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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-07
CLUBS INVITED

New Haven, Nov. z ReWomen's
clubs In this state have been invited
to compete for prizes offered BY the
General Federation Of Women's
clubs for stories of the most COM
plete and constructive observance
of children's book week which will
be celebrated the week of Novem-
Der II.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-07
FAMILY GATHERING

Members of Sir Francis Drake
lodge, American Order Sons Of st.
George, will have a family gather
ing and banquet tomorrow evening
at the Jr. o. L. A. NJ. hall on Glen
street. The banquet will start at
$50 o'clock and will be followed by
an entertainment.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-07
Gov. Hunt of Arizona
Admits He's Defeated

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. tEl-Gov-
ernor George w. +. Hunt. six times
chief exec itive of Arizona and
democratic candidate for a seventh
term, today conceded the election of
John c. Phillips. republican. when
he was notified that 320 complete
and incomplete. precincts of the
states 462 gave the republican nom
lHee a lead of nearly 1000 votes.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-07
WELCOME ELECTION

Moscow. Nov. P-Public opin-
ion In Russia today appeared to
welcome the election of Herbert
Hoover. News of the republican vic
tory in the United States reached
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-11-07
BRINGS SUIT FOR $1,000

Suit for $1,000 was brought to-
day by Rose Senk against Boleslaus
konopka through Attorney Bernard
l.. Alpert. for money loaned Con-
stable Fred Wrinkle served the pa
pers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Local Red Cross Meets

A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Indianapolis Red Cross
was held at noon today in Cham
ber of Commerce to discuss plans
for relief work in storm-swept Porto
Rico. Indianapolis share in finan-
cial aid probably will be set. The
meeting was called by William For
tune, local chairman.
Two Porto Rican resident in In
dianapolis for winter were overjoyed
Sunday to learn that their husband
and father, as well as all their rela-
tives in the devastated area were
safe. They are Lavinia Mary Hay
man, a student at Shortridge High
School and her mother, Mrs. j. w.
Hayman, who are staying in the
home of Ed Hunter, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce.
A cablegram Sunday from Hay
man, United States commissioner at
Mayaguec, Porto Rico, said he and
all relatives were safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Georgia, Mississippi and
Alabama Coasts Feared
in Great Peril.
TOWNS ARE ISOLATED
Gale Cuts Wide SWath Over
Peninsula; No Word From
East Coast Cities.
By United Press

By United Press
A hurricane that had devas-
tated Porto Rico and caused ex-
tensive damage in southern
Florida threatened today to
move with revived force on to
the Gulf of Mexico coasts of
Georgia, Alabama and Missis
sippi.
Storm warnings covering these
areas we're sent out by the weather
bureau today as the storms center
moved across the rich fruit belt Of
Florida east of Tampa.
1t had been hoped the storm
would pass out into the gulf and
expend its force harmlessly.
But the weather bureau at Wash
ington gave warning this afternoon
that the storm was expected to move
inland after passing to the gulf
Gulf ships were cautioned.
Communication all through the
Florida peninsula was paralyzed ex-
cept for occasional brief messages
These, fortunately gave no news OF
real disaster, but in view of the
storm warnings, there was anxiety
throughout the gulf region.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
200 Believed Dead
By United Press

DU CHtttu ftoo
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. u,
"A meeting at the Governors pal
ace has been called for today to con-
slider means of bringing relief to the
thousands of Porto Ricans who are
homeless and starving as a result Of
the hurricane which swept the
island Thursday.
Communication with the interior
of the island still is impossible. Tor
rental rains have caused many
landslides along the highways. Trees
have been torn up by the roots.
Officials here believe fully half of
the population is homeless.
With conservative estimates Of the
dead placed at 200, it was believed
that as reports on the havoc worked
in the interior of the island would
increase that number. at Cayey it
was reported that thirty had per-
ished and that thirty-fve had died
in the city Of Rumacao. 1t was be-
lieved that the injured in the two
places would number more than 100.
Ponce was reported as devastated,
but there was no definite count Of
dead or OF the destruction there.
Estimates Of the damage formu-
lated by a group of bankers here
place the loss of cattle at 200 1000,
the loss to the coffee crop, one Of
the best in many years at $30,00O,000
and the loss Of the sugar crop almost
as heavy, although hope was en-
tertained that some of the cane
flattened by the wind would re-
cover.
It was believed total damages
would far exceed $50,0c0,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
STORES CLOSE
RECORD DEAL
D. SommerS Company Buys
Home Firm Stock.

