St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 20, 1926

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Pe ~ oe Baa O25 A OK ies ea : Moye Be eae ; Ue #3 ae v2 Pa” hs Af, ’ x) ct : . eee ms Soke Se i ees : abe ers: >. nf: § 4 ™~ [oo * 8 cs : : ore a a fe Hs Seas 1 3 i Oy 43 D> OO 7 = OeOCOoOoro”” Maat r eee 2 gS Ks oh Sa oC: as is Ler reat was invalid. _ This evidence was itntroduced John J. Fitzgerald, New f attorney who represented can Metal Co. ih nego- with the Alien Property ustod ian. Fitegeraid identified a nt the Alien Property Custo- in 1918, in which he sought _ American officers of the trican Meta} Co. permission to ‘shares of that company owned letter | The Pennant Race SECOND GAME. a8 6567.89 RE. CINCINNATI AT BOSTON 00000 oO SO Deen BOSTON Batteries: Cincinnati—Luque and Pici- nich; Boston—R. Smith and J. Taylor. FIRS1 GAME, 123456%7%8 8 RH. E. CINCINNATI AT BOSTON 100010100 3103 BOSTON 01000102X 4 50 Batteries: Cincinnati. Rixey and Har- grave: Boston, Benton and J. Tavlor. T scheduled today, gained a half game in the league standing by virtue of the defeat of the Cin- cinnati Reds by the Boston Braves in the first game of today’s double- header. The Cardinals are in first place by a game and one-half. the Reds win the second game the Cardinals’ lead will again be re- duced to one game. If the Reds lose the second game the Cardinals will then lead the league by two full games. The scores of the first game and the early innings of the second game are given above. A running account will be found on the sport page. HE Cardinals, with no game AWAIT WORD OF EIGHT SHIPS UNREPORTED SINCE HURRICANE Steamship Companies Do Not Know That All of the Vessels Were in Storm Area. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Steam- ship companies today awaited word at least eight vessels, un-. reported since the tropical hurri- cane last week. It is not known that all the ships were within the storm area, and it is assumed by shipping men that officers of ves- sels unaffected would not consider from + Germans. United States Attorney Buck- t then called Paul Smith, clerk Mer Miller, to show the letter in files in the Alien Property dian’s office\at the time the Haim of the Societe Suisse Pour faleurs de Metaux was paid on faim that it was neutral-owned. This evidence. by a court rul- , did, not apply to Daugherty he was, in the opinion of Judge ick. not accountable for docu- ta filed in other than his own to Get It Into Neutral Hands. _ The letter bearing date of Dec. $8, 1918, as read to the jury, showed 49 per cent of the stockhold- sof the American Metal Co. were ans. A license to trade with the enemy, also offered in evidence, permission was sought to ond with officers of the tallbank and*the Metallurgische elischaft, to arrange for the ase of thelr shares by Amer- or neutrals. Richard Merton, the Government used by the defense to the claims valid, was men- in the letter as one of the ™ Per cent shareholders. He had . viously testified that he orally erred his shares in the Amer- in Metal Co. to the Societe Suisse 1916. The Court ruled that an fal transfer was valid under Swiss The Government's new attack the validity of the claims and its ‘ort to prove that Miller and Sherty were led “by hope and Memise of gain’ to “overlook” f that the claims were not was carried far into the aft- N session. : Speed Record Set. Buckner, in‘an effort to prove = Contention that the speed rec- mM of the Alien Property Custodi- office was broken in the pay- of the claims, recalled Car] he, auditor for Miller when Claims were paid in 1921. recounted . testimony to ¢ claims passed through his oo three hours. whereas oth- 2M one, two or three weeks. erton claims were allowed on they were presented. he >, Witnesses called during S orning session -were Cyril W. *@n of Oakland, Cal., who clerk in the alien prop- _ Custodian's office under * John senry Hammond, a in the banking firm of Brothers. who was director War Trade Board during laine, and John T. Fitzgerald, hgressman, at one time ed by the American Metal ov all identified tetters writ. © or r from the allen property tinued on Page 2, Column 6. it necessary to notify their offices. The Clyde Line, operating be- tween New York and Miami, today denied that the steamship Chero- kee, with a full list of passengers, was within the storm area. The Cherokee left New York Saturday, and is not due in Miami until noon tomorrow. The Munson line had received no word from any of its vessels. It was thought two freighters may have felt the force of the hurricane. PRISON TERM FOR ‘BEAN KING’ Lewis F. Sands Sentenced for Us- ing Mails to Defraud. By the Associated Press. CANANDAIGUA, N., Y., Sept. 20. —Lewis E: Sands, known as the “millionaire bean king,’’ today was sentenced to two years in the Fed- era] prison at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud. PAULINE APEL, 88, IS DEAD For 30 Years She Was Secretary to Tate Franz Liszt, Composer. By the Associated Press. WEIMAR, Thuringia, Sept. 20. Pauline Apel, 88 eyars old, for 30 years secretary to the late Franz Liszt, composer, is dead. CLOUDY TONIGHT, TOMORROW; SLIGHTLY