The Washington Post
August 25, 1928

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But he did not need to hear a speech to know that he was welcome; the cheering and shouting told him that. Breaking through the police lines, men and women rushed forward to grasp his hand, or touch him, and those who couldn’t, yelled their greeting from a distance. The music of the drum and bugle corps of the Victory Post of the Amer- ican Legion and the constant popping of flashlights completely drowned out the words of welcome that Robert V. Fleming was trying to utter, and tin the end Fleming gave it up as hopeless. The train that brought the Republi- can presidential nominee back from his 8.000-mile trip across the continent, pulled into Union Station at 8:42 o’clock. three minutes ahead of time Bronzed by the sun, Hoover was on his feet and at the door before the train came to a halt. Standing beside him was his assistant, George Akrson Mrs. Hoover Also Cheered. The little group of nationa! and local Republican leaders who had been al- lowed to go out to the train shea proke into cheers when they saw their stan- dard bearer. A moment later and Chalir- man Hubert Work, of the national committee, and Larry Ritchie one of Hoover’s assistants, were clambering aboard the car. Then Mrs. Hoover and Allan, the youngest Hoover boy, eppeared at the door, and there was mcre cheering, Mrs Hoover was in dark blue and wore a corsage of flowers. Like her husDand, she was smiling broadly. After photographs had been made, Mr. and Mrs, Hoover and their party walked out toward the great rotunda. Behind the high iron railing there the crowd was banked four deep As soon as the nominee appeared the station began to reverberate with cheers. “Hoover! Yow!’”’ one man screamed. The nominee smiled and waved his hand. In his other hand he carried the same gray felt that he kad worn when he left for Palo Alto five weeks ago. Banker Fleming’s Speech. Out at the door reserved for celebri- ties waited the drum and pugle corps, 30 more photographers and another great section of the crowd. Now was the time for the formal ceremony of wel- come, John Lewis Smith, president of the local Hoover and Curtis Club, stepped up and introduced the banker Fleming to Mr. Hoover. Mr. Fleming was all set to tell Mr. Hoover how glad Wash- ington was to have him back when the bedlam of music, flashlights and cheering interrupted him. What Mr. Fleming was prepared to say was this: “Tonight Waspington is proud of the opportunity to’ welcome you back to the Nation’s Capital. Through your devotion to the services of your country CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 65. AAU MoAb OF Lat FLIER DEGLANED FANE Call, Received by Many Amateurs, Was Sent by an Expert. “JOKERS” FACE FINES OF $8, 000 IF CAUGHT Aviators’ Friends Offer to Help Finance Rescue Expedition. Chicago, Aug. 24 (A.P.).—Although radio operators in Chicago, Toledo and Brooklyn received messages last night purporting to come from the missing Rockford-to-Stockholm filers, radio experts tonight were frankly skeptical that the messages came from Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, missing aviators. Despite the doubters, however, rela- tives and friends of the filers in Rock- ford, l., believed the messages geny- ine and that they gave added evidence that the aviators who left Rockford eight days ago are safe The messages picked up last night and signed ‘Rockford filers,” said the plane, Greater Rockford, was down on a small island about 50 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, adding that food supplies were low, and asking that the Associated Press the filers’ families be notified. amateur the and Message Believed Fake. While there was no doubt that such a message was sent, skeptics pointed to many reasons for doubting its au- thenticity. It was on a different wave band than that assigned the Greater Rockford, the message was transmitted as if by an expert, while Hassell and Cramer are inexperienced senders, and the point where the message said they were down was hundreds of miles from the two villages in southwestern Green- land, over which villages said the plane passed Sunday morning headed east. A heavy penalty is provided for a radio operator attempting to perpetrate Such a hoax, but