D. Sommers & Co., Inc, Wash
ington st. and Capitol Ave, today
announced purchase of the entire
stock of furniture Of the Home
Furniture Company, Washington
and Alabama SITS. Harry Israel,
president and general manager of
Sommers, and Leslie Meyer, man
ager of the Home company, negoti-
ated the deal. -----~-s----.-
Israel refused to name the amount
exchanged, but said purchase Of "the
merchandise in the retail store and
the warehouse is believed to be the
largest transaction of its kind Indi-
annapolis ever has witnessed"
The Home Furniture Company
closed to business this morning to
take inventory. Home customers
will make payments on purchases
at the Sonmers company.
Leslie and Ferd Meyer announce
the lease on the Home Furniture
Company premises is for sale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
1000 Miles Swept

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-Death
and widespread destruction has been
caused by the tropical hurricane
that tore for a thousand miles
through the West Indies from be-
yond the Virgin Islands to the
coast of Florida, in a path probably
fifty miles wide.
What has happened in the group
of twenty islands comprising the
Bahamas was not known today.
Nassau, the chief city, has been
cut off from communication for two
days.
Reports received by the United
Press, the United States Govern
ment and communications compan-
les from the West Indies gave only
a partial picture of the havoc caused
by the storm.
In the Virgin Islands, the Navy
was advised that six were dead and
twenty injured. With damage esti-
mated at 100000.
Porto Rico, next in the path Of
the storm, was wrecked from coast
to coast,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
BUS BAN FOUGHT
Hearing Held on Washing
tor St. Restriction.

That the indianapolis Safety
Board was without authority in
ordering six suburban bus lines not
to cross Washington St., and that
the order is discriminatory, was
contended by attorneys for the lines
in an oral argument and public
hearing before the public service
commission today.
Board of Safety members took the
stand in defense of the order and
Tony Poparod, Martin Linsky and
other owners of the lines affected,
also testified. Witnesses for all
companies declared that if the
order goes into effect their business
will be wiped out. The hearing
was brought in the name of the
South Side Motor Coach against
the city of indianapolis.
The bus people contend that
the other lines, doing an interurban
business in competition with them,
are not effected by the order. This
includes both the Hoosier and the
Peoples Motor Coach Company
lines, they testified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Cincinnati Police Notified of
Body Found in River
With Throat Cut.

Indianapolis police today appealed
to Cincinnati authorities for aid in
establishing the identity of a muir
dered man whose body was found in
White River near the Green City
boat house at Broad Ripple at 9:15
a. m. Sunday.
The murder victim had been
slashed with knife twice across the
face and once across the throat.
The slash across the throat had
severed the jugular vein.
After an autopsy Coroner G. H.
Keever declared the victim prob
ably had been dead two or three
hours. There was no water in his
lungs, showing he was dead when
thrown into the river. There were
traces of alcohol in his stomach.
Mrs. Frank Anderson, 65l5 Ash
land Ave-, canoeing with her hus-
band, discovered the body when her
paddle struck it.
A billfold in his pocket bore the
name of a Cincinnati tailoring firm
and a label inside a coat pocket
was that of another Cincinnati
tailor. Other labels had been torn
from the clothes.
FingerprintS have been taken an6
will be sent to Cincinnati for identi-
f1cation.
Several persons viewed the body
at the Moore and Kirk funeral par
lor, 1880 Station ST., today, but
failed to identify it.
The slain man was about 55 year:
old and weighed about ITS pounds
He wore a blue suit with a thiE
stripe and had thin brown hair A
uame on another label in the pocket
of his clothes, evidently that of tht
purchaser of the suit, partly was ob'
liberated, but appeared to be Seifert
or something similar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Help GiUen Radio Fans