COOLER TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES, BB. Wevsce ee A Pee ee 73 2 BM. M.cececse . im: » Wisc ocesees 76 ky aes ye 74 #1 es. 6 5 } 6's 84 @. Bosasee “Ss Yi eg "ae R86 ee ree 25 3 oe eeeree oy RB g Ban we eneees ee ee ak &6 oe. 6s ee ee 71 ee ee a aiek a 8 Yesterday's high 92 (4:15 p.m.) low 73 (7:45 a. m.) ~~ Offictal Forecast ees for St. Louis and ENNANT RACE | Vicinity: Partly AND: YYEATHER cloudy tonight CONTINVE HOT. and tomorrow; slightly cooler to- morrow, Missouri: Most- ly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; possible showers j} in extreme south- Least portion by Tuesday; slightly cooler tonight in east and central portions. IHinois: Partly cloudy in north portion; possible showers or thun- dershowers in |north portion to- night or tomor- row; slightly cooler tonight tn north and central portions and in extreme southeast portion Tuesday. Relative humidity at noon, 47 per cent. Sunset 6:02 a. m, Sunrise (to- morrow) 6:48 a. m. P If, MEN PRAYED WHILE WOMEN WEPT IN TERROR OF STORM W. F. Ryan, Representative of St. Louis Firm, Tells Experiences in Miami Fri- day Night. HELD SERVICES IN SALOON SUNDAYS Burial of One or More Brawl Victims Daily One of Tasks; Once Caught Murderer. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 20. til yesterday morning. The storm began about 10 o'clock Friday night with a torren- tial rain and a heavy wind. By midnight the wind had risen to a gale. “Sleep was impossible and when I got down to the lobby of the Rob- erts Hotel, I found ai] the other guests had gathered there before most part was just an ordinary blow. Late in the night when same men were praying aloud and think the nighi its greatest force at They told us later that ft reached a velocity of 125 miles an hour. Water Enters Hotel. “The wind had swept the wa- ter from the bay all across the downtown section = and it was waist deep in the lobby of the Roberts. The guests found ref- uge on the stairs and in the cor- ridors of the second floor but no One was willing to go to his room. It looked like death to go any- where above the ground. All of kthis time the air was literallv thick with flying fragments of wood and paper. “There was a continual crash Oo. plateglass as the shifting wind tore at the fronts of the big department stores. Bv and by window dum- mies, clothing, packages of cos- metic and hundreds of other ar- ticles from the window displays began to blow past the hotel. Watching Building Fall. “I stood in the doorway in the water part of the time with some other men and watched the play of the wind on a big 12story building just across the street. The tempo- rary elevator construction shaft was still standing on our side and we eyed it intently as it swayed to and fro in the tempest. We knew that if it fell to the south it would strike the hotel and smash in the front with its weight, for it stood more than 12 stories high, and was built of heavy tim- ber. About 2 o’clock it sway at a most pron toppled slowly toward the hotel and then, caught by a contrary just swung to the west and went down with a terrific crash. “Immediately the wind pickéd up the loose timbers and _ hurled them down the street, smashing them through stone fronts and flinging some of them on the side- walks near hotel.” 200 CATHOLICS ARRESTED AT MEETING IN MEXICO Charge Made Session Was Held By Religious Freedom League for Sedition Purposes. By the Associated Press. began to nced angle, 200 Catholics. men and women, were under arrest today. From a meeting last night, under the aus- pices of the League for Defense of Religious Freedom, they were taken to police headquarters. The charge is that they were holding a meeting for seditious purposes. * —Walter P. Ryan of Jacksonville, | f°: Florida salesman for the Rice-Stix | Se = Dry Goods Co.. of St. Louis, was in | Ss Miam! when the storm broke Fri- —: day night and remained there un- | [* me,” Ryan said. “They were a frightened group. The women | fe. were in tears anc the men for the| some of them were crying with} the woman as the debris carried | by the wind crashed about us. ca: hurricane reached | PEE HER ENS eS ee ae | — THE o conten storm, moving in from the Caribbean with a 120-mile wind, bore down on Miami and Miami Beach late Friday night, moving northwestward across Florida, into the open Gulf, across to MEXICO CITY, Sept. 20.—About | By | Path of Destruction Across F lorida And Detail Map of Miatni District ~ ea eae ST thee hehe ee ae ~ were trying to comfort | chi them with the assurance that it) }° 2 the! bk: storm reached its maximum these) [).:: Pensacola, Fla., and Mobile, Ala., from Key Largo in the south to across the State. today and inland with somewhat diminished intensity. While the hurricane was central over Miami, damage and destruction and loss of life was spread over a wide strip Palm Beach in the north, and so 100-MILE WIND STRIKES PENSACOLA AND MOBILE Center Moving Inland Over Alabama and Eastern Mississippi With Rapidly Dimin- ishing Intensity, U.S. Reports. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.