Simpson and
Austin from the room.
Starts for Sheriff.
At this point, J. W. Feeney of
Takoma Park jumped in his automobile
and started to Rockville to get the
sheriff. Motor Cycle Policeman Theo
dore Raines arrested him for speeding
within a few blocks of the polls and
(Continued on Page 5, Column 1.)
MOB VICTIM’S PAI
IS FOUND WOUNDED
Georgia Officers Find Man Sus
pected in Killing
of Officer.
By the Associated Press.
DARIEN, Ga., September 9. —“Rub-
ber” Bryan, 24, sought as the second
colored man who participated in a gun
fight yesterday in which a police officer
was slain and three others wounded,
was shot and seriously wounded in a
wood near here today.
Bryan’s body was lying in a woods
near his home, authorities said, in the
opposite direction of the swamps where
George Grant, 40, believed to have been
Bryan's companion in yesterday’s gun
battle, was captured.
Grant later was lynched in the
county jail and a detachment of Na
tional Guardsmen was sent here upon
orders of the Governor of Georgia.
Bryan apparently had been fatally
wounded Ip the back with a shotgun.
The discovery was made by deputy
sheriffs.
Just before word of the finding of
the body reached here, Militiamen pre
pared to thrash through the Altamah
swamps with tear gas bombs.
Grant was said to have been identi
fied by R. J. Anderson, Darien night
marshal, as one of two colored men
who wounded him when he found them
approaching a Darien bank early yes
terday.
Robert L. Freeman, acting chief of
Glynn County police, was fatally shot
and Deputy Sheriff J. H. Collins and
John Fisher wounded in pursuit of the
fugitives.
Last night authorities visited the
homes of both Grant and Bryan and
reported the finding of a quantity of
stolen goods in each.
LEWIS CALLS SESSION
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., September 9
UP). —The International Executive
Board of the United Mine Workers of
America will convene here September
17 on call of John L. Lewis, interna
tional president. It will be the first
session of the board since the thlrty
i second biennial convention here last
Spring.
Lewis said the meeting had been
i called to take up routine business. It
• is understood the dual organization
I movement that hasAeen set up in UU
. iMr fril l* itecupil fl* tour* iz*
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EIGHT STATES VOTE
IN TODAY'S POLLING
Senate, House and Guber
natorial Candidates to Be
Named in Primary Elections.
Br the Associated Press.
In eight States, scattered from coast
to coast, voters today choose party
candidates for national and local office.
Today’s primaries are to decide who
will represent Louisiana and South
Carolina in the Senate. Their Demo
cratic nominations are equal to elec
tion. Senate candidates are to be
chosen also in Colorado, Michigan and
New Hampshire. In Arizona and
Vermont selections for Governor hold
the principal interest, while in the State
of Washington contests for House seats
head the list.
Tomorrow Georgia Democrats will
hold a primary and next week Massa
chusetts, New York and Wisconsin will
stage the last pre-election contests.
Maine Voted Yesterday.
Maine’s balloting yesterday returned
Republican victories all down the line
with Representative Wallace H. White,
Jr., elected Senator and William T.
Gardiner re-elected Governor.
Absence of contests within the parties
in Maryland made yesterday’s primary
there largely a formality, marked by the
lightest vote in years.
Bouth Carolina’s contest is a run-off
primary to decide between the leading
candidates in the August 26 polling.
Cole L. Blease seeks to hold his Senate
seat, and James F. Byrnes, former
Representative, is making his second
try to oust him. Ibra C. Blackwood
and Olin D. Johnston, both of Spartan
burg, are seeking the governorship.
Louisiana's primary marks the end
of a heated campaign in which Gov.
Huey P. Long sought the Senate seat
held for many years by Joseph E. Rans
dell. Long spent last night under
heavy guard after having been struck
in the face by a New Orleans reporter
yesterday.
Five In Colorado Raees.
In Colorado five men are seeking sena
torial nominations. William V. Hodges,
former treasurer of the Republican Na
tional Committee, and George H. Shaw,
former State chairman of the party.
(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.)
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EIGHT DIE IN BLAST
Oil-Ladened Tanker Explodes, Set
ting Fire to Nearby Vessels.
ATHENS, Greece, September 9 UP). —
Explosion of an oil-ladened sailing ves
sel in front of the Standard Oil depots
at Drapetsonias Harbor last night took
at least eight lives.