radio experts said it would be almost impossible to detect such a person if the messages are fic- titious. To trace him, it was pointed cut, many direction detectors would have to be employed, and there are 20,000 such stations in the country. Channels Kept Clear. Last night’s messages said the send- ers would be back on the air tonight and the Government is keeping air channels clear to allow an opportunity to listeners to try for other messages and attempt to solve the riddle. Hun- dred of amateurs, it was estimated, are sitting nightly with ears glued to head phones trying to pick up messages from the lost aviators. Ships which have been patrolling the North Atlantic have been ordered to make a search of islands off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland, while Eskimo hunters are searching the ter- rain between the west coast of Green- land, where the plane was sighted py villagers, and Mount Evans, its object- ive, 300 miles to the north. The Rockford Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the flight, received an offer today from friends of the fliers in De- troit to help finance an expedition to search for the airmen. Finding of Station Difficult. New York, Aug. 24 (A.P.).—Doubts as to the authenticity of messages pur- porting to come from the missing avia- tors, Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, was expressed here today by some radio experts, but nobody could suggest a CONTINUED ON PAGE 7, COLUMN 2. ‘Big Bill’ Tilden Found Guilty Of Breaking Amateur Rule Lawn Tennis Association Puts Star Under Indefi- nite Suspension. New York, Aug. 25 (Saturday) (A.P.). “Big Bill” Tilden early today was found guilty of violating the amateur player- writer rule of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. The verdict, reached by the execu- tive committee of the U. S. L. 2 és after a session of nearly six hours, car- ried with tt Tilden’s indefinite suspen- sion from competition. as an amateur tennis player. The specific count on which the ac- tion was taken was Tilden’s writing of nis championships in which he was a contestant, No definite period of ineligibility was stated. The by-laws of the association pro-' vide that any person who is declared disqualified or suspended may be rein- sta | the executive committee eS the satis- | © . L. T. A. on evidence sa factory to it that reinstatement is mer- - —w w7 SCENE OF NEW YORK’S SUBWAY DISASTER The scene which greeted rescuers after the New York Subway express Associated Press jumped the track Photo train as it was leaving Times Square Station and crashed through a concrete portion of the tunnel. PAODENGER KICK OUT CAR WINDOWS ~~ Choose Their Own Exits When| ville Center, N. Y. the Guards Refuse to Open Doors. WOMEN ARE = HYSTERICAL New York, Aug. way crash height of the evening rush day threw the entire system of Interborough Rapid Transit confusion caused 24 Times (A.P.) at Square in hour the into and all other units of the city’s transportation system be swamped, millions of fought to reach their homes in other subway trains, elevated lines and taxicabs Persons who regularly use the Times Square Station, one of the busiest un- derground railway terminals in the world, were turned away from the In- terborough’s West Side lines and sent by the already crowded “shuttle” trains Co as and surface to the Grand Central Station to take | the Lexington avenue line. But this line, always jammed at the rush hour, was unable to move the dl- verted passengers, who fought to gain entrance to the _ trains. Falling to crowd into the Lexington avenue trains, many of them climbed to the street again and tried the elevated lines. These, too, were jammed and prog- ress was slow, as the overloaded trains, held beyond the usual time for load- ing at the station, crawled in both di- rections. Taxicabs were at a premium and many who turned to them from the subways and elevated lines were unable to obtain passage even by this means. Many private automobiles took aboard stranded passengers and gave them a lift along the way home. News of the accident spread rapidly and newspaper offices were deluged with telephone calls from homes. where dinner was waiting members of the family who were overdue. The stalled subway trains were plunged into darkness as the