The Times radio interference
listeners Sunday clearing trouble that
sisted for three days.
With his motorized radio outfit interference
cred than dozen nhborhoods
ing trouble in visited
This service being Indianapolis
The Times and city dealers and jobbers the
ton bad and think grief interference
neighborhood call The Times
possible to locate of the trouble
And don't fail to notice that The giving you newsy
radio Write in
Do want about the programs
reviews OF the big by Times dramatic
news editors? Do want technical Whatever
would like to the radio The Times just line
the radio editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Hundreds of Thousands in
Porto Rico Homeless;
Death Toll High.
RED CROSS RUSHES AID
Storm Victims Are Hungry,
Governor of Island
Reports.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. l7.-Hun-
dreds Of thousands of persons are
homeless and hungry in Porto Rico,
Governor Towner reported to the
War Department today in a plea
for immediate assistance of all
kinds.
President Coolidge moved imme-
diately to relieve Porto Rican con-
ditions by ordering the Army trans
port st. Mihiel, which left New
Friday for Panama, to stop at San
Juan Thursday and discharge her
cargo of $50 tons of foodstuffs.
Towner forwarded estimates that
there are 100000 homeless.
Towner said the hurricane dis
aster was the worst that ever oc-
CURED in the West Indies.
Loss of Life High
"The loss of life is greater than
at first reported" he said, but no
reliable estimate can be made at
present. Suffering from exposure,
want Of food and clothing, and from
loss of household effects will be
great.
Many schoolhouses and other pub
lie buildings also were destroyed.
The cane crop was injured to the
extent Of 25 per cent and the to-
bacco crop to about so per cent.
Nearly all tobacco farms were
destroyed.
The coffee crop, valued at $l0,-
10000, was rs per cent destroyed.
The fruit crop was totally de-
stroyed and about 25 per cent Of the
trees were destroyed.
Money Is Needed
These reports are probably, in
some respects, exaggerated, but the
disaster is the worst that ever oc-
CURED from a hurricane in the
West Indies and in some respects
the facts are worse than the reports.
THE Red Cross is functionmg
in San Juan and vicinity but its re-
sources are small. We need immed-
late help for temporary needs.
Everything is needed, money espec-
tally. Should like to have an in-
mediate contribution as large as
can be made from American Red
Cross cabled and then campaign
for funds in continental United
States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Tempest Roars Inland