The blast destroyed the vessel, flam
ing fragments of which set fire to 18
nearby sailboats and one steamship.
Some of the boats burned rapidly and
their crews were compelled to take to
the water. It was feared many were
burned fatally.
Furnishing an
Apartment
Prices of furniture are
remarkably low. The
money it took to furnish
a room several years ago
will now equip a small
apartment.
Retail prices are down
because wholesale prices
are low due to the tem
porarily reduced demand.
As this condition will not
last, it is a great time to
buy furniture.
.
Yesterday's Advertising:
Local Display.
I Lines.
The Evening Star.. 25,316
2d Newspaper 6,076
3d Newspaper 4,332
4th Newspaper.... 3,951
sth Newspaper—. 3,553
Total newspapers, 17,912
The time to SAVE is
when prices are high and
the time to SPEND when
’ k prices are low. ..,
Sanitarium Walls
Collapse in Flood;
Inmates Escape
HURRICANE, Utah, Septem
ber 9 (A*).—Walls of the La
Verkin, Utah, Sanitarium col
lapsed under the strain of flood
waters last night which poured
from neighboring canyons fol
lowing a severe storm and cloud
burst. Inmates were carried to
safety.
5 DIE AS ENGINE
EXPLODES IN YARD
Dozen Injured by Blast in
Reading Railroad Terminal
in Philadelphia.
Br the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, September . 9. —
At least five men were killed and a
dozen Injured today in the explosion of
a pusher engine In the round house
yard of the Reading Railroad at Third
street and Erie avenue.
The engine was used in pushing heavy
freight trains over grades.
The identified dead are:
John Biemlller, round house foreman;
Fred C. Spangler, englneman, and John
Kelley, engine inspector.
The blast let loose a detonation that
was heard throughout the entire neigh
borhood. For a few seconds after the
explosion chunks of metal fell like rain
about the yards and employes scurried
to shelter. Some of the bodies were
blown 15 to 20 feet in the air and
landed on a nearby embankment.
It is the rule to Inspect all locomo
tives each morning.
The pusher had been brought out
on the turntable and had been taken off
again, but stopped about 100 feet away.
Spangler discovered something wrong
with the injector And called the round
house foreman. A number of other
men gathered about the engine and
while the examination was in progress
the explosion took place.
STORM WARNINGS
ALARM HAITIANS
Steamship Remains in Harbor at
Fort-au-Prince to Await
Better Weather.
By the Associated Presa.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Septem
ber 9.—Hurricane warnings in the Car
ibbean today created apprehension In
the Haitian capital. The steamship
Ancon of the Panama Line, bound for
the Canal Zone, anchored in the har
bor here awaiting more favorable
weather reports.
The warnings were issued late yester
day. It was reported that the tropical
disturbance probably would pass south
of Haiti.
CURRENTS FOIL DIVERS
Men Unable to Reach Sunken
Treasure Vessel Egypt.
BREST, France, September 9. (JP). —
Italian divers operating off the coast
were unable to reach the sunken steam
ship Egypt today in their quest for
treasure. The sea was calm but ocean
currents were so strong that divers
found the work under seas dangerous.
The party returned to Brest on the
salvage ship Artiglio.
TENANT DECLINES TO PAY RENT
AS DOG IS PUT IN SERVANT’S LIFT
Fear Expressed That High-Class Airedale May Develop
Inferiority Complex in Elevator.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 9.—The Sherl
dan-Brompton Apartment Hotel Is
very bearish on dogs, particularly on
Buster, Mrs. Beatrice Smythe’s high
class airedale.
Mrs. Smythe is being sued for $645
back rent. She takes the stand that
she won’t pay the rent until such a
time as the hotel management ceases
the practice of making the high class
airedale ride in the servant’s elevator.
When she moved into the Sheridan-
Brompton. Mr*. Smythe said, it was dia- !
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“From Prett to Homo
. Within the Hour ”
The Star's carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday's Circulation, 107,422
0 V) Means Associated Press.
HUNGRY HURRICANE
IM STAGE RIOT
%
Troops Crush Rush of Dozens
Attempting to Reach Food
on Wharf.
By th. Associated Press.