— The Weather Bureau today issued the following storm warning: ‘“‘Advised at 9:30 a. m., hurricane’ center moving inland close to Pensacola and MobiJe. At 8 a. m. barometer at Pensacola 29.10 inches; wind 100 miles northeast.” The Weather Bureau said the storm was central at 8 a. m. a short distance south of Pensacola. The center will move inland this fore- noon, the report said, and the storm will advance northward over Alabama and extreme erxtern Mis- sissippi with rapidly diminishing intensity. Hurricane warnings are displayed from Burwood, La., to Apalachcola, Fla. 50-Mile Wind With a Light Rain Reported at Gulfport, Miss, By the As-eociated Press. GULFPORT, Miss., Sept. 20.— The barometer at 11 o’clock was 29.36, with the wind stili holding close to north and blowing about 50 miles an hour in gusts, There was a light rain, with the sky becom- ing more overcast. The tide was normal and falling. Hurricane Strikes at Pensacola, Fla., With 100-Mile Wind. the Associated Presa. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 20. —A hurricane blowing 100 miles an hour swept into Pensacola shortly | A toxrapns will be found on the daily picture page— page 33. FULL page of Miami pho- a after 11 o’clock today, the South- ern Bell Telephone Co, here was advised by its Pensacola office. New Orleans-Mobile Telephone and Telegranh Lines Down. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20.—All telegraph and telephone communi- cation between New Orleans and Mobile was severed shortly before noon today. The Tropical Radio Telegraph Co. reported a short time later that its station at Mobile reported a 100-- mile gale at 10 o’clock with the ba- rometer down to 29.05. Considerable Damage Done to Two Small Towns. By the Associated Press, NEW -ORLEANS, Sept. 20.—<A dispatch to the New Orleans Item from a staff correspondent at Mo- bile shortly after noon today said that considerable damage had been done to the small towns of Sem- | inole and Lillian, between Mobile‘ and Pensacola. The storm was centered at 11 o'clock over Perdido Bay, the Item’s correspondent sald. CABINET MINISTER PROMISES PROHIBITION IN BELGIUM BRUSSELS, Sent. 20.—Belgium is going dry, Foreign Minister Van ‘der Velde informed a delegation of cafe proprietors today. The Minister, who ts responsib'le for the present law prohibiting the sale of alcohol in cafes and restau- rants, said he intended to introduce a bill prohibiting the sale of alco- hol under any conditions except for industrial purposes, etn a et ne eee en ee: UUOLIDGE CALLS UN NATION 10 AID STORM VICTINS President in Proclamation Asks for Contributions to Red Cross for Florida Sufferers. leeieeneuallieenmenesmeen By the Aasociated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Pres- ident Coolidge today appealed to the American people to come to the assistance of sufferers in the Flor- ida disaster. In a presidential proclamation he asked that con- tributions to a relief fund be sent to the American Red Cross. He promised the Federal Gov- ernment would render “such assist- ance as is within the means of the executive departments.” Meantime several agencies of the Government already were at work to provide relief. Eight coast suard ships were ordered to Miami, postmasters in Florida were au- thorized to do whatever they could for sufferers, army officers in the State were ordered to co-operate in every way with relief workers, and Florida naval reservists were called to active duty and-sent into the disaster zone, The Red Gross was concentrating in Southern Florida its most effi- cient relief personnel and the best available equipment. National headquarters itself made an initial contribution of $100,000 to the re- lief fund. Text of Proclamation. The President’s proclamation fol- lows: “To the people of the United States: “An overwhelming disaster has come to the people of Miami, Hol- lywood and surrounding communi- ties in Southern Florida. Such as- sistance as is within the means of the executive departments of the Government will be rendered, but realizing the great suffering which now needs relief and will need re- lief for days to come, I am prompt- ed to appeal urgently to the Amer- ican people, whose sympathies have always been so comprehensive, to contribute generously in aiding the sufferers of this disaster. “That the utmost co-ordination and effectiveness in the adminis- tration of the relief funds may be obtained, I urge that all contribu- tions for this purpose be sent to the American National Red Cross at Washington or to the local Red Cross chapters. I need not assure the people that the Red Cross will utilize in the most effective man- ner all contributions received for relief in this catastrophe.” The call to action came quickly after Gov. John W. Martin of Florida in a telephone message from Tallahassee had made an urg- ent appeal for help. He author- ized the National Red Crosse Head- quarters here to take complete charge of all relief work. Complying with his request, Rob- ert S. Parker, head of the Red Cross unit In Atlanta. Ga... was di- rected to ship six carloads of sup- plies to Miami and to .prepare to send more as soon as the situation is known. Henry M. Baker, national direc- tor of the digaster relief, was re- Ceoatined ea Pag 3, Column 2, ‘ MILLIONS STRIKES PENSACOLA MIAMI 000 HOMELESS: FLIEF TRAINS REAGH WIT FOOD ad Most of Large Buildings in City Are Intact—City Manager Issues Proc- lamation Against Profiteering — More Than 200 Lost , Children Found on Streets. By the Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 20.