BY CHttCu FTG6S
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. IT.
A great hurricane from out Of the
Indies dealt destruction and death
to the Florida peninsula today.
South of Daytona on the east
coast towns and cities, including
West Palm Beach, were cut off
Gravest fears were felt for inhabi-
tantS of the stricken area.
The tempest was believed roar
inC inland in all its fury of winds
that cut off house tops, laid low
communication systems and caused
suffering and perhaps death.
For hours there had been no au-
thentic word, not even by radio, OF
what had occurred in fifty-mile
belt near West Palm, which before
the winter influx of visitors is city
of $4,000.
The United Press correspondent
at Titusville early today telephoned
that a Screeching wind Of perhaps
1OO-mile velocity was rocking houses
there. Then the line went out.
TitusVille is $50 miles north OF
Palm Beach.
Inland, at Orlando, houses rocked
in the tempest.
The storm appeared to be smash
ing it's way across the peninsula.
Like a gigantic sword it cut down
everything in its path.
Communication lines were gen.
orally out. Public utilities were
crippled.
Scores Of towns and cities on the
edge of the storms path were in
darkness Sunday night.
Before wires to West Palm Beach
failed, reports came of housetops
sailing through the air, trees pulled
up like grass and seas thirty-tive
to forty feet high pounding on the
shore.
What was happening to human
lives endangered in the unprece-
dented storm remained temporarily
a matter of conjecture.
Red Cross MObilizes
Red Cross and American Legion
units mobilized for relief work at
Miami, Jacksonville and Tampa.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson, DEM
ocratic candidate for vice president,
was reported on a special train that
left Miami last midnight as a re-
lief expedition.
Doctors and nurses were on board
and railroad officials hoped to reach
the vicinity Of West Palm Beach
some time today.
The hurricane struck the coast
Sunday, centering near Jupiter In
let, north of Palm Beach. Early to-
day it had dealt two successive
shocks. Towns on the fringe of the
disturbance as it hit the east coast
reported high winds at dusk Sun
day and then a lull.
Early today these same towns, in
cluding Daytona Beach and Orlando
in the interior, reported a recur-
renee of high winds. this time Of
amazing velocity, estimated at be-
tween 80 and 100 miles an hour, be-
fore wires failed.
Oddly enough the storm, which
is considered of severity far greater
than the death dealing hurricane of
September, 1926. comes two years,
lacking a day, after that disturbance
struck Miami, leaving in its wake
the bodies of hundreds of victims
and widespread damage.
Miami so far has weathered the
edge of the hurricane with no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
PLEASE, PAPA,
PAY,' WRITES
KIDNAPPED BOY
you'll Never See Me
Again. Pleads Lad, 10,
Held for $4,000 Ransom.
NEW DEATH THREAT
Would You Know Your
Sons Head If You Saw
It?' Asks Black Hand.
BIZ United Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 17.-Chicago
moved today to destroy the malta
extortion ring which for twelve days
has held prisoner 10-year-old
Billy" Ranieri, demanding 100000
ransom for his release.
Chicago's Sicilian colony, for years
victimized by well organized ex-
tortion rings, apparently has decided
to overthrow the terrorist rule, po-
lice announced today.
Police said law-abiding Sicilians
had sent word about the colony that
IAN eye for an eye, life for life"
would be exacted of the kidnapers
of the Ranieri child.
The uprising followed receipt by
the child's wealthy father, A. Frank
Rainier of a new threat letter from
the extortion ring. The letter read:
"Woul dyou know your boys head
if you saw it?
you have the money and if you
don't put it here you will receive a
nice little package, and see if you
know who it is? You will never find
the oUner part OF your son.
Please, Papa, Pay
The letter was accompanied by a
note, identified by Ranieri, as hav-
ing been written by his son. 1t
read:
please, Papa, pay the money or
you will never see me again."
Ranieri, wealthy contractor, was
said to have broken off all private
negotiations with the alleged agents
of the kdnapers and to have
turned to police in last effort to
save his son., For nearly a week
after the child was seized on his
way home from school, the father
concealed the kidnapping from the
police because Of fear of malta veng-
eance.
Angelo Petitti, supposed saloon
keeper, was questioned by Cragin
police on the theory he had assumed
the leadership of the slain Antonio
Lombardo in the colony and had
been directing terrorist activities:
Many Blackhand Plots
Detectives said they had learned
that more than fifty blackhand let .
ters had been written from Petitti's
place of business during the last
two months.
Samuel Hoffman, assistant States
attorney, announced after question:
ing Petitti, that "Petitti knows all
about the kidnapping.
I'm the last thirty days these ex-
tortionists have victimized at least
fifty Italians and Sicilians, taking
from each of them sums ranging
from ST 900 to $2,O00," said Hoffman.
Wholesale warrants authorizing
search of Sicilian colonies may be
one of the first movements against
the ring, it was intimated.
A renewal of the deportation
campaign launched two years ago
was suggested as another method.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
AUTO INJURIES FATAL
Scott Phelps, Hurt Sept 8, Dies in
Hospital

Injured in a motor car crash Sept.
9, Scott Phelps, r. r. c, box 1872,
died this morning in Robert w. Long
Hospital.
Phelps was riding with John
Check, 1884 Mcpherson Ave, when
the car crashed into another ma
chine and overturned. Check, in
jured slightly, was charged with as
sault and battery, reckless driving
and speeding.
After Phelps death the charge
was changed to involuntary man
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Tampa Is in Path

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE
Porto Rico-Florida hurricane, re-
ported apparently two-thirds of
the way across Florida" this morn
ing, caused a sensational drop in
barometer at Tampa, the Navy was
advised by It's Key west radio sta
ton TODAY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
SEEK TO IDENTIFY
MURDER VICTIM
A Winner

Indianapolis Times-It may
interest you to note that our
client, the Shockley Flying
Service, has received thirty di-
rect inquiries from the initial
ad placed in your paper Satur-
day, Sept. 8.
This certainly speaks we'll
for the aviation page you are
pioneering in Indiana news
papers.
LYNCH & WILSON, INC,
Advertising.
Kokomo, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
ROCKFORD TOLL IA
Three More Bodies Found in
Storm-WaSted Area.
BIZ Unfted PreRs

BIZ United Press
ROCKFORD, Ill, Sept. 1.-THE
death toll Of the tornado which
swept the northeast industrial Sec
ton of Rockford Friday mounted to
fourteen today with the recovery of
three bodies from the ruins of the
Rockford Chair and Furniture Com
pany factory.
Beneath the pile of brick, stone
and twisted steel, workmen found
the bodies of Frank Strom, "a, Gun
mar RyerSo, 38, and August Peter
son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Orlando WeatherS Storm