power was shut off and only the dim glow of a single bulb at either end of each car lighted the struggling passengers inside. Those aboard a train which stopped near Fourteenth street were ordered out and walked the tracks back to Twelfth street. Men helped the women from the cars, but many were hysterical and several were carried, half fainting, to the street. One express train took 45 minutes to travel six blocks from 116th street to 110th street. At the latter point guards refused to open the doors, but passen- gers kicked out the windows and fought their way to the street. Burning Steamer Dashes to Samoa U. S. Naval Station Makes Ready to Give Aid to Menaced Vessel. Pago Pago, Samoa, Aug. 24 (A.P.).— Radio distress signals received here late today said the Port Napier, 8,500-ton British steamer, was on fire 75 miles south of this port. With the fire gain- ing, she was proceeding 13 knots an hour toward Pago Pago. The fire was on the starboard side of the No. 4 shelter deck. The Port Napier’s cargo was said to contain oils, | paints, matches and cement. The naval radio station kept in con-| | tinuous communication with the burn- | ing steamer. eee fai round trip the | to- | | | DEAD AND INJURED New York, Aug. of the identified dead and injured tin | the subway wreck today follow: | | | medical student, Hospital | to workers | lyn. The sub- | nee KILLED, Vincent Mengus, 31, of Clifton, N. 4. George Frye, 35, a chauffeur, of Rock- Irving Rabinowitz, 25, of after both amputated, Joseph Cone, 28, James Burke, Mrs. legs had no address, 19, of Inwood, N. Y. Alice M. Weatherford, 64 WE Mrs. Marion Zips, 29, of New ilerbert Zips, 11, of New York. Mrs. Mary Haynes, 32, West brighton, Staten Island. INJURED. tniess otherwise stated, from New York. York. of those are frank Worthingdyke, 33, Mahwah, N. J. | t] | 1e Erick Murray, 28, Aaron Chanin, 28. Willlam Dorlan, 30. Max Gomez, 32. Walter Kwartkouski, 34. Alice Murray, 26, Bridgeport Kertha Branson, 28. Charles N J. William Jesysioa, 28. Joseph D. Nair, 34, Willlam Grienwetsky, 32. Edgar Brathwaite, 36. Martha Brathwaite, 236. Charles Van Zandant, 16. Thomas Ford, 64, Western Springs, HL, Joseph Roura, 25. Virginia Lawrence, 52 Giuy Greenwald, 40. Mabel Whitman, 30. John Kratner, 27. Elizabeth Siebold, 19. Andrew Tricarica, 34, Jersey City, N Emma Kraft. 41. Charles Kenley, 37. Maude Jackson, 28, Belleville, N Anna Kane, 27. Harry Applebaum, 85. Attempted Atlantic Hop Lasts Only 13 Minutes Le, Bourget, France (Saturday), Aug. 25 (A.P.).—The monoplane France was forced, due to an unfavorable wind and its heavy load of fuel, to return to the flying field this morning 13 minutes after taking off on an attempted non- stop flight to New York. To gain flying height the pilot, Capt Louis Coudouret, dropped most of the plane’s gasoline supply overboard. Even then he was barely able to gain suffiicient height in which to maneuver back to the field. The plane is a Bernard machine pow- ered by a single 600-horsepower His- pano-Suiza motor and carrying 1,220 gallons of fuel. Count Louis de Mail- ly-Nesle was relief pilot and Capt Mailleux navigator. , Conn, Schweitzer, 30, Bloomfield, Brooklyn, | who died in Bellevue | been New | ,}in the subway crash in | traffic amed | " | was completely tied virtually all night | would take | had SUBWAY 1S SNARLED 24 (A.P.).—The names | ALU NIGHT BY Gk UPROAR SWEEPS THOUSANDS AS TRAIN CRASHES AT TRAFFIC HUB Against Pillars Defective Switch Throws Eighth Car of Ten From the Rails and Batters It of Big Tunnel, Scattering Human Freight. FIRE FROM THIRD-RAIL CURRENT ADDS TO UNDERGROUND HORROR Firemen, Policemen and Doctors Through Crushed Steel and Torn Cement to the Rescue of Victims, Tracing Them by Groans That Come From Mass of Wreckage. Way Bore New York, Aug. 24 (A. P.).—Seventeen persons were killed and 156 injured late today when the eighth car in a southbound Interborough Rapid Transit express train jumped the track as it was leaving the Times Square station and crashed into a concrete partition in the tunnel. The accident happened shortly after 5 o’clock at the peak of the evening rush hour, at the busiest, most congested, station in New,York’s subway system. bound workers on the station platforms were thrown into an uproar and traffic the entire length of the West Side subway ine was brought to a standstill. All available police and fire department emergency units were The thousands of homeward- 500 Toil in Silence, Under) called out and ambulances from every hospital in Manhattan Searchlighfs, Removing vars | in rreces. POLICE REROUTE CURIOUS | , Brook- a eee New York, Aug. 24 (A.P.).