— The Weather Bureau here re- ported at 7:20 0 ‘clock that the wind velocity had reached 100 miles an hour at Pensacola, in West Florida. All comm#hication with Pensacola has failed. By the Associated Press. MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 20.— (Via telephone to Hattiesburg, Miss.) —With the wind at 96 miles an hour at 12:30 o’elock this afternoon and the barometer reg ity found itself in the midst of cane. Thus far no lives have be istering 29.06, Mobile and vicin- the hardest part of the hurri- en reported lost, only minor in- juries have been suffered, and the property damage is confined chiefly to broken plate glass windows and signs. The winds coming from the Northeast carried the waters of the Alabama River and of Mobile Bay from the city. Wire communication with Pensa- cola Was interrupted early this mourning when the Associated Press circuit of the Western Union Tele- graph Co.’s lines went out. The Western Union chief at Atlanta said that all wires into Pensacola had’ been lost. The storm apparent- Miami Area Reports ly was headed toward Burwood. La Observers of the hurricane said that it seemed to have caused its greatest damage when it doubled back on itself and crossed its old trail. This is believed to have been the case in Miami and vicinity. — 600 or More Dead and Damage of $150,000,000 MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 20.—Estimates of 600 to 1500 dead in the Miami storm area were made this morning as first contact with the outside world was esta and relief trains. blished by airplane, automobile The damage was estimated at $150,000,000. In the Miami storm area are included Hoflywood, Fort Lau- derdale, Redlands, Moorehaven and Clewiston, as well “s Miami and Miami Beach. Little contact with these outly- ing places had been established, as the causeways were flooded and wreckage and high water barred traffic. Because of continued se- were winds pilots of airplanes were reported as wary of attempting to enter the storm area, Airplanes could not locate any landing places and seaplane: feared the rough and debris-filled water. The American Red Cross has es- tablished relief stations through- out the stricken area and the aid of nearby towns and cities has been offered. Relief Trains Arrive. Relief -rains from West Palm Beach have arrived, bringing ad- ditional physicians, trained nurses, medical supplies and essential foods. Profiteering has under proclamation by the city manager. It provides that no prices may be charged in ‘excess of those prevailing Sept. 18, the day following the storm. Violators will been banned suffer confiscation of their sup- plies, a heavy fine and imprison- ment, Efforts are being made to locate relatives or friends of more than 200 children who have been found wanderin; about Miama, separ- ated from their families. Miam}) is under military rule and none except Government or State officials, newspaper men and per- sons performing missions of relief are allowed to enter. Autos Leaving With Refugees. Scores of automobiles are leav- ing slowly, contianing for the most part families with e¢hil- dren for whose health there is con- cern due to the scarcity of milk and the lack of sanitary facilities. Identification of the “ead in the various relief sections is proceed- ing slowly as sarch continued for additional bodies. City Manager J. H. Wharton of Miami has ordered all persons from the city’s streets unlesg they are in search of rela- tiyes, attempting to identify the dead or are assisting in relief work, Water Knee-Deep in Streets of Miami; Special to the Post-Dispatch. ; WEST PALM BEACH, Fia., Sept. _20. — Southeast Florida, lashed by a violent hurricane for nine hourr Friday night and Satur- day, early today had an estimated death list-of more than 1000, and property damage in excess of $125,- 000,000. The “playground of America” was metamorphosed into a scene of desolation over a wide area. Pieas- ure resorts werc turned into tem- porary morgues and hospitais, and trains bearing physicians and n uses were arriving in the storm- torn secticn from many directions. Houses and office bulldinga wr crowded with refugees. | ry Food Supplies Scarce Palm Beach and West Paim Beach, on the fringe of the storm, escaped with heavy damage. 38,000 Hometess. The injured tn the ravaged dis- trict were placed at 2000, with 384,. 000 homeless persons seeking re- lief. Tales of suffering and hard- ships were recounted by messages . arriving here. Many persons searched the ruins of their homes for members of their families while others sought relatives and friends in hospitals and morgues. Water was knee-deep in the streets of Miami and Miami Beach. all public utilities there were dis- aSied and restaurants were closed. SS eS ee ere