BIZ United Press
ORLANDO. Fla, Sept. 17.-After
blowing at seventy-five to ninety
miles an hour force, the high wind
of a hurricane died down at dawn
today here, leaving in its wake tum-
pled down trees.
AS far as is known no houses had
been damaged. Telephone lines and
telegraph remained intact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
Communications Cut

BB United Press
FIT. PIERCE, Florida, Sept. IT.
Telephone and telegraph service be-
tween Ft. Pierce and points to the
south is cut off. Trains headed for
more southern points are being
halted here, as the arrival of the
hurricane was anticipated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
STEWART DELAY ASKED
PcstpOnement Of Oil Mans Trial
Sought by Prosecution.
U United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17-Dis-
trict Attorney Leo A. Rover today
asked Justice Jennings Bailey in
District Supreme Court to postpone
the perjury trial of Robert w. Stew
art, chairman of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana, from Oct. 8
to Dec. 8 because Senators Nye and
Walsh, principal witnesses, will be
making campaign speeches on that
date. Bailey set the hearing on the
motion for Sept. 25..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17

known damage. High winds oc-
Cured there Sunday night, but
they dwindled. However, Ft. Lau-
derdale, scarcely twenty miles
northward, was cut off. Houses
were unroofed, according to un-
confirmed reports.
Shipping was at a standStill all
along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Adequate warnings had been given
of the hurricane danger.
In Tampa Bay three destroyers
rode at anchor, ready to be de-
spatched to aid any vessels in dis
tresS.
Tampa, with its population Of
$4,000 was under a severe strain to-
day. The hurricane had caused the
barometer to drop with rapidity, as
it in fact did, all over the peninsula.
At o'clock it was 2916, a reading
the Board of Trade announced as
the lowest on record.
A motley stream Of cars passed
northward through Jaacksonville to-
day as residents of cautious nature
moved out of the State to escape
the hurricane hazards.
At Daytona during the night, the
main highway was clogged with the
northbound traffic, bound for
Georgia or further north.
1t was matter of speculation
here as to whether the worst part Of
the storm struck the Palm Beaches,
Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Pierce or the
inland district near Lake Okeecho-
bee which suffered so severely in
the 1926 blow.
High Wind at Palm Beach
Clifford Grange, amateur radio
operator here was unable to COM
municate today with any stations in
the affected area. Other amateurs
reported the same silence to calls.
At Clewiston on Lake Okeechobee
the flood danger was added to that
of wind. The lake was rising and
streets we're being flooded. There
were rumors-always vague and un-
certain in such Situations-that
destruction had been terrific below
Fort Pierce in the vicinity of the
Palm Beaches.
The American Telephone ana Tel
egraph Company reported early tc-
day that a 100-mile wind was rag
ing at Pam Beach. The conpany's
wires to points along the east coast
went out one by one. Repair crews
were made ready to invade the hur-
ricane ridden zone. Western Union
and Postal telegraph wires also were
reported all down in the area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
DEFER SAFETY MEETING
Truck Drivers to Hear Talk BY
Judge Cameron Wednesday.

The Indianapolis Safety Councils
commercial vehicle drivers safety
conference, scheduled for Tuesday
evening has been postponed until
Wednesday.
Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cam
eron will be principal speaker at the
conference to be held at the Athen-
aeun, at 7:45 o. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
May Lash
3 OTHER STATES AFTER
HUGE DAMAGE INFL0RIDA
Yachts Lost
BIZ United Press

By United Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla,
Sept. 17.-Yachts in the Hall
fax river were being battered
to pieces today by high winds
and lashing seas, as the edge
of a hurricane struck this city.
Owners looked on helplessly.
The Halifax River tide was
at record height. The gale
blew the crested water into
Beach street.-The main thor
oughfare of the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-17
BANDITS FREE AMERICAN
Engineers Released by Mexicans
After Ransom Is Paid.

After Ransom Is Paid.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-E. j.
Bumsted, kidnapped American min
ing engineer, has been released by
Mexican bandits, according to un-
confirmed but apparently reliable
information received at the State
Department today.
Bumsted was captured during the
last week Of August and Was held
for $4,000 ransorne, which was re-
ported to have been forwarded to
the bandits last week.