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Evening star., 1928-09-19
FULL STORM FORCE
DUE HERE TONIGHT
Strong Winds and Heavy
Rain Expected-LittIe Dam
age Done SO Far.

Heralding its approach with cold
rain driven hard by winds. the West
Indian hurricane, considerably reduced
in proportions. twisted steadily nearer
to Washington today and was scheduled
to pass this city nearly 100 miles to the
east during the early hours tonight.
Electric light lines in the Chevy Chase
and Southeast sections of the city were
damaged by preceding winds.
As the storm draws closer to the city
tonight it will bring moderately heavy
rains, a 35-mile-an-hou wind and a
temperature drop to between so and IS
degrees.
Although the storm has changed It's
course and is now travelling up the At
lantic coast over the land, Washington
will be visited only by fringe, the
Weather Bureau announced.
The lashing winds expected to en-
velop the city this evening will be ap-
proximately one e-third as strong as
those accompanying full-fiedged hur-
ricane. The heavy rain which almost
invariably accompanies storms of the
hurricane type will begin to fall be-
tween and Z o'clock and probably will
continue through tomorrow morning.
The temperature, according to the
Weather Bureau. will remain in the low
Sos for at least "a hours.
Shipping Is Damaged.
The hurricane which has left in its
wake an appalling toll of death and de-
yesterday, but was reported to be re-
gaining intensity this morning.
An 80-mile wind played havoc with
shipping around the Delaware break
water this morning and at Atlantic
City, where the wind reached a velocity
of rs miles an hour. startled residents
became convinced they were In the grasp
of the hurricane proper. This was de-
MED at the Weather Bureau, where off,
cials stated that the center of the storm
was just inland of Cape Henry. at II
am, and would not reach Atlantic City
until late tomorrow or Friday.
Service OF the Potomac Electric Power
Co.. was temporarily disrupted today
when wires were blown down at the in
tersections of Connecticut avenue with
Primrose street, Bradley Lane and Jones
Mill road. Wires were reported down at
Alabama avenue and Stanton road
southeast. Company officials stated the
trouble was not of a serious nature and
that the damage would be fully repaired
by noon.
AS the storm gained strength the
Weather Bureau moved its storm warn.
!, ings as far North as Provincetown
Mass, and issued the following detailed
warming.
Advisory 9:30 am. warning changed
to whole gale north of Atlantic City
to Provincetown. Storm central be.
tween Raleigh. N. c., and Cape Hat.
possibly north h-northeastward
Northeast winds will likely increase
to whole gale force this afternoon anc
tonight.
Northeast warnings continued north
of Provincetown to Boston. and north.
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BLAST SPENDS ITS FURY,
ROARING UP ATLANTIC
COAST TO NEW ENGLAND
Hurricane at a Glance
By the Associated Press.

Hurricane blows up Atlantic
Seaboard apparently with greatly
decreased intensity as restored
communication lines reveal major
disaster to portions Of lower
Florida Peninsula.
Number of known dead in Flor
ida reported more than ESQ: in
jured at more than 1000: home
less unestimated and property
damage figured at upward of
s3O,000,00 Many reported miss
ing and fatality list expected by
Red Cross officials to mount.
Some distress and incipient
disease outbreaks along sutheast-
ern side of, Lake Okeechobee,
where greatest number of deaths
so far recorded.
Food, -clothing. medical and
other sunhlies hastened to strick-
en- territory.
Martial law urged for Palm
Beaches, portions Of which laid in
ruins. National Guardsmen sept
to aid.
Refugees crowd inadequate
quarters and hospital facilities
In some sections of storm-swept
area.
Transportation strained by in
sufficient vehicles forces workers
to leave bodies in open In some
cases to hasten evacuation of in
jured.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson,
Democratic vice presidential cam
didate, forced to cancel Atlanta
speaking engagement because of
storm delaying train.
Damage in Georgia and Caro-
linas from storms sweep indi-
Gated negligible.
Evening star., 1928-09-19