SANTO DOMINGO, September 9
The furnishing of food and water to
Santo Domingo's stricken thousands to
day became a problem of increasing im
portance to national and Red Cross au
thorities.
Soldiers of the Dominican Ouardla,
with United States sailors standing by,
suppressed a food riot yesterday at one
of the wharves where relief supplies
were being unloaded from the United
States destroyer-mine sweeper Grebe.
More than 100 persons watched until
the supplies had been placed on the
wharf and then rushed the laborers.
Soldiers held off the rioters while
speakers assured the crowds that the
rations would be distributed as soon as
possible. Most of the crowd had not
had a meal since Wednesday, when the
hurricane struck the city.
Relief Supplies Meager.
While considerable food has been
brought for relief purposes by the
steamships Ruth Lykes and the Cather
ine and the Grebe from Porto Rico, and
in the steamship Tryton’s cargo of rice
from Europe, the amount has been
little compared to what is needed. Ves
sels have been forced to anchor in the
Caribbean while launches and small
boats brought their cargoes to shore.
Lack of water has become almost as
distressing a problem as lack of food,
but an aqueduct has been repaired for
bringing water from inland sources.
A survey shows that more than 1,200
seriously injured patients are receiving
treatment in 13 hospitals and im
promptu first-aid stations in the /city.
Many of them suffer from gangrenous
infections.
Additional Serums to Be Rushed.
The loss of life has been so great
that no effort to report deaths to a
central office has been made. Crema
tion still continues.
E. J. Swift, head of foreign opera
tions of The American Red Cross, who
arrived here yesterday to take charge
of relief work in this city, said that
four units of additional medical sup
plies would be mshed to Santo Do
mingo by a destrower.
Roosevelt Emergency Hospital, so
named by President Trujillo in honor
of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of Porto
Rico, will be open tomorrow, giving
greatly needed facilities to the over
worked doctors and nurses. It will have
1,000 beds, which will be devoted to
patients needing emergency treatment
or minor surgery.
Many refugees left yesterday after
noon on the steamer Catherine for San
Juan and later will go to the United
States.
HAITI KEEPS BORDER OPEN.
Government Probes Typhus Reports Be
fore Taking Action.
PORT AU PRINCE, September 9 (*).
—The government last night officially
denied a report that Haiti had pro
hibited entrance over the frontier from
Santo Domingo because of fear of
typhus in the Dominican Republic fol
lowing last week’s hurricane.
The government is awaiting the re
port of a medical officer sent to Santo
Domingo before it considers any such
action.
Grain Warehouse Burnt.
WOODLAND, Calif., September 9 (JP).
—Fire early today destroyed the Sutter
Basin Corporation warehouse at Sey
mour, Sutter County, and 33,000 tons
of grain stored in it.
Fire officials estimated the loss at
more than $500,000. Origin of the
blase was not determined.
a ritzy creature, was to ride In the
regular passenger elevators. Os lgte,
however, the hostelry has altered its
rules, barring Buster from going up
and down in the lift with the paying
guests.
Fear has been expressed that con
tinued association with the hired help
in the servants’ elevator might develop
in Buster an inferiority complex.
Settlement of the dispute is one of
the things Judge Brothers has to wotry
about Thursday. In the interim, so
far as the hotel is concerned, Buster
i can ride with the servants, walk up,
TWO CENTS.
COSTE BIDS ADIEU
TO CAPITAL. TAKING
TRIBUTE TO FLYER
French Ace Carries Floral
Wreath to Drop on Field
Where Donaldson Died.
SOUCEK’S RECORD SHIP
INTERESTS 2 AVIATORS
City’s Program of Honor for Pilot!
Closes With Banquet of
Board of Trade.
Following a day of such tribute as
seldom has been accorded a foreign
visitor, Dieudonne Coste and Maurice
Bellonte, French conquerors of the
Atlantic and holders of live world rec
ords. took off from Bolling Field at
10:17 o’clock this morning in their red
Breguet sesquiplane, which has carried
them to nearly all parts of the world.
With an escort of Army single-seater
pursuit planes beside them, the French
aviators headed toward Baltimore en
route to Curtiss Field, N. Y., where they
landed after their historic 37-hour
flight from Paris.