—While 500 | grim and perspiring ately cut workmen desper- With acetylene torches wrecked Times Square. busiest subway away at the big stel express cars in New York’s At 8 o'clock, crasn nearly three hours after police estimated that it at least five hours more to clear the tracks. To get the out, workmen literally them to pieces with the torches and push the pieces out on hand cars. About 500 feet beyond the southern end of the platform—weirdly illumined by electric searchlights and _ sparks from the acetylene torches—lay the wreckage to hack | wrecks of one and possibly two cars, | twisted, | broken | ting covered seats. and mat- Here and there a advertising poster came under the moving white lights—the smile of a man on a collar-ad, a red- cheekeq baby eating breakfast food. Bits of clothing lay about. Carefully jagged masses of steel glass and blood-stained gay-colored CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 4 Merchant Suicide Discovered by Son Edward Williams Hangs Himself Because of Broken Health. Using two belts, Edward Williams, 56 years old, a retired stationery merchant of Alexandria, Va.. ended his life yes- terday by hanging himself to a bedpost in a room on the third floor of ais home, 1101 King street, Alexandria. Despondency because of failing health was given by police as the motive for his act. Mr. Williams was to have been -|taken to a hospital in nearby Maryland for treatment of a nervous illness by his son, Reynolds Williams, pene stated. Shortly before 1 p. m., the retired merchant went to the third floor room ostensibly to prepare for the journey to the hospital. When he falled to re- appear the son went to investigate and discovered his father’s body, with the .|two belts attached to a bedpost about his neck. Things That paper. YOU In Sunday’s Washington Post CAN WOMEN KEEP STATE SECRETS? Read the story in the Magazine Section, which deals with the success Washing- ton women have had in this respect. _ SECRETARY KELLOGG’S ANTIWAR TREATY will be signed in Paris Monday. In tomorrow’s News Section you will find an authoritative outline of the steps toward peace which have led up to the present agreement. WHO WILL GET THE INDIAN VOT2Z? The real Amer- icans play a vital part in the present campaign. The induce- ments both parties are holding out are detailed in tomorrow’s Be sure to order your copy early Will Tbeest SE) rushed doctors to the scenes and carried the injured to hos- | pitals. Taxicabs and private automobiles also were pressed into Service to remove the injured as fast as they were brought up 'by rescue workers. Defective Switch ithe wrecked train had been held front trucks passed safely over, before the rear truck reached it. The rear trucks following the 'express and local tracks. was cut in two. Crowd Thrown Into Uproar. Leaving Times Square, heart of New York’s underground traffic, the train had just gained momentum on its journey to Brooklyn when the crash occurred that threw the thousands pouring into the station into an up- roar, brought every available policeman and fireman in the section to emer- gency duty and called out every am- bulance in the city. For blocks around Times Square emergency lines were thrown up by the police to hold back the throngs heading homeward. Ambulances clanged through the crowds, policemen fought to control the surging mobs seeking friends and attempting to aid in bringing out the dead and injured. Inside the station the scene was al- most indescribable in semidarkness and choking smoke, firemen, policemen and doctors tore through the wreckage, at first following the groans of the in- jured, then boring under the crushed steel and torn cement for the bodies of the dead. Derailed Car Buckles. An early survey of the scene revealed that the express train, heading out of the station, passed almost three-quar- ters beyond a switch in the maze of tracks 200 feet below the passenger platform. It appeared that the first pair of trucks