Adoption OF punitive measures,
familiar to men in the Army and other
branches of the military service, are
being seriously considered by admins
trative officials of the Police Depart
ment as means of improving discipline.
1t was learned today at police head
quarters.
The plan, 1t is understood, was con-
ceived by Inspector Henry G. Pratt.
assistant superintendent. who is ac-
quainted with service life. having been
a major in the Army and now holds
lieutenant colonel's commission In the
Officer Reserve Corps.
Briefly. the Pratt plan would give
commanding officers great discretion i'm
Furnishing policemen for minor infrac--
tions of the rules and regulations and
only aasaa inyQlYipg ssEiase efhagses and
Evening star., 1928-09-19
PARLEY PROPOSED
ON NAVAL AFFAIRS
Declared Essential at Geneva
Before Disarmament
Discussion.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 19.-Convoca-
tion of a conference of representatives
of the United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy and Japan to reach an
agreement on naval matters now divid-
ing them has been recommended by
Jonkheer DIR. j. Loudon, president of
the League Of Nations Preparatory Dis
armament Commission.
DR.. Loudon, in making the suggestion
before a meeting of the League Assem-
bly's disarmament committee, said 1t
was absolutely useless to think of con-
voking the preparatory commission un-
til an accord had been reached between
the naval powers. He suggested, there
fore, that representatives OF. the powers
meet with him privately in Paris. He
added that If such an accord were not
reached he would not take the respon-
sibility of calling a session of the pre-
paratory commission unless he received
a direct mandate from the League As
sembly.
The proposal created a sensation,
and Lord Cushendun, acting British
foreign secretary. quickly objected. He
apparently misunderstood the scope of
the suggestion and asserted that in his
opinion none of the great naval powers
would accept such an invitation.
Lord Cushendun said that the naval
powers concerned were all signatories
of the Washington treaty. which Is due
for revision in 1881. and that DR.. Lou
don apparently was proposing revision
before this date under different auspices
and from an entirely different angle.
DR.. Loudon then explained that his
idea was merely to further the work Of
the preparatory commission and that
he had no idea that the Paris meeting
should be sort Of Washington con-
ference.
MY only thought" he continued,
was to try to get the Ave powers to
understand one another on the basis
of the Franco British compromise"
Lord Cushendun then requested an
opportunity to get instructions from his
government. He said the suggestion
was a complete surprise to him, and, as
far as he knew, to the other powers.
The French delegation added that 1t
was a surprise to them
Evening star., 1928-09-19
Dead in Florida
Estimated at
400 Oor More.
PROPERTY LOSS
is SlOO,0OO,O
Pneumonia, Star.a-
ton and Typhoid
Menace Homeless.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The West Indian hurricane that
wreaked its first fury on Porto
Rico and upward through Florida,
causing deaths that may we'll total
1000 and damage of approximate
ly 10000, 600, was spending its
force on a final squirt up the Mid
die Atlantic States today.
The wind was no longer of hur-
ricane velocity $50 miles an hour,
but full gale warnings were posted
as far north as New England, and
the storm was still a serious mer.-
ace to shipping, most of which,
however, had had sufficient warn
ing to prepare for the blow.
In the districts of worst suffer-
ing first estimates of 1000 dead In
Porto Rico seemed justified by
later reports, the figure of $50 iii
the French West Indies still stood,
and the list of ESQ known dead in
Florida was constantly increasing.
Starvation Threatens.
The plight of the tens of thou
sands of homeless wasrriticak the
threat of disease and starvation
being general. Food riots in Porto
Rico were reported, and some se:-
tions were under military rule.
Red Cross relief workers were in
command of the situation, fight
ing against time to save the needy.
The coast of Maryland, Della
ware and New Jersey all felt the
force of the storm today, noun
famous seas and winds from SO to
more than 10 miles an hour being
reported.
Evening star., 1928-09-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, September
19.-There are no press seats for Cow
ering" a hurricane.
r. r. Gill, an Associated Press staff
man, and ]. p. Buchanan, Paramount
News photographer. found this out al-
most disastrously when Gill stopped his
automobile under the shed of garage
at Kelsey City. West Palm Beach sub
urb. late last Sunday afternoon to seek
shelter from the imminent blow.
Hardly had the car been stopped when
q terrific gust brought the roof Of the
shed crashing down on 1t. Buchanan
rolled out and under the automobile
and Gill jumped into the garage and
took shelter under another machine.
Then the slls Of the garage came
down. A
Evening star., 1928-09-19
LENGLEN QUITS TENNIS.