With them they carried a tribute to
a fallen ally-airman, a wreath of
dahlias, which they planned to drop
over the Newark Municipal Air
port, where Maj. John O. Donaldson,
World War ace and former resident of
the National Capital, was killed in a
crash last Sunday. The flowers were
sent by Maj. Georges Thenault. air at
tache of the French Embassy and war
time commander of the Lafayette Es
cadrille. Attached was a note written
by Coste in tribute to his fellow combat
pilot.
May Start United States Tour Soon.
Donaldson attained a captaincy in
the American air forces and was
credited with bringing down eight Ger
man planes. He was the son of Maj.
Gen. T. Q. Donaldson and had lived
in this city for a number of years
before and after the war.
Coste and Bellonte are considering
favorably a good-will tour of the United
States before returning to France, it
was said by associates here just prior to
their take-off for New York. If they
finally decide on the trip, it probably
will begin within the next day or two.
The last visit of the French flyers
during their 40-hour visit to the Na
tional Capital was paid this morning to
the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where
they met the officers of the station, un
der command of Comdr. A. H. Douglas
and Lieut. Comdr. J. J. Clark, execu
tive officer, and were .takas through t
the hangars. The inspection trip was
quite informal, and the flyers were ac
companied only by Jules Henry, charge
d’affaires of the French embassy and
their host during their visit here, and
Marcel Doret, famous French military
and acrobatic pilot, who represented his
country at the National Air Races in
Chicago.
Apache Holds Interest.
The visitors were greatly interested
in the little Wright Apache biplane in
which a number of world altitude rec
ords have been established, including
the present world landplane and sea
plane altitude records established last
Spring by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. 8. N.
They looked over the supercharging
equipment which enables the motor to
run at great altitudes with a real
appreciation, commenting volubly to
French. Doret was attracted by an
experimental Boeing monoplane fighter
which somewhat resembles the fleet
Dewoitlne plane he brought to this
country for the races.
From Anacostia, the flyers were driven
around to Bolling Field, where the big
Brequet had been wheeled out onto the
line. Coste and Bellonte wasted no time
preparing for their departure. They
personally inspected the plane, uncov
ered the cockpits, and began issuing in
structions, through Maj. Thenault and
Maj. Howard C. Davidson, commandant
of Bolling Field, to the mechanics as
signed as ground crew for their plane.
M Minutes to Start Motor.
The automatic starter had been re
moved from the plane before leaving
Paris to lighten it as much as possible
and it has been necessary to start the
650-horsepower engine by hand. Fifty
minutes of hard work by the ground
crew, Coste and Bellonte, were required
to get the engine started this morning.
Coste took his place at the controls in
the forward cockpit, with Bellonte on
the ground directing the ground crew.
Coste repeated his signals in Prench and
English when it became necessary to
cut the switch or turn it on.
An escort of pursuit planes, which
took off when the crew started to work
on the French plane, was forced to land
and refuel before the engine finally
was started. Finally the engine took
hold, Coste and Bellonte shook hands
with Henry and Maj. Thenault and
Marcel Caussln, French motorcycle po
liceman and former Marine war veter
an, who has been a part of their motor
cycle escort in trips around the city,
and donned flying togs.
At 10:17 they took off after a sur
prisingly short run and climbed in a
Steep Chandelle, returning over the
centre of the field at low altitude and
then heading directly toward Baltimore.
When the Question Mark left the Na
tional Capital this morning, its red
sides still failed to show the record of
its spectacular flight, Paris-New York-
Dallas, though the records of its other
famous flights have been duly recorded
in white paint down the sides of the
fuselage.
Coste and Bellonte flfca planned to
add the new record to the collection
during the visit here but in the gen
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NEW hoodluaTvictim’s
BODY DUMPED FROM CAR
Young Man With Your Bullets in
Head Mutters “A1 Then
“Nothing” and Dies In Chicago.
Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September i.—Peter
Nicastro's body, with four bullets in the
head, was dumped from a curtained
motor car at South Canal street and
Archer avenue early today.
He was alive when picked up and he
muttered something that sounded like
“Al—Al—." Then he said, quite dis
tinctly “Oh, nothing, nothing,” and died.
The police supposition was that
Nicastro,, who was 31 yean old was
taken for a “ride” because of his re
puted attempts to “muscle in’* on the
territory of a West'Side bootleg gang.
He was not well known to officers, and
so far as an early check-up revealed
T