of the eighth car in the string passed the switch safely. Then the rear trucks split the switch, left the express tracks and headed down a parallel track used by local trains. The eighth car, crowded with home- goers and carrying at least 80 persons, buckled in half like a bent pin, hurtled through the air, and was cut length- wise by the cement wall. and steel stanchions that separate the two tracks. One-half slithered down the rails at least 200 feet before crumpling into a heap of torn steel and twisted sheet- ing against one side wall. The other half of the car crumpled beside the smashed wall, its massive trucks leaning against the structure. Between the two smashed portions of the car lay other bits of wreckage, parts of clothing, battered straw hats, and here and there bits of human wreckage yet to be cleared away. No other parts of the train were badly battered. Tunnel Filled With Smoke. Although power along the _ entire west side subway line was shut off as soon as possible, sparks from the shat- tered high voltage lines apparently set fire to bits of woodwork and filled the black cavern below the passenger platform Pies dense smoke. Out of the smoke, coughing and reeling, came the first of et the injured, many of whom their way win- dows and crawled from under twisted wreckage. As firemen, policemen, subway guards minutes for repairs to the switch which After the repairs which were thought to have put the switch in work- ing condition, the motorman was signaled to proceed and the train was picking up full speed when the eighth car reached the switch. other track, ‘and hurled it against the end of the concrete wall which separates the The heavy steel car jammed with passengers The last car of the ten-car train, the police commis- sioner’s investigation showed, had telescoped the rear of the ninth car. Blamed for Wreck. After inspecting the wreckage Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren said the accident was caused by a defective switch. He explained that up in Times Square Station five later caused the accident. The Warren said, but the switch opened swung the car sidewise and many passengers on the platform rushed into the smoke to organize rescue parties, the first of the ambu- lance men appeared. Within half an hour all the dead and injured had been removed and gangs of subway workers strove to clear the tangled remains of the car and restore service. Mayor James J. Walker. notified of the accident, hurried to the scene but arrived too late to take part in the rescue work. City Medical Inspector Norris and Police Inspector Coughlin came with him, but the rescue work had been completed. Firemen quickly extinguished the blaze in the subway, confined almost entirely to insulation on the high tension electric cables. Children Carried From Tunnel. The crash occurred just above Fortl- eth street and was heard for almost a block away from numerous subway en- trances byilt in that area to accom- modate the hundreds of thousands us- ing the subway daily. Detective William B. Kirk, standing at the Fortieth street entrances, heard the foar of the collision, the noise of breaking steel, and the cries of the in- jv-ed. Smoke almost immediately poured from the ventilator gratings in the street that allow air to enter the subterranean passages. The crushed car lay across the rails, torn apart with its human freight, many dead and many injured, spilled about in the darkness of the cavern. Kirk carried out two children crying keside the form of their unconscious Index to Today’s Issue Pages. 1—17 Killed, 156 Hurt, in Subway. Hoover Welcomed to Capital. Fliers’ ‘“‘Message” Is Fake. “Big Bill” Tilden Suspended. 2—Blind Girl’s Mate in Cell. Jerseyites Cheer Gov. Smith. Machold Heads State G. O. P. Texas Run-off Primary Today. 3—Senators Fight on Tariff. Butcher Boy Jury Challenged. Sheriff Forced Out in Death. Seven Stowaways Die on Ship. 4—Kellogg Guarded in Paris, Coming to the Theaters. 5—Magazine Features, 6—Editorial. 7i—Society. Byrd’s Men Sail Today. 8—At the Churches. 9, 10—Financial News. 11, 12, 183—Sports. 14—The Post’s Comics. Radio News and Programs. 15—Classified Advertising, 16—Hesse Not to Act’as Censor. Drill Season Is Ended. Autoist to Jail for 210 Days. Police Driver Is Fined. Awards at Rockville Fair. v