NICE, France, September 19 LP).-
Suzanne Lenglen, the great woman ten i.
mis- player. who turned professional In
August, 1926, today renounced the game
forever She also took fling at mon
gers OF marriage rumors.
either as an amateur or as a profess
sional," she said. Il have completely
given up the game, and do not care
XhethsE ever - and aAr racquet" =.
Evening star., 1928-09-19
Military Disciplinary Plan Considered
To Govern District Police Department

chronic offenders would go before the
police trial board. This would have the
effect of reducing the work Of the trial
board, which already has passed on
more than 450 cases this year A ma
jority of them, however, were of the
minor nature.
Failure to patrol beat, neglect of
duty and failure 4 to pull a box are
typical of the offenses which under the
Pratt plan police captains would dis
pose of by disciplinary action. Extra
duty after hours and fatigue work
around station houses were suggested
as penalties In lieu of small fines now
imposed by the trial board for such
minor infractions.
Inspector Pratt's recommendations. 1t
was indicated. may be modified CONE
what before they are sent to the Dis
tr1Qt CoupSnisSiopexh
Evening star., 1928-09-19
Smith, at Wichita,
Will See Memorial
To Carrie Nation
By the Associated Press.

WICHITA, Kans.. September 49,
A memorial to Carrie A. Nation, FAM
Gus temperance crusader, faces the
speakers stand being prepared for
Gov. Alfred E. Smiths reception at
the Union Station here Friday after
noon.
Admirers of the late Kansas pro-
hibitionist erected the memorial a
fountain from which clear sparkling
water bubbles increasingly, on the
spot where % years ago police ar
rested her when she began her mill
tant campaign against liquor.
The Democratic presidential can
didate makes brief stop here en-
route from Oxlahoma City to Denver.
Evening star., 1928-09-19
Reporter and Cameraman Buried Under
Crumbling Buildings Ducking Hurricane

When the noise of the crashing wall
subsidized, Gill crawled out and made his
way to hedge. where he held tight
until the wind lessened sufficiently for
walking. Locating house, he crashed
window and entered, only to have the
roof begin falling around him with an
other onslaught of the hurricane.
This time Gin stayed in the wreck
age. which he now thinks he should
have done the first time. He was
slightly injured and was burned by q
live" wire, but does not remember ex-
actly how he came to be hurt. The
automobile was demolished. and the
men had to make their way afoot into
West Palm Beach when the storm was
over.
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STARVING MOBs STORM STORES
Militia and Reserve Officers Called to
To Duty In Porto Rico.

TO Duty IN fOFtO NicVs
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, September 10
R,.-With reports of food rioting cur
rent, nine companies of the Porto Rican
National Guard today were policing 23
towns of the island The guardsmen
were called out by Gov. Horace M.
Towner after reports became prevalenet
that in several towns devastated by
the tropical hurricane starving people
had stormed and looted stores.
Instructions were also issued to 25
volunteer reserve officers to proceed
throughout the island, delivering emerg-
ency supplies, informing the inhabi-
tants of relief plans and surveying the
needs.
tCov. Tower in a radio message to
tf. War Department last night stated
there was mo disorder anywhere" and
there was absolutely no necessity for
martial law
Food Riots Increasing.
Henry M. Baker, national director of
Cross stated that food riots were in
creasing. Mayors of dozen towns in
appealing for aid, informed him that
the people of their towns would mob
them If they returned empty handed
They begged for something. either
money or food, to take back with them.
The mayors said their people were In a
desperate plight and were plunged in
despair because of lack of relief
Baker arrived with five assistants on
the United States destroyer Gilmer and
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400 BELIEVED DEAD.
Lake Town Of Pahokee Pays Heaviest
I'm Storm.

In Storm.
b. the Associated Press.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, September
19.--Relief workers estimated today that
400 or more persons lost their lives IN
Palm Beach County alone in the
tropical hurricane that swept over the
Lake Okeechobee district Sunday.
Deaths in the East Coast communities
were not expected to exceed 10, they
said
Surveys showed that the lake town
of Pahokee paid heaviest toll, relief
workers placing the dead there at zoo,
and at Belle Glade, l. miles south,
80 were known dead, but all the bodies
had not been recovered
Relief workers reported 80 bodies
found in or near Moorehaven, and that
Is bodies had been taken to morgue
al Okeechobee
Rescue and relief parties were organ
lied last night Food, clothing, medicine
and drinking water were badly needed
and shelter was scant.
Can't. Sam r. Baker of Fort LAUDER
dale, assisted by members of the Amer
tcan Legion, has taken charge at Paho-
kee. where emergency hospitals have
been established and four physicians
and three nurses from here were ON
duty.
More than so white and $50 negroes
were the injured under their care. Hun :
dreds of negroes, many ill, wandered II!
there yesterday clamoring for food ana
seeking aid.
Colored Men Save White Women.
"The greatest devastation and loss OF
life with little outside aid was report
ed by DR.. A.tW. Ziebold OF Miami, IN
charge of field work, who left his post
At lake Worth and made survey OF
the lake region. Joe Frank of the Amer
ican Legion reported here yesterday
that he and his fellow workers were
caring for $50 negroes who came from
the low country surrounding bcNe
Glade. He said many OF them walked
20 miles and carried white women 70
safety on their backs. 49,
Yesterday refugees poured from the
stricken lake area into soutnerly clue,
OF Fort Lauderdale. Hollywood ana
Miami.
George Brewer of Miami said five
bodies were in a pool room wnen tney
reached the stricken town and that tney
recovered IL more within radius OF
900 yards.
Howard Selby. chairman OF the Palm
be2cn county CeO SIOSn Vi iSo1iANo..o.
told a conference of relief workers this
morning that to date bodies of 200 per-
sons had been definitely located by re-
lief workers.
The bodies half of them white per-
sons, came from the region about Lake
Okeechobee, Selby said.
He said 56 already had been buried
here and that other bodies were EN-
route here by truck and boat.
Conditions in the stricken area are
growing worse every minute" Selby
said. About 5000 persons in the lake
region are in desperate need of clothing
food and medical aid.
They have been standing in water
for hours and hours and there are a
number of cases of double pneumonia
There are about $4,000 homeless in the
county.
'The estimated damage of Palm
Reach County. placed yesterday at $685.
600 600 now Is nearer S30,000000.
Sanitary conditions in the lake
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i.eos Reported injured.

PorNTE A PTTRE, Guadeloupe,
French West Indies, September 10 Np).--
Medical aid and foodstuffs were urgently
needed in Guadeloupe today, with three
quarters of the population homeless as
a result of the tropical hurricane which
devastated the island group on Sep
temhcr IL.
The number of deaths at Pointe a
Pitre alone today was estimated to pc
400. with 1000 injured. Owing to the
complete breakdown of communications
no definite information has been re-
ceived from other parts Of the island.
Horace Descamps, the Associated Press
correspondent. was among those killed
at Pointe a Pitre.
Worst Storm in History.
The hurricane was the worst ever
known here and completely devastated
Guadeloupe. Most Of the sugar cane
crops and, factories were destroyed.
The mayor asked that an urgent APP
neal be made to the American Red Cross
through the Associated Press for relief.
He said the necessities most urgently
needed were medical aid and assistance
and foodstuffs.
Evening star., 1928-09-19
MRS. PRATT WINS.
Gets G. o. p. Nomination for House In
New York Primary.

ALBANY. N. Y, September 10 R).-
New York State yesterday selected can
didates for Congress, State Senate and
Assembly to be voted on at the general
election on November 6. Voters made
488 nominations and settled 80 contests
In the State. II of them In New York
City. Republican designees contested
nominations In 20 instances and Demo-
Gratis In IL.
Organization designees were success
full in three of the four Republican
contests for congressional nominations
upstate, and a somewhat similar Situa-
Continued on Page 4, Column 6)
Evening star., 1928-09-19
All Ball Games Off Today.

AL! games scheduled to he played In
the National League today were post
ican League games are scheduled for
Evening star., 1928-09-19
Ships Bring Food.

FORT DE FRANCE. Martinique
French West Indies, September 19
R.-The steamships Esperanto and
Antilles have sailed for Guadeloupe with
food for the victims of the tropical hur-
ricane.
Evening star., 1928-09-19

% O. weather Bureau Forecast.)
Rain tonight and probably tomorrow
morning; continued cool; fresh north
east winds, strong at times.
Temperature-Highest, 64, at pm.
yesterday: lowest, 56, at am. today.
Full report on page 8.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-28
Ruth Is In His Middle Thirties

Ruth is 81 age beginning
basebas big playboy but
has a He is mellowng.
something of the seriousness of life That COMPOUNDED
his huge
out of something play
hn-and a and of
of
Bambino.
cracking of Ruth will the of
the Yankees They have been accustomed to having him
absence will
by going mantle keystone of the be gone;
his inspiration will be missed.
That Ruth baseball wealthy gainsad-
the wealth that people imagine him.
recently that Babe
rolled him. the saying Havana winter not long
hasn't much Tunney nothing like it. Ruth
spcnder, hasn't. Also Ruth
has Gene despite the fact he's been
times IS
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-28
CRY
OVER RULE
Of KLEIN

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.--The New
York Giants today entertained q
remote hope that John A. Heydler,
president Of the National League,
would uphold their protest that
their game with the Cubs yesterday.
which the Cubs won by a score OF
3 to 2, should be replayed because
OF a decision by Umpire Bill KLEIN.
When Reese was declared out
at the plate in the sixth inning,
the Giants claimed that Catcher
Hartnett Of the Cubs had tack
led the New York player and
held him while Beck rushed up
with the bah and tagged him.
KLEIN denied the claims and WAS
supported by the other umpires.
The Giants pointed out that pho
tographs of the play show Reese,
was forced off the base path IA
violation of the rule which states
that q player not having the ball
in his possession Is not allowed 10
obstruct the runner.
President Heydler had not received
the New York clubs official protest
on the incident early today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-28

1.-THE American League eoro-
ner may perform an autopsy
upon the Philadelphia Athletics
this afternoon. Cause of death,
if the patient succumbs, may be
be a New York victory over
Detroit today, a Chicago
triumph over the AS, or both.
Which is to say that the Yankees
will clinch their third successive
pennant IL they trim the Tigers
again today, or IL the Mackmen
lose to the White Sox. Lefty Grove
beat the Sox yesterday. to 3. but
the Yanks two-timed Detroit, to 3
and s to 5, and increased their lead
to two and one.half games Each
contender has only three more
games to play.
Connie Mack's cause looks
hopeless. The Yanks have lost
three games In q row before,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-28
Tennis Professionals
SDIit Eleven Hundred

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, Sept. 20.
Eleven hundred dollars in cash Will
be divided up here this afternoon.
The recipients are Karel Kozelun,
Of Prague; Vincent Richards OF
New york; Howard Kinsey, of Sar.
francisco; and Harvey Snodgrass,
OF Culver City, California. semi
tinalists in the United States pro
sessional tennis championship
tournament which winds up here
tomorrow their meetings here this
afternoon in the semi-final round
will indicate how the money will be
portioned out tomorrow.
The tests today will find KoZelul,
opposing Snodgrass and Richards
facing Kinsey.
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Mt. Rainier Engages
MARYLAND A. G.. Sunday

Mount Rainier will answer the
challenge of Maryland A. c. base
ballers as to their undisputed claim
to the unlimited baseball; cham.
pionship of Prince Georges County,
when the two old rivals clash In
the first game of three game
series on the Mount Rainier field,
Sunday. at 3 p. m.
After their two straight, slashing
victories over Hyattsville on sue
cessive Sundays, by virtue of which
coupled with their impressive record
of 20 ictories in. % starts, upon
which Mount Rainier based their
claim to the title, they were be.
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Beginning of the End in Sight

of basebals greatest living figure
somehow doesn't seem distant anayze Ruh's
mnutey He may 1929 he puts his mind keep
off that dreaded weight which with the middle
hres That slowed mmeasuraby in the last two
months is apparent off? That the question:
lasting through another baseball season but
he himself extent playing
became source of embarrassment him. he wouldn't have
CLAW it out He quit release Col Rupert from the big
financial burden OF stretch of magma
Ruth Glowing about in the field but when player
cracking fast and that Ruth is not him.
self afield at the paths hard to dispute
be Ruth, the dilemma which he
himself he isn't laying down. He isn't quitting Ne
the man there saffron
streak anywhere about his biggest foe life
tendency gather His hardest task is not hitting
homes is keeping without starving himself
weakening the point where he constantly feels
feless and mbtioness
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T0pEY5 SRORI9RIAL
BY Kirk Miller

the and tear Of winning baseball pennants creating
and breaking his own homerun records ano I Tane
or Babe Ruth?
There many thinking baseball people who to
Bit Not because he isn't closer his
but because he jumps
behind himself in general department around the field and balls
to hollow glove
getting from him by one happenstance or another
that isn't ALL The big fellow isn't his former self around
He getting baseball He
have the stomach Often the diet ckens
for the at hand
Babe meeting those fast balls the way ne
strikeouts result in
swings help wonder whether the Great Bambno
that distinguished list OF retired sports
Johnny Callahan Mile Lenglen and the rest.
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sieged with challenges from every
baseball club in the county.
Bellman, Waters or Maple will
be ready for mound duty. for the
District line aggregation. while the
challengers have failed to divulge
any OF their pitching nominees as
vet